Secretly Loving My Adoptive Brother
Utterly indifferent.
“But why not? Dating is wonderful—you get to hold someone close, to be kissed … oh, have you ever actually been kissed?” Adriana pressed on, with no particular awareness of where a boundary might be.
I went still. My tongue would not form an answer quickly enough. If asked in strict, literal terms, then no—I had never shared that kind of physical closeness with any man in the waking world. But in my dreams? In my dreams, I had done it countless times, and with her fiancé, no less—had gone far beyond a kiss, into territories far more intimate and consuming than anything a simple question could contain.