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"You’re exactly who I want to be with," he told her "You’re smart and funny and kind You’re also sexy as hell"
"You’re just grateful because I helped you see your potential"
"I’rateful"
He moved her hair off her shoulder, then leaned in and kissed her neck Ih her He opened his mouth and licked the spot he’d kissed, then blew on her da her juing her all the way around until she faced hi her jaw "That’s what I remember from the first time we ut It was the best and worst moment of my life Best because I met you and worst because of what you’d seen"
"Matt, I never thought badly of you," she said, barely able to speak She was on fire, burning everywhere he touched andto me You saw beyond what I was on the outside And every time I went out with someone else, all I could think about was that I would rather be with you"
He kissed her then, hard and hot She parted because she didn’t have a choice, didn’t want a choice She welcoue with his, feeling her brsts swell
Her niles ached, as did that place between her legs She gave herself up to the feeling of being close to hiether everywhere He was already hard, which thrilled her
When he nudged her backward, she illingly TheyThen he picked her up and set her on the bathroohs and he ainst her Then they were kissing again, his handsup and down her back
She touched his shoulders, his chest He was all rabbed his hands and put theht as he cupped her curves
It would be so easy, she thought sadly She knew the drill She could slip off her jeans and panties He could be in her in seconds Here, in the eether They could fk And then what?
Tears burned in her eyes Regret choked her She pushed hiht her by the front door, grabbed her ar away?" he demanded
She did her best not to cry "I can’t talk about it I’oing on"
She forced herself to look at hiet it over with now It would be like cutting off an aret used to being without hily of the door Then she squared her shoulders Tiht," she said quietly "You’re a lot more than a project I didn’t mean for that to happen I just wanted to ht I saw you and you had soout and I realized you were even better than I thought"
"You adoreadored So where’s the bad?"
Despite everything, she laughed "It’s not you, Matt It’s me I’m not who you think"
"You’ve said that before and it’s not true I know you"
"No, you don’t You knoho I’ve let you see, but that’s not who I am I’ve always been wild My sister callswhen I elve I got into drugs when I was thirteen I got bored with both when I was fourteen, mostly because I discovered boys"
She walked to thebecause looking out at the trees was a whole lot easier than staring at hi the disappoint out was an easy way to be popular I also enjoyed the sex itself Mostly to be close to someone, to feel like I mattered, even if it was just for a few h school Nicole found out and put nant I was lucky, because I never got any diseases But there were guys, Matt A lot of guys There are souys who call? I sleep with theht tears "And then I reat and it was easy and suddenly there I was Wantingto be different so you would want me Like me But so what? You can do a whole lot better thanI don’t have any direction, I live with my sister, I can’t seem to commit to my future You don’t need that You need soreat as you are"
There She’d said it All of it, or close
"Are you done with the other guys?"
She bowed her head "Yes I don’t want to be that person anys"
He walked toward her She braced herself for the attack, but he only turned her toward him, then put his arms around her She kept hers folded protectively across her chest, but he just held her closer
"Don’t you know none of that matters?"
She stared up at hi?"
He looked like a man as very sure of himself He looked like soain "Jess, your past changes nothing You’re the one I want to be with because of who you are right now"
He wasit too easy
"I want to believe you," she whispered
"Then try Give it time I won’t let you down" His h I want to"
She s back, it’s me"
"You don’t scare me"
Hoas that possible? "I mess up a lot I destroy relationships that matter"