“Because I told you I would be.” I pulled her body back against mine, kissing the side of her neck. “And you missed me.” Had she not been tired as fuck, I would’ve been inclined to get it cracking in here, but I was on something else.
She turned around and faced me, holding the gray wash rag at her side. “How can I miss you if I don’t even know you like that?”
I grabbed the towel from her hand, then reached for the body soap she had apparently brought in here with her. I squeezed ahefty amount onto the towel in my hand before putting it down. “You don’t have to know me like that to miss me, G.”
“I don’t? Then what would I miss about you?” she asked with a knowing smirk on her face.
“Shit, if you don’t have an answer to that question, I don’t know what to tell you, baby.” With the towel flat against my palm I began lathering up suds, then pressed it against her skin. “You sure you didn’t miss me?” I asked, watching her watch me.
She bit into her bottom lip. She was so stubborn and fucking cute that it made me corny.
Once I had thick bubbles attached to almost every inch of her body, I stepped under the water, pulling her in with me.
Then I lowered my neck, kissing her at the same time I leaned down and picked her up. Her thick, buttery thighs wrapped around my waist almost instantly. When she pulled back, gazing down at me, I couldn’t look away.This wasn’t some fling or some ‘one weekend in December shit’, this was intimacy.
“I can’t get used to you being around. It’s detrimental to my mental,” she said out of nowhere as her head rested on my chest. We had long since gotten out of the shower, moisturized, and climbed into bed.
“How do you figure?”
“You have a life that isn’t he?—”
“What if I didn’t? What if I build a life here?” I felt like I was at a crossroad, knowing I needed more but holding on what was in the past even though it no longer fit.
“Why would you do that?”
“Shit, why wouldn’t I? You don’t want me to?” I flipped her off me and hovered my face over hers.
“I mean, of course I want you t— It isn’t about what I want, Hudson. You barely know me. What do you want?”
“I know enough. Ain’t nothing about our time on this earth promised, Greene.”
“And what does that mean?” I could feel her pouting into the darkness before I lowered my lips into her neck.
“It means if you want me, tell me that shit. ’Cause I for damn sure want you and I don’t give a damn that I’ve only known you less than five days.”
“Fine. Pushy. I do want you, but I’m not the type to get caught up in fairytales or the quick falling hard shit I watch on TV. I gotta keep my expectations low, Hudson. So when you decide to go home, I’m not left picking up the pieces of those high ass expectations. Because really, Hudson, is it that easy for you to turn your back on everything you know to stay here?”
I pecked her lips, figuring I’d show her better than I could tell her. Promises and sweet whisperings meant nothing to a woman like her. She needed action because one bitch ass nigga had fucked up her trust. Funny enough, I had never been in anything serious in my life, but all I wanted from Greene was seriousness.I wanted her.
Chapter 6
Greene
Christmas Eve
The easiest thing in the world was to become attached to somebody you didn’t see coming. I mean nopart of me saw him coming, then bam, I was laid up in his bed, his hands rubbing through my scalp. I was doing the very thing I needed to not be doing with a man who had a life thousands of miles away.
“Girl, you look like you’re walking on clouds. Out here smiling while cleaning up after that damn cow.” Raev’s voice made me look up from the task at hand into her face. Of course she had a smirk plastered there.
“Maybe I am, what’s it matter to you?”
She laughed. “And you’re sassy. Good dick must run in the family.” She tightened her robe and took a seat on the stool with my damn coffee cup in her hand.
A brief silence filled the space before she was speaking again. “So, you like him, huh?”
“Course I do, and that’s not a good idea. It’s stupid of me.” I dropped my head in shame. I was hard on myself, but I had to be that way to protect myself.
“Why?” She looked genuinely confused, even though the reasoning was obvious.
