Always Been You

“Oh. I guess you have decided to do it here since we can’t go out. We have to wait for Tim to come home.” Katherine said as Jensen put on the music.

He nodded. “Yep I know that. Good thing we can dance anywhere”

His palms skimmed the curved outline of her body from shoulder to hip, then he gathered her fully into an embrace. Katherine slid into his shoulders.

“My lady,” he murmured.

Their feet barely moved to the music. Katherine drifted with the soft strains. She was certain of only one thing: She ached for the man in her arms. He could be infuriating, domineering and chauvinistic, and despite her doubts about him, she had never felt safer, more desired, than at this moment. As the music curled around them, she snuggled nearer, her arms going about his waist, her palms flat on the broad span of his back.

“Hey” he whispered huskily. “I had good intentions for tonight, but you are destroying every last one of them. Sweetheart… ” He groaned.

Katherine molded her body to his, breast to chest, thigh to thigh. His rapidly beating heart and the turgid pressure against her lower stomach demonstrated her affect on him. She reveled in his hardness. She ached for a single drugging kiss, fuel for the banked fires within her. Her fingers walked up his vertebrae in time to the music. Jensen Packard was about to be seduced. The thought made her smile.

Her lips brushed his chest at the open collar, just where the intriguing black hair sprang free. His heart hammered more rapidly beneath her cheek.

“Do you realize what you are doing Kat?” he whispered, his breath stirring the hair at her temple.

She leaned back in the circle of his arms, moistened her lips, and provocatively parted them in a sultry smile. She traced his firm lips with the tip of a finger, sighing as he sucked it inside his warm mouth. A swallow traveled his strong throat, and the arms sheltering her tightened. “Stop playing. You know we can’t… Do anything… Tim is going to be home soon” he said.

Katherine simply smiled and he growled as she rubbed her cheek against his chest. He tipped her mouth to his. Rough, trembling fingers stroked her chin, his rising excitement stirred her blood.

She drew his mouth to hers and kissed him. At first, his lips were immobile. But as her tongue moistened them, his mouth parted to slant gently across hers. Too gently.

“You can do better than that, Jensen,” Katherine murmured. She nipped at the sensuous outline of his bottom lip, tasting her lip gloss on her tongue.

His eyes gleamed, but he held her slightly away from him.

“Is something wrong?” Katherine asked when she saw the look on his face.

“No. Not really” Jensen replied. “But there is something I wanna ask you”

“Okay” Katherine said, noticing from the look on his face that whatever he wanted to talk about was important.

They didn’t move to sit down though, they stood where they were, the music still playing, her hands still around his neck, one of his hands on her waist, the other lifted to tuck her hair behind her ear.

“So” Jensen began. “I can’t help but notice that you urhmm.. Seem to be uncomfortable when someone… Including me… Says something about us being together. I gotta say it bothers me a bit. Is that you don’t want us to be together?”

Katherine stopped moving and looked up at him in surprise.”I never said that I didn’t want us to be together.” she said. “And I’m not uncomfortable when someone mentions it. We have been seeing each other for a while now.”

Jensen didn’t look away. He stared at her. His eyes were really intense, like he wanted to see right into her. “Okay” he said. “Let me put it this way. When your Dad was here some minutes ago, and he talked about us being together, having a future together and stuff like that, you were clearly uncomfortable… Why is that?”

“Because it’s been just two weeks and he is way ahead of us. We haven’t even talked about something like that” Katherine replied.

“Okay, so why don’t we talk about it right now”

“I don’t want to” Katherine said, she removed her hands from his shoulders and pulled away from him. He didn’t stop her. Just watched her.

“Why not?” he asked calmly. Though what he wanted to do was grab her and shake some sense into her head. Make her see that they belonged together. That fate had given them another chance and he wanted so bad for them to take it.NôvelDrama.Org holds text © rights.

“Like I said before. It’s too early to have that conversation” Katherine said.

“I don’t think it is. Come on, Kat. It’s not like we met days ago. We have known each other since we were kids. We both know how we feel about each other.. I mean… at least I know how I feel about you… You probably feel the same way… But just as always… You are too scared to let go and give us a chance”

“I’m not scared of anything, ” Katherine yelled, losing her temper. Why couldn’t he understand that she was just trying to protect herself.

“Yes you are,” Jensen yelled back. “You are a very brave person. So strong and determined… and when you see something you want, you are not scared to take a challenge. You are not scared to go for what you want. Except when it comes to us. When it comes to us, you become another person I don’t even recognize you anymore”

“Well you can’t blame me for being careful this time. You can’t blame me for wanting to take things slow this time. You can’t blame me for not wanting to run off into the sunset with you this time because we had two weeks together. I’m not a little girl anymore. I have a son. I have responsibilities and I can’t just jump into something serious with you because it would be extremely stupid if I got hurt again… By the same guy”