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After a fewmy breast to bury a hand in ain, his voice so co it sends a shiver down my spine
"I a your teeth and your thighs and your hands You’re locked up tight Is it where we are? Does that bother you?"
I shake "
The corner of his uys who try to distract theht?"
"That’s not what I’h I’m not surea littleso hard on?"
God, how can I possibly answer that?
"I’ onon the opposite of what you said"
His brows furrow, and he studies hs and shifts away from me This time the kiss he places on ? Gone He pulls his hand out from my clothes, and the loss asm I don’t even do it toIt’s too difficult But he had ruff, he says, "Cout unravels
"Butwewhat?"
He wraps an aroing to work"
He pulls ?"
"We’re leaving The cop has to be gone by now"
I frown, but let hi, and the entire ti the walk back to his pickup, I can feel so in my stomach Like when you watch people ger Each step is another spin, each step builds up the cobwebs of dread inside me
I knew this was a mistake I knew it I justhe and I are from different worlds How could I possibly think that ould be coin, would be able to keep up with soinal sense of hier than I ever realized I’ else, but not with this, not with hi I kno to deal with
I hate it
He keeps his aro I’uess we’re not as co about all of this is that it happened before we actually tried to have sex I can only iine hoful that would have been And now I just want to acknowledge theh I feel humiliated and stupid, I still want hi to cut him and all of this off like I should
We parked in an open lot behind the student union building It’s as empty now as it e arrived He parked his truck in a corner space, away frohts It’s dark, so I stick close to his side, but he doesn’t walk er door He opens the driver’s side, leans over the seat to fold up the middle console, and then helps me climb up and sit in the middle
Confused, I try to scoot over the rest of the way, but he slides in besidein the floorboard and says, "Get your list"
I hesitate, and the hand on h squeezes "Get the list, Nell" I reach down for ht I pull out the spiral like he said, but don’t open it
He reaches across love compartment and pulls out a pen He hands it to me, and I realize he wants me toto keep it angled away from him so he can’t see, and I search for the ite Wild