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This time Reece sends out threatening glares.
“At least she gets wine. That’s an upgrade from my Saturday nights.”
“You don’t drink wine?”
I shake my head. “I don’t drink at all.”
“But I saw you… At The Pen…”
“Did you see what was actually poured into the glasses I drank from?”
His eyes harden.
“Dishonesty and betrayal, rookie.”
He leans forward until his lips brush mine, my heartbeat spiking significantly.
“You’re capable of more than that.” Just when I think he’s going to kiss me, he sticks a piece of popcorn between my lips, and says, “Now watch the movie.”
A laugh builds behind my ribs until the buttery, salty popcorn touches my tongue, then it becomes an internalized moan. Grabbing a handful for myself, I focus on the gigantic screen before us, where my eyes stay for the next hour and forty-nine minutes until the credits roll.
“What’d you think? Did you like it?” Reece asks next to me, my legs on his lap, one of his hands rubbing my calves, the other on the back of my head, palming my skull.
I nod and grin. “I liked it. I liked this.” I point to the empty popcorn bucket, then over our heads, all around us. “I liked all of it, everything. Thank you.”
“For what?” he asks, wearing his own smile.
“For teaching me what else fun can be.” We could’ve made this sexual, but I’m grateful Reece insisted we didn’t.
I lean forward to show him just how grateful, and his eyes trail down to my lips.
Suddenly, the lights come on, making me scramble to replace my hood.I almost forgot.
“Let’s get out of here.” Reece springs into action, setting my feet back down on the floor before standing up.
“Okay…”
His previous rejections were explicable—I didn’t understand that at the time, only after the fact—but this one hits a little too close to home. Why won’t he kiss me?
Outside, the snowstorm’s returned with renewed vigor.
Coming to an intersection, Reece grabs my hand and pulls me along behind him on to the crosswalk before stopping in the middle of it and spinning around to face me.
Multiple cars honk, but Reece doesn’t budge an inch, just flicks my hood backward, off my head.
Instead of worrying about my hair, my eyes lift on their own accord, admiring the clusters of snow crystals cascading around us and on us. I fill my lungs with a long inhale, my nose picking up a hint of forest, but mostly a fresh, clean scent from nature’s raw reset.
“Lex.”
Out of the corner of my eye, I see the stoplight parallel to us switch to green, but I can’t pull my attention away from the show overhead.
“Yes?” I say without looking at him, a smirk flirting with my lips as I try to hold it back. We’re going to get hit.
“I don’t want to hide you.”
First I lower my gaze, then head, Reece’s sincere expression evident the entire time, despite the flakes clinging to my lashes.
“Not in there. Not anywhere. In private or public, in the dark or light, I want to treat you the same.” He pauses to pull my body to his, our fronts mashed together as tightly as our padded coats allow. “Like you’re mine.” Driving his point home, he seizes my lips in a searing kiss that ignites my whole body. From the top of my head to the tips of my toes, I’m engulfed by Reece.
