Rebound: Passion Book 2 (7 page)

When
we reached outside I pulled her around the side and out of the way of prying
eyes. With her pushed up against the wall I looked down at her. She was so
fucking beautiful in the moonlight as she looked up at me, her eyes bright and
wary. For some reason that shit pissed me off; I didn’t want to find her
beautiful, didn’t want this burning in my gut that came from being this close
to her.

 
I wanted to kiss her and strangle her at the
same time, but why? She’s never done anything to me, never once gave any
indication that she wanted anything from me. Maybe that was part of the
problem, she was always so fucking cool. Never once letting on that she was
affected by me the way I was by her. But she’d let that asshole put his hands
on her though, she hadn’t seemed afraid, didn’t jump out of her fucking skin.

“Are you
a fucking witch or something?” I crowded her even closer pressing my body into
hers.

“What no, why would you say
that?”

“Whatever the fuck you’re doing
to me you need to stop.”

“Hey I’m
not doing anything to you, you’re the one following me around acting like you
own me remember?” Yeah there was that fire I sensed inside her. She pulled away
from me and folded her arms as she spat fire at me with her eyes. “I have a
solution for you, why don’t you just stay away from me in the future and you
won’t have to feel like this.”

Before
I could answer her she turned to walk away from me and that’s when I did the
dumbest thing I’d done thus far where she was concerned. I pulled her around
roughly not quite sure what I was going to do until I found myself taking her
mouth in a searing kiss. She tried keeping her tongue from me at first but I
didn’t let up until I had it in my mouth. In the back of my mind I could hear
myself asking what the fuck I thought I was doing but I couldn’t stop. She was
fighting it just as much as I was as I could still feel the tenseness in her
body.

 
That little bit of resistance I encountered only
prolonged the kiss until she yielded to me completely and burned me to my very
soul. Her lips were soft and sweet beneath mine, and her body molded itself to
my hardness like we were made to fit together. My heart raced away from me, and
my mind was a blank as I tried to rein myself in. I’ve never kissed anyone like
this before in my life, like I wanted to consume her, to somehow draw her into
me.

 
“Fuck Kadyn, just fuck.” I rested my head
against hers until I caught my breath. I looked down at her glazed eyes and
swollen lips using my thumb to rub them softly. “What the fuck are you doing to
me Kadyn?” Her answer was a shake of her head, as she too seemed blown away by
the heat of the kiss. I hadn’t expected that that’s for sure. Hadn’t expected
to feel like I’d found something I hadn’t even known was lost. To be sure it
hadn’t been a fluke or just plain horniness I took her lips again. This time I
tried to go slow, take her softly but that lasted for all of two seconds before
I was once again devouring her.

Her
taste was unbelievable, everything about her mouth was; the way her tiny tongue
played hide and seek with mine, the little sexy sound she made when I folded
her closer to me wrapping my arms tightly around her. “Like this.” I had to
show her how to take my tongue in her mouth and the reality came crashing down
on me. She didn’t know how to kiss; that could only mean one thing. Untouched.
As if my head wasn’t fucked enough as it was that thought had to creep in
there. The idea did something strange to me, what that was, fuck if I know but
it did…something.

I
pulled her head back holding fistfuls of her hair as I stared down at her. A
million thoughts were going through my head as I took her in. She wasn’t
flinching away form me now but instead her hands were clutching folds of my
shirt at my back. Neither of us said a word as we stood there under the
moonlight just staring into each other. I knew why I wasn’t talking, I had no
words for what was going on inside me, but what was her excuse?

 
Finally I kissed her forehead and whispered in
her ear because I needed to get the fuck out of there
and
 
think
about this shit.

“Get back
inside. I’ll see you tomorrow.” I turned and walked away without a backward
glance. That quickly I was back to being pissed. What the fuck was going on
here anyway?

The
two meddlers seemed to sense my mood because they said nothing when I jumped in
the truck and took off. It was going to be a long night, if she could make my
body sing from just a few innocent kisses who knew what else she could do to
me. Innocent, the word swam around inside my head and did even crazier shit to
my heart. If what I suspected was true she was in even more trouble than
before; I’m not sure I could walk away from that package.

“We’re
going to the beach bro let’s go.” Josh was in my room first thing the next
morning trying to drag me off the bed. It was too early for his shit and I
wasn’t in the mood. I didn’t want to go anywhere, just wanted to stay here
hidden in my room and think about the way things had gone last night. Can’t a
guy lose his fucking mind in peace around here?

And
I’m pretty sure that that’s what’s going on with me; what else can it be? One
minute I’m mad at the world the next I’m hard as fuck. I have this girl that I
barely know running around in my head and following me into my dreams while the
nut that I was once hooked up with was facing ten to life. This shit reminded
me of a scene from one of dad’s old ancient ass movies ‘stop the world, I wanna
get off’. If only it were that easy. Kadyn…

 
That kiss had sealed both our fates; she’d
damn near blown off the top of my fucking head. So soft and sweet, her taste
was still on my tongue hours later as I’d tossed and turned on my bed trying to
make sense of the whole thing. Where did we go from here? Was I even ready to
swim in those waters again? I was twisting myself in knots with no real
answers.

“I
don’t feel like going to the beach bro, you guys go on without me.” I went back
to throwing the ball up in the air as I laid back on the bed. “I think you
might want to rethink that one bro.” It was the way he said it that had me
looking at him suspiciously.

 
“What did you do now?” I sat up and flexed my
shoulders, have to be on the alert when this sneaky fuck was up to his shit,
and who knows what it was this time. “Why do you always have to be so
suspicious bro? Lets just go you have ten minutes the others are already
waiting.” He stood over me and punched me in the shoulder. What the fuck did he
want with the beach so early in the damn morning?

 
I got up and looked for my swim trunks, there
was no point in denying him; he’d only nag my ass to death until he got his way
anyway.

“Fine get
out of here let me get dressed.” My first thought was that it would be hours before
I saw Kadyn again. I hadn’t even done my morning drive by; just to make sure
she was okay mind you. Yeah right.

 
Sometimes I parked across from the diner and
watched her through the glass as she worked.

 
Three days a week, she walked to Doc Graves office
and I still didn’t know what that was about but I knew it couldn’t be good. Doc
was a head
shrinker
or at least that’s what we call
him around here. What could be wrong with her that she had to go see him? And
did it have anything to do with her skittishness? Every time I thought of the
reasons behind her behavior my guts hurt. If someone had hurt her I’d kill the
fucker. And that was just crazy. If I turned into Josh I’d throw myself off the
fucking roof, no way I wanted to be that gone over a chick.

They
were all waiting for me when I finally made it downstairs. “What the fuck is
all that shit?” They had baskets and coolers and about a million blankets.
“It’s a picnic caveman, let’s go.” Carrie came over and hooked my elbow
dragging me out the door. I looked back at her husband to rescue me but he was
pretending not to notice. Nessa and the douche were bringing up the rare, I was
almost expecting to see the parents but they just came to see us off with big
stupid smiles. I got the feeling everybody knew something I didn’t and I don’t
like that one bit. Or maybe I was just being paranoid since no one mentioned
anything suspicious.

 
There was a lot of chatter and playing around
as we headed for the beach about a half an hour away. I felt some of my tension
ease a little as we got farther away from town. I think I’m a little afraid of
Kadyn Daniels truth be known. The things she makes me feel can’t be right can
they? How could someone else have so much power over you, someone you hardly
even knew? If that damn kiss was anything to go by she was going to have me
hopping.

I
looked at Josh and Carrie as I drove, taking covert peeks now and then. Is that
what I would look like around Kadyn? That happy to be alive but I’ll slit your
throat if you fuck with her look? I shook my head to clear the image. This is
what I’m afraid of, you see, if Kadyn is the one, then there’s a whole lot
she’s gonna have to put up with. Not only am I changed because of my last
experience in the love game; I refuse to let anyone ever fuck me over like that
again. But I have the feeling that with her I won’t be able to control myself.
If she’s been hurt, what I have in me, the things she seems to draw out of me
might be too much for her. But can I afford to let her go? That’s the question
plaguing me, and the one that needed answering the most.

You’re
not going to solve this shit in one day Matt so just put it away. I pulled into
the almost empty parking lot at the beach. The sun was barely out and there
were just a few stragglers, older people it looked like. Probably had the same
idea we did. Get there before the crowds and find a nice spot.

 
I helped lug the million and one things down
to the sand and the boys and I set up the umbrella while the girls spread the
blankets and sorted the coolers. It had been a while since we’d been to the
beach I was beginning to look forward to a nice swim. Throwing my shirt to the
blanket and hopping out of my shorts I challenged Josh and Drew to a swim in
what I was sure would be cool water.

“Come on
ladies let’s brave the wild.”

“You’re fucked in the head bro,
I’m not getting in there until noon, that shit’s cold.”

“What do you plan on doing until
then Cinderella?”

He wiggled his brows at me and
looked over at his wife while Drew laughed his ass off.

“Come on Matt, I’ll go with you.
Your brother’s a wimp.”

“Wimp my ass just because I have
better things to do with my time.”

“You
could’ve stayed home for that shit bro, now let’s go I’ll race you.” That ought
to do it; he can’t resist a challenge from big brother.

He
mumbled and cussed a blue streak but in the end he got down to his trunks and
the three of us gave the man howl as we ran down to the water and dove in. It
wasn’t long before we were splashing each other and trying to drown one
another. Carrie came to the edge of the water and with hands on hips scolded us
to stop picking on her husband since Andrew and I had teamed up on his ass.
That’s what he gets for always talking shit.

We
stayed in for a while before climbing out; I had a towel over my face rubbing
the salt water away when I got a soft thump on my shoulder. “Heads up bro.” I
removed the towel and turned to Josh who nodded his head in the opposite
direction. And there she was. Fuck I knew they were up to something.

She
walked towards us at a snail’s pace with her head down and I stood still with
the towel clutched tight in my hand. Last night came flooding back in minute
detail, the taste the smell the feel of her. I could kill my brother and his
meddling wife. She wore some sort of wrap around number and I could see the
straps of a swimsuit beneath, my body, already going from memory couldn’t take
much more. My trunks were already straining as it is. Thank heavens for the
towel but I can’t stand there like a statue for the rest of the damn morning. I
gave Josh a good glare as the girls ran to meet her the rest of the way.

“What
are you doing here?” Will there ever be a time when I’m not an asshole to this
girl?

“Matt.” That was Josh’s ‘get
your head out your ass tone’.

“Sorry.” I
turned away under the pretense of drying my hair while trying to keep the
bottom of the towel in strategic places. There was some chatter behind me as
the girls talked her ear off and then I heard Josh’s softly spoken ‘oh shit’. I
turned to see what the hell was his problem now and got blindsided.

“Merciful
fuck.” I dropped the towel and grabbed my discarded shirt and moved towards her
before I could stop myself. She was…I can’t. “What the fuck?” She was fucking
half naked, and that jewel in her navel had my head spinning with visions of my
mouth on it, biting… I threw my shirt around her shoulders and pushed her arms
through the sleeves. The others had gone from open mouth surprise to outright
laughing at my ass. I gave a fuck. I looked around to make sure no one else had
seen her like that. All this time she hadn’t said a word, not even to stop me
from manhandling her.

I
grabbed her hand and threw a quick “we’ll be right back” over my shoulder
before dragging her off down the beach. We’re gonna settle this shit once and
for all. That question I had was now null and void. My head was finally
catching up to my body and that shit was talking loud and clear.