of them in an emotional sense. She also couldn’t admit the reason why she had stayed away and avoided them for so long. He hadn’t asked, but she could see the question burning behind his eyes. Sasha looked into eyes that were so warm and familiar they brought a fresh wave of tears to her eyes again.
“I’m in love with you, Jonas.” She slapped a hand over mouth, and her eyes widened. Oh God. Had she really just said that? Letting her hand fall, she knew it was too damn late to take it back or make up some lame excuse for why she’d said it. She turned back in her seat and stared out the windshield. Yeah, she had just totally done that.
Please just go. Please just go.
As if she spoke the mantra out loud, Jonas shifted the truck into drive and pulled back onto the road. The fact he didn’t say anything should have made her feel better, but all it did was make the situation worse. He pulled into her parents’ driveway ten minutes later, and those had been the longest ten minutes of her damn life. Escape sounded like a pretty good idea. Just as she reached for the handle and muttered a “thank you” he stopped her with his hand on her arm. Sasha couldn’t bear to look at him, not after she had inserted her foot into her mouth. She blamed her emotions for the fact she blurted out her lifelong secret.
His voice was soft when he said, “Look at me, please.”
Sasha looked over her shoulder and was struck breathless by how vulnerable he looked. To see a man as strong and fierce as Jonas look as scared as she felt scared her even more. A suspended moment passed where neither of them said anything, but then his next words had her feeling faint.
“Say it again, Sasha.”
Sucking in a breath that she hoped steadied her, she said, “What?”
Oh, she had heard him well enough, but shock built deep within her and spread outward until it encompassed every part of her body and soul. Jonas swallowed, and the rough sound of it in the stillness of the truck was monumental.
“I want to hear you say it again, Sasha.” He leaned closer so that his breath teased the arch of her cheek. “Tell me you’re in love with me again.” Her chest rose and fell forcefully.
He wanted to hear her say it again? Could she utter those words that had she had kept buried inside of her for far too long again? Swallowing the thick lump that now took residency in her throat, Sasha took one more steadying breath before she spoke.
“I’m in love with you, Jonas.”
An almost choked sound left him, and he brought his other hand up to cup her cheek. The heavy, callused weight of it felt so good, and she leaned into his touch more. She wanted him to kiss her so damn badly, and as if she said the words out loud his mouth was on hers. The taste of the beer he had drunk and his natural flavor filled her mouth, and she moaned against his lips. At the first touch of his tongue along the seam of her mouth she didn’t hesitate to open for him. The sound of his deep groan was the sexiest noise she had ever heard. Something inside of her snapped, and she wrapped her arms around his neck and plastered herself against him. Her breasts pressed against his hard, muscular chest, but it was when he hauled her over his lap so her pussy came into contact with his erection, that the real pleasure slammed into her. He lifted his hips and further pressed his hard shaft between her thighs.
“God, Sasha.” He broke the kiss and murmured the words as he trailed his mouth down her neck. “You have no idea how long I have wanted to hear you say those words, and to feel you just like this.” The vibration from his words speared through her neck and sent tingles to her pussy.
A gasp left her when he scraped his teeth along her skin. “You have?” This was all too unreal, like she was in a dream, or an alternate universe. How had these events transpired so quickly? She had only gotten back in town yesterday, had only seen Tanner and Jonas tonight after
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