The Hacker Heiress Strikes Back novel · Chapter 20 of 32
Chapter 20: The Third Night
My hands didn't stop shaking until we were behind his two locks.
Raylan turned both keys, click, click, and then he just stood there in the dark with his forehead against the door.
"She winked at you," he said. "Your mother walked across Lucinda Merriman's lawn and winked."
I laughed, and it broke in the middle.
He turned and caught me before I fell apart, and I grabbed fistfuls of his coat.
"I'm fine," I said into his chest.
"You're not."
"I'm not fine," I said. "I want to stop thinking."
He lifted my face with two fingers.
"Tell me how," Raylan said.
"Bed."
He had finally unpacked the bedroom behind the boxes.
It held a low wide bed, a lamp with a paper shade, and the gold watch ticking on the nightstand.
I pulled his tie off while he walked me backward.
He undid my hoodie and then my jeans, slowly, and I hated him a little for it.
"Faster," I said.
"No."
"Raylan."
"You've been running all day," he said. "You get to stop here."
He laid me on the sheets and knelt over me and kissed my throat, my collarbone, the thin scar down my sternum.
He kissed it from top to bottom, and I stopped breathing.
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