“Gaige?” she says as she grinds down on me again, her lips on my neck.
“What are we doing?”
She pulls back and stares at me, her chest pumping in rapid succession. She’s turned on, lit up like a motherfucker right now. I want to scratch that itch for her, but I have to know she’s one hundred percent okay with what’s happening.
“What is this?” I ask her.
“This is…” She pushes down on me again, and I have to bite my lip to hold back my groan. “This is fun, and it feels good. Let’s go with that.”
“More,” I say before she can crush her mouth to mine again. “What’ll the morning look like?”
“It’s going to be bright and shiny, full of chirping birds and rays of sunshine.”
“Hales,” I ground out.
“Polly,” she whispers. “The morning will be the same.”
“Nothing will change?”
“Of course something will change, but let’s not think about it.”
“Are we still pretending?”
Her mouth drops open a few times and she swallows twice before speaking. “I haven’t been pretending. Have you?”
“No. I can’t pretend with you. I was mad,sofucking mad that you stopped talking to me, but you were right—I feel the best when I’m with you. I can’t fake that.”
“Then what’s stopping you right now? Because I feel that too. You’re real to me. I want real.”
“You’re drunk, Hales.”
She brings her hands up to cup my face and my gaze steadies on hers. “Gaige Addams, the moment my lips touched yours, the only thing I was drunk on was you. I want this. Ineedthis. I think you do too.”
I can’t let it go so easily. “You didn’t talk to me for six months…”
She rests her head against mine. “I know. I was wrong. I’m sorry. I was overwhelmed with everything and I couldn’t handle you too. You overwhelm me.”
“I do?”
“Yes, but in a good way. Does that make sense?”
“Not really.”
“You make me feel too much, Gaige. It’s hard to handle sometimes. Add in everything else I had going on with Rae and I just…I couldn’t. So I cut you out before Icouldn’tcut you out.”
“It hurt.”
“I know. It hurt me too, and I know now that I was wrong. This isn’t too much and I can’t cut you out because I need it. I needyou, Gaige.”
“What if you regret this?”
“What ifyoudo?”
I nod, understanding her point. We don’t know what tomorrow is going to bring. We may as well enjoy the moment.
“I knew you’d see it my way,” she says seductively. “Now, please, take me to bed.”
I manage to stand and without hesitation make my way to Haley’s bedroom. I drop her to the bed in the most unromantic way possible, breaking our kiss and our touch. She’s looking up at me with this sexy as sin lust-filled gaze, and her mouth drops open as I drag my shirt over my head. Reaching for my jeans, she snaps open the buttons and yanks the zipper down, lucky she didn’t catch my dick in her haste. She pushes my pants halfway down my thighs along with my underwear. Before I know it, I’m almost naked, standing in front of her with my cock saying hello as it throbs for a release merely inches from her lips. It twitches the moment she runs her tongue along her bottom lip, and I fucking groan—loudly.
