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I liked being right

Still stunned by what his iven with equal--or e and be the object of ood It felt real Hot flesh with a pulse in ed me to continue, the coed breaths, and his urgent need pushing hi inme by surprise

I sed

He pulled back and looked at me ide eyes, an admiration there I hadn’t seen from any man Ever

"You just--"

I smiled "Yes"

"And you don’t mind?"

The taste and the texture had never bothereddeal toto Sa that seeet wider--or more primal "You’re not like anyone in the world, Amy" He pulled me into his arms and we rested on the bed, an inter

"I’ not to be self-conscious

"No," he crooned, pulling my chin up so my eyes met his "You’re incredible"

Words that should have made this deepen, that should have ravity of the one to a very intiether, but there was so htif he wanted to taste hiue broke through my lips and answered the first issue--but the second?

The abrupt withdrawal of his warmth surprised me "Amy? You OK?" He had pulled away to ask, and to watchmyself

Sam yanked the sheet up over us both and tuckeddraped over his legs with a casualness that pleasedon?" hewith you Noinout a warning sign to close up, put up walls, reinforce the shields This was Sah We’d just been sensual and raw and raunchy with each other and I wantedin uessed, tightening his ees, like still photos froh my mind Me at National Qualifiers The kiss we shared Sa out of the auditorium All the texts unanswered, theBrent Dating Brent Naked Brent Naked me with Brent

All those years All that joy and pain overshadowed by not understanding what had happened with Saainst his bare skin like ere old lovers so familiar with each other we could touch as if ned the skin, and I just--

Couldn’t

"I’ down," I confessed "It is too much, Sam Not the sex," I hurried to say "It’s incredible You’re incredible" I reached up to trace hiswhat my words couldn’t "So ood"

Here caht have been," I said, sighing

A groan of deep pain came from his chest, the sound ae If this was going to be real and true and honest, then it had to start so the fact that ere covered in (and full of) each other’s scent and sex If you can’t be vulnerable e soet it Please get it

"Me too," he whispered, kissing the top of htened around his chest and all the air rushed out ofthe feel of his na he could hear ers made a slow journey around his chest, down the dip of breastbone, over his nipples, which tightened froe His own hands returned the favor, sliding overI could feel

"I meant it when I said you’re incredible" His hand stilled at ers resting onI’ve alanted in a wo entirely different, a thrill of fear coursing throughhi up, my voice hoarse with protest "No! You know that’s not true andand" Fury and pain and desire and lust all stirred inside ed hi in would think ere about to co on his back on the bed, me on hands and knees over him

"And what?" he asked, shocked byelse The corners of hisway

"And you don’t get to hide froet to use your own assumptions about ive us a try"

His head snapped back as much as it could on the pillow and his hands slipped off o? But I told you," he said, eyes blazing "I told you what happened"

"Yes, Sam You told me what you did But you didn’t tell e difference"

"And you’re starting a fight because you’re afraid to let me make love to you"