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“I want you,” she said, her lips still pressed against his

The silence that followed seeht reject her He probably would But this was the first ti to take the chance It felt like a chain had been loosened on her, like she could move more freely

He slid down fro her hard up against his body “You want to kiss me? Or you want more?”

“M-more”

“I have to hear you say it,” he said, his tone stretched, tortured

“I want to…to sleep with you tonight” A sudden, horrifying thought occurred to her, and her stomach sank to her toes “Unless you don’t want to” Why would he? He’d pulled away frood of a ood to be real A man with tons of sexual experience A man who could have, and had had, any woman he wished For a crazy moment she’d been convinced she could have this, could have hiain

He chuckled, rough and humorless “How can you think I don’t want you?”

“I’e, remember?”

He h it, tugging on a pink strand, rubbing it between his thuer “I have never seen anyone quite like you Which means the description cannot be accurate”

“You hate my hair”

He shook his head “It’s growing on me”

He pressed his other hand against her lower back and brought her into closer contact with his body With the evidence of his desire for her

Her eyes widened “You do want me”

“I’m sorry it’s so hard for you to believe But by the end of tonight, it won’t be”

She wished she had a witty reply, so to loosen the knot in her stohs To lessen the i Her brain was too busy spinning around all the ways he could show her