Mistletoe Madness: A Sexy Christmas Novella by Rebecca Norinne

Author:Rebecca Norinne [Norinne, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-08T16:00:00+00:00

6

I’d just swallowed down a mouthful of Jameson, but my mouth was suddenly parched—dry like the Sahara fucking Desert. For weeks, I’d fantasized about straddling Nick’s lap and kissing him as if my life depended on it, but now that I was faced with actually being able to do so, I couldn’t seem to move. I sat there, silently staring at him, as I tried to come to grips with the challenge he’d just laid at my feet.

Maybe the champagne, beer, and that quick shot of whiskey affected me more than I thought, because I could have sworn he’d just dared me to do the the one thing I’d been dreaming about ever since I walked in tonight and saw that Rudy had hung sprigs of mistletoe in several corners of the first floor of our house. Throughout the course of the night, several of their guests had made good use of those dark spaces; I’d wanted to be among them.

After what felt like an eternity but was probably only three seconds or so, I blinked rapidly and the fog cleared from my brain. “Kiss you?”

He crossed his arms over his middle, and rested his right elbow in his left palm. His other hand cradled his darkly stubbled jaw. “Never mind. It was a bad idea. I’m just—”

“It wasn’t a bad idea,” I rushed to say before he could take it all back. I might have been a bit slow on the uptake, but I wasn’t stupid. When the object of all your wildest fantasies gave you the opening you’d been secretly getting off to, you took it. “In fact, it might be the best damn idea I’ve ever heard.”

His lips titled up in a small, satisfied smile. “So what are you doing sitting all the way over there, then?”

“I …” I trailed off. The list of reasons I could give him for having not kissed him yet was a mile long, but none of the explanations seemed quite right. How did you admit to your roommate that you’d wanted him for weeks but were too chicken to actually do anything about it?

“You what, Mikyala?”

I blew out a long breath. “The truth is, I’m scared.”

He visibly blanched. “Of me?”

I shook my head slowly back and forth. “No. I’m scared of losing you.”

“Why would you lose me?” He dropped his hand away from his face and adjusted his position on the couch so he was sitting more upright. Less sexy and relaxed; more on high alert.

I sat up fully, too, and pulled my feet up underneath me. “Say I were to kiss you—”

“Yes, please. Do that.”

I smiled indulgently, but continued on undeterred. “I wouldn’t want you to have any regrets in the morning.”

His head jerked back in surprise. “Who said anything about regret?”

“Please, Nick. Be serious for a second here.” I pushed up and off the couch and started pacing the room. “You’re my roommate, and the closest friend I have these days. If it was bad, or worse, it was

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