CHAPTER 12
WHAT THE HELL just happened?
I walked home in a daze, the touch of Oliver’s lips still burning on mine. In fact, I walked further. I’d gone a block and a half past my new apartment before I realised where I was.
What on earth had I been thinking? I’d licked Oliver. Freaking licked him. And why did he kiss me? Another distraction? A way to stop me from complaining?
Well, it sure worked, didn’t it? I hadn’t just stopped complaining, I’d stopped thinking and breathing as well, and my heart continued to hammer even twenty minutes later. I replayed the moment over and over in my mind. The heat of his skin, the way he pressed into me, the taste of…
Stop it! How dare he? I’d made it quite clear I wanted no part of him, yet he still presumed he could take what I hadn’t offered.
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