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Adjusting the twisted waistband of his jeans with one hand, Colton wrapped the other around Kate’s shoulders, tacking sweet kisses along her temple and into the depths of her chocolate waves. The panic that shrouded them in the car gradually diffused as they drove, thanks to the ridiculous high-pitched whine Colton had tried to pass off as ‘singing’, his dark eyes alight at the sound of her laughter. As they hurried up the staircase, endorphins flooded Kate’s system; the ache between her thighs subsided, her heart swelling with every meager brush of his fingers across her shoulder and tender dab of his lips against her skin.
Releasing her from his grasp, he entwined their fingers together, his free hand digging in his pocket for the house keys. “Did you throw out the rest of that pie?”
“How are you not full?” Kate muttered. “You had two funnel cakes.”
“I did not,” he scoffed, lifting a hand
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