Page 23 of June Kisses

As she dashed upstairs, she passed everyone else on the stairs.

“Landon’s waiting for you,” Finn said.

“Mom’s got shepherd’s pie, Sunnie,” Darcy said. “Wanna have lunch with us after you talk to Landon?”

“No, I’m not hungry.”

She continued on, finding Landon sitting on the edge of the couch, flipping through the TV channels. He turned it off when she walked in and started to rise. She gestured for him to stay where he was.

“So, what do we need to do for this?”

Landon picked up a notebook from the end table and asked her a series of questions. She told him everything as it had happened, step by step. She tried to describe the guy, though she really hadn’t gotten a great look at him—he’d had a ball cap pulled low on his face. Landon wrote it all down, and then put the notebook aside.

Everything he did and said was typical Landon, yet Sunnie couldn’t stop the butterflies in her stomach that made this feel different.

Exciting.

Then he broke the pattern.

He picked up her legs, tugged off her sandals and rested her feet on his lap, as if it were the most normal thing in the world. She was about to pull them back when he gripped one firmly, rubbing it so perfectly, she closed her eyes in absolute bliss.

Landon pushed his thumb into one arch with more pressure, and Sunnie tried to come to grips with the way it was making her feel.

Shit. She was totally getting turned on.

She needed to stop this.

Then he dug his thumb in harder, and she moaned.

She thought her response would make him stop, but it didn’t.

Instead, he did it again.

She opened her eyes and found him looking at her, studying her face.

“What are you doing?”

“Foot rub.”

She narrowed her eyes. It felt like more than that.

Landon’s hands moved from one foot to the other, treating it to the same amazing rub, and she stopped resisting, lying back on the couch and enjoying it.

“How’s your ankle?” he asked.

“Fine. Just a little bit stiff.” She sighed, happy and relaxed from his foot rub. “I think Dad and Finn are still pretty ticked off at me.”

He nodded. “They’ll settle down soon enough. You know Finn. He’s always been over-the-top when it comes to his kid sisters. It’s going to take him a little while to land.”

Landon was right. Sometimes it felt as if he and Finn shared a hive mind.

Landon had grown up with his single mother, who’d worked two jobs to make ends meet, which meant Landon had spent as much time with her family as he did in his own home.

“So, you and Derek are over?”

She nodded. “Oh yeah.”

“What was the fight about?”

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