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“What was he on about?” asked Carter, shutting the door after he’d slid in.

I shook my head. “Nothing, he’s just passed out.”

“Goddamn drunk, eh?”

I nodded slowly.

A goddamn drunk that said…justwhatexactly?

I climbed into the passenger seat beside Carter and told myself he was just being a stupid drunk, muttering shit that made little sense. Russell had done it for years.

Carter held my hand the entire way back, glancing at me almost every minute with a smirk playing at his lips.

“Are you drunk too?” he asked me, chuckling.

“No way,” I answered.

“Huh.”

He was probably freaked out because I’d situated my body facing him. I stared at him the entire way back, making out that gorgeous profile, wanting nothing more than to place my lips on his and check out from this world.

“When we die, we should have our mouths put together,” I told him without thinking.

His brows went up and he stared at me in surprise. “Should we, now?”

“Yeah,” I deadpanned.

“Why?”

I shrugged. “I feel like I’m home kissing you.”

Okay, so maybe I wasslightlytipsy and a little bit deranged. Or maybe just extremely happy. Or, hell, maybe it was the same thing. I didn’t know. I was just mesmerized by this man.

His smile vanished and he looked at me with pensive eyes and parted lips. I like to think he knew what I meant.

Or maybe it was all in my head.

Carter

Don’t do it.

Fourteen

The make out started the second he came back from delivering Rome to his bedroom. One minute I was taking off my boots and the next he had pinned me against the wall, kissing the shit out of me. It felt like an entire day’s worth of pent-up frustration finally being unleashed.

He’d given me looks the whole ride home. Loaded stares filled with heat. By the time we got to the house, the air felt hot, our desire impossible to ignore.

Him mauling me was expected, but my body still burned, my skin was slick, and my core drenched and tingling.

We undressed ourselves frantically on our way to my bedroom.

My cardigan and top went off.

His shirt went off.

His jeans came undone.

Mine came undone.

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