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giver had a pierced tongue. I couldn’t shake the image from either of my heads, and before long I was thinking about her nipples.
    The good news was that I didn’t think too much about Emmy for the rest of the night. The bad news was that I couldn’t stop thinking about Lily.
     

Chapter Two
    ~Lily~
    My body was ready to wake up from its slumber, but I wanted to chase after the fading dream I had. I tried to force myself to sleep again, but my toes betrayed me by flexing and pointing to the foot of the bed, and my arms stretched over my head until my fingers grazed over the headboard.
    Damn stretching limbs.
    Defeated, my eyes fluttered open and stared at the windows I was facing. The mid-afternoon sun pressed against the glass, but the room darkening blinds let only the smallest tra ces of sunlight through. I rolled my head and shrieked. Kyle was lying next to me, on his side with his head propped on one arm as he gazed at me. His hair was damp from a recent shower, I assumed, and his beard was gone.
    “I went to sleep thinking about what it would be like to kiss you,” he said in a velvety voice that nearly made my panties burst into flames and melt off of my body. “I woke up with the same thought, but I thought I wasn’t thinking straight because I’m really fucked up in the head and heart right now. I went out for a long run and forced myself to focus on the task at hand. I took a shower, shaved, and went about trying to get on with my life post Emmy as a recovering addict. No matter what I did today, the desire to kiss you didn’t go away. Maybe it’s because you ar e right here…in my bed…” He ran a finger over my jawline that left me trembling. “Tangible…” His thumb dragged across my bottom lip and shamefully, I gasped.
    “So, I’ve been laying here for the past half hour watching you sleep, trying to decide if I should wake you with a kiss or wait until you wake up; or if I should be an asshole and send you away so that I wouldn’t be tempted.”
    “You should probably send me away,” I struggled to breathe out.
    “I probably should,” he agreed. “That would be wise, but I don’t always b ehave wisely.” His fingers traced over the stars tattooed on my neck.
    “Well, here’s your chance to prove you’re not a complete boob.”
    Hell, I really wanted him to kiss me. I had been thinking about it since the first time I had ever seen him, but I really didn’t want him to kiss me. If it weren’t for his broken heart, we wouldn’t even be discussing it, because I wouldn’t have been there. I didn’t want to be the rebound girl; especially since the woman who was making him rebound was my boss. I never actually believed any of my fantasies about Kyle would ever come to fruition. It really wouldn’t be healthy for either of us to be anything other than friends.
    Then again, it was only a kiss, and he would probably hate it or it would make him think of Emmy and he wouldn’t want to take it any further. Then again, stranger things have happened.
    While I was at war with myself, Kyle had apparently made up his own mind.
    “I hate ‘what if’ scenarios,” he said, as his thumb dragged across my lip again.
    “Well, what if I don’t want you to kiss me?” I asked in a growing panic. “ What if I don’t kiss you back?”
    A small, but dangerous smile appeared on his face. “You do and you will .”
    His hand firmly – possessively – cupped my face and he brought his lips to mine. I stopped breathing and my heart stopped when his tongue smoothed across my lips seeking entrance. Stubbornly, I didn’t let him in. His tongue swept over my bottom lip and suddenly I felt his teeth on me. He didn’t bite me hard enough to bleed, but I parted my lips in a surprised reflex and his tongue dove into my mouth. I couldn’t stop the moan that escaped my throat when his tongue found the tip of mine. When I flicked my piercing over his tongue, Kyle moaned loudly into my mouth. I reached