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Arrogant Asshole (Ryker Steele)

Arrogant Asshole (Ryker Steele)

You okay? You looked upset when you

left.

My stomach flutters and my heart immediately speeds up. This reaction must be unhealthy, right? I wasn’t expecting him to check in. I know he says I’m his, whatever that means, but we’re not officially together, and he probably thinks this whole thing is just sex.

But if he thought it was just sex, would he text to make sure I was okay? That seems like something you do for someone you actually care about, right?

I’m not good with casual releationships. I’m a hopeless romantic. I believe in love and happily ever after’s and Ryker Steele? He’s the king of casual relationships. What if that’s all he wants from me? I don’t think I can do that. No, I know I can’t. I was jealous over some woman talking to him at a bar.

If I knew he was having sex with other women while he was also sleeping with me? I couldn’t handle that.

Rolling my eyes, I type out a response.

Arrogant Asshole (Ryker Steele)

Me

Dad drama. I’ll be fine.

Arrogant Asshole (Ryker Steele)

Do you want to talk about it?

My heart skips a beat. He actually wants to talk to me about it? Shit, what is happening right now?

Ryker Steele doesn’t do feelings. He doesn’t care about anyone but himself. But no matter how much I tell myself these things, I can’t help wanting to tell him everything.

However, I don’t feel like going over it again right now. I just want to sleep and forget everything for a while.

Me

No.

I lock my phone before Ryker can answer. I know he’ll probably argue, and I don’t have the energy to fight with him. After setting the phone on the nightstand, I roll over and close my eyes, drifting off quickly as sleep takes over.

Chapter 37

Guinevere

BANG!

BANG!

BANG!

My eyes fly open and my heart stops for a moment. How long have I been sleeping?

I feel frozen in place as I think of who could be knocking on the front door. All of us have keys, and I even made one for Damian so it wouldn’t be them.

The blood in my veins turns to ice as the thought of Ashton knowing where I live and showing up at my house creeps into my brain.

He couldn’t know where I live, right? No one but Lainey, Ellie, Haley, Damian, Ryker, and Ellie’s brother know where I live, and I know none of them told him.

“She’s asleep!” I hear Haley say from the living room. “You can’t just barge in here!”

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