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My room was beside hers. I couldn’t help but wonder if McKenna had been aware of that. Not that McKenna made our reservations, but she would’ve been the one to give any instructions to Tish.
The stretch of hallway in front of our rooms was empty. Disappointment sliced through me. Aside from trying to keep up appearances, tonight’s effort at avoiding Quinn meant I’d missed just hanging out with her. Because she was my best friend, if I’d been behaving normally, we would’ve chatted most of the night.
I let myself into my room, kicking off my shoes and shrugging out of my jacket. Before turning on the light, I crossed over to the windows. It was dark out now with the half-moon casting a glow on the snowy peaks of a mountain range in the distance. Turning away, I flicked on the lights and lifted my phone, tapping out a quick text to Quinn.
Me:I need to see you.
If I’d spoken aloud, the words would’ve been terse, taut from the need bound up tightly inside me.
I tossed my phone on the dresser across from the foot of the bed and tried to take a slow breath, anything to quell the impatience and restless need kicking up a storm inside me.
The second my phone vibrated on the dresser, I spun around to snatch it.
Quinn:Should I do Morse code on the wall between our rooms?
I smiled, a piercing sense of joy rising inside.
Me:I’ll be right there. Let me in when I knock.
I grabbed my key card, not even bothering to put my shoes on as I slipped out of my room and immediately knocked on Quinn’s door. My phone vibrated with her reply as she opened it.
Quinn:Just get over here!
I was in her room in a flash, kicking the door shut behind me and cupping her cheeks as I dipped my head to claim her mouth in a kiss.
ChapterTwenty-Two
QUINN
I moaned into Kenan’s mouth, frantically arching up, trying to get as close to him as I possibly could. Our kiss was messy, overwhelming, and deep. Our tongues tangled and our teeth clanked together before we finally broke apart.
Kenan still cupped my cheeks as he stared into my eyes.
“Oh my God!” I gasped.
He said, “I missed you tonight.”
I knew what he meant. If we hadn’t been trying so hard to avoid each other tonight, we would’ve mostly been together as we chatted with our mutual friends and his family. Instead, we’d avoided each other. In his case, I knew it was because I ordered him not to give me any affection. I’d never been so into a man that I stared at him from across a room. It was as if Kenan was a magnet and I was the opposing force drawn to him.
Over and over and over again, my eyes had been drawn to him, and I’d had to tear them away. Adam had caught us. I’d seen him look from me to Kenan and back again before he winked at me and nudged Kenan hard with his elbow.
I knew without a word being spoken that Adam sensed what was going on for us. I didn’t mind him knowing. Although we didn’t have the same kind of friendship I had with Kenan, I trusted Adam and knew he wouldn’t gossip.
Lifting a palm, I trailed my fingers in a soothing caress over the stubbled line of Kenan’s jaw and down over the side of his neck, where it came to rest just between his collarbones. I could feel the thrum of his pulse racing under my fingertips.
“I know,” I whispered. “I missed you too.”
My belly felt funny, and my heart flipped over in my chest. It felt as if we were racing into this, holding hands and stumbling down a hill where we couldn’t catch our balance. We already knew each other so well, yet this was also intensely new and unfamiliar. I felt vulnerable and deeply exposed.
I took a shaky breath, trying to tell myself I needed to step back, but I couldn’t. As frightening as this was in some ways, I felt completely safe and protected with Kenan. I knew he would take care of me and never hurt me. Yet he could decimate me because of how I felt.
Our gazes remained locked as his forehead fell to mine, and he whispered something against my lips.
I needed to take control of this somehow. I slid my palm down his chest and over the muscled planes of his abdomen to stroke over the hard ridge of his arousal. I deftly opened his jeans, sliding the zipper down and slipping my hand inside his boxers. I savored the way his cock leaped under my touch and the feel of his skin, velvety soft and hot.
I nudged him back with my knee. We were barely inside my room, and the door was right behind him.
Kenan’s eyes were on mine as I knelt in front of him, shoving his jeans and boxers down, just enough for his cock to spring free. A bead of cum glistened on his tip, and I leaned forward to swipe it with my tongue. I savored the control and power I felt racing through me when he let out a ragged groan and his head thumped against the door.
