He brushed his thumb back and forth along her hand, and her belly clenched painfully. “They would see us, and I know how your dad feels about guys.” He slowly leaned forward an inch, so close that their breath mingled together.
“They would see us doing what?” she said breathlessly.
The corner of his mouth kicked up. “Me kissing you, Alexis.” He said it softly, slowly, but with so much heat she felt it in her core.
“Yeah, there would most definitely be consequences.” She lowered her gaze to his mouth.
“But I’d be lying if I said I didn’t give a fuck about the consequences if Brick caught me kissing his daughter.”
Her heart stopped in her chest, and she swore she couldn’t breathe. “I’ve wanted you to kiss me for my entire life, Nico.” She was being bolder than she ever had. They were staring right into each other’s eyes, and she could feel the electricity bouncing between them.
“He’d kick my ass before he killed me,” he said the words almost distantly, as if it was an afterthought. “It would be so worth it, Alexis.”
She was done fantasizing about him, done thinking about what would happen if she just said screw it and what everyone else thought. She gripped the back of his head and pressed her mouth to his. She tangled her fingers around the short strands and tugged gently when he slipped his tongue along her bottom lip.
“You taste so good, Alexis,” he murmured against her lips, and then took her mouth harder, more demandingly. They kissed for long, drugging seconds, and she felt herself getting lost in the feel, smell, and taste of him.
Her heart was beating so fast she swore it would burst right through her chest. And then when he groaned she swore she felt the tingling inside of her body intensify. The sound of twigs snapping had her pulling away quickly and moving to the side. She didn’t know who was coming over, but if it was one of the little kids they had mouths bigger than the Grand Canyon and would take pleasure in running and telling the adults. Right now she didn’t want or need any drama concerning this. She glanced to the side and saw Lucas, Odin, and Tarren making their way toward them. Lucas held a small cooler, and when all three of them stepped on the deck they stopped right before them. The other two seemed oblivious to the way she was fidgeting, but Lucas had this smirk on his face as he looked between her and Nico. Maybe it was because Lucas was Nico’s identical twin and they had some kind of twin superpower? Maybe he could feel his brother’s emotions? She laughed internally at that thought. It seemed silly to even think about it, but she had seen them finish each other’s sentences back in the day, and several times when one of them would get hurt the other acted as if he were in pain.
“What are you two doing?” Lucas smirked wider and lowered his sunglasses just below his eyes. He and Nico looked exactly alike, even down to the way their hair fell over their foreheads. Tarren, Dallas’s daughter, was the same age as they were, but she looked nothing like her biker father. Maybe it was the bear genetics that won out most of the time, and that was why most of The Grizzly kids looked like their fathers? The males took after their fathers’ physical attributes, while the female grizzlies were more built like their human mothers. It was strange and something Alexis used to wonder about.
Ugh, why are you thinking about this right now? Because you want to get your mind off of the obvious, and that is that Lucas keeps smiling even wider, and he knows exactly what the two of you have been doing.
“Dude, shut the hell up,” Nico said with a bite in his voice. Whereas she felt how hot her face was, and knew it was redder than a tomato, Nico was calm, cool, and collected, aside from the clear annoyance reflected in his voice. “What do you have in the cooler? Cokes?” Nico asked and cocked an eyebrow.
“Cokes, man?” Lucas started chuckling. He set the cooler down and popped the lid. Right on top of a pile of ice were some Cokes, Sprites, and other non-alcoholic drinks. He pushed the ice and the cans away, and underneath all of that were cans of cheap beer. “Todd Delany hooked us up, brother.” Lucas grinned and grabbed two beers. He tossed one to Nico and then to her.
“If any one of our dads comes back here you know they will raise hell,” she said but still popped the top and brought it to her mouth. She didn’t even like beer, but right now she needed some help in calming her frayed nerves.
“Alexis, you think any of our dads didn’t do this shit when they were our ages?” Lucas said and opened a beer for himself. “Shit, I bet they partied so hard they couldn’t even see straight.”