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Then there was Krit He also seerateful that he was so nice He always stopped by to check on ht Chinese food with hi it He was curious about school, and he asked a lot of questions Then he told s that had happened to thehed so hard with Krit Butthere was a difference I was always on edge with hies of Krit and playing out scenarios that I shouldn’t think about with a friend

I was attracted to Krit I had been since the first tiood friend, I was lying in es of Krit in uilty every tis he stopped by and I was still dealing with the dreaht before

Not one tiiven uy A really sexy nice guy I could stare at hihts that he did have his parties, there was a sick knot into do to her the things I would never experience Things that scared ht about since etting worse When he’d come down to my apartment and asked my opinion on two different shirts, he’d stripped off one to try on the other I had lost ht of his well-defined chest covered in colorful tattoos and the desire to touch thehtly off center When he had left I felt so guilty He sawfro atand unfair But then I didn’t have a body like his The kind that stops traffic

This here my head hen Linc showed up at ith a box of chocolate cupcakes I pushed thoughts of Krit to the back of my mind and focused on Linc If I could only look at Krit like I looked at Linc, ood authority froet any better than these," he said with a serious expression and a sparkle in his eyes

I glanced back at his dad’s office door He had just gone in there with aand I wasn’t there to answer it, then it would interrupt hiet the phone if it rings?" I asked him

Linc nodded and pulled a chair up tosession?"

"Yeah, and it just started," I explained

"Then I have an hour of your time to waste" He winked at ht with all the sweets he brought one most of my life without sweets, and I really liked theue, and I let out a sood How I had lived my life without these kind of treats, I didn’t know

I opened aze stoppedhis cupcake His eyes were locked on my lips as he sat frozen The only rew, and the vein pulsing in his neck

"Blythe," he said in a deep voice that startledfor a moment His eyes lifted only briefly to meet mine before they went back to my lips I liftedclinging to the ently, thenmy lips My heart rate picked up and I nervously bit

"I’ to kiss you," he told ister, his mouth was on mine

It was my first kiss His lips aru, and I liked Linc--he was nice--but he was my boss’s son We were also in a church

Mrs Wilson would hate that I was kissing a man in a church She would call me filthy and dirty But she was dead I slipped a hand into Linc’s hair and decided that I liked doing soue ran across my bottom lip and pressed between my lips, I opened ood," a feone

I dropped my hand back into my lap and turned around to see a ferin on her face This was his sister I had seen the pictures in the pastor’s office She hadn’t stopped by in the teeks I had been there, even though Pastor Keenan had said more than once that she would love me

"You couldn’t stand it, could you?" Linc said in an annoyed tone as he stared at his sister

She cocked an eyebrow at hi to visit here, and I kneasn’t Dad you were bringing treats for So I thought I would visit the new secretary and introduce h

His sister’s eyes saw it, and she laughed and shook her head "Seeot my brother all kinds of worked up," she said, then smiled at me "I’m Lilah Sorry I haven’t been here to syou coot"

Lilah had the saer and curled around her shoulders She also had the sa eyelashes But she had a diht cheek that Linc didn’t have "It’s nice to "

She beaht?" Then she shifted her attention to Linc "You weren’t exaggerating," she said to hirin with his hand and trying toit over his hter in his eyes told o I’ve got a lunchin thirty minutes I’ll be back to visit when I’m in town next time Be careful with him He isn’t as nice as he looks" Lilah winked, spun around, and then left the office

"I would like to say she’s not nor," Linc said

I was alone with Linc again, and this time we had a kiss between us What did I say to him now?