I push back my shoulders, preparing myself to say the words.“I was…letting off some steam.”
He is tickled to the core as he nods, his gaze raking over my curtain encrusted body.He reaches for a towel, still looking like he’s fighting back raucous laughter.“You gonna wear that thing the rest of the night?”
I reach for the towel.Is this rock bottom when it comes to Casey’s Chaos?“I guess I don’t need it anymore.I might as well not wear anything.What more is there for you to find, Griffin?After tonight, you’ve seen it all.”
I tear the curtain away before reaching for the towel.Griffin’s gaze sizzles over my naked body, and his eyes go hooded.
I wrap myself up in the towel.Griff’s jaw is flexing now.It looks like he’s straining at the edges.The air in the bathroom seems to evaporate.Everything is hotter now, more intense, like somebody turned the dial up on reality.My clit is throbbing again, and this time, it’s not from the Clitorture Device.
Griffin’s gaze is hungry.He’sdevouringme, even with the towel on, and the space between us shrinks.He clears his throat.“What’s your plan, Case?I’ve got about twenty seconds until I tear this towel off you and we ruin our friendship.Tell me what you want.”
I tip my head back to look up at him.
I want him.So very badly.Every inch of him, until there’s nothing left to explore.
And maybe it’s the Clitsplosion or being imbued with the courage of the shower curtain, but I suddenly have no fucks left to give.
He saw me struggling like an upside-down turtle, and he still wants me.
If he wants this hot mess, he can have it.
“I want you to ruin our friendship,” I say, “and kiss me.”
CHAPTER TWELVE
GRIFFIN
I have Casey’s face between my hands before the wordskiss mefinish leaving her lips.I find her mouth with mine like I’ve been dying to for weeks.The taste of her immediately has me hooked.
Our tongues meet in the middle of our sloppy, hungry kisses.She’s been hiding the attraction as much as I have, which both pleases me and annoys me.We could have been making out like this for weeks.But now is better than never.
Casey clutches my big hands.When we break for air, her pretty hazel eyes are darting across my face.
She’s confused.
And so am I.
Because why the fuck is she such a good kisser?
“That was super hot,” she whispers.
“It was a little too good,” I confirm, eyeing her swollen bottom lip, ready for more.“Let’s go to my bedroom.”
“You mean you don’t want to keep making out by the mangled remains of your shower?”
“No.”I laugh, scooping her into my arms.She giggles and clutches my neck, the towel knotted at her chest loosening.There are a thousand different things I’d like to do with her right now; so many, I barely know where to begin.I’m sure we’ll find a nice starting place once we get to my bedroom.
“I thought you went down to the lake,” she says as I whisk her into my darkened room.I use my elbow to hit the light switch, which turns on the bedside lamps.I gently lower her to the bed, enjoying how she looks bathed in the amber glow of my lights.
In my bedroom.Half-naked on my bed.
Am I fucking dreaming?
“I turned around halfway and came back because I wanted to tell you something else.”
“And instead you found me…flopping like a dolphin in a tuna net.”She rubs at her forehead.“Casey’s Chaos strikes again.I’m sorry.What did you want to tell me?”
“I can’t remember.Your kiss wiped my memory.Maybe it’ll come back if I get another.”I lean in and she meets me halfway.This time we’re lip locked in passionate kisses that wipe my brainandsteal my breath.Still no recollection of anything that isn’tthis.
