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Every Elemental in town could attack him right this instant and he wouldn’t care.
Everything about her kiss was so Kate, aggressive and gentle at the same time, like an attack you didn’t know to defend yourself from until it was too late.
Power surged in the air around them, and now, alone, no secrets between them, he did nothing to hold it back. His hand slid up her side, and she didn’t protest. He kissed his way down her jaw, along her neck, aware that the temperature in the woods had turned downright tropical. She smelled like something tropical, too, mangoes or papayas or something sweet and edible.
Suddenly, she was pulling at his T-shirt, and he drew back to help her.
But then her cell phone chimed.
Twice.
It hit him like a bucket of cold water.
He was already trying to disentangle himself from her—but now she grabbed his shoulders. “Stop,” she whispered. “Stop. I told you—he’s not my boyfriend.”
Yeah, maybe not. But that didn’t mean this was . . . real.
Idiot, his subconscious was yelling. You’re an idiot.
Kate leaned in again, touching her forehead to his. “I’ve wanted to kiss you since the first morning I saw you.”
“All part of the plan, right?”
She flung herself off him. “You think all my text messages were part of some plan?” She kicked him in the leg. “You ass**le . You think I can’t separate what I’m doing here from what I think about you?”
He glared up at her. “I don’t know, Kate. Maybe I can’t keep up.”
“Jesus, don’t you trust anybody?”
“No, and I’m pretty sure you don’t, either.”
She stared back at him, her chest rising and falling as rapidly as his. She didn’t say anything, and that said it all right there.
“What do your text messages say?” Hunter demanded. “Is he checking up on how things are coming along with me?”
“He doesn’t even know I’m here.”
“Sure.”
Her breathing was fast and rapid, her cheeks flushed.
Then she reached into her pocket, jerked out her phone, and tossed it at him. “Go ahead, see for yourself.”
He slid his finger across the screen, then glanced up. “Code?”
“Nine-six-seven-four.”
He hit the keys and her phone opened. He pushed the icon for text messages. Silver was in bold letters at the top.
When you say you’re going for a walk, I don’t expect you to disappear for two hours.
Do not make me come looking for you, Kathryn.
“Wow,” Hunter said. “He sounds charming.”
Kate grabbed the phone out of his hands. “He’s doing his job.” Then she slid her fingers along the screen, texting back.
After a moment, his own phone chimed, and Hunter grabbed it from his pocket.
