Five minutes.
Around seventy-two steps later… I was in front of Saylor’s door.
It was just a door.
But beyond that door?
Was not just a girl.
Inhaling, so I didn’t forget to breathe and pass out, I knocked twice and waited.
The door swung open.
Saylor was wearing a short black dress with gold high heels. Her hair was pulled back in a low messy bun and her lipstick was red.
Red.
Red.
Red.
For some reason, repeating it in my head just made me all the more aroused over the fact that those perfect lips, her perfect mouth, was red, and it was going to be pressed right against mine.
That is if she didn’t impale me with something first — we did have a tendency to fight a bit.
“You look…” I licked my lips and let my eyes roam over her body for a second time. “Stunning.”
Her mouth widened into a smile.
Holy shit.
I coughed and looked away. Freaking gorgeous was more like it.
“Thank you.” She stepped toward me, making me naturally step backward and nearly collide with someone else walking down the hall.
The girl almost face-planted on the wall then flipped me off.
“Sorry,” I croaked.
Saylor smirked and locked the door to her room. “So, where are we going?”
“Ah.” I grabbed her hand. “So the lady’s curious.”
“The lady’s intrigued.”
“Intrigued?” I stopped walking. “Not excited?”
Her poker face told me nothing.
I traced my finger along her smooth jaw line and then reached for the back of her head, pulling her into my space as I blew a kiss across her lips. “And now? Now are you excited?”
“You’re getting warmer,” she whispered.
I sucked on her bottom lip then let my mouth hover over hers as I answered, “I want you to be on fire. Not just warm, but blazing. Not intrigued, but impressed. Not just excited. I want you enthralled. And at the end of the night, what I really want…” I closed my eyes so I wouldn’t kiss her again. “…is for those tears to be washed away from your memory for good.”
“Why’s that?” Her body arched toward me.
“I want old memories gone… bad ones. So I can create new ones. Ones so powerful that the old ones don’t even stand a chance.”