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“I don’t burn.” She takes another swallow, this one smaller. “I don’t even know what that means.”
“It means you’re a pain in my ass.” I stare at her. “This isn’t about rebuffing, is it? This is about you being all butt hurt and I don’t know why.”
“That’s your problem. You take for yourself and never bother to understand anyone else and their needs.”
“What needs are you on about? You were trying to get me to rebuff you and you looked good and I…I kissed you.”
She jabs a finger at me. “See? You just took for yourself.”
“No, you idiot. Okay, yes, but that wasn’t the reasoning. I don’t go about thinking oh, I’ll just take this. I did it because I like you. I wanted to kiss you because I’m attracted to you.”
Silence falls and we both look at each other. Her shock is insulting, but not really surprising to me.
“I didn’t mean to say it just like that.” It had been gauche and not me. But this is new for me. I’m all sucker punched and I don’t know why.
And Elliot looks for all the world like she’s like waiting for the floor to swallow her whole.
This might be one of the lowest points in my life. I’m being rejected by Elliot.
“We’re friends, I know that,” I say. “I don’t want to lose that, but I can’t help liking you, too.”
“Don’t lie to me, Ryder.”
“I’m not.”
“You? You like me?”
“Yes.” I move in a little closer. “It might not be what you want, but…”
She laughs. She actually laughs and shakes her head and it dawns on me that she might like me, too. At least on some level.
“But,” I say, “it is what it is.”
“What it is, is you being bored.”
“No.” Now I take hold of her and draw her close, right up against me, and she makes a little hiss of sound that slides down to my cock. “What it is, is me liking you, wanting you. I’ll show you.”
And I kiss her again.
A soft, sweet kiss.
“You think,” she says, “you can just kiss me and I’ll melt?”
“Oh, Elliot, I know that.”
It’s the one thing I know. It’s a skill and fuck it all. I’m going to use it.
This time I kiss her slow and long and I take my time, I bite soft on her lower lips, draw it into my mouth and run my tongue over that sensitive flesh, and then I delve in, a deliberate dance of seduction, and exploration designed to draw her out, to dissolve her.
She’s kissing me back now. And it’s easy, so easy, to slide down into her, to just give over to the passion building.
I lift my head.
“Want me to show you more?”
She’s dazed. And I have her where I want her. I’m back on familiar ground.
So I go in for the kill.
