Page 187 of Evil Boys

I nod.

“It’s a date …isn’t it?” she murmurs.

I nod again, wondering when she’ll realize.

“Wait a second, this was the day I went to that house and—”

Her breathing stops. I look down at her at the same time her eyes widen and her lips part, and it’s the most beautiful, bewildered face I’ve ever seen on her.

“The day I met you.”

I cup her chin and pull her to me, pressing a gentle kiss onto her lips to melt that last inch of resistance in her heart. “I told you, our hearts were already chained to each other from the day we first met.”

She smiles against my lips, her body zinging with heat, the magnetism between us undeniable. She rolls around again just as a blush spreads on her cheeks, and I pull her closer.

“Enough talking. It’s late, let’s sleep.”

“But—”

“Shh …” I whisper into her ear. “Sleep.”

“You’re still here,” she murmurs, tucking in her hair.

“Yes … and I told you I’m not going anywhere.”

“Even if I—”

I wrap my arm around her belly and pull her even tighter toward me. “Hate me. Love me. Kill me. I don’t care. I won’t leave you.”

I’m not like him.

I’ve seen her at her worst. At her most evil.

And it only made me fall that much harder.

I will never be like him. I willneverabandon her.

She breathes a gentle sigh. “Good night.”

So many hidden emotions behind that one word.

But we’ll get there someday …

I have all the time in the world.

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Nathan

I stumbledown the steps in my red robe, rubbing the salt from my eyes from a good night’s rest as I make my way to Milo’s room to check on Rory. She hasn’t wanted to sleep anywhere else since she came to the house, so Milo’s been bunking with me while she took his room.

“Ro! You awake yet?” I open the door, only to find it empty.

Except for that giant unicorn Milo bought her.

Weird.

She’d normally be up and running about around this time.

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