Still, I can do right by Finn by making sure I don’t hurt Kenzie. If I’m honest, I’m worried about myself too. I once thought I knew exactly what the other person was thinking and feeling for me, and look how wrong I turned out to be. Clearly, I can’t rely on my own judgment.

I step back and shove my hands in my pockets, determined to keep them off Kenzie until we’ve had a conversation. “If it’s not obvious, I’m attracted to you.”

Her smile makes her eyes sparkle. “I’m attracted to you as well.”

“But I want to make sure we go about this in the right way. It’s not like I’d want to hurt you either way, but I feel beholden to your brother to do right by you. So, before we do anything… more—and I’m not saying that you want to or anything, I’m just putting it out there—I think maybe we should date for a bit. See what happens?”

I hold my breath to gauge her reaction. I hope she doesn’t take it as rejection because that’s not how I mean it at all. If I listened to my loins, I’d have her naked and pressed up against the wall in a heartbeat.

With a very small smile, she tilts her head. “I’m on board with that. But I do have one request.”

I nod. “All right, let’s hear it.”

“I don’t want my brother to know anything is going on between us.” When I frown, she raises her hand. “I know I gave you the gears about Thanksgiving, but we were platonic then. Now it’s different. I just don’t want the pressure of his expectations weighing on us.”

A long breath flows out of my mouth. I didn’t feel good about keeping it from Finn before, but now that I’ll be dating his sister, not telling him feels like an even bigger betrayal.

“Please?” She raises her hands into a prayer pose. “I’m not saying we’re never going to tell him, but why don’t we see how things go and take it from there?”

I reluctantly nod. “Yeah, okay. If that’s what you want.”

Kenzie steps toward me. “Does that mean we can kiss again now that we’ve gotten that out of the way?”

I wrap my arms around her and draw her in. “Damn straight.”

When I bring my lips down to hers, she wraps her arms around my neck. Our kisses start off slow but become more heated until I pull away once my cock is stiff and pushing into her stomach.

“It might be harder to take things slow, don’t you think?” she says, her gaze dipping between my legs.

I chuckle and adjust myself. “Yeah, I’m getting that.”