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Commitment and love Sex as the added bonus I wasn’t familiar with that equation I had been so sure it was a bold-faced lie Yet there it was, love, co besideI’d known of life up until that summer been true?

"Jesse,"--I rested in, you know I haven’t been one in a long time"

"I know" He nodded

I bit my lip and looked him in the eyes "Are you sure you want your first tied everything--said no to all the boys and waited for a night with Jesse Walker--I would have done it I wouldn’t have needed a second to consider

"Rowen--"

I shook my head I didn’t want to talk around the topic or have hi I wanted the truth, cold and hard if that’s what it was

"Are You Sure?"

Jesse scooted closer until his face was just a few inches from mine Both of his hands moved to my face and those eyes of his blazed into mine "I’m sure" If the conviction in his words didn’t prove it, his expression did "I love you, and I’ure out how that whole rocking-your-world thing works?"

I grinned again Frowning was impossible when Jesse bea," I said, leaning closer until I almost tasted the salt on his skin "But I promise to return the favor" When my mouth pressed into the base of his neck, Jesse’s skin erupted with goosebumps

"I’m fully coh

"Good," I whispered against his skin Grabbing hold of his aret over here andintome back onto the mattress His arm wound aroundaround to my backside His mouth covered mine as he lowered hiainst ht

His tongue played with the searant hiue touched his, he lowered the rest of hih I moaned into his mouth wasn’t quiet or short His erection pressed hard into h I could barely breathe with it there, I wanted it pressed hard into so else

My hand left his back and felt around thefor that little box

I kept pace with his kissing in the ers touched that box I grabbed what I needed and ripped one free of the strip I needed both hands to tear the wrapper open, but it didn’t take long The whole time, Jesse’s hands, ht her When his hps flexed against mine, I let out anothermy hands dohere I needed them

"What?"

"I need you to slon and suit up or else I’inity"

He was breathing so hard he was al wrong?"

"No," I said instantly "You’re doing so sain Even if I’d wanted to, I couldn’t hold in the sound that slipped from my mouth

He said, "I’ve only waited twenty years for thisout inin real life"

"It’s working," I eness washed right off of his face In fact, all emotion other than desire left his face

I sth, then up, and repeated the process until I wasn’t so sure he would be able to hold himself back if I did it onethe condo into my hand as I finished with the condouided hiht where he needed to be, I wrapped s around his hps and removed my hands

A sheen of sweat covered his entire face and his chest was rising and falling so quickly, I wasn’t sure how he et out words, but he did "I love you" He kissed me as sweetly as he’d ever kissedmy hands down his face

His hps flexed, and he moved inside of me I cried out and curled my hands into his hair He moved so slowly and carefully inside of in When he was as deep inside as he could go, he tre He just inhaled and exhaled, lettingreat, doesn’t it?"

Jesse groaned when I squeezed hi beautiful," he breathed, and then he started o slow, to take his time, but that wasn’t a favor I needed So I lifted ainst hiht ht, Jesse," I said "You can come if you’re ready"

"I’ve been about to co to live up tofor you Please don’tdeep inside of me, "God"

If I wasn’t so close tohis expression Instead, I liftedus both closer

"Rowen," he sighed, and when he started groaning and h, I knew he’d found his release I followed him one moment later, and as my body fell apart around him, all I could do was repeat his name Over and over Until the only word I kneas his nah his body, he held his weight carefully above me He didn’t collapse on top of me in a post-sex haze like I kneould have if our positions had been reversed