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project.”
    “Shit.”
    I placed my hand on her lower back and sighed, the smile never leaving my face as I leaned against the car. “They want to go out to dinner. Together. All four of us.”
    And my stomach flipped a bit as I imagined what that would be like, trying to keep my hands off Dawn in front of my ex-stepsister.
    We could do that. It wasn’t like she thought the arrangement was anything more than sex. It would be ridiculously easy to pull that off.

13.

    Dawn
    I closed my eyes and envisioned a place that was not an ocean. And a time that was not so far in the past. My heroine had changed as well as the location. Her hair was darker and eyes were smaller. She had fewer curves. Her lover was not as broad, but taller. His hair was still light but in a different hue. Eyes piercing blue and an angular jaw.
    “Damn it.” I swore and opened my eyes as I tried to focus.
    My Vlad and Iris were starting to look a lot like Warner and me.
    Wardo had pretty much accused me of trying to pull a Mary Sue and doing a self-insert in my story as it was. If I kept it up, he’d be right and then I would have to tell admit it, too. And as it was, he could just fit his head through the door of my apartment because he was so damn cocky.
    We were going to be meeting Nolan and Candace for dinner, and I was a little worried about how everything would progress. Warner had been a little off since Monday, and I was getting a weird vibe from him.
    I mean. I had gotten a vibe from him. A physical one. But this was a different vibe. He was just acting strange.
    All during class on Wednesday, he had been quiet and I wasn’t about to reach my hand into his pants to help him feel better. Instead, I turned the cold shoulder his way and we just did our lab work like we’d intended to. No speaking unless it was necessary. And I’d figured that he wasn’t going to come over afterward, like we had planned earlier in the week, so I just left without saying goodbye. I didn’t want to admit that it hurt my feelings a little.  
    When I pulled up to my place, he was already there, leaning against the wall next to my apartment building door. His eyes were smoldering, and I was pretty much mute under his gaze. So I just walked by him and up the stairs to my door, unlocking it and pushing it open to close it behind him after he’d entered.
    It was like we didn’t need to talk anymore. I just took off my shoes, and he was behind me, his nose to my neck and hands tugging at my coat to get me naked as soon as possible. I leaned into him and let him do what he wanted to because it all just felt so damn good. We undressed, and he turned me to his chest to kiss me hard and deep. It took my sense of gravity away as I melted against him. He scooped me up in his arms and carried us to the bathroom where he started the shower and placed me inside the tub before he got in after me. Then he washed my hair as well as my body, his fingers played me like a finely tuned piano until I was trying, without success, to claw my way up his soapy, wet chest.
    “Not yet,” he murmured in this low, gravelly voice that made my head spin a hundred miles an hour. Instead, he finished washing his body, swatting my hands away every time I attempted to touch him. When he was done, he wrapped me in a towel and lifted me off my feet to carry me into the kitchen.
    I laughed and settled onto the countertop when he’d deposited me there. “What are we learning today, Professor?”
    His eyes narrowed, and he sucked in his cheeks as he stalked toward me and pulled the towel from my frame, letting it land around my ass. I was caught off guard at his aggressiveness and leaned away a little as he pulled my knees toward him. He settled my feet on the two bar stools underneath my legs, spreading me wide open to view.
    “I’m helping you, Bunny. I’m not your teacher.” His nose tickled the inside of my leg, and I felt goose bumps erupt over my thighs and higher as his teeth nipped

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