Allie could feel Carson stiffen against her.Oh no, he didn’t.She wasn’t going to let him ruin this moment for her.She reached for the back of his head and pulled him closer.His hair was still slick from the rain.Small water droplets trickled down the back of her hand.She tilted her head back slightly, pulling his bottom lip between her lips as she did.Carson hissed out a harsh breath.It wasn’t a mean bite, but enough pressure to elicit a hiss of pain from him.
Allie released his lip with a pop.Carson didn’t let her retreat for long; he pulled her closer again, sealing his lips over hers.His tongue darted into her mouth, taking control.
Allie sank into the kiss, losing all concept of time and place.She could kiss this man for hours.His lips were soft yet firm.His tongue stroking and teasing made her wish to feel it on other parts of her body.
Her nipples pebbled, and heat pooled between her legs.With every stroke of his tongue, her belly quivered.Allie’s right arm tingled from the odd angle of it leaning against the console.She moved it to his thigh to get feeling back in it.Her elbow bumped into the steering wheel and the horn honked.
Allie jumped at the sudden intrusion and glared at the offending steering wheel that had interrupted them, though it was probably for the best.
Allie sat back on her side of the vehicle; Carson’s chest rapidly rising and falling as her own was.He had been just as affected as she was by their kissing.Her lips felt bruised and were no doubt red from his kisses.Her skin felt branded from his touch.
She licked her lips, tasting his flavor still there.Carson’s eyes tracked the movement like a hawk.She could see the want and desire in his eyes.He didn’t want to stop any more than she did, but it was best to stop now before they took things too far here in her driveway where anyone walking by could see them necking like two teenagers.He’d already declined to come inside.Tomorrow, they could pick this up in a more comfortable environment.
“I’ll see you tomorrow,” Allie said, clearing her throat when she noticed how dry it was.
“Bye, Allie Cat.”Allie was taken aback for a second that Carson had given her a nickname.No one had ever called her that before.Sandy called her Al.
She giggled.It was a funny nickname.“Bye.”She debated giving him a last parting kiss, but knew it was only a banked fire at the moment.One spark would set it off again.
Chapter 13
“What do you think?”Sandy beamed, standing back to let Allie look at herself in the mirror.Allie almost didn’t recognize herself.Her hair was in long loose waves around her shoulders.For once in her life, it was controlled and tamed without being in a bun.Allie could almost hate how easily Sandy had contorted it the way she wanted.
Sandy even insisted on doing her makeup.Allie feared she’d go over the top since Sandy liked wearing bright-colored eye shadows and mascara that lifted her eyelashes to the sky, but she’d done a great job.Allie preferred subtle makeup.Sandy had done a warm copper shade colored eyeshadow and black kohl eyeliner to enhance the blue in her eyes.
She loved everything but the dress.The hem stopped just inches past her private areas, barely grazing the top of her thighs.
Allie didn’t know how she’d let Sandy talk her into these things.She was good at guilt trips, that’s how.If Sandy had to be dragged out on different activities, Allie had to wear the dress for Sandy.Allie didn’t see how the two were connected, but she reluctantly agreed to allow Sandy to dress her.
Sandy had tried to do lip gloss, but Allie had put her foot down.For one thing, it was just going to wipe away from kissing or eating.Another, she didn’t like anything but ChapStick on her lips.
“It’s…I don’t know what to say.”Allie was floored at the woman staring back at her.
“Thank you, Sandy.You’re amazing Sandy,” Sandy said in a high-pitched mocking voice.
Allie rolled her eyes.“Thank you, Sandy, and this is incredible.Are you sure about the dress though?It’sreally short.”Allie started tugging the hem down, but Sandy leaned forward and swatted her hand away.
“Don’t pull, you’ll stretch the material,” Sandy scolded.
“That’s the idea.It’s way too short.I’m not comfortable in this.”She’d never felt more exposed in her life.Even her bathing suit had shorts because she felt naked in a regular suit.
“Well, you won’t be in it long enough for it to be an issue.Carson is going to swallow his tongue when he sees you and then he’ll drag you in the house to have hot monkey sex right there against the door,” Sandy said, matter of fact.
Thank you for that visual.Allie was already nervous enough, and now she had images of sex with Carson in her mind.Not that they had left since yesterday.She’d been so hot and bothered by their kissing yesterday that she’d had to bring herself to climax to ease the ache between her legs.
“Or Carson will think I look like a street walker in this outfit and get the wrong idea.”
“Please.”Sandy snorted while rolling her eyes as if there were a remote chance of that happening.“You’ve been on three dates, and you talk on the phone every day, and yesterday was your first kiss.He knows what kind of woman you are.Now go get some and call me afterward.”Sandy gave her a cheeky wink and shooed her out the door.
Yeah, she had no intention of calling her afterward.Well, at least not right away.It would be a long time afterward.
Allie carefully slid into her car and drove to Carson’s house.True to his word, it was easy to find, and it only took her thirty minutes to get there.Much further away and not on his way home from the grocery store like he had told her when he’d given her a ride home after the car incident.She’d suspected, but now she knew.
She used that time to get her nerves under control.She didn’t know why she was so nervous.They’d had meals together before.This wasn’t new.The only thing that changed was the kiss.
A kiss that knocked her socks off and one she wasn’t likely to forget about anytime soon.Now she couldn’t get his taste out of her mouth.Hisscent out of her nose.The feel of his skin under her palm.
Just as carefully, Allie slid out of the car, hoping she wasn’t giving Carson’s neighbors a peep show.Allie pulled down the hem of her dress, wishing it were a few inches longer.It was one of the shortest dresses she had ever worn.
