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If only Tyler had let her get dressed when he’d first got there But in hisMen

Feeling annoyed at eneral and Grant in particular, Zoe stepped back into the shower In her pique, she refused to rush herself Grant could just wait for her, and for any explanations she ive him

Half an hour later, Zoe reentered the kitchen This time she was fully clothed, in a pair of co mock turtleneck and an oversized sweatshirt from her alma mater Her tennis shoes squeaked as they hit puddles of water left fro body earlier

Grant sat at the kitchen table, ain his hand The set of his shoulders and his thin lips let her know that he had not gotten over his initial reaction to finding her in the kitchen with Tyler She frowned at hi him know she did not appreciate his attitude

She walked by hi back to the puddles of water on the floor, she knelt down and wiped the at me Tyler and I were not in the ot here”

Grant’s chair scraped the linoleum as he pushed away fro nothing but a towel and Tyler when I walked in”

Zoe looked up to aze Mistake His eyes were filled with fury and he loo to scoot back and gain some distance, she lost her balance and fell back onto her bottoing Tyler He needed couy who needs it with your naked body, I’ her hands beside her and her feet under her, she pushed up from the floor She landed two inches frolare for glare “That was a rotten thing to say”

She was so close she could see his nostrils dilate, a sure sign that Grant was furious Zoe prepared for a rip-roaring argument with hi one hand on the s her forward, he lowered his head and stopped

Zoe felt like a deer caught in her daddy’s headlights She knew this er, but she was too shocked to move “Grant, I don’t think—”

His mouth cut off the rest of her words His lips arhly plunged into her ood He tasted wonderful

Using the hand on the sn her front where her legs, pelvis and breasts made contact with the hard contours of Grant’s body Of their own volition her arms lifted, and she locked her hands behind his neck

The bones in her legs turned to warm candle wax and would not hold her up They didn’t need to His ainst him like a vise

In the back of Zoe’s er had pro he had made it very clear he did not want to do Kiss her She already felt the pain of his withdrawal, although it had not happened yet

Refusing to give in to it, she deter in his arloried in the feel of his tongue branding her ly She roan that issued from him He lowered his hand and cupped her bottoainst him than she could hold her breath under water indefinitely She needed this Too ainst the counter He lowered his other hand to her bottoe of the counter, her thighs open and Grant between theet with only the layers of clothes separating theainst the juncture of her thighs, and with only a s her where it counted h her at the contact She wanted to be naked, with him buried deep inside her

He squeezed her breast She could not get enough air Twisting her en Grant ainst it Zoe felt herself spiraling out of control She had never responded this way before, and if she didn’t know better she would think she was about to climax