Collier is correct. Grace isn’t mine. I met her fifteen minutes in the past and I’m behaving as if I’ve received a everlasting declare on the lady. When in reality, she in all probability wouldn’t need that in 1,000,000 years. A protracted-term relationship with a bare-knuckle boxer from Southie? Yeah, proper. I’m a thrill. A flash within the pan. She’s slumming it for the evening.

So be it.

I open my mouth to say…what? I’m unsure. Perhaps that she isn’t mine, however she certain as hell can do higher than this punk. However Grace speaks up from behind me.

“Cease speaking about me like I’m a buying and selling card, Collier.” She steps into my periphery on the proper, her lengthy, clean legs taking over my imaginative and prescient. “I’m no one’s till I say I’m. However…” She pauses, shifting in her heels. “I’d like North to drive me dwelling tonight. So I assume that makes me extra his than yours, doesn’t it?”

The place erupts in a sequence of hoots and ooohs, turning Collier’s face purple.

Christ. This lady is fucking dynamite. For some motive, she’s giving me the present of her time and a focus. And I can’t assist it. A man like me doesn’t get many moments this good, so I’ve no alternative however to savor it to the fullest. “And that was your third knockout for the evening,” I say to Collier. “May wish to keep down this time, regional champ.”

Then I stand, watching in awe as Grace threads her clear, swish fingers by way of my bloody, filthy taped ones and lets me stroll her out of the Hellmouth.

Three

Grace

Oh my God.

Holy moly.

What am I doing? I don’t know! I don’t know who I’m anymore. This spontaneity is totally not like me. Asking for rides dwelling from strangers just isn’t one thing I do. I do know it’s utterly reckless to go someplace with this younger man I simply met, however the thought of getting right into a automobile with Collier after the best way he behaved made my pores and skin crawl.

My solely protection is that North feels just like the furthest factor from a stranger. There was a click on inside me once I first noticed him within the Hellmouth. Because the minutes handed, it was virtually like being woke up. Being round North makes me really feel tight and achy and winded, the feeling so overwhelming, it’s a marvel I handle to stay upright within the face of the frenzy.

We’re strolling to his automobile now, sneaking appears at one another within the darkness. Each of us have expressions on our faces that recommend we don’t know what hit us. Does he actually really feel the best way I do? Like he’s been struck by lightning?

Our footsteps echo beneath the underpass. We type of gravitate towards one another, North lifting a still-wrapped hand and letting it hover simply above the small of my again. As if he desires to guard me with out sullying my costume. In reality, that is the primary time in my life that I wouldn’t thoughts my costume getting soiled. If it meant North touching me, I’d break an entire military of attire. What’s it about him that makes me ticklish and sizzling from the neck down?

All over the place.

I’ve given up making an attempt to cover my onerous nipples and the cool evening air makes them pucker all of the extra. North traces them with a hungry look, then cuts his eyes to the aspect, letting out a shuddering breath. He’s drawn to me. We’re attracted to one another. He’s nonetheless shirtless, since he actually stepped out of the ring and left, me at his aspect. However a second later, we attain a car that appears straight out of the previous. It’s black and chrome, low and smooth. A Chevy that appears lovingly cared for, proper right down to the white racing stripe down the middle of the roof.

“I really like this,” I whisper, as he opens the passenger aspect door for me.

He searches my face. “Yeah?”

I nod, noting his aid. Was he anxious I wouldn’t like his automobile? Realizing I’m observing his chiseled mouth like an keen beaver, I shake myself. With a view to slip into the automobile, I’ve to brush previous North and as I achieve this, the information of my breasts drag throughout his naked chest, making his eyelids develop heavy. I’m trembling by the point I sit down, my knees pressed tightly collectively. There’s a steady tug on the juncture of my thighs, a slickness I’ve by no means skilled earlier than. All due to this fighter. And my physique’s response to him excites me as a lot because it scares me. Intercourse is an unknown, as a lot as he’s. However the throb in my nerve endings, the starvation for closeness to him has me racing there. Towards this mysterious land of intimacy I do know nothing about. Perhaps I ought to have listened extra carefully to my buddies, as a substitute of zoning out after they talked endlessly about hooking up.

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