“Can you help me? I gotta get outta this,” she said, and then she spun around with the skirts flaring and backed up until she hit me. I caught her and my balance before we both tumbled back onto the bed, my hands finding her now-bare waist. I swallowed, running my knuckles down the smooth skin of her back on a groan I hoped she didn’t hear. “Uh, maybe I should go get Giana.” The words burned my throat as I said them. “Noooo,” she whined, letting her head fall back against my chest. “She’ll make me stay down there and I just wanna go to sleep. You do it,” she insisted, and then she reached
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