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Breath hovers between us, his into mine and mine into his, until the air thickens and heats.
My body doesn’t feel like mine. My eyelashes flutter closed and my head tilts to the side, angling as though my mouth is magnetically attracted to Finlay’s.
My heart is racing.
I can feel it. The energy. It’s the kind of thing that happens in movies.
The kind of thing I’ve only everseenin movies.
And yet…
I’ve never been kissed before, and I’m just handing myself over to Finlay?
ToFinlay?
All he’s done is worn a damn kilt. Why the hell does he deserveme?
I snap my legs shut.
My knee brushes against something hard beneath Finlay’s kilt. He hisses in response, his eyes sliding closed.
“Jessa, I swear…” He takes a steadying breath, his eyes flaring open again. He doesn’t look amused. “Damn it, Jessa, ye cannae keep daein’ this tae me.”
I stare at him with minor concern. “Doing what?”
With a slow, baleful blink, Finlay answers, “Gettin’ inside my heid like this.”
It’s not the answer I expect. He turns away from me, tilting his head back up to the ceiling.
I’m lost.
“I don’t know what you want from me.”
“Really?” He glances over his shoulder, a look of deep skepticism on his face. “Yereallycannae tell, Jessa?”
He can’t wantme. I mean, what? He’s just messing. Playing. They probably have some stupid bet going on. I’m not a complete idiot.
Finlay purses his lips slowly and then shakes his head. “Ye know what? Never mind. It doesnae matter.”
Something shutters in his eyes. Although my heart slows to its regular pace, I still feel breathless and strange.
He steps forward again, deliberate. There’s something more standoffish about him now.
His lips are close to mine, but there’s restraint there now. He’s no longer the wild Finlay I know, the one who struts around in studded jackets with anarchist messages on them, but a subdued, tamer version of himself.
I watch his long fingers crawl beside me on the desk, tantalizingly close to my hips.
He opens his mouth.
Words I don’t expect fall from his lips.
“Did ye see anythin’ at Hallowe’en?”
I stare at him. I blink.
Is he…
