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He wasn’t quite ready to let her go just yet.
He dropped his hand to her waist, and he pulled her closer. He gentled the kiss so it was less of an intense battle. Ben wanted to enjoy this moment the way it deserved to be enjoyed.
This was the very first time he had ever kissed her, after all.
Well,seriouslykissed the woman he wanted anyway. Those little friendly pecks before had just been the warm up.
He wanted to remember every instant, every second of right now, forever.
It felt too perfect not to.
So Ben just enjoyed.
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Never in twenty-five years—well,never in the ten years since her very first kiss with Logen Hoffman her sophomore year—had sheeverfelt this way during a simple kiss.
There was nothing simple about it, though.
His scent surrounded her, as did the heat of his body. His arms felt hard and strong and like they would never drop the woman he held. Of course, he wouldn’t. He wasBen.
Tylers didn’t drop the women in their arms. They just didn’t.
She’d just never expected to be in a Tyler man’s arms, though.
Kissing Ben felt different from every man she’d ever kissed before.
Dusty’s brains were too scrambled to figure out what that meant.
It had been a long time since someone had held her this close, too. She had missed it. The feeling of strong arms blocking out the world.
Not that her ex’s arms had ever done that. No. She had been the practical one, the one who handled all the bad in life so he didn’t have to.
Ben could handle his ownbad.
That stray thought reverberated through her head. With him, she wouldn’t always have to be the strong one. The backbone. The one who kept everyone calm and going forward. No.
Ben had seen things himself. Far more than she had. Ben wasstrong.Confident in who he was and what he needed, wanted.
Dusty ran her fingers over that rock hard chest now, feeling the definition beneath her touch. TheEat at Flo’s Masterson Dinershirt felt so…soft. Softer than she thought her own versions were.
The cotton was so soft, but a wild part of her wanted him to take it off. So she could feelhim.
All of him, forever.
Forever.
Forever was the one word that terrified Dusty down to her very soul.
That was what had her pulling back as fast as she could. She jerked to her feet and just stared at him. Like a wide-eyed lunatic.
He stared back. “Say something.”
He was the writer, wasn’t he supposed to be the one with all thewords? “I…no. This is insane. Completely insane.”
She did the only thing a smart woman wanting to seriously preserve her status quo could possibly do.
Dusty ran for the hills.
