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Then he kissesme.
He tastes like desperation and pent-upneed.
I want all of it, all of him. His fierceness sets me on fire and I kiss him back, our lips and tongues clashing like we’re atwar.
Ben drags me across the car and into hislap.
His hands are on my legs, my ass. He reaches for my shirt, and we strip it off. I want his hands on me, and when he spans my ribs, I moan into his mouth and grind againsthim.
I work on the zipper of hispants.
I need more. I needeverything.
His eyes are dilated orbs, reflecting back every bit of desire I’mfeeling.
“You sure?” he asksroughly.
Inod.
I woke with the sheets tangled around my legs and the digital clock reading an hour before my alarm was set to go off. After showering off the sweat, I headed towork.
Now, hours later, I let myself in the front door of my apartment, making a beeline for my desk to grab the files sitting ontop.
The sound of laughter down the hall has me frowning, because my sister has classnow.
I tuck the files under my arm and pad toward Lil’s nearly closed door. I nudge the dooropen.
What I find has my stomachlurching.
My little sister is in bed with aguy.
“Oh, crap,” she mutters when she sees me, her eyes goinground.
The guy looks over his shoulder at me, tossing his hair out of his face. When he takes in the expression I’m wearing, he shifts off my sister. “I’mout.”
“Wait,” Lily calls as he stumbles out of bed, pulling his jeans over the boxer shorts he hason.
I step back to allow him—maybe speed him—on his way to the door past me before I round on mysister.
"I barely know him,” she says, as if that makes itbetter.
Thoughts and feelings collide in my stomach—surprise,frustration.
“I get that you missed a deadline to keep your scholarship because you were focused on classes. But don’t you have class now? Please tell me you’re not skipping for someguy.”
She shifts out of bed, dragging a sweater over her bra. "Not everyone goes through life like youdo.”
"What does thatmean?"
She straightens, yanking her hair up in a ponytail. "Like you’re so focused on fixing everyone else, you ignore what’s going on foryou.”
My chest tightens. "I just want you to achieve the things you want, that’s all. School isn’t the only way to be successful, but it can help. Especially with grades likeyours.”
Lily makes a face. “My prof never notices me in that class anyway, even though it’s thirty people I don’t think he knows my name. If by some miracle he asked me where I was today, I’d tell him I wassick.”
“You’dlie.”
She shrugs. “He acts like he doesn’t want to be teaching that class, so why not? Don’t tell me you’ve never lied to someone you’ll never seeagain.”
