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Emily

MY ENTIRE BODY is warm and h thathi him This is crazy This is insane This is "I don’t understand what’s going on"

"Neither do I," he responds "But I’ you here"

He isn’t and I don’t o out and hts: kiss him, kiss him Kiss him? But "I don’t like you"

I hate himI think

"I don’t like you, either" Yet Oz tucks the ard strands of hair that had fallen between us behind"

Oz slowly grazes his knuckles against h and soft and I lean into his touch like a cat begging to be loved

I inhale and I’ and open flames It’s an addictive aroap between us One that causes et why I’m here and who he is

Oz tilts his head and I htly part and a wave of desire runs throughsatisfied

Oz presses his forehead to mine, our ine My stomach jumps to my throat and I stumble back The haze lifts and I drown in a rush of terror, excitement and this frustrated sense of loss

"What was that?" I des both of his hands over his face "A lack of control and thought--that’s what it was It’s also nothing that will happen again Stay here while I check this out"

"Stay here?" We were seconds froain and now he thinks he can tell me what to do?

He moves away from the bar, toward the door and when I follow, he freezes lare "I said, stay there"

"You al to behave like an ass?"

"I didn’t hear you telling ht I’ies I forgot that you want ht You are an asshole"