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“You knohat the sad part about that is?” he asked, dropping his voice even lower than before

She licked her lips “What?”

“I haven’t seen you naked in a long time—but damn, you have no idea how badly I wish I had I haven’t able to get you out of h the door, he skimmed his knuckles over her shoulder, next to the strap of her tank top, dipping down her arently “If you’d let me, I’d touch you, caress you, kiss you, taste you Everywhere But this tio slowly Cherish every inch of you intiether, until you’re crying and begging me to make it stop And I will Make it stop I promise”

She sucked in a breath, cheeks pink, and reared back “Stop saying those things Someone will hear you”

“Then let me in, so I can say them in the privacy of your room Because I won’t stop” His heart pounded harder at the need he saw burning inside her “I will never force myself on you, or coerce you in any way, but

you can be da chance I have to let you kno badly I want you Once wasn’t enough It will never be enough”

Letting out a sh, she tossed her hair over her shoulder and whistled through her teeth She put on a good show, trying to pretend his words didn’t affect her, but he could see the truth of it in the way she stood, and the way she avoided his gaze, and her quickened breaths “You’re ridiculous And just so you know, that…what you just ain But you can’t stand out in the hall talking dirty It’s weird”

“If you say so” He gripped the doorjamb “We had so much fun ere kids I’d like a second chance to show you that we can, at the very least, be friends”

That wasn’t what he wanted No, his head was filled with thoughts of her in his bed, writhing beneath hih just to spend time with her…

For now

“Yeah, I don’t think so,” she said slowly, shaking her head “I don’t particularly like the man you’ve become, and I choose instead to remember the boy I knew…before you left New York”

She hit an arrow straight to the heart with that What did she think he’d done?

Frustration at her attitude warred with his desire to make her see he wasn’t this uy who made a few stupid mistakes as a kid “You liked me in that hallway, before you found out who I was You liked it when I fucked you against that wall, hard and—”

“Oh my God, shut up”

He nodded once “Okay But can you at least try to put yourself in my shoes?” he asked quietly “I told you, I don’t sleep around, and it’s for this very reason I don’t enjoy detaining a wo inside my wallet for three years did its job And—”