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Something wild and unfamiliar swells inside my chest. Happiness feels too small a word. This is vindication. Fucking fate with its teeth in my throat, shaking me and telling me to wake up and see what has been right in front of me this whole time.

Of course it’s Emily.

Who the fuck else can it be?

She races ahead of me through the rain, bare skin flashing beneath the canopy and moonlight, and for several seconds, I hold back.

I can catch her.

She knows I can catch her.

But that is part of the fun, and I have to admit that the view is stunning.

I like knowing she’s spent her time hunting me only to end up here, breathless and laughing, while I hunt her right back. Maybe in a way we’ve been hunting each other this entire time. I’ve been chasing a ghost, but really it’s a shadow of something real.

The trees break ahead of us, and we burst out onto the road. Our vehicles are straight ahead, and I feel the gravel of the old road under my boots. She’s quick, but I’ve had enough of the chase. My hard cock aches for more, and I want to feel her skin.

I speed up, and the distance between us disappears. As I close in on her, one thought pounds through my skull with every fucking step.

I found you.

I finally fucking found you.

This time, when I grab her arm, she doesn’t pull away. She slows to a walk, then stops to spin around and face me. Her smile lights up the entire night sky when I pull her close. Her skin is cool under my hands. Her blonde hair is wet and wild, with leaves stuck in it, and she has dirt on her cheeks. No one has ever looked more beautiful.

“Fuck me…I want you again,” I groan, kissing her hard.

Emily breaks the kiss first, and I glare at her. But she only laughs, wrapping her arms around my neck.

“Catch me.”

Before I can ask, she jumps as agile as a cat and wraps her legs around my waist. Her hard nipples press right into my face. Fuck. My cock throbs, pushing against my pants. I suck her left nipple into my mouth and eat up her moans, relishing the feel of her fingers in my hair.

Emily moans louder when I use my teeth on the sensitive flesh and then scrape them along the mound of her breast.

“Take me to my car. Your gift is there,” she says.

I’ll follow any order she wants to give me right now. She’s like a fucking snake charmer.

We get closer, and I hear a faint thumping and my brow arches.

“Sit me on the trunk,” Emily orders.

As soon as I put her down, she grabs my cock through my pants and squeezes.

“Fuck,” I hiss, slamming my hands down on either side of her, glaring as the same dangerous need from earlier fills me.

Then a thump hits right under my hands and I look down, but Emily only smirks.

“Your gift is a little annoyed, but it can wait. Fuck me right here on the car.”

A muffled yell comes from inside the trunk, followed by more thumping.

There is no stopping the smile that spreads across my face.

“You’re a very bad girl,” I whisper in Emily’s ear and then nip her earlobe. “And you’re driving me insane.”

She spreads her legs wider.