Taken: His BFF 2 - Steamy BWWM Romance Collection: Ravished by You/Conquered by You/Avenged by You (Forbidden Fruit: Naughty Seduction Adventures Boxed Set) by Rowena Page B

with this memory, a much larger part of me doesn’t want this to be a one-time thing, or even just a casual do-it-till-we’re-bored thing.
    When I look at Scott and see his gray eyes on me, I want more. I want…
    “Bridget, what are you thinking?” he says.
    “I…” I smile at him. “I just don’t know what this is. I didn’t plan for this to happen—although clearly you did—and I don’t know where we’re supposed to go after this. I never meant to do anything to lose you as a friend…”
    “Whoa, who says you’re losing me? In any way? I want more than this too, Bridget, and I’m glad you feel the same way.”
    I’m pretty sure I didn’t say that out loud, but he obviously read it on me. I’m fairly easy to read generally, but Scott always seemed to have a laser focus on me sometimes, and more than that, it was like he could see straight through to my core, my soul. It’s like he gets my essence.
    I almost laugh at the thought.
    He got my essence all right—all over his face last night—and his cock sure as hell probed my core.
    Scott’s a part of me in so many ways now that I can’t imagine ever having to go months without contact with him again.
    “But what about Darren? I mean, you guys are friends, and I don’t want to…”
    “You need to stop thinking about Darren, Bridge, ‘cause he sure as hell isn’t thinking about you—he never really did, and you know it. Darren rarely thinks of anyone but himself, to be honest, so believe me when I say I feel no need to spare him some consideration.”
    “You don’t think it’ll harm your friendship if he finds out you’re with an ex of his?”
    He lets out a short, bitter laugh. “I can pretty much guarantee we’ll be on the same terms as before.”
    I realize that something else is going on here, something he hasn’t told me.
    “How can you be so sure?”
    “Because that asshole has done the same thing to me. That code was shattered between Darren and me a while ago,” he says. “We’ve moved past it and stayed friends, but there’s no way that dick-head can fault me for this.”
    Now I finally understand fully.
    This is all revenge for Scott, and it’s not enough that he got to fuck me, he wants to rub Darren’s face in it, let him see him dating me.
    I’m not gonna be a part of that—I’m not gonna let myself become some part of a ploy, I won’t let myself get toyed with.
    I had already felt myself beginning to fall for him, but it’s still early enough that I can catch myself before this whole thing turns into a catastrophe.
    “Oh, Jesus,” I hear him say as I get up from the bed to try to find my clothes. “It’s not like that Bridget—I’m not using you.”
    I’m humiliated to find myself on the verge of tears. I hope it’s not too late to pull myself from this situation already.
    “Bridget!”
    I can’t find my panties, so I get ready to leave without them, giving Scott no more time to tell me what he thinks I want to hear.
    “You’re not leaving here, Bridget—not without hearing me out.”
    I turn on my heel. “Don’t you dare try to stop me,” I bellow at him, surprised at my own wrath.
    Why am I so mad at him? Didn’t I playfully consider exacting a similar type of silent revenge myself? Even if just for a brief moment?
    He looks surprised by my outburst too and holds a hand up, saying nothing else as I start heading to the door.
    I briefly feel sorry for him when I catch sight of the messy surroundings again.
    Despite my words, I had actually planned to help him clean up after all, and I feel terrible abandoning him, but I need to think.

    This isn’t a way to start a relationship, right? Out of revenge?
    I decide to ask my sister aloud, and she gives me a look.
    “You’re being crazy,” she says.
    “How? He admitted…”
    “Did he actually say, ‘I fucked you and kept you overnight, then cooked you a sweet omelette in the morning out of dirty, dirty revenge?’”
    “No,