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"I’et into"

As I said it, her gaze wandered around the sparsely furnished space She looked back athave you lived here?"

"Five years" I’d ht afterfull-ti looks brand-new"

I set Jimbo’s stuff down and filled the boith food and water The black ball of fur caoods when he heard the food hit the dish He juured ere friends again and I was forgiven for doing such awesos to his master

"I don’t spend much time here Really I’m only home to shower and sleep"

She made a face of disbelief at ed and crossed my arms over my chest "I never took a vow of celibacy and I never said I slept alone"

"So after I leave tomorrow someone else takes my place?"

That was the way it had always been Now I didn’t think there was a woman alive that could take her place

"No When you leave toet you back there as soon as possible I haven’t been a repeat offender for a really long ti at me as I motioned between us "You are a first for me"

I could tell she wasn’t sure if she believedinto bed with uratively, always lost out to the fact that she wanted me That was always there, hot in her black eyes and clear on her expressive face I decided the subject needed to be changed before we got into stuff that was too heavy to get out fro I’ of several layers of clothes in order for me to see it"

She snorted and rolled her eyes at ed out of the red cardigan she had on and held up her hands in a ta-da gesture "What do you think? It’s the first mock-up of one of the shirts I had the screen printera black tank top that was molded to her curvy frame There was a fine ribbon of lace around the neck and the bottoypsy was on the front, looking even more like the woether

She turned around and I saw the Marked logo on the back along with the shop’s Web address It was a lotI would have pictured e started talking about doing a retail venue along with tattoos The girls that frequented the tattoo parlors were going to eat it up, and if they filled the tops out the way Sale ood at this and I had to adave me a certain kind of pride that

"It’s aet the ones Rule and Nash finally finished done, I’irls to wear so we can build up sons They’re all a little rough but still girlie enough that they won’t alienate the fee success"

I couldn’t stop looking at the face that looked so ypsy"

She looked down at herself then back up at me "She’s my favorite"

I chuckled a little and rubbed the back of rin and she took a few steps towarddistance she put her hand in the center ofout a tattoo that was totally foreign to me

"I know" She had to lift herself up on her toes so that she could kiss me on the underside of ooey and squishy on the inside that that’s how you seethe edge of roan when her teeth closed over it

"You’re beautiful You have a darkness and a wildness in you You look like a ypsy"

"You make the darkness and the wildness calm down" She had her hands under the he it upward I caught the back of my collar in one hand and ripped it off over eneral direction of the couch

"Yeah?"

She ran her hands along the ridges of my ribs and then up and down my side where my mom’s name was The reminder of what happened when I loved someone wholly and how hard the lonely hen that love went aas alht in the center of my chest just as her hands found their way to the front of my pants She made short work of ers and the wet tip of her tongue tracing randons on my skin, desire and want kicked fear’s ass to the curb

"Yeah You sort of feel like where I alanted to be"

Well, fkto keep a safe distance and not letting et involved seeh her soft hair and held her head in my hands as she took a few steps forward and backedlea my pants off I kissed her because I had to I kissed her because I wanted to I kissed her because kissing her was starting toI wasn’t really aware I had been looking for Mostly I kissed her because every ti a piece of herself even ive her soernails in rinned when she sucked in a surprised breath when she encountered nothing but nad skin underneath the denim She wasn’t the only one that kne to dress, or underdress, for an occasion