slope to go down, especially since she’d made it clear she wasn’t looking for a relationship, he found himself trying to figure out the best way to bring up the subject of continuing their relationship when they got back to Seattle.
“Ever been kayaking?” he asked after a moment.
She nodded. “I went a few times in college.”
“Did you like it?”
She laughed. “Not at first, but once I got the hang of it, I did.”
He chuckled as he imagined her doing what a lot of beginners did, which was paddle the kayak in a circle. He picked up his bottle of water and took a swallow. “It’s too bad we’ll be leaving in a couple days. I hear they have some great kayaking whale watching tours. It would have been fun go.”
Dawson tried to make his voice as casual as possible, hoping Kate would give him the opening he was looking for by suggesting they should come back and go kayaking sometime, but instead she mumbled something that could have been agreement or not before looking away. He frowned. Well, he supposed that answered his question. Kate couldn’t have made it any clearer that she wasn’t interested in having anything to do with him after this weekend.
As she gazed out at the ocean, her expression was unreadable, and he hoped he hadn’t made her uncomfortable. He was about to apologize when she pointed out a killer whale slapping his tail against the water below them as if he’d never even spoken.
Dawson was relieved when Kate leaned back against him after they finished their sandwiches a little while later. He was glad to see he hadn’t ruined the mood. His cock, which immediately got hard as she settled herself between his spread legs, was equally grateful. It might have been nice to think about seeing her in the future, but if all he had was right now, then he wasn’t going to complain.
Kate turned her head to smile up at him teasingly. “Is that a spyglass in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?”
He chuckled. “I’m definitely happy to see you. In fact, maybe you can do something about that when we get back to the hotel.”
She gave him a flirtatious look. “Or I could do something about it right now.”
He lifted a brow, surprised, but aroused at the same time. “Here?”
She shrugged. “Why not? There’s no one around.”
That was true enough. The park was practically deserted. He was about to tell Kate he was game if she was, but she had already turned around to kneel between his legs. Tugging open his belt, she slowly unbuttoned his jeans, then shoved down his boxer briefs just enough to free his hard cock. Giving him a sexy smile, she wrapped her hand around the base, then leaned forward to slowly run her tongue up the entire length before taking the head in her mouth.
Dawson groaned as her long hair fell forward to brush against his thighs. Her mouth was warm and soft as she moved up and down on him, and he groaned again as she gently cupped his balls in her other hand. Damn, she was good at giving a blowjob.
“Oh yeah, baby,” he breathed. “Just like that.”
Kate moaned and swirled her tongue over the tip of his shaft before going down on him again. She took him a little deeper each time until the head was finally touching the back of her throat. Then she swallowed.
Dawson sucked in a breath.
Sure he was going to blow right then, he tightened his hand in her hair. “I’m already close.”
At his words, Kate immediately moved her mouth back up his shaft to a place that kept him on edge but not in danger of exploding. She slowly bobbed her head up and down over and over, sometimes pausing to swirl her tongue over the sensitive tip, sometimes nipping a little with her teeth, sometimes deep throating him.
While Dawson liked to think he had at least a modicum of self-control, what Kate was doing felt too incredible to hold back for long and before he knew it, he was shooting a load of hot cum into her mouth. She moaned around his cock, swallowing it all, then carefully licking him clean until she was sure she got every last little bit. When she was done, she ran her tongue over her lips and smiled up at him.
“Wasn’t that more fun than waiting until we got back to the hotel?” she asked as he buttoned his jeans.
He bent over to kiss her on the mouth. “Much.”
Dawson would have kissed her again, but the sound of footsteps on the gravel path caught his attention. Brow furrowing, he turned his head to see a park ranger coming toward them. Shit. He hoped the man hadn’t seen anything. He didn’t think the bride and groom would appreciate bailing their maid of honor and best man out of jail.
But to Dawson ’s relief, the ranger just gave them a nod and a smile. “Great day for whale watching. A lot of orcas out there. Did you see any of them blow?”
Kate glanced at Dawson, then smiled at the ranger. “One just blew a couple of seconds ago, actually. He was a big guy, too.”
The park ranger might have thought she was talking about killer whales, but Dawson knew exactly what she was referring to and he had to stifle a laugh. Her comment got the park ranger talking, though, and he ended up spending the next half hour telling them about the pod of whales that frequented the local waters. While the information was interesting, Dawson wanted to be alone with Kate and he was glad when the other man finally left. Once he was out of earshot, Dawson and Kate burst into laughter.
“Good thing he didn’t come by a few minutes earlier or I would have been right in the middle of going down on you,” Kate said.
Dawson ran his hand up her bare leg, his fingers brushing the hem of her khaki shorts. “Speaking of which, I still owe you for that amazing blowjob. What do you say I return the favor when we get back to the hotel?”
She smiled. “I say that’s a wonderful idea. But unfortunately it’ll have to be after the rehearsal dinner.”
“That’s tonight?”
She nodded. “Of course it’s tonight. The wedding’s tomorrow, remember?”
Actually, he’d forgotten, and the reminder only made him more aware of the fact that the weekend was coming to a close. Which meant their weekend fling was coming to an end, too. That was really too bad because he was going to miss Kate Gentry. He only wished she felt the same about him.
By the time she and Dawson got back to the hotel, they had just enough time to shower and change before they had to meet the rest of the wedding party down on the bluff overlooking the marina for the rehearsal. To Kate’s relief, no one mentioned their little disappearing act, though Rachel and the other girls gave her and Dawson knowing smiles.
Rachel wanted to make sure the wedding was absolutely perfect, so she made everyone practice over and over until she was satisfied they had it right. Which meant a lot of standing around while Rachel made up her mind. Which in turn gave Kate a lot of time to think about what Dawson said up at the state park that afternoon.
Was that whole thing about going kayaking his subtle way of telling her he wanted to continue seeing her when they got back to Seattle? Although she wanted to believe it was, she’d never known a guy to be subtle. So she had interpreted his casual comment as a gentle reminder that they had agreed to have a no-strings-attached weekend, just in case she had read more into their picnic than he had intended. She hadn’t known what to say, which was why she had just muttered something noncommittal.
Of course, now that she had time to stand around and think about it, she couldn’t keep from replaying their conversation over and over in her head to see if she’d gotten the message right. All that did was confuse her even more. She was almost positive he wanted everything to come to a nice, tidy finish at the end of the weekend, but a part of her wasn’t sure. Then again, that part could just be wishful thinking. God, she wished she’d never put that stupid no-strings clause in her proposition that first night. If it wasn’t for that, she’d probably be well on her way to planning her own wedding right now, at least mentally. As she took Dawson ’s arm to follow the soon-to-be bride and groom down the aisle a little while later, she let herself imagine for just a moment that she and the handsome man at her side were rehearsing for their own wedding.
“You know,” he said softly, “I could be licking your pussy right now instead of walking up and down this aisle
