She inhaled sharply and her eyes flared wide but she didn’t retreat. Her tongue snaked out to tease her bottom lip and he was too caught up in the moment to remember that he was trying to call her bluff. And that moment was scorching. All the years he’d told himself his childhood crush was over, that Cassi was nothing more than a placeholder in his memory for the real deal that would come later, he knew he’d been fooling himself. Cassi was here, warm and alive, pressed against him and he was struggling to recall who was supposed to be in control. The seventeen-year-old Thomas Bristol who should’ve been long gone, awoke from a deep sleep and took over.“This is too easy,” he murmured, his skin tingling where her hands rested against his chest. “You can’t think that I don’t see what you’re doing, and it’s beneath you, Cassi.”She jerked, her gaze narrowing but he held her tight. “Let me go then,” she demanded, losing the softness he saw only moments prior. Her muscles rigid, she pushed against him but he had the advantage.
