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His gaze jerked to

Slowly, he reached up and tugged both auze fell froers as my pal hard beneath the he couldn’t

“I know you think I’ht for the people I care about And I alill”

There was a hint of challenge in his voice, as if daring ree with his first statee Irredeemable

But in that moment, I couldn’t

In thatabout how ht’ve been if I’d had soht like that for me

So to protect me

And ht, orbeneathme he wasn’t a machine but a very real, very human boy—but before I could stop myself, I leaned forward

He leaned in too, pressing his lips against ue out to taste my skin

It started gentle, but it didn’t stay that way

With a rough groan, he releasedme into his lap My knees ended up on either side of his hips, bracing against the couch as he pulledinto my mouth as his hands palmed my ass

I could feel hiainst the confines of his pants, and the flood of desire as he ground that hardness againstthrough the short strands on the sides and grabbing fistfuls of the longer locks on top, as if I were trying to hold him in place so I could devour him

I’d never kissed like this before—never been kissed like this—with the kind of angry, urgent need that was alasped into his e hands her

His fingertips slipped under the hem of my shirt, and the second they ca ainst him

He deepened the kiss, suckingkisses over my jaw and neck