Page 54 of Starting Over with You
I need help.
Or I need a hit of KenniLeigh Colburn.
When we reach my SUV that’s still running, Noelle looks back at us. She’s holding on to Big Seb despite the glares Sebastian is sending her. “Sorry to cut our visit short.”
Kenni waves her off. “No worries.”
Noelle wants to say more, but she only nods before looking at me. “Thanks, Dean.”
“Absolutely,” I say just as Sebastian shakes my hand. “Good seeing you, bud.”
“You too. Sorry about your mouth.”
I scoff, wiping it once more. “Hey, I’m impressed by how much of a punch he still packs.”
Sebastian laughs at that before rushing to catch up to Noelle and Big Seb. I go to ask Kenni where she parked, only to find her at the back of my SUV, opening the hatch.
“You can sit in the passenger seat. No need to sneak in my trunk again,” I call out, since she has done that before. I didn’t even knowshe and Missy were in the trunk until I pulled up to the campsite to meet my dad after he said they couldn’t go.
Kenni laughs as she comes back with a first aid kit. “No one can tell me where I can and can’t go anymore. I’m an adult.” She waggles her brows, and I laugh as she approaches me. “Sit.”
“I’m fine, KenniLeigh.”
She gives me a hard look, her little nose upturned at me. “Sit,” she demands once more, and I should be ashamed by how turned on her command makes me.
With a sigh, I sit down as she puts the case on my thighs and opens it. She’s focused on the contents of the kit as I drink her in. How her hair has fallen in sections from the big bun she has on the top of her head. She must have gotten some sun today because her skin is pink along her shoulders, nose, and cheeks. Her lips are bright red with gloss, and her lashes are thick and sooty. She sinks her top teeth into her bottom lip, and I can’t help but wish I could watch my cock move between those thick lips.
God, she looks so fucking pretty.
I swallow as she meets my gaze and flashes me a megawatt grin. “All right, be still.”
Before she can wipe at my mouth, I ask, “What were you doing here?”
She gives me a dark look, reminding me to stay still, and then she wipes to clean the cut along my bottom lip. It stings a bit, but it’s fine, especially when she blows on the sting. Her breath is warm, and she smells like Christmas. She must have had a latte of Noelle’s. “I had a meeting with Big Seb about the tree farm, and he was fine. Everything was good.”
“Yeah, it’s crazy how it comes on so fast.”
Her eyes are glossy as she nods. “I was meeting with Noelle. We were done, and I’d just put everything in the car when she suggested having a glass of wine. Then it all happened.”
I have to move to reduce the pressure in my pants. “It’s late to be having meetings.”
“I didn’t want to go back to the house,” she says, her brows pulling in.
She moves to gather something else, and I grab her wrist. “Want me to kick his ass?”
Kenni snorts before laughter bubbles out of her. “No, it’s fine.”
It doesn’t seem fine to me. She squirts some antibiotic ointment on her finger before spreading it along my lip. I watch her face, the way she holds her lip between her teeth. Unable to help myself, I say, “Just come stay with me. You’d have the whole house to yourself about 50% of the time.”
Her eyes cut up to mine, the blue orbs glowing in the darkness. “You want me as a roommate, Dean?”
Roommate? Fuck no.
But damn if I don’t love the way she says my name.
“I want you to be comfortable,” I force myself to say.
It’s fucking killing me how badly I want her. I shift again, and I wonder if she knows how deeply she affects me. That she’s basically a siren and I’m the captain of a ship, ready to steer my boat right into the jagged rocks that surround her. The desire in her eyes has me fighting the need to wrap my arms around her and smother her mouth with mine. But then she says one word that has me about two seconds from doing a victory lap. “Okay.”
