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“Right. That means I'm clear with Brian.”
He tilted his head at the words, already looking over her shoulder. Distracted.
“Yes.”
“He asked me out on a date. A proper date, just the two of us. He said that just because Silver’s gone doesn’t mean we can’t reconnect.”
“Right.”
“He can take me home after the date and I can let him kiss me. I can kiss him back.”
The pause was longer. His next word was bitten out.
“Right.”
Curiosity sparked when he still wouldn’t look at her, but his body had turned severely rigid. She traced it with her gaze, a desire to catch his attention spurring her next words. In the hushed night, she grew reckless. Maybe even spiteful.
“Or we don't even have to reach home. Not when it's been a long time for us. I can just go back inside that bar and ask him to take me home now. We can do unspeakable things to each other.”
Blue-black eyes flicked back, boring into hers. Her breathing spiked.
“What unspeakable things?”
“He can start with a kiss. It should always start with a kiss. Something slow, so we can explore each other thoroughly. Test if there are sparks.”
Something flared in his gaze, unreadable but catching her by the throat. Was it her imagination or did he move closer?
“Hmm.”
“But it won’t end with a kiss.”
“It won’t?”
“He can put his hands on me…undress me. It’s not that hard with what I’m wearing…with what I’m not wearing underneath.”
This time, she glimpsed the heat and wondered if it was the case of a man simply reacting to the sexy image a woman provided. Pearl thought men were easy to manipulate and seduce, but Maddox wasn’t most men, and she wasn’t Pearl.
“What else? What else should he do to you?”
His low voice turned the intimacy up a notch until her brain melted, and the words spilled out without thought.
“He should kiss every inch of me. Find the places that will make me moan…that will please me. He should touch me there. Let me feel what I missed and how different it will be from me touching myself.”
The next pause was almost dangerous.
“You touch yourself?”
He was so close now, achingly so. She breathed his heat in and felt like the cold was a thousand miles away, unable to touch them.
“All the time. When I’m alone in bed…when I have those hot, uncomfortable dreams I can’t stop thinking about. But maybe it’s time for a change of pace. Maybe it’s time to let someone’s fingers pleasure me instead. Maybe Brian’s the man for the job.”
“I—”
“Maybe he can make me scream. Maybe he can fuck me hard all night long and make me forget about you.”
The last words were a slip-up, but it changed something in him as his breathing grew just a pitch labored and she saw it: that glint of longing in his eyes, as if he was imagining it. As if he couldn’t stop replaying it in his head. Her hands fisted, battling the need to touch and hope against hope. She inhaled hard, unable to stop the shakiness in her words.
“Unless you want it, too.”
