Page 57 of Zero Chance

My mouth dropped.“Wouldn’tyoube?”

“I mean…” With a laugh, my best friend sent me a knowing look.“Sure, but I can’t even fathommebeing in a situation where I hooked up with someone without knowing her identity first.”

“I thought Ididknow her identity,” I cried, snagging a stress ball that was shaped like a brain from the surface of my desk and chucking it at him.“Butt licker.”

“Hey!”He shifted so that it beaned him in the side of the arm and bounced back toward me.Sending me an exasperated shake of his head, he announced.“You need a candy bar or something.You’re starting to get hangry.”

“Am not,” I muttered petulantly, even as I shifted my leg aside to open the top drawer of my desk and pull out a bag of Twizzlers, as if it were some kind of a habitual response after the mention of food.

Untangling two ropes, I tossed one to Alec and bit off the end of my own.Chewing thoughtfully, I said, “I’m just pissed she got away before I could figure out who she was.I hate it when people one-up me like that.”

“True that.”Alec nodded in agreement as he chewed on his own cherry-flavored cord.Watching me with a contemplative squint, he swallowed before asking, “What’re you going to do once you find her, though?Press charges?”

“Press charges?”I sputtered in confusion as I shook my head.“Why the hell would I press charges?”

“Because she…” Alec motioned toward me vaguely.“You know, because she—damn man, she catfished you.”

“No, she didn’t,” I argued.“You have to meet a persononlinefor it to be called catfishing.Hello.”

Alec rolled his eyes.“Well, she purposely impersonated this Makayla girl to make you think she was someone else.”

“I mean, I don’t know if that was on purpose,” I started, feeling the need to defend my hookup because people who gave that good of a blowjob just needed defending, you know.“In the beginning, I think she actually tried to tell me she wasn’t Makayla.I just…misunderstood.”

“You misunderstood?”Alec repeated with lifted eyebrows.“How in the world could you possibly misunderstand that?”

I sighed, seeking patience before explaining, “Okay, so she came right out and told me she wasn’t who I thought she was.I justassumedshe was talking about her reputation or some bullshit like that.I didn’t realize she meant her actual identity.”

“Dude!”His eyes grew big.“She freaking told you she wasn’t Makayla, and you still messed around with her without trying to figure out who she was?”

I ground my teeth with a frustrated groan.“She didn’t say she wasn’t Makayla; she literally said, ‘I’m not who you think I am.’But honestly, even if she had made it clear she wasn’t Makayla, I wouldn’t have cared.By that point, I was into it.She was into it.I wantedher, whoever she was.Not Makayla.”

Shuddering with distaste, Alec made a face and claimed, “Bleh.I can’t believe you.I mean, you know what all this means, right?That she’s probably really…” When he lifted his eyebrows meaningfully and let his words trail off, I frowned.

“She’s probably reallywhat?”I demanded, scowling at him because I already knew I didn’t like where he was going with this.

“Un…appealing,” he finally answered with as much tact as possible.But my eyes still narrowed, so he was quick to lift his hands in apology.“Dude, you gotta know it’s true.I mean, if she was even too embarrassed to let a fuckboy likeyousee her face…” He shook his head and winced.“It’s got to be...”

When he winced, I growled, “Fuck you.She isnotugly.”

He lifted his eyebrows as if I was being delusional.“And you know thishow?You didn’t even see her?Because she didn’twantyou to see her.Because she’s got to besobad off she knew you wouldn’t want her if youdidsee her.”

“I didn’thaveto see her,” I argued.“I touched her.And smelled her.And tasted her.She wasn’t fucking revolting.She smelled really good.Didn’t I tell you how good she smelled?”

“Yeah, but?—”

“I don’t care.She gave the best damn blowjob I’ve ever gotten.I’m telling you, Younger.I came for longer than I’ve ever come in my whole fucking life.”

“Hmm, yes.So you said.”

“And her pussy tasted like fucking Heaven.Heaven!Frankly, I’m not sure what part of that you think is repulsive, but I want to dine there again.Which is exactly why I need to find out who she fucking is.”

Alec’s eyes widened in dismay.“Wait.That’swhy you want to find her?You just want another round with her?”

“Fuck, yes,” I cried.“Of course, that’s why.I want to finish what we started.She can’t just rock my world like that and then disappear into the night with no way to contact her again.That’s not fair.I mean, her nipples.They were perfection.Did I tell you about her nipples?”

With an exhausted sigh, Alec rubbed a hand along his forehead and admitted, “Dude, you told me about her nipples.”

I lifted my hands in outrage.“Then how can you even question my motives?I’m going to find this girl.And I’m going to fuck the mystery right out of her.”

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