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Her eyes wide.
Her breath shallow.
Everything around us slowed, blurred, disappeared except for her.
There was no more waiting, no more holding back when it came to April Adams. I couldn’t, even if I wanted to.
On instinct alone, I put my hand at the back of her neck and brought her to me. Our lips collided in the headiest kiss of my life. The soft scent of sunscreen and water on her skin, the cushion of her lips, the press of her body against mine.
It blew me away. Everything I thought it could be and somehow more.
Her hands went to my bare shoulders, heating my skin more than the sun ever could. I loved the soft feel of her fingers over my shoulder blades, her body pressed against mine. It was so easy to get lost in her, to take my time tasting her lips, deepening our kiss as the river wound around us.
But she pulled back, her lips pink, her eyes bright. “Should we get going so we’re not even farther behind?”
I didn’t give a crap if they had to wait on us for hours if it meant more of her kiss, but she was already pulling away, getting the tubes for us.
I took a breath, attempting to stifle the sense of whiplash falling over me.
That had been the best kiss of my life, but she was ready for it to be over far too soon.
“Here,” she said, passing me the tube. She got in on her own this time, and I did the same. But she didn’t offer to link us together, and instead, we floated, disconnected, down the river, quiet.
But I didn’t need to tiptoe around. It didn’t have to be so difficult. “What gives?” I finally asked.
She jerked her head toward me, as if surprised that I’d spoken. “What do you mean?”
I narrowed my gaze. “We kiss and then you won’t even link tubes with mine.”
“We can link up,” she said from a few feet ahead of me, falsely cheery. “It’s kind of fun to spin, though.”
So now she was acting like this wasfun? I’d never had less fun, knowing we could kiss like that and she could pull away so fast. “April.”
She flushed. “I don’t know what you want.”
“I want to date you,” I said, a little louder than I had to. Probably because I was embarrassed. I wasn’t the guy who chased girls; I was the one the girls asked out. And yeah, maybe April was right about me being arrogant in that respect, but she clearly liked me back. Why did it have to be so freaking hard?
“And then what?” she demanded. “What happens when it all falls apart?”
“Why does it have to?” I asked.
I could hear our friends in the distance, gathering their things on the riverbank. But my focus was on April.
Her eyes were as dark as her wet hair as she said, “When you’re a military brat like me, you learn pretty quickly that everything has an ending, and not all of them are happy.”
Thirty-Two
April
When we got closerto the banks, a few of Diego’s friends started catcalling us, and my cheeks instantly got hot. Partially because we’d been doing what they expected of us. That kiss was...
Earth shattering.
I’d never experienced something so all-consuming. Something that had the strength to destroy my willpower and light my soul on fire at the same time.
But Diego did that.
And when he said he wanted to date me... be more to me than just a study partner or a friend?
