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The hurt and disappointment in his words slashes at my heart.
A sad smile tilts his lips. “I guess I should have figured you didn’t come to see me when you didn’t even realize it was on my family’s property…”
I stop behind the couch and press my hands onto the back of it, thankful for something physical between us in the tight space that seems to shrink more and more the longer I’m in here with him. “I came home to help my parents, and yes, I had hoped I wouldn’t run into you.”
He recoils slightly. “Ouch.”
“Not because I didn’t want to, Jax. But because I wasn’t sure what I would say, how I would react, not after I kissed you and then literally ran.”
And boy, did I run that night…
I ran as fast as my legs could carry me, out of the woods, to my car, and I drove home like a bat out of hell, hoping he wouldn’t come to confront me about what I had just said and done before I had to leave the next morning to start the rest of my life.
“I should have come after you.” His words are so sincere, full of the heavy weight of all the years that have strung between us since that one moment in time. “I really should have.”
“Why didn’t you?”
He gives me a sad smile and shrugs his massive shoulders. “Because I knew the truth: that I would only hold you back. And the same is true now, right?”
I chew on my bottom lip as I contemplate his words and what they mean.
Is he saying what I think he is?
He slowly rises from the coffee table and makes his way around the couch, giving me all the time in the world to move away. Sliding in behind me, he presses his chest against my back and buries his face in my hair. “God, you still smell the same…”
“Sweaty and disgusting from being out there in the heat?”
His low, deep chuckle reverberates through me. “If anyone stinks, it’s me.”
“All I smell is the beer.”
He laughs, the sound lightening the mood and taking me back to countless happy memories, and he wraps his arms around me and tugs me back against him. His lips find my neck, and he slowly kisses his way up to my ear, each press to my skin sending little sparks through my body. “Let me do to you what I should have all those years ago.”
* * *
Jax
It isn’t fair of me to ask it. It isn’t honorable for me to put her in this position, knowing she’s going to have to leave and go home as soon as her parents finish packing up their house. It isn’t right to want this right now.
But I’m a selfish bastard who’s fantasized about having her in my arms, of having her like this for so long, that I don’t know how I could physically let her go right now, even if I tried.
And I don’t want to try.
Not when she sags back against me, her body trembling, my cock hardening against her lush ass, and she reaches up and runs her fingers through my hair, clutching the back of my head.
She needs this.
Needs me.
As badly as I do her.
I feather my lips along the column of her neck again, savoring the salty taste of her skin and the light floral scent that clings to her, the one I always smelled in my dreams about her over the years. Every fiber of my being wants to devour this woman, wants to take her in and never let her go. My breath flutters the hair around her ear. “Please, Rae…”
Her fingers tighten in my locks, and I slide my hand to the hem of her shirt and under it, splaying my palm across her stomach. She shudders against me again, then twists in my embrace to loop her arms around my neck and press her lips to mine.
Just like that night…everything around us fades away the moment our lips touch.
The hundreds of people milling around on my land just outside this thicket.
