to Carl and Evelyn to stick with her plan to leave in two days.
She stepped from the shower and toweled off before wrapping one towel around her body and using a smaller one to dry her hair.
She was startled by the knock on her cabin door. She didn’t exactly get visitors.
She went to the window next to the door and looked out the crack in the curtain to see Kaeden standing on her porch. Her heart sped up as butterflies danced in her belly.
She looked down at herself wrapped in a towel. He was probably just here to ask her something about his plans for the retreat for the following week.
Or maybe he was wondering if she was planning to come up to the main house for dinner.
Or maybe he was here because he’d been flirting hard with her all day and he was just as interested as she was in taking that to another level.
She went to the door and called out. “Hey Keaden. Hang on a sec. I have to throw some clothes on.”
“No you don’t.”
His words came through the door, stopping her heart for a split second before it sped up again and the butterflies whipped into a whirlwind.
She second guessed herself for the briefest moment before opening the door, one hand holding up the towel at her chest.
Kaeden cursed low and harsh under his breath when he saw her and his gaze trailed down and back up before meeting her eyes.
The appreciation in his eyes was an utter turn-on and she felt her body start to heat at his perusal.
“Kaeden,” she whispered. She didn’t mean it to come out as a whisper, but there it was.
He stepped in and closed the door behind him. He reached out and ran a single finger over her shoulder, swiping at a bead of water there in a way that was completely erotic and had her feeling tingles in all the places.
“Joy,” he said, his own voice rough. “If you don’t want this, tell me to go.”
Oh hell no. “I don’t want you to go.”
His eyes seemed to darken even more at that and he trailed his finger up the side of her neck. “And you understand it won’t be anything but sex? Really amazing, no inhibitions, only in it for the fun sex that ends when I leave next week?”
She might have choked a little at that. She nodded. “Nothing more.”
Then he was on her, pulling her tight to him as he tugged the towel off of her and let it drop to the floor. There was something so stimulating in being naked while he was dressed. In the way he looked at her body and she could almost see all the things he wanted to do written on his face.
She put her hands to his chest while he ran one of his hands slowly down her back, cupping her ass before letting his hand slip between her legs from behind. He teased her as he watched her face. There was no distraction that a kiss might offer. Instead he watched her face and she leaned in closer, wanting that touch more than she realized.
A moan escaped her when he found her wet for him and his other hand came around to play with one nipple. She went slicker still at the touch.
He bent then, taking her breast in his mouth and sucking gently and she was lost as her body responded to him, damn near melting into his touch.
A low rasping laugh said he knew what he was doing to her.
“You’re so damned gorgeous, Joy.”
His words made her flinch. Not because she didn’t think she was attractive. The erection she had felt pressing into her when he pulled her to him moments before told her how attractive he thought she was.
It was the way he used her name. Or her not name, as it were. She hated that he was calling her Joy, but what else would he do when that was the name she was using now?
She was glad he hadn’t seen her flinch so she wouldn’t need to answer questions.
Instead she began to tug at his shirt. “I want to see you. Touch you.”
He growled and stepped back, pulling his shirt over his head in a fluid easy movement.
She reached out to touch his chest but he kept going, undoing his pants and shucking them off with his boxers. He’d kicked off his flip flops at the door and now stood as naked as she was.
Her