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He tucked his finger beneath her chin and gently nudged it upward, coaxing her to meet him eye to eye. “Give me a chance, and I’ll make you forget he ever existed.”
The tiniest ghost of a sad smile flitted across her mouth. “I don’t think a lobotomy would accomplish that feat.”
“Sweetness, that sounds like one hell of a challenge. One I’ll happily accept.” Moving his hand from her chin, he cupped her cheek, his fingertips grazing the soft tendrils of her hair. His thumb brushed the small smattering of freckles near her nose. Leaning forward, he caressed his lips over the tiny sun kisses. Her breath caught in her throat before puffing along his jaw with her shaky exhalation. Irises the color of cornflowers glimmered at him from beneath dusky, lowered lashes. In that moment, a meteor crashing into the center of the store wouldn’t have stopped him from kissing her.
Inching slightly to the right, he rubbed his lips over hers in the barest hint of a touch. Another shuddery inhalation slipped from her. He increased his gentle pressure on her mouth, and she obediently yielded, allowing his tongue unimpeded access.
He wasn’t prepared for the consuming hunger her taste brought out in him. Tunneling his fingers through her hair, he coaxed her closer, deepening the kiss on a ravenous groan. Sweet, velvety, sinful. She was all of those things and so much more. A lifetime of her kisses wouldn’t be enough to quench his need.
Dimly, through his haze of desire, he detected an odd laughing noise. It took him a second to remember her Woody Woodpecker doorbell. She broke away from him, and he silently cursed her customer and their incredibly ill timing. His gaze trekked to the door and landed on a familiar face. One he sure as hell hadn’t counted on seeing. At least not until he made a trip out to the Dockside.
“Kev.” He blinked, half expecting his best friend to vanish. Or morph into someone else. Maybe Jana’s addictive kiss had drugged him and he was fucking hallucinating. He grunted at the weird thought.
Rather than disappear, Kevin remained rooted in place. His expression was probably identical to the one Nick wore. Jaw slackened in apparent disbelief, Kev whipped his attention between Jana and Nick, his face going red before paling. When his focus steadied on Jana again, the look in his eyes was equal parts tortured and aroused.
A cold trickle of dread splintered through Nick, cracking him free of the stunned bemusement holding him hostage. He didn’t want to acknowledge the horrible suspicion slowly creeping through his bones, much less verify what his instincts were screaming. Because if what he suspected was true…fate just knocked him clean out with one hell of a curveball.
Unable to postpone the inevitable, he glanced in Jana’s direction. She was staring at Kevin, her fingers pressed to her lips. Lips that so sweetly returned Nick’s kiss seconds ago but were now trembling because of another man. There was no mistaking the hurt and confusion radiating from her in massive waves, adding to the damning evidence already piling up. The repercussions of it slammed into him with more impact than a Mack Truck.
Kevin was the dick for brains.
Fuck. Me.
Chapter Four
Kevin gaped at Jana and Nick. It took several moments to realize his overactive imagination hadn’t conjured the fantasy that’d tormented him for the past few days.
“Kev?”
Nick’s baritone broke through Kevin’s trance. They locked gazes, and he read the wary uncertainty in Nick’s eyes. A lifetime ticked by. Every tense word they’d exchanged five years ago echoed inside his head with excruciating clarity. Countless times since then he’d wished for an opportunity to take them back, but now that he and Nick were standing face-to-face, the words refused to budge loose.
A distressed noise slipped from Jana as she dropped her hand. He noticed her rosy, kiss-swollen lips, the visual of Nick’s tongue in her mouth
He tucked his finger beneath her chin and gently nudged it upward, coaxing her to meet him eye to eye. “Give me a chance, and I’ll make you forget he ever existed.”
The tiniest ghost of a sad smile flitted across her mouth. “I don’t think a lobotomy would accomplish that feat.”
“Sweetness, that sounds like one hell of a challenge. One I’ll happily accept.” Moving his hand from her chin, he cupped her cheek, his fingertips grazing the soft tendrils of her hair. His thumb brushed the small smattering of freckles near her nose. Leaning forward, he caressed his lips over the tiny sun kisses. Her breath caught in her throat before puffing along his jaw with her shaky exhalation. Irises the color of cornflowers glimmered at him from beneath dusky, lowered lashes. In that moment, a meteor crashing into the center of the store wouldn’t have stopped him from kissing her.
Inching slightly to the right, he rubbed his lips over hers in the barest hint of a touch. Another shuddery inhalation slipped from her. He increased his gentle pressure on her mouth, and she obediently yielded, allowing his tongue unimpeded access.
He wasn’t prepared for the consuming hunger her taste brought out in him. Tunneling his fingers through her hair, he coaxed her closer, deepening the kiss on a ravenous groan. Sweet, velvety, sinful. She was all of those things and so much more. A lifetime of her kisses wouldn’t be enough to quench his need.
Dimly, through his haze of desire, he detected an odd laughing noise. It took him a second to remember her Woody Woodpecker doorbell. She broke away from him, and he silently cursed her customer and their incredibly ill timing. His gaze trekked to the door and landed on a familiar face. One he sure as hell hadn’t counted on seeing. At least not until he made a trip out to the Dockside.
“Kev.” He blinked, half expecting his best friend to vanish. Or morph into someone else. Maybe Jana’s addictive kiss had drugged him and he was fucking hallucinating. He grunted at the weird thought.
Rather than disappear, Kevin remained rooted in place. His expression was probably identical to the one Nick wore. Jaw slackened in apparent disbelief, Kev whipped his attention between Jana and Nick, his face going red before paling. When his focus steadied on Jana again, the look in his eyes was equal parts tortured and aroused.
A cold trickle of dread splintered through Nick, cracking him free of the stunned bemusement holding him hostage. He didn’t want to acknowledge the horrible suspicion slowly creeping through his bones, much less verify what his instincts were screaming. Because if what he suspected was true…fate just knocked him clean out with one hell of a curveball.
Unable to postpone the inevitable, he glanced in Jana’s direction. She was staring at Kevin, her fingers pressed to her lips. Lips that so sweetly returned Nick’s kiss seconds ago but were now trembling because of another man. There was no mistaking the hurt and confusion radiating from her in massive waves, adding to the damning evidence already piling up. The repercussions of it slammed into him with more impact than a Mack Truck.
Kevin was the dick for brains.
Fuck. Me.
Chapter Four
Kevin gaped at Jana and Nick. It took several moments to realize his overactive imagination hadn’t conjured the fantasy that’d tormented him for the past few days.
“Kev?”
Nick’s baritone broke through Kevin’s trance. They locked gazes, and he read the wary uncertainty in Nick’s eyes. A lifetime ticked by. Every tense word they’d exchanged five years ago echoed inside his head with excruciating clarity. Countless times since then he’d wished for an opportunity to take them back, but now that he and Nick were standing face-to-face, the words refused to budge loose.
A distressed noise slipped from Jana as she dropped her hand. He noticed her rosy, kiss-swollen lips, the visual of Nick’s tongue in her mouth
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