Chapter 24: Jeremy Stanton vs. Ryan Hicks Feral attraction in the midst of hatred… Your touch!

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Jeremy froze. That was a new one. If he still hated him so much, why did he ask for him? “Okay. Why did you want to see me, Ryan?”

“I don’t know why. I just needed to. Why haven’t you been to see me?” Ryan was shaking so badly. He really didn’t know why.

Jeremy shrugged. “You made it very clear that you didn’t want me around you. I was only trying to respect your wishes.”

“It’s been ten days. You…” Ryan pushed his hands into his back pocket as if to hide the fact that they were shaking. “You didn’t want to see me.” It wasn’t a question.

Jeremy slowly shook his head. “I came here every night to watch you sleep, with the exception of last night.” He said softly. He would have probably gone insane by then if not for those few stolen minutes. “You, on the other hand, were obviously too angry to want to see me.” Jeremy didn’t want to add the fact that he was crushed. But he was.

Ryan removed his hands from his pocket and folded them across his chest. Then he unfolded them and clenched