Homerun Proposal: A Brother's Best Friend Baseball Romance (Orleans University Book 1) by Maren Moore

Author:Maren Moore [Moore, Maren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-09-06T16:00:00+00:00

16

hallie

It’s after dark when we make it back to the house after back-to-back features at the movies, then stopping for pizza at Jack’s. One thing we didn’t account for?

A random late-night rain shower.

It started pouring halfway home, and after we ran for cover, which was almost half a mile home, we were both drenched. My shoes are squeaking, and I’m giggling at the fact that we both look like drowned rats.

“Jesus,” Lane breathes as he ducks under the porch from the onslaught of rain. Thunder cracks in the distance, causing the wooden porch beneath us to shake. Another perk of living in the South—random thunderstorms that feel like a category three hurricane at any given time.

Like right now.

“Fuck, that happened quick.” He laughs while shaking his hair out. Water rains out onto me, and I cover my face to stop the spray.

“Stop. Stop. Oh my god, you’re soaking me,” I say between giggles, and he just does it harder, then replaces the backward hat on his head. Sliding his arms around my waist, he yanks me toward him, pressing our soaked bodies together.

For a moment, we stay that way, holding each other’s gaze as the thunderstorm rages on around us. For a moment, it’s just the two of us, existing in a little bubble of Lane and Hallie. One that I’m not ready to let go of, especially not after the day we spent together.

My eyes drift over the water droplets that slide down his face, over the bridge of his nose, down his angular cheekbones and thick lashes.

God, he’s handsome.

“Pretty sure this is every girl’s dream,” I murmur as my eyes search his. “Being kissed in the pouring rain. A typical nineties rom-com.”

He just shakes his head, the corner of his lips tugging up slightly. “Always with your head in the movies, Hallie Girl.”

I nod wordlessly. Instead, my hands tighten in his shirt as I clutch onto him. The sound of the rain falling around is drowned out by the sound of my heart beating. Each beat seems louder than the last, and the only thing I can focus on is that it’s Lane that’s causing it to go haywire.

The way he’s looking at me as if he could peel back all the layers and see directly inside of me. He’s looking at me as if I’m precious to him, and his hands sliding along my jaw to cradle it makes my knees feel weak, no longer able to hold my weight up.

He leans forward and kisses the corner of my lip, then my cheeks where a raindrop is slowly falling, then the other corner, the tip of my nose, along my jaw.

There’s something so… sweet and intimate about it that it makes my chest ache. It makes me feel things that I shouldn’t.

“Lane.”

You can hardly hear me whisper over the pounding of the rain. He doesn’t stop, moving along to my neck, causing my nipples to pebble even harder and not from the chill.

“What are you doing?”

He hums against my skin, warming each spot as he goes.

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