Page 57 of Until I Have You

“So?”she challenges.

“So, I don’t need you to police my love life, all right?I’m a grown man.”That’s a reminder for both of us.I narrow my eyes in hers.“Are we clear?”

Abigail looks down.I know I’ve scarred her, making her feel like a child.But if that’s what I need to do to keep her at bay, then that’s what has to be done.

If she doesn’t let me date, if she doesn’t let me just bloody try,I won’t be able to forget about her.

I start past her, to return to Miranda.

But her hand latches onto my forearm.“Theo–”

“Christ, Abigail, what?”I snap.

Abigail grabs on tighter.And she’s closer now.Against me.

“Abigail,” I say her name because it’s the only thing in my brain.Has been since that moment in the aquarium.

My heart has been beating for her.Each breath has been hers.I am physically owned by her.

The only thing keeping me safe has been her distance.

“What are you doing?”I whisper.

She holds tighter.Her eyes glimmer in mine.

“Abigail, walk away from me right now.”

“Why?”

I grit my teeth.“Walk away now, or I’ll do something we’ll both regret.”

She shakes her head.“I won’t regret it.You might, but I won’t.”

“Your father–”

“Isn’t here.”

Fear grips me by the throat.Lust, by every other part of my body.“You don’t know what you’re doing.”

“I do.”She lifts her hand to my cheek.

I want to pull my own skin off, her touch is so wonderful.

Her pink lips part.“I want you.”

A simple three words.Ones she knows meaneverythingto me.

Abigail looks down at my mouth and whispers again, “I want you, Theo.”

Primal aggression surges through me and, in an instant, I have her pressed up against the wall, my mouth on her mouth.

I do not start out easy or light because she has plagued my every waking thought to the point that without her, I think I might die.Without every inch of her, I might cease to exist.

Abigail welcomes my tongue into her mouth and my hands on her body, pulling me even closer so my front is flush to hers.

It’s better than my fantasy.I could never have imagined just how good Abigail would feel.

“Is this what you wanted?”I growl into her mouth.“Say it.Tell me.”

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