What would you do if I kissed you right now?”I stared at his beautiful face and his beautiful mouth and I wanted nothing more than to taste it. “I would kiss you back.

I read the title from the cover. ‘ ‘The joy of… crap.’ ‘ I read the rest of the full title of the thick, nondescript volume to myself and felt myself redden.Noah turned over on...

I must be made of nothing to feel so much nothing.

Now you won’t fall.”Too late.

Don’t even think it.

Two seconds later, the sound of an alarm filled my ears. ”What did you do?” I said over the noise as he backed up towards the bathroom door. ”The girl who gave you the note?””Yes…””I...

The two of us snuggled like quotation marks in his room full of words.

He didn’t look like the same person who picked me up this morning. Noah–sarcastic, distant, untouchable Noah–cared. And that made him real.

I know what I can do to a girl with a word, a look, a touch. And I want to do them all to her.

Wait,” I said as Noah slipped a book from a shelf and headed toward the door. “Where are you going?””To read?”But I don’t want you to. “But I need to go home,” I said, my...

You want me as much as I want you. And all I want is you.”My tongue warred with my mind. “Today,” I whispered.Noah stood slowly, his body skimming mine as he rose. “Today. Tonight. Tomorrow....

Is there any point asking what you’re going to make me do on Sunday?”Not really.’Okay. ‘Is there any point asking what you’re going to do to me?’He grinned wickedly. ‘Not really.’Fabulous. ‘Does it involve the...

You can’t hurt me the way you think you can. But even if you could? I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue than live and never touch you again. I’m...

You smell good,” he whispered into my neck. He was warm against me. Instinctively, I arched back into him and smiled. “Really?” “Mmm-hmm. Delicious. Like bacon.

Have you kissed many boys before?” he asked quietly. His question brought my mind back into focus. I raised an eyebrow. “Boys? That’s an assumption.” Noah laughed, the sound low and husky. “Girls, then?””No.””Not many...

I hate you,” I muttered.Noah smiled wider. “I know.

I was going to kiss him, and I was going to regret it. But at that moment, I couldn’t bring myself to care.

You’re supposed to say, ‘All I want is your happiness. I’ll do whatever it takes, even if it means being without you.'””Sorry,” Noah said. “I’m just not that big of a person.

I was warned about you, you know.”And with that half-smile that wrecked me, Noah said, “But you’re here anyway.

Why?’ He asked.’Why what?’ What could I say? Noah, despite you being an asshole, or maybe because of it, I’d like to rip off your clothes and have your babies. Don’t tell.

I laughed as I twisted to face him and raised my arm to hit in one move. He caught my wrist and my laugh caught in my throat. A mischievous grin curved my mouth as...

I didn’t know enough to hold myself back. Now I was too aware, hyperaware, and so the fear chained me.

Noah’s eyes held my face. I swallowed hard. The juxtaposition of him sitting in a room full of people while staring at no one but me was overwhelming. Something shifted inside of me at the...