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Chapters (28)
  1. Praise
  2. Also by
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Prologue
  7. Chapter 1
  8. Chapter 2
  9. Chapter 3
  10. Chapter 4
  11. Chapter 5
  12. Chapter 6
  13. Chapter 7
  14. Chapter 8
  15. Chapter 9
  16. Chapter 10
  17. Chapter 11
  18. Chapter 12
  19. Chapter 13
  20. Chapter 14
  21. Chapter 15
  22. Chapter 16
  23. Chapter 17
  24. Chapter 18
  25. Chapter 19
  26. Epilogue
  27. Acknowledgments
  28. Teaser Chapter

Mine, she thought, and this time, nothing felt wrong or disloyal about it. She thought about the small steps she’d taken tonight, fixing up this bathroom that had been exactly the same forever, and it was great; of course it was great. It was convenient and helpful for hair-washing and hair-drying and towel-hanging and whatever, but it wasn’t making this place well and truly hers, not in the way that really mattered.

And at the moment, the only way that really mattered felt like it had something to do with the man right in front of her. A claim on this space that she would make entirely for herself.

She moved again. A small step that didn’t feel small at all. She could see the pulse beat along the line of his throat, could see his chest rising and falling with his quickened breaths.

“Will,” she said, something like a question, and felt it like an echo in her heart:

Will

Will

Will

And with barely a hesitation, he gave her his wordless answer.

He bent his head, and set his mouth to hers.

Chapter 12

Chapter 12

Oh, he would surely see hell for this.

But god, she felt like heaven.

Only her lips right now—soft, full, giving, perfect—but he knew deep down this one touch was temporary; he knew with heart-hiccupping intensity that he didn’t want to stop there, that if she let him, he’d get his hands and mouth all over her. It felt good to fully acknowledge it, like loosening the cord in his body that had been coiling tighter and tighter since that night on the beach, since that morning on the balcony.

Since before, some voice in his head taunted, and he clenched his fists in his pockets. He didn’t want to think about how far back this went, about how far forward it could go. He didn’t want to spend tonight like he’d spent the past three days, half angry at himself for offering to come back to this place that he knew meant trouble for him, and half hopeful that once he did, this exact thing would happen.

So he silenced the voice, himself, everything, by sinking further into Nora, parting her lips with his own, and when she made a quiet noise of pleasure and slipped her tongue across his bottom lip, it wasn’t like having the cord loosened.

It was like having it cut clean through.