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This is Aiden. He’s like a lovable bear even with the shadows in his eyes. He’s got secrets, too. Why do I want to figure them out so badly?

It would be easy to let myself drop onto his lap and let him slip inside me and ride him until we’re both in the throes of ecstasy.

He’s so handsome, working himself and spreading the wetness along his length. I want to see his cock glisten because ofme, because he’s been buried inmywetness.

I don’t allow myself to do any of those things.

But I love watching him. I love to see the evidence of his lust, the same that echoes in the throbbing in my pussy.

I bite down on the inside of my cheek to keep myself in check but a moan escapes anyway. Heat curls in my lower abdomen and my breasts tingle.

My nerves are lightning, firing off one by one, and now I groan with the need to touch myself. To glide my fingers along my own heat and get myself off. Or better yet, to take Aiden’s hand and bring him to the wetness between my thighs and see how good he’ll touch me.

He breathes through his teeth with his jaw constricted as he chases his own pleasure.

“Gilli,fuck.”

Still watching me, he grabs the neckline of my tank top and draws it down, one breast popping free and eager for attention. Aiden tenses, fixated.

This is a fantasy for me. Straight out of one of my dreams at night, except in them, there are no restrictions. There is no reason to stop.

His pulse echoes from where he holds me tightly and I rock closer.

“Did you touch yourself this way before I came out?” I whisper.

He nods, licking his lips. His hips jerk and my head falls back, imagining those fingers inside of me.

Pleasure cuts through me and feels so good.

“The girls in the video have nothing on you,” he says. “I imagine you with your tits out. I imagine rolling your clit between my teeth before sliding my tongue inside you.Lookat you.”

He fondles my breast, cupping its weight, noticing the trio of freckles on the underside, like an inverted pyramid.

Oh, god.

It’s going to happen. If I stay here, it will happen, and then there’ll be no going back. I want him desperately.

I clamp down on my cheek again and the pain has me tensing.

Aiden moans and his body jerks, wracked by his orgasm. My gaze trains on the line of cum roping up onto his shirt as he works himself through it, squeezing harder to drain himself.

We’re both breathing heavily and both pleading with each other for more but neither of us makes a move.

I shoot off the couch and pull my shirt up, but there’s nothing I can do to cover the wetness dampening my shorts. Breaking free is the easiest way to avoid temptation. To not step foot down the path at all.

Soren would never forgive me for a taste of his cousin, and I’m not sure I’d forgive myself for getting Aiden involved. How can it matter what he wants if his safety is on the line? Getting involved with me brings him into the line of fire.

“You don’t have to go,” he grinds out. “Stay.”

Playis what he means. I’m panting, a heartbeat away from giving in. Which is why I force myself to go and send up a silent prayer he understands.

Chapter 18

Gilli

Ipress my back to the door and inhale slowly through my nose.

Leaving Aiden wasn’t easy, but it was the right thing to do. Even if I still feel unsatisfied.