Page 31 of No One But You

His chuckle had put me at ease, and I placed my hand on his chest and turned toward him. “We’ve known each other a week. You’ve changed my tire, drove me home, talked to my goats, and now we just had sex in my aunt’s best friend’s hair salon. No, nothing’s weird about any of this.”

He smiled wide and his dimple appeared. He pulled me on top of him and kissed me hard. That kiss sent an electric pulse throughout my body and caused some things to get wet and other things to get hard.

“Someone’s ready for more,” I said seductively. I Straddled his wide and strong body and went for round two.

The next morning, I awoke with a pounding headache. I draped my arm over my head, then cracked open my eyes. It took me a moment to remember I wasn’t in my room and to remember where I was. It helped when memories of amazing sex came back. I closed my eyes and let the warm feelings of last night spread over me.

Noises from the other side of the bedroom door bombarded my consciousness. I was at the hair salon, and the sounds were coming from the kitchen. Kai must already be up, making us coffee.

I rolled over and stretched. My arm hit a body. I wasn’t in bed alone. The noise in the kitchen wasn’t Kai. He still snored lightly beside me.

My eyes popped wide, and I leaned on an elbow to focus harder on the noise in the kitchen. I recognized Diane and Tonya’s voices immediately.

“Holy shit.” My pulse jumped awake. “Wake up.” I pushed on Kai’s chest. “Kai.” I hissed his name.

He rolled over, wrapped his arm around me, and nuzzled into my neck.

My insides turned into that familiar fluttering and my arm laced around his waist. I could easily ignore the issue on the other side of the door and get right back to what we were doing all night. His nuzzle turned to kisses, and my insides turned to mush.

“No, no, no.” My eyes bulged and my pulse raced. Panic took over. I tried to lift his arm, but it wouldn’t budge. Was he made of lead? Lord, his arm was heavy. It was like dead weight. But he had to get up. This was an emergency. “Kai. We can’t do this right now.”

“Yes, we can.” His voice was thick with sleep. His kisses continued and closed in on my breast.

Good, God, I wanted to melt right into him, but a crash from the other side of the door made him freeze and reason return.

“They’re here. They’re here. They’re gonna know.” I untangled Kai’s arms, jumped out of bed, and searched for my clothes. I found my bra hanging on a light, my panties over the chair, and my jeans were in a wad on the floor. I slipped into them and searched for my shirt. Where the hell was my shirt?

Kai’s eyes opened and he pulled himself to a sitting position.

“Shit. I can’t find my shirt.”

Kai leaned back on the headboard with his hands behind his head and a smirk covered his face.

I couldn’t believe him. “Seriously? You do realize how this looks, right? Fuck.” I picked up his clothes thrown randomly everywhere and threw them on the bed, but still no shirt. “This is going to look so bad.”

“I don’t know. It looks pretty damn good from where I’m sitting.” A smirk covered his face. A damn hot smirk.

Ignore him. Stay focused. I huffed out a breath and fastened my bra. At least now my breasts weren’t hanging out for him to ogle. I finally found my shirt. Hallelujah! It ended up behind the chair in the corner. How did it get all the way back there? I didn’t think I threw it that far.

“Hey?” Kai wrapped his arms around me, trapping my arms.

I hadn’t even realized he had gotten out of bed.

“Relax. Last night was hot.”

“Yes, but this doesn’t make it any easier. What are they going to think?”

“It doesn’t matter what they think. We are two consenting adults, and we both consented, and it was amazing.” He kissed me lightly, then made his way to the bathroom.

I watched his sexy ass enter the bathroom. He looked just as good this morning as he did last night. Maybe I wasn’t as drunk as I thought. And yes, the sex was great, but that didn’t make this whole thing less awkward.

I paced the room. How would I get to his truck without Kaye, Diane, and my nosey aunt knowing I spent the night?

My pacing was interrupted when Kai blocked my path. My eyes slowly traveled from the floor to his strong thighs and stopped on his hips. He was clothed in basketball shorts which hung low on his hips. Those luscious, sexy hips. I blinked hard then forced my eyes to continue upward to his chest, where they hung out for a while and admired all the ridges of his six-pack abs and finally found their way to his eyes. Crystal clear and amazingly sexy. Desire churned deep within my gut, and the overly sensitive area between my legs yelled out with need. I squeezed my eyes tight. Stop. This is not the time.

His dimple appeared. “Having a hard time deciding if you should leave?” He took a step closer.

I took a step back and shook my head. I’m leaving. Just push him away.

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