Page 44 of Promises We Meant to Keep

“Shut up and kiss me.”

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Elia’s entire body was a live wire. Kamryn stared at her in confusion, and she couldn’t help herself. She stayed exactly where she was and held her breath. She had to wait for what she’d said to click into Kamryn’s brain—whatever thread she’d decided to follow and couldn’t manage to come back from just yet.

“Kiss me,” Elia repeated. “I want you to kiss me.”

“Elia…” Kamryn trailed off, dragging out her name until shivers ran up and down Elia’s spine.

But Elia had exactly what she needed. Kamryn was mad—pissed off and so, so angry—and it was all because she thought what was happening to Elia was an injustice. No one had ever done that for her, at least no one on campus. They’d assumed she’d been guilty the whole time, and Elia had worked her ass off to prove her innocence and clear her name.

But Kamryn… Elia was very nearly in tears. Kamryn had believed her without even knowing what had happened all those years ago. Without being let in on the secret. Elia slowed her breathing and her heart rate. She slid in closer to Kamryn, locking their gazes together.

“If you still want to… that is,” Elia said, afraid to touch Kamryn without some sign that this was also what she wanted.

Without warning, Kamryn surged forward. She cupped Elia’s cheeks and brought their lips together, mouths pressed in a fiery kiss that hit on every nerve in Elia’s body and told her this was exactly what she’d wanted and needed. Every single place that Kamryn touched felt instant sparks of pleasure and ripples of joy. They cascaded through her, hitting every sensitive spot in her body.

Elia moaned, her body rocking into Kamryn’s. She’d needed this. Not sex. Not kissing. She’d needed someone to just believe her and tell her she wasn’t wrong. That nothing had been wrong all those years ago, that she was innocent, and Kamryn had managed to do that without even saying the words.

“Touch me,” Elia murmured through kisses. “Fuck me.”

Kamryn growled and turned their bodies, pushing Elia back into the peninsula and pinning Elia between it and Kamryn’s body. Elia ran her hands over Kamryn’s sides, shoulders, breasts. Her clothes were freezing cold to the touch, and her skin wasn’t much better. Elia didn’t care. She just needed to feel everything that Kamryn was feeling and more.

“Take it off,” Kamryn said as she moved her hands from Elia’s cheeks to the hem of her shirt. She didn’t wait as she pulled Elia’s shirt off. As soon as her skin hit the air, Elia lost track of everything.

She tried to focus on Kamryn’s touches, on their skin against each other—hers on fire and Kamryn’s ice—and she couldn’t. It was a mix of touches and kisses, tongues and fingers. Her head spun, and breathing was getting harder. Kamryn had a hand down her pants and fingers against her, and Elia grunted when Kamryn found her clit and pinched lightly.

“Oh fuck,” Elia said. That felt so good. She got wetter in an instant, and she knew without a doubt that this was going to begood sex. This was going to be exactly what they both needed and wanted. “Mouth.”

Kamryn pushed Elia’s pants down her legs and pulled them off one leg at a time. Then she pulled her underwear down. Elia stared at Kamryn as she stood back up with a wickedly satisfied grin on her lips. Elia breathed heavily, the pause in the action rearing up her libido even more. If Kamryn continued to stare at her like that, like she was going to be eaten up and completely consumed, would she come just from the look?

Reaching behind her, Elia unhooked her bra and let it drop. She didn’t move her gaze from Kamryn’s face, but Kamryn looked down. Her gaze roved all over Elia’s body, lingering in certain places, her cheeks reddening, her eyes widening. Was she fascinated?

Kamryn stepped forward, putting both hands on Elia’s hips. She leaned in, her lips brushing against Elia’s ear as she breathed. The hot air touched Elia’s skin, rushing over her body. Her nipples hardened tightly, and the muscles in her body tensed with anticipation—this time with anticipation of so much pleasure that she was going to completely lose herself in the moment.

“Just go with it,” Kamryn said.

Elia was about to object, but Kamryn’s grip on her tightened. She lifted Elia up and backward, sliding her easily onto the counter behind her. Elia cried out in surprise, but when Kamryn bent down and pressed kisses to her hips, Elia closed her eyes and lay backward on the counter.

Parting her legs, Elia waited for Kamryn’s mouth to be against her. She planted one hand under her head and the other against her breast, teasing her nipple. She was ready to let everything go, to let the world know who she was, for Kamryn to finally find out who they might be together. And she was readyfor the leap for herself too, to let go of everything that had been holding her back for all these years.

“Mouth,” Elia demanded again when Kamryn still hadn’t started sucking and licking her. “Hard.”

Kamryn chuckled as she moved in. The vibrations from her voice adding to the sensation. Elia raised her hips and pushed her body deeper into Kamryn’s mouth. She’d dreamed of this. After the last speech meet, when she’d all but kicked Kamryn out of her room, she’d dreamed of exactly this.

Kamryn’s mouth, hot against her pussy. The cries of pleasure that would fill the air. The freedom that she might just taste. Freedom from her past, from the cloud that had haunted every step she’d taken for the last eighteen years, from all the hopes that she didn’t dare entertain, and from all the failures she knew she was going to face.

Elia bit her lip and pulled her nipple hard, the pain rebounding down her body to exactly where Kamryn’s tongue was hitting against her. Kamryn moved into sucking before she went back to using her tongue in quick little flicks.

“Ughhhh…” Elia cried out, her back arching on the hard counter. She didn’t want this to ever end. She wanted to stay right where she was, splayed out for Kamryn’s consumption, and go nowhere else.

Kamryn’s fingers against her thigh were the request for more. Elia wasn’t going to tell her stop. She wanted everything that Kamryn was willing to give her, everything and more. Elia was getting more and more frustrated by the second when Kamryn didn’t put fingers inside of her. Elia had to work to find her voice.

“Fingers. Now.”

Elia sighed as Kamryn moved two fingers inside her, gently inserting them and then curling them upward. She tapped once and Elia nearly jumped off the counter. Her entire body tensedand tightened. She hadn’t been prepared for just how damn good that was going to feel.

“Amazing,” she murmured. When Kamryn did it again, she groaned and knocked her head back into the counter. She brought her arm up to her mouth and bit down on her wrist to hold back her screams. Because that was exactly what she wanted to do. She wanted to let loose everything that she’d been holding back and never look at it again.

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