Stay With Me (14 page)

With a lighthearted laugh, Kilyn dropped her legs and sat crisscross. “Yes! A man who can admit when he has done wrong. God, it is so refreshing.”

With a huff, I shot her a look. “Don’t get used to it. It happens less than you think.”

Her beautiful smile was back. “Really? Are all Greek men stubborn?”

“Yes. And demanding. Controlling. Plus, we’re always right.”

The crooked grin across her face made me happy. I was glad to know I was able to pull her from the thoughts that made her sad.

“Always right, huh? You weren’t right in this situation.”

I brushed off her words with my hand. “I was excited to show you the place and it slipped my mind.”

She attempted to hold back a wider grin. “So you’re not only easy to please, you’re easily excited as well. This might not work in my favor after all, Mr. Drivas, if you can’t control that.”

My body instantly reacted to her flirting. What in the fuck does this girl do to me? I wanted her more than ever now, but I also had the need to prove her wrong.

Moving quickly, I pinned her to the floor and pressed my hard cock between her legs. Kilyn gasped, but promptly wrapped her legs around me, pulling me in closer as we both let a soft moan slip from the back of our throats.

Grinding against her pussy, I stared into her eyes as they widened with excitement. “Trust me when I say I have no problem controlling that area . . . Ms. O’Kelly.”

With a smirk, she responded, “Maybe you should prove it.”

My thoughts were scattered. I wanted to make love to her, yet I knew the moment I did everything would change. If I let more of Kilyn in, that meant letting go of Savannah a little more.

I did the only thing I could think of. I kissed her. When she laced her fingers in my hair and tugged, I pressed into her harder. It felt like I was in high school again, dry humping my girlfriend and trying like hell to see if I could make her come between the layers of clothing that separated us.

Things quickly began to heat up as our kiss turned frantic. Reaching up under her shirt, I pushed her bra up and pinched her nipple, eliciting a whimper from her lips that traveled through my body straight to my cock.

“Fucking hell, Kilyn,” I spoke as I kissed down her neck, pulling her shirt up and taking her nipple into my mouth. Her back arched while she whispered my name.

I needed to slow down. If I kept this up I’d have her pants down and my cock buried inside of her soon.

“Wait. Thano . . . wait.”

I barely heard her as I continued to suck and bite on her nipple.

“Thano!” she cried out, causing me to stop and quickly pull back.

“I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean to . . . shit.”

Jumping up, I adjusted myself and looked at her lying there, panting as she pulled in one deep breath after another.

She sat up, pulled her bra and T-shirt down, and then reached up for my hand. Giving it to her, she pulled me back down to sit next to her.

“No, it’s okay. Things were getting a bit hot and heavy and before we got carried away I wanted to make sure we both wanted this. I mean. I want this. Believe me when I say I really, really want this.”

Her face flushed with the most beautiful rose color. “But, I think we needed to slow down. I’m not very good with frantic and rushed.”

A look of sadness moved across her face but was gone as fast as it came. “I don’t even know if you have a condom.”

Feeling heat move across my face, I shook my head. How could I be so fucking stupid? I was ready to make love to her and I didn’t even have any protection.

Lifting my hand, I placed it on the side of her face. “I’m so sorry, ladybug. The last thing I’d ever want to do is hurt you. I got caught up in the moment and I lost control. It won’t happen again.”

She looked down and then back up into my eyes. “Don’t say that. Please don’t say that.”

“What? That it won’t happen again?”

With a slight smile, she nodded. “I’m not the kind of girl who sleeps around, Thano. Matter of fact, I’m really not that experienced at all. I’ve been with two guys, and trust me when I say there was nothing earth-shattering about either. But with you, I’m so drawn to you. I can’t sleep at night because you haunt my dreams each and every time I close my eyes.”

She swallowed hard and closed her eyes briefly before capturing mine again. “You consume my thoughts night and day and that is something I’m not used to. So please don’t say you won’t do that again, because I want you more than I can even begin to tell you.”

My heart felt like someone had a vise around it. With each word she spoke, it closed tighter as she said what I had been thinking for days.

Getting on her knees, she moved closer to me. Her lips pressed against my neck before she moved them up and whispered, “I want you, Thano.”

Grabbing onto her shoulders, I pushed her back to look at her. She was surprised by my action and I knew she thought I was stopping her. Far from it. I was about to tell her I wanted her too, when the doorbell rang.

When she frowned, I knew what I had to do. Pulling her to me, I kissed her. Softly. Barely pulling back from her lips, I said, “I want you too, Kilyn. Very much.”

Now there was a banging on the door. “That must be, Thad.”

Kilyn nodded and stood with me. Pulling in a deep breath, I looked her over to make sure she was okay. “I’m sorry,” I whispered as I kissed her on the forehead and turned to head to the front door.

Unlocking it, the door flew open and Thad and Phoebe came barreling in. Both of them started brushing off snow and I was silently thanking the builder for talking me into a tile entrance and not wood.

“What the fuck took you so long to answer?” Thad said, shrugging off his jacket and hanging it up on the coat rack I had installed for the workers.

Phoebe walked up and kissed me on each cheek. “Hey, Thano. Hope you don’t mind I tagged along.”

With a forced smile, I shook my head. “Of course not.”

Thad had met Phoebe a few years back at one of our cousin’s weddings. Why he hadn’t introduced her to my parents was beyond me since they had been dating for a while. She was the perfect fit for Thad. Plus she was Greek. My mother would love that little bonus. Her dark-brown hair was pulled up in a sloppy bun on the top of her head and her makeup was, of course, heavy as usual. She was a cute girl and didn’t need all that shit caked on her face, but who was I to judge.

I watched as Phoebe walked up to Kilyn and introduced herself. “Hi, I’m Thad’s girlfriend, Phoebe. You are?”

Rolling my eyes, I made my way over to them. “Always the direct approach. That’s Phoebe,” I mumbled.

Kilyn smiled and extended her hand. “Kilyn O’Kelly. I’m ah—”

Before I had a chance to even stop myself, I blurted out, “The interior designer I hired to fix up the cabin.”

Thad and Kilyn both looked at me with disappointed looks on their faces. Thad shook his head while Kilyn stared at me with a look of disbelief. Here, not more than five minutes ago, I had her tit in my mouth and now I was introducing her like someone who worked for me.

Forcing a smile, Kilyn replied, “Right. The interior designer.”

I walked up and stood next to her. I could almost feel the anger rolling off her body. “Well, I mean that’s not all, we’re friends as well.”

“Oh . . . because that made it all the better, Thano,” Thad mumbled.

Phoebe looked between all three of us with a confused expression. “So wait, are you friends, dating, the decorator? Because the fire, the pillows, and blanket on the floor scream more than just the decorator and more like friends with benefits, perhaps?”

Kilyn took a step away from me and turned to Thad. “So can we leave?”

His face dropped. “I don’t think so. We barely made it up here. The state police were shutting down the road that leads up here. It’s snowing like crazy. I think we’re all going to be stuck up here until they can plow the streets.”

Kilyn’s face fell. “You mean we’re stuck up here tonight?”

“Maybe for more than one night.” Turning to Phoebe, he wiggled his eyebrows. “Good thing I brought food and a blow-up mattress!”

My heart dropped. We were stuck up here and it was my fault. Not to mention Kilyn kept stepping further away from me.

I’d have to worry about what I said later. Right now, we had to figure out a plan. “I’m going to walk over to the neighbors. Maybe they have a way out of here since they live up here.”

“Thano, I already said they closed the road. We barely made it past them before they closed it. There’s no getting out.”

Kilyn wrapped her arms around her body and frowned as she rubbed vigorously to warm herself up.

“Are you cold?” I asked walking up to her and wrapping my arms around her. She melted into me and relief rushed through my body. She wasn’t that mad about my fuck up. It was then I realized how cold it had gotten in the cabin.

Phoebe smiled. “I’m going to guess Kilyn is way more than just the interior designer.”

Glancing over at my brother and his girlfriend, I smiled as Kilyn buried her face into my chest. “I’m freezing.”

“Shit. You didn’t even bring a jacket, did you?” All she had on was a T-shirt and jeans.

Phoebe jumped up from where she was sitting in front of the fire. “I’ve got an extra jacket, but why don’t we just turn on the heater?”

Kilyn and I looked at each other and busted out laughing. “Well, hell. Why didn’t we think of that?” I said walking over to the thermostat.

Turning the heater on, I held my breath until it turned on. At least we had one thing on our side.

I held up my hands and called out, “We have heat!”

It wasn’t more than ten seconds later and the power to the whole cabin went off.

Kilyn let out a frustrated moan and said, “We had heat.”

Things were not looking good.

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HOEBE AND I
sat and stared at the fire in silence. Thano and his brother decided to hike over to the closest neighbor. Even though Thad brought food, it was like a bag of chips, candy, and Pop Tarts.

“So how long have you and Thad been dating?” I asked, breaking the awkward silence.

With a warm smile, she said, “We’ve dated on and off for about two years. We’ve been dating pretty solid for the last six months, though.”

My eyes widened in surprise. “Oh, wow.”

When she shrugged and looked away, I wanted to ask why their relationship was an on and off one.

“You’d think after two years he’d want to take the next step.”

“Marriage?”

She laughed. “No! Not even. I’d take a full time commitment and meeting his family. I mean, I know Thano and Nicholaus, but I haven’t met anyone else. My own family is beginning to nag me about getting married and having kids.”

Wrinkling my nose, I asked, “Really? How old are you?”

“Twenty-three. Almost. Another week.”

Wow. I’d have to ask Thano how old Thad was. I was guessing thirty or so. I couldn’t really understand the whole parent pressure thing since mine weren’t around. “That seems kind of young to be thinking of settling down and having kids.”

She threw her head back and laughed. “You’re not Greek. You probably don’t have a mother breathing down your neck every time she sees you, whispering ‘tick tock the clock is running.’”