Chapter 8

Maddox

“Please just put me down…” Michelle begs. I’m still carrying her like a hunting trophy. She is seriously lightweight and needs to eat something. But the fact that I can handle her so easily kinda turns me on. What is wrong with my head?

Michelle keeps squirming. “This is embarrassing! Please put me down! Maddox…”

Embarrassing? Pfft! I don’t give a fuck. I’ve glared at every fool who has stared at us, and not a single one has kept looking

This is fine.

“We are almost by your apartment.”

“Maddox… P-please… Blood is rushing to my head…”

A sigh escapes me. I don’t do friends or girlfriends. Relationships aren’t for me, yet I relent when the little thing begs me to put her down again. She is like a tiny little rabbit. Defenseless, and it does weird things to my brain. It shouldn’t be legal for a girl of this stature to walk out alone…

“Maddox…”

“Fine,” I grumble.

I grab Michelle and put her down next to me. The fabric of her jacket slides up her flat stomach, and I blink at her breasts. If you could even call them that…

Those tiny little things in her bras are smaller than my pecs.

Wait, why am I even looking at her?

“Here,” I help pull down her jacket and grunt at her. “You’re giving the entire street a free show right now…”

Her cheeks turn even redder than a moment before. “Oh…”

I crouch to smooth down her jacket to ensure her belly button isn’t showing and pull at the fabric.

at me. I know that look on her face. She is unsure why I’m nice to her; hell, even I’m unsure why I’m not acting like

hell

all pink, and with

“You’re welcome,” I stand up. “Now, shall

mad

you’re really disrespectful!” I sneer. Michelle is right about me being an asshole. Not that I see a reason to change myself. I’ve always been like this, and I would have to be a whipped fool to change myself for another person. I’m getting by just fine being like this… Yet, I don’t feel entirely good about myself. Guilt is

troublesome parents. Mine wants me to get married and take over the

your excuse for being angry and disrespectful all the time?

It makes me bitter thinking about my family. “I wish to be taken into the NFL. Football is my life. But my parents are convinced it’s a phase

is actually terrible. Parents are supposed to

to be there for me. It’s my life. The thing which makes me happy, yet my parents are still trying to make me

me. “An a-arranged marriage? Wow,

her

thought that thing only happened in

people, and my parents are wealthy assholes. They want to ensure a woman doesn’t simply marry me for the money, so they have found another wealthy person to

“I see.” 

Silence

you don’t want

and all of that shit. I don’t need a woman, a partner, or even friends. I’m a lone wolf, but I want my

and peer down at Michelle. Poking her nose with my finger and my tired eyes

You’re my fake girlfriend now, and I expect you to show up at

“Then I expect you buy me

chin. Dork “Not that I can think of…” “Great,” I fish up a piece of paper from my pocket and grab her tiny hand to fold it under her fingers. “This is my schedule. My parents sometimes show up to practice and shit, so be

at me. “Your

Michelle needs to have her ears checked

supposed to say to

my

“Just that?”

I supposed to know? Tell them I’m funny and nice and that we do pottery together; whatever makes

lips twitch, and then she bursts out laughing in the middle of the goddamn street. What is happening? What is so goddamn funny? Why is

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