What He Doesn't Know (What He Doesn't Know Duet, #1)

by Kandi Steiner

“I’m not sorry. Not even a little bit. I’ve wanted you for years. Decades. And did I ever think I’d have you? No. But then life brought me here, back to you, and you were fucking miserable the day I came back. You still are. You can open that pretty

mouth of yours and tell me every lie you’ve told yourself but I’ll never believe them. I see you, Charlie.”

“You can push me away, and you can tell yourself you feel nothing for me, but I know it’s bullshit. And you do, too.”

“Because I miss you… I miss my friend.” Reese stuck his tongue to the inside of his cheek, shaking his head like I’d just said the most offensive word in the English language. “Wow. No.” “No?” “No. You don’t get to say that to me. You don’t get to tell me that you miss me, and you definitely do not get to say that it’s our friendship that you miss.”

“But it is,” I tried to argue, but he cut me short. “You want to talk, Charlie? Fine. Let’s talk.” He stepped into me, lowering his voice so that only I could hear him. Not that it mattered — everyone else was still arguing about the snow day, anyway. “Why don’t you look me in the eyes, right now, right here, and tell me that you feel nothing for me. That’s what you wanted to talk about last time we had a conversation, right? So, here. Hammer it home.”

“I would have waited forever,” I said on a breath. “But my God, I’m so glad you came tonight.”

My crown slipped between her lips only to dive out again, and I gripped her ass hard in my hands, biting the tendon of her shoulder with a satisfying gasp leaving her dainty mouth. I couldn’t think of anything else as I reached between us, positioning myself at her entrance, and in one smooth, hard thrust, I was inside her.

“If I am a river, you are the ocean. It all comes back to you in the end.”