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Can I ask you a question?”
I ventured, the wind blowing my hair all around my face.
“If I say no, will you ask
it anyway?”
I thought for a moment as
I gathered it over one shoulder. “No. I won’t. Because it’s personal.”
He exhaled. “Go ahead and
ask. There’s not much I don’t tell you.”
“You might not want to
tell me this.”
“For fuck’s sake, Sawyer.
Just ask already.”
“Okay.” I bit my lip for a
second. “Why haven’t you ever tried to kiss me?”
He didn’t answer. He
didn’t even look at me.
When a five full
seconds had passed—which felt like five years—I got nervous. “Never mind. I
shouldn’t have asked. It’s a stupid question, and the answer is none of my
business. Obviously, you’ve just never felt that impulse or you’d have done it.
And that’s fine, it’s totally fine. I don’t know what’s going on with me. I
think I’m just feeling bad about myself, and I—”
He moved so fast, I didn’t
even see it coming. One second I was sitting there gripping my hair over one
shoulder, burning with humiliation and wishing a hole would open up in the sand
and swallow me, and the next I felt his lips on mine, his hands on either side
of my face.
My pulse went haywire as
the shock and thrill of his kiss moved through me like lightning. His mouth was
warm and firm, and covered mine completely. His lips moved with slow, strong
confidence, and his tongue sought mine with hungry strokes. I couldn’t breathe,
couldn’t think, couldn’t even kiss him back. My hands remained wrapped around
my hair as heat pooled at my center and my mind spiraled with happy, dizzy,
unimaginable excitement. A small sound issued from the back of my throat—a gasp
for air, a plea for more, a cry of blossoming desire.
Suddenly Noah let go of
me, breaking the kiss, and I fell back on my elbows in the sand. I hadn’t even
realized he’d been holding me up. I blinked at him as the wind whipped my hair
around my face again.
“Fuck,” he said.
“I’m sorry.”
I shook my head. “No,
don’t be—”
“I don’t know what I was
thinking.” He jumped to his feet and moved a few feet toward the water,
readjusting his cap. Renzo came running over with the stick again, but Noah
didn’t throw it.
For a few seconds, I just
lay there on my elbows, staring at Noah’s broad back and trying to figure out
what the fuck had just happened. Last I could remember, I’d said something
stupid and embarrassing, and he’d gone silent. Then all of a sudden, his lips
were—
I closed my eyes as my
core muscles clenched. God, he was a good kisser. Even better than in my
fantasy. And I loved the way his hands had grabbed me that way. Possessively.
Hungrily.
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