VAL’S POVThe next morning, I was still tangled in my sheets, the ghost of Dominic's hands on my skin making me twitch, when my bedroom door flew open with a bang that rattled my teeth.Matteo stood there, framed in the doorway, looking like he'd just wrestled a bear and lost. His hair was a mess, his eyes were bloodshot, and he wasn’t smiling."We need to talk," he said, his voice rough and low.I didn't even sit up. I just glared at him from my pillow fortress, "I have nothing to say to you."He took a step closer, “I’m not kidding, Val, we really need to talk.”"About what," I blurted out, sitting upright.“You’ve been avoiding me, and I don’t know why. I literally confessed my feelings to you and the next day you ghosted me?"I let out a humorless laugh that was more like a bark, "I ghosted you?"He looked genuinely bewildered, like I'd just accused him of being a secret astronaut, "Val, I literally woke up and you were gone.”I scoffed, "Perhaps it was your dick who ghosted me an
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