Minutes later, Eric returned, tossing his bag in the back seat next to mine before he ducked into the passenger side, and the waft of his spicy, masculine scent hit me like a sledgehammer. I’d missed being close to it like that, the potency, the himness of it undiluted. Hell, just the weight of his presence displaced the air around me, like the density experiments I’d done in grade school with blocks of wood and foam, and I felt this weird sense of self-deception that I’d let him become so huge to me. I thought of the guy I’d fooled around with the summer before college. It hadn’t been
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