Page 22 of Stuck with the Billionaire Celebrity

Do you think this is fun for me—especially after what you did?”

His expression shifts, something flickering in his eyes that I can’t quite place. Vulnerability, maybe? But it’s gone as quickly as it came.

“I’m not saying it’s easy for you,” he says, his voice quieter now.

“I just... I don’t do well with people in my space.

It’s how I’ve always been. I need control, and having someone else here... it throws everything off.”

I take a deep breath, trying to calm the storm of emotions swirling inside me.

I know exactly how he feels.

“Well, I didn’t exactly have a choice in the matter, did I?”

“No,” he admits, his gaze meeting mine. “Neither of us did.”

We stand there for a moment, the tension between us still present, but something else has shifted. An understanding, maybe.

We’re both in this situation against our will, and no matter how much we clash, we’ll have to find a way to make it work.

I guess it’s not really against our will. I could have been adamant that I wanted to stay in my home. Theo could have said no.

“I’m not trying to make things difficult,” I say after a long pause, my voice softer now. “But this… this isn’t easy for me, either.”

He looks at me for a moment longer, then nods. “I get that.”

“Do you, Theo?” I snap.

“What does that mean?”

“It meansthat you tricked me into believing you were a good man and you’re not. You tricked me into sleeping with you and…”

“I tricked you into sleeping with me?”

“You…you didn’t tell me that you had a girlfriend.”

“I didn’t have a girlfriend. I told you that day that Alexia was someone I tried to help out.”

“Men don’t just let random women live in their house,” I snap.

He doesn’t reply, just makes a face at me.

Oh, shit.

“It’s not the same.”

“You’re right, it’s not.

I won’t ever get caught up in that bullshit again.

Alexia took advantage of me and then tried to throw herself at me.

When I didn’t reciprocate, she went on a mission to slander me, and it worked.”

It’s the same thing that Devon said. Did they rehearse this?

“It only worked because people believed it, which means that you clearly live your life in such a way that people couldn’t fathom that it was a lie.”

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