Page 72 of Best Friends, Tennessee

“I like you like this,” he said near my ear.

“I want you so fucking badly.” I could hear the desperation in my own voice, ragged and almost like I was begging him for… something.

Everything was on the line.

Every inch of me wanted him, but what, exactly, was I wanting from him?

To feel closer.

For once, I’d managed to get Ori to be here with me, when usually I always felt like he was slipping away.

I would do anything with him right now.

I would let him do anything tome.

“Tell me,” Ori said, looking me in the eyes. His gaze was suddenly directly focused, doing that thing where I felt like he could see everything I was thinking.

And for fuck’s sake, he brought new meaning to the idea ofbedroom eyes, because I swore he could get me on my knees just from that look alone.

“What do you mean?”

His palm found its way to the front of my chest, slowly dragging down until it landed at the base of my stomach.

All at once he shoved his open palm down the front of my shorts, landing on my cock and giving it a firm squeeze.

I moaned under his touch, leaning forward against him.

“Tell me what you want me to do,” he said. His eyes were still unrelenting, glinting under the string lights behind us in the yard.

I groaned as he slid his thumb over the precum on the tip of my cock, swirling it around under my shorts.

I swallowed past a tightness in my throat. “I want you.”

“How so?”

“All of it.”

“Use your words,” he said, his voice low and commanding in a way that turned me on so much it hurt.

“Fuck.”

He closed the gap between us again, claiming my mouth in a hungry kiss. He gripped around my cock, putting me deeper into the trance I’d been in all night.

You really are my whole world,I thought, melting against him in a final surrender after so many fucking years of resistance.

“You can say what you need,” he murmured, pulling away for a moment only to lean back in and bite my lower lip.

“God,” I said. “I need to be close to you. I’d let you do anything.”

“Do you mean that?”

A spark flared through me. “I want you to fuck me.”

Something flared in his eyes.

“You sure about that?”

“Want tofuckingbet, Ori?”

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