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"I clih the tree, just like we used to do," she offered

"And your birthday’s tomorrow Can I climb over to your bedroo in here?" I pinned her with hard eyes and ca to life into need another shower Did I have the same effect on her body?

"I…um…" she staaled to , but she couldn’t hold my stare, either

Finally, she took a deep breath and broke into a shaky half-s for you, actually" She leaned in close to my face "Consider it your present to me as well," she whispered

What the…?

Her lips ar

Jesus Christ What was she doing?

Her tight body pressed into h ers into every curve of her skin was uncontrollable

Her lips teased and captivated me She moved her hps into ue flicked underwith me

I was in a whole lot of trouble and a world of pain if she stopped

She wrapped her arms around my neck, andthis She was grabbing on

Thank God

Snaking my arms around her back, I took control and dove into her ain

I forgot everything Why she was here Why she was the one initiating this shit What she was going to do e got close to the point of no return

Who fking cared?

"Jesus, Tate," I breathed out, light-headed when she dipped her head into ue, and teeth was a dream come true

This was Tate, but it wasn’t

She ild, kissing and biting ht on the kitchen counter I could feel the way sheherself into me

She was everywhere, and I couldn’t even reers ran over the scars on my back She knew that they were there, but I hoped she wouldn’t notice them I’d be ready to throith the devil hi questions

Her mouth was hot, and the sweetness of her breath had ue shot out to tastein"Get her on the bed!"

"I’ her up, I carried her to the bed as she wrapped her legs aroundTate hold fast tome

I didn’t knohy she was really in here, and I wondered at her change of heart all of a sudden, but she wasn’t faking this

And I wasn’t going to fk it up

I laid her down and hovered over her, taking in the sight of Tate underneaththe feel of her inin at the sides and looking soft but tight Tate would be showing me this body a lot, I hoped

"You’re so beautiful" I held her eyes for aher hot skin

Her lips always tasted sweet, like fruit Her body, on the other hand, tasted wild and raw, and I had a vision of rain falling across her nad chest while I asped out, her body arching into htly bit her skin all the way down to the top of her jeans

My brain was in overdrive I wanted to rush this, because the itch in ical Tate--the nor to stopthe tip ofa little betweenjust enough to driveoff her jeans or that her underere now sliding down her legs

Jesus

My heart pounded in the back of my throat, and my stomach dropped like I was on a roller coaster

Tate was beautiful Everywhere

With as ether in our past--and the fact that her as in perfect view of mine--I’d seen her scantily clad before, but this was new

I didn’t wait I dove back to her body and left a trail of kisses across her stoed, her raspy voice breaking with her breaths

I looked up at her, looking down atto stop this

But she didn’t She paused for only athe job of getting undressed

Hell And I closed , I yanked her bra straps down, off her shoulders, and stared in awe at her a bare and open for et over the fact that she was here Naked in my bed

I’d loved her like a kid before, but we da hs, I dove for what I’d been dying to taste for weeks

Hell, for longer than that

With the tip of th of the soft, wet heat between her legs

Goddahtly "Oh!"

I looked up, calm and amused, to see her wide-eyed, surprised look