The Complete Quake Series Boxset - Jacob Chance Page 0,107

laughter travels across the backyard to me. I want to know what they’re talking about. What is he saying to her right now? I squeeze the beer bottle in my hand and fight the urge to stalk over there. I want to step between them and tell him to get lost. Show them both she belongs to me. I know my jealousy is irrational but the thought of her with someone else drives me crazy.

I stand there watching the two of them like some obsessed stalker, and hope the sunglasses I’m wearing hide who my eyes are locked on. I grip the deck railing with my free hand when she walks in my direction. She passes by without acknowledging me, which is nothing new. I’m not sure what it is about us, but we’ve been like this since day one. When we’re together, we’re combustible like gasoline and fire, so we keep our distance. I know I’m not imagining it. She feels it too. I knock back the rest of my beer and toss the bottle in the recycling bin. Time for some fun.

I push my sunglasses up on my head when I enter their house. I find Kenna in the kitchen peering into the refrigerator. The towel she was using is now on the kitchen island and she’s standing in front of me in only her red bikini. Those little bows on each side of her hips have been teasing me all day. They’re definitely thought provoking. I’ve been imagining what would happen if I pulled on each string and slowly unraveled them.

I silently move forward on my bare feet until my chest is pressed against her back.

“Oh.” She jumps with surprise. She looks over her shoulder at me. “I didn’t hear you, Derek.” I reach around her for a bottle of water; leaning my chest into her. She shudders at the contact and I smirk. She can’t hide how much I affect her, no matter how hard she tries.

“Can you back up please?” she asks, keeping her gaze locked on the contents inside.

“What’s wrong, Kenna?” I trail my index finger around the outer curve of her left ear and she shivers.

“You’re in my personal space,” she answers, squeezing her eyes shut.

“I enjoy being in your space though, Leoncita.” I lean close, run my nose up her neck and let my lips pause below her ear for a moment. Fuck. Her skin is so soft and the smell of chlorine mixed with the scent of her perfume is oddly enticing. Her breath hitches and her body goes rigid against me.

“Why do you call me that? What does it mean?”

I breathe in the scent of her. I can’t get enough. “It means little lioness. That’s what you remind me of with those golden eyes of yours.” Her breath hitches when my lips move against her ear. “Do I make you nervous, Kenna?” She shakes her head, her lips firmly pressed together. “No? Are you sure about that? My hand slides over her left hip, my fingers toy with the top of her bikini bottoms. “You seem really tense. Do you need someone to help you release all that tension?” My index finger dips down inside and skims along the smooth skin of her stomach. She gasps and my dick is instantly hard. I want to know what else I could do to make her react.

With an unyielding grip on her hip I pull her back against my hard cock. A small moan escapes her lips when my finger moves lower and I have to clench my teeth together to stop myself from biting her neck. Following her in here doesn’t seem like it was such a good idea, right now. I step back away from her and put an arm’s length between us. She spins around to see what I’m doing and I can’t handle the way she’s looking at me, with so much emotion showing in her whiskey-colored eyes. I know she’s confused and scared by whatever this thing is between us. I’m fucking confused by it too. I want her more than I should and it can’t happen for so many reasons. The main one being she deserves so much better than me.

“You’re biting off more than you can chew, little girl. You should stick to playing with boys your own age. You can’t handle what I’d want from you.”

Anger flashes in her eyes, she steps toward me and grabs my hard cock through my board shorts. Fuck.

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