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She huffs out a soft laugh. “So, we’d be forming an alliance, is that what you’re saying?”
I slide my other arm around her, pulling her closer so her body is flush against mine. I lift my head though, putting some distance between our mouths because fuck me, it is taking everything I have in me not to kiss her right now. “I thought we’d already established that we make a good team?”
Delaney’s hands slide up my chest as she drapes her arms around my neck. I hear the duct tape fall from her wrist to the floor before her fingers brush against the back of neck. A shiver runs down my spine at her touch and jesus, fuck, of course I’m getting hard already. It’s like this woman gives me a permanent boner, I want her that much.
“Yeah, you might be right about that,” she breathes out.
I lean closer again, brushing my nose against hers. “I think we do make a great team, Laney,” I whisper. “And not just in the surviving in the wilderness way, either.”
She smiles and with that, I close the distance between us and brush my lips against hers in the softest of kisses. Delaney lets out a low moan, her body melting into mine as I give in, deepening the kiss, my tongue tracing her lips as my fingers dig into her back, pulling her closer.
“What are we doing here, Alex,” she murmurs, even as her lips never leave mine.
I smile against her mouth. “I don’t know about you, but I’m kinda trying to prove how good a team we are.”
She laughs now, one of her hands sliding into my hair. “A kissing team?”
“Among other things,” I murmur, echoing my words from the other night.
I’m full blown hard now and there is no way Delaney can’t feel it, even through the layers of clothes we both wear. But as much as I’d love to show her exactly what those other things are, I eventually pull back, resting my forehead on hers again, both of us breathing a little harder.
“You okay?” she asks, blinking her eyes open.
The corner of my mouth lifts. “Yeah,” I reply with a chuckle. “Sort of.” She gives me a look, her hips still resting against mine as she gets the full meaning of my words. “We should go back to bed.” Her eyes widen now, and I can’t help but laugh. “To sleep, dirty girl, geez, get your mind out of the gutter.”
“But I…I thought…”
Smiling, I give her one quick kiss before letting go of her and taking her hand in mine. “You thought correctly, Laney, trust me,” I say, kissing the back of her hand, even as I readjust myself. “But not tonight.”
“What?” she blurts out, immediately blushing as she slaps her other hand across her mouth.
Laughing, I lean over and with my mouth against her ear I whisper, “Rushing is what fucked things up for us last time, remember? This time I’m working on the team thing first.”
I press one last kiss to the side of her neck before pulling her back over to the mattress. And as she settles down beside me, her head resting on my shoulder and her hand over my heart, which is still pounding like a motherfucker in my chest, I can’t help but wonder at not just my self-control, but the apparent one-eighty I’ve taken here.
Fuck me, I am totally falling for Delaney Hayes.
14
DELANEY
Iwake up, the room darker than normal given we’ve had to board up the window, but with all the gleaming white snow around us, everything always seems to appear brighter. Gently rolling away from Alex so I don’t wake him, my eyes move to the only window we have left in the place. A small draft aimlessly moves the threadbare curtains and the snow falls softly, the flakes barely noticeable.
One of the strangest things about being out here is having no idea what time it is. We live by the sun and the darkness, but we never really know what the actual time is. Like right now, it’s early, but how early, I have no idea.
We try not to sleep the entire day to keep some sort of schedule, but there is literally nothing to do. Recently we found a deck of cards, so that kills some time, but like anything else, it gets boring after a while. You can only play so many card games, especially when the deck is missing the five of diamonds. We were actually so bored one day that we debated looking for it. Searching the cabin has become this weird pastime of ours.
We tend to come across something new almost every day: a flare gun, more pasta, rice, a dog leash, a crusty old sock, a bar of soap. Our favorite was the nudie magazine that was under the old bed. We got a good laugh out of that one, especially since it was old and everyone had a full bush. I’m currently in that camp since the razor we found looks like it could give me tetanus.
I roll back toward Alex, the fire is burning brightly, like he might have woken up earlier and tossed a log on it.
I don’t want to wake him, knowing he was up putting more wood on the fire, as I quietly ease myself from the bed, shuffling over to the door. I slip my feet into one of the pairs of hunting boots we leave by the door.
I’ll quickly go to the bathroom. This whole outhouse thing is getting really fucking old, not to mention the worry that we’re surely going to run out of this compostable toilet paper we have in here. We both know, there’s going to come a time when we’ll be washing rags with shit on them. Something I don’t even care to think about. Hopefully we’re gone by then. If not, I might consider hiking through the snow instead.
I gently open the door, knowing that it creaks after it reaches a certain point, and I also don’t want to let the draft of cold air blow through the cabin.
I look to my left, seeing the wood pile alongside the cabin. I’ll grab a few logs to bring in so they can dry out, but first I trudge through the snow, over to the outhouse.
