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How the light falls against his sharp cheekbones and strong jaw.
I lick my lips. “I’m okay now.”
He glances around. “Did you read?”
“Never got a chance to.”
“Do you want to?”
I tear my eyes away from him and take in all the comics on the shelves. Luc’s cafe is my happy place. I love curling up in a ball and reading about normal people who became extraordinary heroes. People who faced their fears until they overcame it.
So… the opposite of me.
Kastle studies my expression and slips his hand in mine. “Come on.”
“Where are we going?”
He tosses me a confident look over his shoulder. “Out.”
I’m quiet on the drive to Kastle’s mysterious location but, when I recognize my old neighborhood, I get tense. “Kastle…”
“Not there.” He gently turns my head away from the street where it happened.
I gasp when he stops the car in front of the brightly lit park.
It’s empty.
Shadows play on the swings. Moonlight leaps over the monkey bars. The neighborhood’s turned into a retirement suburb now and all the families who live in the area are at home.
Kastle leads me to the slide. His eyes trail down my body, causing me to shiver. His gaze stops on my shoes. “Can you make it?”
“Of course.” I reach for the wooden ladder behind the slide.
Kastle still places a hand on my back to keep me steady. The touch has the opposite effect and, the moment his fingers brush against my skin, I lose my footing.
“Whoa!” Kastle cups my hips.
I turn to look at him. “I’ve got it.”
He doesn’t let me go.
I push myself to the top of the slide and scramble safely onto the platform. There’s a roof overhead and railings to protect precocious children from falling.
Kastle worms his way in, but he’s so big that we’re squashed together in there.
His thigh presses against mine.
His shoulder crowds my entire right side.
That spicy cologne I love invades my senses and I take a giant breath to fill myself up with it. With him.
He takes my hand again.
It’s so natural.
So easy.
I stare at his tan hands around my dark fingers and I find the courage to say, “I don’t think I’ll ever get over what happened that day.”
