Page 124 of After All This Time

I place my hands on my flushed cheeks.

Noah is the only guy who knows how to make me instantaneously blush, and I can’t seem to get enough of it.

“Oh, shut up, Heart Eyes.”

“I mean, look at you. Get up and turn all the way around for me.” He gestures to me, moving his index finger in a circular motion.

“Are you kidding me?”

“Does it look like I’m kidding?” His face is expressionless.

Okay, I’m getting up.

I get off the bed as fast as I possibly can, moving my body so my backside faces him. I turn around as slowly as possible to make him sweat.

“Fuck, how are you even real?”

I’m staring at him in disbelief because I never thought I’d hear those words come out of Noah Kaplan’s mouth.

“Come here,” he urges.

I meander over to him, running my fingers through his hair.

He grabs me by my ass with his hands, pulling me closer to him.

My body jolts from the sudden movement change.

Wow, that feels so damn good.

He kneels before me.

My head shifts backward, chest heaving. “What the hell are you doing?”

“I’m worshiping you, Princess.”

I swallow hard and deep, feeling a lump go down my throat.

He looks up at me, wrapping his hands around the back of my legs and feathering searing kisses on every inch of exposed skin.

Shit, shit, shit.

“You’re torturing me,” I whine.

He looks up at me. “Baby, you’ve been torturing me for years. I’m going to torture you for a little while longer. Let’s see how you like it.”

He plants rough kisses all over me before he stands up in front of me, smiling.

There’s a fire in his eyes that’s burning so bright. It transfers over to my body, mixing with the chills going down my spine.

He goes in for the kill, taking my lips with him. “Dani.”

God, I love how easily my name rolls off his tongue.

His lips move to my neck, collarbone, and back up my lips again.

I’ve waited so fucking long for this.

“If I do anything you don’t like. Tell me, and I will stop,” he says as he meets my gaze.

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