“Right. Because we were busy having our own personal meet-cute. Which, arguably, was a better way to spend the evening. Come on, be adventurous with me,” he said. “I mean, I made this luxurious bed for us.”
Yeah, that bed was part of the problem. Since it was barely big enough for two of us, which meant we would be touching all night long.
The other part of the problem was my damn sex drive that had suddenly kicked into overdrive.
“Catie,” he said, tone just a little less light and fun, just a tad deeper, sexier, making my gaze shoot up. “You’ve got to live a little,” he told me. “Even if it’s scary.”
And the thing was, he was right.
I would hate to go outside to sneak a quick bath in the stream half a block away and have a zombie take me out, knowing all I’d done for the past few years was be careful and scared and bored and lonely.
“Okay,” I agreed, lowering myself down onto the cushions, and trying not to be hyperaware of Caleb as he stretched out beside me. “I’ve never been camping,” I admitted.
“You and me, kid,” he said, sliding an arm under me. In afriendlyway, but my body just didn’t take it that way, “We are going to do some fun shit. But first, sleep.”
And he did.
Sleep.
Almost instantly.
But me?
Yeah, I was up dealing with the throbbing ache between my thighs and the nearly overwhelming urge to climb on top of him to relieve it.
Eventually, exhaustion won out.
But then I woke up.
Sprawled on top of him like a pillow, my head on his chest, my hand on his shoulder, and my leg cocked over his hip.
And it didn’t exactly escape me that he was hard and pressing against me, either.
Need assaulted my system all at once, making my heart race and my sex clench hard.
I didn’t move.
I barely let myself breathe.
Because I was suddenly aware that Caleb wasn’t asleep either.
No.
He was awake.
And his hands were roaming up and down my back, sifting through my hair, then going to my back again.
He was touch-starved.
That was it.
It wasn’t anything personal.
But anyone who hadn’t seen a human being in years, let alone got to be alone and close to one, would feel the need to touch them. It was human nature to desire contact with one another.
And his cock?
Well, that was just nature too.