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"I brought Selena home" He says "She’s had a lot to drink"

I peer around hih heels are in her hand and her handbag hangs off her elbow Her curls are everywhere and her ed over her lips and around her eyes

"She always has a lot to drink" I reply, waiting for Selena to make it to the top When she does, I take her by the hand and pull her into the house Her voice is rough and husky She’s ent sarette and alcohol fills my nose and I scrunchand help her lie down on the couch Seth kicks off his white sneakers and e room Then, he turns down the short hallway towards my room

"Hey!" I call out to hi? Seth!"

Quickly, I pull the blue, fluffy throw rug off the back of the couch and cover the already sleeping Selena Iat the wallpaper onthe lid and sliding it underneath my bed In the darkness I search for the switch to my lamp When I find it, I flick it on and turn back to him

He rolls onto his back and puts his hands behind his head, exposing the bottom of his ‘V’ shape I stand before him with my hands on my hips and the look he has in his eyes both exhilarates and terrifies reen and pink babydoll Thankfully, I wore one that isn’t see-through and it covers ht a taxi"

"Are you drunk?"

"I didn’t touch a drop I let your dad take my car home He didn’t drink either, but we made him leave his car at the exhibition center"

Seth sits up and shuffles towardat the base of my bed, directly in front of me and only inches away

"Did you and Selena?"

He looks up at , dark eyelashes "What, have sex?"

He knows that’s what I mean, but he wants ht? Because Seth and I aren’t anything I’m not even sure if we’re friends

"No, we didn’t"

Relief fills s at the corners of my lips

"She’s your friend and a little too ht"

I assuht

"But I did look after her for you" His fingertips brush over h Beneath his touch, my muscles tremble with need "Jackson wanted to take her hoht her here"

His head rests against h his hair

"Everyone went home with their whores and all I could think about was you"

"Gee, thanks"

"I don’t h pads of his finger tips rub s and I tilt my head back to enjoy it It’s hard to believe these hands brutally doht The saently caressing s fall to each side of his thighs His length presses hard against his jeans and into my core My breath quickens, but I try my hardest to conceal it His lust filled eyes bore into mine and I’m completely undone If he touches me, he’ll find me soaked and ready, but I don’t want hiht I can’t separate s for his A dry lump forainst htly and his warhs A shiver runs down my spine and Seth smiles that confident s, Seth?" I utter

"I can think of a lot of answers to that question"

I slide off him and sit on the bed "You knohat I mean"

I don’t knohat I want hiesture or for his for me I just want honesty I want respect

"I don’t know, Olivia" He states, falling backwards against the e hands brush over his face and he exhales Perhaps, it’s too late in the night for this conversation now, or maybe it was too early in our ‘relationship’ I have work in theon his arm and lift myself off the bed to shut off the lamp We crawl to the top of the bed and I climb under the sheets Seth unbuttons his shirt and slides it off I hate that the room is dark and I can’t admire him I hear his denim jeans cruer Insex with Seth tonight I’ve already let hiive him the rest of me because I’m scared of what he’ll do when he has it His thick, war ainst the front of his body and I’ood I i my sensitive parts from behind as he breathes in my ear

"Olivia?" His voice startles ht with the whole anxiety thing" I can hear his vulnerability in his voice and I want to turn around and hold hiet worse?"

The pillow hts is nothing" His thuh ed ets really bad and I can’t breathe, at all"