AllFreeNovel
Share Us
Nothing existed between them again. She took a quick step forward, placed a gentle guiding hand on the nape of his neck, and he found himself drawn downward. He went to question it, but she pretty effortlessly silenced him. His eyes went wide in shock as he felt her lips on his. The pressure became gentle, but needing, like velvet against his own. Analyzing the act, seeing others do it, he’d not thought something so simple would bring a sensation of such pleasure. Trying to process everything simultaneously, he realized he couldn’t.
So he just focused on what was happening instead of trying to figure it out. Quinn melted into his first kiss as his arms gently wrapped around her. For the first time in his life, his heart wasn’t aching, it was just full, completely and utterly full.
Kira drew back as if to give him a second to breathe; his lungs felt tight as he manually reminded himself to.
She was still there. “Together then,” came her breathless reply to his unspoken question.
“Yes, together.” Even if he wasn’t sure what it meant, he knew he wanted it, all of it, whatever she offered to him.
“I’m going to kiss you again, is that alright?”
“Yes.”
The response came immediately, his voice still quite low and soft, as though he worried that speaking too loudly would break the momentum. It was a moment that kept getting better and better. He soon kissed her back eagerly, clearly quite enamored with the activity.
She moved flush against him at one point, curves pressing against his body in an exciting and new way because it was in a way that wasn’t meant simply to be friendly. It was definitely something more. Against all odds, they had discovered each other and found themselves locked in a room together to evade a scan. In the meantime, they performed their own scans and diagnostics. Quinn didn’t resist when Kira pushed him back until he sat on the bed, her straddling him, both upright.
Resistance would have required some sort of cognate thought at that moment. Not just a cohesive thought, but one that would give him pause. He wasn’t thinking. In fact, he wasn’t going out of his way to not think. He didn’t want to think. He wanted Kira to keep doing whatever she wished because it was the single best thing to have happened to him.
She had eclipsed every thought, worry, anxiety, and fear, replacing all the negative, all the hurt, with herself. She dominated all of his senses, all of his attention, all of his being. The only action he took was to follow her gentle guidance and to keep his hands wrapped around her as she pressed her lips to his. In that moment, she had given him the one thing he had always wanted. She had taken his hurt away.
When she stopped, Quinn almost followed her before he took a breath and looked into her eyes. Thoughts tried to crowd into his mind once again, but as he gazed up at her, he let out a little sigh. Pressing his forehead against hers, he murmured softly, “thank you.”
Quinn thought she had to know he was at least infatuated with her, and possibly in love with her. He’d shown her so clearly before.
“You’re welcome.”
“I- This is what I wanted. Just not the way I thought I would find it. You made me hurt less before, and now, now, I do not hurt at all.” He explained it, not sure he had the right words for it all, but Quinn did his best to give her the truth that was in his heart.
Unlike so many others, no one was going to take her away. She’d never given up on him, and no one had paid her to manipulate him. She was just- Kira. A woman who saw a man trying desperately to shut himself away and had stuck her foot in the door, forcing him to let the sunshine in because she brought it with her.
“You make me happy too, Quinn.”
“Thank you.” Knowing that he did for her, in some capacity, what she did for him made him feel, well, he already felt good, but it somehow made him feel better.
“Can I-” He trailed off, but his gaze on her lips once again. He only picked up on what was on the surface.
“You may.”
The simple kisses were good, but instinct and desire drove him to deepen it. His attempt started clumsy, and inelegant, but soon enough, he moved as she guided him.
She wrapped her fingers in the short locks at the nape of his neck and the feel of her hands in his hair and on his chest made his entire body respond. Charging him like an electric current, every strand of hair on his body felt ready to stand on edge. The gentle feeling of her tongue pressing against his lips confused him at first, but there were only a finite number of things she could be trying to achieve.
Parting his lips tentatively, he felt her tongue in his mouth and soon he got the idea of what he was supposed to be doing. Without even really thinking about it, his hands ran up her back, digging lightly into her skin, his own hand gently combing through her hair. Quinn had an endless curiosity, and she gave him an entirely new world of delights to experiment with.
Chapter Twenty
KIRA
“Your net is off.” Kira shot up in pure panic. “Oh brax.”
Slipping out of the bed, she crawled over him in order to reach the computer system, which wasn’t present. Panels covered every wall, and he saw wild eyes shooting back at him.
“Uh, yeah?”
“Your room’s blocked. If something happens, they can’t get ahold of me, and they always hit the emergency line to let me know that the inspection is over. So either it’s ongoing or something happened and it’s been too long.”
“I can gain access. Hold on.” Quinn sat up, fully dressed still, flipping on his net.
