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His eyes followed her reen paint on her pinkie, and seeing that, his heart expanded As he wrapped his hand around the one on herher into the living roos hit the couch and he sat Bethany climbed into his lap and wrapped her ar as he tilted his head back, and she lowered her , endless Not breaking contact, she unzipped her hoodie and he pushed it off her shoulders Running his fingers up her bare arainst her mouth when she shivered

He could feel the cells in his body striving to change as he slipped his fingers under the he soft little sounds The rush of sensations firing through hiainst hi into the denim of her shorts

Thank God no one was hootten an eyeful

And that snapped hi along her jaw “We…we have to stop…or I won’t be able to”

For a second, it seeet it, and then her face turned cherry red “Oh”

“Yeah,” heto her swollen lips God, she was beautiful to him—perfect

Bethany shuddered “We don’t have to stop, you know? I’es her words brought forth tested what self-control he had Wanting nothing more than to carry her upstairs and show her just how ot to him, he wanted their first time to be special Dinner, ait on the couch or on his unmade bed in his messy bedroom that had socks and God knohat else strewn across the floor

“Later,” he pro her cheek on his shoulder “Soon?”

“Very soon…”

Several minutes passed and then she said, ““So…back to the shoes They’ll work, right?”

“They’re perfect for where I’o, he’d taken her on the trails, but today, he wanted to show her one of his favorite lookout spots They were supposed to go last weekend, but it had rained for days, saturating the ground

Bethany cliet this show on the road, because if he didn’t, his best intentions were going to fly right out theHe grabbed two bottles of water froe, and they headed to his car

They drove about aonto a little-known access road to the Seneca Rocks Park Rangers steered clear of this part Mainly because it led to the colony deep within the forests surrounded the Rocks And tourists were forbidden Signs warning against trespassing were everywhere

Parking about two miles from the entrance, they hoofed it for about forty hed and chattered the whole way Several times they stopped so she could take pictures of the scenery she wanted to paint later

When they reached the base of theup the side to the little outcropping that gave a decent vieas for beginners, no gear necessary, so Daasn’t worried