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I flick the lock back and close the distance between us. She crosses her arms and the scowl on her face starts to drop as she sucks in a breath and looks up at me. I tower over her by at least a foot and a half.

Slowly, I lift my hand and grip her jaw, guiding her chin up with my forefinger. Her breath hitches and her pupils dilate as my finger brushes a path down the slope of her neck, all while never breaking eye contact.

Slowly, I back her against the wall. Her hands drop to my abs and she fists my shirt to keep steady as her back hits the wall.

Her breathing is heavy as she says, “Wha- what are you doing?”

“What we’ve both been craving.” I don’t give her a chance to protest as my hand gently grips her throat and my mouth descends on hers.

She quickly melts into me, closing her eyes and gripping my shirt tighter, letting a moan slip. Fuck I want to swallow all of her fucking moans. I’ll be damned if anyone else ever gets to touch these fucking lips.

When we finally come up for air, she opens her eyes in a daze. Her lips are irritated from the kiss, red and splotchy. “So fucking beautiful.” I whisper, making her eyes flutter.

The last thing I want to do right now is leave her, but I need to. I back away, putting some space between us and go to lock the window again.

She doesn’t move from her place against the wall, just stares at me like I’m a ghost. “Lock the door behind me, Honeybee.”

She blinks a couple times, then slowly nods, before clearing her throat. “I will.”

Following me to the front door, she stands in the doorway as I exit into the hallway. I turn towards her and brush my thumb over her cheek before placing a kiss on her forehead. “Get some sleep.”

She doesn’t say anything as if she’s speechless for a moment. I go to walk towards the elevator when she calls out, “Reed!”

I smile to myself before facing her.

“I.. um.” she stumbles over her words. “How about, just text me next time.”

Pulling my phone out of my pocket, I walk towards her and click to send a new message. “Here text yourself so you have mine as well.”

She quickly puts in her number and sends herself a message before exiting out and handing it back over to me.

“Drive safe.” She says and heads inside her apartment. I wait until the lock clicks to head out.

Opening the text app to save her number, I chuckle at the text she sent herself.

Creepy perv

CHAPTER 9

LEXIE

It’s been four days since Reed broke into my apartment and left me wanting more.

Not that I condone breaking and entering, because I absolutely do not condone that at all.

But that's besides the point.

He left me with another mouth-watering kiss. I could’ve leaned against that wall and let him kiss me all night long.

It’s absolutely asinine because I should be terrified of him. Who in their right mind thinks breaking into someone’s apartment to wait on them to get home is a smart thing to do?

I want to ask Lainey about him, because I’m sure she knows some about him because of Kalix, but I don’t want her to think I’m interested in him. She’ll probably ask me a million questions that I don’t want to answer.

I’ve picked my phone up at least a hundred times over the last few days, waiting for a text from him. I sure as hell am not texting him first if that’s what he’s waiting on. This all could be just some game to him.

I huff out a sigh as I step out of the elevator on my floor. Digging the keys out of my purse, I stop in my tracks when I notice two decent-sized packages by my apartment. One bigger than the other.

I didn’t order anything, so I look for the name on the address so I can get it to the right person, but pause when I see that there’s no packing label. Just Lexie scribbled across both cardboard boxes.