Kresley took the few steps towards Cade and wrapped her arms around his neck, and pulled him down towards her. There in the midway of the local county fair, with people walking all around them, Kresley Anderson gave Cade Grantham a kiss like no other. One hand cradled the back of his head, while the other stroked up and down his back. Her mouth wrapped softly around his lips, waiting for them to open. Cade took in her tongue to twine with his. Neither tried to dominate the other. They each gently took what the other gave, which felt a lot like love. Cade cradled Kresley’s face with his hands, gently stroking her features with his fingertips. Small kisses were dropped on each other’s mouths, chins, cheeks and nose. Kresley had eyes only for Cade, locked into his blue depths, letting him know that he was the only person she saw in that moment, the only one she wanted, her everything.
Soft green eyes looked up at Cade, imploring him to stay put. “Don’t leave Big Sexy. I need you here for back up. Besides, your Aunt Mae already told me she would take my shift since I’m your girl. You may need to watch her close anyway. Ash stopped by earlier to lend his money to the FD fund, and your Aunt Mae caught him in a solid lip lock. I swear I think her tongue went down his throat. You should have seen Ash’s eyes. And Francie was about to have a cow either laughing or seizing in a fit.” Kresley grinned as Cade began to choke on air as he took in the mental picture of his aunt tonguing Ash the firefighter.
“Baby, when you put it like that, I think it’s my duty to stay close by. You’re okay? You’re not mad at me for going caveman on you back there? Boomer was having a ball watching me unravel. Can’t wait for him to watch Grace in lip action in a minute.”
“I’m not even a little mad. Honest. You’d know if I was. You’ve learned the signs by now”, Kresley joked. Closing her eyes as Cade kissed her forehead gently, she admitted how much she had missed him the past few days. Being away from him for even a day or two was torture. They spent all their free time with each other. Every day. And if they weren’t in the same place together, they were texting or calling each other. It’s was driving her sisters and Grace crazy. And Kresley loved that. “Uhmmm, honey, I know us kissing in the middle of the fair may make it seem like we’re okay with everyone knowing our business, but could you do me a solid and take your hands off my ass?”
Kresley felt Cade’s chuckle deep inside his chest, vibrating across hers. One more squeeze from his hands, and they dropped. She automatically missed them, but knew they needed to get back to the booth. As she turned with Cade’s hand on her back, she noticed that line had gotten longer at the booth. And her sisters were all up front and center at the stools, being kissed over and over. Grace was on the end at her own stool, with Boomer already in line, rocking back and forth on his sneakered feet. Kresley elbowed Cade and pointed to Boomer. Cade just grinned and snuck up behind Boomer.
“Need a mint there, brother?”, Cade whispered in Boomer’s ear. Boomer dodged his breathy comment and put him in a headlock. Cade just laughed and pulled away. He handed Boomer a mint from his pocket and gave him a wink. “Go get her dude. You deserve it.”
Kresley just shook her head and went back behind the booth with her sisters and Grace. Aunt Mae and the other older women had moved off to a nearby booth that was selling raffle tickets for one of those photo boudoir sessions. She kept meeting Cade’s gaze over and over, telling him without words that she wished she could be kissing him right now. If his heated blue eyes could speak, Kresley’s body would be laying down on his bed, no clothes between them and her back arching up for more of his physical attention. Kresley needed to cool off before she had a heat stroke. She and Cade had not taken their relationship any further physically than heavy kissing and petting. It was a mutual decision made to take things slow and if they were both in this for the long term, that it would make when they did decide to make love all that more special. It was at heavily desired times like this that Kresley regretted that decision.
She looked around and noticed the men who were lined up, ready for their kiss. Most were in regular plain clothes, but there were some in uniform. She saw firefighters, male nurses, EMTs and police officers lined up to get a chance to kiss an Anderson. She recognized some of them, but others she didn’t. Kresley looked over to her sister, Gertie. She couldn’t believe that Gert had volunteered to do this. Kres had decided that Gertie was doing it to push herself to get past the physical barrier she had put up between her and the opposite sex. Kresley didn’t know if this was the way to do it or not, but she wasn’t going to argue with Gertie now. She was going to watch and carefully wait if anything negative happened. Kresley could see that
