Page 53 of Hard Rock Temptation
“That was amazing.” She let out a pleased sound and sat up to curl around me, placing a kiss in my hair like I always did to her. “You’re amazing.”
“I love you,” I told her, burying my face in her stomach and clutching her tight in my arms.
“I love you, too,” she replied, as content as I’d ever heard her, but when she spoke up again there was a sly note in her voice.
“You’re still wearing your jeans,” she noted, letting her fingers play with the zipper.
I stifled a groan as her fingertips brushed against my stiff cock beneath the denim. I took her hand and linked it with mine, pulling it away. I brought it to my lips and pressed a kiss to her knuckles.
“Don’t worry about me,” I told her. “This was all for you.”
Kay went silent. Then she tugged her hand from mine. I looked up at her.
“Micah…” she started, trailing off. “Are we… okay?”
My brow furrowed in confusion. “In what way? I don’t think any of us are exactly well-adjusted.”
She shook her head. “No, I mean, areweokay?” she said with emphasis. “The two of us. This relationship.”
An alarm bell sounded in my head. I sat up in bed, floundering in the sheets.
“Are we not?” was the first thing I blurted out.
“I don’t know.” There was a frown on her face as she lowered her eyes. “I was wondering…”
ThatI don’t knowsent panic racing through me. Kay was never this hesitant, never this uncertain, about anything.
“I think everything is great between us,” I hurried to say. “Everything is so good. Do you…“ My throat threatened to close up. “Do you not think so?”
She looked up to meet my gaze, and I was surprised to see both frustration on her face and a shine in her eyes, as if she were holding back tears. Both panicked and concerned now, I immediately reached out and cupped her cheeks.
“What’s wrong?” I asked softly. “Where is this coming from?”
“If everything is so great, then why won’t you—” She cut herself off, then blew out a big breath in a huff. I braced myself for whatever she was going to say.
“Why won’t you fuck me?” Kaylee demanded.
All thoughts in my brain halted to a stop. I blinked at her. I didn’t know what terrible bomb I’d been expecting she’d drop, but it certainly hadn’t been this.
I must have been silent for too long, because she continued.
“I know you want to go slow, and we’ve been doing stuff, sure, but you know I want more and you keep holding back, and I can’t help but wonder if it’s because you’re not sure about us yet.” She said it all in one continuous rant, then sucked in a lungful of air. “So tell me why you won’t have full-blown sex with me. Tell me why you won’t fuck me.”
Hearing Kay say those words for the second time did something to that raging beast inside me. And now, with her outright asking me, how could I be anything other than honest?
“Kaylee.”
I said her name and tipped her chin up to look at me, making sure I had captured her gaze before continuing. Her lips trembled as she stared at me.
“I don’t think you understand just how much I want you.”
TWENTY-THREE
KAYLEE
Ihad done it. I had finally asked Micah the question that had been weighing on me.
And his response was nothing like I had expected.
