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makes the good times feel that much better. Like right now, being here, with you."
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Chapter Four
    Between the lack of any visual reference, her soft hand stroking his hair over and over, and managing to share the story of his mother's and Sean's deaths without once coming close to panicking, Caden was almost dizzy with triumph. It was Makenna, it was all Makenna's doing. And he adored her for it. No one had ever gotten into the heart of him the way she had, and certainly never as fast.
    Makenna's voice interrupted his thoughts. “You say the sweetest things, Caden Grayson. I swear."
    Caden smiled against her hand, still holding his cheek, and finally chuckled.
    "What's so funny?"
    He shrugged, then remembered the body language would be lost on her. “Sweet isn't a word usually applied to me."
    "Well, then, people don't know you."
    He nodded. “Maybe so.” He'd be the first to admit he kept people away. He didn't like the feeling of burdening others with his baggage. Sometimes distance was easier than acting, or explaining.
    "Definitely so,” she replied.
    Caden liked her argumentative nature. She was playful and feisty and had him talking and laughing more in the couple hours he'd known her than probably in the whole last month combined. With her, he'd never given distance a second thought.
    Caden almost moaned when she slid her palm up his face and began stroking from his temple, back over his ear, and down to his neck. His mouth dropped open. His breathing picked up. He couldn't help but lean into her surprisingly sensual touch.
    He closed his eyes for a moment and just gave in to the feeling of it. He could hear her breathing and didn't think he was imagining her breaths coming quicker, too. The possibility she might be longing for him the way he was longing for her all at once made him hard. He groaned low in his throat before he could stop himself.
    "Makenna."
    "Caden."
    He swallowed thickly and shifted his hips. His button fly was relaxed, but not enough to accommodate his hard-on without discomfort.
    At first, he thought he imagined it: her fingers, exerting pressure against the back of his neck. But she continued on with the steady stroking. He just wasn't sure. He concentrated all his focus on the movement of her hand and... I didn't imagine it that time, did I? There it was again—her fingertips pulling him toward her.
    Please let me not be imagining that .
    He licked his lips and moved his head forward just an inch or two. God, he wanted to kiss her. His fingers itched to finally thread their way into all that red hair. His lips fell open in anticipation of claiming her mouth. He wanted to taste her. He wanted to feel her under him.
    "Makenna,” he rasped.
    "Yes, Caden, yes."
    It was all the confirmation he needed.
    He pushed himself across the carpet until his chest encountered her side. He slowly lowered his head so he didn't hurt her in his blind impatience. His mouth found a cheek first and he pressed his lips against the soft apple of it. She moaned and wrapped her arms around his broad shoulders. His right hand landed in a pile of silky curls, and the satisfaction he felt at finally touching her hair made him swallow hard.
    "So soft,” he murmured, meaning her hair and her skin and the mound of her breast pressing against his chest where he was atop her.
    Caden let out his own moan when her lips pressed against the skin in front of his ear. She exhaled roughly. The rush of her breath over his skin brought goose bumps to his neck.
    He trailed soft kisses across her cheek until he found her lips.
    And then he couldn't go slow anymore.
    And neither could she.
    Caden groaned as his first kiss brought her full bottom lip into his mouth. Both hands found their way to her face, and he cupped his palms around her cheeks so he could guide their movement. Makenna's high-pitched moan accompanied her hands grasping at the back of his head and neck.
    When her mouth fell open, Caden