Page 32 of No One But You

Again, that dimple popped, and the space between the two of us shrunk until his body was pushed up against mine.

I took yet another step back, but the wall stopped my retreat, and his hands pressed on either side of my body. I was trapped, but not at all in a bad place. I placed my hands on his chest to keep some space between us, but as soon as I touched his skin a shock traveled downward, and that need returned.

Fuck. I closed my eyes. Focus Kora.

He brushed his hand along my face gently. “You know, we could just wait it out back under the covers. They can’t be here all day.” He kissed my neck softly.

I moaned.

“And it’s Saturday. We have nothing to do until tonight.” I felt a smile on his lips when he kissed my shoulder and scraped his teeth against my skin.

I blew out a long breath. “You’re not making this easy,” I whispered.

“Nope, not my goal. I think we could find a way to pass the time.” He trailed his fingers up and down my right arm, causing goose bumps to appear on my flesh. “There’s many things I still want to do to you. Like taste you,” he said as he kissed the top of breast.

I took a sharp breast in.

“Take things slower," he said as he lowered my bra and kissed my nipple.

A breathy whimper escaped my throat.

"Make you say my name a bunch more times. Show you my other talents.” He lifted his eyes to mine and winked.

My knees went weak. He was so sexy and so . . . Kai.

His mouth connected with mine in a tantalizingly sweet kiss that made it easy to imagine that climbing back under the covers with him was a good idea. A very good idea.

I moaned softly, then broke away. “I gotta go,” I whispered. “We just gotta figure out how.”

“Fine.” Kai kissed the tip of my nose before he grabbed his keys off the dresser and walked to the door. “You might want to put that shirt on before you leave the room. I’m sure that would be a dead giveaway that we fucked like rabbits.” He smirked, grabbed a shirt from off the chair, and reached for the doorknob.

I did what he suggested and slipped my tank top over my head just as he opened the door a crack. “It’s clear.” He stepped out into the kitchen.

I crossed the room, placed my hands on his back, and listened. I held my breath to make even less noise. Kaye’s, Diane’s, and Tonya’s voices were in the main area. “I think we got this,” I whispered as quietly as I could. “And if they catch us, we just act like I was drunk and we passed out together, but nothing happened.”

“That sounds like a crystal clear, fail-proof plan. Let’s do it.” Kai led the way to the door, a smirk on his face.

I ran my fingers through my hair, tried to comb away the sex-hair evidence, and followed quietly behind him. Okay, we can do this, not a big deal. Almost there. We got this.

Kai unlocked the back door and opened it.

“Well, isn’t this a surprise?”

Damn. We didn’t make it. My heart dropped, and I ran into Kai and placed my hands on his back.

“Kora, honey. Why are you leaving the salon at this hour of the morning? Did you have a salon appointment?” Tonya asked.

“I’m sure she had some sort of appointment,” Kaye agreed with Tonya.

I laid my head on Kai’s back. “Fuck,” I said under my breath.

“That’s probably more like the appointment she had this morning,” Tonya said, and peals of laughter came from the Orlinda Valley gossip channel.

Kai turned and glanced at me, his smile large and his dimple laughing.

I stood there and shook my head. We only had a few more steps, and we would have been home free.

Kai shrugged. “We tried.”

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