So Far Into You by Lily Malone

Author:Lily Malone
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises, Australia Pty Ltd

Chapter 15

It wasn’t the same kiss as they’d shared at Ellen Brook years ago. There was nothing questing or careful about it. It was filled with yearning, desperation, confusion, and he had nothing to give. It was a kiss that tried to take.

Remy put her hand on his chest and shoved. Two fingers caught inside the vee of his shirt, touching crisp hair and warm skin over a fast-beating heart, and it sent a zap through her fingers like static off steel.

‘Remy,’ he said on a groan, before he returned to her lips, and the kiss changed. Got tender real fast. She could have coped with his frustration, even anger, because it mirrored how she felt, but tenderness was something else. Tenderness played and plucked on her heart, made her mind and her body dream. It meant she’d start hoping again, and she’d wished her last wish for Seth.

So she kicked him, because her hand on his chest had given up pushing. All it wanted to do was wrap itself in a fistful of his shirt and tug him closer.

From the windowsill her leverage was off. She miscalculated, kicked the concrete before she got to his shin and her howl of pain was loud enough to snare the dogs attention.

‘The least you could do is hop about a bit. I think I broke my bloody toe.’ She rubbed her toe through the cap of her boot.

He let her go.

Her toe was going numb but her lips felt sweet and tingly, kind of like they did when she ate fresh pineapple. She took a tiny taste of her top lip, checking if it really did taste of pineapple. It didn’t. It might have tasted of grapes, though, and sunshine.

She tried to slide away. The problem was, sitting on the windowsill with Seth’s leg between hers made sliding difficult if she didn’t want to look like she was humping his thigh.

Hell and Tommy, did I just think about humping his thigh?

At the edge of her vision Occhy crouched low on his front legs, wagging his tail. Breeze snapped and snarled at him.

‘Tell her she should make love, not war,’ Seth said.

Remy smiled, but only for a second. This was serious. The kiss, the aftermath—something in Seth had softened today, she could feel it. If she could only work out how to get through to him, maybe they’d end up okay. Maybe she could find the way to put the past behind them. If she was brave.

Remy dragged her courage all the way from her throbbing toe. She looked up, met dark eyes staring down and said: ‘We never had any time to get to know each other, Seth. We only had two days. I mean … you never did take me for that cup of coffee. I think if you knew me, you’d know I’m honest. I try to be a good person. A good friend. I don’t lie.’

The warm pressure of his hand on her neck stilled. ‘I don’t think I know how to be friends with you, Rem.

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