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How was it that after all these years, after all that I’d been through, I’d found a man like him?
Eventually, Kane’s impatience took hold. “You can say no, Ellery. I understand if you need some time to deal with what you’ve got going on in your life right now. I can wait.”
I didn’t want him thinking I had a single doubt about him, because there wasn’t one. The fact that he was indicating I could say no was enough for me to believe that this was the right thing for me.
“I don’t want to wait, Kane,” I finally told him. “In fact, you could make this fantastic day even better if you would kiss me.”
Kane lifted his free hand up to my face. He gently pinched my chin between his thumb and finger. With each second that passed, the anticipation built.
Was I really going to have this?
The next thing I knew, Kane’s lips touched mine. It started off with just a gentle brush of his lips against mine, and that featherlight touch sent shivers running down my spine.
When he did it again, something else took hold inside of me, and a whimper escaped from somewhere deep in the back of my throat. I didn’t know if that whimper was his motivation or if he simply was feeling too much of the same that I was, because the next thing I knew, Kane had captured my mouth in a kiss that was beyond anything I’d ever experienced before in my life.
It was wild.
It was claiming.
It was exceptional.
His lips pressed against mine as he held me tight to him had me feeling a mix of emotions, but at the forefront of it all was disbelief.
How?
How did this happen?
How did I get so lucky?
I felt Kane’s tongue teasing the seam of my lips, a silent demand for access to my mouth, and I willingly gave it to him.
For the first time since we sat down on the couch, Kane finally took advantage of what was happening between us. His hand that had been at my shoulder dropped down to my waist as his hand that had been at my chin drove back into my hair. Without losing the connection between our mouths, Kane hauled me onto his lap.
I had no choice but to part my thighs and straddle his hips. Then, we were pressed chest to chest, kissing each other like it was as vital to our survival as breathing in oxygen.
In a way, it felt a lot like that to me.
I hadn’t anticipated finding Kane when I came to Steel Ridge, but I did. And now that I’d had him in my life for several weeks now, I wasn’t sure I’d ever want to return to a life without him in it.
He was such a good person, and he made me laugh. I hadn’t laughed in years.
Now, he was kissing me, holding me, and I never wanted it to end.
But my actions in the next instant indicated the exact opposite. My hands came up to frame his face, and I tore my mouth from his.
My chest rising and falling with my rapid breaths, I stared into his gorgeous eyes. If I thought they’d been captivating normally, the look I normally saw in them didn’t compare to what they looked like now.
Dark.
Intense.
Hungry.
There was no question that Kane was battling with his emotions in all of this, and I thought that if he was the kind of guy I believed he was, he was going to need some encouragement. Not knowing where my bravery came from, but not really caring either, I rolled my hips over him.
It was the right thing to do.
Because I got rewarded with a deep groan, the vibration of it rumbling from his chest. “Ellery.” His voice was low and husky, the sound of it beyond sexy. “What are you doing to me?”
