“I wanna ask if you really said you’d pepper spray her, but I already know the answer.”
Pressing my lips together, I shrugged.
He reached up toward me and brushed the backs of his fingers over my cheek, still smiling wide, and pinched my chin. “You’re fucking nuts.”
All I did was shrug again. “You know that, but you’re still here, aren’t you?”
His smile melted into a smaller one, and the deep breath he let out made it seem like it had weighed a thousand pounds. Then his fingers brushed over my cheek again, and Dallas moved to tuck a strand of her behind my ear. His voice was soft. “I’m still here, Peach.”
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Mariana Zapata,
Wait for It