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a husky rasp that sent shivers up my spine, "pretending y

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mistake. Aiden leaned back a little, deliberately sliding his thigh up between m

hrough me, wi

st

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what he was doing. Like he had all

my ear again. "Relax, pr

almost - grazed th

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ter, music, the clink of shot glasses - but for

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as

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ant p

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urself with someone who matt

efully as I could, ignoring the sud

pull that nearly dragg

the heat still crawling up my skin, I caught the way Aide

just getti

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d revealed some scandalous hookup story

easy at first

, with every dare,

heavier.

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appily obliged - and Leo look

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mo

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pi

, cool as ice

iden spoke up lazily, his voi

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ve laughed it off and kissed E

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ng to just brush my lips over

d his head at t

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a

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back of my neck, holding me there for a second longer than neces

make it

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laring at him -

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f my own body, I slid back beside Mia -

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crackle of something n

and magnetic and

en's lazy green-amber

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with

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me reason,

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ier

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antasy into Ethan's ear, making hi

spinning closer to chaos w

was Aurora's

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w much she c

le point

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ntha whooped at that, se

a brow. "Fin

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ce dropping low, "to sit on my

oth er

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just enough to brush against me -

perfect against mine

r expr

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d play t

my mouth brushed

ot gonna run away

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lancing at me, "it's going to take more

o

fucking

a queen on her throne - while every nerv

ed around us, bu

right

and

her leg, every slight shif

was

I was going

RA'S

tare burning into

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riat

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ely, pretending like the firm grip he had on m

n, he'd have to work a

d - heavy, possessive - at my

nore

t dared to flash her bra, joked when Leo got caught ch

but loo

ed where his fingers pressed into me, steady an

voice rumbled low in my ear ag

was infu

even turn

icking Dare," I mutte

rough - sending an unw

real conseq

face him now, giving him a lo

ore than you th

hing flickered behind those sharp

not at a

d - slow, lazy

voice a taunt w

to k

've been an accident - against the bare ski

lmost inno

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ven c

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that he

he could read my puls

st

it only made him lo

intri

few round

n turning progressively redder under Kyla's relentless teasing, Samantha nursi

t

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n bene

fter that - not overtly - but

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off how muc

to him without permission,

ittle too quickly, brushing nonexistent dust from

was

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ytime, sweetheart," he said laz

d the bar, pretending my heart wasn't

d anoth

bucket of

be