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“I dare you to sleep with him.”
I reared back in shock. Wh-at? No, I must have misheard
him. That couldn’t be…
“What?” I whispered, my throat dry and my tongue
suddenly heavy in my mouth.
Maddox’s eyes bore into mine, staring into my soul.
When he spoke again, his deep accented voice danced over
my skin dangerously. “I dare you to fuck him, Lila.”
A tremble started in my core and then moved through
my body like a storm. Not just a quiet storm. A tsunami of
emotions hit me all at once, reckless in its assault. I
submerged under the dark waves, suffocating, and then I
was being split open so viciously, it sent tiny cracks of my
heart and fissures of my soul in all directions. I clamped my
teeth together to stop myself from saying something –
anything that would make it worse.
We had done too many dares to simply count on our
fingers. Countless silly dares over the years, but we had
never dared each other to sleep with other people.
Granted, I had asked him to kiss a girl once; they made out,
but it was years ago. But our dares had never crossed that
line.
Sex… that was never on the table. We never explicitly
talked about it, but it was almost an unspoken rule.
Why would he even ask me to do such a thing?!
“What’s with that look, Lila?” he taunted.
My eyes closed. I refused to look at him, to look into his
beautiful eyes and see nothing but pitch-black darkness. He
wasn’t looking at me like he used to. The light in his eyes
was gone.
It scared me.
It hurt me.
It was destroying the rest of what was left of me.
“Look. At. Me.”
I didn’t want to. I didn’t want him to see the hurt in my
eyes.