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Stroke.
Sam spoke again. “Honestly, ever since you’ve started coming around, things have been… tense.”
“What? Over me?”
“Yeah. You’re a beautiful woman. Obviously that’s gonna cause some problems.”
I touched his warm hand resting on my chest.
Grayson had never called me beautiful…
“Grace?”
“Yeah?”
“Did I… was I… too much? Back there? Did I make you uncomfortable?”
I stiffened.
Sam sighed. “I’m sorry, I tried to be less intense about it—”
“No, no, I don’t want you to be less intense. I like that you’re intense,” I said, weaving my fingers through his. “I think… I think I’m just not used to it.”
“Not used to… what, exactly?”
I closed my eyes and remembered the first time we had sex. How he told me to look at him. How there was something so… endless in his deep, blue eyes.
And then how I tried to run.
“Not used to that… connection, I guess. I don’t know how to describe it, it’s the first time I’ve felt it. I kinda don’t know what to do with it.”
“Is it the eye contact?”
“Yes! That’s part of it…”
“The intimacy.”
“Well, we’re intimate anyway, but—”
“What, you mean sex? Sex is not intimacy.”
I bit my lip. “I don’t think you can get anything more intimate than sex.”
He chuckled and his hard abs rippled against my back. “Okay, this explains it.”
“Explains what?”
“Never mind.”
“No…” I turned over, then angled myself to face him, propped up by my elbow. “Tell me what you mean.”
He sighed, then looked into my eyes.
I couldn’t get over how long his dark lashes were—
“It’s calledphysicalintimacy for a reason. You meet someone, you bang, your bodies know each other, but you can stay emotionally anonymous. Like what Noah’s doing right now. Notice he ran away?”
I furrowed my brow. “He… ran away?”
