It was not mere. It was everything. It was scary how addicted I found myself to the kiss. To his kiss.

I could not imagine it ending or wanting it to.

Unfortunately, it did. We pulled away as our need for oxygen matched our need for each other.

Stone did not let go of my waist and he instead kept his forehead against mine as he huskily asked, "What was that for?"

"It was a thank you." I revealed "Thank you for bringing me here. I loved it."

He chuckled against my lips before he roughly let out “A kiss for bringing you here? It is a real fucking shame that they only show it once a year."

I released a small breathy laugh, and I was about to kiss him again when my phone went off.

Disappointedly, I pulled back and bit my lip to stop myself from letting out a moan of discontent while looking at my phone.

"Hello?" I spoke while I put the phone to my ear.

"Hey, my bestest friend in my world." Lana replied, "You know I love you more than anything, right?"

"What are you after?" I asked into the phone "It better not be a Barbie marathon again."

"Brennan just picked me up from my house to go to the pier. It is really awkward." She sighed before pleading with me "Can you come?"

"You want me to come with you on your date?"

"Please." She replied "I have convinced Brennan to text Stone as well so you will not be alone.

I looked up to Stone and he was reading his phone too. He must have sensed that I was staring at him because he turned his attention from the phone to me.

"Ice cream?" I insisted nicely to the giant.

"I am going to kill Brennan." He grumbled under his breath.

I let out a small laugh as we walked back to his truck.

Stone sped down the road and he looked to be deep in thought. Whenever the road was not busy, and the traffic did not require attention then he would look my way.

"I had a really good time." I spoke up.

"When did you start liking Edgar Allan Poe?"

I laughed before looking down at my lap and admitting "I meant that I had a good time with you, you jumbo-sized jackass."

He never said anything until he howled a deep laugh. I joined in and laughed into the wind as I rolled down the window to the truck.

The ice cream parlour was not that busy when we arrived. A few people occupied the booths and that included Lana and Brennan who were sitting at the same seats we were at when we all met.

"So, you two just bumped into each other?" Brennan asked us both, looking unconvinced at our lie.

Stone silently nodded and I acted like I was concentrating on devouring my mint chocolate chip ice cream cone to hear him.