Page 240 of Nobody's Girl

Holding my arms out to balance myself, I walk down the foot-wide wall until I reach the first cage, which Eden is in. I smile at him. “Need a little help?” I ask as I wiggle the key.

He smiles back. “What makes you think that?”

“Well, since you have it all under control, I’ll just run back out of here and let you deal with it,” I say, then turn back.

“Stop messing around, princess, and get him out first, then me,” Eden says.

I turn back as the lion goes from batting at Eden’s cage to trying to climb the wall to get me.

So distracted the kitty is. I wonder if he has to take pills for that.

Kyle looks pissed. “Is this part of your damn medieval wedding, Ally?”

Eden shouts over, “I told you already it wasn’t.”

Kyle keeps glaring at me as I answer him. “Of course it isn’t, Kyle. God! What kind of monster do you think I am? Now, if you could try to swing over here to me, I can jump on the cage and unlock your door. Eden, can you keep the kitty occupied while I do that?”

Kyle pulls on two of the cage’s bars, then leans forward. The cage slowly starts swinging in my direction. Eden taunts the cat on the other side of his cage. As he gets the cage close, I jump. Grabbing onto the bars, I find I’m thin enough to slip through them.

Kyle’s hand reaches out and grabs me, pulling me to him. He holds the bar with one hand and wraps the other around me. I feel his face in my hair, then his lips on my cheek.

I close my eyes with how good his warm breath feels on my ear as he whispers in it, “God, Ally. What’s going on?”

His face is so close as I look up at him. The confusion on it does something to me. My hand runs up into his blonde curls.

“Kyle, are you okay?”

“Not really,” he says, his voice soft. The motion of the swinging cage pushes our bodies together and my breasts up against his broad chest ache for him to touch them.

This is wrong!

The swinging slows enough for me to pull my body away from his. I use the bars to pull myself to the cage’s door as I say, “I’m going to unlock the cages, but don’t get out of it until I take off, letting the cat chase me. Then you guys get out and run to that gate over there. I’ll come as soon as I know you two are safe.”

Kyle crosses the floor to get to me, holding me to him again. “There’s no way in hell I’m going to let you do that, Al. I’ll take the key and do it.”

I tweak his nose. “You can’t fit through the bars of Eden’s cage,” I say as I shrug my shoulders.

“Fuck,” he hisses.

Reaching out of the cage, I put the large key in the hole and turn it until it clicks. The door opens a bit. Kyle catches it, holding it closed. He releases his hold on me. “I’ll get the cat’s attention so you can slip out of my cage and jump into his. You be as careful as you can. Promise me,” he demands.

“Of course I will,” I say as I move to the side of the cage closest to Eden’s. “Hey, leave that kitty alone, you big bully. Let Kyle play with it for a while. Swing over here and pick me up. I need to save you, my prince.”

Eden laughs and turns away from the cat as Kyle begins banging on the bars in his. The lion moves right on over to the far side of Kyle’s cage, leaving me open to switch cages.

As Eden swings, the cages are close enough for me to simply grab one of Eden’s bars and slip from one to another without much effort. His mouth is hot on mine as he kisses me like he thought he might never see me again. Heat sears through my body as his tongue flows over mine, claiming my mouth. He has to hold me up as my legs give out.

Reluctantly, he eases his kiss and releases me. “I’ve missed you, princess.”

“I can tell,” I say, almost out of breath.

Our heads rest together at our foreheads. “My heart nearly burst as I watched that lion chase you,” he says as his finger traces a path down my stomach, leaving electric tingles in its path.

“Mine almost burst when I saw you in this cage. You about ready to get out of here and start our honeymoon?” I ask, running my hands over his back, down to his fantastic ass.

Yeah, we need to get out of here and consummate this marriage!

Eden takes the key from my wrist. “I heard you telling Kyle your plan and I cannot allow it, princess. I’ll do it.”