Page 2 of Puck Drop
“Lizzie,” I laugh again. “Listen to me.”
She crosses her arms over her chest and refuses to meet my eyes, making me want to grab and kiss the shit out of her.
“I love you, you weirdo,” I finally tell her when I see that she’s too stubborn to look at me, completely misreading my amusement.
“What?” she gasps in shock.
The smile now dies on my face. “Wait. I thought… You said… I mean…”
“Ha!” She pokes me in the chest, laughing. I guess it’s her turn now. “That’s for being so bad at expressing your feelings.”
“How am I bad at it?” I argue. “I just told you that I loved you!”
She places both hands on my shoulders and gives me the biggest grin. “And I love you, too, Logan.”
I shake my head at the ridiculousness of the situation.
“Believe it or not, I was just thinking about telling you that I was in love with you just as you started pouting.”
“Who was pouting?” She places a hand over her chest, feigning shock. “I never pout!”
Unable to resist her anymore, I bend my head and press my mouth to hers, the tip of my tongue already breaking the seal of her soft lips. She doesn’t even try to pretend like she wants to fight me. Instead, she sighs into me, allowing me to take complete control of the kiss.
I blindly take a step back until I feel the wall at my back. We are inside the locker room at the arena, where I came for an extra skating session. She snuck in after my two teammates I skated with took off, so it is just the two of us.
Elizabeth pulls her head back just enough for me to see her face. She gives me the biggest grin.
“This feels like the forbidden fruit.”
I inhale a couple of times as I try to regulate my breathing. “What does?”
“Us,” she says. “Being in the locker room like this.” Her laughter fills the empty space. “My father would have a conniption fit if he ever found out.”
All amusement is out of my system now. I don’t take any of this as lightly as she does. Unlike her, I have a lot to lose if we get caught. I can’t afford to lose my contract with the Sliders, and going back to the minors would be a huge step back in my career.
“Hey…” She cups the back of my neck with her graceful fingers. “I hope you know that I was only joking. This is not how I’d want my father to find out about us.”
My heart beats a mile a minute now. Thing is, I don’t want her father to know about us at all, ever. That presents a huge problem. How can we still be together but not get our families involved in any way?
“Let’s get back to kissing,” Elizabeth chuckles nervously. “We’ll have all the time in the world to talk about the rest later.”
While not all the instant stress has left my body, I do feel a sense of relief, even if I know it will be short lived.
“Yeah,” I whisper against her lips. “Let’s get back to kissing.”
My back still rests against the wall as I wrap my arms around her middle and pick her up, bringing our mouths closer together once again.
The tip of her tongue peeks out from in between her lush lips right before she licks at them nervously.
“I love you,” she tells me, her face a mask of serious worry. “I promise,” she adds, like I wouldn’t believe her words.
I give her the biggest smile, hoping that it’s reassuring enough. “Show me,” I tease.
There is no hesitation in her moves when she pushes herself higher in my arms until she can easily touch her mouth to mine.This time, when her tongue comes out, it makes direct contact with mine, making us both moan in pleasure. I suck on it gently, my arms squeezing her tighter with every second of gentle pressure that I apply to it.
With each move I make, her hips grind just a little harder against my erection. I’ve been hard for her from the moment I first saw her tonight, but now, with my hands on her body and my tongue in her mouth, I’m not sure I can’t think of anything other than getting inside her, sooner rather than later.
“Logan,” she moans into my mouth. “I love you.”
