Chapter 42

Chapter 42

After her father insisted on paying for dinner, which Kylan was most ardently against, she bid her father farewell with the promise she would come to visit him on his boat tomorrow.

With one final parting hug, she watched as he began the walk back to his apartment that was not far from the Waterfront.

She sighed, folding her arms across her chest, and watching as he disappeared from view.

"Your father is likely the least insufferable man I've ever spoken with Kylan said from next to her.

She scoffed at him and shook her head, but she was grinning. "What did you say to him in French at the end? I only understood part of it," she asked him, turning her body so that she was facing him.

Kylan hummed, taking a deep breath and then reaching a hand out to brush the backs of his fingertips against her cheek. "Vous avez froid" came his murmured reply.

She shivered, but she wasn't certain if it was because of the cold this time. Tim not that cold, she protested quietly

kylan smiled, actually smiling at her. "No, I don't suppose you are. I don't think you have a cold bone in her body, Katrina Morgan," he whispered

Pping forward and wrapping his arms around her waist suddenly.

She was

rested her hands on his chest, picking a piece sweater's otherwise perfect surface. "I don't know, Kylan. In the third grade, I stole a candy bar from the convenience store. I didn't even tell my stray lint from off his dad about it, either. And then I ate the

head at her, but his

Nope. She smiled up at him, noticing how

candy bar. What other awful transgressions must you confess to, Kate! Kylan asked quietly, leaning down and

pull him out of the strange mood he was in. It had to be the alcohol

1 didn't have the heart to tell her, and I bought her a new fish that was identical to it instead." Her voice was soft, her breath brushing

him. I should have. She agreed with him. "What about you, though? What's the worst thing you've ever done?" she asked him, the wine thrumming through her veins causing her to be bolder than she normally would have the courage to be.

lot of warmth to you too, Kylan. I wish she believed that Even if it was the alcohol talking, she felt

side of her face. "I promise, you like the jagged layers of ice that reside underneath my surface." He practically ghosted over the

wouldn't

now.

chills. Instant raised skin. A quickened heart rate. A dizzying, fuzzy, warmth filled her body

she mumbled back, pressing herself closer

could smell

the mint, his soap, and hell. She could smell him. Just him.

at an impasse then, I

she consumed. More than that

were on hers. Palling, twisting, pushing against hers. And

hair, her fingers held his sides, and she stood there kissing. Molding into

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