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lowered his head, so he could whisper in my ear, “Your last
surprise.”
“It’s really not fair. It’s your birthday, and you won’t let
me do something for you,” I mumbled, even though my
heart was doing somersaults in my chest.
Maddox placed a quick kiss on the corner of my lips.
“You already are.”
“Hmm.”
“You’re spending the day with me. That’s enough.”
“A date,” I said cheekily.
“A date,” he affirmed, with a warm, dimpled smile. It
transformed his face. Maddox looked happy, and he
suddenly appeared younger than before, more his age. All
casual, carefree and young.
He was always busy with school and football, always
worrying, always tense. It was a burden he carried as he
tried to make his father happy, even though if you asked
him – he’d lie and say he didn’t give a single fuck what his
father thought of him.
He was a good liar, like that, hiding his pain behind the
mask he wore, showing the world he was the Maddox
Coulter: cocky, arrogant, rich–Berkshire’s star quarterback
and now Harvard’s.
To the world, he had everything. Parents. Money. A
scholarship. His football career. Girls at his disposal.
He was a king, and he wore his crown, filled with thorns,
with an unmatched arrogance and a dirty smirk to go with
it.
But deep inside, all Maddox ever wanted was
acceptance and love.
So he worked endlessly for it… and always ended
disappointed.
But right now? The usual tensed line on his forehead
was smoothed out, his blue eyes practically alive, and his
smile was…real.
Oh damn it. There goes my heart again.