I suddenly felt the need to explain. "I did not say that I hated you! I said that I didn't like you! It's totally different! Besides I didn't even mean it, I had been embarrassed. It was so obvious that I was in love with you, even a stranger would have realized it!" He stared at me and I stared back. "You were in love with me?" I blushed. I just ratted myself out. I looked down at my hands and started to bit my bottom lip. This was getting out of hand. -------------------------------------------- Danielle Williams once had a crush on mr. Smooth a.k.a Damion Thompson when she was in high school but due to unfriendly circumstances she decided to give up on her feelings. But now she's twenty two and an aspiring business woman whose never had the touch of a man, that is, until he suddenly pops up into her life again. Now she has to read between the lines and navigate through old feelings. Highest Ranking in Chic lit #310

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