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"I want to speak to her"

"Braden--"

"I’ll get you downstairs," he cut hi it behind him as he stepped inside Braden’s concerned eyes locked on me as he strode toward ruff as he sat down "I’ and launched ht and his soothing ave Braden?" Ada it back and putting it next to the one from the year I was fourteen "You hurt me more Not intentionally, of course, but I wanted you to see ested I was daft in the head "You were a girl You were fifteen"

"So you never saw ht… in my little dress," I teased

"Not then," he ads "You were still Braden’s wee sister then"

I wasn’t hurt I had retrospect onif Adam had fancied my lanky, boob-less fifteen year-old self Still, I was curious "When did it change for you?"

I was treated to another "are you daft?" look "I’uy thing that you won’t get and it’ll probably piss you off"

Okay, noas definitely intrigued "I won’t get annoyed Just tell ed sweetly

"Fine" He eyed hteenth birthday"

My eyes widened as I re on which you oh so casually told inity"

That was the ht Men were such caveave a huff of laughter as I now replayed the whole thing but with the realization that Adam had been jealous Wow

That was not how it had appeared to ht it was another overprotective "big brother"back on the pal at my best friend’s wee sister who’s just told me she had sex for the first tietting fucking turned on"

moment" His eyes locked on my mouth as he remembered "My body reacted to what you’d said before my brain did I suddenly wondered what your lips felt like, how you’d taste, what it would feel like to have your long legs wrapped aroundthose very appealing thoughts so long ago and I hadn’t had a clue "Then I got pissed off At uy for having tasted you And then at you… for letting hirow shallow

I knew if I didn’t say so love in his spare room before we could finish our trip downthe trip I clearedthrough it

I found the entry I was looking for and handed it to Adam "You should know," I murmured softly, "That it all coinity last night To Liam It wasn’t how I’d wanted it to be It hadn’t been ho I wanted it to be with It hadn’t been with someone I loved like I’d always promised myself it would be And it hurt And then it didn’t In fact it wasn’t bad at all But soht, and unlike sex it didn’t stop hurting It hasn’t stopped hurting… The function room at the Marriott Hotel was absolutely packed and as I looked around I realized that I didn’t even know some of these people

Still, it was sohteenth birthday party a total success and it wasn’t even over yet Braden had hired the room at the hotel as well as a DJ and caterer My family had invited more family as well as their friends who invited their friends, and I invited my friends who invited their friends who seemed to have invited their friends It was a crush, the buffet was al staff come out of the back room with fresh trays of food and I scowled as one of the pretty girls was stopped by Adah and tilt her head flirtatiously I watched the the burn of jealousy in ht how sexy you look?"

I was pulled back into a warhtly to look up into Lia down ata little

He was buzzed, but not drunk like Ada happy" an hour before the party even began As per usual he’d turned up alone Fro for years, Adairl he’d dated

Probably because he didn’t "date"

Lia to keep his wits about him I think I knehy He was nineteen, a student at Napier University, and we’d met when I’d toured the university last year We’d kept in touch, chatting online, until seely out of the blue Liao We’d asm) but I’d been reluctant to have sex with him I’d filled my head with so many romance novels and movies I was convinced that my first tih I liked Liam and I was attracted to hile" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>