Letting My Brother's Best Friend Take My V-Card

CHAPTER 63

LUKE

WHAT THE FUCK DID I JUST DO?

I lay there, my body still entangled with Jessica's, feeling the warmth of her skin against mine. For a few precious hours, I had forgotten everything-the pain, the anger, my father.

Instead, Jessica consumed my entire mind and body: how she felt, how she tasted, and everything about her. She was perfect, and that was the fucking problem.

I glanced down at her, still curled into my side under the blanket. Her breathing was soft and steady, and her face relaxed peacefully with waves of blond hair spread across the couch. Her lips were a little pink and swollen-

I had to fight the urge to lean in and kiss her awake and make sure she remembered every detail of last night. The thought made me feel a pang of guilt so intense it almost choked me.

She deserved better than this. Better than me.

What the hell had I done? I had crossed a line I swore I never would. I'd started this - that night when I saw her getting groped on the stairs by some drunk asshole, and now, I'd made good on my promise and if Josh found out - shit.

instinctively curling closer to mine. Her trust, her innocence-it only made the guilt worse. How could I

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a complete mess and that t-shirt, the one on

part was that I wanted more-more of her touch, more of her kisses, more of how she made me feel like I wasn't drowning in darkness. I was stuck between knowing I

complicate her life with my own messed-up fucking issues. Josh was going to hate me for this. And he had every right to.

while. That constant, gnawing anger had been replaced, even

best to focus on the sliver of skin that seemed to call me. I needed to clear my head to figure out what the hell I was going

because I didn't have anything else. I'd come over for a swim to get

convince myself the plan wasn't to see Jessica, who the fuck was I kidding. I was in her pool in the middle of the night; of course, I

myself think for one second I could have this, have her, then I wouldn't be able to go back.

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what I had done, much less erase the evidence of what had happened. But it

peaceful, so innocent. The way she looked at me last