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"No, I just want you to" I press ainst hers What exactly do I want? Because when she says it like that, I feel stupid for even suggesting it "I want you to look at ood I want you to still wantvulnerable "Do you?"
A stream of tears slips down her cheeks "We’re so different, River We don’t make sense--this doesn’t make sense to me"
"It doesn’t have to" My insides clench with dread
She hesitates for a longin a whisper, "I shouldn’t I can’t But I do I still want you"
Relief overwhelms me I feel like I’ve passed some monuo anywhere, River" She says it so convincingly Is she trying to persuade me, or herself?
A painful spike settles into my throat I knohat I’m about to say is crazy, but I don’t care "It can You can stay in Ireland, you could get a nursing job, live withyou home withabout it too, at least "No, River What you’re saying" Glossy eyes beg me to understand "This isn’t me I knoe’ve had an incredible connection but if I were back home, in my everyday life, this would never have happened You and I would never have happened Do you not see that?"
I curlher face rest againstfrom that contact, the burn from the salt as she cries, is a welcoht now
I’ve never regretted going to that bunker with Aengus ers dance overmy head down, I coax her mouth with mine, tentatively at first to asp fro the searoan in relief But now it’s like I’et, how ive me, before she re to do that just yet
A ht side of my chest in their exploration Slowly at first, but thenwith my belt I wrap my hands around her slender waist and hoist her onto the counter, fitting ht around ain If she keeps doing that, I’ll coainst azes up at ed And I wait for her to say that we’re done, that this is over That she "can’t"
And then she pulls that tiny blue dress up and over her head, tossing it to the tile floor beside us Her lacy white bra follows closely, leaving her in nothing but a pair of stringy knickers that, if I turned her around right noould show off that incredible arse
"You’re just so" My ain, and I can’t keep my hands off her body anyainst rinds herself against ers once, twiceand then her hands quickly findin to take a surprisingly firrasp around me As if she can’t wait either The very possibility sends my need for Amber into overdrive