My cheeks heated as I realized I had said that out loud. Shaking my head, I answered him. “Nothing. That was just so much more than I thought it would be.”
“Good,” he replied, kissing me on my nose as he slowly placed me back on the ground.
“How in the world are you going to top that, Mr. Barrett?” I asked in a teasing voice as we started to walk back toward my
condo.
“I would say I would make you breakfast in bed in the morning, but that would mean me staying the night. And I don’t think we’re ready for that. I sleep naked.”
I couldn’t help but let out a bellow of laughter. “Wh-what? You sleep naked?”
Nash laughed. “Why do you make that sound like it’s a bad thing?”
“What if someone broke into the house and he sees you coming out of your bedroom and you’re . . . naked?”
Nash shrugged. “Then I guess he’d be looking to get into a cockfight.”
I stopped walking and stared at him, then lost it laughing again. “You are crazy!”
He shrugged, then reached for my hand. “Keeping it real, just keeping it real.”
STANDING OUTSIDE OF Kaelynn’s condo, I fought the urge to tell her how much I wanted her. The conflicting feelings running rampant in my head weren’t helping any. As much as I wanted her, I could not shake the feeling she was holding something back. There was no way I was going to fall into something with someone I couldn’t trust. How in the hell did I ask her?
Hey, Kaelynn, what are you hiding from me, because guess what, I don’t trust you? That only screamed that I was the one who had trust issues.
“Thank you for tonight. I had a lot of fun.”
I smiled. “I did too. I’m glad you spun.”
“You didn’t give me much of a choice.”
“It was worth it, though, wasn’t it?”
Her teeth sank into her lip, causing my eyes to drift down to that pretty little mouth of hers.
“It was,” she answered softly.
Bouncing my eyes back up to her gaze, I cleared my throat. “I better go.”
Kaelynn nodded, then took a step back, closer to her door.
“Listen, Terri and Jim are getting married this weekend. Did you want to go with me?”
Her eyes lit up. “They wouldn’t mind? I mean, I don’t really know them all that well.”
“You’re my date, so that doesn’t matter. Plus, I know they would love to have you there. So would Charlie. She really likes you.”
“I like her too. And I would love to go. Will I . . . um . . . see you before then?”
Moving in closer, her back hit the door and I leaned in, my lips inches from hers. “I sure hope so.”
Her tongue swept over her mouth, causing me to crash my lips to hers. Kaelynn wrapped her arms around my neck. She made the sweetest moan and opened more to me, allowing me to deepen the kiss. When I placed my hand on her lower back and pulled her body against mine, she gasped and tugged a fistful of hair.
I wanted her to feel how hard I was for her. How much I wanted her, because I did. But first I needed my head fucking clear about this and about Kaelynn.
I pulled back, causing Kaelynn to sway from the sudden loss of my body pressed against hers.
“Wow. You really do know how to make a girl swoon.”