“Oh?” Eve hooked a finger through one of Aspen’s belt loops to draw her closer. “And what’s that?”
Aspen’s heart leapt at Eve’s playfulness. Eve had been quiet ever since their hike, and it was so nice to see some of her spark return.
“Well, you see—” She dragged her hands up Eve’s sides and nuzzled her cheek as she dipped a finger beneath the towel wrapped across her chest. She ran her tongue over Eve’s lips as she lightly caressed the tops of her breasts, and smiled at the way her lashes fluttered as she lifted her chest toward her hand.
God, I could do this forever, she thought as she drank in the way Eve’s cheeks pinked and her mouth fell open with a sharp, silent breath.
“What do I see?” Eve wrapped a hand around the back of Aspen’s neck to hold her close.
Aspen ignored the arousal that rippled low in her belly and kissed Eve softly as she angled her hand to curl her finger around the seam of the towel nestled in Eve’s cleavage. “That we need to get you out of this,” she murmured as she deftly untwisted the towel and sent it fluttering to the floor. “So you can get dressed.”
She tracked its fall with her eyes, and although she knew they didn’t have time right now to follow through with this little tease she’d begun, she couldn’t resist dragging the backs of her fingers around the full, perfect shape of Eve’s breasts. A rush of arousal flooded her boxers when Eve swayed into her with a whimper, chest thrust forward pleadingly with pert, stiff nipples that begged to be touched, stroked, and sucked, and she groaned against Eve’s lips as she palmed her breasts and rolled them firmly beneath her hands. “Fuck, we do not have time for this.”
Eve laughed softly and made no effort to pull away. “You’re the one who started it.”
“Oh? So do you want me to stop?” Aspen teased, knowing that they actually did need to stop but reluctant to surrender this golden moment of joy quite yet.
Eve clearly felt the same, as she immediately replied, “’Not at all,” and pressed onto her toes to capture Aspen’s lips in a slow, deep kiss.
Aspen moaned into the kiss as Eve’s free hand lifted to clutch at the open edge of her collar, and shifted her grip to thumb Eve’s nipples in time with their languidly stroking tongues. While she wished she could feel the silky softness of Eve’s skin against her own, there was something about being dressed when Eve wasn’t that was equally exciting, and she raked the tip of her tongue across the roof of Eve’s mouth as she let her left hand drift down the curve of Eve’s ribs and over her hip to grab her ass and pull her closer. Her pulse spiked at the taste of Eve’s sharp gasp of pleasure, and she fondled her ass as she slanted her head to deepen their connection.
They absolutely did not have time for this, but that didn’t stop them from falling into another endless string of hot, deep, underwear-ruining, absolutely perfect kisses that made her toes curl.
“Jesus, Eve,” Aspen whimpered against Eve’s mouth as she struggled against the urge to push her back onto the bed and ravage her. “We really do need to go soon.”
“I know,” Eve murmured as she chased after Aspen’s lips. “But we can do this a little longer.”
Aspen choked on a laugh. “Baby, if we do this much longer, we will not be leaving this bedroom forat leastthe next twelve hours.”
“That doesn’t sound like a bad idea…”
“It really doesn’t. But we probably shouldn’t skip two nights in a row. And, besides, we told Lyds, Kit, and Jack that we’d sitwith them tonight.” Aspen caressed Eve’s behind as she kissed away her little pout. “You need to get dressed.”
Eve purred and rubbed herself against Aspen “You need to stop touching me.”
“I’m gonna need a little help with that,” Aspen admitted as she nosed after Eve’s lips. “I am so fucking turned on right now.”
“God, Aspen,” Eve groaned as her hips bucked needfully. “That’s not helping.”
“It’s really not,” Aspen concurred, surrendering her quest for another kiss with a sigh as she dropped her forehead to Eve’s. “I’m sorry.”
Eve hummed and gazed up at Aspen with a warm smile. “I’m not.” A flicker of something shadowed her eyes for the briefest of moments, but it was gone so quickly that Aspen couldn’t even begin to decipher what it might have been, and Eve’s smile dimmed by a fraction as she dragged her hand from Aspen’s collar to run a tender thumb over her lips. “I am so glad I met you.”
Aspen’s chest tightened at the emotion that thickened Eve’s voice, and she cradled Eve against her as she whispered just as ardently, “I am so glad I met you.”
Eve turned away from the bar with drinks for her and Aspen and nearly spilled them both when she saw Nolan standing too closely behind her with a smile that was nice enough on the surface but didn’t come close to reaching his eyes.Father has been teaching him well,she thought wryly. When he made no effort to move out of her way, she arched a brow and, in a long-suffering tone that conveyed exactly how little she wished to speak with him, asked, “Can I help you?”
He looked around to see if anyone was watching before he leaned in close and demanded, “What are you doing with her, Eve? You’re not gay.”
“Jumping straight to the insecurities, I see,” Eve muttered. She rolled her eyes at the way he visibly bristled at the comment, and shook her head. “I’m not going to justify that entirely inappropriate question with an answer. It is none of your business who I see.”
“You can’t be serious,” he scoffed. When she just gave him a look that said she was being quite serious, he hissed, “Your mother has been on my ass about her ever since I got here.”
Eve pursed her lips. She wasn’t surprised her mother had vented her prejudices to Nolan. He was her father’s golden boy, after all. And while she didn’t particularly care that his life was being affected in the slightest, the last thing she wanted was fortheir bullshit to get back to Aspen. “What are you talking about?”
“Yes, what are you talking about?” a new voice chimed in.
Eve bit her lip to keep from smirking at the way Nolan jumped to attention at her mother’s droll greeting, and arched a brow at him that said she, too, was interested in his answer.
