“Books on soils,” Dani said.
“Well, I got passes to the rare collections room,” Andreas said, holding up two badges. “Unfortunately, there’s a limit of two at a time.”
“Great,” Theo said. “How about the two of you go there, and I’ll look into the soils?”
Dani put her hand on his forearm. “No, I don’t want to leave you.” The fear in her voice could not be missed.
He didn’t want to leave her, either.
“That’s okay,” Andreas said. “You two go to the rare collections. I’ll look for the soils.”
“Are you sure?” Theo asked.
Andreas smiled. “Of course. I’ll meet you outside the room once I’m finished. But just in case, here,” he said, handing Theo a piece of paper with an address and phone number. “This is the address to Christos’s house and our phone numbers.”
Hopefully, they wouldn’t need it.
“Then shall we go check it out?” Theo asked Dani.
She smiled.
“What’s that for?” he asked.
“You know I’ve been dying to check out the books since we got in here.” Even with everything else going on around them, her excitement couldn’t be contained. Her passion was something he’d always admired about her.
He stood up and held out his hand. “Let’s do it.”
Chapter
Eighteen
Dani
As Dani climbed the backstairwell to the third floor of the library, the only thing she could think about was whether her ass looked good or not. Theo followed her, at eye level with her behind. After the morning in bed and all their talk of getting railed in the stacks at the library, the only thing on her mind was fucking.
The library had so many places to fuck. The reading tables. The shelves. The ladders. Bend her over a card catalog and file it away under “best places to fuck in the library.” There was also something about the forbiddenness of it all. Keep quiet. Don’t talk above a whisper. Don’t make any noise. Life as a straitlaced librarian was never something she had on her bingo card. But getting fucked in the library? Now,thatwas definitely a box Dani wanted to check off her sexual bucket list.
And she’d told Theo that she wanted that.
Given the circumstances, she was almost a little embarrassedat how horny she was for Theo. Prior to this…trip…she and Theo had never talked about sex before. Ever. But now it was at the forefront of her mind.
Dani glanced behind her, catching Theo staring at her ass, as suspected.
“Stop looking at my ass,” she said with a smirk.
“Juicy, if you don’t want me looking at your ass, don’t walk in front of me.”
“Fine, then you go first.” She paused on the stairs and stepped to the side for him to pass her.
“Uh-uh,” he said, shaking his head. “I don’t want you looking at my ass.”
She playfully rolled her eyes and then resumed climbing up the stairs. But this time she sashayed her hips, taking each step slowly.
“Okay, now you’re fucking with me,” he said. She could hear the playfulness in his voice. Man, this was fun.
“Why, whatever do you mean, Dr. Galanis?” she said, turning her head ever so slightly and placing her index finger on her bottom lip, using her silliest sexy voice like she was Marilyn Monroe climbing out of a birthday cake. She turned around to face him, but Theo wasn’t laughing at her silly voice like she’d anticipated. Instead, there was a fire burning in his eyes. Tension that he was holding back.
“Don’t call me that,” he said, his voice hoarse as he took the last stair and stood facing her. He towered over her as she sank back against the wall. “Not unless you want me to turn your library fantasy into reality right here.”
