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“We do. That shows how serious this situation is.”
I reached over his shoulder toward the jug, brushing my fingers against it. Liam responded by spinning and dumping me onto the kitchen counter. Then, while pressing his palm into my face, he chugged the remaining strawberry daiquiri in four long gulps.
“Ahh,” he said with satisfaction. “That’s good. You should try some. Oh wait, it’s all gone.”
“No fair!”
He put down that jug and picked up the remaining piña colada. “Now to finish this off.” He started to raise it to his lips, then paused. “Uh oh.”
“What?”
“Brain freeze.” He groaned. “Give me a second.”
Seizing on his weakness, I grabbed his shirt and pulled him toward me. My fingers tightened around the jug, and I pulled it from his hand.
But before I could do anything with it, Liam kissed me.
9
Alyssa
Liam is kissing me.
I hadn’t expected it. My defenses were down. This was supposed to be a not-date, an evening designed to piss off Jack.
But this feels right, I thought. It feels more right than anything has in a long time.
Liam’s lips were chilled and tasted like strawberry. I churned against them hungrily, surrendering to these new, exciting feelings. He pressed in against me, pushing between my legs as I sat on the edge of the counter. My fingers were in his yellow hair, tightening on the silky-smooth strands. It felt like there was an electric current passing between us everywhere we touched: lips, thighs, fingertips.
Yeah. This feels really, really good.
And then, just as I was parting my lips to taste him with my tongue, he pulled away.
“That was…” he said, eyes locked onto mine. I felt cold now that he wasn’t pressed against me. “It was…”
“Good?” I offered. “Great?”
“Great,” he agreed, surprised. “Definitely great. Wow.”
I sat on the counter, waiting. He put down the piña colada jug. “We probably should call it a night.”
“Yeah,” I said. “We probably should.”
Neither of us moved.
“You and Jack are best friends,” I said. “I don’t want to do anything that would harm that.”
Liam glanced at me. “Jack has a girlfriend. Jen. They’ve been dating six months. And you two were never really…”
“We weren’t!” I agreed. “It would be silly to let him get in the way of this.”
Liam turned back to me, kissing me more passionately than before. His lips were warm now, but still faintly tasted of strawberry. I pulled him close, feeling the weight of his body pressing against the thin dress fabric between my legs.
“I thought you said you had innocent intentions,” I said between kisses.
“I did at the time,” he admitted, eyes bright and eager. “Conditions have changed.”
“I don’t want the night to end.”
