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Fuck no, he never wanted to leave this place.
Her nails scratched his back. The sounds flowing out of her mouth grew louder and then she came all over him.
Hard, pulsing, squeezing, causing him to slam into her again and again until there was nothing else left in him to give.
He collapsed on top of her.
“I need water. You’re the one that made me burn.”
“Why don’t you carry me to your shower and we can both cool off?” she said. “I don’t know if I’ve ever worked out that hard before. My ab muscles hurt.”
He laughed. “It was damn good, wasn’t it?”
He stood up and had her in his arms. She weighed almost nothing. She was a little thing next to him and he started to worry that he might have been too rough.
“It was fabulous and I’m counting the minutes until we do it again.”
So was he and he wasn’t sure he could seriously say that about anyone else in his past.
16
TALKING TO YOU
“Tell me about this guy you’re dating,” her sister, Laken, said on Friday night after she came to Talia’s hotel room.
Her mother, Phoebe, her Aunt Carolina and her youngest cousin, Raleigh, from her mother’s side, Aunt Amber, her cousin Eliza from her father’s side, all landed a few hours ago at JFK.
It was more than she thought would fly in. Two of her older cousins on her mother’s side, Paris and London, were in town this week for work anyway, so they’d be at the baby shower also.
The rest were her brothers’ significant others that lived here in New York. Braylon’s wife, Lily, and Foster’s fiancée, Charlotte.
“When did Mom tell you I was dating someone?” Talia asked. It was the only way her sister could have found out.
“She mentioned it yesterday when we talked. I think she wants me to find out what I can about him.”
“Why am I not surprised?”
Her mother hadn’t said one word about her going out on Wednesday. She thought they had an understanding that her mother would give her space.
She should have known better.
“She feels this might be important to you.”
“It’s important that I do this on my own.”
“Sounds serious,” Laken said. “Is it because you found out the last guy was only interested in who you were related to? If anyone understands that, it’s me. You can trust me if you want to talk.”
With Laken nine years older than her, Talia never had this growing up with her sister. “I wish I could have talked to you more.”
“I’m sorry I wasn’t there for you,” Laken said.
“We were too far apart. I know. Even now, we are. And we are different people.”
“That doesn’t mean you can’t confide in me. I won’t tell Mom, don’t worry. I mean it.”
She believed her sister. That she’d proven to her siblings she could be trusted also.
Talia didn’t tell anyone about Phoebe when she and Elias started dating. Her mother found out from one of her brothers instead.
