’ Satisfaction washed through his features and a feral arrogance gripped his actions, his fingertips digging into her ass, and his body driving her ...ard against the door. Her fingernails worked with tight spasm into his shoulder muscles. Deep and driving thrusts that didn’t come to a climax so much as barrel down a mountain they’d been climbing together for months, tumbling down the other side as fast and as dizzying as it had been slow and tortuous to climb. Clinging to each other, their lips. I mean ... it wouldn't've worked. You know, not with Paul there."Chris sighed. The first couple of days had been rough with Paul and Leah sniping at each other, creating collateral damage for everyone around them. Thankfully they'd worked things out before Elizabeth had to make good on her threat to send Leah home."I understand," Chris said, "but he and Leah made up ... eventually." They did? Really?" Yeah, they did." That's cool. Then I definitely need to talk to Leah. Is she there?" Yeah,. He tried to make me touch him down there, and I wouldn't do that, either. I made him take me home, and I wouldn't even give him a goodnight kiss before I got out of the car and ran inside. I've been afraid of boys ever since.”She looked up at him, a serious expression in her eyes. “I've been afraid of the feelings I get inside me when I let boys do those things to me.”“Is he the only boy you ever kissed?” Brian asked. Amber shook her head again.“No, once, in my sophomore year, I let Andy. You might need to squint to see them, Blake, but that kind of fine detail is so impressive. You’re so happy with it, aren’t you, Blake?’ That was it. Any other day, any other job, he’d have humored Alice for a while longer, but today, he couldn’t hold it in anymore. Before he even realized he was speaking, he’d already shouted, ‘Goddamnit, Alice!’ Noting the expression of irritation on her face, he took a deep breath. ‘Sorry,’ he said. ‘I’m just, um, a little edgy. Didn’t sleep well.’ Inside,.