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"Your younger brother?"

Dylan’s rim line and the look in his eyes altered in a way that chilled Kara’s bones She saw the he didn’t just dislike Justin He hated him

"You’re not close?"

"He’s ain"

"Oh" Kara didn’t want to say anything to stop hi really terrible?" Dylan’s anguished eyes settled on Kara’s, and she wasn’t certain she wanted hie her opinion of hi the dark thoughts out

"I wish it had been hi in the air "I wish he’d been the one swinging fro tree, not Billy"

Kara considered this, studying his face

"Do you expect hed, a harsh, humourless sound "Don’t you? I just wished my baby brother dead"

"No No you didn’t You wished that Billy wasn’t dead" Kara placed her hands flat over Dylan’s collarbones "You’re a good person, Dylan, but you’re only human You’ve lost someone you loved, and it hurts like hell"

"How do you know I’ood person Kara? We’ve only known each other a couple ofto hear hi, in part at least Theytime, but they knew each other well It had been like the speed date that never ended since the moment she’d met him: so much intensity crammed into such a short time Never in her life had she ht The fact that they were having this conversation while she was naked and wrapped around him on a beach was testament to that She follohere he led, because she trusted hio, and she trusted him to follow her when she wanted to lead, too She felt utterly herself with him, free to be as bold, as brazen, as woht," she said, almost exasperated "Sure You could be anybody I could be anybody There are no guarantees that this won’t all go spectacularly wrong, but right now it feels spectacularly right to me And to you"

Kara ran her hands over his hair and down the back of his neck

"Spectacularly right," she whispered again, feeling hi back towards her from the dark places in his head

"There’s other stuff I should tell you," he said,her heart tith the pain and vulnerability in his eyes

"Tellit out of hiood time "There’s no rush"

He reached out then and traced his fingers down her face

"But…"

Kara placed a finger over his lips "Shh Look around us" She glanced around the tiny bay, at the glow of the fire, and then back to the incredible ain"

Dylan’s eyes tracked around as Kara’s had, taking in all of the ht," he said softly, and she turned her esture was all it took to tip the e it spiralling into back into the roiling deeps of desire He gathered her against hiry kisses that sent intense, sexual throbs shooting through her body She didn’t just want him She needed him in a way that bordered on primal