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He moves closer, pulls me into another tight hug. "We can be insatiable too."
I respond by pressing my lips to his. It feels so good to kiss him like this. Desire courses through my veins.
But the physical need gives way to the emotional. I want to drag him to his apartment and fuck him senseless and talk to him all night.
I want to tell him this.
I want to hear him sayI understand.
I want it so badly, and every second I spend with my body near his, I feel it more intensely.
Only I feel my fear more intensely too. There's too much at risk. I can't lose this.
He pulls back with a sigh. "You keep doing that and I'll fuck you right here."
"You think I won't?" I ask.
He nods.
I blush. He's right. In front of strangers is one thing. In front of his friends?
That's terrifying.
His friends interrupt before I can respond. Dare and the Spain-bound Val emerge with a bottle of gin and a handful of limes (her) and a bag of ice and a stack of cups (him).
She introduces herself, offers to fix me a gin and tonic, asks me a billion and one questions about my flavor preferences.
We shift into an easy conversation about travel and school and guys.
Patrick and Dare sit on a lounger, shooting the shit as they watch us talk. I keep feeling his eyes on me.
I'm not sure Val feels Dare's eyes on her, but every time I glance in the guy's direction, I see him staring.
I fall into the party spirit. Gin and tonic and conversation. A silly game of truth or dare, mostly filled with jokes about Dare needing to dare a woman to touch him, questions about past crushes, and dives into the pool.
Grilled chicken and corn on the cob and salt and pepper potato chips.
A walk to the beach and sunset and kissing on the sand.
Everything is perfect and easy until we get back to the apartment complex, and I grab my phone to check my texts from Julie.
But it's not my phone.
It's Patrick's.
And it's there, right on the lock screen:New Comment on Hearts and Thorns.
ChapterForty-Five
IMOGEN
For a minute, I stare at the cell, dumbstruck.
Maybe this is a mistake.
Maybe it's my phone.
Maybe I changed my notifications setting by accident.
