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“Were you close growing up?” she asks, tracing my ribs. “I’d have done anything to have more siblings. I have Mase and, by default, Elliot.” I can hear the smile in her voice. “But a sister would’ve been super helpful in my teens.”
“We were close before. Everything changed when Dad died.”
She stops her hand on my side and shifts her gaze up to my face. “The same thing happened when Dad got sick. I felt like I had Mason for a time, and then he grew up, and everything kinda went to shit. I rarely see him now.”
“Mase has had… a weird couple of years. He’s—”
“Lance,” she says, cutting me off. “I appreciate it, and I get what you’re trying to do, but I don’t want excuses from anyone but him, and even then, I don’t believe he has anything to explain. I have no idea what he’s feeling or what he’s been through, and my mental well-being isn’t his responsibility.”
“I’m sorry.”
“What for?” she asks, and I can tell she’s frowning.
I have no idea. “I don’t know exactly. Everything.”
“I can assure you, Mr Sullivan, you have absolutely nothing to apologise for.” She bites my nipple, and I pull back.
“That hurt,” I say, deadpan, rolling us so I’m hovering over her. Her hand lies between our bodies, rubbing over my pec as her thumb soothes my nipple.
“You don’t like it?”
My brows lift. “Do you?”
She shrugs and bows her back. “I’m not sure. Check for me.”
A wicked smile dances across her lips, and I lean down, sliding my hand around her waist to hold her back at an angle. Her pinkish nipples are peeking through the cotton T-shirt, driving me crazy. I dip my head and bite on the pointed end, and she hisses.
“Well?” I ask, nose nuzzling her breasts as she snakes her body under my hold. She’s fucking perfect.
“Is that all I get?” she asks, and my cock twitches.
I lift my gaze to look at her and swallow when I see the need in her eyes.
A split second and somehow, everything I’ve fucked up in my life unravels. My dad, the business, my relationship with my mum and the girls—Chloe, Molly and Nessa Anne, the bike. I’ve never held anything in my hands that has felt as important as Scarlet Lowell does, and the fact she’s Mason’s sister is enough for me to stop. After everything he’s done for me, everything that’s happened. He’s about all the family I’ve got left.
My thumb brushes her ribs beneath her shirt as I say, “For now.”
“For now?” And the disappointment on her face jabs me right in the gut.
I snigger, fucking lost in uncharted territory. “How about a date?”
She sits up, forcing me back and putting us nose to nose. “A date?” She grins, but a slight frown mars her brow.
I shrug, resisting the urge to kiss her. “If you want to.”
“When?”
I kiss her. “Whenever.”
We stare at one another, and I can see her mind running a million miles an hour. I look away as my stomach twists into knots. “You don’t have to.”
“It’s not that I don’t want to.”
She doesn’t want to.
Fuck.
“I want to.” She pushes me back until I’m on my ass, and she’s straddling my lap. The way she takes control, unlike I’d let anyone, is fucking crazy. I grasp her waist, keeping her there. “Let me see, okay? I just don’t know if I can right now, with everything Dad’s going through.”
