Liminal (Liminals Book 1) by Maree Anderson

Author:Maree Anderson [Anderson, Maree]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: k'12
ISBN: 9780992249861
Publisher: Maree Anderson
Published: 2013-07-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

“That?” Kade’s gaze slid from mine. He ran a palm over the coverlet, plucked a piece of lint, made a production out of flicking it to the floor. “It was just a kiss,” he muttered. “Nothing to get all worked up about. Forget it.”

Forget it? What planet was he on? Hello, teenage girl with rampant hormones who’d been kissed to within an inch of her life by a hot guy. Of course I wasn’t going to forget about that mind-blowing kiss. Of course I was going to get “all worked up” about it. I mean, come on. For those of us of the female persuasion, getting worked up about something this… this… epic was an immutable law of the universe. And I knew I’d replay that kiss over and over in my mind just as soon as I had a moment to fully indulge. Not to mention angst over it all in a big way. Because Kade’s “Let’s get it over with” comment, that had kicked off the whole encounter, wasn’t exactly doing much for my self-esteem.

I didn’t make a habit of locking lips with guys I barely knew. And if liminals couldn’t even kiss without sharing energy and doing…what we’d done, then that was something I really needed to know.

“Don’t make me spell it out, Kade,” I said. “I’m warning you, so not in the mood.”

“Okay, okay. It was just a little energy sharing.” He flung up a hand to ward off my next question. “Lims sometimes do it to get a bit of a buzz.”

I prodded his shoulder with my toe until he batted my foot away and conceded to look me in the eye. “A bit of a buzz?” I snorted. “Puhlease. That was way more than a bit of a buzz. Try full-on throw yourself into a raging current and get swept away.”

The old Kade made an appearance then, complete with typically male smug grin. He smacked the mattress with his palm. “That good, huh?”

“You know it was,” I said, in such a matter-of-fact tone that he blinked.

We’d been attuned— No, more than attuned. We’d merged. He had to have known what I’d been thinking at the time. No point in trying to hide it.

“It was that good,” I told him. “You were that good.” And now to address the elephant in the room. “But I’m sorry for, you know, getting a bit carried away. I’m not, uh— I haven’t…. I haven’t had much experience with, uh, that sort of thing.” I ducked my head to hide my blush. Oh God. Please let the floor open up and swallow me right now.

“I’m not.”

I peeped at him from beneath my hair. “Not what?”

“Not sorry you got carried away.”

Cue awkward silence. And then Kade said in a teasing tone, “Any time you feel like doing it again, I’m in.”

“In your dreams,” I shot back.

“I should be so lucky to dream of that,” he murmured, and I got the distinct impression he’d not intended me to hear his comment.

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