Page 83 of Loathe Thy Neighbor

Neither does River.

No, she bends again, sticking her ass out just for me.

I physically bite my knuckles to keep from reaching out to her.

And I want to reach out.Bad.

I want to run my fingers over her curves. Want to feel the weight of her under my hands. I want to see if she’s as flexible in bed as I’m guessing she is.

My cock gets hard just thinking about it.

I spread my legs, adjusting myself.

“Perv,” she says.

“Tease,” I counter.

She’s not wrong. I am being a perv right now—but I don’t see her running away or making any attempts to hide herself.

No, she’s not doing any of that.

River likes my eyes on her just as much as I like watching.

She finishes her session, and I don’t dare move from the stool the entire time, though it’s hard to hold back.

When she’s done, she pads into the kitchen for a glass of water.

I watch the entire time she does that too.

“How was your dinner?” she asks, eyeing me over the rim of her glass.

“Is that really what you want to talk about right now?”

“No.” With a sigh, she sets the glass in the sink and rests her hands on the counter behind her. “Why’d you kiss me, Dean?”

“I already told you why.”

“Not really. You said you did it because you couldn’tnotkiss me. That’s not a real answer.”

“Isn’t it?”

“No. It’s a cop-out. You almost kissed me at the roller rink too, didn’t you?”

I nod. “If Lucy hadn’t interrupted us, I would have.”

“Why?”

I push off of my stool and stalk around the island until I’m standing opposite her, mirroring her position. “For the same reason as when I finally did kiss you.”

“Wh—”

I shake my head, and her mouth stops moving.

“Stop asking why, River. I don’t know why. I’m not one to dance around crap. If I had an answer beyond what I already gave you, I’d tell you. Can’t we just let this happen how it’s happening and stop questioning it?”

“Can we? Because I don’t know about you, but it freaks me out. Does it not weird you out that suddenly we want to jump each other’s bones when we’ve been at each other’s throats for the last year?”

“It definitely interests me that you want to jump my bones.”

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