Page 27 of Searching for her Heart
“You pick.”
She hands out chocolate bars and we all eat in silence as we gaze around at the cavern.
“Why don’t we play a game?” she asks.
“I think all the games I know require cards or dice,” I tell her.
“Hmm, I can’t think of any that we can play in here,” Brax adds, as he seems to think about it.
“Oh, I know lots of games we can play without needing anything.”
“Okay, Red, enlighten us.”
“Well… I don’t think we want to be running around, so I won’t bother mentioning any games that require movement. We could play two truths and a lie. Or there’s twenty questions.” She taps her finger to her lips as they twist in thought. “I don’t think charades would work well considering… cultural differences. Most of the games I can think of are drinking games. Oh, there’s truth or dare.”
“What’s that?” I ask, the name intriguing me.
“Truth or dare?” I nod, and she continues. “We each taketurns asking someone, truth or dare. If they pick truth, we ask them a question and they have to tell the truth. If they pick dare, then we can dare them to do anything.”
“Anything?” I ask as my eyes quickly flick to Brax. Is he thinking the same thing I am?
“Umm, yeah.” She seems to pick up on the sexual tension that’s suddenly invaded our little group as her eyes move between us.
“Maybe we should stick with two truths and a lie?”
“I say we vote on it. I vote for truth or dare,” I say, raising my hand. We both turn to Brax and with a completely straight face, he raises his hand.
“Traitor,” Penny grumbles as she crosses her arms.
“Like you aren’t going to love playing this game with us,” I say as I tickle her sides.
She squeals, leaping from my lap.
“No fair, no tickling me!”
“I guess I’ll have to save that as a dare to give Braxton.”
She gasps. “You wouldn’t!” I just quirk an eyebrow at her in challenge.
“Fine,” she says, narrowing her eyes at me, turning her gaze to Brax. “I’ll start. Truth or dare, Braxton?”
“Dare.”
“Hmm…” She taps her lips in thought. “I dare you to… massage my feet!” she says, sounding proud of herself. He gives her a smirk as he reaches out and grabs her ankle, slowly pulling her whole body towards him. Her eyes widen in surprise, and I laugh, knowing she didn’t quite think this through.
He doesn’t break eye contact with her as he undoes her boot and pulls it off before moving to the other foot. He’s sitting with her legs across his lap as he starts to rub his thumbs into the arch of her foot. She lets out the longest moan before dropping to her back.
“Braxton, That feels amazing. How are you so good at that?”
“I’m glad you like it, Baby. Is it my turn now?”
“Uh huh,” she mumbles as he continues rubbing her feet.
“Penny, truth or dare?”
“Truth.”
“Did you mean what you said out there when we were running from the avalanche?” I see her suck in a breath, her body going rigid as she tilts her head up to look at him.
