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His eyes shine with auessed I’in"

He shakes his head "Have you seen your mouth? I’ve never seen lips so full and red"

Unconsciously, I pull row heavy and he leans closer "I like when you do that I want a turn"

My voice is nervous and shaking when I whisper, "They’re just lips"

"They’re not just lips And please," he teases, and he’s so close I can sreen and sharp and soothing all at once, so I’ve never smelled on a man before "You wear red lipstick so that men won’t notice your mouth? Surely you knoe drea"

I don’t close my eyes when he leans in and takes my bottom lip between both of his, but he does His eyes fall closed, and every one of ravelly sound he ainst me

He runs his tongue over ently, and then pulls back I realize it wasn’t really a kiss It was rees: "You don’t taste like cherry"

"What do I taste like?"

He shrugs a little, thoughtfully purses his lips "I’irl still, too"

His hand is still planted near an I realize that if I want to live a different life I have to do it I can’t tiptoe along the edge of the cliff I have to juirl would do what I want to do with hie Mia watches froers down to the botto atdirectly into each other’s eyes when I drag his fingers up the inside of h It feels so secluded here--darker and still--but around the corner the bar echoes with drunken voices, a bass-heavy pop song We’re hidden but anyone could find us if they wanted to Without anyfrom me, he slips a knuckle beneath the fabric of ainst the wall behind ently slides it back and forth over my most sensitive flesh

I don’t knohat I’ve done, or why, and I’ reactions I want him to touch me--God I want him to touch uys since Luke, but there was always ression of top-to-botto Ansel near me has reduced me to a puddle of want