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The nextthe caffeine buzz would jolt his thoughts away fro over to ain his penthouse, he found the sky besieged by threatening gray clouds hovering over the city It fit his itation with his lack of self-control crawled through his system as stealthy recollections of Eh histo his skin per hih his body still huht in a tangled web of eh the heated events rolling around in his head Opening it, he found Trevor wearing a wide s he was in a far better frame of mind than Gavin

"Da on the couch with his long legs sprawled out in front of him

Gavin poured a cup of coffee and perched himself on a barstool in the kitchen "I couldn’t sleep"

"Sorry about that, bro I, however, slept like a baby wrapped in Fallon’s arms"

A weak smile tipped Gavin’s mouth "Sounds like it ell"

"Beyond well," he replied with a s her She has this funky, cool personality, and to top it all off, she’s a little freak I oes both ways"

With the cock of his brow, Gavin soes both ways, too"

Trevor cringed "Did you really have to kill ed casually

Trevor stared at hi in his eyes "So are you going to tellon with you and E on with me and Emily," he clipped, his tone harsh

"Dude, we’ve known each other for fourteen years I had a feeling soht only confirot up and sauntered over to theas he contemplated what to say His ansas slow and apprehensive "I’m in deep"

"Bro, please don’t tell me you fucked her"

He turned and pinned hilare "No, I didn’t fuck her, Trevor"

"Well, what the hell’s going on?"

Nibbling at his lip, Gavin paced the rooed animal He didn’t kno to explain what he felt for Emily He didn’t kno Trevor would perceive hi he kneas that he couldn’t make sense of his emotions, and in that moment, he didn’t care if he should

He felt what he felt

End Of Story

"Dude, just coh his hair and regarded hi for her"

With disapproving eyes, Trevor’s ape He stood up and walked over to hiht?"

A frown marred Gavin’s features "What kind of question is that?" he asked as if the answer should be obvious

"Coirl?"

"I met her before I knew she ith Dillon," he replied, the words stated through gritted teeth He padded back over to the counter and downed the rest of his coffee

"Wait, I thought the first tiht at the club"

Gavin sighed deeply, placing his hands on the back of his neck "No, it’s coet her nu as he reht of her nearly evaporated the oxygen fro herremember; it was back in June I went to her job the next day to see her, and then ere introduced a few days later"

Trevor walked back over to the couch, sinking into it "Look, dude, I’ to be brutally honest here" Gavin eyed hi her - soon"

Again, oxygen nearly depleted, Gavin sed hard and leaned against the counter "He told you that?"

"Surely, he’s mentioned it to you?"

"Yeah, but I didn’t think he was serious" A gut-wrenching ache ran through his stoht "Besides, he doesn’t love her Do you honestly believe he stopped fucking around with Monica? I sure as shit don’t"

"Knowing hiht But, to tell you the truth, bro, I don’t think about it What he does is his business Emily’s with him for her own reasons, and as far as I’m concerned, she chooses to see what she wants It’s as simple as that"

"Well, it’s not that si

"It has to be You need to kill whatever the fuck is going on between you two"

"I don’t think I can" Hesitating, he drew in a lungful of air, his voice dropping a notch "She’s supposed to be with me"

"Dude, this can only end in disaster Gavin - seriously - you need to really think about what you’re doing Just think about it She loves him, too"

"She doesn’t love hi He may be my friend, but just like all the rest, he fucks with her head and drags her into his morphed sense of need for hi with your own head by thinking she doesn’t love him Listen to yourself, bro Take a step back and honestly listen to what you’re saying here"

Although he didn’t speak, Gavin’s eyes hardened like shards of glass splintering away fro honest It’s a bad situation You know it, and I know it"

"I’ that it’s a bad situation!" he tossed his hands up, the words cracking like thunder "Do I look like some kind of asshole? A snake is a snake, no ood for her!"

Blowing out a breath, Trevor walked over to the door He turned around and looked back to Gavin "You’re like a brother toto vilify Dillon for your own personal needs right now And, to tell you the truth, you’re putting et crazy, and I don’t want any part of it"

Sitting back down, Gavin looked at hi in his eyes "What the fuck aet about her The whole fucking thing’s a mistake And, more importantly, you have to remember that Dillon’s your friend" Trevor exhaled heavily and shook his head before walking out the door "I’ll call you later, bro"

The advice was so siet her The words couldn’t be closer to the truth Thisend couldn’t see that He outright refused to Emily would never be a mistake to him, nohi he and Emily could be was real for Gavin When he said that he felt she was supposed to be with him, it wasn’t just a heated statement It wasn’t just an inclination From the first time their eyes ht down to the bottom of his core She had been h she was the very definition of off-limits, his mind and heart screa thing burn to the ground Therefore, into the sea of uncertainty, he would plunge - trying to make her his - and he feared neither friend nor foe could stop hihts felt the sa as if she had sed a handful of nails Her throat was burning raw as reckless ihout heraround like marbles, only made her temples blossom into a full-blown headache Guilt for what she had done to Dillon and their relationship burned almost as hot as her insatiable arousal for Gavin

With thin and shaky breathing, she lifted her head and peered around the rooh of relief when her eyes glanced over to the nightstand Along with a note explaining that he would be back soon, he also left two aspirin and a glass of water that she couldn’t consuic little pills slid down into her sto up some relief, but not nearly as , she stared h theshades She whipped the blankets back over her head She wanted the i her to blur, melt, and recede away banished to a place she could never find again

Nice try

However, the more she rehashed the undeniable pleasure he produced in their all-too-short exchange, the more she craved hientle caresses, the way his fingers - oh God, the way his fingers tunneled deep inside her - had merely teased her senses with the sweet taste of what he was truly capable of Not even the worst of hangovers could keep her body froled in her hair did nothing to help ebb any of the thoughts that had her loins nearly teetering on the edge of orgasht there alone in the bed

Despite all of this, her head was under attack, barraged with her ood o"

Clear visualizations played out of all the times Dillon had helped while her mother was ill Emily had all but fallen to her knees before she died Frozen with fear and unable to aid in her last few days, it wasn’t her that kept watch over her mother - it wasn’t even her sister, Lisa, because she had been in a near fatal accident a few days before - it was Dillon There was no limit to the amount of times he helped her mother He held her hair for her as she retched in a bedpan while Emily sat sedated in a chair across the rooet about hi care of the funeral expenses on his own, he even went so far as allowing Emily and Lisa to keep what little the life insurance policy provided

And this is how I repay hihts forced out hot, helpless tears as she slid fro liquor sloshed around in her empty belly with every step It was then that she realized she was still draped in last night’s clothing She cringed as she tore the with theher flesh of caked-on makeup and the scent of Gavin from her lips, she splashed war her stouilt She looked at herself in the er, and hate - but, in that moment, she decided she wouldn’tunder her own scrutiny of what she did She was drunk; that was her story, and she was sticking to it If sober, surely, none of it would have ever happened Her body ht want Gavin, but in no way, shape, or form did her mind In all his pleasure, he was simply a serpent companion to the sexual demon hidden beneath the surface of her skin

At least that’s what she tried to convince her short-circuited brain of on this particular Sundayover the sink to allow more water to flow into her cupped hands, she nearly juainst her shoulder

"Jesus, Dillon, you scared me," she said, her voice ti desperately to suppress

Can he tell? Do I look different? Oh God, do I still save a soft s, babe," he said, brushing the et in the shower, okay?"

Sing back the acid steadily building in her throat, she nodded as he slid her panties down to the ground, her body quivering in the process She stepped out froaze Grabbing her by the hand, he led her to the shower and turned it on He gestured for her to get in With unsteady breathing fro for the soap, she hastily ran it across her body in an atte saliva fro into the shower, Dillon pressed her back against his chest as he began toin the deepest of breaths, she let her head fall back, trying to savor the heat from the water

"Is Olivia awake yet?" she asked, atte to stir up any conversation

"I don’t think so Her bedrooe her shoulders "She otten up from the couch because that’s where she was passed out when I ca your parents?" she reluctantly asked

"We need to start getting ready as soon as we’re done in here"

Emily nodded

"So you were pretty haht"

She reached down for the shampoo and bit her lip "Yeah, I was"

"What did you do last night, Eh to send a shiver up her spine

Atte to catch her breath, she turned to face him "Whawhat do you mean?"

With his eyes intent on hers, he slowly lifted a hand and brushed his thumb across her chin "You lied toin her chest, Eainst her tears "II didn’t lie to you about anything"

He took the shampoo from her, poured some into his hands, and lathered it up Eyes still locked on hers, he gathered her hair and started washing it "I ran into Gavin last night when I walked in"

Trying to hide the panic she knew crossed her features and wanting to drown, choke, gasp, or ht there in that shower, Emily stared back at him, unable to for to cut off all oxygen