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"Are you cold?" he asks

Nope Not at all In fact, I’uess I’m more experienced, but reallyI’m not "Do you mind?"

He shakes his head and under the covers we shed the last of our clothes We lie on our sides, facing each other, and West runs his hand along the curve ofmore of me than anyone else has "You’re beautiful"

My athersthe war next to each other I steal a few glances at West and I know he knows that I’, but stillit’s weird and exhilarating

"Can we Can you turn the lights off?" Because while West is stunning, there’s an intimacy I’d prefer in the dark

The kindness in his eyes al of the blush on my cheeks He turns off the television, shifts off the bed, and I bite my lip as I watch his bare butt and the way the muscles in his shoulders move as he crosses the room

With a flip of a switch, blackness envelops the roohts glilow of the cracked-open bathrooainst the carpet back to me The bed dips and his heat reaches iness--the rawness that causes et I’ so intimate, so intense

West breaks away and mutters a curse Cold air slaps my body and panic tensesfor what I did wrong "What is it?"

He falls back to his pillow and I tuck the sheet over my brsts "West?"

"I don’t have a condouys" Guess they don’t

He rubs his eyes "I told you I don’t have sex"

"Oh" Giddiness invades my voice "So you still want me?"

West peers at me out of the corner of his eye and le, then stop, feeling relieved and so West and not finding him in my bed "I won’t do it without one"

"Neither will I" He rolls to a sitting position and grabs his jeans "Then we’ll get one"

I don’t knohy, but that freaks me out I reach out and snatch his hand "Stay"

"But--"