Breathless Awakening (The Breathless Series) (19 page)

I grabbed my shirt from the back of the couch and started to slip it on. “Hey, I didn’t think you were coming back to get me tonight. Look, I’m sorry about earlier. I showed my ass and I know it. I’m sorry.”

“No, you showed your ass last night. Now that I’ve gotten a better view of the front of you without a shirt on, there’s only one thing left to my imagination, but I guess we will leave that for another time, if you can manage to behave yourself.”

“Seriously, I’m sorry. I had a lot of time to think this afternoon about what I did. I’d like a chance to make it up to you. I don’t know what it is about you, but I can’t get you off my mind.”

“Oh, so now you can’t stop thinking about me, but there’s nothing specific that attracts you? Is my ass not good enough for you? My tits? Come on, there has to be something that keeps me on that mind of yours.”

I loved her teasing, her trying to get in my head, but I wasn’t going to take it right now. Stepping towards her, I grabbed both of her hands in mine, and kissed her. The kiss wasn’t the wild and passionate type kiss that she was expecting. Her tongue begged for entrance to mine, but I refused. If this was going to go anywhere, I wanted to take our time. We had a connection between us, but that didn’t mean that we needed to chance ruining it by jumping ahead of ourselves.

“That. Did you feel it? Yes, you are beautiful, funny, smart, and your banter is intoxicating when it isn’t downright sexy. All that aside, that spark between us, that tingle that ran from your lips down my spine…” I gave her another kiss. Just a quick connection of our lips to let her see the shiver run down me, and let her feel the subtle change as I felt it go all the way to my toes this time. “That is what keeps me thinking about you.”

Rhylie

Did I feel that? Maybe I should let him feel my panties and see if he was still unsure. The kiss that we shared wasn’t full of wild lust; it was pure and full of passion. Somehow, Zane was able to keep himself under control much more than I was at the moment. I wanted to rip my hands out of his and run my fingers through his hair. I wanted to pull his cock out right then and there. I had to gather my thoughts, take a few deep breaths, and control myself.

“Oh, I felt it alright. If your lips do that to me on my lips I can’t wait to feel them on the rest of my body.”

“Rhylie, I’m sorry, but I can’t do that. I want to see where this leads, but we can’t jump into it full speed. I’m not like that. If we are going to make this work, we are going to have to take things a little slower than that. We’ve only known each other a couple days, and we live an hour away from each other. Let’s take our time and get to know each other.”

“Stop, right there. Are you saying you want to be a gentleman? Am I complaining? Smack me, please. Can we at least make out tonight on the couch?”

“As long as you don’t make me watch another chick flick.”

I had to consider that as a win. Sure, it had been a year since I had been laid, but before that kiss this morning that didn’t bother me. Last night I wasn’t even sure if there was something here. I’m glad someone had the sense to slow down and put the brakes on for us.

“I’ll let you pick whatever you want on for background noise as long as I get to kiss those lips some more. Now why don’t we get out of here and grab something to eat.” I grabbed his hand and tried to pull him to the car. The quicker I got him home, the sooner I could start kissing him. I’d have to change my panties when I got home and most likely again before I went to bed. My bed was going to feel empty for the first time in a year tonight since there was no way I could kiss him all evening and not have my way with him without some separation.

“I don’t know if you noticed or not, but there is still some stuff in the driveway. I don’t think Luke would like his stuff being stolen or anything.”

“Who cares? We can tell him we donated it since they bought new stuff for them anyway.” The look I got told me he didn’t find that funny. All those years of Luke watching out for him evidently made him very protective of his older brother. “Fine, let’s get it moved inside so we can get out of here. I’m starving here and not for food.”

“Well maybe this will hold you over then.”

Suddenly I had my hair grasped in a fist behind my head, pulled tight enough to make me open my mouth enough to let out a yelp. Before the sound could come out, his mouth covered mine, his tongue slipping between my lips for the first time, and it was my turn to feel the shiver run down my spine.

“You want me to work after that? You are mean and cruel. I’m going to have to report you to the union.” That got me a quick smack on the ass.

“Don’t make me report you for sexual harassment. Come on, let’s get this done so we can get off the jobsite so no one can report us.”

Chapter Twenty‐Three

Luke

Cailyn was still a little distracted with everything going on so I had insisted that we went on with our original plans. She gave me some grief about me being insensitive, but I was adamant that she needed to do something fun to get her mind off everything. During the shuttle ride, she had time to freak out and then it was time for me to get her to calm down.

She wanted us to have a spa day and I wanted to do the zip line tour. When I had insisted that we do a zip line if she was going to make me do a spa day, she made it quite clear that she was scared of heights. Convincing her to agree wasn’t easy, but I stood my ground. Getting her to climb to the first platform wasn’t that easy either. I coaxed her up there, assured her that it would okay, and I agreed to go first. She made me even prove to her that the life insurance was paid up.

With no service in the middle of a jungle that was a little difficult, but I convinced her that if anything happened to me, everything went to her now that we were married. Pushing off the platform, I looked back at her to see the worry in her eyes. Would the line hold me?

The first time she pushed off that zip line through the canopy, it all went away. You could see the worry lift from her shoulders as she felt the adrenaline fill her body. The screams that escaped her lips were of pure joy.

“That was incredible! We have to do it again.”

“I’m glad you like it. That was only about thirty feet. The last one is closer to one thousand.”

“Did you say a thousand? Umm, can I take that back? I’m not sure about this all of a sudden.”

I couldn’t help but laugh a little at her unease. “Come on, babe, you just did that like a pro. How does this sound? You go through the rest of the tour without complaining and I will let you put me through whatever you want to at the spa tomorrow.”

“Whatever I want? I can have Pedro give you a massage?”

“If you want to see a man’s hands rubbing me down, this is going to be your only chance, so you had better take it before I change my mind.”

I didn’t hear another complaint out of her the rest of the day. A few platforms had her uneasy, but what do you expect when you are one hundred feet up and looking at a five hundred foot cable to take you to the next one? The canopy had so much to see though. We thought the small area around our bungalow was beautiful, but it had nothing on what we saw up here.

Different birds flew beside us as we squealed with joy from one platform to the next. The sloths barely moved as we waited for one another at the platforms. The plants and trees, volcanoes in the distance, and the ocean view. Everything was perfect. As much as we felt like we were in the jungle with our room, I wish it could have been in the canopy.

We finally reached the last cable and Cailyn was looking a little green. “Cai, angel, are you okay?”

“Huh? Yeah, I’m fine. Are we sure there is a platform on the end of that? I can’t see it. If there is a platform, it is so far away and the cable goes into the trees. All the others were close enough to see it.”

“Just breathe. Everything is going to be fine. Hell, it’s going to be great! Come on, you want to go first this time?”

“Oh, so now you are trying to cash in the life insurance on me? I see how it is. No, you go right ahead.”

I knew she wouldn’t want to go first, but I had to redirect her thoughts to something else. Just before I got ready to push off the guide stopped me. “No, no…you can’t go without her.”

“Without her? What do you mean?”

“You both go… Together.”

Her eyes popped out of her face. “What?! I am not going with him. There is no way that cable will hold both of us.”

The guide spoke English, but you could tell it wasn’t his native language. “You both go, together. It be okay.” The guide stood there with a stupid smirk on his face, nodding his head and pointing to both of us.

I pulled her into me for a hug. “Cailyn, come on, it’ll be fun. Straddling me through the canopy, a thousand feet of you and me flying through the jungle. How can you turn that down? Plus, if something happens, it will happen to both of us. Neither one of us want to lose the other one this early in our marriage do we?”

“Well when you put it that way, but you owe me big time! You are so going to hate me tomorrow.”

As we started down the final cable, I felt like she was going to pop my head off, she was squeezing me so tightly. The screams were deafening, but after the first hundred feet or so, she calmed down. That initial drop was a little more than we had experienced on the other cables, but it had to be if we were going to make it the entire way without being stuck in the middle. When her grip started to loosen, and I was able to breathe, I only had one thought in my mind.

My lips pressed against her gently with every ounce of love I could pour into the kiss. When would we ever get the opportunity to have a kiss like that again? It was the two of us, tuning out the world around us, living in the moment, and loving each other unconditionally. I was not going to let Pedro put his hands on me tomorrow though.

Cailyn

What in God’s name was I thinking letting Luke talk me into doing that zip line? Yes, it was beautiful. Yes, I enjoyed the short ones that weren’t that high off the ground, but most of the time I was scared to death. If I weren’t clenching tightly as I went down those cables, I would have to change clothes right now. That kiss at the end though, it justified all of the torture that I endured.

On the way back to the resort, I made sure he knew tomorrow was going to be absolute torture for him. I wasn’t going to subject him to Pedro, I was going to make sure that he got the full experience. I couldn’t wait for them to bring out the wax. I was tired of getting all that hair in my mouth anyway. Oh, the fun I was going to have with all of this.

As the shuttle pulled back up to the resort, we ran into Giana and Autumn. Luke tried to pull me in the other direction before I saw them, but Giana ran over in her barely there bikini.

“Hey, girls, how are y’all doing? Isn’t this weather just sinful?”

Autumn had an ornery grin plastered on her face. “Yes, I would have to agree with you completely. Today is very sinful. Did you all just get back from somewhere?”

Luke was not being himself. He was never this shy, but these two girls had him uneasy from the moment he came out of the lavatory on the plane. I figured I might as well see if I could push it a little further. “So, Giana, I heard that you were having a pretty good time when Luke ran into you all this morning.”

Giana didn’t seem fazed at all, but surprisingly Autumn was the one to blush. “Luke, you naughty, naughty boy. I didn’t expect you to tell her our little secret. You might need to be punished later.”

“Don’t worry about that, he has already been punished. Not only did you two tease the crap out of him, when he got back to the room, he walked in on me and got a little show again. I could tell he wanted to take me right then and there, but then my mother called in the middle of him telling me about the two of you.”

“Ouch! Talk about a mood killer.” Giana turned to give Autumn a kiss, which then turned into a make out session in front of us. I couldn’t help but feel my panties getting wet from watching the two of them. I looked over to Luke and saw a small bit of drool slipping out of his mouth.

Autumn broke away from the kiss. “Since Luke found us this morning, you all know about that hideaway. We were going to keep that one to ourselves, but I guess we could always share it. Might be a tight squeeze though. You don’t mind a tight squeeze do you, Luke?”

Luke wasn’t willing to let all three of us team up on him, at least not when it came to a verbal battle. He stepped up behind me and wrapped his arms around me before letting one hand center over my crotch and pulling his fingers up against my clit. “I love a tight fit. Maybe we should meet up in the rain. Nothing better than tight and wet.”

Pulling away as I spun, I smacked Luke across the chest. Both of the girls were laughing hysterically, but I wasn’t sure if it was at his comment or me smacking him. Knowing them, it was probably both. “Well we need to get back to the room and get our things together. We fly out tomorrow morning. Feel free to meet up with us tonight. You know where we will be.”

I gave both of them a hug, which Giana made last just long enough to make me feel a little uncomfortable, I think it was her breath on my neck that did it the most. They started to walk away and I turned to Luke who was once again staring.

“Really, Luke? Are you staring at Giana’s ass?”

“What? No! She doesn’t even have an ass–it’s just a back with a crack.”

“Luke! That is cruel. You do have a point though. Autumn’s ass is much nicer.”

“Who are you and what the hell have you done with my wife? I mean, I married a virgin a few days ago, and today you are wanting details of me watching two women, commenting on which has the better ass. I don’t even know who you are anymore. What happened to being so jealous on the plane that I wasn’t going to get that close to a woman ever again?”

“I never said I was going to let you get close to either of those two. That doesn’t mean neither of us can appreciate their beauty. I don’t care where you get your appetite as long as you come home for dinner. Of course, I’ve been thinking about dessert for me.”