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each
other.”
    “We’re very good for each other,” he
growled.   “And you know it.”
    Faith hated him for saying that, and for
the fact that his words made her heart sing and her stomach dance with happy
butterflies.   “You’re not an honest
person,” she said, despite the desire she had to just give in and tell him that
she wanted to meet up right away.
    “I know I screwed up,” he said.   “But I want a chance to make it
right.   I’m going to see you
tonight, Faith.   I’m not taking no
for an answer.”
    “That’s not going to happen.”
    “Do you really want me to go away and
leave you alone?”
    There was a long silence as she pondered
what to say next.   “I don’t think I
can forgive you for what you did.   I
don’t think I could ever trust you.”
    “That’s not an answer,” he replied.   “Tell me you don’t want to see me right
now.   That would be a lie, Faith.”
    “It doesn’t matter what I want.   What matters is that you’re dangerous,
and I need to protect myself.”
    “I don’t want you protecting yourself,”
he said.   “I want that job, Faith.”
    His words struck her to her very
core.   She wanted it to be true so
badly, and it felt so good to hear him say it, and yet Faith knew it was just
another manipulative tactic.  
    “I can’t do this,” she said, and it
physically hurt to say it.  
    “Why not?” he asked, and now she could
hear the emotion in his voice, and the frustration, too.   “Why can’t you do it?”
    “Because,” she said, “I couldn’t look at
myself in the mirror if I let myself be with a guy who was treating me like a
prostitute.”
    “That’s over with,” Chase told her.   “This has got nothing to do with Club
Alpha or any of that shit.”
    “How can I trust you?”
    “Let me prove it to you, Faith.   Let me show you that I’m willing to
stand up for us—I’m willing to fight for what you mean to me.”
    She shook her head.   “Just stop it.”
    “You know what I said about not taking
the easy road?” he continued.   “If I
care about something, I’ll fight to the death to protect it.   And I’ll stand up in front of the world
and let them know it, too.”
    Suddenly, Faith heard the bathroom door
open and then Haley’s voice, calling to her.   “Faith, are you in there?   Is everything okay?”
    “I have to go,” Faith whispered into the
phone.
    “Wait—“
    And then she hung up on him, shutting her
eyes tightly as she did so, and feeling the stabbing pain in her stomach and
chest as she realized that she might be ending something that truly mattered to
her.
    Why
do I fight so hard for a job I hate and I won’t even fight for a man that I
might be falling in love with?
    But she refused to think that way.   She couldn’t be falling in love with
Chase Winters.   He was unattainable,
he was a star athlete who had seen her as an easy lay, a girl who would keep
her mouth shut in exchange for a paycheck.
    No.   Just no.
    “Faith?” Haley called again, her
footsteps coming closer to the stall. “Honey, I know you’re in there.   I can see your cute little heels.”
    “I’m okay,” Faith said, trying to keep
her voice light.   “I just had to
make a quick phone call.”
    “In the bathroom stall?   What do you, work for the CIA now?”
Haley asked.
    “Something like that,” Faith replied,
opening the door and coming out.
    Haley looked at her evenly.   “Who is he?” she said.
    “Who is who?”
    “The guy that made you look so sad.”
    “He’s nobody,” she said, thinking that
that was the biggest lie yet.   He
was far from nobody.
    Haley seemed to accept Faith’s
non-response, which was kind of her.   She wasn’t the type to push and pry like Jena.
    They left the bathroom together, and as
they went past the pool tables, Todd joined them, throwing his arms around both
their shoulders.   “My two favorite
people in the whole wide world,” he said.
    “Get off of me—your