Page 45 of Keep On Loving You
He lifted his head. Her eyelids fluttered open, and he read hesitation there. “Kat? We don’t have to?—”
“No.” She put a hand flat on his chest. “It’s not that. I just…it’s probably for the best that this can’t go anywhere, right? I mean…with my family and…”
Andy swallowed hard. More than anything, he wanted to object and stop her from putting more limits on them. Instead, he let her finish.
“I mean, you live so far away. It could never go anywhere anyway. We’re just friends. No one’s going to get hurt.”
Was she trying to convince herself? Or him?
“What did you say?” He pretended to think about it despite the fact that her words had been seared into hismind from the moment she spoke them in his apartment two years earlier. “Happy for right now?” Was it his imagination, or did she flinch when he said that? “This can be temporary. Something fun.”
She took a moment to think about it, but then a smile curled her lips. “Right.” She nodded, and he pretended not to notice the way her breasts jiggled. “You said you’d help me with my list.”
He didn’t hesitate. “And I meant it. Whatever you need.”
“That’s perfect. It’s kind of a built-in time limit for…well, whatever this is.”
What it was, was perfection. But he swallowed hard to keep from interrupting her.
“When my list is done, then we…”
“Go back to being just friends,” he finished for her. “No more benefits.”
She giggled. “I mean, it kind of makes sense.”
Did it? He wasn’t convinced. But he also wasn’t stupid. And he’d take what he could get when it came to Kat.
“So, six months?”
She nodded. “I mean, I guess whenever you’re in town. I know you have a whole life and career and everything in Vancouver. So, I don’t expect?—”
“I’ll be here,” he interrupted her. “I told you I’d be there for you, and I meant it. You have six months to complete your list, right?”
She nodded.
“So, six months it is.” He said it as if it were a done deal. And as far as he was concerned, it was. It was also a sharp reminder that he hadn’t told her yet that he was moving back to Trickle Creek and had taken a job locally. But he couldn’t tell her now. The only way she was going to agree to thissituationshipwas if it had a time limit.
He knew that.
And he also knew that more than anything, he wanted her to agree. Heneededher to agree.
In that moment, he needed her like he needed oxygen. And he was desperately close to choking.
“But your job? Your?—”
“Don’t worry about it.” He pulled her close again, unable to stand even the smallest distance between them. “All you need to worry about is theDad’s Do-Itlist.”
She laughed. “I don’t think that name is going to work out. It sounds creepy.”
“You’re right.” Andy shook his head and kissed her neck again. “It does,” he said between kisses. “You need to come up with a new name. Later.”
He slowly lowered himself to his knees as he moved his kisses down her body. Kat wrapped her fingers through his hair and tugged when he dipped his tongue into her belly button. She squealed a little bit.
“You’re going to have to stay here, with me.” Her words came in short little gasps as he used his hands to nudge her legs apart.
He glanced up. “I wouldn’t stay anywhere else.” Andydropped his head to his task and kissed his way up first one sweet thigh, and then, the next before finally kissing her inviting, wet center.
She was just as delicious as he remembered. His dick throbbed between his legs while he took his time licking and lapping up her sweet nectar. Kat’s thighs quivered beneath his grip; he could feel her edging closer to her release. But he wasn’t ready for that yet.
