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This enrages me in a rush of some red-hot emotion I don’t even recognize. It might be…jealousy? Whatever it is, there’s so much of it I have to stop myself from doing something reckless. Like throttling my own best friend.
I can’t pull my eyes away from the girl long enough to glare at him.
I’m too riveted.
“Hey, Zara,” Gabe says.
Zara. Where have I heard that name before?
“Hi, Gabe.”
She has to be new here. I’d have noticed her before. She must be a freshman.
Her eyes are green. Not just green but emerald-bright. Long eyelashes blink at us and what I find myself thinking is: they’re perfect. There’s nothing fake about her.
The pinkness of her lips and her clear, golden skin are hitting me right where I live. Her expression is sweet but also sassy, and both details spin me into a kind of frenzy of fascination. The light scent of her is of sun-warmed lemons, tropical flowers and, barely, fresh paint. Everything about her is reminding me that I haven’t hooked up in far too long.
I should be hooking up.
I need to hook up.
Very, very badly.
With her.
THIS IS THE GIRL I WANT.
That’s how it lands in my head. Not just my head. My body. My heart. Like a demand that carves itself onto the granite of my absolutely-must-haves list—which, at this point, only has one thing on it and here she fucking is—and won’t take no for an answer. It’s shockingly sure of itself.
I want to kiss those luscious lips. I’m so fucking hungry. I need to taste her like I need air.
I’m stunned. Much more than that, I’m fucking slayed.
One side of her overalls is unbuttoned. Her little t-shirt hugs tightly to the shape of her body, showing off the swell of her breasts. I can barely make out the highly perched, lightly raised swell of her nipple.
Holy fucking hell.
I’m suddenly—and severely—suffering the hellish consequences of going too long without. My chest feels tight and my heart’s pumping fast. But most of my blood rushes south. My cock—fuck—goes instantly rock hard.
Elias. Calm the fuck down.
Her sweet, hot, completely-unaware-of-it cuteness is quite literally hitting me like a runaway freight train.
“Zara, this is Elias. Elias, Zara.”
“Hi, Elias.” Her voice is soft with the slightest smoky edge to it. Just insanely alluring.
I want to lie in bed with her and bask in her dazzling glow. I want to feast on her sweet beauty and listen to her tell me about all the reasons she’s so lit up.
“Zara,” I manage to huskily repeat. I’m completely, hopelessly starstruck.
Gabriel is watching me. His gaze slides from me, to her, and back to me again. He’s reading the situation and it’s almost funny to him, but not quite. He lightly elbows me, but it does nothing to tone down how spellbound I am. “What he means to say, Zara, is that he’s very glad to make your acquaintance.”
She smiles up at me and I have to remind myself to breathe. She’s so damn beautiful. And so much smaller than I am. Her little white teeth are neat and there’s a feisty defiance behind her shyness, like even as she takes in my build, my height and my face, what she’s thinking is no way.
No way? We’ll see about that.
“Nice to meet you too, Elias.”
