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My fingers clutch her shoulder. My gaze spears down into hers even as her breath fluctuates slightly.
The world fades away as I’m lost in pools of indigo.
Then, in front of the people who mean the most to her and in front of a million strangers, she shows she has more courage than anyone I’ve ever met. Fallon leans up and brushes her lips against my cheek. “Thank you for being with me tonight.”
An ache races through me as her lips touch my skin for the first time. Now, I know what that feels like, and that too, will factor into the dreams she stars in every single night of my life. In that moment, I clutch her to me, bury my face in her neck, and give her everything. “There’s nothing I wouldn’t do for you, Fal. I hope you know that.”
I watch her struggle as she tries to interpret my words. For just a moment, I let the facade I’ve been wearing all these years slip. Whatever she sees on my face causes her eyes to flare. She opens her mouth, but I shake my head. “Not now.”
Her head tilts. “Then when?”
I tighten my arm so she’s notched against my side, facing forward. Finally, I give in. “I’ll come to you later.”
Together, we face the camera, each of us clutching the other, knowing the temptations that lie between us the moment we’re alone.
CHAPTER FIVE
ETHAN
Seven Virtues, North Carolina
After we all celebrated with a late dinner at the Ritz Carlton, I pull my rental up to Fallon’s. Climbing out, I find the discreet PRIVATE plaque marking her entrance. After plugging in the code Fallon texted me earlier, I bound up the stairs leading to Fallon’s apartment, anticipation building.
Particularly when I glance up and spy her waiting for me in the open door, still in the sexy as fuck blue silk dress she was wearing beneath her graduation robes.
I murmur, “Hi.”
Happiness blooms across her face, causing my stomach muscles to clench, my cock to harden, and my balls to draw up, and I haven’t even laid a finger on her. What on earth does she want with a man like me?
She cocks her head to the side. “What are you thinking?”
I let her close the door before I admit, “I’m tired of pretending I don’t want you.”
“What do you mean?”
“Do you remember your graduation party?”
A frown pulls her brows down. “Since it was all of an hour...” Her words stop mid-sentence.
“Not that one.”
“The first one?” At my nod, comprehension lights her features. A smug look replaces the temporary awe. “It wasn’t just me.”
My lashes lower as I take in the wicked combination of beauty and frustration vibrating off her skin. “No, it wasn’t just you, Fallon.”
She rolls her eyes. “Then why wait? We could have...” Her lips press together, squashing her words inside.
But I know her thoughts without her uttering a word. After all, the hunger living inside her, the lust dying to break free, I’ve been on the other end of it for just as long as she has.
I take a step forward and proclaim, “Our time is now.”
Her choppy breath threatens to cause her breasts to spill out of her halter top—not that I’d mind since her dress is going to end up on the floor in a few moments anyway. Still, I want to give her seduction—our first time anyway. We’re both so worked up after years of texts that I know I could simply take her hand and lead her into the bedroom, but Fallon deserves more. Frankly, so do I.
Instead, I step back and ask, “Are you certain you want this?” Me? Us?
A slow smile graces her lips as she glides toward me with confidence. When she stops directly in front of me, she presses her hands against my chest.
My arms bind around her waist to haul her to me.
