Page 97 of Sin With Me

“I confessed to Father John about you!” I punched him in the arm. It was hard and my knuckles hurt, but he didn’t even flinch. “Oh, my God, I confessed to my own father that I fucked a priest.”

“Wait, what? I thought you never got a chance.”

“Of course I did. Didn’t you hear me that morning, before I confessed to you that I loved you? It’s been two hours since my last confession?” I remindedhim

“I tried to block out your voice. I really tried hard not to listen to your sins, and to be honest, you didn’t make it easy, but I’m grateful that you went to FatherJohn.”

“Why?”

“Don’t you see it, Kate? The last thing I wanted was for you to live with that sin. The last thing I wanted was for you to doubt your faith. I should have never let that evening happen. I’m sorry.”

“So, now you have regrets.”

“No. Damn it, Kate!”

He turned around and pulled his fingers through his hair. That gesture alone made me want to forget my sour mood. It made me want to forget the rest of the world, so that he could hold me in his arms. He paced back to the bathtub, and then returned to me, frustration seeping out ofhim.

“I will never regret what happened. Never. I’ve wanted you since the moment I saw you at the bar, but I didn’t want to lie toyou.”

“But you wanted to sin withme?”

“Kate, look at you.” He pointed. “You could easily seduce a Pope with those hips and that mouth.”

“Oh, that’s really pushingit.”

“It was pushing it when I took you over that table as a priest, and I’m sorry for that. Even though I don’t regret it, I’m sorry from the bottom of my heart. I’ve gone under cover so many times in my life that it was just another job for me, and I overstepped a boundary.”

He appeared genuine, and that dimple in his cheek, that smile and the comfort I saw in his eyes, they all softened my heart towardshim.

“Did you really have to be a priest?” I asked.

Cameron lifted my chin with his finger. “At the time, I thought it was the right decision. In hindsight, I should have found a different approach, but I was desperate to find Aaron Cortez.”

I stepped to theside.

Cortez.

It was all that bastard’s fault. The sound of his name made my skin crawl. I braced my arms against the bathroom counter and lowered myhead.

“Well, you succeeded, because he came back toPace.”

The question was, what would Cameron do with the information? Would he sell me out? I didn’t think so, but would he risk his life to bury Cortez? Possibly, and the thought made me nauseous because I didn’t want Cameron to risk hislife.

Cameron gently touched my shoulders, brining my attention back to the care in his eyes. “I found him and I feel like I lostyou.”

His tender whisper did something funny to me, and this time when he drew his hands down my arms and to my hips, I didn’t push himaway.

“You didn’t lose me.” I looked up. “I was upset because I felt as duped as you did. I felt like the past half year of my life has been one biglie.

“Please don’t say that. I promise you that not everything was a lie. The man you met in Pace is real; except he’s not a priest. What I feel for you is as real as itgets.”

I saw that love in his eyes. I’d seen it in the past few months that I spent with him, and I couldn’t stop believing in him. Not now; notever.

“So, I guess we could call it even?” I asked.

“I don’t want to be even. I want to make it up to you in every way possible.” He pushed the fabric of my shirt away, off my shoulder, and lowered his mouth to my skin, setting it on fire. “Please let me make it up toyou.”

His warm breath hovered over my shoulder, teasing me, before traveling downward. It spread the need he breathed all the way down, until my toes curled.

Jesus!

He may as well have kissed me between my legs. I wanted him to kiss me between my legs. I wanted him to kiss me everywhere, and so I gave him the only answer I knew he wanted to hear right now. I gave him the only answer I truly wanted.

“Yes.”

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