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“Maybe I should go…”
“What are you talking about?”
“The snow is really coming down. What if I get stuck here.”
“Skye, I don’t think you need to worry about that. It’s like a twenty foot walk. You’ll be fine.”
“You really think so?”
“I’ll shovel you a pathway myself if I have to.”
He playfully nudged my arm before grabbing my hand and pulling me towards him. He wrapped his arms around my back, and I placed mine on either of his shoulders.
“Plus, you could always stay here,” he said as he leaned in to kiss me.
His lips tasted like the cinnamon candies we had been eating all night, and it was unbelievably intoxicating. I placed my hands on the back of his neck and pulled him even closer to me. I couldn’t get enough.
“What would your kids think if they woke up in the morning and I was in bed with you?” I whispered.
“Oh, well, we have a spare bedroom. I thought you’d sleep in there.”
I felt my whole body tense with embarrassment.
“I—um—right. Of course,” I stammered.
Why in the world would I just assume he meant I was going to be sleeping in his bed with him? I felt like an absolute idiot.
“Skye?”
I looked up at him, forcing myself to meet his eyes.
“I’m messing with you.”
I let out a short laugh, but I still wasn’t certain what he was thinking.
“I want you next to me all night long. And then every night after that,” he whispered into my hair as he kissed the top of my head. “Now let’s go to bed.”
20
SKYE
Owen grabbed me from behind and wrapped his arms around my waist as he led me to his bedroom. Despite all of our close calls so far, this felt like it was going to be the real thing, and my body was buzzing with anxious anticipation.
It wasn’t merely the fact that I was about to sleep with someone; it was the fact that I was about to sleep with Owen. Someone who I had known my entire life. Someone who was a close friend. But never someone I would have pictured myself with like this. But now, somehow, he was the only person I wanted near me.
“Should I light the fire?” he whispered as he quietly closed the door behind me.
I nodded my head and he kissed my cheek as he walked away. I crawled onto the bed, which was perfectly made, and silently wondered if he was the type of person who made his bed every day, or if he did it just for special occasions like this.
While Owen worked on the fire, I closed my eyes and fantasized about what it was going to feel like to hold him and touch him in all the ways I had been longing for. When I opened my eyes, he was at the side of the bed with a smile on his face, and a fire roaring behind him.
“That was awfully quick,” I said, indicating the fire.
“You know I used to be a Boy Scout.”
“Oh, that’s right. I guess I didn’t think those skills transferred over to adulthood.”
“Well, this might be the only one, but it was worth it for this moment right now.”
