CAT DID WHAT she always did. She threw herself into work. Being at Thomas’s made her feel better. Cat knew if she went home she would wallow in self-pity and consider going to a bar, getting completely s**t-faced, and talking some random guy into sleeping with her, just so she wouldn’t have to tell every man she dated that she was a virgin.
In reality Cat knew she didn’t have to tell them. It was part of her armor. Her virginity was something she chose to maintain, like a badge of honor that said she hadn’t found anyone worthwhile yet. And she held the badge up any time someone got close enough to see it. Cat ran scared.
But with Ryder it was different. She didn’t want to tell Ryder because she didn’t want him to run from her. She wanted to believe Ryder was the one man who wouldn’t be s
