Vivica whimpered, a sound that brought all of his blood rushing forward, but he knew it was for nothing. She was half-asleep, stretching, damn she was showing off more of her perfect body, and he couldn’t keep his eyes away, no matter how badly he wanted to.
He sat down next to her on the bed and shook her gently. Vivica sat up and it was the first thing that he thought to do. Shane moved forward and his lips pressed down against hers. She moaned against him and pulled him down on top of her soft and yielding body.
Shane cursed, before he pressed his body into Vivica’s, pushing her into the mattress and feeling the heat gathered there. He lost himself for a moment, licking and tasting her lips, making her call out as he ground his need against her.
Shane couldn’t believe what he was doing, but he was quickly pulling himself up. He looked down at her sleeping body, wanting to violate her in all ways, but knowing that he couldn’t. The need was so strong that the conversation that they were meant to have was just going to have to wait and be done over the phone.
He left the room quickly, apologizing half-heartedly before he went. That wasn’t what he’d come for, but it was certainly what he wanted right then. Shane had to get out of there, before a part of him snapped and he was dragging Vivica to his bed, not caring if she wanted to be there or not.
Chapter 13
Vivica
Vivica woke up a little after seven in the morning. Her phone was ringing, and it was Shane. She looked at the clock, not sure what he was calling about. She wanted to pee and take a shower, but she had to get his call first. She wasn’t annoyed, but Vivica was thinking that it better be important.
“Shane, I swear if you are calling me from the kitchen or something, I might have to tell you about yourself.”
“Thanks. I should have known that you were holding back. I am not there.”
Vivica sat up a little more in the bed. “Oh?”
“Yeah, I had to leave for a couple of days, and I wanted to make sure that you had all the information that you needed while I'm gone.”
“How long are you going to be gone?”
Vivica didn't like the tone that came out, but she couldn't take it away. It was out there, desperate and hysterical sounding, like Vivica didn’t know how she was going to survive without him.
There was another pause from Shane, and Vivica hoped that he didn't notice how she had said it. She was mortified, and the only excuse that she had was that she was still half asleep.
“I'm not going to be gone long, Vivica. You don't have to worry about it.”
She scoffed and told him that she wasn't worried about it at all. That wasn't true, but thankfully Shane took her words at face value and didn’t call her on it.
“I want you to do some work with Devin. Do you think that would be a problem?”
Vivica disagreed. “No, Devin is great to work with.”
“Is he now?”
“Yeah, he is a really nice guy. I don't mind working with him at all. What do you want me to do?”
“Just do for him what you did for me, keep an eye out for him and let him know if he's losing someone.”
Vivica said that she could do that, and she wanted to ask him how long he was going to be gone. Not too long was ambiguous and she wanted more information. She had asked him, but he had not found it imperative to answer, so that was just going to have to be good enough.
There was a moment where he should have gotten off the phone, but he didn't. Vivica wondered what Shane had on his mind, and she finally asked him if there was anything else that he wanted to discuss. He said that there wasn’t quickly, but still didn’t get off the phone, leaving her stumped yet again. Vivica didn’t think she was ever going to really understand that man.
Shane was not usually so wishy washy that she had seen, and she had to wonder what made him second-guess. It was obvious that he’d wanted something but had backed out of it. That made her wonder.
“Actually, this is going to sound weird, but you didn't come to my room last night, did you?”
He asked her why she wanted to know that, and Vivica remembered clearly this wonderful dream that she had. The two of them were together in a very intimate way. He had kissed her and gotten on top of her while she was lying in bed. It was hard to recall exactly what happened in the dream, it was fuzzy, but Vivica knew that she wanted to remember. She did recall him pressing his body against her and how good that had felt.
“What?”
“I don't know, I must've just had this really weird dream.”
“Weird how?”
