Page 64 of Pallas & Kawehi

By the time he moved his hand over her elbow she sighed out loud. "It feels like heaven."

You feel like heaven.

He had to keep his teeth closed tight together so he didn't say the words out loud.

"You keep this up," her shoulders shook with laughter, "I'm going to have to keep getting burned at the beach just so you can do this again."

"You don't have to get burned for me to put lotion on you." His breaths were faster, shallower, his toes digging into the sandy soil under the picnic table. "I'm happy to do this any time you want."

"Oh," she moaned slightly as he worked his thumb in circles on her upper arm, "so when do I get to return the favor?"

He still felt that fullness in his chest where only his heart had been earlier, but he was also feeling another ache against the front of his boardshorts.

That was going to cause another problem soon. While there was a string bow at the waist, the rest of the front closure was Velcro.

"Dom?" Kawehi turned her head to look at him, her eyes hooded as if she was nearly asleep. "You, okay?"

"Yeah." He sat up straighter and tried to adjust the position of his erection against the front of his shorts.

"I'm always messing up the flirty thing," she sighed. "Sorry."

"Oh you got the flirty thing right," he cleared his throat softly. "I just didn't trust myself to say a word."

"Oh?" Her voice sounded a little sleepy, but there was also a slight lift in her tone that sounded like humor. "What could you say that would be so bad?"

"It was more that I wasn't sure if I should say what was in my head. I'm trying to keep things... easy between us, but it gets harder by the moment."

She turned toward him, putting both of her feet down on the ground beside his. "Talk to me."

He held her hands in his and smiled. "I still have one arm to do." He reached over and put more lotion in his palm and as he held her hands in his, he spread the lotion on her arm. "It's not an emotional issue for me, Kawehi. When I'm with you, especially when I'm alone with you, I want to hold you, kiss you... get closer to you. I'm just worried that you'll feel that coming from me and I don't want you to think I'm pushing."

"Pushing? Hardly." She tipped her head to the side slightly as he worked the lotion over her arm, just past her elbow. "I'm worried that with your hands moving over me like that I might tip you back off of that cooler and kiss you senseless."

"Yeah?" He looked at her, trying to see past the locks of hair that were moving in the breeze. "I wouldn't put up a fight if you did."

Kawehi leaned back and her hair fell back over her shoulders as she smiled at him. "If you did put up a fight, I wouldn't have a chance at stopping you. But really, I don't want to fight you at all, Dom. I just want to-"

She leaned forward and he tugged her to her feet, wrapping an arm around her.

KAWEHI

His kiss was a revelation.

She knew that being kissed by Dom was amazing, but standing under the moonlight, his lips moving over her own as the breeze cooled her skin, made her feel as if the wind was kissing her as well.

Kawehi managed to wrap her arms around his waist, leaning against him as he deepened their kiss. The whole world was almost silent around them as she opened her mouth beneath his, tangling her tongue with his.

It didn't take long at all for her to realize that he was just as interested in her as she was in him. The hard line of his erection pressed into her belly and in moments she was nearly breathless.

She moved her hands over his back, flattening her palms against him and then curling her nails into his t-shirt.

"D-dom?"

He broke off their kiss, looking down into her eyes with his own. "Yeah?"

"Can we go inside?"

His smile took her breath away.