Collide by Piper Lawson

Author:Piper Lawson [Lawson, Piper]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Piper Lawson

15

Sawyer

She put rules on what this is.

Her body is mine.

Her heart, she keeps.

It’s a lie.

Like she wanted, I ride her until she’s exhausted. Then I let her sleep and wake her again in the early hours of the morning, make her come on my lips where I can still taste us both.

I wake to the sight of her already stirring next to me, her bare shoulder sticking above the white covers of my former bedroom.

It held a lot of bad memories, but I can’t remember even one of them in this moment.

“How amazing is my hair?” she murmurs sleepily.

“Indescribable.”

She starts to fix it and I pin her hands to the pillow, rolling over the top of her.

“You’re perfect.”

“A perfect mess.”

I kiss her, because I can’t do anything else.

Our relationship shifted last night.

I was already falling for her, but the way she looked at me…it wasn’t only about her proving something.

All those promises my life would be better one day felt hollow until now. I spent my life trying to design and build something that would satisfy me, but never could.

Now I know why.

Because what I needed was flesh and blood.

“Tell me about your watch?” she asks as I start to fasten it on.

My fingers still on the leather band.

Whenever anyone’s asked, I’ve said it was custom and let them wonder.

Now, my heart thuds in my ears.

“It’s a piece of stone from the Brooklyn Bridge. It’s where my mom…she died there.” My chest tightens as I take in the lettering on the face. “It says, ‘We choose.’”

Her cool hand on my cheek lifts my gaze and I stare at her earnest face.

“As a kid, I used to keep rocks from all over the place.”

Shifting toward the edge of the bed, I reach into the nightstand of my childhood room and pull out a box.

When I lift the lid, she peers inside. Her lips curve. “Nice collection.”

“They were something I could get when I was a foster kid. It didn’t have extrinsic value. So I took one from every place I stayed.”

From a garden or a shed or a corner. Unseen, undesired.

To me, they mattered.

She reaches into the box and takes a small pink stone, turning it in her fingers as if it’s precious.

“You wanted a home. Some place you were loved and accepted for who you are. Is that why you want to give me the same thing?”

My chest cracks.

I want her to spend the entire weekend between these sheets, I want her to tell me all about the fish, I want to see if I can get an encore performance of that dance from last night that might ensure my cock stays in the upright and locked position for the rest of my life.

“I need to study,” Olivia says against my lips when she pulls away to get dressed. “Also, a gallon of coffee first because someone didn’t let me sleep.”

Evidently she had jeans and spare underwear in the gym bag—a shame, because I want to see her put on the fuck-hot dress she wore last night before stripping it off.

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