“Hey. It’s okay in case you are, magnificence,” he reassures me in a rush, sitting up straighter within the driver’s seat. “I’m not complaining. You possibly can insurgent with me as a lot or as little as you need, all proper? Make your father mad over getting a trip residence from a Southie child? That’s effective with me. I’m not silly. I do know once I’ve been given a present.”

My pulse flutters in my neck, the smalls of my wrists. “You suppose driving me house is a present?”

He appears to be like at me like I’m loopy. “Are you kidding? I’m by no means opening these home windows once more so I can hold that cherry cola scent in right here so long as potential.”

If he wasn’t driving, I swear I may be crawling into his lap, fusing our mouths collectively. He’s simply given me the nicest praise I’ve ever obtained in my life, made all of the extra particular as a result of he clearly meant it. There’s no mistaking the sincerity in his tone—always. “You imply every little thing you say, don’t you?” I murmur, giving in to the urge to put a hand on his forearm, memorizing the way it jumps, flexes. “You’re an sincere particular person.”

A line strikes in his cheek, his gaze dropping to my hand the place it touches him. “I don’t have a lot, however I’ve received my phrase, you recognize?”

“What do you’ve got, in addition to your phrase, North?”

“This automobile. A two-bedroom house proper above the practice. When it passes beneath my constructing, every little thing within the place rattles. I’ve received slightly sister—Tulip. She’s 13. It’s simply me and her now.” His Adam’s apple slides up and down. “I’ve received a fucking angel in my passenger seat and he or she’s touching me. I’ve received that, and Christ, it ain’t nothing.”

Oh my God.

How am I speculated to breathe when he says issues like that? I have an effect on this fighter as a lot as he impacts me. I even have the facility to maneuver this younger man who is outwardly elevating his thirteen-year-old sister alone. This man who I need to know every little thing—every little thing—about. And his gruff admission is making me daring for the primary time in my life. Making me need to be equally as sincere. Wetting my lips, I let my fingers journey up his arm, throughout his shoulder. Increased till I can slide them into his hair. Tugging evenly on the strands till he groans. “North?”

“Yeah, Gracie.”

“Will you kiss me once you drop me off?”

He begins to pant like he’s out of breath. “Like a motherfucker, child.”

The engine begins to roar and I understand he’s flooring the gasoline. I proceed to stroke his scalp evenly with my nails whereas giving tender instructions close to his ear. I’m liquid hearth, throbbing in locations I’ve by no means throbbed earlier than, the scent of his sweat and spicy deodorant respiratory life into components of my femininity that have been asleep till now. I’ve by no means even kissed a boy past a easy peck and but, right here I’m, eager to lick North’s contoured shoulder. Desirous to straddle his lap and rub myself anyplace I can get friction. What has he performed to me?

Giving in barely to my physique’s urges, I lay my lips on North’s shoulder and his huge chest shudders, these scarred knuckles shifting on the wheel. “God assist me, I shouldn’t be telling you this. However…you don’t need to know what I’m going to do to that seat when you’re gone.”

Fireplace crawls in 100 instructions alongside my pores and skin and I’m riveted, hypnotized by him. Innuendo and intercourse discuss amongst my mates makes me cringe or develop uncomfortable, however I’m virtually panting with the necessity for North to proceed his confession. “I do need to know. What you’re going t-to do to the seat.”

Briefly, he closes his eyes earlier than focusing them again on the highway. “After I drop you off safely, after I get that kiss, I’m going to seek out someplace darkish. Recline all of it the way in which again and fake you’re nonetheless mendacity there. Possibly the following smartest thing to your physique is the warmth from it.”

My coronary heart is jackhammering, the moisture gone from my mouth. “I nonetheless don’t perceive.”

“Gracie,” he says on a pained giggle. “I’m going to fake I’m between your thighs. And I’m going to hump the fucking seat. That’s as shut as I’m going to get to the true factor.”

By my abruptly sparking imaginative and prescient, I research his profile. “You’re so positive about that?”

His expression is difficult when he glances at me. “It’s worthwhile to make sure about that, magnificence. If I had you that approach…”

“What?”

A low curse leaves him. “If I had you that approach…if we had intercourse, I’d begin having harmful ideas, all proper? I wouldn’t be content material to be your rebellious section anymore. I’d need this to be everlasting. I’d be jealous and protecting and fuck…fuck, child, possibly I already am. Possibly it’s too late. Possibly I knew you have been mine from the second you walked into the Hellmouth.” He provides a tough headshake. “Am I scaring you?”

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