Page 100 of Eat You Alive (Court Legacy 4)

I think that hurt the most. That he left me high and dry with all thesefeelings. I mean, did he think I was dealing with this on my own?

Did he not feel it too?

I didn’t believe that, refused even. This guy was a goddamn brick wall, but he’d shared so much with me. He’d been vulnerable, and something told me he didn’t do that for everyone. He was private just like me.

He said nothing after my statement, and I laughed again.

He frowned. “Fawn…”

“Well, I’m sorry, Wolf.” I raised and dropped my hands. “I’m sorry that I have feelings for you. I’m sorry Imaylove you. I’m fucking sorry!”

I was sorry. He was the last one I wanted to love.

My throat jumped again. “I’m sorry I love you.”

He didn’t twitch this time, but his expression twisted so hard. His hands came together. “You don’t know what you’re saying.”

Oh, I think I did, nodding. I breathed into my hands. “I don’t want to fucking feel anything for you. If you haven’t noticed, you’re a fucking jerk, and what you did today is only solidifying that.”

He made eye contact with me again, his lids narrow. “Which is why it’d be stupid for you to feel anything for me.”

“And what? You don’t?” I stepped up to him, right in his face. There was a time I’d been scared of him. Now, I was just scared to be with him. “You can honestly tell me you feelnothing.”My nostrils flared. “Nothing for me?”

I truly didn’t believe otherwise. I just couldn’t.

Our time together wouldn’t let me.

We’d experienced something in this fake relationship I didn’t think either one of us was ready for. We weren’t, but it had happened.

Wolf’s jaw shifted slowly, clicking. “You and I aren’t anything.”

My heart clenched, tight, but that wasn’t what I’d asked him. “What do you feel, Wolf? Nothing? Because if so, you’re going to have to fucking tell me.”

His eyes cut to me, dark, cold. He was reverting back into that Big Bad Wolf again, but I didn’t back off. I wouldn’t. He put his hands together. “You and I were abusiness transaction, Fawn. We were, and there was never any chance of anything happening between us. Our relationship served a purpose. One you fulfilled and one I concluded the moment I made a call to Kurt.”

He was trying to hurt me here, but he made a mistake. I wasn’t a weak bitch.

That was why he chose me.

My smile wasn’t weak either, strong. I distanced. “Can’t really say it, can you?” I gazed up. “You can’t because you do feel something, and no matter how much you say this was business, it obviously turned into something more.”

“It didn’t, and you’re an idiot for thinking anything else.” He was trying to hurt me again, stepping up onmenow. “I don’t do girlfriends, and even if I did, no way in the goddamn stratosphere would she be you. She wouldn’t because you’re a fucking workout, and I try to live my life with as few complications as I can.”

I had to say, he was good, but he’d already made a mistake. Two in fact. The first was bringing people in here as a buffer to protect my feelings. Like he cared.

The second was still not telling me what I needed to hear.

For some reason, the Big Bad Wolf couldn’t do what he needed to do to end this, and no matter how many mean things he said, he wasn’t fooling anyone.

Let alone himself.

“You’re going to have to do better, Wolf.”

“Better?”

I grinned. “Better to hurt me. You’re going to have to do better because I call bullshit on each and everypiece of shitthat’s coming out of your mouth.”

He wet his lips, and my grin hiked.

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