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“Looking for the rice.”
“Are you hungry?”
The way his eyes fall down my body has me pulling the towel around me that much tighter.
“Or is it for your phone?”
He doesn’t answer but the tic in his jaw tells me everything I need to know.
He had his phone on him. Because he didn’t mean to go into the water. Because he can’t swim.
But since he’s a man, his ego will never allow him to admit to either.
Going to the other side, I reach up onto my tiptoes and search the top shelf for…the…bag…
Every party there’s at least one person who gets pushed into the pool with their phone still on them. I got tired of always making a new bag of rice, so now I just keep the designated Phone Rice Bag in here. It’s even labeled, but I don’t feel it…
Where is it?
There’s a sudden warmth along my backside as Khaos steps up behind me.
“You know damn well you can’t reach the top shelf.”
Of course I know that. But I wasn’t going to humiliate myself by climbing on the counter in front of the man who keeps making fun of my height.
“Don’t even think about touching me.”
“Why? Because they might hear how much you like it when I do?”
There are people right outside the swinging door. Anyone could open it and see us like this.
Yet I don’t move away.
“In your dreams.”
“In my dreams, I do a hell of a lot more than touch you, Kota.”
Khaos dreams about me? That’s hot.
I mean, it’s not. It’s disturbing. He’s my stepbrother. And I have a boyfriend.
He presses closer, still not touching me but just barely. He could close the distance at any second, and I…could combust whether he does or not.
“I don’t want you touching me because I hate you.”
“You don’t have to like me to like what I do to you.”
He made me feel good once. No need to have a medal made. I’ve fingered myself to orgasm before, too—many times—but I don’t walk around bragging about it.
“That was before I knew who you were.”
“You knew who I was when you kissed me and you liked that.”
“I did not kiss you and I certainly didn’t like—”
“You did. Enough to moan.”
“That was… I was running out of oxygen. You know? Because I gave it to you.”
