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“Syd! Look!”

I glanced away from Ford, my stare returning to Everly as the second pancake landed even better than the first.

“You’re doing the best job. Now, can you do the remaining ones too?”

“Yep!”

I kept my eyes on her, but I could still feel Ford’s on me.

I wouldn’t look at him.

I couldn’t.

I was positive he’d see right through me, and then he’d know exactly how I was feeling. How last night had taken every ounce of restraint I had. How this morning, watching the two of them together, feeling the intensity of his eyes, was more than I could handle.

I couldn’t shut off the tingles in my body.

I couldn’t stop the desire from pulsing.

The need.

The want.

Both owning me with a strength I couldn’t fight.

Maybe he had been born with a switch that made him forget, but the time we’d spent together was still so fresh in my head.

And time with him was something I wanted more of.

“Come on, little pancake. Be nice,” Everly said as she moved on to the last one, so focused on what she needed t