Once upon a time, as I was drafting SOME GIRLS BITE and FRIDAY NIGHT BITES, I had half a mind to see if I could stick Merit and Morgan together.
I tried, and earnestly. But it didn’t take. Even then, she and Ethan had a connection that they couldn’t ignore.
The night awaited me, so I threw off the pillow and sat up, scrubbing hands across my face to try and wake up. The door creaked open, and I pulled down my hands.
Morgan stood in the doorway, clad in his clothes from yesterday—jeans and a long-sleeved tee.
“Good evening,” he said, leaning back against the door.
He turned his wrist over, then uncurled his fingers. In the crook of his palm lay a single, crimson cherry attached to a long, chartreuse stem.
He looked down, hair half-hiding an impish smile, and grabbed the bottom hem of his t-shirt, then pulled it over his head and off his arms. His chest was broad and peppered with dark hair, from a “T” across his pecs to a thin trail that led invitingly into the waist of his jeans.
I sighed, and looked back up at him. He smiled, held the cherry up by the stem, and nibbled the edge of it.
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