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“I think we should go on a hike.” I took a pause at that suggestion, raising a brow and staring st him. When I realized he wasn’t joking, I burst into laughter.
“Since when are you into nature?”
Jake just smirked and replied, “There’s a lot you don’t know about me.”
He wasn’t wrong.
I agreed anyway, mostly because I wanted to see him again, and maybe also because I was curious to know who he really was. He’d been different each time we were together. Not in a red flag way. Just… like he shifted depending on the moment. Softer. Rougher. Quiet one night, then smirking and teasing the next.
It should’ve been unsettling, but instead it felt like I was peeling layers off a man with infinite depth. Like a puzzle that revealed something new with every touch.
The trail he picked was an ho
