Page 29 of Road Trip
Chapter Eight
Abra
“So what do you think so far?” I asked Kelly as we stood in line for candy. It was strangely important to me that he have a good time. I knew better than to try to take care of people’s feelings, but Kelly was different. I wanted to take care of him. I paid for the candy and tugged Kelly over to a slightly secluded area between buildings.
“I’m overwhelmed a bit. Your friends are really cool, though. The music is better than I expected. And I can’t stop thinking about you.” He blushed, but I could tell he needed to get that out.
I reached up and cupped his face. “That’s a lot. I can’t stop thinking of you either. Kelly.” I paused, working up the courage. Why? Who the hell knows, except this dude was under my skin in a big way and I hadn’t even known him for twenty-four hours yet. I took a deep breath and said, “Can we keep running after the show? I don’t want to stop running away with you yet.”
“Who says we have to stop?”
We stood in each other’s arms, and he held me so close…I ran my hands around and cupped his ass. He hissed in a big breath and his eyes got that lusty look again.
“Tell me where you were going when I found you,” I said, hoping I had him distracted enough to tell me. He’d been evading my questions since the hospital.
He shook his head.
“C’mon, please?” I begged. I just wanted to mess with him a little bit. I loved ruffling his feathers. I slid my hands around to the front of his shorts to see if I was getting a reaction. Oh, God, yes! He was so hard for me.
“You’ll laugh and say it’s a terrible idea.”
I shook my head, running my fingertips lightly over his erection. He moaned and whimpered a little bit.
“I promise I won’t say it’s a terrible idea. Now tell me before I turn around and grind my ass into you until you come in your pants.”
He burst out laughing, and it was probably the most relaxed laugh I’d heard from him yet.
“I’d like to think I could last a little longer than that guy, but you’re right. If you did that? Good grief!”
“Good grief? Charlie Brown? Honey, what is it going to take for me to get one little F-bomb from your lips? I’ll bend over and grab my ankles for you right now if you’ll just swear, just once.” I couldn’t help poking at him. I wanted to get some sort of reaction. I could feel it just under the surface and the reckless part of me wanted to see if Kelly had a dark side too, a monster that wanted to come out and play with me. Completely self-destructive. I knew better. Didn’t mean I wanted to stop.
“Abra,” he said in a pained voice. He brought his lips down hard on mine, and I could feel his body trembling.
I stepped forward with one foot between his feet and curled my outer leg around his. His hands pulled at me tighter and I felt him shudder.
“I’m waiting, Farm Boy. Where do you want to go?” I said in the most sultry voice I could muster.
He dropped his head back and let out a breath. “You don’t fight fair, do you?”
I shook my head. I liked him off-balance. “And I will win. This is one of those times you should let me get my way.”
He raised an eyebrow and exhaled in defeat. “You’ll probably hate it,” he said, his voice cracking.
I needed to show him I meant business. I brought his hand up to my breast and rubbed his thumb over my erect nipple. That did it.
His knees buckled a little and he blurted out, “You win, you win, just, oh, Lord, Abra.”
“Where, Kelly?”
“Pacific Playland.” He took a deep breath, and I let my leg slide down his.
“Pacific Playland.” Disbelief was in my voice.“Big tough cop on the run from the law goes to Pacific Playland. Macho muscley guy drowns his sorrows in a Pineapple Whip at the Coolest Place on the Planet.”
“I’m not macho,” he said with a sly grin. “I happen to agree that it’s the Coolest Place on the Planet. At least I used to think so when I was a kid, so that’s where I decided to go.”
When he was a kid? In a lot of ways he still was a kid. I felt guilty that I’d even touched him when I learned he was only twenty-six. What could I possibly have to offer this dude? My flabby, out of shape body? My neuroses? I shook my head. I wasn’t done seeing where this thing was going to take us.
“Then let’s go to Playland. I’m game. After we leave here tonight, we’ll go back to our love shack, or we can—”
