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My toes barely brushed the floor, but it didn’tme up I buried my hands into his messy locks, and threw myself into the kiss He took a few steps backward, and sat on the edge of s went on either side of his lap, straddling him The hand that had been around ainst hi, it disappeared then He pulledup at the sa His ered overacross the sensitive skin He continued down over ress I thought he would stop, but he slipped the tank top strap off my shoulder, and his lips never left my skin His other hand snuck beneath the botto the skin around the waistband of htened her as we kissed, s in his wake When his hand cupped roaned The skirt I’d thrown on earlier was up around hs, and there was so little between us I tilted ain, and this tie of my shirt, it was to pull it up and over my head

We broke our kiss to let the fabric pass between us I resisted the urge to cover aze raked over me And God was I thankful that Kelsey had insisted I wear soerie This particular set was black and white lace

When he looked at me, it ith such obvious desire that I knew he didn’t care about that little pudge that had stressed ently, while his left found oing to kiss ain, but at the last second, he swerved, and he pressed his cheek against e ofIt was just a s his hair, and pushing ainst the shell of my ear as he whispered, "Did I say ridiculously sexy? I meant unbelievably sexy"

I was unbelievably turned on

He kissed ainst the bed He paused to pull his shirt over his head, and for the first tiot to see the hard planes of his body that had fascinated s still splayed on either side of hiain

This was the part where I should tell hiin

Just three words

Not that hard, right?

I sed, and cleared ainst the skin of hts disappeared

Chapter Six

It was possible that Ioutto spontaneously coers trailed up hs and stroked the skin ofinto be so terrible at this… the worst he’d ever had probably And then he’d never want to see ain) I’d probably be trauain, which meant every relationship for the rest of my life would fail, and I would end up alone and miserable with nine cats and a ferret

I didn’t want to end up alone and miserable with nine cats and a ferret

Then one of his hands pushedbut es ofin my body see ers hit a spot insideup and towards hi kisses across my chest

My hands had a mind of their own as they kneaded at his back, and then slipped around to his stomach, where I flicked open the button on his jeans He made a sound in the back of his throat, and his lips crashed against--harder and faster, and I needed soht skin of his stomach, to the front of his jeans Then his lips broke froroan He didn’t pull back, but kept his lips millimeters from mine His breath caering kiss onabove me I heard the metal clink of his zipper, and kept my eyes focused on the frame of his shoulders as he fiddled with his clothes He stood for a few seconds, and I fixedI wanted this Badly

I was about to repeat ain when his lips and hands came back to me--frenzied, al low in ht as I waited for what I kneas cos, and his body settled into the crook of ed in ice

I was about to have sex

With a guy I’d justabout

And He knew nothing about in

And God, I wanted to go through with it I was sick of being a virgin, and he was unbelievably sexy, but this wasn’t me

I couldn’t do this Not with him

I just… couldn’t

I froze up beneath hi at the juncture between in or that I wasn’t ready It wouldn’t have been pretty or easy, but at least he would have understood… probably

Instead, my eyes locked on the porcelain cat cookie jar I’d inherited frorandmother, andthat came to ?

I put the heels of htly

He pulled back, his eyes dark, his hair ed my mind then He looked almost irresistible Almost

"Sorry, love Did you say cats? "

"Yes, I can’t do this… right now Because… I have a cat Yes, I have a cat that I need to, uet? Take care of! I have to take care ofto God that I didn’t sound as crazy to him as I sounded to myself Improbable