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I liftedhim

A small smile curled the corners of his lips up “You can touch me if you want You don’t even have to ask”

I wanted to touch hi hi, and hoould I come back from that?

His chest rose with a deep breath “I would love for you to touch me”

My breath caught

Tentatively, I splayed ers across his cheek A jolt of exhilaration rushedbody His jaas almost smooth under my palhis lower lip His sharp intake of breath elicited a shudder He closed his eyes when I followed the curve of his upper lip, feeling the indent of his scar

All these years, and I’d never touched him like this Ever I was lost a little in the ht now, as I coasted ers brushed over his pulse and I could feel it beating as wildly as mine

I kept going

Flattening ravelly groan that was part growl, and it was like taking a asoline A fire started E the taut ripples and planes His muscles were hard, clearly defined like I always knew they were, like I’d always seen and only ever accidentally touched briefly

But this wasn’t brief

I took er over his abs and then two fingers,them to memory

I kept going

My fingers drifted around his navel and lower, reaching the band on the flannel botto hiainst the side of mine

This isn’t right

I shouldn’t get to do this, but knowing that didn’t stop aze to his

His eyes were blue as the deepest seas I’d never seen in real life but had circled on that otten closer and closer during ether

I closed the distance

The contact ofas it had been the first tientlest of pressures Only ainst his, and then his hand was on the nape of my neck

Imy mouth to hi him back, snapped Sebastian kissed ue slipped in He tasted ofhiet closer Not with my sore ribs and the bum arm

But he kissed hs And heout a moan, and he kissed his way downhi special attention to this spot just belowrestlessly Then he was devouringand the only sound in the roo breaths

I had no idea how long we kissed It went on for forever, and there was no faking or pretending each ti for more Friends did not kiss friends like this They didn’t clutch at one another like ere,into his hip and side, his hand a firh I wasn’t running