Twenty-Two
We drove in silence. Hawk kept the car just under the speed limit all the way home. He pulled up to my dorm and put the car in park. We sat there under the street light for long moments in silence.
Finally, he got out of the driver’s side. I closed my eyes and exhaled the breath I’d been holding all the way home. When he reached for the door handle I panicked. I nearly reached out my hand to hold the door shut so I could stay in his world a little while longer.
My hands stayed in my lap and he pulled the door open. He offered me his hand. I took it. Those same sparks from the first night we met zipped throughout my body.
Hawk stared in my eyes. He leaned against me for a moment, my a*s against the steel of his car. It all felt so familiar. I wanted to lift my legs around his
