Aroused in Flames by Jadyn Chase

Author:Jadyn Chase [Chase, Jadyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-01-04T16:00:00+00:00

10

Allison

The stairs creaked underfoot when Thomas and I climbed up to our second-floor rooms. The hotel lay dark and silent around us. I went to my door and unlocked it. Thomas went to his door and unlocked it, but he didn’t enter.

I turned on the threshold. A streetlamp outside revealed his silhouette in the corridor. “Are you all right? Do you need anything?”

He stood there curiously still listening to something in the silence. Did he even hear me? I started to say something else when he swiveled and crossed the hall to where I stood. He loomed tall and mysterious in the night. “I need you, Allison. I’ve been trying to think of a way to tell you since dinner. You’ve given me everything I need ever since I met you. I can only dream a day might come when I will win your heart, but I can resign myself to live without it due to these deplorable circumstances. I recognize that you would want someone who understands your world and all the little idiosyncrasies that make it up. I am indeed a poor substitute for that. You can rely on me to withdraw my suit graciously. Only understand my affections shall not wane in spite of the…..”

I couldn’t listen to any more. I lunged at him and kissed him with all my might. All through dinner, I kept thinking how nice it would be if I ever got a chance to tell him that I wanted him, how disappointed I was to hear he had a fiancé, and how relieved I was to realize he wasn’t, in fact, engaged.

I kissed him. I couldn’t stop kissing him. He felt the same way. I slipped my arms around his middle and leaned into him. I’d been dying to do this all day—all week, in fact. I didn’t have to worry about doing it right or making a fool of myself. There was no right with him.

That sense of flying without a net freed me from all the awkwardness that held me back in the past. If I ever considered kissing a guy—which I didn’t—I would obsess about making a mess of it or approaching someone who didn’t feel the same way. I judged myself out of it before I ever worked up the courage to go through with it.

I didn’t have to worry about that with Thomas. For one thing, I had no way of knowing what would happen to him. He might vaporize out of my life at any second. Then none of this would matter and I would never see him again.

On the other hand, a part of me didn’t even care whether he wanted it or not. I wanted it. I made the decisions here. I kissed him because I wanted to. Never could I have dreamed I could feel so free, so wildly uninhibited. None of it mattered. I just didn’t give a hoot in Hell if I did it right. I wanted it. That made it as right as it needed to be.

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