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“Tanner,” she whispered, staring up at me.
I pushed away from her and went back to the door. Taking another deep breath, I closed it and clicked the lock into place.
Glancing back at her over my shoulder, I hesitated. I wasn’t sure why. I had always been the type of guy who just went after what he wanted. No questions asked. But now, I was asking every single fucking question. I just had no idea where to even begin.
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SOMETHING WAS OFF WITHTanner. Maybe it was because of the phone call from Tommy. Or maybe it was from being stuck in this basement for weeks. I wasn’t sure. But when he locked the door, my heart skipped a beat and when he turned toward me, my stomach fluttered at the lust in his dark eyes.
Tanner took a step in my direction, stalking me like I was his prey. He grabbed the hem of his hoodie and lifted it up and over his head.
My throat dried.
He was no longer wearing the bandage, the scar of the stab wound, pink and jagged. Other scars lined his abdomen. I had seen them when we were in the shower but never asked him about them.
“What happened?” I asked, itching to touch him. To run my fingers over every faint line and replace those painful memories with happy ones.
“I had to do shit to survive, Busy. Just like the dogs I saved, I had to fight to live.”
I stared up at him. “You didn’t just save Trigger? There’s been others?”
He closed the distance between us and crawled back onto the bed. “Yeah, baby. Many others. But I don’t want to talk about that.”
“Okay.” It was clearly a subject for a different time. “Does it still hurt?” I asked softly, tracing the light scar on his shoulder.
“It’s tender but I’ve dealt with worse.” He rested his hands on either side of my head, towering over me.
Trailing my fingers down his arm, I reveled in the way his muscles bunched beneath my touch. He wasn’t a big guy. Not bulky like Cyrus. But smaller, like he was a swimmer or even a runner. He was lean and hard in all the right places.
“Busy.” Tanner blew out a slow breath, leaning his forehead against mine.
I continued running my fingers along every line of his hard torso. I wanted him to take it further, but I also wanted to commit him to memory.
“I feel like you’re memorizing me.” He kissed my forehead and then my nose.
I laughed lightly. “How did you know?”
“Not sure. Just a guess really.” Tanner placed his hand on my hip, pushing his fingers beneath my top and lifting the shirt along with it. “I’ve never done this before. We’ve messed around but this…I’ve never done this.”
My stomach flipped. There was no way he could be a virgin. Not with the dirty things he had already said to me. “What do you mean?”
“I mean…” His jaw clenched. “I’ve had sex. I’m not a virgin, if that’s what’s going through that beautiful head of yours.”
“The thought crossed my mind.”
He gave me a small smile. “I just mean, I’ve never done this. I’ve never wanted to do this.” He shook his head. “I’m not making sense.”
“No. You are. I get it. If it helps, I’ve never done this at all.”
His eyes locked with mine, something flashing behind them.
I was a virgin. That much was clear. But he never asked about it. Maybe he would. In time.
Instead of commenting on the matter like I assumed he would, he lowered his mouth to mine. With every stroke of his tongue, the pleasure shot through every inch of me. His hold on me was rough but his eyes told all. He was battling with himself. He wanted to control and dominate but at the same time, he wanted to take it slow and be gentle.
I didn’t care which side of him I got. I just wanted him. Not like I had much to go on anyway. I wanted to experience everything with him. I wanted him to show me what he liked. Or maybe he didn’t even know. He said that it had been a while and he had never done this before. What exactly he was referring to, I didn’t know. Maybe he had sex just to have sex and that was it.
Tanner’s hand moved higher beneath my shirt until his fingers reached my chest. He broke the kiss, lifting my shirt and revealing my black bra to his hungry stare. He licked his lips.
