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She grins as the pink fabric hits the floor. “Come hate me.”

I pull off my own shirt, stalking toward her and hooking her waist with my arm, so we end up in a heap on the bed. Natalie laughs as I struggle with my shorts, slipping off her own and straddling me.

I let her take over, impatience and desire heating my blood as her hands tug the fabric. Her bare skin grazes mine as the last barrier between us disappears, hitting my system like a high. I wasn’t a monk before her. I’ve fooled around with other girls, and it never felt like this.

So I ask a question I’m not sure I want the answer to. “Was it really better?” I ask. “Or were you just—”

Natalie instantly grasps what I’m asking. “You think I lied to you about that?”

“I just know you’re used to…I want you to enjoy yourself.”

Her hips lower, so we’re touching everywhere. So I can feel how wet she is as her hips rock against mine. She rubs herself all over me, and it’s a painful, blissful torture.

“Trust me, I’m enjoying myself.” Her hand grips me, positioning me right where I’m dying to sink inside.

But I’m still thinking rationally enough to realize something is missing. “I’m not wearing anything.”

“I know.” Natalie leans closer, her hair falling in a blonde curtain as she breathes the words against my mouth. “I wasn’t lying, Liam. It’s never meant anything with anyone else. It’s never felt like this with anyone else. Never done this—” She lowers her hips a little, so I get a taste of what it would be like—being inside her bare. “With anyone else.”

My hands grip her hips as I choke out her name. I forgot how incredible this feels. It’s not just the intimacy of what she’s offering or the knowledge she hasn’t offered it to anyone else. It’s the lack of second-guessing. Every other time we’ve had sex, I’ve thought it could be the last. This time feels right. Certain. Permanent.

“You’ve wrecked me, Natalie Jacobs. Ruined me for anyone else.”

“Good,” she tells me. “You ruined me too.”

I flip us so I’m hovering above her, staring down at flushed cheeks and finger-tangled hair. I watch her expression change, wash with pleasure as I hook her leg on my hip and sink inside wet, tight heat. Natalie moans, her fingernails digging into my shoulder blades.

I don’t have the patience to go slowly. My head drops to the curve of her neck as she clutches my back. We grip each other like life rafts, like something cataclysmic will happen if we choose to let go.

Our hips rock in a frantic rhythm, chasing the high forming where our bodies are connected. I slow my pace, pulling all the way out before thrusting back in. Natalie writhes beneath me, her breaths becoming pants as she tries to force more friction between our bodies.

“I’m so close.”

“I know. I can feel it.” I thrust harder—deeper, moving her a few inches up the bed.

“Please, Liam.Liam. Fuck.” My hand moves the way I’ve learned she likes, and then she’s clenching around me, riding the waves of release. I let go too, filling her in a foreign, addictive sensation.

Her lips meet mine, kissing me like she never wants to stop.

And Iget it, more than I ever have before. Why Maeve looks so giddy right before Wes comes over. Why my mom stayed with my dad, back when he gave her reasons not to. How people start fights and end friendships over this feeling.

Why something that can seem important one minute can seem insignificant the next.

Like a rivalry between two towns.

Our breaths even and skin cools. Natalie uses a couple of tissues to clean the mess I made between her legs before lying back down beside me and nesting her head beneath my chin.

An air-conditioning vent blows a cool breeze across the room. As long as her hands are on me, I feel warm.

“You don’t have to leave yet, right?”

My arms tighten around her. “No. I don’t have to leave yet.”

CHAPTERTWENTY-SIX

NATALIE

Ishift my car into park and then turn it off. Glance over at the empty patio under the pergola. All the furniture was cleared away a few months ago and stored for the winter.

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