Page 41 of Hiding Hollywood

He cupped her cheek. His thumb grazed along her temple, damp with sweat and rain.

This one moment had kept him up late at night.

Forbidden.

Against all the rules. But, if he kissed her, he would never regret it.

“You,” he hesitated and licked his lips, tasting the rain. “You have a boyfriend.”

She rose on her toes, their lips a breath away. “I broke up with him yesterday.”

And then he was kissing her. He didn’t know when it happened, or who closed the distance first. Hell, maybe they both went at each other. They fit together perfectly, her soft lips as greedy as his.

Brian was out of the picture. There were plenty of other reasons that this was wrong, but those he’d deal with later.

God, she tasted sweet. His hands found her hips, locking her against him. His control frayed at the edges. The weak, old bridge they stood on might not be up to it if he did run his hands over her body and let go of his restraint.

She didn’t seem to have the same reservation. Her fingertips grazed over his chest, now slick with rain, and down his abs.

Addie trailed her lips along his jaw. Her teeth grazed along his ear lobe before she dropped from her toes and pressed a kiss to his chest.

“Addie, we should stop.” His rational brain finally showed up and made a coherent thought.

“Are you going to say you don’t want this, too?” She kissed the other side of his chest, a smile in her voice. “Because I’d have to call you a liar from what I’m feeling.”

“I don’t lie.”

Her brown eyes hovered somewhere between disbelief and amazement. “You said that before.”

“I mean it.”

“Never?”

“Never.”

She slid her hands over his shoulders and rose on her toes. His arms wrapped around her body. Pushing her away should be his goal, not drawing her closer. Not loving every second he knew wasn’t his to take.

“I don’t want to stop.”

Shit. “Addie.”

“Cameron.” Her lips brushed over his and the first shred of his control unraveled.

He cradled the back of her head, increasing the pressure of their kiss. A first kiss should be sweet and tender, but that proved impossible. His lips possessed hers with a roughness he’d never felt before. A need to take.

“Addie.” He released her body. “We can’t do this. You’re still my responsibility.” He backed away. “I won’t lie and say I don’t want you, but I have to consider this from a rational point of view.”

He walked away from her, making it one of the hardest damn things he’d ever done.

She caught his arm and twirled him around to face her. She planted her hands on her hips. Her lips were pink, swollen from their kiss. “So that’s it? One amazing kiss and we’re done?”

He winced and ran his sweatshirt over his head to soak up the rain. Amazing didn’t begin to describe that kiss. Did she think this was easy for him?

“We need to get going before the rain picks up.”

She waited for a beat before tossing her hands in the air. “Fine. You want to run instead of kissing me senseless again, let’s run.” She pushed past him and started to jog. Once they broke clear of the woods and back onto the highway, she picked up her pace to the point that he had to concentrate on running and not on the feeling he’d let his one chance with her slip away.

That one chance shouldn’t even exist.

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