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Her eyes went wide. “Wow, how did you know that?”
“Oh, I have my sources,” I replied with a grin.
“Ah, Kayley told you?”
“No. I’m just used to it. That’s the price you pay when you are semi-famous, I guess. I don’t think of myself that way. I mean, my father is rich, and he is famous because of it. But I don’t think that applies to me. At least I hope it doesn’t.”
“Why? You don’t want to be famous? I thought that was the dream for everybody?” she teased. I loved her smile. It was that perfect combination of sexy and sassy, with just a sprinkle of adorable cuteness. It almost broke your heart it was so sweet.
“No. I would abhor that. I enjoy my privacy. Yet another thing my father and I do not have in common.”
“How are things with him? Are you ever going to patch that up? Or is it one of those long-standing feuds?”
I sighed. That was a few big questions all at once, and ones I didn’t really have any answers for. “I don’t know. That’s out of my hands now. At least that’s how I feel about it.”
“You don’t think there is any hope for a real reconciliation? I mean, it may not seem like it now because we always think our parents are going to be around, but one day they won’t be. And you don’t want those regrets hanging over you, right? I always got along with my parents, but there are little fights I still think about sometimes and it will set me off crying because I feel guilty about things I said in the heat of the moment. I would give anything to get those moments back.”
I listened to her words and they really spoke to me. “I’ve never imagined him really being gone, but I do know that I would probably be devastated. We butt heads, we argue, we don’t get along in any way and we never really have, but I would still miss him not being here. I need to make amends. I just don’t know where to begin. I tried once and he just dismissed me before I even started.”
“Dismissed you? What did he say?”
“He told me to stop dwelling in the past. He said no one really says things they don’t mean in anger. In reality, we say things that have been bubbling under the surface for so long and we finally remove the filters, and say what is really on our minds in the heat of the moment. We may regret saying those hurtful things, but rarely are we sorry because we didn’t mean them.”
Kat took a sip of her champagne. She had tears forming in her eyes. She wiped them with the back of her hand. “Wow, that is a very cynical way of looking at the world. I could only imagine growing up with someone that cold. It must have been tough.”
I hated the way this conversation was making me feel, so I shoved it off. “Yeah, but life is tough. I think this dynamic between my father and I really prepared me for this, for the job I do, for the things in life that put you down and try to keep you there. I don’t get all down on myself about it. I wish we had a better relationship, but it is what it is, and I’ve made peace with it.”
“I’m not sure that tough guy routine is as convincing as you think it is. You may have fooled yourself, but you don’t fool me.”
I laughed. “Ok, you go ahead and tell me how you really feel.”
She smiled. “I’m speaking the truth here. You can hide behind that tough façade all you want, but I think deep down you have a much bigger heart than that.”
Kat moved to the seat right beside me and looked me right in the eye. “I’ve always been pretty
good at evaluating people, finding out who they really are, that sort of thing. And I think I have you pegged.”
I did not break the eye contact. She was so damn alluring. I wasn’t sure I could really keep my body from moving. I was getting so turned on by her beauty, her grace, her strength, and her unbelievable wit. I reached over and brushed her hair back from her forehead softly. She blushed just a little. I could feel her skin getting warmer, see it glowing in the soft candlelight and the moon reflecting off the water outside the portal.
She smiled slightly as her eyes connected with mine, our gazes locked, and I took the signal to lean in and kiss her gently on the lips. The kiss started small and then got deeper quickly. Her lips were magnetic. A fireball of passion began to burn in the pit of my soul and quickly spread like wildfire consuming my entire being as I became fully enamored with this amazing woman.
My head was swimming with the kiss. There were no real conscious thoughts here, but I knew in the dark recesses of my mind that I was falling hopelessly in love with this girl. I didn’t know I could ever feel this way about someone. And that I had actually tried my best to avoid it, but here it was right in my face, right on my lips, and I was not turning away from it.
But I knew that I couldn’t allow it to last. It would wreck everything I’d ever thought I wanted out of my life. It was the one thing that I had always told myself I would never do. But it was so good. I couldn’t stand it. I had to give into it. At least for a little while. Surely, there was no harm in that.
As our lips parted, I moved back just enough so that I could still taste her sweet breath. I could feel her warmth near me, and the remnants of the kiss began to infiltrate my being and repeat itself over and over again in my mind. I wanted more. I wanted a lot more. And I wanted it right then.
But I kept myself back. I wanted the moment to linger. I wanted the feelings between us to continue to live on.
“Well, that was pretty special,” Kat said. She leaned in and kissed me softly and slowly. Her lips barely touched mine at first, as if she was trying to find the right way to go about this again so soon. I sat there and waited for her to come to me.
Her lips kissed mine again, massaging them, moving them back and forth from her kiss to mine. I inhaled a big scent of her being into me and I held it there with my internal embrace.
I opened my mouth a little wider and began to massage her tongue with my own. She moaned softly at. I could tell she was really getting worked up. Then suddenly, Kat pulled back. She was almost gasping now with passion. “Ok, that’s getting intense.”
“I enjoyed it. What’s wrong with a little intensity?” I asked. I was curious to see how she would answer it put so bluntly.
She laughed. “Nothing wrong with it, but I’m not quite ready… I mean, what is this exactly?”
