Ashley
My lungs were traitors as they refused to draw in air, leaving me suspended in the electric space between Hayden’s last touch and my next coherent thought. His lips were a mere breath away from mine while my fingers were tangled in the soft hair at the nape of his neck.
“Why?”My voice came out ragged as I was trying to make sense of the reason he had suddenly kissed me.
“Because you wanted me to, Ash,” he murmured, “Don’t pretend you didn’t.”
He wasn’t wrong. God! He was so infuriatingly right, but my brain finally caught up to my body and started screaming warnings. “Hayden, we can’t,” I said. I pulled back, putting space between us, though my hands remained on him, another betrayal. “This isn’t… It’s not right. Our parents… we live in the same house. If they find out…”
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