Chapter Eight  

Kate followed Kristean up a flight of grand circular stairs and then down a long darkly paneled hall.  Kristean opened a door and led Kate into a large bedroom.  It was furnished in period pieces from the 20s.  “You can use the bathroom through those doors.”  Kristean pointed to a set of double doors off to the far right.  “Your friend is down the hall to the left.  And there is a change of cloths in there if you want them.”  Kate nodded her head in a thank you and headed through the double doors.  She stepped into a bathroom that was larger than her bedroom back home.  There was a 3-clawed porcelain bathtub to one side and a large modern shower to the other.  The floors and counters were white marble.  The walls were wallpapered in green with a gold floral boarder.  Everything on the counter was down in shinning brass.

Kate figured she had enough time to shower and clean off the grime of the night before.  Ten minuets later Kate wiped the mirror off with a towel and looked at the clothes that were left for her, it was a trendy little t-shirt with a cut off jean skirt.  Kate was surprised that they were her size, but then she figured that they must have been Maggie’s.

Kate walked down the hall to Robby’s room and knocked on the door.  “Come in.”  Kate heard he muffled voice over the sound of a faucet.

“You know I was thinking,” Kate started to tell Robby as when opened the door to the bathroom, “about what Senior Moyer was saying about…” Kate’s voice trailed off when she saw Robby.  He was standing at the sink with his back to her washing his face.  Kate couldn’t find her voice, he was standing here with she shirt off and she couldn’t help but wonder when he found the time to work out, because she could see every well-defined muscle in his back.

Kate quickly caught herself and blushed at her thoughts and looked away from Robby before she could see her staring.

Robby smiled to himself, he had seen her staring at him.  When her face blushed he couldn’t’ help but wonder what she had been thinking to cause it.  But she wasn’t the only one who was taking their time looking, Robby was doing some looking of his own and he couldn’t help but notice how Kate’s beautiful shape was accented well in her cothes.  He cleared his throat but when Kate didn’t look up, “Saying about what?”

“Huh?”  Kate’s head shot up and she looked more than a little confused.

“Are you going to finish your train of thought?”  Robby asked her teasingly.

Kate’s eyes traveled from his face down to his chest, he wasn’t ripped or anything, but there was just something about the way he looked with his shirt off.  When she realized her eyes were wondering again she studied the lines in the marble floor.  “Yah, um as I was saying…” She was having a hard time finding a coherent thought in her head.  “If Moyer was serious about us performing for the kids at the farm I think we should bring it up with Candra and the others.”

Robby closed the space between them in two steps and was standing less than a foot away from her.

Kate closed her eyes and tried to even out her breathing, she had read that some people could slow down their heartbeat by controlling their breathing, and right then her heart was flying a mile-a-minute.  Robby lifted her chin so she was looking up into his eyes.

“I think that’s a great idea,” Robby’s body inched closer to Kate and he lowered his lips to kiss Kate.  Their eyes fluttered shut together, they had both been waiting a long time for this moment.

At the sound of someone knocking on the door they both flew apart and Kate gave a startled squeal, the spell had been broken.

“Yes?”  Robby managed to say.

The butler poked his head in.  “Senior Moyer wanted to know if everything was satisfactory?”

“Everything is fine.  You can tell him that we will be down momentarily.”  Robby answered nodding to him as he left.

“Um…yah, we might want to head down.  We don’t’ know hoe long it will take to get back.”  Kate attempted to back up and add a little space between them but ended up bumping into the wall.  Robby make no attempt to move out of her way and let her by, he was to busy looking intently into Kate’s eyes.  Kate soon forgot any and all ideas of retreating from Robby’s eyes.

“Do you really want to go down there?”  Robby asked in a low voice as he once more leaning in to capture the lips of the woman who entranced him.

“We don’t want to be rude,” Kate whispered breathlessly as his lips brushed against her awaiting ones.  All at once every thought left her mind and the only thing she knew was the firestorm of emotion that flooded her senses when he finally did kiss her.

It was the sweetest most breathtaking kiss Kate had ever experienced.  Slow and full of promise for the future, the kiss was soul sealing.