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My eyes narrow. “You’re exasperating. I’m not kissing you.”

“Guess you have company for the night then.”

“I can kick you out, you know.”

“But you won’t.”

“Pray tell, oh wise one.”

“Because you want to kiss me.”

“You’re a pain in my ass.”

I see him grin, biting his bottom lip, like he’s trying to hold in something deviant. I give him props for not saying it.

“Come kiss me.”

“No.”

“Come on, Sage. How can I make this shit right if you don’t fire the starting pistol?”

Why is he acting so… un-Maverick like?

I sigh, stalking forward. I grab him around the neck, his lips meet me halfway and the kiss explodes the room around us.

It’s hot enough that when we groan, it’s pain and need all tangled together.

Oh, God. His taste is like no other. Addiction rattles my skull when we part and he breathes on my lips.

“Fuck, I missed you,” he says and licks my lip. “I’m sorry,” he goes on. “For all the dumb shit I did. I will keep saying I’m sorry until I earn your forgiveness and trust.”

Dad always says we own our mistakes. If Finn is a mistake, then I have to recognize that going into this with someone who hasn’t been with a male before me, isn’t going to be easy.

Being Finn Maverick’s boyfriend won’t be easy.

I hope to god it won’t break me.

C H A P T E R 27

Finn

Relief brings a smile to my face before walking back to my car.

He’s given me a shot to make things right, and I’m more than okay with that.

There’s no one else to blame for hurting him.

It’s all on me.

I’ve been a dirtbag to him from day one and he took it because he’s the saint in this relationship—non relationship. And I’m the sinner.

Sage is cautious. Letting indifference control his emotions but I saw the spark in him and I will make it mine again.

He’ll be mine again.

I won’t give up.

I’ll face anything head on if it means I have Sage.

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