Chapter 169

It’s my turn to lean up on tiptoes and deliver a kiss this time. A pause before I get to his mouth and a tilt to the side, teasing him before he loses patience and yanks me the last tiny inch to sink a kiss that’s less PG on me. Arms slide around me, and he picks me up to embrace me properly. Tongues and passion inducing. My feet automatically lift behind me, so we get full-on body contact and have ourselves a mini make-out session in full view of whoever looks this way.

Held up like this, he rests me against him when we break, and we gaze at each other for a moment. He is entirely content when with him this way, lost in that grey gaze as he floors me with a look that never ceases to win me over. My heart giddy, and my mood once again soaring from his attention.

“I’m sorry about your mother and how this has ended up.” I genuinely mean it. I may think she’s a toxic bitch, but she’s still his mother, and that scene was ugly, even by my standards. I know it had to have hurt