Never You by Stacy Gold

Author:Stacy Gold [Gold, Stacy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Erotic Romance
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Published: 2018-12-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

My front was freezing, my back was sweltering, the pressure on my bladder, unceasing. I opened my eyes. Or thought I did, but everything remained pitch-black. Daniel shifted behind me, his arm heavy over my waist.

Yesterday, and last night, came into sharp focus in my sleep-hazed head.

Doing my best not to disturb him, I groped for my sleeping bag. When my hands hit cool nylon, I tugged it over me, hoping the warmth would be enough to let me doze off again, at least until sunrise.

I settled back against him and didn’t move. I didn’t want to move. Not with all six feet of his lanky muscles pressed into me, and his arm cradling me. What I wanted to do was memorize every moment of yesterday, so I could use it later as a litmus test for all future dates. Any man who wasn’t as honest, thoughtful, and funny as Daniel would never get a second shot.

If anyone had told me Danny-boy would set the standard for future guys, I’d have died laughing. Instead, I lay in his arms wishing this didn’t have to end. Both this moment, curled up in bed together, and our burgeoning relationship.

I’m ruined forever.

I snorted, reawakening my need to pee.

Resigned, I slid out of bed holding my breath. Daniel stirred, but his eyes stayed closed. Tiptoeing through the dark room, I snagged a water bottle and my toiletries, slipped on my down jacket and snow boots, and opened the door.

Cold air scratched at the inside of my nose. I set my water and toiletries on the porch railing, shivering while I tromped to the outhouse and back in the dim gray light of a million stars reflecting off the snow.

Standing on the porch, I brushed the now fetid taste of our late-night dessert out of my mouth. The deep stillness of a forest blanketed in snow, hundreds of miles from anywhere, surrounded me.

I loved it out here, when the guests were gone, and I had the place all to myself to write. To think. Though, maybe, just maybe, I loved it a teensy bit more with Daniel around… Sharing the excitement of a perfect powder run. Cooking me ridiculous meals. Talking and laughing about everything and nothing. Kneading my sore muscles. Caressing my skin.

Making me wonder what it would be like to have his hands on the rest of me. To have his mouth on mine. To have his mouth on other places. I shivered again, only this time not from the cold.

I spit toothpaste into the snow and rinsed my mouth with water so icy my teeth hurt.

Would I regret it if I left tomorrow without kissing him? Probably. Would I regret it if I did kiss him? Probably not. I wiped the corners of my mouth.

One kiss wouldn’t hurt anything. And that’s all it would be. I wouldn’t even be bending my own rules.

I just wanted to know, firsthand, if kissing Daniel would be even half as good as everything else.

****

The thump and click of the hut door closing brought me the rest of the way awake.

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