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“Just a kiss?”

Exciteaze fro It took a ether

Just a few ht brown hair that was always flopping over his forehead and just begging for h it

Then again, I’d never seen an unattractive Warden even though I didn’t have it in ure out how they looked like a human and then like a Warden

Clay sat besideroom We were alone, and I wasn’t quite sure what life choices I’d hs touching Like all Wardens, he was so incredibly bigger than ht and not what one would norirl

Clay had always been friendlier toward ave me the kind of attention that I saeen others but never had been on the receiving end of until now No one in the Warden community besides my friend Jada, and of course Misha, paid much attention to me, and neither of them wanted to kiss me

But Clay was always nice, co me even when I knew I looked like a hot ht me out a lot I liked it

And there wasn’t a da with that

So, when he’d approached e fire pit where younger Wardens gathered at night to hang out, and asked if I wanted to come back to his place to watch a movie, I didn’t have to be asked twice

Now Clay wanted to kiss me

And I wanted to be kissed

“Trinity?” he said, and I flinched when I saw that his fingers were suddenly close to ainst ered “You’re doing it again”

“Doing what?”

“Disappearing on o?”

I smiled “Nowhere I’m here”

Those Warden eyes, a bright sky blue, peered into mine “Good”

My srew

“Just a kiss?” he repeated

The excitement went up a notch and I exhaled slowly “Just a kiss”

He s his head so our mouths lined up Mine parted in anticipation I’d been kissed before Once Well, I’d done the kissing I’d kissed Misha when I was sixteen, and he’d kissed me back, but then it became really weird because he was like a brother to me, and neither of us were about that kind of life

Plus, things weren’t supposed to be like that between Misha and me, because of what he was

Because of what I was

Clay’s lips touched h ht they’d be, I don’t knoetter But it wasnice, especially when the pressure of the kiss increased and his lips parted ainst mine, and I kissed him back

I didn’t want to stop hi the nape of my neck slid down my back, to my hip That felt nice, too, and when he easedhis arht so he didn’t crush me

Wardens’ body teher than mine—but he seemed hotter, like he was about to burn up

And II felt sort oflukewarm

We kissed and kissed, and those kisses weren’t dry anymore, and I liked the way his lower body had settled over ainst mine, a mysterious rhythm that felt like it should be, could be, more—if I wanted that

And that wasnice

Nice like when he’d held my hand on the way to his place So was the candle he’d lit that s romantic about that, and about the way his hand opened and closed on my hip I felt waret it on kind of excited, but this was It was really nice

Then his hand was under my shirt and up, over my breast

Hold up

I reached down and grabbed his hand as I pulled away, separating his mouth from mine “Whoa”

“What?” His eyes were still closed, his hand was still on

“I said just a kiss,” I re on his hand “That’s more than a kiss”

“You’re not having a good time?”

Was I? I had been, key word being had “Not anymore”

I had no idea what it was about not anyain, but that’s what Clay did He pressed his er nice It was al

Irritation flared to life like a litmy hand on his arm, I pulled it out fro the kiss