Page 33 of Zero Chance

“I…” I could hear her swallow before her chin lifted and her shaky breath washed across my cheek.“What ifIdo it wrong?”

I groaned with achy need.“Not possible,” I assured.“You just standing there doing nothing is already driving me crazy.I swear, I will like everything about this.”

She shuddered without replying, and her hand fluttered over my chest again.Light and teasing at first.Her palm pressed boldly against one peck, right over my heart.

Wrapping my fingers around her wrist, I shifted her touch, running it down and encouraging her to keep moving it as I coached her hand to go where I wanted it to go.

She released a strained breath.“I can’t believe I’m touching you.”

I grinned.But seriously, I had no idea Makayla had been carrying such a torch for me.In class, around her friends, she’d always acted turned off.I guess a girl’s true feelings came out when you got her alone and away from the rest of her herd.

“Nice, right?”I teased with a satisfied smirk.“And you haven’t even reached my best feature yet.”

Her explorations paused.I held my breath, hoping I hadn’t put her off with my dumbass comment.But she started smoothing her fingers again, over my shirt and heading south.

“Fuck,” I croaked, not about to stop her.“How the hell could you think you’d do something wrong?”

She said nothing, just slipped down past my navel until she reached the top of my jeans.

The night was chilly.Sweater weather.But I was burning up.Desire thickened in my lungs and made it hard to breathe.Labored pants exited my lips.Sweat gathered on my brow, and the heaviness growing between my legs was starting to ache, throbbing with my increasing heart rate.

“Can I?”she asked as she grasped the top button of my fly.

I nearly came then and there.

“God, yes,” I answered, gulping greedily.“I may weep if you don’t.”

The button popped apart.I grunted, momentarily dizzy with anticipation.

“Jesus,” I grated out.

The ground quaked beneath me.Or maybe it didn’t move at all, but I suddenly felt unstable as the rasp of my zipper filled the air.Soft fingers glanced over the skin on my abdomen before slipping inside my underwear.Her palm pulled my cock free into the breezy air, encasing me with warmth and making me jolt.

My hand shifted from her hip and around to the small of her back while she pumped me slowly.Once, twice.I drew in a deep breath and fisted my fingers in the cloth of her shirt before pressing it against the top swell of her ass.

“You smell so good,” she murmured with a drunken sound of bliss.

Smiling, I turned my face in toward hers and took my own deep whiff.“So do you.”

“Really?”She sounded surprised.Pleased.

“Fuck, yeah,” I rasped.“It’s like leather or old books maybe, mixed with some kind of candle wax and fresh snow layered over a hint of…vanilla.Yeah, vanilla.It’s cozy and warm but also refreshing.I want to burrow into it and just…feast.”

When I buried my nose in her hair, she shuddered and tipped her face toward my neck.“Keene.”The word sounded reverent and relieved as if coming home after being away too long.

I swallowed thickly, thinking this felt important and somehow monumental.I instinctively knew I couldn’t let her down.What I did in the next moment would steer the course for the rest of…everything.

Pausing in her hair near her ear, I let my exhale warm her before whispering, “I really want to kiss you right now.”

Her breath caught.“Okay.”

So I touched her chin lightly, encouraging it up.Once she lifted her face, I curled a hand around the back of her neck and used my thumb to hold her jaw steadily in place.I lowered my mouth, barely sweeping her lips with mine.

She whimpered.I groaned.It was such a small contact.Barely a brush.But I felt it everywhere.It seared my skin and scoured my chest until I was inflamed.I swear it imprinted itself on my very DNA.

My blood pounded through my veins.

A small, pained sound rose from her throat.Alarm, panic, need.She wanted this just as much as I did.But she was scared.Wary.

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