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"It was just one day You’ll get the hang of it"

"You really think so? Or are you just trying to hed, and I could feel it

"I guess it worked, huh?" My voice was low

"Yeah," she whispered

I liked the soft sined would grace her lips after having an orgasm That flush would be there, too, just like it was then But I bet it would be deeper, richer

I grabbed more of the salve, and ht, sexy curve There were faint bruises here Nothing h I ell past the amount of tiers reached the soft sides of her waist, and I heard her inhale The sound ricocheted throughI was so hard, I ached This was pure, senseless torture, but again, I couldn’t stopthe salve up her sides, to where her shirt was bunched up, aze flicked to her profile Her eyes were open in thin slits and her lips were parted Chest rising and falling unsteadily, I dragged lued to what I could see of her face The pink was deepening, spreading My fingers trailed to the center of her lower back, and there wasn’t even a speck of salve left on ers, the scent ofthem under the hem of the loose sweatpants

Her hips jerked up toward me and her eyes widened as my thuain and her legs pressed together, like she was unconsciously seeking soive her

I shuddered as I closedof her skin underthat if I took this further, she wouldn’t stopthat stiff hurt, but that throbbing pulsed deeper Yeah, I wanted to strip her out of these clothes, part those thighs and ease into her fro everything else, but I wanted et so close to her that there was not an inch of space between our skin, and I wanted to stay with her The nights I had slept next to her, were the nights I had gotten the best sleep of my life

I didn’t deserve that

Sure as hell didn’t deserve so pure as Josie, because that’s what she was Totally untouchable

It took everything in me to move my hands up and off her, and she stayed still, her breath co in quick, short pants I forced my hands to the mattress on either side of her as I stood and leaned over her

"You want to know so?" I asked, my lips so close to her cheek I could al in the sky is shining brighter than you"

And then I pushed up off the bed, and I left with her calling outa sinner to the promise--to the illusion--of salvation

Chapter 23

IN A blur, days turned into weeks faster than I could ever iit into so to know all the different areas in ht about before

My legs felt like they had pers It didn’t hs ached from the uneven terrain ere outside, and from ere inside, and Seth jacked up the treadmill incline to run-or-die levels The cheeks ofon them I didn’t even want to think about my back, because the word b-a-c-k , I’d finally taken a fall correctly Once in an entire day, and it wasn’t until two days later that I was able to consistently land the correct way, but in the big scheh Luke and Seth insisted it was a big deal But after learning how to take a fall without knocking the air out ofet back up

Quickly

And like a ninja

Seth and Luke had taughtduh, but they expectedhadlike someone had karate-choppedeven worse because I’d finally been able to get round, kind of horizontally¸ only to fall right back down It took almost another week for ain enough force when swinging s back down to propelthis repeatedly until the guys figured it was time to move onto defensive techniques, which resulted in lovely shades of purple, blue and red up and downsessions, I usually ate dinner in the cafeteria with Deacon and Luke, and there I sawthe ele their plates or chairs without touching the heads of other students

Other than Deacon and Luke, no one else really war the three of us train The chick nae boobs, was there every other day visuallySeth, and I didn’t want to think about what it could mean