Until now.
Her eyes never left his mouth as he bit into the gooey treat. He felt crumbs on his lips but he didn't have time to brush them away, because Janica's tongue made it there first.
He barely managed to swallow as she sat back, waiting expectantly for his answer.
“So?”
“It's good. But I still like the taste of your kisses better.”
Her smile was as bright as the bonfire. “You know, with lines like that you could have given your brother a run for his money.”
Knowing she and Travis had always had a fairly bumpy relationship, he said, “He's a good guy. Better than most people know.”
She looked uncharacteristically serious. “I see the way he treats Lily. I know how good he is. But that doesn't change his past.”
Something about her statement, something about the words, But that doesn't change his past, sent a warning bell clanging through his head. He ignored it, though, because he was far more concerned with wanting to see another smile on her face than any more warning signs. Lord knew, there'd been a bucket full of them thrown at him since their first kiss. And he'd ignored them all.
“You may find this hard to believe,” he told her, “but when we were kids, I was the daredevil.”
She cocked her head, looked at him. “I'm not that surprised, actually. You do have a sort of latent wild look about you,” she teased.
“If you're not careful I'm going to shove the rest of that s'more into your mouth just to keep you quiet.”
“I can think of something else you could shove into my mouth to keep me quiet,” she offered wickedly.
“Don't tempt me,” he growled, pulling her back against his chest. And, of course, he wanted to feel her taking his cock into her mouth. Who wouldn't?
The thing was, right now he wanted to talk to her even more.
You're asking for trouble, a voice in the back of his head that had joined the warning bell cautioned him, but then she was saying, “Tell me more about all the trouble you got Travis in.”
“I learned to swim before he did, which he hated because he always liked to think of himself as the older brother. Those sixty seconds before I came out are really important to him, you know.”
“Figures,” she said.
Laughing, he said, “Anyway, one afternoon when he was being a real piece of work, we were out by the pool and I dared him to jump into the deep end.”
“The idiot jumped, didn't he?”
Luke laughed too, remembering. “Of course he did. But in the end, it all worked out just fine for him.”
“Why? Because you saved him?”
“Yeah, I saved him. But it was our busty young babysitter who made his day. I swear he sat there with his head between her breasts the rest of the afternoon.”
“How old were you?”
“Six. Seven, maybe.”
Janica giggled. “Come on. He was just a kid. He couldn't have already been such a dog. Now you're just talking smack about him because you know I like to hear it.” And then she said, “But I'll admit, it was pretty weird when he started dating my sister. I guess I always thought that she'd end up with you.”
“No chance,” he said. “Lily and I were only friends.”
“But you spent so much time together. How could nothing have happened? Something had to have happened at some point.”
Fuck. This was awkward.
“We kissed once,” he admitted.