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jump out of it without hurting themselves.

“Are you afraid?” she asked softly, staring right at him.

He thought about her question, knew the answer right away, but got lost in her green eyes that were lightly visible because of the lantern. He needed to turn it off, not draw any attention up until he could climb down and kill the motherfucking infected, but he was transfixed.

She was gorgeous, so feminine and looking almost ethereal in this dim lighting despite the grime and dirt around them.

Collin wanted to kiss her, to just take their clothes off—no, tear them away—until they were naked and he was spreading her legs.

Christ, he was insatiable, and he knew that until he was between her sweet thighs, pumping away and finally claiming her as his own, Collin would only get even more desperate for her.

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Rebecca tried to control her breathing, but Collin was touching her stomach, holding his heavy weight on her body, and it felt really good. Maybe she should have focused on the fact that a corpse had gotten into the building, but she couldn’t be worried about anything right now.

She didn’t know if it was because she hadn’t been with a man in far too long or if it was just him, but whatever it was had her aroused, wet, needy, and not thinking clearly.

He moved silently over to the lantern, turned the light off, and they were plunged into darkness. It took a moment for her vision to clear, but then she saw him moving back toward her, the moonlight gently playing through the small glass window behind him.

He moved beside her once again, so close she felt his body heat seep right into her.

She should be worried about the infected currently in the building and that more would probably soon follow. But instead, she pictured the two of them together, him with his big, strong body over hers, his hands parting her thighs, and Collin guiding his cock into her.

God, she wanted him badly, and she knew it was an irrational desire. This entire time, she hadn’t wanted a man, hadn’t wanted any kind of sexual relationship.

But then Collin had come along, and she felt something, really felt something inside her, that didn’t make sense in this fucked up world. She didn’t know him, had just met him a couple hours ago, but she wanted him in ways that also had nothing to do with sex.

She just wanted his presence to ease the loneliness, wanted his body to press against hers when she slept. Was she so starved for attention and affection that she would take it from a man she just met?

“No, Rebecca, I’m not scared, and you shouldn’t be either.”

And then she did something she had never thought she’d be doing after the fall of civilization, or after everything that happened to her. Rebecca leaned up, braced her hands on the wood beneath her, and pressed her mouth to Collin’s. He tasted good, like dark spices with a hint of something sweet and minty.

They were both filthy, and although she wasn’t going to have sex with him right now, it felt good to have him so close, to have his mouth on hers, and just to feel good after being alone so long.

He didn’t move his mouth, didn’t move anything for that matter, but then he speared his hand in her hair, tilted her head back, and devoured her. The sound of the corpse shuffling around below them, of it moaning and groaning off and on, didn’t stop them from kissing.

He swept his tongue out, stroked her, and moaned softly. He tightened his hold in her hair to the point that a soft cry of pain left her, but he swallowed the sound, masking it with his breathing.

He broke the kiss but had his lips still lightly pressed to hers, his breath moving along her mouth, her arousal growing higher.

They stared at each other, with the disgusting world all around them, the rotting corpses just on the other side of the metal and wood that housed them, and right here, right now, there wasn’t anywhere else she wanted to be. He consumed her and made her feel breathless and lightheaded, and it had all come to this in a few hours.

This is insane. You’re insane, Rebecca.

All she wanted to do was close her eyes and pretend they were in a nice place, surrounded by clean things, with nothing was stopping this from going further.

“As much as I want to continue