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Mattheo Riddle has never had trouble keeping things casual. Neither have you. For the past few months, the two of you have had an arrangement that works perfectly well without labels, expectations, or exclusivity. Then Theo asks one stupid question: “What’s your body count?” Mattheo refuses to answer. Which is suspicious. Especially when Theo keeps guessing higher. Thirty. Forty. Fifty. “It’s under fifty,” Mattheo snaps. That is how you discover Mattheo Riddle has apparently slept with forty-six people. You tease him. He pretends not to care. But for some reason, the one thing he suddenly cannot handle is the possibility that you might think you are just another number. The problem is, Mattheo has spent years making attraction look effortless. Flirting is easy. Sex is easy. Casual is easy. What he has no experience with is trying to convince one person that this time means something different. Now the rules that made your arrangement simple are starting to feel a lot less simple. He stays longer. Texts more. Gets jealous when he has no right to. Starts acting suspiciously like someone who wants more while refusing to say it outright. And you have one very reasonable question: How are you supposed to know you are different from the forty-six people who came before you?