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“I wouldn’t go that far,” I said, pulling away from her and her warm sunshine essence. “I don’t like horses.”
She stayed on the bed, her head tipped back to look up at me. “Who needs a horse?”
I crossed to her bedroom door, leaning against it. “You do. If that’s what you want.”
“I’m notthathigh-maintenance.”
With her hair down, her face clear of makeup, and a well-worn sweatshirt on, she didn’t look high-maintenance at all. But… “For the record, I like you exactly the way you are. Dry cleaning required or not. Don’t change for anyone.”
Her answering smile lodged deep beneath my ribs. So deep I didn’t think it was ever going away.
I dipped my chin in her direction. “Night, Kennedy.”
“G’night, Professor.”
THIRTEEN
KENNEDY
I’d just finished pouring a mixture of candy into a big bowl when a creature roared behind me a moment before something bit my butt. I screeched, playing at being hurt, falling to the floor as the small dinosaur kept attacking me.
“Ken-dee! Rah!”
“No, don’t eat me, T-Rex!”
Finn giggled, pawing and nibbling at me.
“Hey, whoa. No eating Kennedy.” Liam wrapped his hands around Finn, detaching his son’s mouth from my shirt, and I got my first look at father and son together.
In matching plush dinosaur costumes with big heads, teeth, and the tall scales along their spines.
My heart threatened to burst out of my chest.
“Bad manners,” Liam told Finn, who snapped his jaw in my direction.
“It’s okay.” I laughed and accepted Liam’s hand to help me stand up. “I know I taste good.”
And the world stopped. All the air sucked into a vacuum. Everything was so still, I thought I could even see the particles of dust floating around me. Because I’d made a dumb joke about how I tasted.
Because Finn was “eating” me.
But now, all I could think about was Liam tasting me.
All I could see was the way Liam’s eyes flared.
All I could feel was his hot gaze as it strayed from my face down my throat, over my chest, covered by my “Good Witch” T-shirt, and down to my black leggings and eventually to my bare feet. It felt like a century before his gaze journeyed back up, taking the same scorching path to my face.
He didn’t crack a smile or even offer some one-liner in return. He merely cleared his throat then turned away from me, and I nearly passed out.
Liam sank down to his knees in front of Finn. “I know you’re excited to trick-or-treat, and you love dressing up as a dinosaur, but I need you to remember you’re a human, okay? You can’t go around biting people.”
I fanned at my face and piled my hair up on the top of my head. “Yeah, babes, it’s okay because you know me, but it would be really bad if you went around biting strangers. You won’t be invited back to their houses to trick-or-treat anymore if you bite them.”
Finn batted at his dinosaur head, which was falling into his face, disturbing his glasses. I reached out to help him at the same time Liam did, and we bumped hands.
“Oh, sorry. I didn’t…”
“No, go ahead. You can…”
