“You are overreacting.”
“Am I?! Because I think what Vance was saying about you being whipped got under your skin, hurt your pride. Feel better now? Want to check your wallet for your man-card?”
We are now sitting on the driveway with gravel digging in our asses. He grabs my hands, and I am trembling with anger. His forehead is pressed to mine. “Kat, baby, I was messing around. I’m sorry. This is what could be our last night together for a while, and I don’t want to spend it fighting. Please. I won’t get on that plane if you are mad at me.”
“Give me a moment.” I take his words to heart, and he is right, I don’t want to waste our time fighting. “I love you, Kai. Wild horses,” I say into his lips, tangling my tongue with his.
He sucks my tongue soft and sweet then he bites my bottom lip, shoving me backwards on the hard ground. Rocks are poking me in the back, probably making their mark. Hell, I might need Kai to dig chunks of rock from my skin tomorrow.
His hands claw their way under my shirt moving the cups of my bra out of his way. His mouth latches onto my nipple, and I cry out in pleasure and pain.
“Um Kai…think we can take this to the grass or the car even? I have gravel digging in my back, and I don’t think my ass has fully healed from the brick wall the other night.”
“Come with me.” He pulls me up and dusts the gravel and dirt from my back. He starts walking me toward the farmhouse.
“Thought you said Jake never goes in there?” I question with my brows furrowed. I don’t want to upset Jake by going in his parent’s house without permission.
“It’s fine, Kat. I go in every few weeks and make sure the place isn’t falling apart.”
He jerks me forward and we walk onto the wraparound porch to make our way to the back entrance. “This porch is so awesome.”
“Yeah, it was cool growing up. Jake and I used to race our hot wheels around it.” Kai smiles at the memory.
He goes on to tell me about growing up with Jake. They are cousins. I had no idea. That explains why he probably had more than enough reasons to want to keep Raven away from him. She must be working her way through the family. Okay, that is mean but still…
Kai unlocks the door and pulls me inside. He flicks on a light over the stove. This house seems so sad. It just sits here untouched, except for when Kai checks on it.
“In here,” Kai calls from another room. I find him in a bedroom that must be the guestroom. A hint of jealousy flickers in the back of my mind, wondering if Kai ever came in here with Raven. I know they have a history, and I cannot be angry about what happened before me, but it hurts my heart all the same.
I push my bad thoughts away instantly when Kai smiles at me wickedly with those damn dimples that make me crazy. I tear my shirt over my head and unhook my bra, letting it fall to the floor.
Kai removes his shirt too. He goes over, looks out the window, and laughs. Curious as to what is so funny, I go over and wrap one arm around his waist, looking over his shoulder with my bare breasts smashed into his muscular back. Well dang, Penny is at her car making out with Hunter not Vance.
“I got nothing,” I say with a laugh.
“Yeah, me neither,” Kai says, turning into me. “I don’t want tonight to end,” he says somberly.
“Why is that?”
“Because, when we wake up tomorrow, I will be getting ready to go to LA, and see what my future holds, and you won’t be there to share in my day.”
“I’ll be with you, Kai, we share one soul. Wherever you go, you take half of me with you.”
“Killing me, Kat.”
“I want you so bad, Kai.”
He pulls me onto the bed with him, wrapping his arms around me as he oh so slowly, but softly, starts kissing the side of my neck. And we just lay there, together, holding onto tonight.
Chapter 24
It’s been two weeks since Kai left for LA. Two weeks since our lives have been turned upside down. My boyfriend, Kai Cooper, is on his way to becoming a rock star. Cooper’s Religion signed a major recording deal for two albums and two tours. One for the states and if the first does well, the second will be international. He has been the talk of the town and the school. It has been so hard not seeing him. Things are moving so damn fast. I miss him. I miss those dimples owning my soul.
Things are only going to get harder. Like today, for instance, it is my eighteenth birthday and Kai can’t be here. He is in a studio in LA working on his first single. He offered to fly me out to him, but with his schedule and the way the flights are, we would have gotten to see each other for maybe an hour. And that would only be long enough to piss both of us off.
Penny is coming to pick me up. We are meeting up with Raven to do something to celebrate my birthday. Becks wanted to tag along, but Penny told him no, that this is girls only. Beckett apologized to me, but things are still awkward between us.
And Penny, well, she has been flirting and texting with Hunter and Vance. Neither of them seem to mind that she is talking to both of them. She says she doesn’t care that they are screwing random girls in LA either. She said she wasted enough time on Aaron, and now she just wants to have fun. Raven and Jake called it quits when he drove her home that night from the party. She has been acting weird. Every time I talk about Kai, she rolls her eyes, and makes little snippy comments. I don’t know if she is jealous, or if now that Jake doesn’t want her, she wants Kai back? That’s what Penny thinks. She keeps telling me she doesn’t trust Raven.