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Lake’s head turned to theto see as holding Kirsty’s attention Kirsty panicked She grabbed Lake’s chin, turned his head back towards her and kissed him

Lake was picking up es One s The next she was kissing him like he was dinner and she was ravenous He didn’t stop it No ood to have Kirsty’s lips on his He pulled her hard against his chest It wasn’t close enough And when shenoise deep in her throat, he wanted to lift her up and march to the bedroom His muscles actually hurt frorohen she pulled away, pleased to see that she looked flushed and disorientated His hand curved down her waist and over her hip as she reached behind hi the curtains

“That’s better,” she said before taking her seat at the table

Lake didn’t care whether the curtains were drawn or not; it wasn’t like there was anyone to look in His flat was directly opposite and it was e TV with a cardboard cut-out of hio buy another for the shop And he was at Kirsty’s trying to figure out as going on in her head

“So,” she said with a lot more enthusiasm than the word deserved “I’ve just realised that outside of Invertary and your plan for lingerie do about you Tell me about your life”

She shtly as she cut her meat

“My whole life?” he said

“Only the interesting bits” There was a clang outside Kirsty jumped She s in the war Men like to talk about war Right?”

He cocked an eyebrow at her It was as though she’d read some manual somewhere on the likes and dislikes of allthe benefits

“Men like steak Men like war Men like beer and football and woet what ‘ out with each other?”

“Of course, of course” She forked some mashed potato

She was faron in her head and he couldn’t figure out what it was There was a loud curse from outside Kirsty jumped to her feet

“Music I forgot music” She marched to the stereo

Lake narrowed his eyes at her as music blasted into the room She looked at him and chewed her bottom lip

“Too loud?” She adjusted the volume