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I look at Mateo then, his big body folded onto our measly kitchen chairs His eyes are so war And it occurs toartificial with my list and found far more truth than I knohat to do with

I don’t knohat I’ when I stand up from the table and hold outthere, and nor up after dinner, but I’ve already waited days for hi Time to really jump in the deep end

Chapter 20

Mateo

I can’t read Nell’s expression when she stands up next to ivenelse where she’s concerned, it makes me want her I take the hand she offers and a me down the hallway in the direction of her bedroom

I try to controlsouth She could just want to showShe couldfuck I’ me back to her room, but I can only think of one And her bed, and her skin, and her taste onout of her

She nudges the door open, but instead of turning on the overhead light, she moves toward the bedside lalow shines up on her, bathing half her face in light I stay by the door One last-ditch effort to control myself in case this isn’t what I think it is

She doesn’t say anything And the seconds of waiting, the anticipation, only le to decide on what to say, and when she sighs, I thinkherself to ask for what I think we both want

But I should know by now that Nell will always find a way to shock me She reaches for the bottom of her sweater, and in one quick irl has done hter than the sun, strong enough to pullthe same black lacy bra that she’d flashed liives way to dainty shoulders The bra has her tits pushed up and together, and praise Jesus for Victoria and her secrets My eyes drop to the narrowing of her torso, the flare of her hips, the soft indentation of her belly button Her skin looks smooth there and paler than her are to leave ue and teeth Her jeans rest at her hips, stopping ue outline of her legs in the dark ofat my hips as she came

That memory snaps me back into action, and I step fully inside the room and close the door I hear her exhale, and look back to her gaze

"I thought maybe you" She trails off

"Would say no?"

She nods I cross to her and use one finger to tip her chin up so that she facesyou could do can make me not want you" I take her hand and draw it toat the confines of ain, no hesitation