Finding Delaware (State of Us #1)
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Strong arms wrap around my shoulders, slowing my momentum while our bikes halt mere inches from us.
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Ahw already protecting him!!
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“Who started it?” he asks after a pause, and my eyes flick at him warily. “Does it matter?” “I guess not.” He tosses the rag into the sink before crossing his arms again. “Who won?”
Chami2207
Oooh I like this dad!!
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I did that. I made those lips swell. I made those dark eyes water. I left my mark on him. Me.
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While I may get violent with Huckslee because I’m forced to, the thought of anyone else touching him pisses me off. He’s mine to torment. No one else’s.
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“That glare is reserved for me. You’re giving it to everyone else, and I’m jealous.”
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This can be like neutral ground or something. A fake place. Like…Delaware.”
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“You’re fucking cute when you’re flustered,” I blurt out, cutting off his rant, and my smile grows when his lips part at my words. His dark eyes widen, twinkling like a starry night sky as he flounders like a fish for something to say.
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right now. She trails a line of kisses down
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“But I want to talk to you, and you don’t trust me right now. So we’re going to Delaware.”
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window, and I need that scholarship, man.” “Are you?” I ask quickly,
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“God, I’m so fucking stupid.” I laugh humorlessly as I turn on my heel, heading back toward the house. “Despite all the shit you’ve done to me, I pined after you for years. Years. You really couldn’t care less about anyone but yourself, Taylor.”
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Again. “You’d look like this
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windows. Returning her grin, I feel
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morning, and the way he looked at me as if I’d lost my mind made me want to jab a fork into
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of his back work as he swims to the other side
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“You weren’t there,” I accuse softly, gripping the handlebars. He must not have heard me because he tilts his head and steps closer. “I don’t know what we are, Huckslee. Maybe at one point, I did, but all of that changed. And I know I can’t undo everything I’ve done, but I almost fucking died, and you weren’t there.”
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Huckslee Davis, jersey number twenty, currently in his fourth and final season playing for the California Golden Bears at CU Berkeley.
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rough, buddy.” I feel eyes on me and slide my
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Fuck, even sad, he’s adorable. Makes me want to make him hot chocolate and shit. Tuck a blanket around him. Sit on his face.
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Hotter than Satan’s fucking nutsack.
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“You’re like a whole year younger than me, bebita.”
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loco hijo de puta,
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“Pinche cabrón.”
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I fall asleep with a grin, my fingers entwined with Huck’s, surrounded by the only family I’ve ever wanted or needed.
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this,
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interracial couple in the nineteen-sixties, and they
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hurts Huck more than he’s letting on, but he refuses
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down. “No besos delante de la mamá, cariño!"
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"Pinche mentiroso,