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Chapter Fourteen
Cade
I managed to keep my hands to myself.
Well, the next eighty minutes.
I tried hard; really, I did.
But when Dylan shifted, and a small moan left her lips, I couldn’t help but want to help her find a new comfortable spot.
“Here,” I say, lifting my arm and reaching it around her shoulders. “Lean into me.”
I’m really smooth.
I know.
Shit, I was better at this when I was fifteen, I chastise myself.
Dylan hesitates, but then moves so her ass is nearly flush with my hip, leaning back into my side. Wasn’t exactly what I had in mind, but it’s also the closest she’s been to me, and I’m going to take it.
She rests her head back on my shoulder and I ache to sift my fingers through the hair she recently pulled down from the confines of her bun.
Her hair smelled like mint.
Her skin, like coconut.
I’ve been sporting chub since the moment she made her way onto this over-grown pillow fort, and the blood has only continued to move south which each move she makes. Dylan seems to be comfortable again, so I avoid adjusting my own hips, even though I need to adjust myself.
Just when I think I’m going to survive the rest of the movie, Dylan moves again, this time so her weight is shifted to her left side but when I look down, my arm raised to try and allow her to find a more comfortable position, I see that she’s actually sleeping.
She sighs contentedly, and I look around. I can try to lay her down; surely that would be more comfortable.
I don’t want her to topple over if I move, so I hold up her upper body before going to scoop my other arm under her legs. She can’t way more than a buck…I don’t know…forty? Assuming that the kid she’s carrying is taking on thirty pounds of her frame.
Carefully, I adjust as so she can lay on her side.
I should leave her.
That would be the gentlemanly thing to do.
But screw being a gentleman.
I lay down too, my arm under her neck and my chin to the top of her head.
And even though there are still a few minutes left in the movie, I allow myself to close my eyes.
To feel this moment.
To live in this moment.
To have this moment.
***
A beach.
A hammock.
