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Brielle waved her hand around. “Sit down you two. Geesh. Don’t get all embarrassed.”
Derek sat, suddenly self-conscious of his striped pajamas, and the way Nara had been sitting on his lap. Nara, on the other hand, had a sly smile on her face and didn’t seem to mind at all snuggling up to him like she’d been doing before. She pulled the blanket around them again.
“Now, you just go back to making out. I’ll pretend I don’t see a thing.” Brielle looked out at the trees.
Nara put her arms back around his neck. “Did you hear that? Your sister thinks we should make out.”
“Uh…” What was Nara doing?
“Come on. Kiss me.” Nara closed her eyes and puckered her lips.
Tempting, but he knew she was just joking around with him. “I’m not making out with you while my little sister is out here.”
Brielle snorted. “Okay, fine. I’ll go back inside.”
Wait, what? His brain decided to function again. Nara was being all flirty with him, wanting to kiss him, because Brielle was there. And now she was leaving? “No, don’t leave,” he said quickly.
“I have to, now. The last thing I want to see is my brother making out. Gross.” She stepped across the deck and through the kitchen door. The click told him she was gone.
“Darn,” Nara said, her lower lip jutting out into a pout. “I was hoping to practice our PDA.”
Derek wasn’t sure exactly what had gotten into Nara, but he had the crazy notion to play along with her. “She could be still watching.”
Nara’s eyes widened and she nodded. “Oh, you’re right. She could.”
His heart thumped as he stared into her brown eyes. Was he going to do what he thought he was going to do? For a split second, his brain told him this was a bad idea, but he shoved that aside and pulled Nara closer to him. “We’d better act like we’re really married,” he whispered.
Nara nodded. “We’d better.”
He could barely believe he was given permission to kiss her, but he wasn’t about to ask for clarification. He brushed his lips over hers, the same wild sensation as before cascading over him. Her lips were warm, and soft, and he pressed closer, his lips dancing over hers.
Nara’s fingers tangled into his hair and she responded to his kiss with a soft, guttural moan. Fire skittered over his skin, igniting him with heat and longing. Nara was everything he wanted, and he couldn’t believe she’d flirted with him, practically begging him to kiss her.
He didn’t hold back. He kissed her with all the energy he had. All the years of wanting and needing her, but not having her. He kissed her with his whole soul.
As he kissed her, his brain tried to figure out why she’d flirted with him. Why she’d asked to be kissed. A small part of him thought that maybe she was coming around. Maybe she really didn’t hate him, like she’d professed tonight.
Maybe she liked him.
The thought shot through him like a bolt of lightning, and he deepened the kiss. Nara pulled him closer, her response making his heart go crazy in his chest. He was kissing the love of his life. And she was kissing him back.
And then, of course, his brain had to ruin it all by wondering what this meant for them. Was this just a kiss, in the middle of the night, between two lonely people? Or was Nara kissing him because she wanted to be with him?
He pulled back, taking in a large breath. Nara’s gaze held him in place. Her lips were slightly parted, her breath coming out in short bursts of fog. He suddenly couldn’t move. Couldn’t talk. But he had to. He needed to know. He forced the words to come out. “What are we doing, here?”
Chapter 22
Nara stared at Derek, not understanding his words. What were they doing? Wasn’t it obvious? He stopped kissing her to ask her that? It was the most amazing kiss she’d ever had, and he decided to pause to talk about what they were doing? She wanted to smack him upside the head, but instead, she just gave him a shy smile. “Kissing.”
“I know, kissing. But…what exactly are we doing?”
“Just kissing,” she said, letting some of the exasperation she was feeling into her voice. “That’s all. We’re not solving world hunger.”
“I know…but…” He shook his head. “Never mind.”
She wanted to pull him back down for more kisses, but the mood was ruined. The fire had been doused, and disappointment now pressed down on her like a thick fog. “Are you tired yet?”
He nodded. “Yeah. I think I am.”
