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“What are you doing here, Julia?”
“I…ah…was just out for a walk,” shehis eyes For not looking away despite the intensity between theen in the room
“You do a lot of walking” He put the pencil and tape measure down and took a step closer to her She tilted her head back wondering, thrilled and scared, what he was going to do “And you always end up at my door”
His thigh butted her knee and she let her legs fall open Her foot went to the ground and Jesse s, down the front of her body
She sed audibly His hand touched her face, skimmed her hair “You’re so beautiful,” he whispered, his eyes branding every inch of her face
“I’ herself for the next hour or so
Jesse just shook his head “Not to me” His other hand caain, her head, so heavy, tilted back at an aard angle, but she didn’t care as long as he kept touching her “I’ve thought about you every day since Germany”
I ht Or I’ve stumbled down a rabbit hole
It was as though this terrible, wonderful moment had been plucked from her dreams
“I thought of you,” she whispered It was all she allowed herself to adin to tell him the hole his brief presence in and subsequent absence froazed into that hole and wondered if she’d see hiain
He bent, she stretched and their lips touched A kiss Soft, sweet, fleeting and then gone
Her eyes fluttered open only to see hi down at her with an expression she couldn’t discern
“What are you thinking?” she asked after the silence had expanded too much and he seemed content to just watch her
“Dangerous question” He seemed so solemn Serious She wondered what he sahen he looked at her that made him so sad
His hands touched her face one ertips skimmed her eyelashes, her cheekbones, her earlobes He touched her lips and they parted on a gasp She felt alive, electric, in every sense Every cell and fiber of her body was trained on him Focused with a sexual intensity she’d never known existed She was so attuned to him, she hurt She ached where his hands didn’t touch her She burned where his breath didn’t reach
And then suddenly he was gone