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“Um, everything okay?” she asked.

She waited the second it took for him to respond. He straightened up to full height and then bent his head to look down into Jia’s eyes. The intensity shocked her.

“You and I are going to fuck, for real, soon. And I mean it, Jia. I’m not waiting. I have to get inside you again. We’re figuring out a when and a where, understood?”

As if she needed the encouragement. She nodded her head enthusiastically. She liked the sound of that.

He placed a surprisingly gentle kiss on her mouth and then her cheek. “We’re making a plan before the night is done. I’ll fuck you in the back of my rental if I have to.”

The desperation in his voice charged her. She wanted it too.So much. She wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him down for another kiss. A promise. Next time they’d do it for real. And soon. She shivered with the anticipation.

Jia pulled back, and Henry gave her a last kiss on the top of her head.

“We should probably get back out there,” she said.

He nodded. He took one more second and breath to gain his composure, and then he opened the door to the kitchen and led them back out to the party.

22

For someone who prided himself on being in control of every aspect of his life, Henry felt anything but when it came to Jia.

His hands still buzzed as they walked out together. The electric current caused him to extend and flex his hands a couple times so he wouldn’t reach out for her, wouldn’t pull her back into another room, wouldn’t take her fully, right this minute, like he wanted. He felt like a sex-crazed sixteen-year-old. He had to have Jia, all of her. He needed her naked and screaming, riding his cock, and taking it all the way to the hilt as deep as it could go.

Fuck it. He reached out for her hand and wrapped his around hers, leading her back to the main hall. He couldn’t remember the last time he’d held someone’s hand. It wasn’t an intimacy Henry allowed or enjoyed. But he wanted that connection now.

The first time they’d been together back in New York, he’d taken her home thinking she was nothing more than a hookup, a one-time thing. But even then, as he’d tasted her to climax andshe’d sucked him deep after, as he entered her from above and later behind, as she’d openly expressed what she wanted withMoreandHarderand moans that could get Henry hard right now thinking about them, he knew he hadn’t gotten enough. He surprised himself by thinking of that woman the next day and even days after.

What he didn’t expect was how much more he wanted Jia now that she had a name, now as he was getting to know her, now that he knew what she was capable of. Her kindness was sexy. Her enthusiasm addictive. Her selflessness, her determination, her joy... Fuck, he wanted to be around her all the time. And he wanted her all to himself as soon as he could get her.

There just weren’t going to be a lot of places or opportunities while they both lived with their grandparents.

Henry needed a plan.

When they turned the corner from the kitchen, the party seemed unbothered, having gone on without them there.

Henry walked them up to where his grandfather and Mimi stood. Mimi glanced down at their connected hands and back up to Jia, her smile stretched wide.

“Um...” Jia stuttered.

“We went to get more ice,” Henry said.

Mimi looked around them to the punch table where ice did not magically appear. She nodded. “I see,” she said.

Jia’s face pinkened. “Did you, uh, hear everything?”

Mimi shook her head. “I don’t know what you’re talking about. The moment you two walked off, I had everyone turn down their hearing aids and the DJ turn the tunes up. It’s a party, after all.”

“Thanks, Mimi,” Jia said, rolling her eyes.

Henry nodded, giving a small smile to Mimi in appreciation.

They could keep it discreet and pretend like it didn’t happen in front of their grandparents. Everything was good.

“Tale as old as time. Two kids sneak off and enjoy their first time together. What’s a prom without someone getting lucky, am I right?” Dennis said.

Henry dropped his head to his chest. Oh god.

“Except this isn’t their first time,” Mimi said.