Page 59 of Stolen Kisses
Krista laughed. “Meet me at the BB Café tomorrow morning. I’ll dish all the details.”
“You got it.”
Krista hung up and watched the door. A second later, it opened and Noah stepped out onto the porch with mussed hair and a thick layer of stubble surrounding the lower half of his face. A few days off at the mountains looked good on him. He held a cup of coffee of his own.
“Mind if I join you?” he asked in a sexy, sleep-coated voice.
“It’s about time you woke up,” she teased, sliding over just a touch.
He sat beside her and glanced over. “I haven’t slept in this late since a few years ago when I had the flu. I like this excuse better.” He winked and her body melted into the swing.
“Me, too.”
“So, uh, we head home today.”
She nodded, feeling the regret over that fact bubble up inside her. “Yep.”
“Guess we’ll pack and be on our way in a bit. Back to reality.”
She wanted to ask him what this weekend meant for them. What were his intentions toward her? She bit her tongue. Talking about intentions and feelings was likely to send Noah running. “And we have an anti-bachelor-and-bachelorette party for Grace and Jack to plan. I think it’s a great idea.”
“Me, too. We’ve had a lot of great ideas this weekend.” His gaze ran over her, slow and easy. God, she didn’t want this trip to end.
“I have another idea,” she said, leaning into him.
His mouth quirked on one end. “Oh, yeah?”
She nodded. She wasn’t usually this bold, but she needed to make the most of their time here at the Sawyer cabin. In case that was all they had. “I need a shower.”
One of his eyebrows lifted. “What do you know. I happen to need a shower, too. Perhaps we could conserve water.”
She nodded and stood from the swing. “That was exactly my idea.”
“Great minds.” He followed her inside, locking the front door behind them.
They hurried through the living room and tumbled into the master bathroom, running their hands over each other. Krista had meant what she’d said to Grace. The mood here was magnetic. Half due to the mountains, half due to the man currently stripping down in front of her. She lifted her T-shirt off and his gaze lowered to her bare breasts. Then she shimmied out of her yoga pants.
“You are the most gorgeous woman I have ever seen,” he said, and that thrilled her. She’d seen him with so many beautiful women over the years, years when he’d looked at her with nothing more than neutrality in his eyes. Now he was looking at her with fiery desire. As if he wanted to eat her up.
The thought of that made her step toward him. “I’ve never made love in the shower,” she confessed, kissing his mouth. There were so many sexual things she’d never experienced that she wanted Noah to show her.
He cupped the bottom of her chin gently, and held on to her and the kiss. “Well, then, let me be your first,” he said before crushing his mouth against hers.
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The sign read:WELCOME TO BLUSHING BAY. Noah had never been more relieved—because his right leg was falling asleep from the six-hour drive—and more bummed at the same time. Because he’d be dropping Krista off at home in a few minutes. He couldn’t even try to go inside. Joey might be there.
Krista stirred in the passenger seat. She’d been asleep for the last few hours, which Noah was thankful for. He needed time with his thoughts. Not that time had helped anything. He still had no idea what he was going to do next where Krista was concerned, if anything. Maybe what happened at the Sawyer cabin stayed at the cabin. The thought of that made his chest ache.
“Where are we?” Krista asked, breaking into a large yawn. She stretched her arms over her head and looked around. “Oh. Home.”
Noah glanced over just in time to see her frown. “What happened to ‘there’s no place like home’?”
She shrugged, hugging her arms around herself. “I love home. But I really needed this break.” She blew out a breath. “Tomorrow is back to work where Karen will stare down her nose at me even though I’ve earned that head nurse position. I’ve been there the longest and I work the hardest.”
“So relax. You always get what’s coming to you. I believe that.”
“Like you? You deserve to be head of theSummerly. I always knew you’d make a great captain.”
