Licked (Devoured #1) by Hazel Kelly Read Free Book Online Page A

thought you were hurt.”
    “I’m okay,” Madeline said. She raised a warm hand out of the bathwater
and gripped the side of the tub. “How was your day?”
    “Fine.” Kirk looked around the bathroom floor again. “Why are
you crying? What the Hell is going on? Heck, sorry,” he corrected.
    “I just got a bit overwhelmed,” she said, looking up and
blinking to keep the tears in her eyes.
    “By women’s magazines?”
    Madeline laughed, her bee stung eyes closing almost to nothing.
“Looks that way, doesn’t it?”
    “Yeah. Where did you even get them?”
    “I bought them,” she said. “To study.”
    “Study what? Fall fashion?”
    “No.” She let her hand slip back in the tub. “I was studying for
our wedding night.”
    “What on Earth would you do that for?”
    “Cause I want… Cause I want to be good for you.”
    “Don’t be silly, Maddy.” He knelt down beside the tub. “Of
course you’ll be good.”
    “But there’s so much to know about everything and, I don’t know.
I just don’t want to make a fool of myself.”
    Kirk smiled and put his palm on the side of her face. “People
far less intelligent than us have figured it out.”
    “Yeah?”
    “Yeah. Just look at Honey Boo Boo.”
    Madeline chuckled and sniffed.
    “Well figure it out together,” Kirk said, “and it will be good
because it will be us and we love each other.”
    Madeline swallowed. “But there are all these different positions,
and they all have these intimidating names. And I know I was a cheerleader and
everything, but I don’t think I can do some of those things.”
    Kirk smiled and took his glasses off so he could rub his eyes. “Honey,
that stuff is advanced. We’re beginners. We have all that stuff to look forward
to, okay?”
    “But I don’t know anything.”
    “All you have to know is that you love me and I love you.”
    Madeline smiled.
    “And we’ll figure it out together when the time comes.”
    She nodded.
    “But I think you should toss these magazines and put your energy
into planning the wedding.”
    “You in some kind of hurry?”
    “To marry you? Heck yes I am!” he said, rising to his feet. “The
sooner you plan the wedding, the sooner we get to the wedding night!”
    She laughed.
    Kirk unbuttoned his top button. “Better?”
    “Yeah,” she said, pushing the bubbles around. “Thanks.”
    “Good.”
    “I’m going to get out soon because I’ve gone all pruney,” she
said, “but if you want to cut into that cornbread, go ahead.”
    Kirk smiled. “See now that is something I can’t wait
for.”
    “Just don’t spoil your appetite.”
    “Don’t you worry,” Kirk said. “There is absolutely nothing wrong
with my appetite.”
     
     

Julianna
     
     
     
     
    Julianna rolled a pencil back and forth between her fingers and
watched Kirk at the front of the class. She admired the way his khakis hung
loosely on his hips, as if they might fall down were it not for his leather
belt.
    Last weekend, when Todd was screwing her on his futon, she was
thinking about Kirk. He rarely wore a tie, but she couldn’t help but wonder
what it would be like for him to tie her hands to the bedpost with one. She
thought she might like the way the smooth silk moved against her wrists as he
rocked her.
    But she knew it was unlikely that he was into that sort of
thing. He was so reserved, so mysterious. It drove her crazy. She could size up
most guys in a matter of seconds.
    She rested her chin in her hand and looked to the left. A goth
named Keith sat the end of the row. He pretended to be hard, but he used the
same mechanical pencil all the time. He was as monogamous as a duck and
probably equally sexy under all those black sweatshirts.
    To her right was Grant. Julianna didn’t need to brush her hand
against his crotch to know sex with him took less than eight seconds. His
popped collar suggested that he liked to do younger girls who didn’t know any
better, girls who thought it was sex with Grant,