Summer Breeze Kisses - Addison Moore Page 0,62

he’s holding back a laugh. His dimples go off, and that sweet spot between my legs cries out for him. “Of course, I wasn’t too impressed with the D you got in algebra. Or that F in chemistry.”

Ugh. My mother always said those kind of grades came back to haunt you, obviously I had no idea she would be acting as the poltergeist delivering the news to my newly minted boyfriend.

I touch my fingers to my mouth as if I’d just said that out loud. I guess I sort of do have a boyfriend. I give Holt a little smile as I lead him toward the hall.

“You ready for the grand tour?” I run my tongue over my lips like an afterthought, and his eyes widen. “It ends in my private boudoir.”

“Are you kidding? I get to see Izzy Sawyer’s bedroom? I’ve waited nine long years for this moment.”

A hard thump comes from my mother’s room. “I heard that!”

I avert my eyes at her muffled cry.

“Don’t worry. We’ll be two whole rooms away.” I give a quick wink leading him deeper down the hall, and a horrid rumble shatters the silence as if she’s just fired up a lawnmower.

“Oh, Magnum—yes baby, please!” She belts it out at the top of her lungs, and the hideous drilling noise gets progressively louder.

“Ignore her,” I say, turning the knob to my bedroom. I give the place a quick onceover. I was in such a damn hurry to get back to the living room, I forgot all about the errant bras and panties that might be lying around. God forbid he sees what really goes on underneath my clothes.

“All clear?” He whispers directly into my ear, and a shiver runs up my spine. Holt has the power to melt my bones simply with the sound of his voice.

“All clear.” I pull him in by the waist as he glances around the tiny cube of a bedroom. “Just a dresser and a bed.”

“Sounds like one piece of furniture more than we’ll be needing.” Holt presses into me with those heavy glazed eyes. I doubt he notices there are walls in the room let alone furniture. It’s pretty clear the only thing he’s interested in is me. And I’m damn glad about it.

I pull him over to the mattress, and we sit across from one another as I unscrew the cap on the whiskey.

“I think we should play a game,” I say. “I take a hit and tell you something about myself and then you do the same.” I want to know everything about Holt, beyond the obvious. Holt has me captive in ways I didn’t think were possible. I want to crawl inside his mind and see what makes him tick. He’s a good person, sensible and gorgeous, but I’ve always known those things. I want to linger in the shadows of the deepest darkest part of him and see what makes him the person he is today. And if I’m right, there’s something lurking back there that he’s not so eager to share. I guess we have that in common. And, in some small way, I’m opening the door for him to find things out about me as well. Although I doubt he knows the right questions to ask. Hell, I hardly know those.

He inches back, inspecting me with a playful curiosity. “I like this game.”

My lips meet the edge of the bottle, and I take a smooth drag.

“Whew!” I give a violent shudder as the burn trails down to my stomach. “That’s some good stuff. Strong as gasoline.”

His dimples flash as he leans in. “You drink gasoline often?”

“Only when my mother tries to offend the boys I’m dragging to my bedroom.”

His brows arch in amusement. I think we both know he’s the only male who’s ventured through that door since, well, ever.

“Okay, I’ll go first. I was once the captain of the West Hollow Brook cheerleading squad but got kicked off just before the last game for getting high behind the bleachers.” Jemma was involved in that fiasco, but, then, she was present for just about every other fiasco in my scholastic career, so I don’t see why not.

“You?”

“That would be me. Your turn.”

He takes the bottle from me with that I’m-going-to-bed-you look in his eyes and a quiver erupts over my thighs. Holt Edwards has me trembling for him at the drop of a smile. Who ever thought another person could have so much power over me?

Holt throttles the neck and takes