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Now I knew how he’d known about my mom earlier.
“I promise to address our relationship with the administration. I’d really, really like to get to know you better though. If you’d like that?”
“Yes, I would like that.” I wouldn’t let fear dictate my future.
He placed a palm on my leg. His hands were huge and clearly so strong, but his touch gentle.
My heart was beating fast now.
He turned towards me a bit further, so we were fully facing each other, even as close as we were. His gaze dipped down to my lips and he let out a strangled sound. A small growl.
That’s right, he had an animal in there.
My words came out breathy. “Do you mind… that is, would you mind me asking what kind of shifter you are?”
He pulled back a bit, but left his palm on my leg. “I don’t mind at all. You’re always free to ask me whatever you’d like.” He paused and took a deep breath.
The silence caused a shiver to skate along my spine.
“A bear. I’m a bear shifter.”
“Oh.” I relaxed and closed the distance he’d created between us.
“Not like a cuddly bear shifter.” His expression was as serious as I’d ever seen it.
“I’m not scared.”
He seemed relieved, but still pensive. I just wanted to get closer to him, now that I was embracing how we clearly felt about each other.
I’d never kissed a guy in my life. I’d always been curious, but had never found anyone special enough, anyone I could trust. All the boys at my previous high schools had considered a kiss permission to insist on more. And they just moved right onto the next girl. I didn’t want that. I wanted something serious, even back then. But Aaron wasn’t a high school boy.
And even though he was older—or maybebecausehe was older and because he had some animal instincts too, like to care and protect—my own instincts told me he felt the same way I did and saw things the way I did too.
I moved my head closer to his. Our lips were virtually touching.
Suddenly, every glance he’d made the past few days, every word he’d spoken, made so much more sense. And they made me like him even more.
Adrenaline made my voice shaky, and I was whispering, just in case the words somehow made it through the apartment’s thin walls, to my mom. “You really care about me?”
He nodded, his gravelly voice going low, softer. “I really do.”
I gave in. Our lips pressed together, and he placed a hand behind my head and the other on my shoulder, anchoring me to him.
I felt myself melting in his powerful yet tender embrace. His beard brushed my cheek and his soft mouth rubbed against mine. Our tongues explored gently, with a tentativeness on each of our parts.
It was truly a heavenly first kiss.
He slowly drew his head away. “Wow.” His voice was full of awe. “That was amazing.”
“It was.” I squeezed his hard bicep.
“So amazing, made me a bit hot.” He gave a self-conscious chuckle as he wiped a light sheen of sweat off his forehead.
I leaned forward, wanting a bit more, as he whispered, “We shouldn’t keep going. Your mom’s in the next room. I wouldn’t want to disrespect her.”
He was right. “Maybe just one more kiss, a quick one?”
Holding me tight, he gave me heaven again. It was more heated this time, his tongue exploring, his body temperature rising even more. I felt his heat seep into me. Then he withdrew, leaving me gasping, tingles running down from my scalp, across my whole body.
