Total pages in book: 60
Estimated words: 56410 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 282(@200wpm)___ 226(@250wpm)___ 188(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 56410 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 282(@200wpm)___ 226(@250wpm)___ 188(@300wpm)
God, a guy shouldn’t be that attractive.
The sound of car doors opening and closing were dim in comparison to her heart racing and her pulse thumping through her ears.
“See you at lunch,” Molly said, and when Keira peeked at her, she could see her friend glancing between her and Reese, a knowing smile on her face.
Keira nodded. “Yeah.”
She watched Molly and Ian walk into school, hand-in-hand, and then her attention was back to Reese. A student walked between them, her focus on the ground, the long fall of her hair obscuring her face. But Keira recognized her as the new girl, Violet.
Black Mountain Academy awarded a select number of scholarships per year. It had been between Reese and Violet. Reese had gotten it. Violet obviously didn’t have the funds to attend BMA, which was why she applied for the scholarship to begin with, but here she was… enrolled. The gossip at school was what Violet was doing in order to get the money to come here.
Her focus was pulled from Violet back to Reese when she saw him walking up to her. Although they didn’t do PDA at school, which they did plenty privately, the way he watched her made her think that might change today.
She could feel people watching them, but she’d long since stopped giving a shit.
He stopped right in front of her, and she wondered if he could hear her heart beating. It sounded so loud in her ears, like a drum being pounded during a war song.
“Hey,” he said in that deep, sexy drawl of his.
Her cheeks felt warm from the way he said that one word.
She stared at him. He stared at her. Keira felt the air change around them, become electrified, become alive with desire and attraction and animal magnetism.
And then Reese was moving closer, reaching out, slipping his hand behind her neck, and leaning down. His mouth pressed to hers, and for a second, she was stunned he’d done this in front of everyone, but then the world faded as his lips moved slowly, softly against hers.
She lost herself in everything that was Reese.
His kiss pushed everything else away, had her floating high above everyone else. He tasted like mint and male, and everything she wanted and needed. That first swipe of his tongue against the seam of her lips had her mouth parting and accepting what he wanted to give her.
When he pulled away, she leaned toward him, seeking Reese out and not ready to relinquish the pleasure he so readily gave her. She opened her eyes, feeling embarrassed that she hadn’t even realized they were still closed, and looked up at him. His gaze was half-lidded, this drowsy, or maybe ultra-aroused, expression covering his face. And his lips were red and slightly swollen, and Keira knew hers must have looked the same way.
They sure as hell felt like it. They tingled, were sensitive, and she knew she’d taste him on her tongue for the rest of the day.
When a few of the seniors whistled and started saying lewd things, she could see it bothered Reese. His body blocked hers from the guys who were catcalling, and the muscle that ticked under his jaw let her know he was protective, possessive.
“Ignore them,” she whispered.
He exhaled roughly and said, “It’s hard to when I know they’re looking at you, when I know they wish they were in my place.”
She could have snorted at his words. Them wanting her? Unlikely. But with the seriousness on his face, she sobered.
“I’m so far off anyone's radar.” She ducked her head, but he placed a finger under her chin, lifting her head back up so she stared into his eyes.
He slowly shook his head. “You should hear some of the shit those assholes say about you. They see you. They notice you. They fucking want you.” He looked pissed again, and she couldn’t help but smile.
She didn’t know if she believed him, but it didn’t matter. She wanted to reassure Reese that he was the only one she wanted. “They don’t matter.”
“No?” he asked and lifted a brow, his eyes on her lips. “And why’s that?”
“Because I’m yours,” she whispered, maybe too low for him to hear, but when he growled in approval, she felt her legs clench on their own.
“Only mine,” he murmured and leaned down to kiss her again and again and again.
Yes… yes, she was.
The first half of school went by in a blur, but that might have been because Keira had Reese and that parking lot kiss at the forefront of her brain.
The bell rang, and she grabbed her bag and books and headed out, stashing her stuff in her locker, and headed to the lunchroom. She saw Molly and Ian waiting for her by the cafeteria entrance, Ian as close as he could get to Molly as he whispered something in her ear. Molly in turn started giggling and blushed.