The Key (Heartfire) by Celeste Davis

Author:Celeste Davis [Davis, Celeste]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-05-27T18:30:00+00:00

Kaylia

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Kaylia stood facing Dylan outside her dorm. She felt awkward, not quite knowing what to do with her hands. He didn't seem nervous though. He was looking at her in that intense way of his.

And smiling. Just the tiniest trace of a smile. But it was there.

She looked away, realizing she'd been staring at his lips.

They'd been walking around campus for over an hour now, neither one of them wanting the night to end. But it was getting late now, and they'd run out of excuses.

Plus after drinking all that wine, Kaylia really had to pee.

They'd been talking almost the entire time, sharing stories from their pasts. Some things they seemed to know intrinsically about each other, others came as a complete surprise.

For example, Dylan considered his family's housekeeper Rosa to be his second mother. So while Kaylia had only her Grandmother, Dylan had had an overabundance of mothering in his life. He'd admitted that he'd taken up half of his hobbies and sports just to get away from the house. Not that he minded all the extra love and affection, he just needed to be on his own sometimes. He wasn't soft or spoiled from all the attention though. He just seemed to take things as they came, without questioning.

Kaylia was nothing like that. She worried about everything. She'd had to look out for herself and her Gran her whole life. Even before her beautiful mother Catherine had disappeared, she'd been ethereal somehow- a wisp of a woman who seemed to be barely tethered to the earth.

Kaylia had basically raised herself and liked to stand on her own two feet. She'd been like that since she was a small child. She didn't like to ask for help, or even know how to.

Instead of finding these differences unappealing, they'd both been fascinated by their disparate upbringings. Neither looked down on the other or found each other lacking. It was almost as if they were two halves to the same whole.

Once they'd started talking, it was like a damn had burst. But they'd walked quietly hand in hand part of the time too. Just being connected like, palm to palm, had seemed to be another form of communication. It all felt so natural, almost like it did in the dreams.

Now they were face to face. He had closed the gap, standing so close that she could feel the heat radiating off his body. He was so warm and Kaylia was always cold, even in the balmy early fall night.

Dylan was staring into her eyes, moving inexorably closer and closer toward her. She knew he was going to kiss her, had known all night that this is where the date was leading. It felt inevitable as the sun rising and setting but exciting all the same. His hands lifted and clasped her shoulders as she let her gaze drift down to his softly smiling lips.

Her eyelids fluttered shut as she felt his breath across her face. And then his lips were on hers, molding, sliding, seeking.

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