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In mere seconds, I’m wrapped back up in the whirlwind that is Ares Dawkins. A force I can’t seem to compete with these days.
Chapter 20
Ares
“What was that for?”Katherine asks me. She’s looking at me with wide eyes, glistening in the light of my cellphone. Her lips are plump and reddened from our kiss.
I don’t have a great answer for her. What was it for? Because I wanted to. I’ve wanted to all week, but I had to respect the distance she asked for.
“I missed you,” I admit.
She drags her bottom lip between her teeth.
“I missed you too.” She slumps forward, resting her forehead on my chest like she’s defeated. As if she’s been fighting missing me for days and finally just gave in. But maybe that’s wishful thinking.
The meteorologist on the stream comes on to tell us the warning has been lifted for our area.
This isn’t my first hurricane, it’s also not my worst. In my eyes, this is all par for the course. I can tell that it has Katherine in a panic, though.
I push open the door of the closet and we both walk out.She goes straight for her cabinet filled with candles. She brings me an arm load of candles and hands me a lighter.
We each take our time placing candles in every corner of the rooms that we might need access to. To save some of her candles and avoid unnecessary fire risk, we only use them to light the living room, her bedroom, and one single candle in the bathroom.
By the time we’re done, the whole house is lit in a warm golden haze. I make a mental note to paint the way the house looks in the dim glow of candlelight.
“How are you so calm?” she asks me, dropping down onto the couch. I take the seat next to her, pulling her silky, bare legs into my lap. She stretches them out with ease.
“This isn’t my first hurricane,” I explain as I take her calf in my hands and rub tight strokes from her ankle to her knee.
The quietest hum of satisfaction rumbles low in her throat, tipping her head back. The sight sends blood rushing to my cock.
I think Katherine was put on this Earth to embarrass me. It wasn’t bad enough she made me come in my pants. Now I’m getting hard over her reaction to a leg rub.
“It’s not my first, either. I never remember being scared like this though.”
“This is your first time having to board and bag your own house, right?” I ask. She nods her head. “Well there you go, it’s easy to not be worried when it’s not your house to lose.”
“Sometimes I feel like you can sort my thoughts out better than I can,” she says with a giggle.
“Audra and Ravyn would be so proud to know they successfully shaped me to read women well.”
I switch to her other leg and again her head rolls back with a hum of pleasure.
“I’ll tell them,” she assures me.
“You’lltell them? How do youplan on doing that?” I ask.
“Ravyn put all of us girls in a group chat while we were at the campgrounds.”
Oh God. Nightmares reallydocome true.
Audra is less of a concern to me. Ravyn though? God help me. Scratch what I said about Katherine being put on this Earth to embarrass me. That’s Ravyn’s job. And she takes it very seriously.
“Well… whatever they say about me, it’s a lie. Unless it’s nice, then it’s true,” I joke. Katherine gives me a halfhearted eye roll, unable to commit to any real annoyance when I’m giving her a leg massage.
She sits up, pausing for a moment. I just watch her, waiting to see what she’s about to do. I feel like that’s all I can do lately. She climbs across the seat and straddles my lap.
There’s no hiding how hard I am now. Not when she lowers her ass to sit all the way in my lap. I can feel myself strained against her.
