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Like a superhero, I swooped in, taking Maggie intoher passionately It was a bit of a risk, but I could tell by how she responded that the feeling was mutual

“Sorry, darlin’, I just saw you over here and couldn’t help ainst the tip of her nose and turned to face Kenny “I should really thank you?”

He sneered, and his nostrils flared

“For what?”

“For cheating on Maggie with her stepsister If you hadn’t, she and I would never have s happen, doesn’t it?”

Kenny stormed off, clearly too pissed off not to believe the veracity of our love

The thing was, it was actually beginning to feel real

I didn’t know that I was quite ready to propose for real, but I was definitely falling deeply anddress

I wanted to go so much further with her than a kiss, passionate as it may have been

I could feel that Maggie agreed, especially by the way she had kissedindesire

This night wasn’t turning out exactly as I thought it would

But Maggie was inme kiss her with abandon, so that was all that mattered to me

In that sense, this night was turning out just as well, or even better, than I could have possibly hoped or dreamed

Chapter Nine – Maggie

I wanted Gavin so badly that I could taste it He had done such a good job of playingthat I was pretty much in awe of him

I knew somewhere in the more cynical part of my mind that it wasn’t real— not in the way that it appeared to all the guests at the party, of course— but there was so there

So chemistry made me want to tear my clothes off and jump on him

That was an urge I hadn’t had in a long while

“You didn’t have to kiss me,” I told him “Just to make a point, I mean”’