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Steel told me I was a selfish bastard and that he wished I would’ve stayed gone He didn’t want my opinion or any other moral horseshit He said that Dixie was free now, and that I o take her since that’s what I’d wanted all along I’d called Brent and let him take over Steel was drunk, and sober or drunk, he didn’t want ," she said, her eyes back onto Cleood for her She’d ht even fall in love again My heart felt like so soo "You’ll like it there Beautiful caes I visited"

"I can start a new life," she said, nodding firmly, with deterer in it, unable to hurt her anymore

We make certain choices in life because we have to Others are h, we think those through, taking our time to decide I’m not sure which one of these scenariosour bodies a breath away from one another, and cup her face in ht when I closed ht of nothing else as I lowered ed for this moain, her body pressed against mine like this, and with a desperatefrenzy

Her hands slid underI couldn’t forceon and I’d soon become a memory for her That was all I knew Maybe this was desperation, a futile echo of two people who’d loved each other deeply and were forced to let it all go Nothing mattered to ht noith thethis place where we’d spent so hts in the ar but Dixie andlife or this one last eain

Dixie Monroe

THE ACHE I felt for Asher to touchin his arh His hands ue sliding over ripped his back, desperate to get closer and make sure there wasn’t any space between us, not an inch

Asher grabbed ainst him His hardness pressed into my stomach I could feel the throb of his erection, ently, up and down, his pelvis rubbing against ers bit into the flesh where my shorts had ridden up Ia hand to the front of his jeans to feel his bulge inhiain Terrified that this was over, that whatever control he had lost had coan to open rabbed aze locked on every inch ofhis own shirt, and already working the buttons of his jeans

He watched rass beneath our feet, his eyes following their descent "Panties, too," he ordered and I quickly tugged the my flesh

I wanted his hands on an to plead

"I want to kiss and lick every inch of your body I want to take all night with you But I need to be inside you, Dixie, right now," he said before I could add anything else

I stepped closer to hi back irl he once held and loved in this very place I was older, stronger I wanted everything from him, and I was not afraid to ask "Fuck rabbing entleness not to hurt me "You wantinto molten fire

"I want to still feel you in me tomorroant each step I take to remind me that you were inside me"

"Jesus," he hoarsely whispered He then spunfirh the air I squealed fro it again

"Yes," I replied breathlessly