Love Me Forever by Nicki Knight

Author:Nicki Knight [Knight, Nicki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-07-01T16:00:00+00:00

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After dinner, we walked along the water, mostly in silence. While I enjoyed the lights illuminating the rapids with deep red and bright yellow, my thoughts kept returning to our meal. Jacob shouldn’t have spent that much money on me.

He stopped in an area where light flooded the sidewalk with a halo effect. Jacob held up his phone and pulled me close. He took a selfie of us against the backdrop of lights along the water’s edge. Instead of releasing me as he lowered the phone, he kissed me.

Electricity tingled where our lips touched. When our kiss became deeper and more urgent, he pushed me back, out of the light and against a tree. The scratchy bark at my back and Jacob’s hardness against my leg—I was literally between a rock and a hard place.

Warmth pooled in my stomach. The mix of emotions twisted me into knots—happiness, glee, and trepidation all rolled into one moan. He lifted me higher so I could wrap my arms around his neck and rest my knees at his hips, never breaking the kiss, with my back still firm against the tree.

When I could breathe, I shifted my weight, and he eased me down on my feet. “Wow, that was intense.”

He searched my eyes. “Did I push you too far?”

“I don’t know what’s wrong with me; I can’t explain it. I like you, Jacob, more than I’ve liked anyone in a long time.” Maybe ever.

Tracy’s words about ‘the one’ repeated in my head. Why did these intense feelings make me more confused than ever?

Jacob turned to where a man made a recording with a phone a few feet away. I felt sure he was a tourist admiring the view of the water. Nothing to do with us, yet Jacob grabbed my arm and moved us down the sidewalk.

“What’s wrong?” I asked.

“Just finding us a little more privacy.”

Privacy? What would it matter if everyone enjoying the evening saw us kiss? Why would anyone care?

Why did Jacob care?

He led me to concrete stairs and then down to an area of grass behind a brick building. As we walked, the gap between us grew. Jacob stopped and spun me to view his blue eyes shimmering in the moonlight. “What’s wrong?”

“Nothing.”

“Something changed back there. What did I do wrong?”

I wasn’t sure if Jacob did anything wrong. The issue was how I felt about our situation. When the night started, we were two people going out to have some fun. Dinner and a walk along the river’s edge as the last of the day’s kayaks fought the rapids. A kiss was a reasonable expectation for us both, but the feelings buzzing through my head were more than reasonable. My body cried out for Jacob in ways that terrified me.

What if he didn’t want the kind of night that lingered on for the rest of our lives? What if Jacob only wanted one night and then the magic would end?

I wasn’t ready to let him go. “Like I said, nothing.

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