✨EXCERPT: FORMULA DREAMS by Sawyer Bennett releasing November 18th!
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“Bollocks, do you ever back off?”
I blink, feeling heat coloring my cheeks. “Excuse me?”
“You push hard,” he says, sitting up straighter now. “Asking. Analyzing. Like you’re going to crack me open and figure out what makes me tick. It’s intrusive.”
His defensiveness spikes equal parts frustration and hurt. “It’s called conversation, Barnes. Or are you so emotionally constipated that basic human interaction feels like an interrogation?”
He huffs out a breath. “You don’t know me.”
Everything about this tells me to back off but I refuse to retreat. “I’m trying to, but you throw up walls and act like you’re doing me a favor by keeping your distance.”
Bullseye. I’ve struck a nerve. I see it in the way his head snaps back to me, in the full turn of his body, shoulders squared like I’ve stepped right over a line. “Maybe I’ve got a good reason.”
I don’t flinch, don’t give him the satisfaction of seeing me back down. I answer, steady and quiet, but unyielding.
“Perhaps. But maybe that reason is fear. Or guilt. Or pride. I don’t know. Because you won’t let anyone close enough to find out.”
My heart hammers, but I maintain eye contact, refusing to let him disappear behind those walls.
His eyes burn into mine. “You think you want to know me, Francesca. But trust me, you don’t.”
“Why not?” I ask, quieter now. “Because you’re afraid what I’ll see is ugly? Or worse—breakable?”
I see the tension in his face, his neck. His stare drops to my mouth for a second before flicking back up.
My pulse stutters.
Oh God.
He’s close.
Closer than he was a second ago.
And even though he’s angry—no, because he’s angry—it’s electric. The kind of pull deep in your chest and stomach, then lower, that absolutely refuses to listen to reason.
I should step back.
But I don’t.
Instead, I whisper, “You don’t scare me, Ronan.”
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