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“I…”

“What?” I whisper, sitting up, suddenly wishing I still had my pants on

Why is he looking at me like that?

“I have to go,” he snarls, turning away

“Braden”

But he won’t listen

His heavy footsteps pound through the apart room, and toward the door I listen to the sla all over the pure and starry eo

Why would he barge out like that after e just did?

Chapter Ten

Braden

Trying to focus on oddamn joke

I doBria to the back of et rid of her co the clothes she selected It’s like I can feel her all over my jacket, the same way she touched me when she first fitted it, the nervous sassiness in her touch

Nervous sassiness

It’s awoman – can achieve

It was the same way she crea out like part of her was asha so much blatant pleasure But there was this quiver beneath the shyness, this hungry-for-more shiver that threatened to drive me fully feral

I spend the reen screen, pretending to be so Tyler, I can’t stop thinking about the unscripted truth I need to reveal to my woman

That’s why I had to leave as I stood over her I was so close to letting her know about the possessive passion that has taken hold of me, about the impossible and ridiculous need

No, it should be ridiculous, to want a stranger this badly

But it doesn’t feel ridiculous

And I can’t devalue e have – e’re going to have – by labeling it that

When I see her walking across the lot just after lunchtime, I know I can’t hold myself back anymore

She’s wearing a shirt and trousers, as usual, but it’s difficult not to snap when I can so easily undress her in my mind

It’s too easy to peel away the layers of her clothes, to rehs trembled for me as she reached her climax