Page 8 of Got to be You

The night progresses in much the same way. Lilly and I laugh and have fun, we tease one another and flirt, and time passes much too fast for my liking. By the time last orders are called, I just know I can’t get enough of her and I want so much more.

“You want me to walk you home?” I ask eagerly, knowing that this time, I’ll be getting her phone number. “You’re still rooming with Anna, am I right?” She nods. “Awesome. I know where that is.”

“You do?” She tugs me back teasingly and glares my way. “And why, exactly, is that?”

I roll my eyes. “Oh, because I walked you home last time. Did you forget about that?”

Lilly laces her fingers through mine, and we get into the nearest cab to get back to the college campus where our rooms lay. My fingers lay on her knee all the way during the drive, but it feelslike I might as well be tearing her clothes off because of the heady lust surrounding us. It’s intense, and every time I spin around to capture Lilly’s eyes, I can see it in her face as well. That’s why I can’t stare at her for too long because I know I can’t control myself. I’ll be kissing her in a heartbeat otherwise.

Thankfully, it doesn’t seem to take us long to get back to the campus because the passion and chemistry get stifling. I don’t know how much longer I can handle it for. So, by the time I fall out of the car after paying the driver, my head is absolutely spinning and the need is all too much for me.

“I need to kiss you,” I rasp as the cab pulls away. “I hope you don’t mind.”

My hand cups her cheek and her eyes flutter deliciously. She lets me know she doesn’t mind, and within seconds, our lips are connected and my heart explodes with lust and delight. Every cell inside me reacts, every fiber of my body screams out for her. Icannotget enough. She’s just too much. It isn’t just being around her that is unique to me, but the kissing as well. I’veneverfelt like this while kissing someone before. It’s never been as intense or overwhelming. It’s never been so tingly and exciting.

“I want to invite you back to my room,” she murmurs, “but Anna is in there sleeping.”

She wants me in her room? Oh, my God, I couldn’t be more excited about that. Not just because of how attracted I am to her, but because of how connected it’ll bring us together as well.

“You know, my roommate isn’t here at the moment. Adam is visiting his parents, so my room is free.”

“It is?” She lights up like a Christmas tree once more. “Then what are we doing standing here? Let’s go.” She takes my hand but stops before she can even start. “Oh, wait, I don’t know where it is.”

We laugh together before we kiss once more, deeply and passionately, and as I lead her toward my room, I keep on kissing her because I honestly can’t get enough of her lips, her mouth, her hair knotted up in my fingers. I want to run my hands all over her body, to touch every inch of her, to get to know Lilly on a brand-new level. I just know it’ll only make me like her more.

God, everything makes me like her more. Even being around Lilly is dangerous in that department, because all I’m going to do is fall in love with her before she leaves to go back to her own college campus and before I head off to be famous, but when she’s in my arms like this, it really feels like if we adore one another enough, anything is possible. Even making this work.

I must be crazy, getting too wrapped up in Lilly, but I can’t help myself.

6

LILLY

“So, this is your room?” I ask cheekily as soon as we’re inside. I inhale discretely, immediately fluttering because it smells just like him. I’m going to get a lot more of that scent tonight. “It’s nice.”

Maybe I should hold back. Perhaps this isn’t the wisest decision that I’ve ever made, because everything that put me off building a connection with him before still stands, but I just know for sure that if I don’t have him right now, I’ll die. The need inside me is overwhelming. I can’t stand it.

“Well, I would give you the grand tour,” he says with a one-shouldered shrug. “But there isn’t much to show. However, this ismybed.” He pats the tidiest bed, thank goodness. “So, please take a seat.”

I fall beside him on the bed and brush my fingers over my passion-bruised lips. A shudder of desire runs down my spine that I really can’t get enough of. His look of need races anticipation through my body, and the next thing I know, I’m the one making the first move. I grab him toward me, hooking myhand around the back of his neck, and I kiss him again, unable to get enough of those lips of his.

“Mmm,” he moans, the sound vibrating in my chest. “God, you taste really good, Lilly.”

My name sounds like a prayer on his lips, the throbbing at my core growing by the second. He tastes incredibly wonderful himself, but I’m too breathless to get the words out myself. Instead, I yank that delicious mouth of his back to mine and continue tasting him and driving myself wild.

Eventually, Jax’s fingers travel down to the hem line of my dress and he edges it up ever so slightly, almost questioningly. He wants permission, and I arch my back to silently give it to him. I want him to strip me down, even if I’m a little nervous about his seeing me naked, and I want him to claim me as his own.

“My God, you’re beautiful,” he murmurs as we pull apart for him to peel the dress off my flushed, needy skin. “I can’t get enough of you, Lilly. I don’t think you understand what you’re doing to me.”

Oh, I do, I really do. He has unleashed a dragon of desire inside me, a primal animal that I’ve never felt before and that I definitely can’t lock away now no matter what. It even makes me brave enough to slide his T-shirt off as well, in between frantic and passionate kisses, and my God, what he has underneath is really something else. I’m completely blown away. He looks muscular and sexy through his clothing, but I didn’t understand quite how rock-hard his body would be underneath. He has muscles all over the place and even a sexy V-shape at the bottom of his stomach leading to his underwear.

You know, the sort of muscles seen on the pages of a magazine, not in real life.

Jax is incredible, unreal. It’s even more unbelievable now that he can’t seem to get enough of me, but this can’t be put on. It’s his true feelings, I just know it. What I don’t know is why I decided to stick to my guns last time. What a stupid decision to try and push chemistry like this to one side when it feels so good. It’s so much more fun to lean into temptation that to try and ignore it. Being sensible doesn’t always work.

Jax slowly rests his hands on my shoulders and lays me back on the bed. His eyes lock in on mine as he rests himself on top of me, connecting more naked flesh with me than I’ve experienced before, and he stays there, allowing me to swim in his delicious gaze as he reaches behind my back to peel my bra away from my body, allowing my nipples to stand to attention for him in the cool night air.

“Wow, you’re something else.” His thumbs lightly rub over my sensitive nubs, causing me to mewl like a fucking cat. I can’t find the words to explain the sensations he has tearing through me, but I’m hoping that the inadvertent moans exploding from my chest are giving him an idea. “You really are.”

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