Page 68 of Burning For You

When they finally broke apart, it was only enough to breathe.

Their foreheads pressed together. Their breath mingling.

Her pulse hammered. Her lips still tingled. Her lady parts were twitching uncontrollably.

“Why did you stop?” she asked.

“Because if we go much longer, it’s going to be even harder for me to walk away.”

“What if I don’t want you to walk away?” she whispered, her hands moving to his waist, then slipping under his shirt.

She was losing her mind. She knew it.

But nothing was going to stop her either.

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CLEAR UNDERSTANDING

“You don’t know what you’re saying, Skye.”

He only had so much control. Did she not realize that?

“I do know what I’m saying.”

Her hands lifted, his shirt and hoodie going up with it.

He pushed everything down and stepped back.

No way he was going forward without them having a clear understanding.

“You didn’t even want your brother to know we kissed.”

“Kissed twice,” she clarified.

He could see where this was going when she stepped closer and tried to go for his shirt again.

He wasn’t sure he’d ever tried to talk a woman out of sex before. Not someone who he wanted to get naked with.

And maybe he wasn’t trying to talk her out of this either.

More like make sure she understood the rules.

He did have them. Now.

Maybe he hadn’t for years.

But he’d changed and she was going to learn that too.

“Twice,” he agreed. “And now, you’re asking me for what? To flex for you?”

She laughed. Truly laughed.

A sound he hadn’t heard in a long time.

“Oh yes, please.”

Who was this woman?