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“I haven’t done any shopping in a couple of days. I was going to go today.” She shrugged dismissively, bashful at her admission. “Guess things didn’t exactly go to plan, hey.”
No, they hadn’t.
* * *
The fire crackled, filling the room with an ambient glow. Soft light illuminated Alina in an angelic glow, and she’d caught me staring at her on more than the odd occasion.
“McArthur, quit staring and deal the cards already.”
Alina had been heckling me ever since she’d suggested playing cards. She had quite the sassy mouth on her nowadays, and I didn’t altogether mind it. On the other hand, I did mind that she cheated at cards and had changed the rules to suit herself.
With the cushions we’d been sitting on earlier now tucked back away on the couch, we set up the makeshift card table on the mattress Alina had splayed out in the living room.
I obeyed her, dealing the hand, a careful split of cards between us. Alina went first, and I watched her carefully before placing my card down. We went back and forth in turn. The game progressed until I caught Alina in a blatant attempt at cheating the game.
“You have to be fucking kidding me.” I flicked the first card at her.
She faked shock before a burst of giggles left her as I flicked more cards at her.
“I’m sitting right here. Don’t even try to deny it, Alina.”
She squealed with laughter as my hand of cards rained down around us. Her cards followed quickly before the entire deck flittered through the air around us.
Alina launched herself at me without provocation, and we collided with a burst of air from my lungs. Her eyes widened as a look of shock passed over her, then she laughed again, throwing her head back in a full belly laugh.
It took me catching my breath and my shock to wear off before I could retaliate with a counterattack.
With nimble fingers, I attacked her ribs, never forgetting they were the sweet spot on Alina to tickle and tease her into submission.
“Stop.” Her protest came out breathless, and I refused to heed her idle warning of peeing her pants.
“No, you know the rules, darlin’. Get caught cheating, and you must suffer the punishment. Can’t do the time, then don’t do the crime.”
“Callum, if you ever loved me at all, you will stop before I wet my panties.”
I stilled as if doused with ice-cold water. I moved my fingers to tuck the hair that had fallen loose behind her ear. “You doubt how I feel about you?”
We both grew serious, my heart beating hard, waiting for Alina’s answer while I held my shallow breath.
“Feel, Callum?”
I took her hand and slid it over my bare chest to where my heart was ricocheting against my ribcage. “This has always been yours.” Gently, I tapped the back of her hand with my finger in time with the beats of my heart. “Where my heart goes, the rest of me follows. You’ve always had my heart, so you’ve always had me.”
Alina crashed her lips to mine, a sweet taste mixed with the salt of the buttery popcorn we’d eaten for dinner. My every fiber focused on her mouth, her tongue as it darted out to taste mine, and the feeling of her giving herself to me in that innocent but pleadingly fractured passage of time.
A sound of carnal desire escaped me in an unbridled need of my own as the kiss between us deepened. Hunger and demand replaced the delicate caress of our tongues as they tangled together.
I sucked her bottom lip into my mouth, capturing it with my teeth like my personal little plump prisoner. Alina counteracted with nips of her own, forcing the loss of contact of our lips.
“How did I forget what kissing you felt like?” Alina asked innocently.
Her eyes pooled with mine as we both tried to catch our breath.
“I guess that’s the thing about time.” Grabbing her waist and tangling our legs, I flipped her and covered her with my body, my hips pressing against her as she arched her back. The mere piece of fabric of her tank top, covering her perfectly created body, slid down enough to expose the creamy fullness of her breasts.
“Do all card games turn you on, or just this one?” Desire flashed in her hooded eyes.
I pressed my erection into her harder, revealing to her just how turned on I was, and it wasn’t because of the fucking card game.
