“I swear, Arnold, I didn’t”, Rose assured him with a pounding heart.
“Then why did you avoid me all day?”, he asked through gritted teeth coming closer,
“and when I find you, you’re giving your number to a guy?”
“It wasn’t like that… I bumped into him, and he asked if we wanted to get to know each other”, she explained, but her breath hitched when he wrapped his hand around her throat.
“I’m so hopping mad right now, Rose”, he rumbled bringing his face so close to her that she had to look at him cross-eyed, “you might have not done it purposely, but it made me angry either way.”
“I’m angry because you disobeyed me and damn it, I just want to fvck some sense into you”, he said biting his lip and having to lower his gaze shortly, “but I will only do that if you give me your consent.”
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