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“Is that a promise?” She practically purrs.

“Why don’t you come here and find out?”

As if to call my bluff, she moves closer.

Or maybe she moves closer because shewantsme to do exactly what I just warned I would. Without waiting to find out either way, I snake my hand around the back of her neck and tug her closer.

“Last chance to back out,” I warn.

“Now where’s the fun in that.” She bats her long lashes at me.

“Car it is.” I pull her mouth down to mine. “And then bed.”

“Promises. Promises.” She tsks against my lips.

“I’m going to show you promises.”

“Less talking, more kissing.”

She doesn’t have to tell me again.

I don’t say another word.

Not as I strip her bare.

Not as I take her hard and fast in the back seat.

I don’t utter a fucking word until I spill my release inside of her for a second time today, reveling in the feeling of her tight and wet around me, coaxing me empty. Even then, I only say one word.

“Charlotte.”

It’s not lost on me how dull my life was before this spitfire woman came charging into it, refusing to take no for an answer.

She’s wild and free in a way I’ve only ever wished to be, and so damn beautiful it fucking hurts to look at her.

She’s everything I’m not, and yet, in some weird way, we fit perfectly. Like the last piece of a puzzle, she completes the picture, and fuck me if it isn’t a masterpiece.

Chapter Twenty-two

Charlotte

“Char!” I turn at the sound of my name, smiling when I see Lyric jogging toward me.

“Hey.” I stop, waiting for her to reach me. “I thought you had class until two today,” I say, giving her a second to catch her breath.

“I skipped math. I was actually just heading over to the dorm to see if you or Maisie wanted to have lunch.”

“Maisie has practice, but I’m free.”

“Yeah?” Her entire face lights up.

“Beats sitting in my dorm staring at my computer screen, trying to figure out what the hell to write for this English assignment.”

“What’s the assignment?”

“A five-thousand-word essay on how my life has changed since starting college.”

“Well, that should be easy enough, right?”