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“This is becoming borderline harassment,” I shot back playfully.

“I didn’t meanthat. I was going to say come to the party, and I’ll help you study. Deal?”

I glanced at my phone to see Connor had asked me if I was going to the party as well. So he’d been invited? Theo peered over my shoulder before sighing.

“So, I’ll take it you’re coming?” He chuckled, his breath hot on my cheek as he ran his hand up and down my back. I let him get away with this, seeing as it made my muscles relax instantly.

“You’ll help me study? Like properly?” I asked.

“Yes.”

I turned to study him, tilting my head slightly as he smiled, holding his fingers up.

“Scout’s honor.”

“You’ve never been a scout.” I laughed as he grabbed my chin, gazing at my mouth.

“Don’t pout near me.”

I pulled my head out of his grasp as I sighed. I didn’t even have totryto seduce this man. He had a case of ‘whatever I can’t have, I want.’

“It would be easier to fuck you and get it over with,” I grumbled as his eyes lit up.

“Yes. Yes, it would.”

“But you’re my best friend, and I love you.” I smiled.

“All because I had the unfortunate position of being your hot neighbor,” he complained.

I remembered that he had knocked the town girls sideways when we hit junior high, having sex from an early age, making him entirely off-limits for me. We’d played computer games from the age of eight, for God’s sake. We used to camp out in the garden, pretending we were explorers in the great outdoors. Then he became the school player, and he began making my life a constant state of sex and innuendo. I still adored him, though, despite him driving me insane with lust a vast majority of the time.

“De Luca. Stop trying to fuck Hannah and get your ass to lunch. I’m starving,” barked a voice.

I glanced up to see Theo’s friends, Ethan and Jax, smirking at me with amusement. Jax winked at me, my cheeks burned with embarrassment. It may have been two years ago, but the seven minutes I spent in the cupboard with Jax were somewhat…memorable.

I shivered when Theo’s lips brushed close to my ear.

“Are youblushing,Hannah. Less of that. I won’t have any of my friends touching you ever again,” Theo muttered while glaring at Jax, who immediately dropped his gaze.

I rolled my eyes as he stood up, holding my face, and kissing me fully on the lips.

“I love your mouth. See you after school, Hanban.” He winked, and I felt a tingle in my core, and I immediately clamped my legs shut.

I need to get laid if I’m finding Theodore De Luca an option.

4

HANNAH

“I’m bored.” Theo complained as I shot him a look.

It wasn’t even my idea to come here, and he was boredalready?

It was a house party, and Jax was operating the drinks station. I watched him pouring a bottle of vodka into the punch, a smile on his lips.

Theo pressed his hip flask to my chest as he grimaced, swallowing.

“What is it?” I asked suspiciously as he rolled his eyes.