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She had not just done that.
Tossing the end of the rope to Cassidy, I stooped down and gathered my next weapon. Tenley shrieked, realizing what she started a little too late, and quickly turned around. As she ran in the other direction, I jogged slowly after her. Giving her time to put some distance between us.
A little cat and mouse game was always fun.
The moment she chanced a glance over her shoulder, however, I launched my snowball, which crashed into the square of her back. She collapsed forward, falling into the powdery snow with a poof.
Now, I began to sprint as she attempted to scramble off of the frosty surface. Her hair snapped against her face when she whipped her head up just as I caught up to her. Standing over her, she gave me big puppy dog eyes.
“At least help me get on my feet to make it fair,” she begged, pushing her bottom lip out.
I tipped my head, contemplating for a moment, sucked into how cute she looked. Big, ocean-glass eyes, with her full lips pouting at me. Shaking my head, I reached out a hand to help her up.
She placed her delicate, cold palm in mine, and rose from the ground. Once standing, she didn’t move as her innocent gaze locked onto my eyes. Tenley didn’t pull her hand from my grasp as she stared at me.
My heart jumped in my chest, calm and reassuring, along with a desperation of excitement. She gave me peace and happiness.
I watched her, the world around us getting lost, sucked away by a pull of delicate whispers floating from her. Dragging me deeper into an entanglement with her.
She captured me. Mind, body, and soul. All of what was mine was hers. It had been from the moment she’d attempted to use a tire iron as a weapon against me.
A shiver ran down my spine as her eyes turned from innocent joy to hungry desire. Something directed at me, that not an ounce of anything except for myself could satisfy. I’d never seen such blatant emotion written across her face, and she wasn’t one who masked much of what she was feeling in general.
Fire roared in my stomach. Who cares who saw, who knew. I needed her touch, her kiss now. Stepping toward her, she gave me an inviting smile as I reached to cup her cheek.
And then she barreled into me, tackling me to the ground.
My back slammed against the snow, some of it sliding down the collar of my sweater. She straddled me and grinned, quite unaware of what feelings she was causing as she lightly tossed another snowball at my face.
I spluttered, spitting the snow away, pretending to be defeated. But mostly, I was extremely distracted and unable to focus on anything except the fact that she was sitting on top of me. Directly over my hips and giggling, which made her dance lightly against my lap. Which did nothing to curb the fire in my belly. In fact, it was doing the opposite.
“I win!” she said in glee.
“You win,” I replied, closing my eyes and doing everything to try and narrow in on the cold, wet ground beneath me. Anything to distract me from this beautiful woman sitting all too intimately on me.
I cracked open a curious eye and noticed the tips of her ears were pink before snapping them closed again.
She knew. She one hundred percent knew exactly what I was feeling, and was doing her best to ignore it.
I was doing my best to ignore it, as well. The man below my belt needed to stand down, but her movements were not helping the situation.
Think of anything else, this was not happening. Not right here. Not now. In the middle of a snowy field was not the opportune time to be feeling this excited over her.
“Wow, you gave up way too easily,” she huffed.
Grinning, I opened both of my eyes wide, falling defeated to my lustful feelings, and grabbed her hips. Lifting her off of me and spinning her around, I was now on top. Hovering. She inhaled sharply at the frostiness against her back as I grabbed both of her wrists and placed them above her head.
Lifting my lips into a smile, I raised a devious brow.
And leaned forward. Time to steal a kiss as she had done to me.
She squirmed, fighting at my hold, so I paused, just a centimeter above her mouth. Hot breath washed over my face as I watched her chest heave. Heavy, rapid breaths of anticipation left her mouth.
“Weston,” she gasped, her voice soft and seductive.
I tipped my head, teasing her a little longer.
Dumb choice as someone slammed against my back and I collapsed on top of her. Failing.
