Tread the Boards (A Rivervue Community Theatre Romance, #1) by Nikki Logan

Author:Nikki Logan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Escape Publishing
Published: 2020-06-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

It was a kiss of gratitude. Of exhaustion. It was the emotional equivalent of her face being pat-dried with a fluffy towel as Dylan had just done so spectacularly tenderly.

And his lips against hers were every bit as gentle.

Gravity was quite happy to draw her back down and away from the kiss. That would be one solution. Nanna’s proximity was another. Both excellent reasons to release the octopus cling she’d initiated and the intimacy she’d sprung on him unawares.

But Dylan was a tall man; he only had to lift his head to achieve the same end if her kiss was unwelcome. Or awkward or embarrassing. But the only part of him that was moving was his lips.

Subtle. Experimental. Utterly restrained and non-threatening in a way that still managed to be entirely dangerous.

Kenzie pulled back the fraction needed to separate them and lifted her eyes to his. They broiled with the effort of not moving and his outward sigh blew cool across the dampness of her lips.

Tantalisingly hot and cool at the same time.

Just like the two of them had been since they’d first met. She could pull away—remember where they were and save this for another day—but there were no guarantees that they’d find themselves this close again, or her emotions this heightened. Or his usually impenetrable exterior quite this cracked. His gaze gave nothing away and so she kept it entrapped by her own as she lengthened her neck enough to bring her lips back to his again. Only then did she let her eyes flutter shut so she could just experience him.

And she realised that she’d been wanting to do this for a very long time.

But she couldn’t taste him well enough with politely shut lips, so she let them open on an exhale and then simply didn’t close again. A heart-thud later it was teeth sliding against teeth.

Who knew teeth could be so sexy? Was it only five weeks ago he’d revealed them with his first smile?

Strong arms gathered her in, up, as Dylan took control of the kissing. He might struggle to speak but his body language was one hundred per cent on point—he was having no trouble at all communicating with his mouth right now.

It spoke of hunger. Desire. Patience barely hanging in there. This was no kneejerk kiss of surprise. He’d been thinking about this at least as long as she had.

That incredible thought stole what little oxygen she had left.

She pulled away and gasped in a lungful of bathroom air, complete with her Nanna’s gently scented potpourri. She was all unsteady again, but this time there was a different reason.

‘Dylan …’ He let her go, but kept the contact close, stroking her hair. ‘Sorry. I’m not generally a swooner.’

His chuckle was an insanely sexy rumble and his voice had gravelled down to a frequency only heard by dinosaurs. ‘Is that what you’re doing?’

‘A little bit.’

She reached out for the cool sensibility of the ceramic washbasin and used it to steady herself. Then

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