“I’m glad you’re all right,” I say. It’s the truth, of course. But that’s not why I say it just then.
Because Kai has not let her go—willnot let her go, I’m confident. Even as I hold our hands all but pinned between her chest and mine, Kai isstillkissing her, openly, on her neck, her shoulder. His hands have slid to her waist, which only has the side effect of pushing her more firmly against me. Her spread legs press warm and heavy on my hips, and?—
Oh,God. My eyes flutter shut, and I almost gag keeping down the sound that wants to come out of my throat. I feel the familiar rush of blood start to surge and I tense every muscle, steel every nerve, as if I can simply flatten myself into this carpet.
No. The last thing, the very last thing on Earth I want to do is to get an erection in front of myfoster brother.I’d never live it down. Not from Kai. I’d?—
I open my eyes. Kai isn’t even paying attention. He’s spanned a hand across her front, now, kissing her deeply and fervently, his own eyes closed. Gwenna kisses him back, sweetly, firmly, the soft edge of her tongue impossible to ignore as it darts between her parted lips.
But her fingers are on me. My belt buckle. My pants zipper.
“Gwenna—” My voice sounds rough, throaty, deeper than usual, and I try to push back, palms on the floor, but she has me, somehow. I look up to see Kai holding her, gentle but firm, by the jaw, fingertips curved around her chin and grazing her lips. He pulls her apart from him and angles her face forward, so she’s gazing down at me. Her eyes hazy, half-open.
I choke down another noise.
“What are we doing here, Gwenna?” Kai asks quietly, his thumb stroking her lower lip. Her eyes flicker shut. “You want him to go?”
She shakes her head softly.
“You wantmeto go,” he states.
She shakes her head again. Then opens her eyes.
“No. Even though you smell like an ashtray.”
Kai just grips her face tighter and pushes her into a kiss.
“Whatever you want,” he growls.
I watch, helplessly and transfixed, as she kisses him back, the light of the now roaring fire playing over her bare skin, watch as Kai palms her breast in one broad hand and listen as she gasps in response.
I have to close my eyes. Sink my teeth firmly into my lip. Breathe out very steadily and very slow.
The light touch of hands on my shoulders brings me back.
“Gwenna,” I say.
“I’m cold,” she whispers. She pulls at the bottom edge of my sweater, and I don’t even have to think, help her push it up and over my shoulders and arms so I can bring her to me, press her skin against mine. She tucks her hands between us as she leans forward, and they’re like ice on my chest as she kisses me.
“You’re freezing,” I murmur against her mouth.
“I told you.”
“Good thingsomeonegot you out of those wet clothes.”
I open my eyes to see that Kai, behind her, has leaned over too, one hand sliding into the bent crease of her hip. As if he’s going to.
Gwenna shudders.
Fuck. I close my eyes. I’m fully hard now and there’s nothing I can do about it. Regardless of why she’s making that kind of sound, if she is, and it’s right in my ear, and her naked body is half-straddling, half-hovering over mine…
I can’t. I have to. All I can think about is getting her to do that again.
Hazy, I open my eyes again just in time to see Kai, on his knees, take her by both hips and drag her back slightly. Somewhere, he lost his shirt, too, his pants loose.
But she wants me. Too. Reaches for me, undoes the rest of my belt and my pants and locks her now-warm fingers around my cock.
I push up to my elbows, trying to look at her properly, but my arms feel weak, and when she rolls her wrist my head tips back and my vision swims with stars.
