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The woman waved her hand at the retreating back of the guy who had just been hassling her. “No guy is going to want you if you treat them like that. It's no surprise Dale went looking elsewhere.” What. The. Fuck? Was it still too early for that drink?“Fuck,” Finn growled under his breath. Any minute now Carter would be in Finn’s office gloating and Finn would have no more excuses. “3, 2, 1.” The office door opened and Carter stood there, a big grin on his face. “What did I tell you?” Finn rolled his eyes. The results from the online poll were in and they were overwhelmingly in favor of Finn trying to get Peyton to fall in love with him. “Fine,” Finn said with a sigh, “you win.” “I really like hearing those words,” Carter said. “Yeah, whatever, but don't say I didn't warn you. There is going to be a backlash about this.” “Pfft.” Carter waved Finn’s comment away. “We are not exactly virgins when it comes to controversy.” That was the truth. The Playbook had be
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He knew the goal was to get her to fall in love with him and that he could, and should, keep his heart out of the matter completely. He also knew that for her to really fall in love with him, he would have to open himself up to her. Women knew when you were being fake and if he went into this half-arsed, then she would know he wasn't genuine. The only way to get her to fall for him was to let himself fall for her. Fuck. Where the hell did that thought even come from? He didn't want her to fall in love with him. He was only doing this so he could protect her against further ridicule. If anything, he wanted to show his readers that there was no formula they could follow in order to get a woman to fall in love. He knew from experience, limited though it was, that falling in love happened organically, even when you didn't want it to happen at all. Falling in love with another person was all about the chemicals in your brain and had nothing to do with how you wooed. That's why women fell
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The final stage of falling in love is…Attachment.Attachment comes by way of a little chemical called oxytocin. You know that cuddly feeling you get after a spectacular orgasm? That's oxytocin. Your brain releases this chemical after climaxing and its job is to help you bond with your mate. This is why a lot of women confuse sex with love. Interestingly, this same hormone is released during childbirth and breastfeeding to help build the bond between mother and child.It should be worth noting here that studies on party drugs such as GHB have indicated that oxytocin may be responsible for the dissociative behavior that drugs like this produce. Just like dopamine can make you obsessive, oxytocin may in fact make you reckless - the two things needed to fall in love.Along with oxytocin, vasopressin is another hormone released during this attachment stage that helps build the bond between couples - according to a study done on prairie voles. Prairie voles are monogamous for the most part
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So jogging. It had the desired effect of keeping her incognito and using up all the adrenaline that her current levels of stress were producing. In short, it kept her from rampaging through the streets like the Hulk on a bender. The Hulk bender temptation was real. Instead, she ran. She ran as far and as fast as she could and prayed for the runner’s high that would help her see that her life wasn't really that bad and that things could be worse. She rounded the corner, her mind blissfully blank, when she heard her name called. She wasn't thinking - that's the only reason she reacted and turned her head towards the voice. It was only as she saw the guy lift his camera with its telephoto lens that she realized her mistake. The guy started running towards her and Peyton took off, leaving little dust clouds in her wake. Peyton could hear the pounding steps behind her and her adrenaline spiked. She rounded another corner and while she was out of his line of sight, she jumped
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Finn hadn't been lying when he said his apartment was close by. They were practically neighbors and she hadn't even known it. His building was a large converted warehouse that she drove by every day. Peyton could even remember watching the old building being restored. She never thought she'd have the opportunity to go inside. Finn kept an arm around her as she limped pathetically into the lobby. There was no doorman - just an elevator, a bank of six mailboxes, and a door she assumed led to stairs. Finn directed her to the elevator and pressed the call button while she stood there stupidly, not knowing what to do or say. Being around him made her thoughts muddled. Having him touch her, his arm securely wrapped around her to make sure she didn't fall, made her tongue-tied. The only other time she had experienced anything remotely similar had been when she was at the height of her crush on Declan. Oh shit. Was she developing a crush on Finn? Peyton almost rolled her e
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“Come on, Finn,” she said with exasperation, “don't deny that you have seen all the stuff on television about me. I've become a goddamned reality star overnight and I'm not even on any damned show and getting paid for it.” His eyebrows lowered in puzzlement. “I don't know what you're talking about,” he said. “Wake Up, Australia? I was interviewed on there the other day because of a stupid YouTube video that my friend posted of me when I was in a drunken rage over my fiancé being a gutless wonder.” He shook his head slowly. “Nope. Not ringing any bells. I don't watch Wake Up, Australia. It's more tabloid than news program and I think it is sloppy reporting.” Peyton felt a little bit of her anxiety leak away. “You didn't see the interview?” she asked. He shook his head. “Wow. You must be the only one in Australia who didn't.” “So now you have reporters chasing you?” “They're camped outside my building. I thought I gave them the slip when I left th
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“That's so cool!” Riley enthused. “Mostly I do Disney princesses.” Riley screwed his face up. “That's not cool,” he said. Peyton laughed and the sound hit Finn square in the chest. It was the first time he’d heard her laugh and he wanted to hear it again. He wanted to be the one making her laugh. “It's not so bad,” she said. “Princesses are dumb,” Riley complained. “Not to little girls, they're not,” Peyton replied. Riley huffed a big, resigned sigh. “I suppose,” he said. “Come on Riles,” Jack said. “We should leave Uncle Finn and Peyton alone.” “But Uncle Finn is supposed to be coming with us.” “Oh, I'm sorry,” Peyton said, trying to get up. Finn tightened his hold on her ankle, not willing to let her go just yet. “It's okay,” Jack said, “Finn can come next time.” “I want Uncle Finn to come today,” Riley pouted. “It's okay,” Peyton said, managing to extract herself from Finn’s grasp. “My ankle feels much better now. You
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When she was dressed, she headed back to her bathroom and gave her long, red hair a quick brush before pulling it up on her head in a messy bun. She put on some tinted moisturizer that also had sun protection, a swipe of mascara, and a touch of lip gloss. She gave herself a once over in the mirror and surprisingly, liked what she saw. It wasn't glamorous, but it was practical and comfortable and she felt good, which was the whole point of her rant in the first place. Here she was - or rather, had been - running around stressed about what to wear when Finn probably hadn't given it a second thought. It seemed to be an ingrained thing to try and dress to please a man, but she had to remember that she didn't do that anymore. Without another glance in the mirror, she left the apartment using the back entrance and cut across the park towards Finn’s place, something she would never have been able to do if she had dressed like she used to. But in shorts, a tank, and her pink Chucks,
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