Page 54 of Pocket Full Of Posies

Defeat and disbelief wash over Kai, his face and shoulders falling as he looks down at me. I reach up and cup his cheek brushing a thumb across his high cheek bone. His brow smooths out and he leans into my touch, tension leaving his taught body.

“And you still want me?” he asks in a small voice, his lips brushing the palm of my hand.

“Very much so.”

“Even knowing how many others I was with before you?”

I tense thinking about him and Nysa together, the reminder almost enough to make me pull back, almost.

“As long as it was the past, I don’t see how it has anything to do with the present.”

In one swift motion Kai engulfs me in his arms, body and tail holding every part of me he can and pressing it tight against him. Almost as if he were to let me go I would disappear into the air. His lips follow a half second after his body, slanting over mine and sealing us together.

The kiss is desperate but tender. More about assuring him I’m still here than anything. I give into the kiss and allow him to take all that he needs. I want it too. Need it, need him. Need to know what he said wasn’t just words spoken to hurt his mother.

Arms still tight around his neck Kai pulls back enough to speak against my lips, our noses brushing.

“Can we go back to your house now? I don’t want to be here anymore.”

I nod because I can’t speak. He kissed the words from my mouth, my body shifting from frayed nerves and dazed confusion to molten heat and liquid desire. Kai’s touch will do that to me. I don’t care what his family thinks about me, at least not his mother, not anymore. All I care about is being with Kai and making us both forget all the unpleasantness from tonight and replacing it with something better.

The rain starts as a light drizzle as we make our way back to my house. The drops growing into small splatters on the windshield. Kai’s hand is firmly in place around my thigh, ensuring the desire he stoked with his kiss only intensifies, as he parks the car in the small gravel lot in front of the gardens and greenhouse, instead of the private drive leading to my house.

For a long moment we’re both quiet, sitting in the car watching the rain roll down the windows. I can sense the apology on his lips before Kai opens his mouth and I cut him off before he can start talking about things that aren’t about kissing me or removing all our clothes and having him demonstrate his skills.

“You know what I like to do when it rains?”

Kai licks his lips and gives me a weak but grateful smile. “No. What do you like to do when it rains, Blossom?”

Reaching for the door handle I give him my most mischievous smile. “Follow me and find out.”

Without a second thought, I thrust the door open and run out into the rain. It’s cool against my heated skin but it does nothing to douse the flames in my heart and farther south. I want more with Kai and I’m tired of the flirting and teasing and promising touches that lead to nothing. I want them to lead to something. A lot of something.

I laugh and squeal when I spot Kai shirtless chasing after me. The ground is damp and soft beneath my bare feet, and I love the feeling of earth and water against my skin. Making my way to the rows of manicured shrubs and flowers, I run down one row and make a quick turn up another. The rain has completely soaked through my dress now. Strands of wet hair fall from my braided crown and stick to my cheek.

“You can’t escape me Blossom,” Kai calls in the distance behind me and I’m sure he’s going slow on purpose.

I look back over my shoulder and see his red hair soaked and plastered to his bare shoulders, the ring of gold around his horn gleaming in the moonlight, his lickable muscles flexing as he maneuvers around a rose bush. I swear there’s steam rising from his bare chest where the rain slicks his skin.

I stop on the opposite side of a row, keeping a barrier between us. Kai stops directly across from me, grinning like a predator about to catch his prey.

“I don’t want to escape you,” I tell him, breathing heavily and speaking over the sound of the rain.

“Then what do you want?”

“You’ll have to catch me to find out.”

Lifting the wet hem of my dress I pivot and dash towards the greenhouse, Kai’s laughing growl following close behind.

The doors to the greenhouse are unlocked, as they always are, and I only pause for a half second to throw one door open and run inside. The raindrops tap on the glass roof creating a symphony only mother nature can create. Over the muffled sound of the rain, I can hear Kai’s crunching footsteps, fast and light behind me. Before I can stop to look, red striped arms encircle my waist and lift me off the ground, halting the chase. The sound of our joined laughter mixing with the rain drops, only adds to its beauty.

Kai’s hot lips press to the crook of my neck as his arms tighten around me. My head falls back onto his chest, exposing my throat to him. The soft sensation more intense than the gentle press of lips should illicit. A prickle of goosebumps and a quickening of my heart as it leaps into my throat, forces a breathy gasp from my lips. Kai growls in approval and the sound vibrates down my spine and settles between my thighs. I’m soaked from head to toe, and I can still feel my pussy growing wet and wanting.

On some instinct I didn’t know I had, my back arches and my ass presses into his groin, the hard length of him firm against my backside. One hand glides down my stomach cupping me, holding my back firm against his chest, causing us both to moan at the pressure. A throb pulses in my core, and I want more, need more.

“Is this what you want, little Blossom? You want me here, between your thighs?”

Kai punctuates his words with a firm press against my clit with the heel of his hand and my nipples harden, creating sharp points through my damp dress.

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