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Domination

Gemma loved the way it felt when he kissed her, and his er on hers He didn’t appear that strong—though when he crushed her to him like this, she could feel the firm tone of his muscles under the thin fabric of his shirt—so it was as if his passion er

It wasn’t that Kirby was a particularly great kisser Ge everyone to Alex or the way he kissed, because they would all come up short But even without Alex in the mix, Kirby wasn’t the top contender

Still, there was a reason that she’d gone out with him a few times, and that all their dates ended up in the backseat of his old Toyota They hadn’t done much more than kiss, and Gemma wouldn’t take it any further

What kept her co back to Kirby wasn’t love or his kisses Her heart still longed for Alex, and only Alex But she couldn’t be with him, and she couldn’t sulk around the house anymore Or at least that hat Harper and her dad kept telling her

That was how she’d ended up here with Kirby, giving in to the physicaland coht

Even if she were still just human, Gemma would’ve found this fun Kirby was sexy and sweet, and he h But the siren part of her craved this, al the physical contact

The truth was that she was getting restless Thea told her that would happen if she didn’t eat Technically, she only needed to eat once before a solstice or equinox, but the longer she ithout feeding, the itated and irritable she would become

There were a few tricks to staving off the hunger One of the, which Ge, but Gemma was too afraid to try that She didn’t want to accidentally enchant anyone

The third wasn’t soin to it And that hat she was doing with Kirby Kissing hi him

When he kissed her deeply, pushing her back against the seat of the car, so stirred inside her A war her skin flutter, like when her legs transformed into a tail

The siren wanted to coely wonderful about holding it back Gemma was in control, not the monster, and as Kirby kissed her neck, she stayed firmly on the line between siren and human

It wasn’t until his hand began sliding up her skirt, running along the sh, that Gemma silenced the siren lust within her Her skin stopped fluttering, the heat inside her went cold, and Ge Kirby off her

“Oh, I’ heavy, and o too far?”

“You know the rules” She gave hio any further than that”

“Sorry” He griot a little carried away It won’t happen again”

She smiled at him “It’s fine I know you’ll stick to the rules better next time”

“So there will be a next time?” Kirby asked

He was kneeling on the seat, his blue eyes sparkling Kirby was handsome in the way models were—smooth, lean, chiseled—but he had a real kindness about him

The way he treated her probably had more to do with her siren appeal than how he actually felt about her She hadn’t used her song on him, so he wasn’t a love slave But her appearance had its oer, one that was hard for guys to ignore

Kirby was a few years older than she was, but she’d seen hih he was attractive and popular, he never bullied other kids In the short ti each other, he’d never said a mean word about anybody, and it never occurred to hie her