LUKE’S POVMy pulse is pounding in my ears. Dre looks up at me, her lips slightly parted, and those big brown eyes wide and searching. The camera’s still in my right hand, forgotten. All I can see is her, the chocolate at the corner of her mouth that I didn't quite get, her curls wild from the wind, that soft, surprised expression that makes my chest cave in.This is it, I’ve played this moment in my head a hundred times, but nothing prepared me for how real it is going to feel.I lean in slowly, giving her that last second to pull away if she wants to. My gaze drops to her mouth. God, she’s fucking beautiful.Just as my lips are about to touch hers, Dre smoothly turns her face to the side, toward the southeast, where a few trees are lined up in a distance. Her cheek brushes the edge of my mouth instead of her lips.I freeze, hovering over her like an idiot. The rejection is painfully polite, and my stomach drops hard. Heat floods my face and neck, and for a second, I can’t move, I ca
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