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It’s a how much easier it is to be naked in front of another person when you have a little self-confidence In order to attract prey, vampires are usually h-school bookwored to an actually desirable color found in the brunette spectrum and did what it was supposed to on occasion My eyes, formerly an unre hazel My teeth hiter And ht position forever If Ma a varee with me
Ma specifically, though
Emboldened by my newfound confidence, I ju at the buttons of his shirt He was too busy slowly peeling off rinned madly at my feet
“What?” I asked, hoping that after all of this, I hadn’t accidentally fallen for a foot fetishist
“I just never knohat color your toenails are going to be,” he said, strokingmy ankle “Will it be a prim pink? A contemplative cranberry? A playful plum?”
“My toes are like amy ankle in a very pleasantmy freshly painted carpals
“What is that?” he asked, staring with horror at the virulent shade of pulpy peach on my toenails
“I had to mix three different shades to find a peach that would match Jolene’s bridesmaids’ dresses I did an experimental test run to see if my body would tolerate the color”
“Wow,” Gabriel mouthed silently
“Shut it,” I said, tossing the ree of this lapse of concentration to pull s around his waist I s his hair behind his ears “How about we try to make it to a bed this time?”
Gabriel didn’t answer, as his ently over the curve of my breast I loved and hated it when he did that Loved it because he was teasingme of every dark pleasure he could inflict on me Hated it because it reduced—pride, sense, the ability to refrain froers through his ink-black hair, pulling his head back, and sucking on his bottom lip
He groaned into my mouth “Unfair”
“All’s fair in—urunted as he smothered my mouth with his and pushed me to my feet
“You’re wearing too much” His low voice vibrated across the skin of my throat He refused to pull his lips away from my skin as he split my old 4-H camp T-shirt down the front and tossed it into the trash with his own shirt I glared at him
He shrugged, pulling the bandanna fro my hair loose “All’s fair”