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

chest, picking a piece sweater's otherwise perfect surface. "I don't know, Kylan. In the third grade, I stole a candy

shook his head at her, but his eyes were soft. So

bad about it. Nope. She smiled up at him, noticing how almost angelic he looked in the glow

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

he was in. It had to be the alcohol in both

have the heart to tell her, and I bought her a new fish that was identical to it instead." Her voice was soft, her

she normally would have the courage to be. Kylan frowned at her, but he didn't pull away from where he still rested against her forehead. "A lot of broken hearts, Katrina. A lot of

it was the alcohol talking, she felt it was important he knew and that he honestly

side of her face. "I promise, you like the jagged layers of ice that reside underneath my surface." He practically ghosted over the words, his sweet-smelling breath caressing her

wouldn't

now.

A quickened heart rate. A dizzying, fuzzy, warmth filled her

true," she mumbled back, pressing herself closer

close, she could

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

impasse then, I

her own eyes mirroring his. The air was charged with that electricity again, only made more intense by the wine she consumed. More than that though, she felt drawn to Kylan Pulled to him. Magnetized by him. If

were on hers. Palling, twisting, pushing against hers. And she kissed him back, holding

Molding into one

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