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“I’m so fucking angry with you,” I told her.

Taking a step closer, she nodded. “I’m angry at me, too.”

Scratching the back of my neck, I swore, watching her move closer, each step testing how I’d react.

“I’m not going to push you away,” I told her.

“Because you’re not the one who does that.”

I raised a brow. “You said it.”

“You’re tense.”

“You pissed me off.”

“I can tell. Do you want me to leave?”

“That’s a stupid fucking question.”

“You’re swearing a lot,” she said.

“You’ve gotten under my skin. As usual.Whycan’t I get over you?”

“You don’t want to.”

She stopped when we were toe-to-toe.

“No, I think I do. Four. Years,” I said.

“Maybe you should start seeing someone else, then,” she said,

Her breath blew across my face. I inhaled, and my stomach clenched. I wanted to grab her and shake her. I wanted to walk out the door and show her how much it hurt to be left.

But, more than anything, I just wanted her to be mine again.

“I tried that.”

“Didn’t work at all?”

I narrowed my eyes. “They weren’t you. I couldn’t even come unless I thought of you. I’mruined.”

“Cole…”

My eyes slid down to her full lips, and I hardened in my jeans. The blinding desire to take her upstairs was so overwhelming I had to

“Are you still mad?” she asked.

“Yes,” I bit out.

Reaching out, her fingers brushed my neck. I closed my eyes to the sensation, her touch spreading wildfire across my chest.

“Oakley,” I murmured, groaning. Reaching out, I gripped her hips as her mouth replaced her fingers. She planted featherlight kisses to my skin. Then, she ran her hand up my back, and I shuddered at the touch.

Her mouth moved along my jaw, to the corner of my mouth, and my lungs emptied. If I turned my head a centimetre, we’d be kissing.

Gasping, she pulled back, and my eyes flew open.

What?