Alone by Erin R Flynn Read Free Book Online

kiss? After that I will grab some clothes and leave and I will still arrange to get the rest of my belongings at a later date like we originally discussed. That is all unless you decide you want more.”
    “Conall, you just sat out on my porch all night and told me this is the place you felt most at home. It’s still not just a kiss,” I whimpered.
    He smiled at me, taking my coffee from me and setting it down on the counter before slowly tracing his fingers down my cheek. “You have such a kind heart. All I have done to you and yet here you are worried about me and my feelings. What do you want?”
    “I want to go back to those first few days when I liked you being here, even though I hated having Tim around, when I felt I could talk to you and you listened to me,” I admitted for the first time, really being honest with him. “I lied, I was writing then and I was writing like a demon, and I liked you in my bed, wanting to open myself up to you, trust you, but I was nervous because you were going too fast and taking over too much without asking me anything.”
    “What cha—I bit you in front of people,” he whispered in horror, closing his eyes. “And then I scared you and yelled at you, changed your office. That was the beginning of the end, wasn’t it? I just kept making things worse, didn’t I?”
    “Yes. Every time I tried to talk to you, you treated me as if you were you dealing with a child throwing a fit so I just stopped trying. I stopped writing and it got worse and worse.”
    He lowered his forehead to mine and sighed. “Oh, Nina. I am so sorry . I kept trying and trying to fix the mistake I made, making up to you for touching your office but all I did was make the mistake worse. I didn’t see. I thought if I hired you a better, more expensive web designer or editor, or graphic designer, you’d see how much you meant to me, how much I valued your work, supported you in every way.”
    “Your plan backfired big time,” I chuckled, hugging him. “You got so angry with me, and that first night we met, you made it clear I really couldn’t say no, and at first, you made it sound like a joke but then after that it didn’t seem like a joke. And then Tim was such a snake I thought you had to know and didn’t care.”
    “I didn’t know. I knew he skirted the line for me sometimes, but no, I had no idea how unscrupulous he was. I would never have allowed someone like that around someone as special as you.”
    “Okay,” I whispered after a moment.
    He flinched before slowly pulling away. “Okay what?”
    “Okay, you can kiss me, but it’s just a kiss.”
    “Then I better make it good,” he muttered and swallowed loudly. His lips brushed mine before he pressed ours together and then he slowly, delicately almost, pushed his tongue into my mouth. I moaned as his tongue carefully traced the inside of my mouth, but not in the sloppy way, as if he wanted to memorize every inch of me like he was never going to forget that moment. He finished the kiss with just the right amount of teeth, a slight pull on my lower lip as he moved away.
    I was panting when he did, and Conall was hard as a rock behind the towel.
    He swallowed loudly as he stared into my eyes. “I promised to go.”
    “Yes, you did,” I agreed, testing him. He took a step back, nodding, and then another, bumping into the counter. He shook his head, looking like an adorable goof and almost tripping over the kitchen stool as he walked out of the room, glancing back at me as he did, like he was hoping I’d say something or change my mind.
    Of course I did after a kiss like that. I just wasn’t saying anything yet.
    I closed the porch door and headed to my bedroom. I didn’t need my kitchen flooded after all, and for once, no one was coming over—it was Saturday.
    Conall was in the closet when I got there, picking out a shirt. I pulled off my own and pushed down my shorts before sitting on the bed. He heard it creak and glanced over at