“Come on, let’s make up. Don’t you see all my apology flowers? Come on back in the room with me.”
“And suck your dick? No thanks, I’ve seen it before.”
“No! I mean I’ll fuck you good and proper. I won’t even come this time. Focus just on you.”
“Nah, I’m sore.”
My skin felt like it was buzzing with an unfamiliar anxiety, something waswrongand the wrongness was crawling under my skin.
“Brat. Come on, I’ll make it worth your while.”
Make it worth your while?
What was the high-pitched cringey whine in my voice? Why had it gone up several octaves?
“Let me lick your pussy, baby. You love that.”
But Rosalie only yawned again.
“Go lick someone else.”
Irritation crawled down my spine, mixed with something else so fearful I didn’t want to acknowledge it.
“Someone else? I don’t even bother to do that for anyone else. Only you.”
“Too bad. You need the practice.”
I gritted my teeth, fighting the urge to pounce on her.
Why hadn’t I appreciated what she was usually like? Because I’d thought it would always continue. Rosalie thinking she was secretly in love with me justwas. . .a truth of nature.
But suddenly it wasn’t.
To be honest, I was kind of addicted to her snark and her sass, the way she didn’t give a fuck and wasn’t afraid of anybody.
But she had alwaysalwayscome when I called. What had changed? The power dynamic had shifted somehow between us and I didn’t like it.
It was almost like she didn’t give a fuck what I thought.
But that couldn’t be true.
It was time to bring out the big guns. A full, groveling apology.
“Fine. Fine. I’m sorry. I’m a jackass. I know that. I shouldn’t have sprung the whole Dolly thing on you. Forgive me?Please.I promise I won’t do that again.”
“Youarea jackass. You’re just a dog in the manger, Kings. You don’t really care, but you want to mark your territory so no one else can have me.”
“That’s not it!”
“Well, whatever. You’re acting like a lunatic and I don’t want to hang out with you. Matt and I are going out to lunch.”
“Fine, then I’ll come, too!”
“Give it up, Kingsley. It’s over.”
“No—Ro—you don’t understand! I don’t want to go back, I—want a different arrangement.”
Her eyes narrowed even further and she pointed a finger at me, my skin heating up at the fact that she was only inches from my body now.
