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Tenley blinked and then leaned forward, crashing her lips against mine. She threaded her fingers through the top of my hair, grabbing a fistful as I shoved my tongue down her throat. There was no stopping, no backing away as she bucked her hips into mine and she moaned. How was this real? How was I here, with her? My entire body shuddered as she panted, sweaty and hot on top of me.
In one fell swoop, I snatched her wrists in one hand of mine and rolled her over. She gasped, her eyes shooting open as I pinned her arms to her sides and slowly trailed kisses from her mouth down to her exposed belly.
I bit down lightly and she arched her back. Flicking my tongue out, I slid it back up the path I’d taken to get down to her stomach. Returning to her mouth, I paused, hovering above her lips.
Her eyes blinked, the yearning burning in her gaze.
And I felt it. The words dancing at the tip of my tongue. Something I wanted her to know, to tell her.
Don’t say it. Now was not the time. This was the most horrible time to say it. What girl wanted to hear it for the first time when she’s pinned to the bed, half naked?
But I couldn’t stop myself. “I love you, Tenley Mayn,” I whispered.
My heart stopped as her eyes widened.
It came out of my mouth like a waterfall crashing unhindered over a cliff. What in the world was I thinking? I wasn’t. It was true, I loved her. I was in love with her. But why would I say that now? You buffoon. Out of all the times to not be thinking below the belt I—
“I love you too, Weston Duke,” she replied.
—Wait, what?
Snapping out of my thoughts, I blinked rapidly. She loved me. She said it back. To me. Tenley was in love with me, and voiced it out loud. It wasn’t something I was just hoping she felt, no, it was real.
I relaxed my hold on her wrists and she slid her hands out from beneath mine. Sitting back on my heels, she pushed herself upright and pulled herself onto her knees.
Delicate fingers brushed across the left side of my face and her lips pressed slow and gentle against mine. Smiling against our kiss, she grabbed my other cheek and dove in deeper. I wrapped my arms around her entire torso and pulled her tightly against me. Overjoyed.
She giggled against the kiss as I began peppering my lips all over her face. And I leaned backwards, pulling her on top of me. Tenley kept her hands on my cheeks and closed her eyes, laughing as I covered every inch of her skin with my joy.
“She loves me back!” I said between kisses. “She loves me back!”
Tenley giggled and slid her hands away from my cheeks. “Of course she does, you dummy.” I took her lips in mine again, and she straddled me, kissing me back with even more fervency.
“Weston…,” she said against my mouth. I smiled, loving how my name sounded as her hands trailed away from my face. She trickled her fingers across my arms as I relaxed the hold a little, gripping her hips instead of her entire back. Tenley squeezed my biceps and then slipped her tongue between my teeth.
I didn’t protest as her hands wandered away from my arms and this time slithered down my sides. A flame began to slowly roar in my stomach as she sat away from my body. That yearning was back in her gaze. Magnet electricity snapped between us, sparking the fuel that had been poured the moment we’d woken up.
Her chest rose and then her fingers found the final button I’d not undone.
I tipped my head as she slipped the red circle through the hole and it popped open. A bolt of lightning crashed through me; my throat coated with a craving. There was no turning back as she bent forward and brushed against my chest. Kissing me, her hands grabbed the waist of my shorts. Shoving, she slid them down my hips as the bedroom door swung open.
“What the—?” she cried out, collapsing entirely against me. I immediately wrapped my arms around her, making sure to hide her away and to keep myself covered. Flailing around the bed, I found the edge of some sheets and tore them up, throwing them over us.
After how many times we’d been interrupted, why had I not learned to lock a door yet? Oh wait, because this was Tenley’s bedroom! A full-grown adult’s bedroom. Nobody should be barging in!
“Good morning, you two!” Irene exclaimed giddily, and I groaned, burying my face in Tenley’s neck.
“Hi, Grammy,” Tenley gritted her teeth.
“The party is going to start soon, and we were sent to fetch you two,” she said and chuckled.
“Alright, thank you,” I grumbled in Tenley’s hair.
And then furrowed my brows. There wasn’t an ounce of malice or embarrassment in her grandma’s voice. Which was a little surprising considering the state that she found us in.
Silence.
I glanced up from Tenley’s neck to find both her grandma and grandpa still standing in the doorway. They were both wearing matching grins and matching Christmas sweaters with some shorts over candy cane striped leggings. Even her grandpa.
