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Her frown cut through me.
“But he’ll catch up with us later.” I probably should’ve added that up front. “Before then, I need to tell you something.” My words rushed out on a breath of desperation.
Curiosity flitted across her face. “I’m listening.”
I cupped her face between my palms and kissed her hard. This got better every time I did it. The softness of her mouth, yielding to mine… The tiny sounds that tore from her throat… Her heat and curves pressing into me…
I was hooked on every single bit of it.
And I could fall into her wide-eyed gaze for an eternity. I needed to get this out now, not because there was a fear of wanting to take it back, but because she had to know. She had to hear itnow. “Nothing about this is temporary for me. I need you to understand that. For me, there’s already a future for us. I don’t care if you want to keep going through your list with Landon”—I preferred it, but I didn’t dare say thatnow—“but I can’t let you slip away from me. I love you, Megan, and I don’t want you to say it back. Not until you’re sure. But you need to hear it from me.”
Megan opened her mouth.
I crushed my lips to hers, silencing her. Needing to feel that connection. When I pulled away, I pressed my thumb to her lips instead. “Please. Don’t tell me you love me. Don’t say it back.” I needed to know when those words did pass her lips, that she really meant them. That she wasn’t mourning a broken engagement. And this was a selfish request on my part. I got to claim her heart but keep my own shielded a little longer, but I was asking her for that anyway.
Megan settled her palm on my chest, directly over my heart, and the heat seared through my shirt. For a heartbeat, there was nothing but that bond.
Then she pushed me away. “Fuck you.”
I stared at her in disbelief. “Excuse me?”
“You don’t get to tell me who I love, including—especially—you. You don’t get to tell me things likedon’t say it back. Fuck that.” She grabbed my shirt in her fist and stepped closer again. “Who the fuck are you to tell me that, after giving me your heart? You don’t get to do that.”
I’d never seen Megan like this before. When she’d found Easton it was close, but this was different. This was passion and fire and beauty.
And I had no idea how to react. “I don’t—”
“Exactly. You don’t get to do that to me.” She was gripping my shirt with both hands now, looking me in the eye. “Because I love you too. Since the first day I met you. I love you so much it hurts and it heals and it makes me want to scream it out from the top of the world.I love Nigel,” she shouted at the top of her lungs.
“Good for you,” someone yelled back.
A blush flooded Megan’s face, and she laughed. “Don’t you dare take that from me.”
And now my heart was going to burst from her adoration. “Never. I shouldn’t have even thought it was okay, and I will never do that to you again.”
“Good.” She rose on her toes and pressed her mouth to mine.
Her kisses would never not undo me. I kept her there longer than I should, the two of us tucked away from everyone else, while I devoured her mouth and tasted her love and memorized what it was like to finally have her. We were teenagers again, making out and hoping no one was going to catch us, but also really not caring if they did.
When we finally managed to break apart for more than a few seconds, I pressed my forehead to hers. “We have the room to ourselves. Let’s go downstairs and make the most of it.”
“Yes, please.” Megan’s soft voice unraveled me in the best possible way.
The ride down was torture. It took more restraint than I thought I had to not pin Megan to the wall in the elevator and prove to her right there how much she was mine. When we got into the room, I led her into the bedroom, and stripped away her clothes a piece at a time. I wanted everything at once, but I also wanted to savor this moment.
When she was in nothing but her underwear, I had to step back and drink in the sight of soft, lacy green against her pale skin.
“I bought them with you in mind.” Megan’s demure confession drove me wild. “I needed something new after you cut the last pair away.”
“I like the way you think.”
It was tricky for her to help me out of my clothes while I was kissing her everywhere, but we managed. When we were both in our underwear, it was easier to run my hands over her skin. I could spend hours exploring every inch of her body. Tasting her. Kissing her. Sucking on neck…
She was a delicious meal I didn’t want to consume too quickly, because once I had, it was all over.
Megan pulled my face to hers and kissed me softly. “This is only the first time we’ll do this,” she said. “It’s far from the last.”
I didn’t think…
