Chapter 71

I keep expecting someone to jump out with a camera and say, ‘Surprise, you were pranked.’

“Gotcha…. This is new for me, too, okay. I’m not exactly well versed in any of this…..my style is more of the treat em mean, keep em keen, and leave them crying into their pillow.” He shrugs, half joking, but I shake my head at him, knowing that’s truer than even I want to admit. “I have never wanted to mean more to a girl except to you.”

“I might be having second thoughts.” I point out in all seriousness as it dawns on me that Dane might royally screw my head up, break my heart, then add my name to the ashes of souls he has left in his wake. I was stupid not to consider that maybe that’s just how he is. Maybe he cannot change, and he will suck as a boyfriend. He has a massive backlist of hateful girls to prove he sucks as a date.

“Don’t you dare… you started this, and now I am way beyond the point of being able to take it back.” He tugs me into his body, so I plank his chest with