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Maddox did make me happy. I curled my feet under me
and settled back on the couch. “Thank you, I needed this
talk.”
Riley offered me a handful of popcorn. “My pleasure,
babe.”
She started episode nine of YOU, and we settled in,
finishing up season one and starting season two right after.
Five hours later, although time had seemed to fly by,
there was an insistent knocking on our door. Riley turned
down the volume, and I walked over the door. I barely had
it open before someone rammed into me.
Maddox–
My thought came to screeching halt at the raw
expression on his face. Something akin to crazed
desperation and…fear. His emotions wrapped around my
chest and squeezed, until I couldn’t breathe.
His frantic gaze landed on mine, and they darkened
almost dangerously. “You,” he accused, sounding out of
breath. “You left.”
I swallowed the lump in my throat. “I came to see Riley.”
He prowled forward, his jaw hard and his expression
tight. Maddox only had his boxer shorts on. He hadn’t even
bothered to wear his clothes in his attempt to hunt me
down.
“I wasn’t running away,” I whispered, pressing my palms
over his chest.
His heart was racing, too fast, too hard, too wild. Oh,
baby. I stood on my tiptoes, and my lips brushed against
his, in my attempt to calm him down. “Take me back…
home.”
Maddox let out a ragged breath, as if he could finally
breathe again. His arm curled around my waist like a band
of steel, and he practically dragged me back to his
apartment next door.
His mouth moved with mine, and I kissed him. Taking
control of the kiss, I nipped on his lips and then slid my