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She must feel my eyes on her because she looks around at me.

As our eyes lock I remember us only hours ago. Me stepping way over the line and her giving herself to me.

I remember how she felt in my arms and how she tasted. The taste of her alluring mouth, her silky skin, her delicious breasts, and her sweet pussy.

It was like drinking pure honey, nectar, roses all at once in a lethal dose that hooked me with a craving I will never forget.

For those few moments that I held her and ate her out Harper St. John felt like she was mine.

She was. And she was just Harper. Not Josh's little sister. Not the woman who was off limits to me. She was Harper, the woman I wanted to bury myself in and devour until every part of her belonged to me.

Now I can feel a wall between us. Not the glass wall separating us but the invisible barrier I pulled up when I stopped us from becoming more than what we are now.

A forced, stiff smile flickers across her face. It's the kind you'd give your enemy when you need to be polite. The smile is similar to those I give Nolan and Nigel.

Harper looks away and I glance back at Hunter who's already watching me.

He says nothing. Neither do I. But I know what he's thinking.

Even if we weren't brothers and close, I'd be able to tell what he was thinking.

That this shouldn’t be as complicated as I’m making it out to be.

Not when it’s as clear as the hard on in my pants that I want her.

Chapter Twenty

Asher

My day at the office was as shitty and hard as I knew it would be.

I couldn’t stop thinking about Harper. I barely paid attention during my meetings and I was completely off my game.

I couldn’t wait to get back home to see her and clear the air between us.

But when I reach home I find an empty house.

I finished at eight and Harper was done before five, so I expected her to be home before me.

At ten on the mark I get a message from her letting me know she's at Beth's. I text back, telling her to be safe.

I know Beth is her best friend and she’s a nice girl but I don't trust her with Harper.

Beth gets up to the kind of wildness that I don't think is good for Harper. I don’t like the company Beth keeps and fuck, yes I’m worried Harper will see Jack or someone else like him.

I wake early the next day with Harper on my mind even more than before.

Today is the first time since she’s been living with me that she’s been away and as I’m not at work today I won’t see her until later. Hunter and I are upstate to meet with a new client.

Once again, at the end of the day, I’m eager to get home and see Harper, but I get another message at ten letting me know she's going to stay with Beth until Sunday.

It's clear she's avoiding me. I don’t even have to wonder whether she is or not but the irritating thing is, if she were around me, I might be doing the same thing.

She's just beating me to it. This way neither of us has to feel that awkwardness of beingavoided.

This isn’t what I wanted. But what did I expect after what we did? After whatIdid.

Things were never going to go back to normal after that. I fucking ate her out, licked her naked body, then had her coming in my mouth. There is no going back to how we used to be. Only this.Awkwardness.

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