Total pages in book: 61
Estimated words: 60940 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 305(@200wpm)___ 244(@250wpm)___ 203(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 60940 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 305(@200wpm)___ 244(@250wpm)___ 203(@300wpm)
“Is that what this is? A game to you?”
“You know, I’m not the kind of girl who just goes into a stranger’s hotel room with them.”
“Sugar, I’ve seen you naked.” He swept the hair away from my cheek, placing it behind my ear. Letting his fingers linger on my skin for a minute. “I’ve seen you at your best and at your worst. That sound like a stranger to you?”
“You don’t know me anymore.”
“I beg to fucking differ.”
Shaking my head, I asked, “What do you want?”
“What I’ve always wanted but couldn’t have.”
“And now?”
“Now, we’re not kids.”
“What about Chance? He’s still your best friend and I’m still his sister.”
“Eleven years ago, that mattered. We’re in different places now.”
“You think Chance will feel that way?”
“I know he wants you happy.”
“And you think you’ll make me happy?”
“I can sure as hell try.”
I shook my head again, blown away. “What are you saying?”
He eyed my mouth as he leaned into my lips. This was a power struggle—an exchange of some sort that I wasn’t willing to lose.
“I’m saying that I want to see where this can go.”
“Just like that?”
“We’ve known each other all our lives. Don’t you think we’ve wasted enough time?”
“I wasn’t the one who kicked you out of their life.”
“Sugar, I was fucked up back then.”
“Alright, then why haven’t you ever reached out since?”
“Who says I didn’t want to?”
“Wanting and doing are two totally different things.”
“It’s better this way.” He paused to let his words sink in. “Almost like fate bringing us together.”
I asked, “When did you turn into such a romantic?”
In one breath, he shared, “There’s a lot you don’t know about me.”
“Starting with?”
He didn’t answer my question. Instead, he stated, “I’m going to kiss you now.”
Before the last word left his mouth, he crashed his lips onto mine. Shoving me into the floor-to-ceiling glass bay window behind me, he placed his hands on the sides of my head. Slipping his tongue into my mouth, he demanded complete and utter control.
Kissing me fucking senseless.
At a moment’s notice, he went to war with my mouth. For the first time in eleven years, he kissed me until the earth stopped moving and time stood still.
Claiming me.
Owning me.
Branding me.
Making me feel like I was his.
Ledger
That was all it took for me to lose my mind, getting lost in her instead.
“I’ll give you what you want,” I growled between kissing her.
She’d kissed me before, but this time, I devoured her. Kissing Hazel was like coming home. I gripped the back of her neck, effortlessly pulling her to me like we weren’t already close enough. Her lips were soft, and when my tongue beckoned her mouth to open for me, she did, feeling my need for her.
She tasted of citrus and whiskey. I let my lips speak for the years of chemistry and undisclosed emotions between us. Our kiss became heady and fucking intoxicating, I felt her everywhere, even though I was barely touching her.
I wanted more.
I wanted all of her.
She was always there, in the forefront of my mind. There were so many times I almost called her, so many times I almost showed up at her door, but I didn’t know what to say or how to say it.
You wouldn’t think that now with how easy it was to be honest with her in this setting. I thought our deep connection would have gone away, but if anything, it was stronger than ever. She was right, though. All the reasons I turned her down and pushed her away were still there.
However, the circumstances were different. We were all adults now. Able to make our own decisions. Chance would understand, and if he didn’t, he’d come around. I wasn’t man enough to take what I wanted back then. Being loyal to my best friend was all that mattered to me.
I didn’t think about the consequences of what I’d be losing in the process. For the past ten years, I had him, but I lost her. After seeing her again, no way in hell could I deny the effect she’d forever have on me. There was no hiding it. Even if I wanted to, and the truth was, I didn’t fucking want to.
I was over doing the right thing. It cost me too much. So much had happened since I last saw her, so much I craved to tell her, so much I had to make up for.
Maybe I truly was losing my mind…
“Tell me, sugar, what do you want? Ask nicely...” I taunted, roughly yanking her hair back farther and placing her where I wanted her, right up against the window.
Where she couldn’t move, and I could control her pleasure.
Her skin was red and warm. I could see her nipples harden through her dress. I kissed my way down to the side of her neck, right along the edge where I knew it’d drive her crazy. Skimming my free hand up and down her thigh, I glided a little higher toward her pussy.