“I’d say I think you feel the same.”
“How can you tell?”
“Maybe because every time we’re this close together, goosebumps spread all over your body, your chest rises and fallslike you can’t catch your breath, and moans escape your throat. If that isn’t liking someone, then I don’t think I know what is.”
Renata shook her head, but her eyes said differently. Her gaze dropped to my mouth and back up again. I wanted to grab her head and kiss the shit out of her.
Do it. Kiss her already. Then maybe she’ll finally admit what she truly feels.
Without another thought, I grabbed her head and covered her mouth with mine, losing myself in her.
She tasted better than I ever could’ve imagined. Like the chocolate she loved, so sweet and so sinfullyaddicting.
I wanted to make her mine.
All mine.
CHAPTER THREE
Renata
Zion’s lipson mine were better than any fantasy I could’ve ever dreamed of, better than anything I could’ve imagined, and I didn’t want it to end. He pushed his tongue inside and wrapped it around mine, twisting and tangling, and taking all he could. All he wanted.
I wanted to pinch myself. To find out if this was real, or I was imagining it all.
But as my hands fisted his sweater, the metal bells digging into my skin, I remembered it was really happening.
I was kissing Zion.
My best friend’s older brother.
The boy, now very much a man, I’ve always loved.
Wrapping my arms around his neck, I stood on my tiptoes, nearly climbing him like a tree. I wanted him so bad, I was ready to strip naked here and now.
But then reality hit me.
April.
I couldn’t do this to April.
I stepped back, breaking our kiss, pushing away from him, needing air to breathe, to think, tofocus.
“Zion, wait. I…I need to make sure this changes nothing. This is all happening so fast and?—”
“Is it fast when we’ve always loved each other?” Zion asked, a hand scrubbing down his face. “I’ve waited so long for this, Ren. Don’t pull away now.”
“You can’t just show up, announce you’re back home, and drop all of your feelings on me and expect me to be okay with it all. Before you walked in, I did not know you even liked me, let alone love me.”
“Really? Not one clue?”
“You didn’t really make it clear, Z. If you wanted me, why didn’t you ask before? Why leave?”
Zion threw his hands up in the hair and sighed. “I don’t know. I needed to figure out life, needed to get away from here and find out who I truly was. But what I found is that no matter who I am, I still love you.”
My heart melted. “Z…”
“If you don’t feel the same, just tell me, Ren. Straight out. Right now.”
