“I didn’t like it.”
Light flooded my eyes again. His eyes looked menacing, intense. “Why?” He raised the phone.
“What, are you twelve? You shut that phone off one more time; I’m going to kick you, Kade.”
“How about you kiss me instead?” The tension thickened, the small space turned humid, hotter…slicker. Scents of cinnamon apples against worn leather saturated my senses.
“I don’t think that would make me smile half as much as kicking you right now!”
“Seriously?” He flicked the phone off again. Darkness.
“Kade,” I hissed smacking my hand against his chest. The light on the phone flickered on again and we both watched the phone tumble out of his hands and land amongst the clumps of boas and costumes at our feet.
“Tell me how you really felt,” he said, eyes softening, face moving closer to mine. “I need to know,” his warm breath fanned across my lips. Eyes so painfully, savagely grey that they looked lost and colorless, starving.
Fuck, his words made sweat break out on my skin. Primal. Heated. “Yeah, why is that?” The phone’s light blinked out.
“I want you to hate the thought of it.”
“Kade, I hated the thought of it. I hated it so much I didn’t even want to know. I want to get out of this closet and away from you. Your mood swings are giving me whiplash.”
“I didn’t,” he whispered, pulling me closer. “I didn’t touch her. I ran out of there and looked for you. All I wanted was you.”
For a few slow heartbeats, the only sound was our breathing, soft hot breaths against each other’s skin.
“I read your book,” I whispered.
His movements stilled for a moment. I feared he stopped breathing, yet just underneath the tips of my fingers, I felt the erratic acceleration of his heartbeat and I knew I had somehow affected him.
My hands closed over the material of his soft cotton shirt, fisting it in my fingers. I wanted him to know that I didn’t want to let go. In the pitch-blackness, I had shaken off all my inhibitions, all my fears of not being good enough for someone.
“Dedicated to me,” I whispered. Light fluttery touches, brushes of heat against my skin caused shivers that made my whole body tremble.
Thick heavy hands slid slowly up the flesh of my neck, rough fingertips sending shivers up my spine, both of us breathing loudly into each other. In the dark, my senses exploded. My pulse raced, my body melted into his. Powerful.
“Cliffhanger almost killed me. How does it end,” I whispered against his lips.
“Comes out next month,” he said, as warm lips brushed past mine.
“How does it end?” The tension coiled around us thickening, expanding, and absorbing us. In the darkness, it was a tangible smell, feel and taste. Our bodies were touching, pressed close together in the dark. I could feel him everywhere, leaning against my knees and thighs, his broad thick chest rising and falling heavily against mine.
“Brutally beautiful.”
The gasp that escaped my lips caused my own breath to quicken. His hands lay on my collarbone, hot and heavy and I wanted more. I wanted to feel them slide across my skin, every last inch of me. This was so different, so different from how I’d ever felt with a man before. This was more than want, this was more than lust, this was…pure need.
“Fuck this. I’m not staying away from you for another second,” Kade growled. Hot hands grabbed the back of my neck, our lips collided, and my legs just gave out from his touch. Kade groaned softly, low in his throat as his taste flooded into my mouth. I could have measured the moments in heartbeats, because in the deep darkness, our beating hearts was all I heard. Loud. Pounding. Rising. Twisting together.
Heavy lips opening mine, the wet swell of his tongue had me falling, falling into him. Tumbling gently at first. Then plummeting, pulse thundering in my ears, hands tangling in strands of hair, fingertips slipping…sliding. Our lips circled and nipped. His lips pulled at my bottom one, tugging and sucking. Our tongues slid against each other’s, dancing and thrusting. The kiss made me dizzy. He drew me in closer, arms tightening around me, hands gripping flesh harder, and the erotic sounds of our whispered moans vibrated between our lips.
When our lips finally parted, we were both panting, tangled in each other’s arms, fisting silken handfuls of one another’s hair, holding on to each other like lovers. In the darkness everything outside just faded away, just us existing together, all the heartache and all the suffering gone in an instant, in his kiss.
I didn’t want it to end.
A sudden rustle of the costumes below and Kade’s body slid down mine, his fingers wrapping around the waistband of my pants, “I need you, Lain.” His words tore an ache through my body that tingled through the muscles and flesh of the warmth in between my legs. I moaned faintly in approval, covering my hands on his, helping to slide down the material. Gently, with no light to help guide him, he unwrapped one leg out of my pants as his lips brushed my skin and a trail of wet fire was left from his tongue. His hands, warm and heavy, slid up the bare flesh of my thighs to cup my behind and squeezed with slick intense pressure. His hot breath fanned out across my thighs. “I’ve wanted a taste of you since the first time I saw you,” he mumbled hotly against my skin, his lips and fingers reaching their goal and the long wet lick of his tongue sent me reeling, arching my body into his face. "Fuck, you’re as smooth as silk. Wrap your leg over my shoulder," he whispered. Flinging my leg over his broad shoulder, his fingers reached deeper, his tongue dancing eights along my clit. Oh my God, I can’t believe we’re doing this. His faint silhouette knelt before me, my thigh against his face, his lips and tongue exquisitely torturing me. My hips rolled into his mouth and the pressure started immediately building, coiling tightly as his thick fingers moved rhythmically inside me. Sweet waves of aching heat skittered up my skin, over my belly and spread across my chest. My muscles tensed, tendons pulsed and vibrated. He’s going to make me come like this. He’s going to make me come harder than I ever have before. I could feel it, the explosion riding me, pushing me, taking me. I arched my back and jerked, shuddering against the heat of his mouth. Trembling and moaning, I melted back against the wall panting. To me, in that very instant, in the confines of the small dark closet, a Supernova was created, exploding with force under my skin, annihilating me, sending my thigh muscles into clenched quivering flesh. A tiny nip of his teeth and I moaned out in delicious agony. Shuddering, panting, I swore under my breath and arched my wet flesh up to him to take more. A future in this closet with Kade Grayson was all I wanted. “Kade, I think I just kind of fell in love with your tongue.”
His lips smiled against the flesh of my thigh, wet fingers slid across smooth lips and dampened skin. “Then I can’t wait to introduce you to the rest of my body.”
Tugging him up by his hair, we heard the low murmur of voices and the shuffling of footsteps just outside the door. Bree’s voice called out my name, as Kade slipped my undies and pant leg over my ankle, softly yanking them up my leg.
“You okay?” Kade whispered against my temple.
“If I say no, will you stay in here and introduce me to your other parts?”
Chuckling, lips brushing past my ear, “Fuck, Lainey. I want to taste you coming again. Next time, I’m going to bury myself in you and I want to hear my name on your lips when you come.”
I was too stunned to realize he called out to Bree right after that, my body was still trembling and in between my thighs was a tingling throb that drummed the rhythm of Kade’s name, and my panties were damp from the most intense orgasm I’d ever felt.