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We climb out of the shower and he reaches for a towel and hands it to me I quickly dry my body and he does the same

We’re not rushed, even though we both knohat’s co I think we both purposely want to take our tias I want to reet the way I feel

I watch the steady rise and fall of his chest as he stares back at me

I reach for hi me swiftly into his room A moment later the soft feel of the cotton of his sheets presses against my back

He releases me and looks down reverently “We don’t have to—”

I sit up and place my hands on his hips “Just shut up already”

He chuckles huskily and lowers his head to kiss entle sweep of his lips, but it quickly grows in intensity We’re both desperate and aching for the touch of one another I hold onto his broad shoulders and he angles his large body over mine like a protective shield

He pulls his lips froasp and presses his nose to my cheek, his lips a breath away fro clue what you do to me”

I want to tell him that I think I do because he has the same effect on me, but I can’t find the words

I lie back on his soft sheets and he rubs his hands along s fall open and his eyes flash His face is bathed ht in the room that I can’t mistake the look on his face and it rocks ive a woman in the movies—you know, the look where he’s desperate for her and she’s oblivious to the way he sees her, but I’m not oblivious, at least, not now But in the back of iven nored or chalked up to so it now

I want to yell atthe inevitable

Xander and I are like two stars colliding—I always thought we’d turn into a black hole, but right now, in this ed into one, nificent star

We’ve both listened to the voices of others for far too long—denying anted, e needed to not rock the boat

Xander came to his senses sooner than I did, because if it was up to as

I’ive hi you find every day