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Adrians POV

I felt kind of high after that.

Sydney telling me she loved me was more than just saying those three words.

I knew her so well, that I knew she wouldn´t say those words easily.

Not if our history was any indication at least.

We spent the day on the road and being with her felt even more lovey-dovey than before.

The way she snuggled into my arm when I was driving or the way her hand searched mine when she was, felt right.

We´d been comfortable before with each other, but now, we were like magnets.

Unable to move apart only a few inches, neer leaving touch with each other.

Sydney wore the white dress again and once again I nearly couldn´t bare her beauty.

The way the sun reflected on her skin amazed me. The way the white of the dress contrasted with her lightly bronzed skin and the way her hair swirled around her through the open window, it was breathtaking.

I watched her smile growing bigger, whenever she was able to speed up and every time it made me smile.

I was thinking about our earlier conversation about her being a virgin or not and my mind started to wander.

Nope she definitely wasn´t.

We hadn´t exactly talked about our physical relationship before.

But of course I had been thinking about it the last couple of days, a lot to be honest.

Especially since she seemed pretty eager in this department lately.

I smirked when I thought back to her in the tent yesterday.

It had taken a lot of me to stop then and there. Especially because she had seemed more than willing to keep going.

I had been kind of holding back before, because I really was feeling kind of guilty.

I knew I wasn´t responsible for her memory loss. But things had happened between us before.

Things I remembered damn good, but she didn´t.

I wanted her to be ready to take this next step with me. And as much as other parts of my body wanted her right now, I wanted to take this slow.

She wasn´t just any girl to me. I loved her and respected her. Taking it slow was just the right thing to do, even if she seemed to have other plans.

I knew how it felt to touch every inch of her body, how her naked skin felt against mine, the way she used to say my name when she...

"Adrian?" I was brought back to reality and looked into golden eyes.

"Hm?" I asked, once again feeling guilty.

"Where were you?" she asked amused.

I nearly blushed despite myself.

She narrowed her eyes and coyly smiled at me.

Sydneys POV

I watched Adrian pursing his lips and obviously searching for words and tilted my head.

That was a new. I never had seen him tongue-tied.

"Adrian?" I asked.

He cleared his throat and brushed through his hair.

"Adrian Ivashkov, what is going on in that beautiful head of yours?" I asked chuckling.

He chuckled as well "Wouldn´t you like to know" he said.

I nodded. Damn sure I would like to know.

He laughed and brushed away my hair to whisper into my ear.

"I was just thinking about those new memories we will make" he said gently kissing my ear.

I shivered.

Both because he was so close to me and the way his breath felt on my skin and because he was talking about sex.

I felt my mouth go dry and tried to cover it with a chuckle.

"You were?" I asked.

I heard the words coming out in a horse whisper and I nearly blushed.

He was kind of making me nervous. A good nervous that was.

God, how could he have so much effect on me? He was just whispering in my ear.

Get a grip Sydney.

"Am I distracting you?" he asked innocently kissing my shoulder.

Sometimes it was like he could nearly read my mind.

"Ehm... no" I said biting my lip.

He chuckled "It sure seems like it Sage" he said slowly kissing up my neck, caressing my shoulder and arm with his fingertips.

"You want me to stop?" he asked and I frowned.

"No!" I nearly exclaimed.

He laughed against my skin "But I should. It´s an expensive car Sage. We shouldn´t risk anything" he went on.

"Than I´ll stop" I said before thinking and he smirked.

"Don´t you have some sort of timetable?" he asked nonchalant.

I laughed. Of course I did and of course he knew that.

"Yea, you´re right Adrian. We shouldn´t stop" I said still laughing.

From the corner of my eyes I saw him smiling, too.

"And we have a long long drive ahead of us" I went on, moving my legs a bit, so that the dress rode up my thigh.

In delight I saw his eyes wander down to the hem of my dress, that ended now on my middle upper thigh. I arched my back a bit and pretended like I was stretching. After all we´d been on the road for almost 5 hours.

Two could play that game.

He bit his lips and actually sucked in a bit of air.

Was he even aware of doing so? And did he know how much that effected me?

On the inside I was feeling glorious for giving him a taste of his own medicine, but on the outside I was the epitome of innocence, or so I hoped.

Adrians POV

I couldn´t believe my eyes. Was she really doing that on purpose?

The thin fabric of her dress stretched over her chest for a moment and if even possible, the dress rode up even more than it had before without actually showing her underwear.

I studied her face for a moment, but it didn´t reveal anything at all.

She was looking at the road ahead of us and seemed quiet concentrated.

My eyes got stuck on her thighs again. It would have been so easy to touch them, to push that dress up even more. Maybe she should stop the car, we´d been more or less alone on that road the last couple of hours, we probably wouldn´t even be...

What the hell happened to taking it slow? I reminded myself.

My mind definitely had other plans.

Damn, this girl was going to be the end of me, I knew that for sure.

From time to time her hand had touched her bare legs or she´d caressed her arms and every time she had, I desperately had wished it was me touching her like that.

"Am I distracting you?" Sydney asked after a while and I finally managed to look up into her face.

I´d been completely lost in my own fantasies.

"Kind of, yea" I said smirking at her.

There just was no use in denying it. It was probably obvious anyway.

Sydney did a double take and apparently hadn´t expected my straightforward response.

Than she chuckled softly and took my hand.

"Adrian..." she sighed "What am I going to do with you" she asked.

"Hey, you asked" I defended myself "Want to tell me?" I asked coyly.

Sydneys POV

The tension in the car was almost to much to handle at this point.

It was true, I´d felt Adrians eyes all over my body for the last hour. And I had to admit to myself, that it had distracted me as well. I hadn´t expected him admitting it like that though.

"Tell you what?" I asked, clutching the steering wheel.

"What you´ll do to me" he said moving closer.

A nervous chuckle escaped my mouth. Was this really happening?

"Come on Sage, I´ll tell you what I want to do, if you tell me" he teased kissing my shoulder.

I had to admit, that it was hot. I really wanted him to tell me, even though I felt strange at the same time.

Could I really say something like this? Out loud? To his face? And was I really ready to hear him say those things? And what was it exactly I wanted?

"I want to kiss you" I finally said.

"Kiss me huh?" he asked.

I nodded peeking at him.

If even possible the tension grew even bigger between us. My heart was pounding fast in my chest and I was more than aware of him right next to me.

It seemed like forever until he went on talking.

"I want to touch you" he whispered.

"Where?" I asked biting my lip even harder and now desperately holding on to the steering wheel.

"Everywhere" he said a challenging undertone in his voice.

My breathing was out of control now and I looked at him and our eyes met.

I pulled over and stopped the car only a few seconds later.

"Sage, what are you doing?" Adrian asked.

"It´s an expensive car, remember? We shouldn´t risk anything" I said.

He smirked at me and I smirked back at him.

I unbuckled my seat belt and looked at him again. His eyes met mine and for a moment we just kept looking at each other.

I was practically panting at this point.

Adrians POV

Suddenly she was on my lap, our faces only inches away from each other.

I could feel her breathing unsteady and was sure I sounded exactly the same.

She hesitated for half a second and than her lips touched mine.

At first she only brushed them over mine and every time she did, I tried to catch them with mine, until they finally stayed.

Her hands were in my hair and my own hands on her back, traveling up and down her spine, while her hands pulled me even closer to her.

"Didn´t you say you wanted to touch me … everywhere?" Sydney whispered throatily.

I groaned and felt her smiling against my lips.

My hands left her back and wandered down her hips until they finally were on the soft skin of her upper thighs I had wanted to touch for the last hour.

I softly let my fingertips scrape over the warm skin, letting my fingers spread out, so I could touch even more skin.

Sydney gasped at the new feeling and pulled back a little to look me in the eyes.

"I like that" she whispered, closing her eyes when I repeated my little circles on her skin.

I loved watching her like this.

Sydneys POV

Was he really going to touch me everywhere like he´d said?

The thought of that made my heart skip a beat and my breath even faster than before.

My hands got lost in the neckline of his shirt.

His body felt both soft and hard under my hands. He felt good.

I opened two buttons of his shirt and watched him watching me with heavy lids while his hands carefully pushed up my dress.

His hands wandered back to by bottom and he softly squeezed it.

To my own surprise I sighed heavily when he did.

"Sage" he whispered into my ear kissing down my neck.

It took my a moment to respond.

"Yea?" I asked, my hands clumsily working on the next button of his shirt.

He chuckled and took my hands in his.

I looked at him curiously.

"What?" I asked studying him.

"We are in a car" he stated matter-of-factly.

"Are you saying you don´t want to go on?" I asked, my voice a little to high.

I couldn´t believe him.

"No..." he started carefully "It´s not what I want" he said releasing my hands to rest them on my hips.

I raised an eyebrow. He sure looked like it.

"It´s what I think we should do" he went on.

I sighed "Adrian are you serious?" I asked.

I leaned back against the car dashboard, feeling disappointed and even a little rejected.

"I mean really?" I asked again.

He didn´t answer right away and for a moment I thought he might change his mind.

"Damn Sage" he than said biting his lips. His hands rubbed small circles on my hips and found their way to my stomach.

It sent spirals of electricity through my whole body.

"You want that, too, don´t you?" I asked.

He looked me in the eyes and frowned"Of course I do" he said "That´s not why I´m... well it´s just..."

I chuckled seeing him struggle with finding the right words.

"What is it than?" I asked.

"How come, that I´m completely lost when I´m with you" he said pulling me back to him.

I leaned my forehead against his and shook my head.

"Let´s get to court first. We´ll be more relaxed there. We´ll have plenty of time" he said cupping my face.

"We have plenty of time now" I argued.

"We´re in a car Sage" he repeated.

I laughed.

"Why do you keep saying that like it´s a bad thing?" I asked.

He laughed as well.

"I want it to be perfect" he than said truthfully "I mean really perfect. A nice dinner first, space..." he went on "hell, an actual bed even".

I laughed at his bed comment and nodded. That really did sound nice.

"I didn´t think you would care about things like that" I said.

"I care about you" he said caressing my cheek. Than he frowned shaking his head

"No. I don´t care for you, I love you" he said "and after everything that happened, you deserve this".

I blushed. A warm feeling spreading through my whole body.

"That doesn´t mean there aren´t a whole lot of things we can actually do until than" he went on a smug expression on his face.

I closed the gap between our faces and kissed him.

"If you say so" I said smiling, melting into the kiss.