Chapter 31
Brielle
My jaw drops wide open at his admission.
“What?”
“That’s right. From the very beginning. The moment I called your number and heard your voice, I wanted you.”
“Wait, I don’t understand… then why were you such a jerk that Saturday?”
I see his jaw clench. “Nothing to do with you. I was working through an issue. And in my defense, I did try to ask you out to dinner to make up for it, and you never returned my calls.”
My ears go back at that little tidbit.
“Why would I return a call to someone that treated me so horribly the one and only time we were around each other?”
Allen drops his gaze.
“That’s fair,” he admits. “I don’t blame you for not wanting to make contact after the way I behaved.”
“So, if you’ve been attracted to me all this time, what stopped you last
