Page 99 of Tricked in October
“I’m sorry,” he said, his breath the only warmth to touch her skin and it caused a shiver to shoot through her.
Despite the longing for him, she said, teasingly, “I didn’t quite hear you, what was that?”
“I’m sorry,” he shouted.
She snorted a laugh, rising to tiptoe and tethering her arms around his neck.
“I’m serious though. I shouldn’t have let you go.” He squeezed her to him, tighter. “You’re the best thing in my life. I not only love our friendship, but I love our sexship.”
She choked on a laugh. “Our what?”
“I don’t know, it sounded better in my head. Our making-loveship? Fine, our relationship. I love all the ships. I just love spending time with you, and I just love you.”
That was enough for her. It was more than enough.
She drew his head down to her, their lips grazing before she whispered loudly like a confession, “I love us too…I love you.”
Even though her clothes were soaked through, and her skin was cold down to her bones, when Davis finally pressed his wet lips against her own, it was like he set a fire there. It burned in the most satisfying way possible. He ravished her mouth as her lips parted, inviting his tongue inside to tangle with hers.
It was heated and sensual all at once and she reacted to the sultry kiss, her body shuddering from both pleasure and the cold. His hands held onto her back, keeping her pressed tightly against him. He lowered his head and bestowed kisses to her slick neck. She wanted him. She hungered for him.
“I was so worried about you,” she said, breathlessly into his ear. “What if…what if something had happened to you?”
He lifted his chin, brushing the scruff of his cheek against hers, squeezing her body even more snug. “Shh…I’m okay, I’m okay,” he whispered.
“I can’t lose you,” her words choked out.
“You won’t,” he replied, pressing his lips to hers and kissing her again and again.
“You can’t know that.”
He reared back, raising her chin with his finger. “You’re right. But what I can promise you, for as long as I live, you’ll have me.”
In Kelsey’s experience, she should worry about that. But instead, his words comforted her, gifting her with an ease her anxieties and her heart needed.
“And you’ll have me,” she replied.
He kissed her again, sweetly, gently. For a moment, she had forgotten about the rainstorm, about Cooper bounding through mud and barking and about her freezing body that had now begun to shake.
“Let’s get you out of the cold,” he said.
“Maybe…y-you…can think of a w-way…to warm me up,” she said, her teeth chattering.
As they began their trek back to the small gravel parking lot, his eyes traveled down the length of her, her brows furrowing. “Why are you dressed up?”
“There was a…p-party at Tapp’s. Y-you and I were supposed to…b-be the guests of honor. Sort of a-an initiation.”
“I wasn’t aware of a party.”
“It was a surprise.” Her teeth chattered and she’d never been so happy to reach Davis’s truck. Her hand shook as she yanked on the handle. She climbed in and finished talking. “But I got it out of Kai…t-that’s how I knew to dress up.”
“Of course you did.” He rolled his eyes at her playfully, letting Cooper into the cab of the truck before climbing in himself.
She laughed, despite being so cold nothing about this was funny. She wrapped her arms around herself, body shaking, teeth still chattering.
“So I guess this means you also know about me and Tapp’s? That Kai and I are partners?” He rubbed at his chin.
Forcing herself to make eye contact with him, she nodded. “Yep. Looks like we ended up partners after all.”
