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“What?”
“Knowing someone else touched what you wanted to be yours.”
I nearly tripped on the top step, throwing out my free hand to catch myself and straighten. Spinning around, I stared down at Wes who was one step lower, whose eyes were lit with what looked like anger. “You couldn’t even let me kiss someone else. Imagine what it’s been like for me. Watching you disappear with all your hookups.”
My fingers sank into the curls at the back of his head, fingertips kneading his scalp. “Is that what you want? You want to kiss someone else… hook up with someone else so we’ll be even?”
Maybe that’s what I deserved. But I didn’t think I could allow it. I was too selfish. Too possessive. Too much of an asshole.
My stare dropped to the moon pressed into his chest. It didn’t glow even in the dark stairwell, the charge already faded away. “Is that why you wore this? To hurt me the way I hurt you?”
“No.” His voice was gravelly and low. “I wore it because I couldn’t go there without you.”
I made a rough sound.God, the fucking power he has over me.
His face filled with vulnerable honesty, and he said, “I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t even kiss him. Even when I hate you…” His words trailed into a whisper. “I love you more.”
I grabbed him so fast we tumbled backward over the top stair with him landing over me, my body cushioning his fall. Our calves stuck straight out over the stairs, but we didn’t notice because we were nose to nose, stare to stare, and I could feel the rapid insistent beating of his heart against mine.
He started to push up, but I pulled him back down, anchoring my arms around his body, holding him to me, clinging as if he might suddenly disappear.
“Let me hold you a minute,” I pleaded.
His body melted. Then he was pushing his face into my neck, hair snagging on the scruff on my jaw, somehow making himself smaller as he curled into my torso.
My entire chest squeezed so tight that pain shot through my core, echoing into my bones. The surge of protectiveness that rose rivaled everything I’d ever done to keep him safe, to keep the three of us together.
If I’d been relentless before, I would be unstoppable now. With one whispered I-love-you and three kisses, he tore down the walls I’d spent almost our entire lives building. I didn’t know how I lasted so long, but that was over. I would never be able to go back to the way it was before.
Please forgive me, Mom and Dad.
A light snuffle and the dispel of his breath against my neck tingled my skin and set my nerve endings ablaze. Dragging my fingertips down his spine, I reveled in the way his skin rippled and the satisfied purr he let loose.
But then I recalled how that asshat did the same thing, how he’d been groping up his back while trying to get a piece of his neck.
Wes must have felt the change in me because his head lifted. “Max?”
My eyes strayed to that partial lip print on his cheek. “Shower.” I reminded him.
He rolled off me, turning in the direction of the bathroom he shared with his brother. I caught him around the waist, lifting him off his feet to turn him in the direction of my bedroom, which had an en suite.
His eyebrows rose. “You want me to use your shower?”
“Did you not hear what I said downstairs?Iam washing him off you.”
Wes’s eyes turned into saucers. “What?”
Leaning in, I let my words and breath float against his ear. “When I’m done with you, there won’t be a trace of him left on your skin.”
The sound of him swallowing made my dick jump.
“Go on,” I said, gruff, patting his ass. “Get in there and strip.”
21
Wes
Was I tripping?Did Theo somehow secretly drop me a drug capable of skewing reality?
