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She picked up the other, and we ate in silence for a minute I didto keep hts clean and felt like an asshole about it When I was done, I wiped my hands on my pants

“Oh, sorry,” she said, popping her last bite between her lips “I should have brought us napkins I’ll get some”

“It’s okay I should go” We stood at the sa us practically chest to chest

She looked up at me and sed Parted her lips

Don’t do it, dickhead, I told myself

But she was right—I did have weaknesses, and right now her mouth was at the top of the list

Without another thought, I took her by the shoulders and crushed my lips to hers She made a soft sound of surprise, and I felt her body lean intohercombination of salty and sweet She twined her arms around razed mine

Stop this right the fuck now, said a voice in my head

But not only did I ignore it, I hitched her up by the back of her thighs, and she gasped againsther ass, I pulled her tight to my lower body and moved her up and down my cock

On the table, the candle crackled and spit,both of us ju distance between us “Fuck” I held up my hands, as if she’d asked me to put them where she could see them “I’m sorry”

“No, don’t be sorry” She shook her head “It just—it just happened”

I stood there for one second longer, watching her chest rapidly rise and fall, feeling like I couldn’t catch et out of there, I’d end up with ain

Or maybe other places

“Goodnight,” I said, and quickly retreated into my house

Once I’d shut the sliding door behind ainst the counter with two fists Closingmy head

What the fuck? What had possessed irl was only twenty-two! She enty-fucking-two, and I was thirty-four with two young daughters, and I had no business putting my hands on her For fuck’s sake, she was nearly closer to Hallie’s age than mine