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I want to protect and understand him, too.
I pull away to say, “I’m going to make you that weapon.”
His eyes take a moment to focus. “I didn’t realize this was a transaction.”
I grin. “It’s not. But I want to make you one all the same.”
“Only if you can do it while staying safe.”
“Okay.”
And then I feel stupid. The kissing was great, and then I interrupted it to say something stupid. And now the fear is coming back and the awkwardness and how can I look at him after this?
“Take a breath,” he says, not moving a muscle to step away from me. “You don’t need to panic.”
I bite my lip to keep from saying anything else stupid, but my traitorous eyes are trained on his lips.
“If you’re not done kissing me,” he says, “you need only lean forward. I can promise I will always return a kiss from you.”
Initiate it? Oh, no, I couldn’t do that. Is it different if I’m the one starting it? What if I do it wrong?
A breath of a laugh expels from his lips as he leans to the side, near my ear. “What is it like in that head of yours?”
“Busy,” I mutter.
“Maybe this will help.”
His lips trace the outline of my ear; then he’s kissing down my throat. When I make a sound that I don’t recognize, Kellyn pauses in place and continues to kiss that spot. He runs the tip of his tongue over it, sucks lightly, nips at it with his teeth before resuming his kissing.
I’m dying. The most embarrassing noises are coming out of me, and I don’t know how to stop.
He takes pity on me, lifting his head. I can breathe for all of half a second before I realize he’s only moving to the opposite side of my neck to try the exact same thing there.
And then my thoughts are swept away as something else fills their place.
Need.
I wrench his face up to mine so I can taste his lips again. He’s smiling against me. I can feel it.
Arrogant.
But I realize I’m smiling, too.
I think I’m up against that tree for hours. Because when Kellyn steps back, it’s dark outside. I hadn’t even noticed the cold until he wasn’t touching me anymore.
“If we don’t return to the house, someone will come looking for us,” he says between panting breaths.
Something delicious turns in my stomach to know I made him sound like that. Excited and out of breath.
“All right.”
But I don’t move. I’m stuck to that tree, my head wonderfully cloudy. I close my eyes, savoring what just happened, letting myself feel the memory of it.
And then his lips are there again. One last sweet reminder.
He grabs my hand and tugs me away. My legs feel stiff from disuse, but my lips are tingling.
Kellyn pauses when we’re just outside the house. Then he’s patting down my hair.Righting it, I realize. That only makes my face warm again. He takes my hands and tries to tug me inside with him.
