Chapter 27 #2
“You like the way I kiss?” I ask, moving her up against the wall, which she willingly allows me to do.
“What do you like about it?” I move my hand up to her neck, holding her lightly in place as my thumb gently tilts her head up.
“Do you like the way I can control you with just one hand?” She wets her lips.
“Or is it the way our mouths mold so easily together?” I lean forward, my forehead touching hers.
“Or is it how with one kiss, I can make you get lost and forget everything around you?”
Her chest heaves, her pulse thumping against my hand.
“Don’t give yourself so much credit,” she says.
“Then tell me this…” I bring my other hand to her hip. “Why is your body heated, your breath shortened, and your eyes telling me something different?”
Taking a chance, I slide my thumb just slightly under the hem of her short shirt, against her warm skin.
She gasps, her mouth falling open in shock.
“And why does it feel like you’re about to burst right now, just from a small touch?” I slide my thumb higher under her shirt.
Her finger hooks through the belt loop of my shorts as she pushes farther into the wall. Excitement pulses through me, my dick starting to get into the action just from the thought of her hand being that close.
Pathetic, but I don’t give a shit.
“Just admit it, love, you want this. You want me.”
She starts to shake her head, but I stop her.
“Don’t lie to me, Renley.”
My hand glides higher up her side, under her shirt. “If you didn’t want this, you’d tell me to stop.” I glide my hand up again. “You’d push me away.” Another inch. “You’d warn me to never touch you again.” Another inch until I’m just below her breast. “You want this, and you want me.”
Her eyes search mine, indecision written all over her expression, and I wish I could help her make that decision. So I bring my lips to her ear and say, “Tell me to stop, Renley. Right now, tell me to stop.”
I kiss the spot below her ear, then move across her jaw, bringing my lips right above hers to pause and wait.
I feel the heat of her skin against my palm.
The uptick in her breath against mine.
The uneasiness, but also the yearning. It’s so palpable that I can taste it.
“Take what you want,” I whisper, my thumb stroking the underside of her breast.
She sucks in a sharp breath and leans her head back against the wall, but at the same time, she tugs lightly on my belt loop. If I wasn’t paying attention, I might have missed it.
“You don’t know what you want,” she whispers.
“I know I want this,” I say, kissing her neck, her jaw, then her chin. “I want you.”
She swallows, her gulp just loud enough to hear. “You’re leaving.”
“Says who?” My thumb swipes at her breast again.
“You,” she gasps.
“Pretty sure I have one goal this summer, and that’s for you to say yes to my proposal.”
She shakes her head. “I don’t want that.”
“Then what do you want?” I ask, moving my hand farther up so I’m almost cupping her.
“Fuck,” she says, her eyes widening. “Fuck, Theo, I…” Her hand slides up to my neck again. “I…”
“You what?” I ask, my cock now growing hard, my skin tingling, my need for this woman so goddamn strong. “Tell me, Renley, because I’m desperate for you.” And with that, I cup her breast fully.
“Fuck,” she says again, but then loops her arm around my neck and lifts up, wrapping her legs around my waist as I push her up against the wall and pin her there, our mouths colliding at the same time.
I press my erection into her, so she knows what she does to me as her mouth opens and our tongues clash.
Her hand thrusts into my hair, gripping me tightly, her fingers digging into my head, encouraging me to take more. So I pull on the cup of her bra and tug it down until my hand is fully gripping her breast, her hardened nipple plastered against my palm.
“Goddammit,” she whispers as her mouth pulls away and I kiss down her neck to her collarbone.
Her hands start to tug on the back of my shirt, pulling it up.
I squeeze her breast one more time, about to release it so I can take my shirt off, just as the back door to the store opens.
Like a bucket of cold water is chucked at her, she releases me and stands back up, pulling away and straightening out her shirt just as Tilly comes into view. She pauses, looking at both of us. As her eyes bounce between us, a smile creeps over her lips.
“Hello. Did I…interrupt anything?” Her eyes fall to my pants and I realize that I’m fully erect, just standing there, so I quickly turn away, causing her to chuckle.
“Nope,” Renley says casually. “Not interrupting anything. Theo was actually just leaving.”
“Really? Seemed like he was almost coming.” Tilly leans her shoulder against the wall, seeming far too amused.
“It’s not what you think,” Renley says.
“I’m thinking Theo is very excited to see you after his holiday.”
“Might be,” I say, clearing my throat and willing my dick to stop throbbing. Come on, man. It never takes you this long.
“Well, then don’t let me get in the way.”
“You’re fine. Like I said, he was just leaving.” Renley pushes at my shoulder, attempting to move me down the hallway.
“Might want to be careful, as it looks like Theo is trying to walk a log down the hallway.”
Renley leans forward and looks down at my lap before straightening up. “Good God,” she whispers. “Why is that happening?”
“Uh, because your nipple was digging into my palm while I was gripping your breast. That shit turns me on.”
“Ooh, tell me more,” Tilly says, her voice full of humor.
“He’s lying—that didn’t happen.”
Tilly chuckles. “I’d like to believe you if it wasn’t for the beard burn on your face and how disheveled your shirt is.”
Renley tugs on her shirt and clears her throat. “Fine, things might have gotten slightly out of hand, but I have come to my senses now, and like I said, Theo was leaving so there’s nothing more to talk about.”
“I don’t know, if that bulge was just pressing against me, I wouldn’t be sending him away.”
“Thank you,” I say.
“Please don’t talk about his bulge.”
“Hard not to,” she says, looking right at my lap. “No pun intended.”
Renley moves in front of me now. “Tilly, is there a reason you’re here?”
“I have the sketch of the sign you want me to make. Thought I’d get approval and then get started.”
“Right, okay.” Renley turns toward me and says, “Have to take care of this, so, umm, nice to see you but you should be going.”
“Nice to see me?” I raise a brow at her. “I cup your bare breast and make you gasp in pleasure and you say it’s nice to see me?”
Her eyes narrow while Tilly chuckles behind her. “Leave, Theo.”
“Right.” I tip her chin up and then lightly kiss her on the forehead. “See you tomorrow morning, Gossy.”
And then I take off, not fully satisfied, but just enough that I have all the confidence to move forward.
Now to take a cold fucking shower…