Page 15 of Ruck Me

I dropped my head and bit her neck, took her tender flesh between my teeth and tugged.

She squealed. “You’re going to leave a mark if you keep doingthat.”

“Good,” I growled, doing it again.

“I thought you said you wanted to kiss me, not eatme.”

“Oh, I want to eat you alright,” I groaned into the nape of her neck as I rolled my hips against her center. “You don’t even know howbad.”

“You have a one-trackmind.”

“I do,” I agreed. “But in my defense, it’s kind of hard to think about anything else when you’ve got your legs wrapped aroundme.”

Which was exactly what I shouldn’t have said because Aoife’s loosened her grip on my hips and planted her feet firmly on the ground.

“Give me a minute.” Her head dropped forward and her chest heaved with each inhale and exhale. After a few moments, she raised shining eyes to mine and said, “I think we need totalk.”

She was probably right, but my dick didn’t want to talk. Which was all the more reason I needed to step back and get ahold of myself.

“Right,” I said, dragging a clean shirt from the top of my duffel bag and pulling it over my head. When my head popped through the neck, Aoife was staring at my abs with such unconcealed want that it was hard to believe she’d put the brakes on our make-out session. But she had, so …

“Aoife?”

“Hm?” she asked absentmindedly, licking her lips as her eyes stayed glued to my sixpack.

“My face is uphere.”

Those same eyes flashed with embarrassment before she dragged them away. “Sorry.”

“Don’t apologize. I like it when you look atme.”

“I’m sure you do,” she replied with a laugh. “You’ve always been a little cock of thewalk.”

I groaned. “Please don’t say ‘cock.’ You’ll give it ideas.” I glanced down at my visible erection. These pants were comfortable, but they left nothing to the imagination.

Aoife’s cheeks flushed pink to match her hair and she chewed on her lip. “I really should get going. At this rate, I’m not sure it’s safe for me tostay.”

I knew what she meant, but it still gutted me to hear her say it. The whole reason we were in this situation to begin with was because her first idea actually wasn’t safe. Me though? I was as safe as they came. Sure, I wanted to get my hands all over her naked body, but I’d never push her to do something she wasn’t ready for. Which was why I grabbed my keys and wallet off the counter and slipped my feet into a pair of Uggs. “Let me drive youhome.”

“It’s okay. I can take theDART.”

“I’m sure you can, but I’m not going to let you. It’s a 15-minute walk to the closest station and it’s freezing outside. Plus at this time of night—” I glanced at the digital clock on the microwave “—the trains don’t come as often. It’ll be almost midnight before you make it back to Ballycurra.”

“What if someone sees us together?” Her eyes wandered the room, refusing to meetmine.

“Is that a problem?” My shoulders tensed, surprising me. We’d agreed we’d keep whatever it was that we were doing a secret from her brother, but I hadn’t realized that meant we weren’t allowed to hang out atall.

“I don’tknow …”

“No one’s going to see us,” I answered, trying to let go of my frustration. “I’ll drop you at the station so you drive home in your owncar.”

She hesitated, twining a lock of hair around her finger, her gaze fixed firmly on the floor.

“Look at me, Aoife.”

When she refused, I lifted her chin. Her eyes flashed with something I couldn’t name. Fear? Excitement? Whatever it was, they were bright and luminous. How had I never noticed before what gorgeous eyes Aoife had? Maybe because her hair was so attention grabbing it was easy to ignore her other features, but her eyes were a deep, clear blue that reminded me of the ocean on a warm, sunnyday.

As our gazes locked and held, I realized I wanted to drown in them. Almost immediately, I shook my head to clear the strange, uncomfortable thought.

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