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Savina stared at the paper bag, the happiness on her face dissolving like sugar in the rain. “You’re here to drop off dewormer.”
“Yes,” he said. “What’s wrong?”
“What’s wrong?” She glared at him before shoving to her feet. She grabbed her mug and his and stomped to the sink, dumping the hot liquid down the drain before turning to him. “You seriously don’t know what’s wrong, Hal?”
“I know you’re angry with me,” he said.
She snorted, crossing her arms over her chest and scowling. “Damn right I am. You’ve been avoiding me since Sunday even though you promised -promised- we would be friends again. Then you finally show up on my doorstep, and it’s to deliver stupid dewormer!”
“Savina, I -”
“Leave,” she snapped. “You’re being a complete asshole, and I don’t want to spend another minute with you.”
He walked toward her, his steps slowing at the look on her face. Shit, this wasn’t just Savina’s short temper getting the best of her. This was pure fury aimed directly at him.
“You’re right,” he said, employing the voice he used to soothe angry cats. “I’m being an asshole.”
“Don’t you dare use your ‘calm down, you crazy cat’ voice on me, Hal McGinnis!”
Savina was nearly spitting with rage, and he’d never found her more fucking beautiful.
“I shouldn’t have avoided you and -”
“No, you shouldn’t have!” she said. “We’re both too old to be playing these fucking games. If you just wanted to get laid and not be friends, you should have just said that, Hal.”
“That isn’t what I want,” he said.
“Oh really?” She stalked forward until her folded arms brushed against his chest. “Because that’s exactly what it looks like.”
“I know, but…”
Christ, she was so gorgeous. And now that he was closer to her, he could see the damp tendrils of hair that had escaped her bun and curled against her neck. He could smell the vanilla scent of her body wash and see the faint hint of her nipples against the sweatshirt.
Lust nearly knocked him off his feet. He took a deep breath, trying to focus on Savina and her anger with him. He might want to fuck her silly right now, but that was the last thing on her mind. He’d be lucky if she didn’t boot him in the ass as she walked him out the front door.
“But what?” she said. “Do you know how hurtful it was to have you blow me off this week, Hal? I get it, okay? You don’t want to be friends, and -”
“I want to be friends!” Now his voice was too loud. “I want to be friends, Savina, but I can’t.”
“Why?” she asked.
Thrown off by her straightforwardness, he said, “Because I want to fuck you. Every goddamn time I’m with you.”
She blinked at him, and he would have laughed at the shock on her face if he wasn’t feeling so damn terrible. He’d lost Savina as a lover, and now he’d lost her as a friend, and how miserable of an existence would he live knowing that he could never have what he wanted most.
“I have to go,” he said. He couldn’t stand here in her kitchen a minute fucking longer. Couldn’t smell her sweet scent or stare at her gorgeous face knowing she’d never be his.
He grunted in surprise when Savina nearly threw herself at him. He caught her automatically, his hands sliding around her waist as she slammed her mouth down on his and kissed him with a desperate need that skyrocketed his own.
He cupped the back of her head, sliding his tongue into her mouth and groaning harshly when she sucked on his tongue. They kissed until they ran out of air and were forced to break apart. He stared silently at her before grabbing her sweatshirt and yanking it over her head.
Her squeak of surprise turned into a moan when he cupped her naked breasts and bent his head, sucking on each nipple until they turned to hard buds in his mouth. She clutched at his head, arching her back and pulling his hair as he worshipped her perfect breasts with his lips and tongue.
She didn’t object when he turned her and backed her toward the big farmhouse table that dominated the kitchen. He lifted her and set her on the table, pushing her onto her back before grabbing her pajama bottoms.
“Lift your hips,” he said.
She lifted them, and he pulled down her pajamas, the air exiting his lungs in an exquisite rush when he saw her naked core.
