Nox by P. Jameson

Author:P. Jameson [Jameson, P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-03-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Carter

I kissed her because it was either that or lose my goddamn mind.

With the truth lying between us, spattered like a broken jar of salve, I could finally breathe.

Kara didn’t hate me.

It was all a misunderstanding. One that should never have gone this far. But I could hardly blame her for keeping this from me. Who hasn’t made a shitty decision in their youth a time or two.

Something inside me broke with her tears and the realness that I’d been wanting for so long. Something visceral and protective. Something that didn’t exist when we were teenagers.

I could rail on her, tell her all the ways she’d hurt me. Make her pay for what happened. But I’d been angry at Kara long enough. All I wanted now was to reconnect with her fragile heart, and keep it from ever being hurt again.

This time she didn’t fight me. She wasn’t tentative. Instead, she melted into me, her hands falling lightly to my chest as her lips opened.

She tasted like pears and smelled just like the tea scented candles we used at the spa. I plundered her mouth. Took everything that I’d wanted to when we were younger. Tilting her head, I deepened the kiss until we were both gasping for breath.

Kara pulled back, only enough to catch some air. Her hands stayed on me and I couldn’t seem to make mine let her go. Meeting her gaze, my heart practically barrelled through my ribcage and out of my chest when I noticed all that heaviness was gone from her eyes. All the guilt and shame and the weight of secrets she’d been carrying.

It was gone and all that remained was my KK again, the way she was before teenage angst came between us.

“Marry me.” What? Fuck. Shit.

I didn’t mean to say that. Not yet.

Maybe I’d been wanting this since we were kids, sure. But that didn’t matter because if there was one surefire way to scare Kara off again, it was me coming on too strong.

And too soon.

She literally just came clean twelve fucking seconds ago. The wall between us was barely down, and I'd be damned if I let her build it back up again.

I opened my mouth to take it back but she beat me to it.

“O-okay.”

Okay?

Her eyes were big and scared. She was as shocked as I was at what came out of my mouth.

But she wasn’t shutting down like I expected.

Our breath mingled and a careful smile curved her lips. A goddamn smile. I could hardly believe it. I hadn’t seen Kara smile in far too long.

“I mean, are you sure?” she asked. “Did you mean that or…” Her smile faltered. “I still can’t tell what’s real.”

Still.

My girl was so unsure of herself. Of me. Of our past. I wanted to change that. I wanted her very sure before she agreed to what I wanted: a future with her by my side.

I was going to start now.

Taking her face between my hands, I found her eyes-- eyes that had haunted my dreams since I left our hometown.

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