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shouldn’t be so mad. He knows how the saying goes, ‘ treat her right, or someone else will,’ and that is exactly what happened.
     
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    I leave the food in the car and step into the gym. Finally, I can breathe easier. I hadn’t expected to see Blade again…but now that I have, I can say the feelings I had are completely gone. Non-existent. I’m glad I ran into Blade, actually. I feel it finally closed the ‘Blade’ chapter of my life. First Mason, now Blade. I’m erasing them from my life only to make more room for Seth.
    I pull my phone from my pocket and glance at the time. I was at the store for a little over an hou r. The gym is still relatively clean and quiet, so I stroll toward the training room, hoping to replace Blade’s face, that hovers at the front of my mind, with Seth’s.
    I push through the do or and my gaze immediately zeroes onto Seth’s form. He’s face down on the floor, holding himself up on his elbows and the tips of his feet—boarding? Fencing? No…planking! Yes, that’s what it’s called. Planking. I tried it once and barely made eight seconds.
    I stroll over to Darryl , who’s sitting comfortably in a chair next to Seth. He glances up at me and smiles, exposing his white teeth.
    “What’s his time?” I ask.
    “Eleven minutes so far, four more to go.”
    Darryl crosses his legs and places the stopwatch on his grey, sweatpant-clad thigh. I step closer to Seth, watching his muscles tremble as he fights to keep himself up. I hear his breathing come out in controlled breaths and he keeps his head down, ignoring my presence. Normally, I’m okay with Seth focusing more on the training session than me, but after seeing Blade, I want to touch Seth. I want to talk to him and laugh with him—I want to do anything to rid the memory of my ex-boyfriend.
    “Switch to high plank ,” Darryl commands, and with a small exhale, Seth pushes himself off of his elbows and onto the palms of his hands, holding himself higher off the ground. Seth keeps his head straight, not looking at anything but the far wall. I circle him until I stand in front of him, blocking his eye contact with the wall. He glances up at my face and his lips curl into a heart-stopping smile. The urge to be close to him overwhelms me and I sit down before sliding myself directly underneath his large body
    “ Here we go,” I hear Darryl sigh under his breath, but I ignore him, focused only on the brown irises that glow lovingly at me.
    Seth watches my face as I trail the tips of my fingertips over the rock hard muscles in his arms. The hard masses coated in a thin, arousing layer of sweat tremble and my eyes flick from his arms to his face.
    “You know, when I pictured you underneath me for the first time in weeks, this isn’t exactly what I had in mind,” he says, his voice strained.
    I hear Darryl’s chair scratch a few times on the floor as he moves away from us, giving us the privacy we desperately need. I laugh, turning my head to look away from him. He lowers himself and plants a kiss on my cheek, sending warm butterflies through my stomach. I bite my bottom lip against more giggles as his lips playfully travel my jaw and onto my neck.
    “Seth, high planks ,” Darryl commands and Seth exhales, straightening his arms.
    I t urn my head to look at him. Even during training sessions he looks amazing. His skin doesn’t turn pink like mine does when I’m overworked, his shines and the golden rivers in his eyes turn a beautiful sun gold. He’s so perfect I want kick him or squeeze him until he pops. Not out of hate, but out of love—pure, endless, exciting love.
    “Three more minutes and we’ll go to my place to help Jackson.”
    “ Will Selena be there, too?” It’s been so long since I’ve seen her. She’s been taking introduction classes in everything because it turns out being a police officer wasn’t for her. On her first day in class, she got to watch them fire guns and she discovered she doesn’t