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71: Say You're Mine

Author: StoriesByLily
last update Last Updated: 2024-12-10 22:09:31

XANDER

The way her eyes narrowed into slits told me that she was about to protest, and I weirdly found her stubbornness attractive for some reason.

Maybe I needed professional help at this point.

“Let me fucking go. I mea—”

On instinct, I used her wrist to pull her into my arms and crashed my lips against hers to shut her up. She used her free hand to push my chest, but I didn’t let her go, I just pressed my lips harder against hers, swiping my tongue out every few seconds to seek entrance.

April groaned against my lips, now fisting a portion of my shirt and pulling on it to get me away from her, but I still didn’t budge. I couldn’t bring myself to stop kissing her even though I knew that I should before her protests worsened.

When her stubborn refusal got a tad annoying, I grabbed both of her wrists in one of mine and pinned them behind her back, before wrapping my other palm around the base of her neck to keep our lip’s connected because I couldn’t bear for them to be apart.

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