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A low rumble of a laugh sounded in his chest. “There’s something in your eyes that makes me wonder every week if it will be the last time I see you. But after tonight . . . what happens when you disappear?”
“When that day comes, then maybe I won’t want to be found.”
My entire body trembled when his lips grazed my jaw. “I think your answer might change if I’m the one looking for you.”
Oh God . . .
My body and my heart and my mind rebelled against each other. All wanting and screaming for different things.
Just one more taste of his lips.
To beg him to look for me.
To realize this was a game. To run home before Conor made his way back and realized I wasn’t there—before Kieran would be the one looking for me.
“I have to go.”
He moved so his lips were hovering over my own, and pled, “Don’t.”
I wanted to feel that rush. I wanted to feel my heart race. I wanted to feel alive again—if even for a second.
But I couldn’t.
“Please stop touching me.” The words were barely a whisper leaving my lips, but from the way his dark eyes snapped to mine, he’d heard them over the crowd and music.
A sharp huff forced from his lungs. And after a moment, he released me and took half a step back.
I’d just turned to leave when he called out, “Truth or dare.”
I stopped, but didn’t look back at him for a few seconds as I told myself to leave. Against my better judgment, I looked over my shoulder—my confusion plain in my expression.
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Truth or dare,” he repeated in that deep, rough tone. His expression pleading.
My head shook absentmindedly before I finally shrugged. “Truth.”
“Why did you come out tonight?”
My chest tightened, and it suddenly became hard to breathe as I wondered who this man was—if he was somehow connected to my family.
“I was bored,” I said tightly and stared straight ahead as I began walking.
I hadn’t made it two steps before his hands wrapped around my upper arms, and he pulled me to a stop so my back was pressed to his muscled chest. “Lie,” he whispered against my ear.
The mixture of his lips brushing my ear and his hushed tone made me shiver. The feel of him pressed against me stole my focus so completely I didn’t catch that he’d called me out on my lie until moments later.
I quickly thought of his face, trying to place it somewhere along the men who worked for my dad or Kieran—but came up empty.
“Truth or dare,” he said again, causing my stomach to drop.
“Why are you doing this?”
“Because I felt your reaction to me. Saw it.”
My breath rushed out and knees shook with relief when he didn’t call me out, and I knew he couldn’t have been with my family—couldn’t have known who I was. If he had, he would’ve taken me back to the property any one of the mornings he’d seen me at the café.
“And now you’re trying to leave . . .” His words were a rumble from deep within his chest, the sound so primal that I wanted to shut my eyes and get lost in his voice and the intoxicating current that hummed where he touched me. “So, truth or dare.”
