*Karma and Amy share some cute moments but things are about to get hot and heavy*
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Chapter 6
We're pulling out of the parking lot and neither of us has said anything about the kiss yet. Should I say something? Or do I just pretend my first proper no-holds-barred kiss didn't just happen in an elevator with Amy Raudenfeld? I touch my lips and they still feel sensitive and swollen, her taste lingering on my lips and tongue. No, that kiss definitely happened. I steal a glance at Amy and she looks calm and collected. She pushes a button and the interior is filled with soft acoustic singing. My senses are still hyperactive, so the music is doubly affecting, sending delicious shivers down my spine.
"What are we listening to?"
"It's Bloom by the The Paper Kites. Do you like it?"
"It's beautiful Amy."
She glances at me and grins, she looks so young and carefree and beautiful.
"What kind of music do you like?" I want to know everything I can about her.
"Hmm. It's hard to say, I like a wide range of music. Anything from Frank Sinatra to Imagine Dragons to Eminem. It really depends on the mood I'm in, you?"
"Me too," I say with a smile. I feel little butterflies fluttering around my stomach, it excites me that Amy and I have something as normal as music in common. She pushes a button and Bad by David Guetta comes on, this song I know, and how appropriate for today. Halfway through the song there is a ringing over the music.
"Raudenfeld," she snaps.
"Hey Amy, did ya do the dirty?"
"Duke - I'm on speaker phone and I'm not alone in the car," she sighs.
"Oh! Hi Karma," he says excitedly.
"Hi Duke."
"I've heard a lot about you," Duke murmurs huskily. Amy frowns and I laugh at both of them.
"Shane has an over active imagination! Don't believe anything he says." Duke laughs and Amy frowns again, I want to kiss it away.
"I'm dropping Karma off now. Shall I pick you up?"
"Please."
"See you soon," Amy says and hangs up. We're stopped at a red light and she turns to look at me.
"Karma, what happened in the elevator - it won't…" she doesn't even finish her sentence before she smashes her lips against mine and sucks my bottom lip into her mouth, I can't help but moan. She smirks and lets my lip go turns her attention back to the road. Wow, that was unexpected. I don't think I could ever get enough of her kisses. We pull up outside my apartment complex and she climbs out of the car and slowly walks around to open my door for me.
"For the record I enjoyed what happened in the elevator," I whisper as I climb out. I think I hear her audibly gasp, but I choose to ignore it and walk up to the front door.
Shane and Duke are sitting at the dining table and Shane is grinning like an idiot and his hair is mussed up in a sexy kind of way. Shane notices Amy behind me and in spite of his good mood, he eyes her suspiciously.
He leaps up to hug me and then examines me at arms length.
"Good morning, Amy," he says, his tone obviously hostile.
"Mr. Harvey," she says stiffly.
"Amy," Duke groans, "his name is Shane."
"Shane." Amy gives him a polite nod and shoots Duke a glare, who ignores it and rises to hug me.
"Hi Karma," he smiles, green eyes twinkling, I immediately like him.
"Hi," I smile at him.
"Duke, we should go," Amy says disinterestedly.
He turns to Shane and pulls him in for a long lingering kiss. I look at Amy who is staring at me intently. I narrow my eyes at her, thinking why can't she kiss me like that? Duke continues to kiss Shane, dipping him dramatically as he kisses him hard.
"Laters babe," Duke grins.
Shane melts, I've never seen him melt before - he is practically compliant. Oh boy, Duke must be something special.
Amy tucks a stray strand of hair behind my ear, my breathing hitching at the contact and I can't help but lean into her touch. Her eyes soften and she runs her thumb across my lower lip, causing my blood to start boiling. She's going to kiss me again! But all too quickly her touch is gone.
"Laters baby," she murmurs and I can't resist laughing because it is so un Amy. Even though I know she is joking, the endearment tugs at my heart strings. She opens the front door and steps out on to the porch, Duke is following her to the car but stops to wave at Shane, I'm hit with an unwanted pang of jealousy.
"So," Shane states.
I look at him and his eye brows are practically at his hair line.
"So," I reiterate.
"What did you do last night?"
"Nothing," I snap irritably, hoping that will halt the Shane Harvey interrogation. "You obviously did though."
His answering grin is infectious.
"I'm seeing him again this evening," he says clapping his hands and jumping up and down like a small child.
"Amy is taking me to Dallas tonight." I don't mention the helicopter because Shane would go bananas and it's already clear that he doesn't like Amy, I don't need to fuel that fire.
"Dallas, wow."
"Yep."
"Will you then?"
"I hope so."
"So you like her?"
"Yes," I say and i can feel myself blushing.
"Like her enough to…?"
"Mhmm." HIs eyebrows shoot up into his hair, disappearing, and he lets out a low whistle.
"Wow, Karma Ashcroft. Falling for a woman, and it's Amy Raudenfeld. A hot sexy billionaire.
"We both know it's all about the money." I smirk and we both fall into a fit of giggles.
"Has she kissed you yet?" he asks.
"Twice."
"Twice!" he scoffs.
I nod, wishing it had been more than that.
"She's very reserved."
"Well then we have to make sure you are simply irresistible this evening." Shane grabs my hand and drags me into my bedroom. Under Shane's tireless and rather intrusive instruction, my legs and underarms are shaved to perfection, my eyebrows plucked, and I'm buffed all over. Talk about a painful experience.
Amy picks me up right on time, of course. She offers me her arm as I walk out the front door, smiling warmly at me.
"Good evening, Miss Ashcroft."
" ."
She opens the back door to a massive SUV, and I climb into the backseat. Taylor is sitting in the driver's seat. He acknowledges me with a nod and a small smile. Amy climbs in on the other side and grasps my hand gently.
"How was your day?" she asks.
"Too long," I reply, my voice is husky and full of need.
Her thumb is stroking my knuckles back and forth, accelerating my heart beat and my breathing. How does she do that? Affect my whole body by only touching a small area of me?
The drive to the helicopter is short, Amy and I spend the entire ride talking about little things, like her hike with Duke this afternoon. The car stops in-front of a tall skyscraper and I wonder where we are going from here.
Amy climbs out of the car pulling me with her, refusing to let go of my hand. She gives Taylor a curt nod and we head into the building, straight for a set of elevators. Elevator! The memory of this mornings activity comes back to torture me, I've thought of nothing else all day. She glances down at me with a small smile. Ha! She's thinking about it too!
"Unfortunately it's a short ride," she says sadly, her eyes dancing with amusement. I pout, wishing for - I don't know what. The elevator doors close and there is that weird electrical crackling between us, I lick my lips and can taste the desire in the air. I close my eyes and try to ignore it. Amy gives my hand a small squeeze and rubs her thumb on the back of my hand. Seconds later the doors open and we walk out onto the roof of the building. There on the roof is a silver helicopter. An older gentleman comes around the helicopter and extends a hand to Amy who briefly lets go of my hand to return the hand shake.
"Everything is in order Ms. Raudenfeld."
"Thank you."
She grabs my hand again and walks me to the passenger door. She opens the door and helps me up, her hand on my waist causing my breathing to spike.
"Sit - don't touch anything," she orders as she walks around to the other side.
She climbs in and crouches beside me and begins strapping me into the harness. She's so close that I can smell her, she smells clean and heavenly. I want to lean forward and kiss her but I'm securely fastened to my seat. It's almost as if she can sense what I want because she glances up at me and smiles, her eyes heated.
"You're secure, no escaping for you," she whispers as she rubs her thumb along my cheek before placing a chaste kiss on my lips. She buckles herself in and talks me through the pre-flight check as she works.
"How long have you been a pilot?"
"I've been fully qualified for almost four years. You're safe with me..at least while we're flying," she says smoothly before throwing me a wink.
Winking Amy might be my new favorite expression on her! The right side of her mouth pulls up into a slight smirk while she closes her right eye…desire explodes through me.
"Are you ready?"
I nod, despite my fear of heights. Maybe I should have mentioned that earlier. But with Amy by my side, I'm less afraid.
After a brief exchange with the tower, the helicopter slowly rises and we are in the air. My stomach drops and I start to feel like I'm about to have a panic attack. My breathing becomes ragged and my heart is hammering against my ribs.
"Karma, are you ok?" Her voice is full of worry.
" .Heights."
Some how I manage to look over at her, her face is distraught and she's gripping the controls with white knuckles. I can tell she is trying to figure out what to do, but just looking at her calms me down.
"Amy."
"What?" she snaps, her voice full of panic and fear.
"Amy, I'm ok. Look at me, I'm ok."
She glances over at me and I give her a small smile, her face instantly relaxes and she grasps one of my hands with hers. I give it a reassuring squeeze.
"Karma," I can hear the relief flood through her voice, "you should have told me you were afraid of heights. We could have driven."
"You were so excited. I didn't want to disappoint you. Honestly, I'm ok, being with you makes me ok." I whisper the last part embarrassed that even after such a short time she can bring me so much comfort. I look up at her through my lashes and see that she has the biggest smile on her face, it even looks like she is blushing. I lied, this is my favorite Amy face.
"You could never disappoint me, Karma," she sighs, "being around you is comforting too."
I nearly pass out at her words. Knowing that she feels the same as I do…I only see tonight ending in one way. And hopefully it involves lack of clothing and a bed.
"Karma look," she says softly.
And I look out the front window and see the small twinkling lights of Austin below us and above us is only darkness. It's beautiful.
"Is this how you impress all your women?" I say jokingly, hoping that she doesn't.
"I've never brought one up here, Karma. It's another first for me. Are you impressed?" Her tone is teasing and I love how young she sounds in that moment.
"Extremely." And there is that bright wide smile again, and I can't help but smile knowing that I put it there.
It's too noisy in the cabin to keep up a full conversation so we ride in comfortable silence for the rest of the trip. When it comes time to land, Amy lets go of my hand and expertly lands the helicopter on the top of a building. My nerves start to kick in, I really hope she isn't disappointed or finds me lacking. The rotor blades slow and quiet and finally stop. We're here.
Her look is so intense, jaw clenched and eyes tight. Maybe she is just as nervous as I am.
"Karma, you know you don't have to do anything you don't want to, you know that right?" She says as she unbuckles my harness, her tone is so earnest, almost desperate.
"I know." But what Amy doesn't know is that I would probably do anything for her. My words seem to convince her because she lets out a breath and opens the door and climbs out. She walks around to my side and opens the door for me and holds out a hand, surprisingly I don't fall flat on my face as I climb out. She guides us towards an elevator with a keypad, she types in the code and the elevator doors open. She taps another code into the elevator keypad and the elevator descends.
The elevator doors open into a small foyer, a wooden table with a vase of flowers is in the middle, and beyond mahogany double doors. She pulls one of the doors open for me and I walk into the lions den.