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We caether Phones slipped from our hands and thudded to the floor as we collided Ouronly to pull our shirts over our heads in a blur ofwas frantic Desperate Almost violent in its fierceness

"God, I ers burying the my scalp as his hot mouth crashed overopen the button snap and tugging the jeans down as he fell over hs He pulled back to shove theot stuck at his shoes

I watched, devouring the sight of hia pants,off his shoes and then shucking his jeans the rest of the way off

Then we caainst each other He settled betweentogether

He kissedmore His ers clenching his ht his erection directly against the core ofto clutch the back of his neck, clinging, straining against hi hien

"Pepper, are you sure?"

God, yes Gasping, I shifted ainst hileamed fiercely He lifted off me and fumbled with his discarded jeans I almost moaned in pain at the loss of him All of me felt cold, empty

And then the war the wrapper off a condom with his teeth I watched as he rolled it on, fascinated at the sight, the act

He wrapped an ar an to sink inside me, his eyes locked withinto the deep of his eyes, feeling his body joining with mine

I was ready My body stretched to accommodate hin Still exciting Gaspy little breaths escaped ht he was done, that I was filled to capacity, he pushed in deeper

My eyes flared wide, and I whimpered Okay, that was a little unco tightly "Are you all right?"

"Yes Don’t stop Do it!"

The ar my breasts to his chest as he thrust hiasp fro," I coainst ainst hi pressure built insidethe delicious friction and tightening the coil low in my belly It was like before, when heainst him, desperate to reach that cli around his waist The next thrust shattered ood My vision blurred as he hit that spot deeper He edthis absolute freedom to touch him, to love him with rowled in my ear "Cohers splayed overinto my eyes as he moved inside me "I want to see you"

I nodded jerkily The faainst him "Ohh"

"That’s it, Pepper" He drove harder into ed roaned into his h hiht on top of me As heavy as he was, I didn’t want him to ever move I could stay like this forever

Forever lasted about two minutes Reece pressed a kiss to my collarbone that made me shiver and then rose from the bed to dispose of the condom I found so a h It startledme to confront the reality of what I had just done With Reece

I hurriedly wiped the blood away My face burned as he watched me I tossed the wipe into the ss as Imy panties back on, I lowered ed the covers overon either side of me so that he could face me and hold me at the same time

I nodded "It didn’t hurt"

He tucked a strand of hair behind ets better"

I felt "

Grinning, he kissed me "It was all you, baby"

I doubted that I could never have as much fun alone as I had with hiht made me frown Panic fluttered inside me Reece--this It wasn’t the plan

"Hey No frowns" He tapped at the edge of ?"

I sed "How can this work, Reece?"

His slow ebbed fro the brush-off already? No tis stretched on either side of

"I’le word "Me, too"

"I don’t want--" I stopped, struggling hat to say There was a lot that I didn’t want to happen in this moment I didn’t want hihed harshly "You don’t knohat you want, Pepper That olf ball inside my throat "I do I’ve always known that That’s why this"--I waved between us--"can never be"

"Oh Yeah? Then do me a favor and explain it to otta be hiht? You fuck lanced away,on the pictures across the room The one of me with Lila and Hunter That was supposed to be omerys With Hunter Or someone like him

"You know randlance back at hi forwith her She lost the house the year after Daddy died Then we slept on the couches of friends But that got old They got tired of us And she just kept getting worsedoing ood, she lost"

"Except you She kept you"

My eyes stung I nodded, blinking back the burn "Yeah She keptinin the car She’d do whatever she needed to get her next fix"