A Shattered Heart by Tiffany King

Author:Tiffany King [King, Tiffany]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fractured Lives
Publisher: A.T. Publishing LLC
Published: 2015-09-26T16:00:00+00:00

Twelve

"Get up," I choked out, pushing against him, trying to dislodge him from my body while I pretended I didn't notice how intimately we were touching.

"Are you sure you want me to get up?" he taunted, moving his lower half slightly.

A gasp left my lips before I could even think of holding it back. His eyes darkened at the sound. He moved closer as his thumb stroked my cheek.

I could smell whiskey on his breath. Understanding crept in. "You're drunk," I whispered. "This is wrong, Brian," I said, trying to be the responsible adult. What were we doing here? How had we gone from being friends to this? We'd somehow skipped a whole bunch of steps in the middle.

"Yes." His voice was husky as his thumb found my lips. He rubbed it lightly across my bottom lip. "But it feels so right, doesn't it?"

A delicious shivered moved up my spine at the gesture. "This is wrong," I croaked. I wasn't sure if I was trying to convince him or myself. What were we doing?

"Why?" His thumb slid across my bottom lip again, making me lose my train of thought.

"Because."

"Because why?" he taunted, barely rocking his body against mine. The movement was so slight I couldn't be sure if he actually moved or if my mind was playing tricks on me. Maybe I was the one who rocked beneath him.

The heat I'd been vainly trying to bank roared to life. His thumb stroked across my lips again and this time it was clear that my hips were the ones moving. Everything about this was wrong, but it felt so right. What about Dan? a silent voice mocked me. This was his brother, for God's sake.

"Because I love your brother," I finally whispered, trying to inject some sanity into the moment. I held my breath, waiting for him to leap off me. He respected his brother enough to know this was wrong.

His thumb moved away from my lip. Acute disappointment speared through me. I was being ridiculous. Disappointment should be the last emotion I was feeling.

Brian didn't leap off me as I had expected, nor did his hand leave me. Instead, it moved to the side of my face where it gently cupped my cheek. "I know you do," he said just before his lips crushed mine.

He tasted of whiskey and raw heat.

Dan's kisses had been minty and sweet from the wintergreen TicTacs he kept on hand. We'd discovered kissing together. In the beginning our kisses were timid, awkward, unsure. As we got older they were braver, more bold, but there had been a sense of reservation to them. Maybe it was because we'd decided to wait for the next step.

There was nothing timid or unsure about Brian's lips against mine. They were bolder than Dan's had ever been, despite the hundreds of kisses we'd shared. They consumed and dominated. They made Dan's seem immature and adolescent in comparison.

I used the last shred of my sanity to try to push him away again.

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