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"Need to get a new car," I finished for hier keep re, and pulled me close with one arm His lifted my chin with his knuckles to press his mouth first to my jaw and then rin when I shuddered from the warmth that moved down my spine at the contact
After four days, I still wasn’t used to it To this
If it would always feel like this, if it would always leave me breathless and weak, then I wasn’t sure that I ever wanted to get used to it
"Speaking of Jagger, what do you think he’s going to say?"
My eyebrows rose in question, and Deacon’s srew
"About us, Charlie Girl About the fact that I can’t stop kissing you and don’t kno to let you go"
I pulled hter to his large, muscular frame And as I had the last few days, embraced the way oing to break free, and I wasn’t going to atte fast, I knew But I had a feeling that all those years I’d felt betrayed byup to this When I would be ready to trust soain When Deacon would be the one to take it
"Does it matter?"
Deacon looked at er said really mattered to you, then you wouldn’t be here You wouldn’t have been here yesterday, or the night before" I trailed off, and lifted one of my shoulders "You would’ve never come after me"
I knew from Deacon’s expression that he couldn’t deny what I’d said "Still, it’s going to matter to you, and that will matter to me"
"He doesn’t always knohat’s best for ers over his lips, then pushed up on my toes to press my mouth to his "Besides, they won’t be back froht I still have until Mondayto prepare for whatever he’ll say"
The corner of histo knohat hit hi your cohed and pushed at his chest, but he just pulledkiss that made my head spin before he released me
Deacon stepped back to push down the hood of my car when I started toward my house, and continued to stare at it for a few seconds before followinga new car I know froer over the years that you have randparents, so why?"
The daze that Deacon’s nearness and his kisses had put me in abruptly disappeared My blissful smile fell, my stomach dropped, and my palms suddenly felt clammy