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I don’t even remember a time in my life when I didn’t want this woman, and everything about the way we’re fitting together right now is so fucking perfect. Her nails rake up my back and I growl, deepening our kiss. I keep moving my body, mimicking how I would fuck her.

She makes little keening noises. Her lips pull away from mine and she gasps. I lick up her neck to that tender spot just below her ear and I nibble at the flesh there.

I pinch her nipple again and rock harder against her. I know she’s getting close.

“Oh God,” she cries out.

“That’s it, baby doll, let me hear you come.”

She gasps and her eyes fly open and lock on mine. “Luca,” she breathes my name as a climax shudders through her body.

For several perfect moments, she just lies there beneath me, eyes closed, lips parted, breath coming in long, shaking gasps. Then, slowly, her eyes blink open.

I smile down at her. “That was gorgeous.”

Her gaze goes slightly wide, then darts away. She bites down on her lip and nods, then squirms to move out from under me. Suddenly it’s like I’m doused with a bucket of snow.

“What’s the matter?” I ask, brushing my hand through my hair. I sit up, watching her straighten her clothes.

She shakes her head still not looking at me. “I don’t know why that happened. I’m sorry, Luca, I didn’t mean to use you like that. I know you don’t like me like that at all.” Then she jumps off the bed and disappears into the bathroom.

I roll onto my back and stare at the ceiling. What the fuck? What the actual fuck? She’s sorry? What the hell does that mean? “Goddammit!”

I get out of bed and go back to my room where I pull on sweats and a sweatshirt and some shoes. Then I find my sweet Mabel sleeping on her dog pillow in the living room where it’s actually still kind of warm. The fire is still going, but not very strong. But it’s still managed to keep this room heated.

“Who’s my smart girl staying out here where it’s warm?”

Mabel sits up and looks at me sleepily. Her tail thumps.

“You ready to go potty in the snow?”

I’m pretty sure she shakes her head no, but she still stands and walks her squatty legs over to the door.

I walk outside, not caring that it’s fucking freezing and I didn’t put on my coat. I’m not going to be outside long enough. Though I should probably try to figure out how to turn on the generator.

“How did I mess that up so badly, Mabel?” I ask my dog while she sniffs around the snowy ground. “She was into it, pups. I thought I was finally going to get to have both of my girls.”

Mabel stares up at me with her soulful brown eyes. I sigh. What the fuck am I supposed to do now? I clearly can’t leave like I said I was going to; the snow is too deep. And the plows won’t have made it up on this mountain road.

Clearly, Jackie and I need to have a conversation though. If she doesn’t want me the way I want her, that’s fine, but enough of this bullshit where she thinks I hate her.

chapter twenty-five

Jackie

What the hell was I thinking?

I stand in the relative darkness of the bathroom just breathing. Oh, and freaking the hell out. That’s happening too. Why had I kissed him?

I mean, yes, sleepy Jackie had woken up horny and wrapped all around all six foot whatever of hot, sexy Luca. He’d seemed like he wanted me, but gah, I’m such a fool! He’d only been making out with me because I’d been available, and I practically pulled him on top of me.

He’d kissed me first though, right?

And holy habanero, that man knew how to kiss. Not to mention the feel of his big hand on my tit and that rock hard dick sliding against my clit. I’d been so tempted to reach down and pull my panties aside to invite him inside.

I turn on the faucet and splash some freezing cold water on my face. I need to snap out of it. I had a weird lapse in judgement I’m just gonna chalk up to being so cold I couldn’t think straight. Or being nearly naked next to the object of my sexual fantasies.

How would any woman have resisted him being that close in that situation? He’s too damn tempting. I mean he’d been hard when he kissed me, but that was nothing more than morning wood, right? Just a biological function that all men experience.