Billie Bossa Nova

18.

Kai's response to her was immediate. His hand cupped the back of her neck, pulling her closer as he reciprocated her movements. Momentarily, Billie was stunned that he'd kissed her back, freezing in place. This wasn't her first kiss. On a mission or two, she had to seduce someone in order to extract information from them. To her, it had always been a compulsory task, an obligation. But this; soft, hot lips pressing into her own gently without the rush of lust or duty, did things to her that nobody else did. The thud of his heart beat her palm, fervorous and rapid, although his breaths were long and steady, hot as it hit the skin of her face while he breathed against her lips.

Kai drew away when she remained motionless, meeting her eye. His expression was stoic and impassive, like someone who had seen it all and was unimpressed, but his gaze...wild, hungry, pleading to be pacified by her and her alone. His jaw locked tight, gaze wandering from her lips to her eyes. Lips again, then eyes. Kai Rivera, five years older than her, fifty times more mature, far from her league, strikingly gorgeous was looking at her like nothing else could placate him but her lips. Not that of the older women at the casino, not any gorgeous retired model willing to make herself available for him. He was looking at her.

So she leaned in again, because there was not a way in heaven and hell that she could allow herself to miss out of this. When she did, he was ready for her, tilting his head for more access and pushing his lips to hers like it was his life's endeavor.

With an expert pace, he transitioned the kiss into a deeper one, one she didn't live enough of a normal life to have experienced. One she concluded that she was heavily robbed of, because the sensation that burst from the pit of her stomach at the feel of his tongue sliding into her mouth was something she had missed out on. Her hands on his chest began to grip his shirt. A whimper left her throat without her behest.

Kai lifted her as if she were a weightless feather, dropping her onto his lap without breaking their lips apart. The air left her lungs when his hands traveled up higher. Billie fell stiff, holding in a breath as his hands continued traveling higher up her ribcage. Noticing this, Kai broke away, meeting her gaze once again. Asking her a question with his eyes. Billie responded by reattaching their lips, kissing him more passionately. He hummed his approval and returned the kiss with equal zeal.

To him, Billie was not an inexperienced, eighteen year old girl who had barely had a real kiss. To Kai, Billie was a twenty-one year old college grad who attended enough college parties to know how to handle someone sneaking their hands up her breasts.

He lifted her chin, deepening the kiss while his other hand began to inch slowly up her chest again. She inhaled so as to let her body relax. His hands were on her clothed breast, brushing slowly, gently. She tried to ease into him, eyes shutting tightly and breathing uneven. His hands hovered there for a while, grazing gently until she started to ache for more pressure. She was about to call out his name when he closed his hands, squeezing her breast over her dress. He swallowed the sharp exhale that left her lips, she swallowed the curse that left his upon touching her.

His lips detached from her and latched onto her neck. Another sound erupted her throat, breathless and uneven, like a vowel that evaporated before it could join other syllables. His tongue swept over the skin on her neck. Her breathless panting did nothing to supply her with oxygen. His hands on her did nothing to make breathing any more simpler. The heat, the pleasure, the suffocation. She was overwhelmed at the sensations bombarding her body. The sweet ache that throbbed at her center. His teeth dug gently into her neck and her thighs clenched around his hips.

"Fuck," he muttered begrudgingly. She took his jaw into her hands, guiding him back to her lips. He squeezed her clothed breast, making her thighs clench over him again. He heaved out a breath into her lips. Bit into her bottom lip. She shifted on top of him. He held her hips in place.