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ones who were her friends and didn’t want to get in her

pants.

Okay, that was a lie.

I still wanted to get in her panties.

Maybe he could read me better than I thought. Was I

that obvious?

Oh, she was my friend, but I still wanted to fuck your

granddaughter. Up and down, sideways, on our knees,

every possible position.

Well, yeah. No wonder he didn’t like, like me.

I rang the doorbell, and Lila’s grandma opened the door,

a pensive look on her face. She looked tired and weary. At

the sight of me, she smiled a little. “Maddox, what are you

doing here?”

“Hi,” I said, peering behind her shoulder, expecting Lila

to pop up. “Is Lila home? I tried to contact her, but she isn’t

answering, so I grew worried.”

She was silent for a moment, her eyes turning glassy.

“You don’t know?” She spoke the words so softly that I

almost missed them.

My heart skittered a beat, and I started sweating. The

blood rushed through my ears and my heart hammered in

my ears. “Is… something wrong? Did something happen to

her?”

She shook her head. “You don’t know what today is?”

she questioned, but then answered her own question before

I could say a word. “She didn’t tell you. I’m not surprised.

My Lila always suffers alone.”

Suffers… alone?

Fuck, no. She would never. Not alone.

Lila had me.

True, she didn’t need a hero to save the day, but the

more I got to know her, the closer we grew – I wanted, no –

I needed to protect her. Maybe it was to return the favor

since she took care of me when I was at my weakest or

simply because I…cared. I’d ever confess that out loud to

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