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I didn’t think it was possible to dissolve into Grant like he’s this bottomless well of heat and I’m sinking deeper, even as his tongue steals inside me and stirs me up in ways that make me forget how to breathe.
I’m hyperaware of my own body and nothing else. I feel how my toes curl like they never have, kissing anyone else.
I sense every steaming inch ofhisbody.
How close he is, the way his chest heaves with every rasping breath, his scent, the rock-hard body as I release his beard and stroke his arms, his chest.
Every savage inch of him underneath that thin grey t-shirt. I—
“Uh-ohhhh!” a little voice croons from behind us. “Uncle Grant’s gonna be in so muchtrou-ou-ou-ouble.”
Oh, no.
Oh, shit.
We both snap back so sharply I hurt my neck.
We stare at each other for two stunned seconds—what were we just doing?—before he stands abruptly.
And I do too, turning to face little Nell, who suddenly has the power of judge, jury, and executioner.
I. Um. I have no earthly idea how to explain what she just saw us doing.
Grant glowers at her with a thunderous scowl.
“You didn’t see that, kiddo.”
“But...” Nell blinks up at him with a stunned innocence that can only be part devil. “What about the lady, Uncle Grant? The one you were kissing? It’s her, isn’t it?”
A strangled sound tears from Grant’s throat.
“Forget the lady. Do not talk about the lady. You’ve already embarrassed me a thousand times over about the lady.”
The lady? I can’t help a little smile, even if I want to curl up and die from embarrassment right now.
“What about the lady?” I ask, clearing my throat.
“Are you her? The special lady Uncle Grant talks about,” Nell says solemnly. “The lady’s why he’s never had a girlfriend. He said he wanted to be with a real special lady but she went away, so now he’s all by himself.” She turns her wide, mischievous eyes on Grant. “Isn’t she gonna be mad that you’re kissing Miss Philia?”
“Nell, enough,” Grant clips.
Oh.
Oh my God.
I guess that answers the big unknown about his dating life.
Of course there’s a 'special lady.'
Someone else he’s in love with.
I really do need a nice, deep hole to crawl into right about now. I wonder how the weather is at the center of the Earth?
I’m sonotthe lady and my head is about to spin right off.
I guess kissing me back was just a thoughtless thing, a physical reaction, an impulse.
God, I really did come back here just to get my heart shattered a second time, didn’t I?
