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He half smiles, half catches his lip between his teeth "So sexy"

Seth draws his body closer to ainst the rocks with every thrust, sending neaves of lust through roan and swear under his breath with every second thrust I can tell by his face and his erratic rips ht into hie a sharp intake of air before he slaues rush to entwine, he groans harshly, crushing ers digging roughly into rowls soften and eventually die down to relieved in to fade, theup to Seth in bed sounds like an a idea

Hisit softly When his grip onmy feet on the floor of the pool I atteather rabs ht back to hiht

"Are you okay?" I ask, confused

"Yeah, I just--" He almost smiles, but behind the smile I see the frustration "It can wait"

I feel ether "You sure?"

He seeo, but now all traces of it are gone

"Positive"

He releasese frolance over ed himself under the water and by the time he resurfaces, I’ve already slipped s to ainst the fence with htly underneath my armpits in an effort to warm them

I blink a few times in order to stay awake My eyes threaten to shut and the only thing keeping the oes slo-h his hair,it look all disheveled and sexy That’s not all that caught my attention, either My eyes roam his perfect form--like they did the first tioes dry and I want to run e, searing heat across the back of les’ I sed I don’t think I’ll ever get used to his unadulterated perfection

"Keep looking at me like that and I’ll take you for round two"

I push off the fence and lick my bottom lip It feels cold and nuet up early tos "If we ht" He smiles a cocky s Seth’s shirt off the ground and tossing it to him "I’ve never been on a plane before and I’ to kill you"

He ditches the shirt and reaches for his jeans, putting one leg in after the other He pulls them up and buttons them low on his hips As he finishes, he extends his hand to me and I take it My skin waret upstairs and have his entire body heat radiate onto me

In Seth’s room, I dump the dress in the bathroo up all of the little beads of water that are chilling me down to my bones

I drop the towel and stalk back into the bedroo halfway to the bed My eyes widen a fraction as they settle on Seth and all of his da in the bed

"You’re wet"

Wet is a little bit of an exaggeration The air had alot into the house, save for a s of drops over his chest and arms

He flashes me another one of those smiles "I believe that’s my line"

I try not to smile, but I’m sure the aard pout on iven away the fact that I want to

Seth chuckles as he rolls the sheets down to his naked hips "Get in here"

I rapidly rush to the light switch and flick it off before diving into bed Seth’s ar me into him and my chest flutters

I like this

I like the e’re connecting When ere fighting and lying in the bed, ignoring each other, I felt eain With Blade, I fell asleep alone and angry more times than I can count…that’s not a relationship What we had was an inconvenient routine I couldn’t shake and I’ll be dao down that path When I’ainst mine I want to feel overwhelmed by love--so overwhelmed that it exhausts me and I fall asleep in his arms That is a relationship That is love

Seth buries his face in my damp hair and kisses me "I love you," he whispers and it et he lovesso much attention with his acute cockiness, hardhi hi hi my body harder into his "I love you, too"

In the silence that follows, I think about our trip to California I’ve never been on a plane before--I’ve alanted to go on one, but believe it or not, I was a very dedicated worker before Seth ca I don’t knohat happened…Seth stalked intoSince then, I haven’t been the same and I’m okay with that When you meet someone who makes your entire body buzz with only a curl of their lips, you can’t escape it You beco that’s supposed to ravitated around him--I still do, and like the sun, there’s still soand beautiful, but I also know he’s fiery and unpredictable In California, I think I’ative Seth He’s always moody when it comes to his mother--or at least he hen I firstout his frustrations

His mother, Vanessa, is a very hard woman to read I’ve only met her once and on both occasions she was drunk off her ass, both confusing and frustrating s, not to irl’s na twiststo beher? No I can’t do that Seth will need …

For him