KAI
 
 Better than her knowing the truth.
 
 The dots appeared immediately. My heart actually fucking skipped. What the hell was happening to me?
 
 CHARLIE
 
 Is it though?
 
 I could almost see her biting that bottom lip, the way shedid when she was uncertain. The same way she had this morning when I’d…
 
 KAI
 
 Your brother would kill me.
 
 CHARLIE
 
 Which one?
 
 Despite myself, I smiled. Then immediately scowled because what the fuck was this girl doing to me? I didn’t smile. I definitely didn’t use emojis. Yet here I was, typing back.
 
 KAI
 
 All of them. Probably at the same time.
 
 The typing dots appeared and disappeared several times before her next message came through.
 
 CHARLIE
 
 Worth it though... right?
 
 I stared at those four words, my throat tight.
 
 Was it worth risking everything I’d built here in Sable Point? Worth facing the wrath of her entire family? Worth opening myself up to... whatever this was becoming?
 
 The memory of her curled against my chest this morning, trusting and soft, flashed through my mind. The way she’d looked at me when I’d taught her how to touch herself, all wide-eyed wonder and eagerness to learn. How she’d bitten her lip to keep quiet, her small hands fisting in my sheets...
 
 Fuck.
 
 KAI
 
 Yes.
 
 CHARLIE
 
 Good. Because I can’t stop thinking about last night… or this morning.
 
 Christ.This girl was going to be the death of me. My cock twitched, remembering exactly how her hand had felt wrapped around me, how she’d sounded when she came.
 
 KAI
 
 Dangerous thing to say when I’m trying to be good.
 
 CHARLIE
 
 Maybe I don’t want you to be good.
 
 Cursing, I adjusted myself in my jeans. Where was this confidence coming from? The shy girl who’d barely been able to look at me was suddenly sexting?