Page 53 of Until We Burn
I tuck the condom in my back pocket and start walking towards her.
“Atta boy!”Luke whoops.
I tug my tie off the closer I get to the barn. Like all the other guys on the team, we wore scraps of our game-day suits to the Wing and Flame. My white dress shirt staves off the autumn chill, but the heat from so many people dancing together has me rolling the sleeves up and shoving my tie into my pocket.
My hands wind around Diana’s hips when I reach her. Her flowery, vanilla perfume drowns out the stench of booze and firewood in the air.
She glances up at me, teasingly batting those long lashes.
“You look familiar.”
I chuckle and lean down to whisper in her ear. “I was the guy who scored the winning goal if you recall.”
“Hmm. . .” she muses, “are you sure about that? Because I thought that guy was far more good-looking.”
“You’re really going to tempt me in front of all these people, princess?”
“And?” Her fingers brush over mine, making shivers surge through my skin. “What are you going to do about it?”
My grip tightens around her hips until she pushes against my hard-on. Diana gasps, her eyes fluttering.
I smile slowly against her ear. “Come with me, and I’ll show you.”
Diana gulps. “Where can we go?”
“Go out those doors in front of you, and I’ll meet you outside.”
Diana smooths a shaking hand over her hair. I let her go, watching her weave through the crowd with her head ducked down. I wait a few seconds before I follow her outside.
No lights shine out on the other side of the barn. Only moonlit green fields and a sky full of stars surround us.
“Di.”
She turns around just as my hands curl around her waist, and our lips crush together, hard and needy. I pin her against the barn wall. Diana gasps. Her taste is so fucking tempting and intoxicating; it takes so much self-restraint to stop and drag my lips up to ear.
“Come on,” I whisper. “I know a place we can go.”
Intrigue flashes on Diana’s face as I take her hand. With one quick look over my shoulder, we sneak off into the dark.
DIANA
“Sssh! We gotta be quiet, Di!”
“Me?” I narrowly avoid a pile of mud as we run through the green fields. “Your giant feet are probably waking up all the farm animals as we speak!”
Kai laughs. When he looks back at me, everything in me quiets down and flares alive at the same time. He’s so devastatingly handsome that I can’t believe this is real. The wind tousles those black curls I always yearned to touch. His eyes are utterly vivid and green under the stars, and I hardly notice my red lipstick stain on his collar.
“This is it.”
A lavish tree house rises into view, bathed in the golden light of the lanterns hanging from the oak branches.
Kai pulls me to the top of the spiral staircase. I can see our wild, unkempt reflection in the French doors leading into the tree house.
“Wait, wait.”
Kai braces a hand against my cheek. His eyes soften on me as we catch our breaths.
“A-Are you sure about all of this?” He swallows hard. “I remember you told me you had feelings for me the last three years and?—”
