Chapter Seventeen
Ash didn’t feel as though she had a lot to lose, but she understood that it was very different for Gloria. She knew, in her bones, why this had to end tonight. It had been a nice fantasy. It had given her a few moments of divine distraction. Right now, it was giving her goosebumps across the expanse of her entire skin, because Ash hadn’t been lying when she’d said that Gloria was a wonderful kisser. She put her hand on Gloria’s throat and, under her thumb, Gloria’s pulse beat wildly. Her own heartbeat thumped like crazy in her chest, as if to say: “If you stop, I’m not sure I will ever feel like this again.”
Gloria leaned into the kiss with her entire body. Her fingertips dug into Ash’s back. Her tongue danced inside Ash’s mouth. Whenever she pulled back to take a deepe
