Hard Edge - Tess Oliver Page 0,41
what I wanted to fucking hear, Trinket.” I covered her mouth with mine. She wrapped her long legs around me as I jammed my cock into her.
“Your pussy is pure fucking ecstasy, baby.” I held her hands as I thrust into her.
She moaned as I moved deeper and harder inside of her until I couldn’t hold back anymore. I released her hands, and she wrapped them around my neck and held me as I came.
There was a long, quiet lull as our heartbeats slowed. I stayed in Kenna’s arms with my face pressed against her shoulder as she stroked my back. We’d spent the morning flirting and messing around like two people just out for a good time, but suddenly the mood had changed.
I lifted my head and kissed her before dropping next to her on the mattress. I rolled to my side and looked at her. “You all right?”
Kenna turned onto her side to face me. “Physically, I’m way past all right. But I’m kind of feeling like we opened, for lack of a better term, Pandora’s box. Seems like we’ve really complicated our lives with this new branch of our friendship.”
“That’s because we were never meant to be just friends.” I stroked her face. She took hold of my hand and kissed my palm.
“I know you’ve got this whole other life going on, Caden, with motorcycle racing and swimsuit models and—”
“And you’ve got law school and New York and . . .”
She pushed up to sitting and combed my hair off my face with her fingers. “Right, I guess we can’t let this get in the way of our lives.” There was a hitch in her voice. “We’ll just pack up after this and head our separate ways. I don’t want to get in your way.”
I sat up and faced her. “Would you stop with that shit. I wanted this. I wanted you, remember? Even if we both have places to go and things to do after this, I don’t want it to be the end. We just need to work a relationship around our lives. We’ll figure it out.”
I leaned over and kissed her to wipe away the pout on her lips. A tiny smile flickered back at me.
“There. Pandora’s Box fucking closed.” I reached up and smoothed her hair back off her face. “We’ll figure it out, Trinket. I promise.”
Chapter 17
Kenna
It was just before dusk on the beach. Most of the day trippers and families had packed up their umbrellas, blankets and ice chests and headed home. A handful of surfers, including the incredibly hot hunk who had my undivided attention, all waited patiently for a good set of waves to break. Caden’s long, wet hair was smoothed back off his face, and the muscles in his chest and arms rippled like the water rolling under his surfboard.
I pulled my legs to my chest and rested my chin on my knees as I watched him take off on a wave. His powerful arms pulled through the water. Seconds later, he was on his feet, gliding over the wave toward shore. Everything about him was mesmerizing.
Caden and I had spent the day snacking, talking and falling in and out of bed. I was still tamping down bittersweet sparks of worry, concern about how this time together would end. But between the bouts of uncertainty, I was having the time of my life with Caden. For two years, I had convinced myself that I was in love with Jeremy. Enough so, that I’d accepted his offer of marriage. But now I knew what real love felt like. It meant moments of unexplained dizziness and heart flutters, it meant forgetting your words just seconds after they’d formed in your head, it meant going to sleep thinking about the person and waking up with their name on your lips. Jeremy had represented all the future goals I’d set for myself put together in one handsome package. It seemed I had been more in love with the idea of Jeremy than I had been with the man himself.
Caden’s bright white smile stood out starkly in his tanned face as he glanced my direction. I waved and blew him a kiss. He spun the board around and dropped down to paddle out for another ride.
Caden’s phone was sitting next to the bowl of grapes I’d carried out to the beach. It buzzed with a text. I glanced at the phone but decided to disappoint my curiosity and ignore it. Seconds later, another