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Now she was the one to look at bit apprehensive. I mimicked her earlier move but touching the spot between her brows and she laughed. “What did he say?”

“I was asking him how to deal with different situations.” I was hedging, not wanting to come out and say that my feelings were hurt. Fuck, I wasn’t a teenage girl and I didn’t need to act like one.

Her cheeks heated, and she said, “You mean during sex?”

I threw back my head and laughed. The sound startling the both of us as I continued to laugh louder and longer than I had in a long while.

She had an answering grin on her lips as well as a bright blush on her cheeks. “Now you are making fun of me.”

I caved into the urge I had been having all along and yanked her flush against me. Her eyes widened, and her lips curved into the most inviting smile I had ever seen. I knew that she could feel my cock hard against her stomach. There was no hiding things at this point, not with her mashed against me.

“I would never make fun of you,” I said solemnly. “But the thought of getting sexual advice from anyone struck me as hilarious. Trust me, Lucy. I have millions of things that I want to do to you and with you. If you have to know, I was concerned about feeling jealous.”

She frowned. “Why were you feeling jealous?”

“You and Marcus, you have a ready rapport and a long history together. I don’t want our relationship to only be sexual. I want you to want both of us. Maybe that is presumptuous of me...”

She interrupted me, “No, it’s not. I want the same thing, Henry. The way I feel about you and Marcus. It seems so terribly complicated and interwoven together. I don’t know what true love is, but I know that I have a great depth of feeling for both of you.”

I tucked a loose curl behind her ear. “I care deeply about you too.”

My lips came down to explore hers. She tasted of sunshine and innocence and something sweet and womanly that wrapped around my heart and wouldn’t let go. I kissed her softly, hesitantly. I wanted this to be something that we both participated in.

Her hands moved up my chest. As she felt my body beneath her fingertips, I could feel every brush of her skin through my t-shirt. She was burning me with her sweet caresses, and I had to have more of her.

I picked her up off of her feet and deepened the kiss. Her mouth opened for me and I swept inside. Lucy gave back just as good as she got. Her tongue brandished out to meet mine, causing my stomach to clench and my cock to throb.

I pulled back from the kiss but didn’t release her. “I suppose we had better stop before I do something you might regret.”

She looked me dead in the eye and said, “I would never regret being close to you. Kiss me.”

And I did.

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