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As if he could read hts, he turned and saw ether from dozens of feet away

But he crossed the distance, and the tension didn’t dissipate, just grew until I thought ht burst

"Leah" He saidI didn’t know if I was capable of giving And, after that exchange with his brother, I wasn’t sure I was even worthy of the tone, not when I’d accepted the card

"Hey," I answered, turningas he stood in front of o first? You got to talk last tied me in his arms with one hand on either side of my body "I told you that I knohat I want, and that I’d let you think But it’s not fair for you toall the facts"

"Okay," I answered, ood? All saltwater and sand, and sandalwood and Paxton They should bottle it and sell it Scratch that The feed

His eyes locked onin the blue depths, the intensity there as fierce as on the half-pipe, or when I’d seen hie ofyou back because you’re my tutor, like that puts you in a position of power"

"Maybe," I answered,you, pursuing you Not vice versa I don’t knohat’s happening between us, but I’h to dismiss it without exploration" One of his hands pal me in one motion "If we’d been alone on that beach when you kissed me, I wouldn’t have held back, wouldn’t have had to think about what you wouldn’t want in the public eye"

He dragged his thuhtly, unable to stop myself

He sucked in a breath "I would have kissed you exactly as I’ve been fantasizing about since the first second I saw you standing on this balcony, all wide-eyed and beautiful"

"Paxton," I whispered, leaning in to his like his s I couldn’t have, like his heart

"I would have kissed you like this" His ue--sweetpasta fire withinour bodies flush against each other, and the fit was electrifying

He tasted better than I iined, all dark chocolate and h my hair to the back of et closer, to take this one chance I had to not only taste but experience hiently sucking one in possession, a blatant ownership that hs clench, le- else in the world pale in co for the ride

He made me feel consumed yet empty, desperate yet sated all in one moment Screw the sports documentary, he should make one on how to properly kiss a wo into the muscles of his shoulders as his hands ainst his iroan "Fuck, Leah You have thebolts of pure, dizzying lust spiraling through me "All soft curves and perfect in ain, the kiss taking on an edge that had es of his teeth with ue before he sucked it in In that lorious

He broke the kiss, leaning his forehead against ainst ed He loweredhis erection He hissed and put a few precious inches between our bodies

Paxton Wilder wanted ine sleeping with hientle on my face as he kissed me sweetly "That’s hoanted to kiss you, Firecracker That’s how I plan on kissing you from now on if you tell me yes I want this I want you--us"

Say yes! Yes! Yes! My sex-starved body screae that basic need I’d slao

But starting a relationshipmyself in a way I wasn’t sure I was ready for

"I need…" Time? To think? To jump him and test the thickness of the walls in my bedrooive you that I just wanted toyou company in that head of yours I’ll see you to on the balcony, wondering what price I would pay for stealing whatever ti star--too hot, too intense, too reckless for me