Free The Mighty Quinns: Kellan by Kate Hoffmann Page A

don’t know. It would most definitely involve taking all your clothes off.” She reached out for the hem of his T-shirt, then pulled it over his head. Her attention focused on his chest as she smoothed her hands over his shoulders. “I’ve had a good day. The best day in a very long time.”
    Kellan nuzzled her neck. “I’m glad.” He pressed his lips to a spot just below her ear. “And what made it so good?”
    “Everything. And nothing at all,” she said.
    Kellan stared at her. “Where did you really come from, Gelsey? And why are you still here with me?”
    “I think I might belong here,” she said. “I don’t want to go back.”
    “There’s no one waiting for you? Wondering where you are?”
    “No.” She sat back on her heels and looked into his eyes. “I promise. There’s no one. The only person I want to be with right now is you.” She ran her hands through his hair, smoothing it away from his face. “I don’t care about your past, Kellan. Nothing that happened to you before you met me makes any difference at all. We started the moment you rescued me from that beach.”
    “And how will we end?” he asked.
    “I don’t know. We don’t need to worry about that right now. I’m happy and you’re happy and we should leave it at that.” She drew in a long breath. “You are happy, aren’t you?”
    Of course he was happy. What man wouldn’t be? He had a beautiful, sexy woman in his bed every night, a woman who fascinated him, a woman who drove him wild with desire. And yet, he knew nothing about her. But then, maybe she was right. What difference did it make? There was very little he could learn that would change his feelings for her.
    Gelsey leaned in closer. “Can I ask you a question?”
    “Only if I can ask one in return,” Kellan said.
    “When you found me on the beach, why didn’t you just take me to the hospital?”
    Kellan thought about his response for a long moment. “I don’t know. I guess I was curious. I wanted to know what happened, how you got on that beach and why. And I knew if I took you to the hospital, I might never see you again.” He kissed her, his lips brushing against hers. “I lost you once, I didn’t want to lose you again.”
    “You lost me?”
    “My turn,” Kellan said, quickly shifting the subject.
    “Make it good,” she warned. “You only get one.”
    “What really sent you out to that beach?” he asked. “It must have been something pretty upsetting.”
    She shook her head. “Funny, it was then, but now, I barely think about it.”
    “It or he? Answer the question,” Kellan demanded. “Honestly. Was it a man who did that to you?”
    “I did it to myself. Up until that moment, I really didn’t like the person I was. I think there’s a bit of magic in you finding me on the beach. I’d like to believe there still is.”
    Kellan slid his fingers through her hair and drew her lips to his. She went soft in his arms and on a sigh, she parted her lips to offer him a taste. Everything about her was perfect, Kellan mused. When he touched her, sex suddenly made sense. It meant something, something deep and reassuring.
    Kellan knew the risk he was taking. She’d dropped into his life so unexpectedly and he suspected she’d leave in the same way. For all he knew, he’d wake up one morning and she’d be gone. And without knowing anything about her, he’d have no way to find her again.
    Grabbing her waist, he pulled her close, then threw his thigh over hers, trapping her in his embrace. He reached for the buttons of the shirt she wore and slowly undid them, kissing a path from the first bit of exposed flesh to the last.
    “Who are you?” he murmured, his lips pressed against the soft flesh of her belly.
    Gelsey groaned, her fingers smoothing through his hair as he moved lower. “I don’t know,” she whispered.
    She was the woman he wanted more than any other. She was the woman whose touch could send his need over the edge. And she was the