He scoffed at that and looked at me with a flinty expression. “I wasn’t going to let you think that I was embarrassed of you or didn’t want them to know we were together. That what my parents thought had any bearing on what I want with you.”

The shit that came out of Easton’s mouth, like he wasn’t putting my entire life on a different course with every word.

“What you want with me.” It was more of a question than a statement, but at times like this it almost felt easier just to let the tide of Easton’s faith in whatever it was we were doing pull me in. I’d gasp my way back to shore later...or not. “I’m not sure how Anne and Easton Archer Jr. would feel about having me at their Thanksgiving table.”

“I don’t give a fuck about my parents’ opinion on this. I just need to stop trying to overcompensate for their piss-poor behavior with fake politeness.” He lifted an ungloved hand and gripped the back of my coat, bringing us closer. “As for what I want with you. You know perfectly well that nothing would make happier than all of fucking Ithaca knowing that you’re mine. But I know how you are.”

He huffed the words out as he pulled me down for a kiss, and his tongue was like a fucking drug. Everything just dulled around me when he was kissing me like this, dirty and so fucking slow. Sucking on my lips, running his tongue down my neck until my dick was so hard I felt it would pop out of my trousers.

My breath hitched, as he bit on my earlobe his hand rubbing my cock, hard. “Why don’t you tell me how I am Easton, because I swear I thought I did before I met you.”

“Stubborn and in denial.” That was said with his hot mouth against my ear.

We should’ve gone inside and joined the party again. But by the time Easton ran a hand up my chest and sucked on my lip, I knew the only thing happening next was fucking.

Easton really did test every single of one of my limits until they broke. Because I was out here on the damn street as close to public indecency as I’d ever been. And yet the only thing running through my head was how many more minutes it would be before I had him naked and panting on my bed.