She stares at me, her breathing faster than before, and my stomach does a somersault when she doesn’t immediately answer. She brings her hands up, cupping both sides of my face, letting her thumb graze the scruff lining my jaw.
“You’ve been driving me crazy since I got here, Angry Cowboy.”
The biggest smile I’ve had in years stretches across my face with her words, and I lean in for another kiss. Her hands hold my face there, telling me she wants this as bad as I do. Her body trembles, and I realize we can’t stay out here forever.
I release the kiss reluctantly, but hover just over her lips.
“Let’s get you home and warmed up,” I say.
I drape an arm over her shoulders as I walk her back to her car, realizing we didn’t come here together, so I can’t actually take her home.
But I fucking want to.
I also want to tread lightly and not dive in too quickly.
“This is me,” she jokes as if I don’t know her car by heart now.
“Yeah, you have to get some better wheels for these roads.”
“I know, I just don’t have it in me yet to give up this baby,” she says, patting the hood of the car.
I offer her a smile. It comes on instinct with her now.
Blair has this power over me now that I can’t even help it.
She opens the door, getting in, and looking up at me before closing the door. With one hand on the hood of the car, and the other on the door, I say, “You know where to find me if you need me.”
“I guess I do, huh?” She lightly laughs.
With that, she pulls her car door shut. I step back and watch as the engine turns on and she backs it up out of the grass before driving away. I don’t take my eyes off the car or move from where I stand until it’s completely out of sight.
Everything just changed.
And later that night, for the first time in a long time, I fall asleep with a smile.
CHAPTER 29
ONE KISS AND YOU’RE PART OF THE FAMILY.
Blair
“I feel like it’s been longer than a week since we had our check-in calls,” Kodi says through the phone speaker. “I’m feeling like you’re forgetting me already.”
“Never.” I laugh. “I’ve just been so busy here.”
And distracted, if I’m being honest.
I have been bouncing around my house as if I live on an actual cloud since yesterday. Because Griffin Barlow kissed me.
I’m not ashamed to say I came home, threw myself on the couch, and kicked my feet in the air like a dead bug in excitement over it. I felt like a high school girl all over again whose crush just admitted feelings for her. I can’t remember a time I’ve ever felt like that before.
The kiss was electric.
It was fire.
It was hot.
All things it shouldn’t have been considering it was cold and raining out.
