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I slowly continued to suck him in and out, swallowing every last drop of come, until his body began to relax underneath me, then I gently kissed my way up his chest. When I got to his jaw, he took my face in his hands and kissed me deep. I was surprised he would after what I’d just done, but he didn’t seem to care.

Breaking the kiss, he closed his eyes and pressed our foreheads together, breathing hard.

I stayed there for a while, silently waiting for him to return from wherever he’d disappeared to. When his hold on me loosened, I pulled up the blanket and shifted so I was snuggled into his side. Jace rolled so he was facing me, zipping up his jeans before wrapping both his arms around me.

“You didn’t have to do that, but I’m fucking glad you did.”

I grinned. Yep, it was definitely time to make my status in his life known.

Chapter 26

Jace

I arrived at school to find the paparazzi camped out at the gate, and about a dozen more girls than usual waiting to jump all over me. Admittedly, the paparazzi camp out only consisted of two dudes with cameras, but it was still the fucking paparazzi.

I knew their presence meant that we were finally going places, and I had to admit I found that slightly cool, but the girls were just annoying. They didn’t give a shit about me – or my music for that matter. They were just after some lame social status, and that did nothing for me.

It was easy to see how guys in the same situation could get caught up in the whole pussy conquest thing though. I had no doubt I could get any of the chicks standing there to drop her panties for me with just one word, but I wasn’t some fucking geek band boy who’d been hard up for a fuck over the last few years and now found himself in a position equivalent to a kid in a fucking candy shop.

The truth was, I’d had more than my fair share of girls over the last four years, and having a hundred more willing to spread their legs for me didn’t put stars in my eyes. To be honest, since that very first night with Mia in Aspen, I knew I didn’t want that anymore. The way Mia made me feel was like a fucking drug, and it surpassed anything and everything any other girl could ever do to me.

“Hi, Jace.”

I looked up to see a chick with short blonde hair batting her eyelashes at me. Seriously? Did these chicks really think that shit worked? She ran her hand up my arm, her fingers groping under the sleeve of my shirt and curling around my bicep. I looked down at her hand then back up to her face pointedly. She didn’t take the hint. Fuck. Who was she anyway? I didn’t even remember seeing her at school before. She was probably a fucking freshman or something.

I shrugged her hand off and stepped to the side, only to encounter another blonde girl ready to take her place. Holy fucking shit.

“Hey, Jace. I love the new song you guys have on YouTube. You must be pretty stoked to be going on tour with The Dark Hybrid.”

I vaguely recognized the chick from my English class. Rebecca, or Renee, or something like that. When her hands started making their way up my chest, I sidestepped her too. “Thanks. Yeah, The Hybrid are awesome.”

Glancing around, I saw Aiden’s car pull into the lot and start to drive towards me. My gaze automatically went to the passenger seat where Mia sat, and I felt a surge of some weird assed energy go through me. The urge to just grab her and stake my claim seemed to be getting stronger, and having all these girls hanging off me only made it worse.

I met Mia’s gaze through the windscreen and saw a slight weariness there as she took in the girls around me. It worried me that I didn’t know if it came from the fact that I was surrounded by girls, or if it was because of the crowd itself. I didn’t like not kn

owing that about my own girlfriend.

To be honest, it was not knowing the reason for her phobia of crowds that worried me most. I’d convinced her to try this with me without really knowing if what I was doing was right. I mean, the number of people that flocked to us was obviously growing every day. Was I only setting her up for something she couldn’t handle?

I sighed as I watched Aiden park. The only way I was going to be able to answer that was if I knew where her phobia came from, and Mia was the only one who could answer that. I needed to get her to open up to me about it.

“Hey, man,” Matt said as he came up behind me.

I turned to see both him and Dean standing there, thankfully taking a lot of the groupie pressure off me. A bunch surged towards Aiden too as he stepped out, and I moved a little further away, positioning myself so I was closer to where Mia was climbing from the car.

I wasn’t planning on saying anything. I just wanted to be closer to her, but when she met my gaze and gave me a shy but purposeful smile, I couldn’t help myself. “Good morning.”

I watched her take a deep breath and nervously look behind me. “Hi.”

Aiden moved around the car towards us, bringing all his attachments with him and making Mia tense. I wanted to growl at him to back the fuck up. “Okay?” I asked quietly.

“I…” her gazed darted between all the girls, Aiden, and me.

“I’ll see you at lunch hey, Mi?” Aiden said over my shoulder.

She met Aiden’s gaze and nodded softly. “Yeah, sure.”

Kaeli appeared from nowhere then, giving me a sympathetic smile before taking Mia’s arm and leading her away.

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