Chapter Seven
“Out. Out. Out.” I pushed Leah toward the front door. “Go see Axel or something, I don’t care, but you have to leave.”
We had made it back to the apartment hours ago, but Law had just texted me he was only twenty minutes away.
“Just tell me when I can come home!” Leah waved over her shoulder as she made her way toward the stairs and I locked myself back in the apartment. Law would be here soon and I was pretty sure I still looked like a mess. I had managed to shower and shave. Leah helped me with my hair, but I refused to put makeup on since it was already getting too late. I doubted we would go anywhere except for my bedroom. It was presumptuous, but I couldn’t help the pull I felt inside of me to Law. I wanted him to take me like he had the night before he left me. I wanted to recreate that magic again.
It was different than anything I could have ever imagined. The beat of my heart raced, but also felt like it was slowing down when I was with Law like that. Us tangled up in each other’s bodies, like time wasn’t a thing trying to keep us apart.
A loud knock sounded from the door.
“Open up, sugar.”
I jumped at Law’s voice and grabbed for my phone, not seeing a message from him that he was here. It had been quicker than twenty minutes. Had he sped here? I reached the door and opened, not knowing what I would see on the other end.
I took in a deep breath when Law, who was dressed in jeans, a black shirt, and baseball cap greeted me. I wanted to jump straight into his arms.
“Fuck.” He swore and swooped into the apartment, making me step back into the hallway. He shoved the door closed with his foot and turned the lock it without ever losing eye contact with me. He stalked toward me and I stepped backward. I licked my lips and then took the bottom lip between my teeth. I stood there in my yoga shorts and a tank top with no bra on. Law’s eyes scanned my whole body and it felt like I was coming home. My body was coming to life again because of him.
“It’s good to see you too, Law.” I chuckled at him when I looked down at his jeans, where his cock was visibly growing. I stood straighter, more confident. This man was as turned on by me as I was by him.
“It’s going to be better in a second.” Law reached for me before I could move away, wrapping an arm around my waist and bringing our bodies flush against each other. He brought his lips to meet mine and it was like we had never been apart. My arms went immediately around his neck to bring him closer to me and he hoisted me in the air to walk toward my bedroom.
He took no time to toss me on the bed and start to strip out of his clothes. I watched as he revealed his perfectly sculpted body that I had been daydreaming about earlier when watching him in his jumpsuit.
“You looked good on the track.” I licked my lips again as I paid him the compliment.
“I’m sorry I couldn’t be there to see your other performances,” Law countered my compliment. I lay there staring at him. How had he known I’d been sad about him not being there? “When I raced today I felt a pang in my heart. Like I needed you there. I needed you to see me race, but I didn’t know how to ask you, so I didn’t. I just got on the track and raced like I thought maybe one day you might see it.”
I sat there in awe that Law had done the same thing I had been doing for the past two weekends since he left.
“Trust me, sugar, if you felt even half what I felt out there on the track while you danced on stage, I get it. I understand it, completely.” Law shed the last bit of clothing he had on and stood in front of me bare. “Now.”
He licked his lips and pulled at both of my ankles, bringing me flush to the edge of the bed.
“I need to show you how much I missed you and that starts with getting rid of these clothes.” He leaned down and tore at my tank, ripping it down the middle. I gasped at his movements as he lifted me off the bed to rid me of the shirt and then pulled my panties and shorts down all at once. I lay there fully exposed, ready for Law to not only show me how much he missed me, but for me to show him how much I missed him.
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I woke with a start the next morning, reaching over to the spot next to me like I had done a week before, but this time instead of cold sheets, a hot body met my hand. I sat up and looked over the specimen of a man who had collided into my life. He lay there, breaths coming easily, and I lost the ability to breathe myself. My heart fluttered and the sense of relief I felt had been different from the sexual tension we had been creating. This felt like something more. I traced a finger down his chest. I thought of how we had come to this, how I had come to longing for a man I’d just met. Law had taken me by surprise, that was for sure, but now that I had him, what was I supposed to do?
Nothing was official, but it felt like it was. He had called me out on national television. That had to mean something. He traveled all the way to my apartment to spend the night with me before having to leave again. That meant everything. I knew the words I wanted to say to him, I knew them, but they were words I also wanted to keep locked up because anyone in their right minds would call me crazy. I sighed and lay my head back on my pillow and stared at Law, watching as his even breaths raised his chest up and down.
Law stirred next to me and I looked over to see it was late into the morning. Luckily with the ballet being finished, we got a week off to relax before we were back to standard practices. I slumped back into the bed while Law rolled over and pulled me into him.
“I have to leave by two,” Law whispered into my ear and took a nibble out of it.
“That means three hours.” I snuggled back into him, trying to prolong the inevitable.
“Anything you want to do before I head out?”
I’m not sure if he had been to Central Park yet, but that was something we could do. Grab a bagel and then go for a walk. Maybe then we could talk a little bit about us. Clear the air for any uncertainties.
“There’s a great bagel place across town. We can take an Uber and then walk through Central Park,” I suggested.
“I’ll call my driver,” Law said.
He left my body to roll over and grab his phone, shooting off a text.
