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.

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 my

the hell out of

with her electric brown hair flying

you.” Michelle beams up at me. “You’re welcome,” I stand up. “Now, shall we continue? Your apartment

mad at

to be mad for no goddamn reason.” “Wow, 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 gnawing at me, so I

Mine wants me

my side, glaring up at me. “Is this your excuse for being angry and disrespectful all

I want!” I correct her and narrow my eyes. 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 and that I will stop loving the

turns sympathetic. “That is actually terrible. Parents are supposed to support their

that people fucking suck. Even those close to you will let you down. Football is the only thing I can count on to be there for me. It’s my life. The thing which makes me happy, yet my parents are

up at me. “An a-arranged marriage? Wow, I-I didn’t

plance down at her while we

thought that thing only happened

They want to ensure a woman doesn’t simply marry me for the money, so they have found another wealthy person

“I see.” 

Silence

you don’t want to marry

I laugh. “I’m not stupid enough to believe in true love and all of that shit. I don’t need a woman, a partner, or

at Michelle. Poking her nose with my

come in. You’re my fake girlfriend now, and I expect you to show up

expect you buy me lunch

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,

stares at me. “Your

raising my voice. Michelle needs to have her ears checked since she repeats everything I say.

am I supposed

shake my head. This

“Just that?”

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

laughing in the middle of the goddamn street. What is happening? What is so goddamn funny? Why is she wiping tears from

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