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The dark room smelled like chemicals. But I didn’t really even get a chance to register anything because Leo’s lips slammed against mine.

I guess he hadn’t wanted to wait for another kiss. I reached up to bury my fingers in his hair, but he grabbed my hands and pinned them against the wall.

God, I’d forgotten what it felt like to be kissed by Leo.

He kissed me like I was the air he needed to breathe. Like I was his whole world.

I’d missed him. I’d missed this.

He lightly bit my lower lip and I moaned.

He held my wrists in one hand as his other hand trailed down my back, stopping on my skirt. He squeezed my ass as he pulled me closer.

And he groaned when I pressed against him. He was hard. For me.

I guess I’d been wrong before. There was still one first we hadn’t done together. But he had me pinned in place and I couldn’t move.

His lips fell to my neck as his hand moved to the front of my skirt. His fingers lightly touched my inner thigh.

I tilted my head to the side as he kissed my neck hard.

All I could focus on was him. His lips on my skin. His hand around my wrists. His fingers inching slowly higher.

I’d been so sad for so long. It felt so much better to feel this. “Please,” I begged.

He pressed his palm hard against my thong and I couldn’t help the whimper that escaped my lips.

“More.”

He groaned as he yanked my thong down my thighs and then one of his fingers slid inside of me, quickly followed by another.

He bit down on the side of my neck. He’d barely even touched me and I already felt myself pulsing around his fingers.

I moaned. That feeling that I was starting to grow greedy for made every thought in my head disappear. All I could feel was Leo.

Wait.

Leo had been somewhere behind me in the hallway, hadn’t he? I shook my head. That couldn’t be right. I took a deep breath and my heartbeat slowly started to return to normal. The bell rang and Leo’s fingers slipped away far too soon.

WAIT.

Leo had definitely been behind me. And someone opened the door to the photo development room ahead of me before I’d passed it.

Whoever I’d just hooked up with couldn’t have been Leo.

The door started to open and a crack of light entered.

“Wait!” I said. I stepped forward and tripped because my thong was still around my ankles. I heard it rip as I reached out and grabbed on to something. But whatever I’d grabbed tipped over onto my head and completely drenched me. Ah!

The container or bucket or whatever it was fell to the floor and splashed more on me.

I wiped at my eyes. All I could smell was vinegar. And I was soaked from my head to my shoes in it. I gagged and kept wiping at my eyes. Somehow my hair had blocked my face for the most part. The room was dark again when I dared to open my eyes.

I took a deep breath and gagged again.

Whoever I’d just hooked up with was my kiss thief. I knew that. And it wasn’t Leo. It couldn’t have been. Right?

I pulled my half destroyed vinegar thong off and ran out of the room. “Wait!” I yelled.