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"Such a de on my jaw "I bet you’re slippery and hot I bet I know exactly how you taste right now"

My fingers circled, still teasing, knowing it’s what he would do What he wanted , "Faster Please, "

"Both hands," he relented quietly "Two fingers inside and work the outside Let me hear it"

I slidthe unyielding shape of his renewed erection againstthe clean sweat and soap sh scratch of his stubble on , "Goddaht as he slid his pal to pull the peak deep into his mouth I loved the sound he ; a sound so rich I could feel it behind roaned "Close"

He released my nipple from hisheat of his eyes

"It’s rowled "Shohat you like" I liftedhim to relent and climb over me, claiher up my body so he could reach down and land a sharp smack on my backside "I’d do better; my hand would fk you harder than this I’d make you scream"

It was a sufficient stand-in, and with his lips pressed to h on Saturday that the next day I’d wish it’d been ainst ers

But it wasn’t even close to what he ainst the pillows in breathless, unsatisfied silence

It wasn’t enough to orgasm, and to feel his breath on my brsts and his filthy words on my skin I wanted to feel his pleasure when he came in me, or on me, or simply with me I wanted to witness every time he felt that moment of release He was mine; his pleasure was, possessive hand fro the way, I understood what he was doing

He was givingto think about

He was being a withholding ass so I would tor to hate it

He was ensuring that this ould feel like us, and we could be outwardly focused on everyone else while staying focused only on each other behind every blink, in every dark roohts

Bennett was ensuring that ould see each other at either end of the aisle and knoe made the best choice of our lives

"You’re pretty brilliant, do you know that?" I asked, curling into hi a hand up over his shoulder and into his hair

He pressed his lips to my neck and sucked "You can thank roaned into his touch His lips were so firave in to hi, searching

I shook when his hands returned toevery curve and dip, every sainst my stomach and tried to roll him on top of me

"I want you inside," I said I heard my own voice and it was hoarse and needy I ranto pull hiers into hiseach of thea frustrated pal, "Goddamnit"

"Ben--"

Before I could hold on and keep him there, he’d rolled out of bed and walked back to the bathroo the door behind him

Chapter Four

I could barely open h the open balcony door, war my skin where it cut across the bed I could taste the salt in the air; hear the sound of the tide as it washed along the beach I could feel the heat of Chloe’s body where it pressed againstin her sleep, slipped a s up and over mine, and shifted closer The sheets sroan, I extricated rip and very carefully rolled her to her side Swingingdown at ain? I’d gone to the bathrooht--both before and after Chloe’s little one-woht I was brilliant for having us wait until Saturday, when in reality it was starting to feel like the worst idea I’d ever had I felt anxious and on edge--aware of a persistent hum beneath my skin and a need for exertion--to fk until I was too tired to stand or sit, too exhausted to do anything but fall into bed and pass out

Under norht hand before considering leaving a warm bed and nad Chloe But these weren’t norht hand had proven invaluable the last few days

I’d alht, and at this point, it would

be like surrendering to the eneet out of here

I found e to Max I need to run You in?

His response carab Will and meet you at the main

pool in 10?

See you then I typed back, and tossed my phone to the couch

I’d have time to jerk off, clean up, and escape the roootten laid I watched him as he neared the pool, hair a mess and liuy if I wasn’t so damn happy for hiustingly pleased with yourself," I said, dropping into a deck chair beneath a bright blue umbrella

"And sadly, you don’t," he said back with a shed, rolled my neck, and felt the tension that seele"Almost"

"Where’s Will?"

"With Hanna still, I think He said to wait, that he’d be down in a few" Max took a seat across fro shoes

"This is good There’s so I wanted to talk to you about"

He squinted up at me "What’s up?"

"Do you re telegra uphad beco accidentally hired a transvestite hooker for Will while ere all in Vegas, he’d retaliated by having a couple of goons pretend to bust us for card counting It had only escalated from there Chloe insisted it was only a matter of time before one of us ended up in the hospital or jail My ht I’d finally erased that lanced back toward the hotel todown yet "I have some retribution in the works"

"Okay"