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She nodded vehemently.
“Prove it. Fuck me.”
She threw herself into the command. Her body bounced on mine hard and determined. She rode me as if her next breath depended on my cum inside her pussy. I tormented her clit, pinching it between my fingers and tugging with every downward grind of her hips. Kami squeaked the first time, but seemed to enjoy it as she slammed down harder each time.
I came first, drenching her walls seconds before she joined me.
I waited until both our breathing calmed before I reached for a tissue from the compartment and helped clean her up. I helped her back into her dress and handed her a bottle of water from the mini fridge. She eyed it a moment with a grin, but downed most of it when I raised an eyebrow. I put her back in her seat, strapped her in and pressed her book into her hand.
Without a word, she slid the best she could into my side. Her arm wound around mine and she laid her head on my shoulder as she went back to her book.
We stopped three hours later at a gas station. I urged Kami out to stretch her legs and get some snacks while I waited for my sister’s car to pull up behind us. When the highway remained still and empty, I asked Juan when he’d seen them last.
“I’m not sure, sir,” the driver replied, seeming unconcerned. “About twenty minutes, perhaps? I was encouraged by your father not to waste time.”
I wasn’t concerned. Lavena and the others could take care of themselves, and Uriah had no idea where I was. There was no way. The game of cat and mouse wasn’t going to start until I got to the city.
Nevertheless, I continued to watch the horizon until Kami joined me with a plastic bag dangling from her fingers.
“Where’s Lavena?” she asked, squinting in the same direction I was.
“Still coming,” I assured her, reaching to lightly touch her lower back. “Come on.”
We both took a last lingering glance down the road before getting back inside the car.
I held her tucked against my side for the next four hours, her fingers gliding through mine as she told me all she’d done since I last saw her. I listened attentively while marveling at how small and slender her hand was, how neat and elegant her nails were. She didn’t wear any jewelry, but I knew a square cut emerald with a delicate band of diamonds would have been perfect. I wasn’t sure what made me think emeralds. Maybe it was her dress, but the color suited her.
“Darius?”
The warmth of her touch radiated through the soft material of my top where I pressed her palm flat over my heart. “Yeah?”
“You owe me a promise, too.”
I lowered my gaze to the face she tilted up towards me, my eyebrows furrowed. “What promise, kitten?”
The afternoon light, what little was penetrating the darkness of our cabin shimmered across the desert landscape of her eyes. “The last time I saw you, you promised we would see each other that weekend for coffee. You never showed.”
My finger traced the delicate line curving her cheek. “I know. I thought about that while I was sitting in the holding cell. I remember thinking about you and what you were doing, if you were at our café without me.”
Sadness pulled at the corners of her mouth, turning them down. “I haven’t been back since I was there with you last.”
I skimmed her lips lightly with mine. “I’m sorry, sweetheart. It was never my intention.”
She shook her head. “I just want what you promised.”
God, this woman.
I was a man who did what he said and said what he did. I didn’t believe in gray areas or maybes. I didn’t trust people who couldn’t stick to their word. But I found myself making excuses, creating little loopholes in my own decisions to keep this woman in my life and I had never been so disgusted with myself.
“I can’t be anywhere near you until I deal with Uriah, Kami. You can’t be more than just my sister’s best friend, someone I … someone who doesn’t mean anything to me. Don’t,” I warned when I felt her withdrawing from me, her face a mask of terribly concealed hurt. “Look at me,” I waited until I had her full attention before continuing, “You were right yesterday in the kitchen, you do make me vulnerable. I would give my life for yours without a moment’s hesitation. If anything happens to you, Kami, anything because I was too weak to protect you…” I drew in a breath to muffle the sharp jab in my chest. “They would have to dig two graves because this life would mean nothing to me without you.” I brushed away the tear that slipped down her cheek. “Not having you by my side is going to be hard but losing you forever will destroy me. Do you understand what I’m saying?”
Despite the second teardrop clinging to her lashes, Kami nodded. “But what about our books?” she whispered, and any other time, I would have laughed at the question, but Iunderstood her heartbreak; we had too many unread books we’d collected over the years, too many that we swore we would read together.
“We can still read them.” I brushed a lock of hair behind her ear. “How else are we supposed to get through them all? But coffee dates may have to wait a little while.”
She sighed and rested her head back on my shoulder. “This is going to be so hard.”
The silky strands of hair at the top of her head tickled my lips and cheeks as I brushed a kiss to the spot.
