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shudders and melts against me even more, and I can feel her nipples beading through her thin bra against my pecs. “Your dad is still home, in his bedroom,” she whispers.
    “So?” I cup the welcoming weight of her breast, thumb the nipple. It hardens more beneath my touch.
    She laughs and pulls back. “Not here, where he can walk in at any minute. I don’t want him to think badly of me.”
    “Clearly he doesn’t if he let you in to use the stove,” I murmur, but drop my hand.
    “So…are we good?” she asks. There’s real hope in her eyes, an emotion mirrored in my own heart, but also a tinge of uncertainty.
    I cup her cheek. Stroke my thumb along the curve of her cheekbone. “Lauren, I’ve loved you since middle school. I’ve pretty much been in love with you every single day I’ve known you. And I’ve been carrying around what I thought was a foolish wish, to one day have you feel something for me too.”
    “Oh,” she says on a breathy exhale. Her eyes are impossibly wide as she stares at me. “I… Wow, I didn’t know. Why did you never tell me? All these years you’ve been…” She licks her lips.
    “Isn’t it obvious? Because like you, I valued our friendship, and I was afraid if I said anything, it would ruin what we have.” I think for a moment. “And then we had that night together in the basement.”
    She quirks her mouth, and her eyes get warm. My cock throbs as she stares at me, lust and love right there all over her face. “Remind me to thank Xander for that shitty basement door. I guess we just needed a push in the right direction.”
    I wrap my hands around her waist, revel in the feel of her skin under my hands. I don’t ever want to let her go now. “You know there’s no going back to just being friends,” I say softly. “This is it. Ready or not.”
    “Let’s be honest. We haven’t been ‘just friends’ in a while,” she says. She reaches up and takes my hands in hers, threads our fingers together, lowers them between us. “We’ve been on a trajectory in this direction, and it was going to happen at some point. I’m just glad it’s now. And…again, I’m really sorry about not being honest with you before. But I wasn’t honest with myself either, and I’ve let fear hold me back for far too long.”
    I’m not sure it’s possible for me to feel any happier than I do right now. Freeing one hand, I stroke the hair from her face, tuck a lock behind her ear. “I want to be inside you,” I tell her. I want her to see how much I need her, crave her. This beautiful woman who is all mine.
    She flushes, a deep pink sliding up her throat, across her cheeks. “But your dad, he’s…”
    I lean down until my lips brush her ear. “Then I guess you’ll have to stay extra quiet. You can do that, right, kitten? Stay quiet for me while I fuck you and make you come on my bed? I need to feel that hot, wet pussy wrapped around me.”
    She gives a jerky nod, and her breathing grows rapid once more.
    “Good girl. Let me thank you properly for trying to bake for me.” I press a wet kiss beneath her earlobe, and she sighs, clings to my shoulders, her head falling back to expose the column of her throat. I oblige and give a row of gentle kisses there, then demand in the dark, bossy tone I know she loves, “Upstairs, right now.”

7
    Three months later
    Lauren

    I peek down at the time on my phone. Shit, I’m running late. There’s a snag in my hose on the outside of the right leg, so I strip them off and toss them in the bathroom garbage. Screw it, I shaved yesterday. It’s hot as hell outside anyway. The August temperature has made my skin sticky, despite not having stepped outside yet.
    I twist my hair into a messy bun and pin it, slick lip-gloss across my lips, and call it a day. I don’t want to keep Cole and Xander waiting for too long. It’s the unveiling of the bar remodel, and I’m beyond excited to show them all the hard work I’ve been putting in.
    I know