Just One Kiss novel · Chapter 16 of 24
Chapter 16: Fight Me
"Good," I said. "That's good. You did the right thing."
"Don't."
"Ansel."
"Don't say it like you're proud of me. I'm not a dog that rolled over."
He stood up, and the dock shifted under us.
He was holding the signed form so tightly that it had bent.
"You told me to go," he said. "You said it like a bus schedule."
"I said it like it hurt."
"You said it at a register. In front of a guy buying worms."
"I told you I couldn't do it anywhere else!"
"I wanted you to fight me."
It came out of him loud, and the sound rolled away over the water.
I stared at him.
"What?"
"I wanted you to say don't go," Ansel said. "I wanted you to throw the pen. Hit me with the form. Anything. Tell me you wanted me to stay, even if you didn't mean it."
"I couldn't."
"Why not?"
"Because you would have!"
"So?"
"So I'd be the girl you stayed for, and in a few years you'd look at me and see Seattle!"
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of Just One Kiss are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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