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“Come on, Luk. I know you think she’s hot. You said so.” Silence. “And I see the way you look at her.” A buzz of unease bursts in the back of my skull. “How do I look at her?” “You know how.”
“Maybe the elephant’s just…blindfolded?” He nods slowly. “And tied up.” “And doing as it’s told.” He looks like he might find that more appealing. “What a good elephant.”
“Come closer,” he orders. Lukas stopped a step behind me. I turn and frown up at him. “Why?” “Because I just asked you to, Scarlett.”
The subject line just reads What you need. The body: If you decide to go for it, I think it should be me.
“Come on, Scarlett.” His mouth twitches. “You know who I want to have sex with.”
I don’t get to finish that sentence. Because Lukas Blomqvist takes a long step, pushes me into the wall, and kisses me.
“Hey. Hey, baby.”
“You are so fucking good,” he tells me. I’m not sure how, but a handful of moments later, I come again. “Already? You are perfect, huh?”
“Oh, sweetheart.” My belly swoops at the endearment. His tone lives somewhere between sympathy and amusement. “If you don’t think that I’m very aware of your presence, always, you have no idea what’s going on.”
Scarlett: He probably thinks we’re dating. We should set the record straight. Lukas: Or maybe we should just start dating.
“It’s
“I asked for you.”
“This is so much more than sex,” he tells me. “It was the first time, and sure as hell is now.”
“I want to do this with you every day and night for the rest of my life.”
“I forbid you to fall in love with her.” “Pen. I already have.”
I love you. I’m in love with you. And you’re in love with me. We can say it.” “Lukas.” “I have been in love with you for so long. And I won’t stop. I know it.” “Lukas—” “This is it, for me.” He presses a kiss against my cheek. “Remember back in the fall? When I was being a total asshole, trying to prove to myself that I could exist without you? I can’t, Scarlett. I can’t be without you. And for the first time in my life, I don’t care. I think of you all the time, and I want to make plans with you, I want to talk about the future, and I’m fucking happy about it—”
