“The closest fucking hotel with room service, doll.” His arm came around me, pulling me close, but he sat so that he could look down at me. “I still can’t believe you’re here. This feels surreal right now.”
I grinned up at him. “Kin and I have been planning this for weeks now. Long before I got sick. Of course, Emmie helped us out a little.”
He frowned. “Travis didn’t know?”
I shrugged. “I don’t think so. He seemed surprised to see me when we were leaving.”
/> I’d never seen him look so wide-eyed before. I wasn’t there to worry about Travis or anything else, though, except for Kale.
I snuggled closer to him, laying my head on his shoulder and looking up at him through my lashes. “I love you.”
He inhaled sharply and pressed his lips to my forehead. “I love you, too.”
The drive to the hotel took ten minutes. As soon as the taxi stopped, Kale tossed the driver a few bills then pulled me out of the car with him. He held my hand as he led me inside.
Getting a room only took a few minutes, and then Kale was pulling me onto an elevator, where he stood stiffly beside me as the metal box lifted. There was no one else with us, but he didn’t try to kiss me, or even touch me.
I hid my smile, knowing he was trying to be good. We both knew that if we so much as gave each other a steamy look, there would be no stopping the tsunami of need that would crash down on us.
TWENTY THREE
Kale
As the elevator lifted, I mentally counted the floors.
On the fifteenth floor, I saw her smile out of the corner of my eye. On the eighteenth floor, a soft giggle escaped her. The twentieth, she shifted from one foot to the other. The elevator slowed, and as it came to a stop on the twenty-fourth floor, she was practically vibrating.
My dick tightened painfully behind the zipper of my jeans, making it hard to breathe without causing myself pain.
As soon as the doors started to open, I grabbed her around the waist and lifted her. With a contented sigh, she wrapped her legs around me, her head lowering to my shoulder, where she kissed my neck.
“Almost there,” I muttered to myself, trying to stay calm as I looked for our room.
Her tongue snuck out, tracing little circles under my ear. “Not quite,” she whispered in that little purr she knew could bring me to my knees.
I tightened my hold on her. “You’re killing me, doll. I’m trying to walk without crippling myself from this raging hard-on.”
Her giggle was soft and sexy. “Hurry up, then. I can’t promise not to start stripping you if you don’t.”
I found the room, but when I put the keycard in the lock, the light didn’t immediately turn green.
“Fuck,” I growled, realizing that I had put it in upside down. She had me all kinds of twisted up.
She giggled again and lifted her head to watch what I was doing. “Do you need to put me down?”
“Hush up, you.” I got the card in the lock the right way this time and quickly pulled it free. I heard the lock disengage and then, with a triumphant grunt, I opened the door.
Kicking it shut behind us, I tossed the card aside and turned on a light so I could see where I was going or risk killing us both.
“Bed,” she moaned when I kicked off my shoes. “I need you in a bed. Now.”
I slid my hands to her ass and squeezed. “Whatever you want.”
She squirmed in my hands, her jeans covered pussy resting perfectly against my dick. “Please hurry, Kale.”
I gave up on going slow. I didn’t have the patience for it right then.
Getting to the bed in a few more long strides, I tossed her down onto the mattress then pulled off my shirt. I undid my belt and unsnapped the top button before reaching for her. With her help, I had her completely naked for my eyes to feast on in less than ten seconds.