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He laughed deeply as he planted his hands on either side of my ars "No Holyare you okay?"

"Yeah You?"

His thick, dark lashes lowered and he grinned "I don’t know I think I broke you"

"I asked if you were okay," I clarified in a voice that sounded strange in hto do with that"

"I’m more concerned about you, but you did break my fall Hoeet of you, Tess" He chuckled, and dear Lord, I kneas three sheets to the wind and then some, and daling to get ether in all the ways that counted I stilled when a raw, sexy sound ru his Neither of us moved Neither of us spoke His lips parted on a quick, shallow inhale My chest rose against his in a deep, shaky breath I felt hi between th and thickness

A sweet and heady burn crawled over my body Several points in my body throbbed acutely as he stared down at me Entranced, I watched his eyes turn to a molten silver Several shivers ran downin the very center of ht, unfocused quality to his eyes, and I again toldto daaze

"Thisthis is unexpected," he said in a voice that stretched s "Tess, I" His eyes closed, and he let out a deep breath "You feel good under ood"

My heart skipped a beat and then picked up His words stirred up the kind of lust I had little experience with or understanding of All I kneas that I wanted to wrap ht word Maybe perfect?" He sounded alrowled, and then his hps rolled in a slow thrust, pressing against the part where I ached the h his large body "Do you believe in fate?"

The question cah the haze building in my head "I don’t know," I whispered "Do you?"

"I s are just meant to happen?" he murmured as he dropped his head and his lips brushed asp parted my lips "Like no oing to happen? Sos I don’t think you can stop"

My body overran , and I wasn’t even sure he knehat he was saying My right arainst the cool, silky strands of his hair

His lips grazed ue flicked over ether He kissed the sah that it would not bruise, but the sensation was a riot inside ht onto one ar erous as a summer storh pad of his thu my bottom lip "I didn’t alwayscome up to see Cam He wasn’t the only reason why I h hed and then closed his eyes "I came up to see you Makes me a bastard, really How old were you? Sixteen? Fuck me"

Those words mixed with the feel of him were like an explosion, but there was little ti or to even question it His head lowered andto push him away Not now Not after what he’d just ad the horrible, wretched feeling froe of ainst my forehead as he rolled offjust above my belly button That sweet kiss seized my chest, but I waited for those lips to move farther south

But the lips never did

I turned my head toward his and openedbeside me on the floor, Jase was passed out cold

Chapter Four

Forrest Gump had taken up residency in my head The words stupid is as stupid does were on repeat I should’ve ignored Jase’s text I should’ve agreed when he’d called hiet his drunk ass I shouldn’t have yearned for more than a kiss on the forehead And I really shouldn’t have been lured in by anything he’d said last night, no matter how badly I wanted to believe him, because he’d been drunk

A drunk hts That’s what my dad always said, but I didn’t think that was true Not in the bright light of the et Jase onto the couch last night So I had ended up shoving a pillow under his head and dropping the quilt over hi up and findinghim sleep Like I said, stupid is as stupid does As I studied the softness in his features that were never present while he ake, I’d fallen asleep

When I’d woken up Sunday , the quilt that I’d placed over him had been tucked around one

There was a huge part of ht and that it , because that kissit had been so sweet But he’d been haized We could move forward fro out in the ht to talk to hi that he’d kiss me

On any other place except h" I dropped my head into my hands

But I’d been so surprised by his text Hell, I’d thought he’d purposely lost irl That wash ht"

I lifted my head at the sound of Debbie’s voice She stood in the doorith two cups of coffee in her hands "Ahh"

Brown hair tucked up in a neon purple clip, she shoved a warm cup into my hands "Got a question"

"Okay" I sat down onoff her sandals, she flashed a quick grin and then dropped down on the bed opposite ofaroundhhtme, because there was one Jase Winstead passed out on our floor and you were asleep on the couch, all curled up like a little babe"

A slow burn crept across led as I stumbled over my words "Nohen I see Jase in unexpected places, I expect hi, but co here? I saw him at the party and he didn’t look like he wanted to be there--­oh! Now it rin spread "There was somewhere else he wanted to be and that was here, with you"

That was a huge leap of logic to take "It’s not like that" At her doubtful look, I took a sip of the sugary coffee and resisted the urge to ask what "unexpected places" she had seen Jase in "I’m serious We’ve known each other for a while You know ht?"