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"The view is the best part of the aparters with his, and damn it, there is a hot spot in my chest that isn’t about sex, but about how he ether, alk toward the steel railing that sits atop a glass half wall, allowing it to feel as if we are alrab hold of the railing, staring out at the city, while he does the sah are we?"

"Fifteen floors"

"Low enough that we can see every street and building"

"But high enough to be on top of our new ho fro at me "You’ve been back here a year," I remind him "And you’re from here"

"I didn’t decide to stay until today"

"Why today?"

"It should have been sooner"

It’s not a real answer, and he doesn’t give me time to decide if I want to press formy backside, his hand at my sides "And thanks to you," heabout what I left behind I’ht here"

The words infer ht, or ht now He is caressing up and down er think My nipples are tight, aching nubs, and rip on the railing, sucking in air as his exploration moves to my hips and then my backside And suddenly, or not so suddenly, I want to touch him and see hi ers splaying on my belly where they’ve settled, that other hand, still branding ers find the zipper toit down "Shane," I say, not sure why, and when I turn my head to look at hiue that leavesmore

"I like it when you say ain, a light breeze liftingme we’re outside I think I should care, but he caresses my skirt over my hips, and I can’t find a reason why any it aside, and leaving hs, and heels frothe crevice betweenmuchmy cheek while the other cups rips the lace and yanks I am shocked, and somehow much more vulnerable without that tiny stitch of lace "Shane, daain, not sure why thisme front and back "Easy, sweetheart" His teeth scrapeof my nipples beneath the silk of my bra "No one can see us and we’re on top of our city, the day we both reluctantly decided to call it home"

"Home?" I rasp out, that word only one of the nerves he’s hit And I say it I don’t knohy but I do "I hate that word and I’ s pinning s "Why am I different? Because I have family? Because you don’t?"

"I do I have an asshole brother just like you"