Page 87 of Where the Dark Knelt
“Good to know that I have some effect on you at least,” he admitted when he felt that.
“Please, Will…” He pulled me toward his chest once the sheet was in place. My cheek was resting on his slightly hairy chest. He smelled of beer, bodywash, sea, and bonfire.
He kissed the top of my head. “I’m so sorry, Lily,” he muttered, and quickly added, “Although… you’re hot. I can’t be sorry I know what you taste like now. How can I be sorry about that? ”
Feeling me pull away from him, Will tugged me back into him again.I tensed and tried to move away. “No. I won’t let you feel awkward about my mistake. It was a genuine accident, not something I’d planned. Fantasized about… hell yeah, but I didn’t plan it.”
Pushing me back to arm’s length, I knew he was trying to look at me. I could see an outline of him, but not his features in the dark. “Can you honestly say you haven’t been curious about me?” he asked. “The hours we’ve spent together, the hugs, the little touches all the flirting? The kisses, you haven’t wondered how I’d feel?”
I didn’t answer him. I had, but there was no way I was going to admit it to him. He took a sharp intake of breath and blew it out of his nose. It blew gently over my hot forehead.
“Right, we’re going to make this as awkward or as natural as it gets.” Will pushed me back and flicked on the ceiling light. “Here I am.Ta-da.”
Will gestured at himself, like he had in my apartment the day we went to the beach, except this time there were no shorts, and he was standing there naked.
He was still erect, and although he’d been drinking, he looked amazingly sexy with his messed up hair and his shadowy stubble that was beginning to appear.His full lips were placed together, his lips curved slightly in a smile.
Turning, he gave me a panoramic view of himself, and he had a great ass. “This is me, I’m naked. I was born like this, inmy birthday-suit. Well, maybe except for the hair and the chubbie.” He grinned.
“Come on, Lily, your turn.”I glared, still feeling freaked out and still way more sober than Will.
“I’m not taking this sheet off,” I hissed.
Will smirked. “Well, I know it’s not cuz you’re hiding a cock in there. My face was down there, remember,” he joked. I was shocked at his brazen approach to this. Clutching the sheet tightly in my hands, I closed my eyes briefly.
Will’s fingers closed over my hands and began pulling them away. “Let it drop, Lily, I’m not ever going to do anything you don’t want to happen.”
I wasn’t ashamed of my body, so I let him peel the sheet away, keeping my eyes closed.
I heard his breath hitch when he freed me of it. We stood in silence, which was broken by me several moments later. “Will?” I heard him swallow and his breathing sounded ragged.
“Yeah?” he husked.
“What do I do now?”
Will blew a long slowbreath out. His voice was a little shaky. “That’s your call. Don’t put me in charge of what happens next. My cock has had a thousand ideas about how this plays out.” I felt he was trying too hard to sound light hearted but I could hear his voice drop to a husk, and I knew I was in trouble.
I had no willpower with this sex stuff, it was all new to me. Opening my eyes, I saw Will was giving me his full attention, with his cock resting heavily in his hand. He was stroking it but stopped when he saw me watching him. It twitched when he looked at me, looking at him. I licked my lips—my mouth was so dry.
“Do you have any water?”My voice sounded like it was in the distance. Reaching down to the floor, he produced a halfdrunk bottle of water. The plastic bottle was wet on the outside from the condensation of being brought from the cold fridge to the heat of the room.
“I snagged this from the fridge before coming to bed,” he offered by way of an explanation.I opened the bottle and drew some liquid in, a little escaped and a drop splashed onto my breast.
Before either of us could think about it, Will had reacted and his index finger brushed it off of my breast, causing me to feel breathless at his touch.
Chapter Thirty-Five
MOMENT OF WEAKNESS
Shivering at his sudden touch, my nipples pebbled as goose bumps radiated over my body. My eyes darted to Will and locked onto his serious, sensual stare. His eyes twinkled in the light and his pupils almost engulfed the gray of his eyes. I could tell Will liked what he saw.
Lowering my eyes, I hadn’t wanted him to see that I, too, was curious about him, and worse still, I feltlike I’d stooped to a new low. Standing here naked in a room with my best friend’s boyfriend, and even with that knowledge, my feelings weren’t being swayed by what we were doing.
Will lifted his hand and crooked his middle finger under my chin, raising my eyes again to meet his.He smiled at me, and I could tell he was waiting to see what my response was. He wanted me to take responsibility for this.
I couldn’t do that, if anything was going to happen, it needed to be Will’s choice. I wasn’t the one in the relationship.
“Can I kiss you?” His eyes searched mine, and I pinched my lips as if to hide them in my face.I stared at him, and hestroked his hands down my hair then flicked it back over my shoulders to leave my breasts totally exposed.
