must
smell like greasy hamburgers.
“Uh, it was good. I made pretty good
tips today,” I said proudly.
“Awesome. What about you Danni?” he
asked, his lips leaving kisses against my hair. I shivered.
Danni smiled at both of us. “It was
good. I made pretty good tips today, but not as good as Everleigh. Everyone just
wanted to get a peek at Ryder’s new girlfriend,” she said.
“Danni, I’m not his girlfriend,” I said,
frustrated. I swear I think I said that phrase a million times today.
“Not yet anyway,” he said, his fingers
running up and down my arm. He moved his mouth from my hair down to my ear and
my breath caught as I felt his hot tongue graze my ear.
Heat flushed my face. He was trying to
pull me into a full on make out session right in front of my friend. Danni
laughed. “Okay, you two, I’m going to put my headphones in and text Beau. I’ll
give you two a minute so you can suck face,” she laughed, and climbed in the
back seat facing the rear window.
As soon as her headphones were in her
ears and the music was blaring, Ryder grabbed my chin gently and turned my face
to his. “You look really fucking hot in that apron, Everleigh,” he said,
smiling.
“Ryder, don’t. I am not making out with
you with my best friend in the car,” I breathed, trying my hardest to be tough.
Feeling his warm, cinnamon breath on my lips was making it very hard to do
that.
“Hey, she’s got her back turned and her
headphones in. We have a few minutes,” he murmured, a sexy grin on his face.
“I don’t know…” I said, my breathing
increasing as he ran his fingers along my jaw line.
“Stop worrying about who might be
watching and just go with it. In this moment, right now, do you want to kiss me?”
I nodded and breathlessly said, “Yes.”
“Good, because I’ve been dying to kiss
these lips since last night,” he said, and before I took another ragged breath
his lips found mine. I couldn’t stop the moan that escaped me as his tongue
slowly slid past my lips and touched mine. I heard him groan into my mouth and
I was suddenly feeling damp in places I had forgotten existed until last night.
Ryder had awakened feelings in me that I thought were long gone.
There was something different about this
kiss. Of all the times we kissed yesterday they all felt either careful, like
he was testing the waters, or hungry and filled with blinding passion. This
kiss, however, had me balling my hands into fists to keep me from climbing on
top of his lap and straddling him. He was slow and torturous with his kisses,
like he was drawing out the experience. This was romantic. Every time
our tongues would touch, it felt like we were on the verge of something that I
had never experienced before and it was amazing.
He knew what he was doing to me because
my body was giving me away. I shifted in my seat, trying to get any kind of
relief from the intense pleasure he was giving me just from a little kiss. His
hand grazed down my arm and I gasped loudly when he moved his thumb past my
nipple which was rock hard from what he was doing to me.
The world dissolved around us. Nothing
mattered in that moment but Ryder and me. I wrapped my arm around his neck and
held his head close to mine, not wanting to put any space between us. The hand
that was touching all over had roamed down to my leg and in one swift movement
he tugged my leg up over his and hooked it around his hips. I was about to lie
back on the seat and pull him on top of me when I felt a tap on my arm.
Startled, I broke away from Ryder’s lips and turned my head, my face flushed.
“Yeah?” I asked.
I looked up and saw Danni smiling at me.
“We’re here.”
I looked out the window. “We’re at the
hotel. I thought we were going to my house,” I said.
“We are, but Beau asked me to drop Danni
off here today. Jude and Kris sent some of the guys out last night to buy a
Playstation 3 and some video games and they’ve been playing on it all day.
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