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change?”
    I grabbed her face and kissed her,
trying to calm her with my touch, but she pushed me away again. She
turned around and walked back up to the house. After a few seconds,
she disappeared from my sight, hiding in the shadows of the
darkness. I listened to the sound of the waves crash against the
shore and felt my heart accelerate in my chest. I never felt more
alone.

5
     
    When I came back into my old bedroom,
Scarlet was already lying in bed. She was on her side facing the
window. I stripped my clothes away then crawled into bed alongside
her. I lied beside her for a moment and listened to her breathe. I
could tell by the uneven rising and falling of her chest that she
was awake.
    I turned on my side then moved closer
to her. When I wrapped my arm around her waist, she didn’t push me
away. I buried my face in her neck then kissed her gently, pressing
my body against her. She didn’t respond to me, acting like she was
asleep.
    I pressed my lips to her ear. “I love
you.”
    She was quiet for a moment. “I love
you too.”
    I breathed a sigh of relief. I kissed
her shoulder then moved to her neck, kissing her everywhere while I
trailed my fingers across her body. Her breathing picked up as I
touched her.
    “ I’m sorry,” I
whispered.
    “ I’m sorry
too.”
    I continued to kiss her, relieved that
she didn’t hate me. I knew she was still mad, but at least she
wasn’t livid with me. Pressing my naked chest against her body made
me aroused. We made love every night and I couldn’t deny my
expectation. My body automatically prepared for the rendezvous. I
was hard before I even finished the thought. I ran my hands down
her side, over her hip, and then down her smooth leg. I wanted her.
I moved my hands to the area between her legs, and I smiled when I
felt the moisture. She wanted me too.
    I turned her over while I climbed on
top of her, ready to make love to her.
    She pressed her hand against my chest.
“No, Sean. People will hear us.”
    I kissed the corner of her mouth then
separated her lips with my tongue. She melted at my touch for a
moment but then pulled away.
    I looked at her. “My parents’ bedroom
is on the other side of the house. My brother is next door, but I
couldn’t care less if he heard us.” I pressed my nose against hers
and watched her eyes reflect the light of the moon. Her lips were
slightly opened. She wanted me to kiss her again.
    “ I’m still mad at you,
Sean.”
    “ So? I still make love to
you when I’m pissed. It doesn’t change anything.” I grabbed her
pajama bottoms and stripped them off. We never wore clothes to bed.
I was surprised she even owned a pair of pajamas. I pulled down her
underwear than separated her legs. Knowing that she was already wet
for me made my heart pound. I moved my lips to her neck and started
to kiss her. I pressed my cock against her clit, and she ran her
fingers down my back. I knew I had her.
    She started to breathe heavily.
“Stop.”
    “ No.”
    She pushed me back. “I’m still pissed
that you lied to me, and I’m livid that you would ever think I
would do something like what Penelope did to you. You can’t just
kiss me and turn me on to make it go away. I’m angry with you.” She
looked up at me with ferocity in her eyes.
    I felt horrible about everything. A
part of me was paranoid that she would sleep with my brother just
like Penelope had, but the idea was so disturbing that I couldn’t
even think. If Scarlet cheated on me then left me, I wouldn’t be
able to go on. It would hurt way more than it ever did with
Penelope. And I should have told her the truth about my past with
my brother, but a part of me didn’t feel like I did anything wrong.
My relationship with my brother was none of her business. It
happened before I even knew her. It didn’t mean I wasn’t
trustworthy. “You’re right,” I whispered. “I should have told you
the truth. I was just being stupid.”
    “ Hell yeah, you
were.”
    I came back to