Drive by Stephanie Fournet

Author:Stephanie Fournet [Fournet, Stephanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blue Tulip Publishing INC.
Published: 2017-10-12T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 21

“All I ever wanted… All I ever needed… Is here in my arms.” Rainey’s Depeche Mode lyrics echoed in his head.

Even as Jacques held Rainey against him, he couldn’t quite believe she’d allowed him this close. He wanted to kiss her. How he wanted to kiss her! He could kiss her for days. He’d spend tonight on the cupid’s bow of her top lip. Tomorrow would be for the ripe fruit of her bottom lip. Then Tuesday and Wednesday would belong to her tongue.

It would probably take a year to cover her body.

But if he let himself think like that, even the blankets that lay between them wouldn’t be enough to hide his imaginings. She’d let him hold her. It felt amazing, and it needed to be enough. He also needed to stick to his word. Jacques wanted at least to press a kiss to her forehead, but he didn’t trust himself to move in any closer. Instead he gave her another little squeeze and turned his eyes from hers back to the TV as though the antacid commercial was the most riveting thing he’d ever seen.

Her hand lay on his chest, and, every now and then, one of her fingers would come alive and brush against him. Just a fraction. But those subtle touches felt like the shifting of the earth.

She lay in the curve of his arm, and his hand rested on her elbow. The fourth time one of her fingertips stroked his chest, Jacques let the tip of his middle finger move an inch over her inner arm and back. Maybe her touch wasn’t intentional. Maybe it was just unconscious. But it felt so damn good, Jacques didn’t want to miss returning it.

“Friends don’t really snuggle like this, do they,” she whispered, not taking her eyes from the TV, and not pulling away from him. Rainey didn’t say it like a question, but there was a question in her words nonetheless.

Jacques considered before answering. Saying no might prompt her to stop. Saying yes, at least in his experience, would be a colossal lie. He’d never lain on a bed with a girl in his arms whom he’d called merely a friend.

And Rainey was no exception.

But, of course, she was exceptional. In her beauty. In her solitude. In the way she believed in him. Even in the way she fit in the crook of his arm like she was made for it.

“We can do this,” he said, answering her question the only way he knew how. It was an answer made for the moment and an answer made for the future.

She lifted her eyes to his then. “You mean we can do this within the boundaries of friendship?”

He nodded slowly. “We can do this whenever we want.” And that was true. As far as he was concerned, they could live like this. It might drive him to madness with desire, but he definitely didn’t want to go without this.

She hadn’t taken her eyes from him, and he saw something at their edges warm and soften with a kind of sadness, yet she wore a hint of a smile.

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