“I-I can’t hear you. The reception is crap,” she slurs down the line. The sound of her raspy voice hits me right in the chest. An ache forms behind my sternum. “Are you there? Can you hear me?” she asks, almost shouting at whoever is on the other end. “Ugh. I’ll call you tomorrow,” she finally says before giving up. “Useless piece of shit,” she mutters to herself as she drops her cell into her purse and spins around.
I swear her gasp is big enough to suck all the air from around us.
Being close to her again...it’s dangerous.
My fists curl, attempting to stop me from reaching for her.
Everything that night was so easy.
I even danced with her, for fuck’s sake.
I don’t dance.
Hell, I don’t do any of the things I did that night.
“Kodie?” she whispers, suddenly sounding a hell of a lot more sober than a few moments ago.
The sound of my name rolling offher lips does bad things to me. But worse than that, it makes me want to do filthy, wicked things to her all over again.
“H-how are you?”
She takes a step forward, probably intending to return to the bar, but in my head, she’s moving closer to me.
Whatever she’s attempting to do, she fails the moment her foot catches on the pavement, and she stumbles straight into me.
19
CASEY
His large hands wrap around my upper arms as he catches me with ease before I crash into his big, hard, muscular body.
Memories of the first night this happened flicker through my mind.
Oh for a repeat of that…
Damn him.
How is it fair that he’s so hot?
Heat burns down my arms from his touch, shooting straight to my core.
I shift my thighs together as the ache intensifies.
Coming here tonight was a bad idea. But it’s too late to do anything about it now.
He pushes me backward, righting me on my feet again.
But the second I look up, I discover that this isn’t a happy reunion.
There is no joy on his face. None of the lightness from that night. Just anger.
His lips press into a thin line before he rasps, “What the fuck are you playing at, Casey?”
I blink up at him as the sound of my name rolling off his lips hits me full force.
God, I wish I could have heard him moaning that in my ear.
Desire pools between my thighs.
