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She slaps her hand down over my mouth, stopping my words. “Let’s not run before we can walk, huh?”
I shrug, wrapping my arm around her waist and dragging her into my body. “As slow as you want, sweet cheeks. I just need one thing.”
“Oh yeah, what’s—”
I make the most of her parted lips and fuse mine to them, licking into her mouth in deep strokes.
“Dickhead,” she mumbles, but the second I lower my hands and grab her arse, crushing her tighter against me and allowing her to feel my cock growing between us, she caves to my kiss, stroking her tongue against mine and letting me believe for those brief moments that everything is going to be okay with us.
I reluctantly break the kiss long before I’m ready for it to end and rest my forehead against hers, holding her heated stares.
“It’s going to take more than one sweet gesture and a knee-weakening kiss,” she warns.
I nod, fully aware of that situation. “Your knees are weak, huh?”
“Oh shush,” she mutters, playfully slapping me on the shoulder. “Your ego doesn’t need any kind of stroking.”
“Maybe not, but I know something that does.” I roll my hips, letting her feel how much she affects me.
“Reese, I’m not interested in any of this if it’s nothing more than a hookup. I’m done with all the sneaking around. If, and I mean a really big if, we can get past all this, then I want it to be real. I want the world to know.”
“Same, babe. I want exactly the same.” Releasing her arse, I slide my hand up her side, loving the way she shudders at my touch before wrapping my fingers around the side of her neck and cupping her jaw. “I want it all. With you, and I want every motherfucker and their wife to know it.”
“But Abi—”
“Shh,” I breathe, grazing my thumb over her full bottom lip. “Abi and I are going to sort it. Tonight wasn’t the only thing we discussed.”
“But—”
“There’s time for all that. But right now, I want to go outside, light the bonfire, and lay out under the stars with my girl. I want to tell her how much she means to me, and how fucking sorry I am until she has no choice but to start believing me.”
“Reese,” she breathes, uncertainty glittering in her eyes.
“It’s true. I was wrong, Liv. So fucking wrong. I needed a target to focus my blame on, but it never should have been you. Ever. But I want this, I want you, us, so fucking bad it hurts, and not just because I let your brother beat the shit out of me for it.”
27
OLIVIA
The flames lick the sky, the stars winking above us as we lie on the blanket. Reese is feeding me toasted marshmallows, getting the sticky sugar everywhere. Probably so he can clean me up with his hungry, wet kisses.
“You taste so fucking good, Liv,” he rasps, running his tongue over the seam of my lips.
“This is nice.”
“It is. I like being alone with you. Away from everybody else.”
“Away from Saints Cross?” I ask, and he nods.
“Have you talked to your mum yet?”
“No. She keeps hounding me, turned up at The Manor and tried to see me, but I wouldn’t open the door. She and my dad want to sit down and explain everything, but fuck that, I don’t want to hear it.”
I stroke the hair from his face. “You know you’ll have to talk to them eventually.”
“I know, but everything is messed up.”
“I know.” Leaning up, I kiss him, letting my tongue tangle with his. Reese tightens his arm around my waist, dragging my body closer. Desire shoots through me but I hesitate, and it’s enough for him to stop. He touches his head to mine and lets out a heavy sigh.
