“Whatever,” Kirk grumbles and pushes off the wall, shutting the door behind him.
Kai tells me that Kirk has an addiction to painkillers that their parents think he has overcome. They have sent him t
o rehab twice over the past three years but nothing seems to get through to him.
Kai’s phone buzzes in his pocket. He pulls it out showing a text coming in from Raven. He swipes his finger over the screen, opening her message.
Raven: Band rehearsal at six bring Katie.
Kai: Do you work tonight?
Raven: no.
Kai: Do you need a ride?
Raven: Don’t worry about it already given her a ride today- Jake
Kai: Have fun with that.
I can’t help but feel glad seeing that Raven and Jake are seeing each other so I don’t have to worry so much about her and Kai.
He sends a text to his mom and lets her know that he is taking me with him to Jake’s for rehearsal. She says it is fine, but she wants us home by one a.m.
Chapter 16
While Kai takes a shower, I go into the kitchen and have the salad Kelli made for me. Kirk comes into the kitchen and takes the stool next to mine. “You liking it here?”
“Your family is really nice. Does it bother you that I’m staying here?”
“Just sucks that you are into my little brother but whatever—don’t matter to me. You got any hot friends you can fix me up with?”
“Just Raven,” I say with a laugh and his face pales. He stiffens at her name.
“Yeah, not a good idea.” He gets up abruptly. “Thanks for the chat, Katie. I am off to work.”
“Later,” I say.
Well, that was weird. I am so asking Kai about this. I go upstairs to his room and wait on his bed for him to get out of the shower. He comes in from the bathroom, wearing a towel around his waist. Thud—my heart stops. Drops of water are dripping from his hair and down his torso. I have never wanted to lick something so much in all my life. The water trickles down his side where he has the notes to a song tattooed on his skin.
His dimples are showing as he struts past me, knowing I am enjoying appraising his physique. He goes into his closet and comes back out fully clothed. He was just naked in the same room with me. My cheeks flush thinking about what was under his towel.
He comes over to where I am perched on the edge of his bed and shakes his wet hair at me like a dog.
“Stop, you are getting me all wet.”
“Good to know it doesn’t take much.” He winks.
Oh my God, does he mean that the way I think he does?
“Relax, Kat, just playing with you.”
I decide to have little fun of my own with him. “Kai, if you want to play with me and get me wet, all you have to do is ask.”
“You are killing me,” he says with a hoarse groan. I wink at him as he adjusts his erection. “Come on, the band is waiting.”
When we get to Jake’s, the guys are drinking and smoking and don’t appear to be anywhere near ready for rehearsing tonight. Raven is sipping on a wine cooler. When she sees me, she jumps up and offers me a cooler of my own. I decide what the hell. One can’t hurt, right? I twist the cap off and take a sip. Hmmm it tastes like strawberries. Kai pulls me into his lap forcefully by the belt loops on my jeans. Jake squeezes in on the couch beside of us. Raven sits on the floor on a pillow between his legs, laying her head back in his lap.
Hunter passes a joint to Jake and he takes it between his lips and takes a hard drag. I watch curiously, as he holds the smoke in his mouth and then he blows it into Raven’s mouth.