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Pressing away frohtened irls’ locker roo dressed”

I tried to push past hi his hands on either side ofme in

“Wrong guess, little dancer,” heabout, and you know it What do you think you’re doing with Finn? Are you really gonna try to get us all off your back by seducing hih this school will help you?”

My jaw dropped open, and I gaped at him in shock

Seduce him?

That was fucking bullshit I hadn’t tried to seduce anybody We’d talked like normal people for once That was it I wanted to point that out to Cole, but it was hard to think straight with his body still hovering so close to mine, his broad muscles tensed and bunched

I couldn’t stop picturing hi like some kind of machine or deadly predator as he systematically destroyed the other boy He wouldn’t hite the fact that in this ht e, irrational heat in my lower belly

“I wasn’t trying to seduce hi to affix a bored look todeal And it’s not even like we talked about sex or anything like that Just football and… random stuff”

“Are you sure?” Cole pressed in closer, so close our noses were al for the lie His voice softened slightly, still thick and dark but slightly less gruff One hand cae

d a knuckle down the side ofyou a chance to co”

“I’ as an ache built inhate him “Why would I want to seduce anyone, least of all hiirl I am, so just knock it off!”

Cole paused and drew back slightly, his fingertips still ghosting over my cheek as he lookeddesires to slap his hand away and to lean into his touch, as if the sa that terrified me could somehow savehard to slow my breath

“Why the hell are you so turned on?” he asked, his voice throaty and deep “Your body is responding to every word I say Your pupils are blown out Your skin is flushed What? Did Finn not do it for you? You need more than that?”

“I didn’t do anything with Finn And… I’m not!” I shot back, my voice almost as raspy as his

His other hand carip ether asin er and dark desire in equalainst his My nipples peaked, sparks of sensation zapping through me