“What? Why?” I gasp, my eyes flaring wide.
“I had to just listen to you breaking down our night with your girlfriends.”
My smile drops slightly. “How long have you been in here?”
“Long enough to hear everything.”
“I told them I had a great time with you!” I hiss back, a little confused.
“You did. That’s not the part I have issue with,” he says, his eyes drilling into mine. And in them there’s a little bit of frustration.
“I’m not sure I’m following.”
“I know you’re not.”
“Do you now,” I sass back, getting defensive.
He closes his eyes and takes a quick breath before cracking his neck. When he looks at me again, his eyes are blazing in emotion. “If I ever hear you call yourself stupid again, Heidi, I won’t wait like I just did. And you won’t get any warning, I will deal with you right where we are, but you will be punished.”
“Punished?”
“If you don’t want to be disciplined, then don’t speak shit about yourself again. It doesn’t suit you and it’s fucked. And for the record, I didn’t call the media, I mean why would I? You think I want to share you with the rest of the world? I want you all to myself.”
He stops talking and I wait for my internal alarms to start sounding. Kairo is saying some pretty out there things. I wait some more in case my senses are delayed, but after an extended pause there’s still no apprehension or unease in any of my thoughts.
“But that wasn’t why I came,” he grins coyly.
“Why then?”
“I was hoping you were feeling as disappointed and pissed that our date got cut short. I didn’t even get to kiss you properly.”
And even though one second ago he was scolding me, and now he’s talking about kissing me, I’m more than fine with it.
“There is that,” I muse.
I take a small step in his direction; at the same time, he takes about a dozen huge ones towards me. We meet in the middle when he scoops me up into his arms.
“We don’t ever get to redo the night we met, and since it’s still hours until morning I figured…”
“Less talking, more kissing…” I mumble against his lips. And this time when he kisses me, there’s no tentativeness about it; he kisses me like we’ve been long lost lovers, and it is so goddamn perfect it makes my toes curl.
He keeps his eyes open as he licks his tongue over the top of mine, and I guess I get a little lost in the moment. “Open up for me, Heidi.”
I barely part my lips before I’m lost in his taste. There’s no stopping the moan that spills from my throat, or the deep rumble like noise he makes. He buries his hands in my hair while I wrap my legs around his waist but there’s still too much space between us.
The dark makes everything feel more intense, or it just might be how being with Kairo is. Without question, each brush of his tongue on mine, he makes me want more and more. I have to put some space between us just to get a breath of air, but in the smallest of distances I see the proof in his eyes of his own surprise, and relief.
And even without saying a word or moving an inch, we both come to the same decision at precisely the same time. I rip his shirt open, making the buttons fly off in all directions and Kairo helps me pull his hoodie over my head. I wiggle out of his arms, and the both of us mirror each other again, removing our pants.
I go to leap back into his arms, but he growls a stop, throwing his hand up. And then he stands there and inspects. There’s no other way to describe what he does. His eyes move from my face all the way down my body, and I can feel my body’s response to his attention. I freeze when he looks at the top of my leg, right near the junction, but after a long second, his eyes start roaming again.
When he looks at my face again, his eyes are full of burning heat and insatiable want. Despite the scar from another man’s teeth, Kairo makes me feel, for the first time in a very long time, desirable.
I’ve had Alphas standing hungrily in front of me before. I’ve had my fair share of quickies in random places because of a sudden spark but I’ve never seen the adoration Kairo has on his face. My heart thuds unexpectedly, it makes my chest squeeze almost painfully, and my lungs feel like they’ve shrunk, making it impossible to get any air in.
I want to fall to my knees as the weight of his desire settles over me. And it’s easy to see it’s not simply lust that makes his eyes sparkle, it’s everything that goes with a connection as bright and sudden as ours.
“Jesus, Heidi, I can’t think straight… I’ve got words in my head but none of them are sensible. All I know is I’m not leaving here without the taste of your pussy on my lips, and my come dripping down your thighs,” he grits out through clenched teeth.
