Chapter 84


    Chapter Eighty-Four: The kiss


    Had Ryan or Jason imed him because I had not been enough for them? Did that mean that they


    didn’t want me now that they knew I couldn’t keep up with what they needed?


    My chest felt tight and I felt like all of the air had been sucked from the room. I swallowed hard, untan


    gling myself from the sheets with the slowest of movements.


    I didn’t want to wake them up. I didn’t want to see it in their eyes. To know that I hadn’t been enough for


    them. For them to have the same look in their eyes that Jake had had when he rejected me.


    Thad cared about Jake, but with Ryan, Jason, and Travis, it felt like it was so much more than that.


    Even though I had just met them, they meant more to me.


    It would break me to see that looking from them.


    Pushing up onto all fours, I looked at the pillow. The lines that my body had left on the bedding, it was


    something that I could focus on that wasn’t them. All I needed to do was climb over Jason to get out of


    the bed. Then I could steal a pair of shorts from the dresser and slip out of the room.


    Hopefully, they would stay asleep and I could figure out my way through this maze of a house down to


    the garage.


    After that, I would go home and lick my wounds in private. I would take something for my headache


    and get in the shower. Scrub the night away so that it was just a memory.


    I just needed to get out of here first.


    Looking over at Jason, I took in his sleeping form. How the sunlight brought out the highlights in his


    blonde hair. His arms was curled above his head, his body softened with sleep. His face was still all


    hard angr lines, but there was a tension missing from his face that had been there the night before.


    There was just something about him that I liked. Something about all of them that made me want to


    stay with them.


    The way that Jason had held me in the car. How he had helped me forget about Jake for a moment.


    The way that he was strong when I needed him to be, I was going to miss him.


    Hell, I was going to miss them all.


    It was better this way. Better for me to just sneak off. Better to leavest night as a memory.


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    Taking a deep breath, I steeled myself. Moving closer to Jason, I braced a hand just above his arm,


    slowly moving my leg over his so that I was straddling his lean body. It had seemed like he would be


    easier to climb over, but now that I was here. It was harder than I thought it would,


    His face was so close to mine, his intoxicating scent filled my senses. All I could think about was kiss


    ing him onest time.


    Just one kiss to say goodbye to him and the others, then I would leave.


    Leaning closer to him, I breathed in the warm scent of his. I think that was what I was going to miss the


    most with him. How his scent made its way into me. Making me feel like I was drinking warm chai tea


    on an autumn afternoon.


    Closing my eyes, I pressed my lips to his, just the softest brush of my lips against his, Just enough to


    say goodbye.


    A hand moved up the back of my thigh and I stiffened. Opening my eyes, I looked down at him. His


    eyes were still closed, but the corners of his lips had turned up into a smile.


    “Good morning, kitten.” He purred, his voice all rough with sleep melting my resolve.


    “Jason. I, I thought you were asleep. I, I, I didn’t mean to wake you.” | stammered out, feeling my face


    flush with warmth. I felt like a kid who had been caught with their hand in the cookie jar. His hand trailed


    softly up the back of my thigh,nding on my ass to palm my naked flesh over the bite mark that Travis


    had left on my ass.


    His touch reminded me that I wasn’t wearing any panties. That the only thing separating my body from


    his was the thin cotton sheet between us.


    | shifted my weight to the side, getting ready to climb off of him and his eyes opened. He shook his


    head, his hand tightening on my bottom.


    “I was, but I woke up when your heartbeat changed.” He said, his fingers tracing over the lines of the


    bite mark.


    I shivered at his touch, biting my lower lip. It felt so good. My body tightened up at his nearness. The


    way that he was looking at me made me feel like maybest night hadn’t messed things up.


    That maybe he still wanted me?


    His eyes swept over my face, down to my lips. His pupils dted, stretching and growing as his tongue


    tucked behind his teeth. “Stop biting that lip, kitten.”


    I let go of my lower lip, and my heart started beating faster. “Jason, i-”


    ‘Tillie.” He said, stopping me from saying anything. I didn’t know how he was able to make my name


    sound like a caress but he did.


    He uncurled his arm from above his head. Bringing his hand up to the side of my face, his fingertips


    moved over the top part of my cheek. Like a cat, I leaned into the touch, savoring the way that it felt


    when he touched me. How the butterflies red to life in the pit of my stomach.


    I could love him. I could love all of them.


    “Tillie.” He whispered again before craning his neck up. I closed my eyes as his lips touched mine in a


    kiss. A kiss that was soft and sweet. A kiss that was filled with so many things that we couldn’t say yet