Page 54 of Burn for You (Flirting with Forever 3)

“Then say them. Tell me everything.”

She wrinkles her nose, gripping my hips with her hands. “You know, at first I was relieved it was you and I was only dealing with one person. But then I was terrified you’d been kissing me, but talking to her—which, coincidentally, was also me—and I—” She stops, shaking her head.

“You said it earlier. You were afraid of disappointing me.” I take her head between my hands, kissing her soft and slow until she relaxes. My voice is husky as the words are torn straight out of my heart. “Baby, you’d never disappoint me. Never.”

“You are both of my fantasies rolled into one, Damon.” She eases back to look into my eyes. “I’ve never been so happy.”

As I hug her trembling body to me, I know I’ve made the right decision. I just hope Piper sees it the same way.

Chapter 31

Piper

“Piper, baby.” A gruff voice near my ear startles me awake. I freeze, terrified. “Piper.” Warm, minty breath drifts over my face. I immediately calm. Damon.

My eyes flicker open to find him kneeling on the bed next to me. “Good morning.” My voice is scratchy and thick with sleep.

“I’m going to head out. I don’t want to show up to work in jeans.” He kisses my cheek. “I thought I’d run home and shower, then see you at work.”

I smile sleepily at him. “Okay.” I still can’t believe the odd twist of fate—or maybe it was Tryst—that brought Damon to me twice. “Is this real life?”

“Do you want it to be?”

“I do,” I murmur. I freeze, cringing a little. That sounded kind of like taking a wedding vow.

Damon chuckles next to my ear, reading my mind perfectly. “Might be a little soon to head to the altar, Sherlock, but maybe we could get there someday.”

I freeze again. Eyes blink. Heart races. “It’s not fair to mess with a woman who is only half-awake.”

“I don’t play games even though I called myself Professor M. Piper, I’m not a fan of leading people on. Someday, sweetheart.” He kisses my temple and climbs off the bed. “I’ll see you at school.”

Someday. I’m way up somewhere on cloud nine. I swear, I’ve just half-floated through getting ready for the day and all the way to school. In the office, I grab a stack of papers out of my mailbox, turn to wave a cheery good morning to the secretaries, and hum my way right out the door and down the hallway.

My thoughts race right back to Damon, who is by far the most amazing lover I’ve ever had. For the first time in my life, I’d lost count of the orgasms. Just remembering every moment with him has my heart pounding fast behind my rib cage. I won’t be able to look at my shower or—holy shit—my living room floor without a swift rush of memories assailing me.

I duck into the library to find my whole tribe gathered around Madison’s desk, whispering away to each other. “Did I miss the memo?”

Five heads turn at once, eyes lighting up.

Zoey rushes to me first, putting an arm around me and guiding me to their little circle. “Well, we kept texting last night, but we never heard back from you, so we gave up and planned to meet this morning.”

Sophia eyes me with a smirk. “I’m guessing she hasn’t looked at her phone.”

“Like, at all.” Madison grins big.

“Were you busy getting busy last night? Please say yes!” Hadleigh nods her head, as if willing me to agree with her.

“What? I missed text messages? I just randomly came in here on my way past.” I glance at my phone to see thirty plus text notifications. “Oh. I guess I was kind of preoccupied.” A bubble of laughter works its way up from my belly. “Sorry.” I cover my mouth with my hand.

Quinn snickers. “You dirty girl, don’t be sorry. We kind of thought maybe, but then we knew there were a few stumbling blocks and we weren’t sure.”

“For all we knew, you were fighting, biting each other’s heads off.” Sophia shrugs with a broad grin.

“No. I’m just … I’m just—”

“She’s dickstruck, ladies. Our genius friend can’t even get a sentence out properly.” Hadleigh giggle-snorts.

My mouth drops open.

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