“What was that about?” Is all I need to know proper now.

3

APRIL

Raine’s voice is edged with irritation, its quantity startling me because it bounces off the few stainless-steel cabinets and prep tables scattered across the empty again half of the cafe.

“Only a good friend checking up on me.” I clarify away Kay’s name as nonchalantly as I can, doing my greatest to cover the ache from my voice.

This is not how I would like my first date with Raine to begin off.

It’s a date, proper?

“Did not sound like a lot of a good friend to me.”

He leans within the doorway, casually commanding the house simply as simply as he does any house I’ve seen him in.

A picture of him in my bed room pops into my mind, completely unbidden. I really feel the warmth blossoming via my whole physique and I rush to place the broom and dustpan again within the provide closet earlier than he can see what he does to me.

“Kay’s just–” how do I clarify it with out stepping into the entire messy story? I am positive this rugged mountain man is not right here for my drama, and to be trustworthy? I am completely happy to spare him. “She simply has a unique method of expressing her help.”

“If by ‘totally different’ you imply, ‘under no circumstances,’ you’ve got just about nailed it. You about prepared? I’ve acquired the whole lot within the truck, able to go. Let’s get outta right here and you may inform me who Mia is whereas we drive.”

“Was,” I appropriate. I say it absently, with out even fascinated by how I am simply opening a can of worms. A lot for conserving my drama to myself.

“Feels like there is a story there.”

Raine’s arms tighten barely on my higher arms, his voice dropping down as if it is slunk off to someplace darkish and distant.

It seems like a chasm simply opened between us, even whereas so little house separates us bodily.

“Let’s git.”

His arms fall away and he heads for the entrance door with out ready on me whereas I collect my issues and lock up, however once I get exterior, he is there with the truck already working, leaning towards the facet until I am shut sufficient to open the door for me and assist me into the cab the place the heater has already warmed the small house.

“Recover from right here.” He slams his door as he climbs behind the wheel, then pats the house in the course of the bench seat beside him, “I would like my woman subsequent to me once I drive.”

His woman. The phrases make me giddy. I strive to not learn into them as I slide throughout the leather-based till I am sitting shut sufficient that our thighs contact.

Raine’s proper arm stretches behind me, wrapping round my shoulders whereas the truck idles in entrance of the cafe.

Then he is turned towards me, his left hand cupping my chin and forcing my resist his.

Heat, agency lips press towards mine. The kiss catches me so utterly off guard that I gasp, giving him quick access to slick his tongue into my mouth.

I’ve kissed boys earlier than, however Raine is a person, and the whole lot about the way in which he takes the lead jogs my memory of that reality.

My arms discover their method round his neck, my fingers combing via the quick hair behind his neck. My physique instinctively twists, in search of his warmth and the firmness of his muscled chest towards my breasts.

Raine’s hand leaves my chin and runs over my throat, throughout my shoulder and all the way down to grip my hip after which my thigh so firmly that his fingers may depart marks.

Simply once I’m about to throw my leg over his lap and straddle him with the steering wheel at my again, he breaks away with an agonized groan.

“Fuck.” His hand releases its loss of life grip on my thigh and pats it gently. “I have to get you as much as the cabin or we’ll be placing on a hell of a present proper right here.”

He turns his physique again towards the steering wheel, pulling his arm off my shoulder and reaching between my knees to place the outdated truck in gear.

Raine drags his hand off the gear shift and up my thigh earlier than he takes my hand out of my lap and locations it squarely over his crotch, spreading his massive hand over mine with sufficient stress to trigger me to twist my fingers across the exhausting size working beneath the zipper of his denims.

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