Page 24 of Around the Bend


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Myles considered how she’d cornered him. “I can’t have sex with you and then stick around. I don’t work that way.”

Jessica cocked her head to the side. “What if we made a deal? I get clean… you stick around.”

Myles snorted. “That’s not a deal… that’s a relationship.”

She bit her lip and then smiled slyly. It was driving him crazy the way she was looking at him and he was afraid she knew it. “No. It’s a business arrangement.”

Myles knew this was a terrible idea and yet he leaned in and kissed her anyway. Just once. He needed to know what it felt like to give in.

She let him kiss her until he seemed satisfied, and then she pulled away slowly and studied his face. “So, I take it, that’s not a no?”

Myles searched her eyes. “It’s a maybe…”

Her face lit up and she cocked her head, curious. “A maybe based on what?”

He smiled. “How good the sex is.”

She swallowed hard, nodded, and raised her brow. “You should know then that it’s been awhile...”

Myles leaned closer, grabbed her hips, and lowered her backward onto the bed. “Yeah, well, it’s sort of like riding a bike…” He whispered as he raised her arms over her head and held them there. He trailed kisses down her neck and then back up again until he reached her ear. “You don’t forget...”

She practically purred as he let his other hand trail down her thigh and up her dress. He paused and reached for his wallet, removed a condom, and then slipped her panties off and undid his pants. He never took his eyes from hers. He was almost certain she’d call his bluff and back out, which would’ve been fine because this

level of intimacy was too much for him in every sense, but when she raised her brow as though to ask what he was waiting for, he forced himself to level up and answered the unspoken question by plunging into her. Hard. She gasped and gripped his shirt, then released her grip, and dug her nails into his back. Myles didn’t slow the intensity of his thrusts. He didn’t make love to her the way he probably should have. He fucked her. This was what the situation called for, he realized, whether it was right or not. He was rougher than he’d intended, but a part of him didn’t care. And she didn’t seem to mind too much either.

Chapter Twelve

“What did we just do?” Jessica asked as they lay there tangled up in each other.

“We fucked.”

“Yeah. We did.” She swallowed, her mouth dry, her legs trembling, those distant and yet familiar trembles she had so missed. “I haven’t been fucked like that in… well, forever.”

“That’s a shame,” he remarked as he sat up and handed her a bottle of water after twisting the cap off.

She sipped the water, handed it back to him, and then stood up slowly, straightening her dress.

Myles look confused. “What are you doing?”

“Going back to my room.”

He furrowed his brow.

“You don’t want to talk or cuddle or anything.”

She eyed him, and then shook her head slowly. “No. Do you?”

He smiled. “No.”

“Good,” she said turning toward the door.

“Good,” he agreed standing and making his way over to her.

Myles put his hand against the door so she couldn’t open it. He ran his lips along the back of her neck. “Hey, Jessica,” he said, his voice low, before resuming his trail along the back of her neck ending just behind her ear.

Chills. She froze instantly.

“Can I call you?” he whispered.

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