We kissed long and hard, our mouths moving against each other in perfect sync. My body was firing on all cylinders as all rational thought left me.
He moved his hands beneath me, cupping my ass in his hands, and lifted me up, never breaking our kiss. As he turned, the bag of flour fell to the floor and a cloud of white dust went up, engulfing everything in the vicinity.
“Cane!” I laughed, pulling away a little.
“What?” he growled, kissing up the side of my neck as he bent on his knees and laid me in the middle of the mess on the floor. He picked up the hem of my shirt and dragged it over my body, sitting back on his knees.
“You are so damn beautiful, Jada,” he said, admiring my body. Although he had seen me naked before, I still blushed at his unadulterated view.
He leaned forward and palmed my breasts, bending down and sucking on one nipple as he rolled the other with his fingertips. The sensation had me panting with need, the ache between my legs becoming too much.
“Cane,” I begged, grabbing his hair and pulling his face up to mine. “I need you.”
He pushed his shorts down with one hand and kicked them off. He grabbed my legs behind both of my knees and wrapped them around him again before sinking slowly and deliciously into me.
JADA
The sun was hot and I was sweaty and ready for a shower.
“How far have we walked? Ten miles? Twenty?” I asked, panting at Kari’s side.
“Two. You have walked two little miles around our subdivision.” She glanced at me out of the corner of her green eyes. “You need to exercise more. You have no stamina.”
“If I ever exercise, I think it’ll be in air conditioning. This is ridiculous. It’s like working out in a freaking sauna.”
Kari laughed, her ponytail swishing side to side. “Well, I normally walk on the treadmill in the gym at the hospital, so I can’t say I completely disagree with you on that.”
I watched her pump her arms up and down, a smile on her face.
“The only good thing about this walk is that I got to bust out my old tie-dyed shirt,” I laughed, knowing Kari hated it.
“That shirt is disgusting. I hate to be seen with you wearing it. It would be so sad if that was lost in the laundry.”
“Don’t you even think about it!” I warned before noticing my shoelace flopping along the pavement. “Okay, solider. Can we stop a second? My shoe is untied.”
Kari stopped but kept marching in place. “Hurry up! We will lose our heart rates!”
“God forbid,” I muttered as I bent down to retie my sneaker. Something caught my attention out of my peripheral vision and I jerked my head to the side.
There was nothing out place. Kids were playing and people were watering their plants like they did every day at six in the evening. Still, the hair on the back of my neck stood up.
“What’s wrong?” Kari asked, beginning to do jumping jacks.
“Nothing, I don’t think.” I stood up, looking around again. “I just feel like something is wrong. Maybe someone is watching us?”
Kari stopped moving and scanned the area, too. “I think you’re just paranoid. There’s nothing out of the ordinary. These are our neighbors.” She shrugged. “Do you want to go home?”
“Yeah,” I said, nodding my head. “I’m tired anyway.
“You’re so weak.”
We headed off towards the house, Kari’s smile replaced with a frown. “Do you really think someone was watching us?”
I looked around again, waving back to one of the little girls that had been playing with the yellow ball in the park.
That feels like years ago.
“No. I’m just a little paranoid. You’re right.”
“I can’t blame you. That shit with Simon was strange.”
I shook my head. “It was strange and awful.”
“But you haven’t heard anything else from him, right?”
I exhaled, blowing away the stress that I was beginning to feel accumulate in my body. “No. And I don’t think Cane has either. He hasn’t mentioned anything, so maybe Simon moved on or whatever.”
“Did you ever figure out why he was after you? Or Cane?”
I shrugged as I smoothed back my ponytail. “Yeah. Simon’s dad basically murdered Cane’s dad.”
“What? You’re kidding me?”
“I wish. But that’s what happened. I think the thing with me was just some outburst at Cane and it’s over now. I hope, anyway.”
We turned the corner to our house, dodging a little boy on a skateboard.
“Me too. I just resigned the contract on the security system at the house. So if that gives you some peace, there’s that.” Kari smiled brightly at me.
“There’s that. It does make me feel a little safer, actually.” I chewed my lip. “I need to find my own apartment. It’s time, I think.”
We walked up the steps to the front door, Kari looking at me out of the corner of her eye. “Yeah. I wonder how Cane is going to feel about that …”
I shrugged. “I don’t know. But it isn’t his choice.”
“Do you think he’ll want you to move in with him?”
My eyes widened. “I, uh, I don’t know. But I won’t. It’s way too early, sis.”