Page 17 of Luckiest Love
She slowly reached up and touched his face, poking at the side of his lips with a gentle fingertip.
“I have never seen you smile before.”
His lips quirked and she bit her lip, “You are too good looking.”
He felt his eyebrows lift, “You think I’m handsome?”
She smiled, “I think you are sexy and handsome and so many other things.”
He chuckled at her frank words.
Her eyes widened and then she laughed, and he looked around the shelter, “Do you still have cats to play with?”
Her eyes lit up and she grabbed his hand in hers and led him from the small half-room and towards a room in the back of the building.
There were cats all over the place in different tree looking things and some were fast asleep, others were playing with some toys.
There were tiny fluff ball kittens and she walked in and pulled him over to where the kittens were sitting in a pile.
She picked one up that was pure black except of a small patch of white on its chest and put it in his hands.
He cupped his hands together and looked up at her, “It’s so small.”
She petted the kitten’s tiny head, “I know it's so cute huh?”
He bit back another chuckle and nodded at her enthusiasm.
He watched her pick up another kitten and hold it to her face and gently kiss its tiny head.
He was shocked to feel a bolt of jealousy surge through him at that small gesture and then shook his head.
He was getting jealous of a cat for fuck’s sake.
He watched her take each tiny ball of fluff and kiss their heads too.
Then she was moving inside the room and petting every cat she could reach and he watched in awe as they all responded to her.
The small kitten in his palm started to vibrate and he looked down at it and rubbed a finger gently over its head.
The vibrating picked up and he knew it was purring.
She came back over to him and looked down at his palm and laughed, “Oh! He is purring. He likes you.”
He looked down at the kitten, “I guess so.”
He just stayed silent and she looked up at him and he blurted out, “Can I make you dinner?”
Her eyes went wide again and he wanted to kick himself. He was going against every single fucking thing he would normally do just for this girl.
He didn’t like people in his space and he hadn’t even had Sean over to his house since he bought it.
Why was he having thoughts about this girl? Why was he here and holding a fucking kitten just so she would smile at him and make his chest hurt a little less?
He wanted her smiles every single day of his life. Not just her smiles though.
For the first time he wanted everything with this girl.
This ball of sunshine that made his walls crack and crumble and his heart of ice break apart.
