Runaways: An Original Novel by Christopher Golden

Author:Christopher Golden [Golden, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: young adult, Fantasy, science fiction
ISBN: 9781484782019
Goodreads: 34849190
Publisher: Marvel Press
Published: 2018-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

Many hours later, Chase woke to find Gert kissing his neck. He felt her warm breath on his skin, the gentle touch of her lips, and his eyes opened slowly. It had been after dawn when he, Nico, Karolina, and Molly had returned, and Gert had kissed him the moment he’d climbed out of the Leapfrog. She’d been worried about him, she said, and at first he’d thought she was kidding around. Gert had never been the clingy type—in fact, half the time she wanted nothing to do with him, boyfriend or not. But after they’d all agreed to get some sleep and talk about the night’s events when they were more capable of stringing words into sentences, Gert had walked Chase back to the room he’d picked out for himself and she’d never left.

Nothing had happened. They’d both been exhausted and she’d climbed into bed with him, curled up into his arms, and fallen dead asleep.

Correction, Chase thought. Nothing happened last night.

This morning, something was very definitely happening. Gert turned his face toward hers and kissed him. Without her glasses on, she barely looked like herself, as if they were some kind of wall that usually shielded her from revealing too much of herself. Under the covers, her right hand traced lines down his chest and toyed with the waistband of his boxer briefs, exploring.

“Good morning,” she said.

“Gert—”

She kissed him again, almost as if she just wanted to shut him up. Chase didn’t argue. The kissing was nice, and so was the way her hand kept exploring. She kissed his neck again.

Her right leg slid over his thigh, bare and smooth, and she snuggled closer against him, soft skin on soft skin. Chase’s eyes went wide and his breath hitched. He slid an inch or two away from her under the covers.

“Wait, are you naked?”

She flinched, green eyes pinched with hurt. “Is that bad?”

Chase felt blood rushing through him, like his whole body was blushing. His breath quickened and he kissed her, turning toward her under the sheets. It felt as if his brain split in two, like part of him—the lizard, id part—was all body, all flesh, and the other part, the guy who’d always felt like an outsider, abnormal and weird, someone who’d end up a forty-year-old virgin—that part had a thousand questions. He quelled those questions, quieted the hesitant voice in the back of his head, because Gert Yorkes, the girl he loved, was there in bed with him, kissing him, soft and naked and pressed against him and her hand kept moving. He touched her in ways he’d been dreaming about day and night, and though she trembled and a little noise escaped her lips, there was something else that even the lizard part of his brain noticed, a stiffness in her, a tension in her body that didn’t seem like passion at all. Not that he had a lot of experience with passion, but still, this wasn’t it.

Heart pounding, throat dry, he managed to

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