The kiss in the car stretched on, the moonlight streaming through the window to fall on Vanessa, frosting her hair with silver.Julian kissed her, unable to tear himself away, his grip sliding from her palms to her shoulders. He wanted to embrace Vanessa, to hold her slender body, their skin exchanging warmth, as if he could feel her bones beneath his touch. His heart ached with a pang.The kiss trailed lower, to her collarbone, a primal urge to bite and leave his mark, but he feared hurting Vanessa.He couldn't bear it.Too many times, he had been defeated by that reluctance.“Don’t make me unhappy again, Vanessa. I’m not that patient, you know that.”Of course, she knew. “If you don’t entangle yourself with me, and you let Adrian go, I won’t ever provoke you.”“He hit you. I was the one who saved you when he hit you. Now you’re pleading for him?” Julian couldn’t reconcile it. “I can understand you liking Perry, or being close to Harvey. But Adrian? What right does he have?”“Because
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