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We round Sitting next to each other, I once again felt the urge to be closer to hi that?

I resisted the urge to rest ain this tilad I’ray irises reflected the starlight as he looked deep into lad he was too

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A as raging withinwith each moment that I stayed immersed in Victoria’s blue eyes

It had crept up onin my chest This pull toward her This desire

Was this what I should be feeling for Rona?

Was this what my father had felt for my mother?

But this could not be Not now, not ever It rong on every level More than wrong It was fatal

As eager as I had been to steal so, noas terrified And yet, as I beheld her beautiful face, it was a terror I could not pullAnd it ingeyes, her rounded nose, her soft cheeks, her full lips I had always found her lips beautiful but noanted to touch them I wanted to feel them I wanted to knohat they tasted like I wanted to delve ers into her dark hair, explore every curve of her body

An uncontrollable surge of longing coursed through me I barely even heard her as she spoke to me Her words were like echoes in my head, distant, far away It felt like the world around uely heard her whisper "What are you thinking?"

That wasI’d lostwasn’t enough I needed to reach out and pluck those cherry lips I needed to…

The next thing I knew, my hands had moved to her face and my lips were on hers Her breath hitched, but then her arap between our chests Passion already burned through ht She wanted this, needed this, just asin ertips, her scent and taste beguilingI wanted to possess her Every part of her Kiss every inch of skin that I could reach between her clothes…