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His lips are wrapped around the junction of h to leave a bruise The feel of it draws another low noise froular focus that drives him

He wrenches his head away frohtly His blue and brown eyes are glazed, his lips slightly parted

He glances over at his two friends, who stand just a few feet away, and I see hi us I see him take in the expressions on their faces

For a moment… he hesitates

A new kind of tension saturates the air, and time itself seems to pause as he meets his friends’ eyes

Then Ryland presses his lips together and turns away

Theo’s gaze lingers for a second longer,over my body like liquid fire But then he turns away too

I barely have time to process the flicker of disappointh my belly before Marcus turns his attention back tos to wrap them around his waist as he heaves me into his arms

He carrieswhere he’s going His lips keep touching every part of ainst my skin We reach the second floor, and hestrides

As soon as the bedrooainst it His hands releaseit down over h There’s no rooe body, and my jacket is pinned to me

He keeps tugging at it, yanking at the worn fabric in his desperation to get it offto break his hold on me for even a second to make that possible

The prosthesis on my other arm is controlled byerratically, but Marcus doesn’t even seerowls into ain

“Wait!” I gasp, pushing at hiood arm “Let me I’ll do it”

He’s breathing so hard that I can feel the rise and fall of his chest against lassy, his pupils blown out with desire, but he nods Stepping away fro me back on my feet

My legs are shaky, and I realize as my feet touch the floor that I lost a shoe soe and the bedroom