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“It’s okay, Kohen, I trust you.”
“You shouldn’t. Put it back on, please.”
“I shouldn’t, got it,” I say sarcastically, nodding my head. I buckle back up, my throat tight from embarrassment.
“That’s not what I meant and you know it. I need you safe, okay?”
“Okay, safe. Got it.” Only now I don’t feel safe. I’m guarded and my walls went right back up. I move his hand from my thigh and turn to face the window. “Keep both hands on the wheel, Kohen, it's unsafe. 10 and 2 and all that jazz.”
Cora’s voice rings through the silence, “Stop being a bitch, Alex. Keep your damn seatbelt on and relax. He wasn’t trying to be mean- you're just overreacting.”
Eyes wide, I turn to look at her. “Cora! Oh my god, did you just cuss at me?” Half shocked and half proud, I wait for her response.
“Yes, bitch. I did because you’re not going to fuck this up with your damn trust issues. Kohen, please pull over and kiss my ho-ass best friend so she can calm her tits please.”
Kohen and I look at each other. He does as he’s told, pulling over onto the side of the road.
“Oh, and also thank you for driving us around like babies.”
He puts the car in park and I look over at him through my lashes. I can feel heat spreading over my face and neck. What the fuck is this guy doing to me? I peek over my shoulder to see Cora resting with her eyes closed, and when I look back at Kohen, he has moved closer. His thumb grazes my bottom lip.
“So fucking beautiful.”
I melt in my seat, my insides mush at the sweet words he makes sound so filthy. He kisses me deeply and everything around us fades away. My subconscious fights for reality to stay but it slips and slips away as he kisses me. My lips open wider to make room for him to take every broken piece of me. Consume me.
I look up at him as I pull myself away. Confusion is written across his features.
“What’s wrong?” he asks quietly.
Still staring at him, I drink in and learn every single detail of his face.
“Ruin me, Kohen. Make me yours.”
I reach up and run my fingers through the short hair at the nape of his neck and he groans quietly.
I pull him back into me for one more kiss. It’s just a soft peck on the lips but just as magnetic as any of the other kisses we have shared.
“Let’s get Cora home.”
“Whatever you say, Angel, you're the boss.”
I smile at that little comment. “Damn right I am.” We both laugh.
* * *
We pull into the driveway of our quaint little house. I’m not embarrassed of it at all. I prefer it over Kohen's gigantic unwelcoming mansion. His little section of it is perfect but the rest can go. It’s too much space for one person and that’s why he allows all his friends to live there like it’s some frat house.
The car turns off and Kohen opens his door. A part of me hopes he stays over but a bigger part of me knows he should go so I can spend time with Cora after this crazy night. I should be alone in case there is anything else she wants to tell me that she didn’t feel comfortable enough to at the hospital.
He runs around the car to open my door for me and helps me out. He must be so tired, but he isn’t even showing it. There is no complaint on his face, no attitude or huffing and puffing for us to hurry. He closes my door and I’m just standing there observing him like he is some sort of alien.
“Angel, why don’t you go get the door open so I can help Cora inside, instead of checking me out?”
“Oh, okay,” I say, rushing up the walkway and digging through my purse for the house key. So embarrassing.
I unlock the door and swing the heavy wood open and go back out on the porch to wait for them. Normally, other women might be jealous of the guy they like paying attention to their best friend but I know it's innocent. I may be toxic but Cora is an extension of me. My god-given sister and I would do anything for her so the fact that he is so attentive to her means he cares for me.
Whoa.
