My Best Friend's Bad boy Brother

Chapter 10

***Dylanne

One word. One bad decision. That was all it took for me to let Kai Reed back into my life. Back under my skirt.

He pulled me close, his strong scent drifting straight into my nose—cedar, saffron, and wait...was that cherry? He lifted me onto the sink, his hands slowly tracing up my thighs and over my skin.

“f**k me,” I rasped. “f**k me, please, Kai.”

He said nothing. He held my chin and pressed his lips to mine. I shivered under his touch, my arms wrapping around his neck at once. His hands moved over my neck as he deepened the kiss, then skimmed down my swim pants and hovered over the lace.

“Please,” I begged between kisses. His lips were so soft and soothing.

“I want to,” he whispered after pulling away. “I want to f**k you, Dylly. I want to, trust me.”

His voice was full of need, and God, it made the heat in my p***y spread down my thighs.

“Then why aren’t you? What’s wrong?” I asked, narrowing my eyes at him. I tried to pull him closer again, but he backed away. He wasn’t saying anything, and I could tell he was avoiding my eyes.

“Kai!” I shouted. “Look at me.”

I held his chin and forced him to look at me.

Finally, he did, but I could barely understand what was going on in his head.

“Why won’t you touch me?”

“Because I can’t. I want to, honestly, I do. But I can’t f**k you right now.”

I nodded. He tried to come closer, but I gently pushed him back with my hand and stepped down from the sink.

It was finally sinking in. Kai never wanted to f**k me. He didn’t find me attractive at all. I fixed my bra top as I stared at the mirror. After a few minutes, I headed for the door, but he followed and held me back.

“I didn’t mean that.”

“I don’t care what you meant. You just proved that you have no interest in anything s****l with me, and that’s fine.”

No, it isn’t. My heart hurts like it’s being cut into tiny pieces.

“I have to get back before Kim starts looking for me,” I said without looking back. I didn’t wait for him as I pulled away and shut the door behind me. I took deep breaths, trying to steady myself.

It’s fine anyway. It’s not rejection. f*****g Kai doesn’t define you, Dyl. Move on and stop thinking about him.

I spotted Kim heading toward me, her eyes narrowed as she came closer.

“Omg, where have you been?! I was seriously worried.”

“I had to use the restroom,” I lied through my teeth. “The line to the bathroom was long.”

“Did you see Kai, by any chance? I’ve been calling his phone, and I think I saw him go in here with you?”

What? f**k.

“No, he didn’t. I mean, he wasn’t with me. I had to pee, so the line to the bathroom was long and I had to wait.”

“I know,” she said immediately. “Of course you weren’t with Kai. You hate him. Just imagine you two dating? Yuck, I need to unsee that!” Her face twisted in disgust, her eyes closed.

Somehow, that hurt my feelings.

I know she’s never liked the idea of me dating Kai. She has always hated how her big brother took up all the attention, and how girls surrounded him or lied to her about wanting to be friends, just so they could get close to him.

So she made me promise I would never. And I broke that promise.

I stepped forward and slipped my hand into hers, pulling her closer. A practiced smile settled on my face.

“I’m done now. We can go watch pool boys,” I joked, making her giggle.

“Finally!” she groaned, and we walked back to the pool.

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All day, I kept replaying everything that had happened. I couldn’t get him, or the kiss, out of my mind. Why did he pull away? Was he... disgusted by me?

Was I just imagining that he liked me?

After the pool, Kim and I decided to go upstairs for lunch. We watched a two-hour movie in my room and ate lazily on the bed. A few hours later, she fell asleep and started snoring. I turned off the movie on the tablet and tucked her in.

I took a quick shower and changed into comfy shorts and a large oversized shirt I had packed. I stood in the middle of the room, towel in hand, staring at the door and thinking about asking him what had happened hours ago.

But that’s embarrassing, isn’t it? Who asks why they were rejected? My need for some kind of answer was eating at me.

I paced around the room for thirty minutes and drank three glasses of water. Nothing helped.

Finally, I gave up. I threw the towel on the floor and walked to the door. Slowly, I opened it so I wouldn’t wake Kim. I wasn’t being a bad best friend. I just needed closure.

This was just closure. And when I finally hear what I want to, i won't bother him again.

I tiptoed to Kai’s room and knocked quietly. My eyes were still on my door when I knocked again, only to turn and find Kai standing there at the entrance, wearing nothing but a white towel tied loosely around his waist. He looked like a hot marshmallow fresh from the fire. His hair was damp, and he held another towel in his hand as he slowly dried it.

My mouth fell open, my eyes drifting to his hard n*****s.

“I-I,” I stuttered.

“What’s wrong?”

Before I could answer, my room door opened and Kim stepped out. Immediately, Kai pulled me into his room and shut the door, covering my mouth with his hand to keep me quiet.