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I stared into those gorgeous pools of green as I stepped closer “You’re thinking about it, aren’t you?”

Her eyelids flickered “About what?”

“Last night Do you regret it?”

She exhaled a shaky sigh “No”

A knot in ut unravelled A knot I hadn’t even realised was there until just now

“Do you?” she asked

“The only thing I regret is not burying my dick inside you I always knew if I touched you even once, it’d be a point of no return for me; that I’d only want more”

She sed “I’, Max”

“I know But you want o away, it would have happened by now” I’d spent years hoping it would, but it never had “Seventy-two hours”

Her brows inched together “Huh?”

“Give me seventy-two hours”

“To do what?”

“Make you co dry”

Her pupils sed the colour of her eyes

“You ht not want to admit it, but part of the reason you wouldn’t look at me was that you worried I’d sense what you’d rather I never knew” I lowered ht to be a one-off I know I don’t It wasn’t enough” It had only s could be between us

She spluttered “We can’t just hole up somewhere for seventy-two hours”

“I know that We’d do whatever shit we needed to do around The Hollow, as usual But then you’d coinable way as many times as I could Because it had becoe to keep my hands off her Not unless I finally explored the cheot to act out the many fantasies that rattled around my brain and made it impossible for me to see any woman but her