I relay the information to Kai when he gets in the car with me.
“Do you want to stop and see her? I don’t mind, Katie. Whatever is going on with your relationship, if you want to go, I’ll go with you.”
“I don’t know what to do, Kai. She was horrible to me, but she gave me life. But I don’t think I can see her like that.” David probably beat the crap out of her. He just had that look about him. I know that is highly judgmental of me, but she has never had anything like this happen before.
“You don’t have to see her ever again if you don’t want to. You don’t owe her anything.”
“I know,” I say, already feeling guilty for not going.
Kai takes my hand in his and kisses it as we pull on the highway, beginning our road trip.
Chapter 17
Kai’s mom keeps checking in on us every so often. We are meeting up with her and Khloe in about another hour. They are stopped at a restaurant in Bluefield, Virginia for lunch.
We have been keeping each other entertained by picking random radio stations and whatever song is playing, whoever’s turn it is has to try to sing it whether we know the words or not. Kai tries to talk me into taking off an article of clothing every time I get a song wrong. I told him maybe next time we play I will.
We get stuck in traffic. Seems everyone is travelling today too. It has been fifteen minutes and we haven’t moved an inch, so Kai shuts his car off to save on gas. I tried to get him to pull off at the last exit and refuel but he said we would be fine.
I undo my seatbelt and he unbuckles his as well. I lay my head on his shoulder, which leads to heavy kissing and touching. Kai has a devious grin on his face when he says, “You know my windows are tinted and no one can see us.”
I look to the cars on either side of us and he is right. Both sit low, and the drivers are absorbed with their cell phones.
Reaching over the console, I unzip Kai’s jeans not having a clue how to do what I want to do. Wrapping my fingers around him, I squeeze and stroke him as he becomes aroused. Laying my head in his lap, his fingers thread through my hair. My lips kiss his tip and he jerks in response. I grow more confident and swirl my tongue around the head. “Fuck,” he says, pushing my head further down, making me take more of him into my mouth.
I thought doing this would gross me out, but it is exciting. I am starting to think I would do anything for Kai. I have no idea what I am doing and let him rock in and out of my mouth, his tender skin rubbing against my swollen lips.
“Kat, baby I am about to lose it,” he warns me, and I pull my head back as he jerks off in his hand.
Watching him has me wanting him to do that inside me. When I tell him as much, his head falls back against his seat. “Killing me, Kat.”
I get him a baby wipe from the glove box and traffic starts to move, finally.
We meet up with his mom and his sister at a gas station. Kai and I grab drinks and snacks from there instead of sitting down to eat to save on time. Kelli says we are going to spend the night at a hotel in Lexington, North Carolina, and drive the rest of the way tomorrow. We could drive the full distance to Myrtle Beach, but Khloe is getting restless.
Kai tries his best to talk his mom into separate rooms but that is a no go of course. We are sharing a double. Khloe will be sleeping with me, Kai is sleeping on the pullout sofa and their mom is taking the other bed.
The hotel has an indoor pool, so Kai and I take Khloe down to swim while their mom relaxes in the room. Khloe looks adorable in her red and white cherry patterned bikini. I help her push her arms through her floaties. Kai says she can already swim pretty good that they started her lessons as soon as they could in the pool at their house.
Kai takes his t-shirt off, and I just want to go over and trace my tongue over the music notes tattooed down his side, but I don’t think that would be appropriate right now.
Khloe is sitting on the steps of the pool waiting for us to get in with her. I kick my flip-flops off and shimmy out of my shorts while debating on leaving my tank top on. My boobs have gotten bigger since I bought this bikini and they pop out of the top a bit.
Kai decides for me when he comes over and begins lifting the hem of my shirt up. His eyes go wide at the sight of me in my swimsuit.
“Killing me,” he groans.
“’Mere, Kai,” Khloe calls out.
Kai kisses my cheek, searing my skin with his warm lips. He goes over to the steps with Khloe and she wraps her arms around his neck as he takes her into the deeper end of the pool.
Going over to the ladder, I dip my toes in the water, trying to slowly get adjusted to the water’s temperature.
Kai and Khloe swim over next to where I am sitting. He whispers something in her ear and lets her go. She swims over to the ledge away from me and holds on to the edge of the pool. Kai comes toward me with a devious grin and climbs up the ladder.
“Get in,” he demands in a husky tone.
“No,” I quip.