Lexie felt a little breathless when Kaleo turned his smile on her.
"Ready?"
Ready?
She'd already lost her heart to this man. Crazy? But true.
It wasn't just some kind of flippant feeling.
He was deep inside her heart and every time she saw him, she wanted more.
Every time they parted, she missed him all the way to her bones.
"Yeah," she smiled at him and felt her heart skip a beat in her chest, "I'm ready."
They stood there looking at each for a long moment and Lexie was sure that her face must be beet red from all the blood rushing up to the surface.
"Uh," the cashier cleared her throat and when Lexie looked at her, the girl was fanning herself with a brochure, staring at Kaleo.
Once she realized that Lexie had seen her, she straightened and held out the brochure.
Almost coughing, the cashier explained that the brochure was, "A map of the gardens and a little introduction about their creation. Near the ground in certain places along the pathways you'll see signs with names of the plants and QR codes. If youscan those QR codes you'll get even more information about the plants that won't fit on those signs."
Kaleo didn't seem to have any reaction to the starry-eyed look of the teen behind the counter.
He took the brochure and thanked the younger woman who probably would have fallen to the ground in a swoon if she didn't have a chair right behind her.
With his arm still wrapped around her, Kaleo walked away from the ticket counter.
Lexie took the brochure that he handed her, but she didn't need to open it to know where to go.
She lifted the arm closest to Kaleo and wrapped it around his waist.
For a moment she wondered how he'd react, but all he did was draw her in closer to his side.
"You've been here before."
She felt him lean closer and a moment later felt his lips against her temple.
If they didn't have their arms around each other, she might have tripped over her own feet and gone down face first into the grass.
"Too much?"
She heard the smile in his voice and felt her heart kick against her ribs. "No," she cleared her throat, "not too much."
As they walked under an arbor covered in flowering vines, she turned toward him and felt his arms close around her.
Whoa.
With their bodies pressed against each other, she could barely breathe.
"So, do you want more?"
Lexie drew in a quick breath hoping that her mind would manage to kick into gear before she was reduced to unintelligible sounds instead of words.
She licked her lips and saw his gaze drop there for a moment.
When he looked back up and met her gaze she heard his breath. Faster. Shallower.
