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How did he not understand? She laid her forehead on the steering wheel, fighting back tears. “Because you criticize the way I’m dressed and how much make-up I’m wearing. And then you tell me you don’t believe me when I tell you Hank is just a friend and everything you said to me last weekend…I just don’t like you right now.”
Kelly heard his seat belt snap open and felt his warm hand on her back through her shirt. She tried to shrink away from his touch, but there was nowhere to go. Soon, her shoulders were shaking with emotion.
“Kel, I’m sorry. You look great no matter what, and I didn’t mean anything by it.” He scooted as far over as he could get with the middle console and pulled on her, until she gave in and let him wrap his arms around her. “I just didn’t like seeing you all over that guy.”
“There is nothing going on with Hank and me. I’m not the type of girl who jumps from one guy to the next. You should know that about me.”
“I do. I just…”
He didn’t say anything else and she looked up at him, her vision blurred because of the tears threatening to spill over.
“Aw, don’t cry, sweetheart. You know I hate it when you cry.”
She tucked her hair back behind her ear and a single tear fell over her lashes and down her cheek.
“Why didn’t you like seeing me all over Hank?”
He smoothed his thumb over her cheek and she felt the wet spread of her tears across her skin.
“Because.”
She laughed softly. “That’s not a reason. That’s a school yard excuse.”
He smiled at her. “Now who’s being insulting?”
Kelly covered his hand and held it to her cheek. “Please, no jokes. Just be honest with me.”
Chris took a deep, shuddering breath and met her gaze. “I was jealous. I don’t want him touching you, ogling you…pretty much any action that involves you.”
“Why?” she asked.
“Because I don’t want to see you hurt. I hate that I’ve been the cause of any of your pain.”
Chris’s words softened her anger and she found herself stroking over his cheek with her fingers, the sharp scratch of stubble tickling the pads. “What do you want then?”
Without warning he lunged at her, taking her mouth with his. The burst of sensation made her cry out, and cling to him, opening her lips under the press of his tongue. Lightning-hot flashes of desire raced through her veins and she melted against him.
When he finally pulled back, with his lips a hairsbreadth away, he answered.
“You,” he growled. “I want you.”
Chapter 25
Chris cupped the back of Kelly’s head, kissing her with every repressed emotion he’d been bottling up for days. When she pushed against his chest for a moment, he let her pull back enough to speak.
“We shouldn’t do this right now. You’re drunk.”
He shook his head, brushing his lips against her cheek while her mouth was turned away. “I’m not that drunk. I have ninety percent of my faculties. I know you’re Kelly, I know you taste like some kind of sweet wine, and I know I never get tired of kissing you.”
He let out an oof as Kelly climbed across the middle console and straddled his lap, her lips covering his.
Chris slid his hands up her back, gripping her through the fabric of her shirt. Her pencil skirt rode up to her waist. Her hands framed his face as she kissed him, and he opened his mouth under hers. She ground down on him in response, and his erection pressed painfully against the front of his jeans.
This is what he’d been dreaming of for days. Kelly, wild in his arms, desperate to be with him. He’d done everything to try not to think about her, naked and quivering against him, crying out with passion. He’d thought he’d be strong enough to not want her, to make things right so they could go back to being friends.
By the way his cock was straining to be inside her, he knew he’d failed big time.
He slid one of his hands between them and found her wearing a thin satin thong, barely enough fabric to cover her.
