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Akio froze to the spot and didn’t kiss me back.

My chest tightened, and tears were heavy in my eyes as I pulled away.

“Fuck,” I whispered, wiping the string of spit off my lip and looking away. “Sorry.”

Again, Nicole?! What is wrong with you?!

He hadn’t kissed me back last time. Why had I thought tonight would be any different?

Before he could throw me out, I twirled on my heel and ran toward the front door. I needed to get out of here. Dad was right, like he always had been. I didn’t have it anymore, and now, I was falling for some guy who would never like me.

When I reached the door, he called my name, and then his hand came around my wrist to stop me. As I twisted my head around to look back at him, he scooped my face toward his and crashed his lips back down onto mine.

CHAPTER

NINETEEN

NICOLE

Akio—the skinny, anime-loving geek—lifted me into the air with ease. I wrapped my legs around his torso and my arms around his shoulders, pulling him closer and closer, my lips moving effortlessly against his.

While he might not have been the best kisser, there was need behind his lips, a certain desire that I had never felt before from anyone I had been with. Not Jace. Not Carter. Not even my own father.

It wasn’t uncontrollable desire or lust, but much softer, much needier.

Something that both terrified me and filled me with love.

Love? I don’t even know the meaning of that word.

After walking with me all the way up to his bedroom, Akio placed me down on the bed. He peppered kisses from my mouth to my ear and then down to my neck. I arched my back, my hands gliding across his shoulders.

Akio’s hands found the waistband of my pants, and he pulled them down my legs until he could crawl comfortably between them. With Akio nestled between my legs, I gently placed my hands on either side of his face and drew him in closer to our kiss. Our tongues slipped into each other’s mouths, and I wanted more. More of him in any way that I could get him.

Once he removed his pants, Akio pressed the head of his cock against my entrance. While my pussy was wet, all I could feel was the searing pain that Dad had caused this morning. He had fingered me so hard that … it still stung.

But I didn’t want Akio to stop, so I closed my eyes and wished the pain away.

Akio pushed against my entrance slowly, the pressure building higher inside me.

And not the good kind.

It’ll go away once he’s inside you, Nicole. Just take it.

An inch slipped into my cunt.

“Ow,” I hissed, then immediately bit my tongue.

Akio tensed and stopped immediately. “What is it?”

I rested my head back onto the pillow and arched my back, not wanting him to stop. Because if he stopped, then maybe he’d fall in love with Imani Abara. And I didn’t want him to be in love with anyone but me.

“Akio,” I whispered, “don’t stop.”

“You’re hurting.”

“I can take it.”

“No.” Akio sat back on his heels. “I don’t want you to hurt.”

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