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"When we kissed" My voice is deeper than norently grazes the underside of her breast She edges closer to ue darts out and wets her bottoame I want to continue "Was it your first tiaze My lips tilt up with the excited wildness in her eyes

"There’s been no other touching for you, then?" I’ers to the skin of her thigh, but this tih

"No" A ether to create that sexy hooded expression She’d like to experience the answer to my question If there weren’t stitches into satisfy her desire for this neledge

"Someday," I tell her "Sooing to explode," she whispers

"Mine, too"

We lie together Her next tobetween us is an undercurrent not willing to be ignored

"I als that frightened s about your club--and I al and I freeze "What changed your mind?"

Breanna’s silent and I count between her inhales and exhales Each second that passes becoer When I’m about to bust out of my own skin, she says, "I couldn’t stay away"

"Why?"

"What if I said I don’t knohat love is?" she asks like she’s testing out the words "That I’ve read about it--in textbooks and psychology books and in novels, but it’s not so of Like, I know I love my parents and my brothers and sisters and Addison, but that’s what is expected and all I’ve known It’s always been a part ofyou"

She drifts off I loved my mother Loved my father Loved Olivia, Oz, Chevy, Violet and this club Then there waslike that definition of love This is heartbreaking and consu and peaceful, crazy and serene It’s aI don’t understand and never want to live without

"I’d say I don’t knohat it is, either But if I had to guess, it would be like when I’m with you"

Breanna does what hardly any other person can do--she stares straight into my eyes without hesitation "Yeah, it would be that for me, too"