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Okay,” she began as calmly as she could. “Could you just… tell me what I’m doing wrong? Because… I’m really starting to feel like I’ve had enough of this,” she confessed, the tears rolling down her cheeks. “I think this hurts just bad enough that I’m just… I’m ready to listen, I’m ready to change.” Kevin shook his head, rubbing his jaw uncomfortably as she continued.
“Am I too honest? Do I work too hard? Did I not ask nicely enough? I mean, I cried too. I cried like I’m crying right now,” she went on, her voice a wavering mess. “Did I give it up too soon? Is it my body? I mean, what do you think it is, Kevin, just tell me. I can take it. I can take any fuckin’ thing. Obviously. I can’t make myself into a white girl, so I have to make do. Just, as a man… tell me what about me makes you entirely unresponsive to me, just when it comes to actual love? And I don’t mean romantic love, I mean, just… the love we give to each other as humans. Food in the belly. A place to sleep. Keeping a promise. How do I get what she has? In your opinion?”
Leftovers with Benefits: an interracial contemporary romance by
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C. L. Donley