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The end of his cigarette glows as he takes a long drag, and I can feel his eyes on me with every step I take closer to him.
A cloud of smoke billows out from the shadows, and he remains still, waiting for me to approach him.
I normally hate the smell of cigarettes. I used to see the result of smoking every day at work, and I promised myself I would never smoke, or date someone who did. But right now, with my veins flowing with whiskey, I’m suddenly loving the smell. It’s heightening the need I have inside of me to taste him.
He doesn’t say anything as I step into the shadows with him, looking up at him through my dark lashes, watching the end of his cigarette glow.
“Those things will kill you, you know.”
A cloud of smoke surrounds us, and I see the corners of his mouth turn up. “Something’s gotta kill me, gorgeous. Why not indulge in life’s pleasures?”
Pleasures. That word from his lips makes my core clench and my heartrate kick up.
“Why not take risks?” I ask, the words barely above a whisper.
“Exactly.”
He goes to take another drag, but I take the cigarette from between his fingers before he can, and flick it to the ground, grinding it out with the toe of my boot.
Take a risk…
I need to live for life’s pleasures even if it’ll bring me nothing but problems down the line. Like him.
I take a small step closer to him and place my hand on his chest. Smoothing it up and around his neck, I lift up on my toes so my lips are only an inch from his.
I can feel his pulse thrumming beneath my fingers as my breath comes in short intakes, and I feel dizzy at the look in his eyes.
He remains still, his back against the brick wall. He’s waiting for me to make a move. I think he knows that it has to be me to start this. I have to show him that I want this – him. Taking him exactly as he is.
The loud pounding of my pulse in my ears drowns out every other thought in my brain except the ones telling me to lean in just a little more.
Reaching up with my other hand, I place it on his shoulder for leverage, my fingers digging into him, his muscles flexing at my touch.
My eyes flutter closed and I lean in the last inch, the heat of his lips searing mine the instant they touch, and everything inside of me melts. And just when I think my legs are going to give out from under me, Alex’s arms snake around me, pulling me flush against him.
My body molds to his rock-solid one, almost like my softer flesh was meant to fill in the valleys between his muscles.
A soft moan escapes my lips, and his fingers press into my lower back, his tongue sliding against my lower lip, asking for more.
Opening for him, he sweeps right inside and we both moan the second our tongues clash together in a hot frenzy.
With the taste of smoke and nicotine on his tongue, my head spins at the toxic drug, and I want to take a long drag from his lungs – my body needing its fix for an addiction I didn’t know I had.
Clawing at the back of his neck, I stretch up on my toes and press him against the wall, needing to get closer somehow. My hands run up the back of his head, his soft hair sliding through my fingers like silk woven from dark angels. Gripping the ends hard, a low growl from the back of his throat vibrates into me and through me, and I feel it all the way to my toes.
He kisses me with a fevered passion that I can feel buzzing in my blood.
Sliding his hands down, he palms my ass, and he swallows my groan, suddenly lifting me up and spinning me around.
Pressing me into the wall, I can feel the rough bricks through my thin long-sleeved tee, but it only heightens everything. My legs lock around his waist, and he’s right there, pressing his hips against mine.
My head falls back against the wall, and a long, low moan, comes from deep within me – an offering to the night sky like a wolf howling to the moon.
Kissing his way across my jaw, Alex’s hot breath in my ear has my body flooding with need.
“You’re so fucking gorgeous, Mel,” he growls in my ear, his voice low and gravely like a rake against hot coals – stoking a fire within me.
His teeth rake over the shell of my ear, and my breathy sighs fill the air between us.
