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“Fuck that. Your body is mine.”
I stifle back my grin by bending down and kissing him lightly. “I wouldn’t have done it.” I sit up. “I only just joined that app the week before. I was lonely being so far from everyone. I was trying to make friends. Nothing more. Whoever he was, I would have blocked him, too. I didn’t want that.”
“But you didn’t block me,” he points out.
I shrug. “You weren’t an asshole. You didn’t ask to see my boobs.”
“I did though.”
I chuckle. “Not right away. By the time we got to the intimate stuff, it was months of talking to this guy who understood everything I said. He listened and talked to me like he’d knownme forever.” I cradle the side of his face. “I felt safe with him. I still missed you, but I wasn’t obsessing over the fact that I betrayed your trust.”
Rhys swipes his thumb across my lips, and I instinctively kiss it. His eyes darken as his hold on me tightens.
“I wish you’d talked to me, Addie. You just took off.”
The warm feeling vanishes.
“I was so ashamed of my behavior. I hated myself for ruining what we had. I thought it would be easier.”
He sits up and I slide down between his legs on the cushion. We’re chest to chest, legs entwined, my head in his hands.
“You thought it was easier to live without you?”
“Yes!” I blurt. “What’s the point when we can’t be together once we leave the cabin?”
“What are you talking about?”
Why was he making this so hard?
“We can never tell anyone about us. They will never understand, and it will destroy our whole family. It will jeopardize your grandpa’s construction company. Oz’s law firm. Mom’s craft business. Not to mention the chaos it will cause our parents. The looks Grams will get at church, and our cousins at school. It’s not just our lives on the line, Rhys. We can’t be selfish.”
He’s quiet for a long stretch of time. I’m thinking he’s taking my word to heart, and he will agree.
“The fuck I can’t,” he says flatly. “I don’t give a shit what anyone says. We’re not breaking any laws. Anyone who has a problem can say it to my face because I’m not losing you. I’m not letting you go. I’ll give you time to figure out how to tell everyone, but they’re going to find out.”
I stare at him. “How? How would they know if we don’t say anything?”
Rhys leans in and nips on my bottom lip with his teeth. “Because nothing is stopping me from grabbing your ass and pulling you in to kiss. Also, as soon as you say yes, I’m putting my baby inside you and telling every last fucker who asks that it’s mine.”
My pussy seizes with the same ferocity as my heart leaping in my chest.
“That’s cheating,” I whisper hoarsely when he pulls back.
His sharp gaze bores into mine, unapologetic. “I’ll play as dirty as I have to. I’m not letting you go.”
I’m being foolish. I’m being short sighted and unrealistic, but why can’t I be? Just for a little longer at least. It’s already too late to pretend we haven’t been fucking relentlessly for almost forty-eight hours. It’s too late to pretend he doesn’t make my whole world bright.
“You are crazy.”
He captures my mouth. Kisses me deep and hungry until my head is rushing, and my pulse quickens.
He draws back to peer into my eyes. “You make me fucking crazy, Addie. You make me feel deranged. You make me want to do things no sane person ever would.”
My heart is pounding in my chest, but I cup his face and smile. “Like chase a half-naked girl through the woods just to fuck her?”
His dark, brown eyes are sharp, brutally focused when he twists my hair in his hand. His chest rises and falls, and I’m suddenly unsure I want to know.
“Like climb up her fire escape at night to watch her fuck a dildo while moaning my name.”
