Take It Off by Cheryl Douglas

Author:Cheryl Douglas [Douglas, Cheryl]
Language: eng
Format: epub

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My brother was still up when I got home, so I sank down on the couch beside him with a heavy sigh.

“Uh oh, what’s wrong? Things didn’t go as planned?”

“I didn’t have a plan.” Yes, I did. To get closer to Keira, and that sweet kiss and hug she gave me before slipping into her car proved I’d gained some ground.

“Yeah, right.” He chuckled. “With Keira, there’s always a plan.” He dug into the potato chip bag on the coffee table, grabbing a handful. “First you planned to get her number, then a date. Then you wanted her to sleep with you, be your girlfriend—”

“Other way around,” I muttered, snatching the bag.

Keira was a good girl who wouldn’t sleep with random guys when we’d met. She was young, still a virgin, and refused to sleep with someone until she was sure she was in love. It took her four months to decide, but she made every one of the cold showers I had to suffer through worth it.

“Then you wanted her to marry you. Then you broke up with her and now you want her back.”

“I’m gonna get her back,” I said, trying to convince myself. “Tonight was a good start.”

“Oh yeah? You talked about what happened when y’all broke up?”

“We talked.”

“Is that all you did?” he asked, nudging me.

“If you think I’m gonna talk to you about my sex life, especially with Keira, you’re crazy.” What happened between me and that girl would never leave my lips. I had too much respect for her for that shit.

“I know, I know,” he said, sighing.

“If you know, why the hell did you ask?”

“I just want to know you’re not settin’ yourself up for a fall.” His look was serious when he said, “I know you can’t be impartial where she’s concerned. You might be seein’ things that aren’t there.”

I didn’t need to hear this shit tonight. Yet I was a sucker for punishment so I asked, “What’s that supposed to mean?”

“I know you want her to give you a second chance. You want that more than… anything. But you can’t force things, man. You guys have been apart more than a minute. A lot of shit’s gone down.”

“None of that matters to me.” I thought about the other guys she’d slept with. That mattered to me, but there wasn’t a damn thing I could do about it so I couldn’t get hung up on it.

“It should matter.” He reached for the remote, turning the volume down on the TV. “You can’t pretend like she hasn’t changed. It’s obvious she has.”

“Yeah, and I’m the reason.” I hated that I was the reason. She’d been so sweet and innocent before, and now she had this edge to her. She didn’t trust people the way she had before I’d forced her to believe that I betrayed her.

“You don’t know that. Maybe she’s just growin’ up, gettin’—”

“Trev, I know what I did, okay? I know I fucked her up.” When I told Trevor what I’d done, he’d sworn a blue streak before throwing a bottle at me.

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