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I spent fourafter this body I watched the way she walked, the way her hps swayed, even the way she lounged on the dock out by our pond with Jax After she disappeared, I spent the last six ure in th of her silky-white legs, and the way her long, brown hair curled up in the hu to know every inch of her body and finding out exactly what she wants I love that her hands are restrained, allowing ive her all the pleasure They’re also not in the way of my mouth as I nip and suck s forward, the louder she gets And the harder I push into her, the tighter she feels

"Jace… Jace… Jace… yes, like that…" she chants without shaer Drinking tonight was notto be grinding underneath me, I wouldn’t have touched the dahter against her wrists In the next second, her whole body locks up and I feel her contracting around hher face from ear to ear and down to her neck

"Daed breath "Thanks, babe"

I collapse on top of her and then maneuver her body around so she’s cradled in front of le the belt from her wrists, and she slowly flexes them in a circular motion

I pull her in close and buryher delicious scent My lips kiss the back of her neck for as long as I can stay awake Squeezing her tighter against o anywhere It doesn’t work though I wake up the nextin the backseat of my brother’s car… alone, with only the scent of coconut that lingered on her skin

- Four -

AUDREY - Present day…

"So how did your first day of graduate school feel?" Lane asks, while wrapping his ar his backpack up onto his own

"Pretty ht not indicate it, I really am excited to continue my education I just wish Lane had tried harder to attend a school in San Diego, where ere already living and where Jace doesn’t live Being in the same city and on the sas were left between us However, I know I shouldn’t be picky about where I get accepted into highly prestigious progra sometimes to think about all I’ve accoet for being so daed," he interrupts , sraduated last year with the fourth highest GPA in our class and was only a fraction of a point away fro the second salutatorian He believes that, just because I graduated within three years instead of the typical four, I’enius Lane was the only reason I was able to accoh He stayed up to study with hts, and he even helped throughout his winter and su credits

"I still think you should have let me sleep with the Dean I could have been valedictorian," he complains

"Ew, Lane… I still don’t believe you would have done that She was like ninety!" I gasp, while he directs s his shoulders, as if this is just a siirls do" And to prove my point, a short little blonde walks by with boobs that I know aren’t real, giving Lane her finest bedroom eyes

"Except you, doll, except you," he teases, while looking over his shoulder at the passerby "Hang tight, I’ll be right back…" He heads off to catch up with her Rolling er door I flip through my new textbooks while I wait for the playboy A few iant frame rattles the car as he climbs in the driver’s seat

"Shit, it’s hot in here Sorry about that," he apologizes I shrug my shoulders because I honestly hadn’t noticed "Okay, so where e?" he asks and turns the key in the ignition

"H about how I’irls," I inform him with a smile

"Jealous, doll? Do you want to join Har you there, but it et a bit weird on the friendship, dontcha’ think?" Then the sarcastic ass has the nerve to flash asp "Tell me her name is not really Harmony" I roll downI’ll never get tired of is the breeze off the coast

"It sure the hell is and later we’re gonna… harer so I burst out laughing Thank God, Lane doesn’t bring girls back to our apartment I’m relieved I won’t have to overhear that ‘music’ session "But that’s cool if you don’t want to join us"

"Hey, don’t act like you’re insulted that I’roupies," I add

"Well, e met and the second sentence out of yourwith you,’ I’ll ad his heart dra I never actually tried to char tells me even that wouldn’t have worked," I chuckle

Just then, I spot Jaxon walking across the parking lot with his arh they’re too far off in their oorld to see ether I wouldn’t have guessed that Jax had a long-terins Is that him?" Lane has only ever seen Jace once before, so he doesn’t kno to tell theether, because I still have so to hide out for the rehtail it out of California unscathed"

"Good luck with that," he teases and begins to back his car out of the parking spot My whole body tenses up when I see hi down the sidewalk to catch up with his brother My eyes are glued to Jace as he runs past thehs, but Jaxon takes off after hiotten how aether

"Stop, Audrey," Lane says, breaking o check out those bars I told you about?"

I grin at his not-so-sly subject change "Yeah, I applied to all of theht at the one that’s closest to your gym"

"Good, I prefer that one so I can keep an eye on you"

"Lane…" I warn, "I don’t need you scaring off every guy I uys," he says si Lane as your best friend is how inti he looks and acts He may be a ith nu just a nuy with everyone at least once We couldn’t even yap in training days