“Wait.” The protest tumbles out of her. “Shouldn’t we talk about tests and stuff?”
“No need.” I close the distance between us and press my lips against hers. “I’ve never been with anyone else.”
“You haven’t?” Disbelief colors her voice.
“No. I haven’t.”
She takes a moment to process that before she nods. “I haven’t either.”
Air expands in my lungs when she confirms it. She couldn’t know how much I needed to hear those words from her.
“I’m on birth control too,” she says.
“I know.” A smile tugs at my lips as I dip my forehead against hers.
“How do you know?”
“Courting you from afar, remember?”
“Right,” she breathes.
I take her mouth in a slow, languid kiss, entertaining the thought of doing this all night. Gabi, however, has other ideas.
“You’re still hard,” she murmurs.
I hum my acknowledgment, grinding my cock against her pussy.
“Do you want to have sex?”
She sounds so hopeful, I don’t want to crush her, so I try to let her down gently.
“Not yet.”
“Why?” she protests. “We’ve talked about it. It sounded like you wanted to.”
“Make no mistake,” I rasp. “I fucking want to.”
“Then what is it?”
“You’ll try to kick me out of your bed the minute it’s over. I want the girlfriend experience.”
“That’s not true,” she argues, but even as she says it, I can hear the uncertainty in her voice.
She’s torn between being in the moment and holding back for whoever the fuck Orion is. I don’t even know him, but already, I’m imagining fifty different ways to murder him.
“I’ll get something to clean you up.” I start to push away from her, but she grabs me by the arm, anchoring me there.
“Please don’t go,” she whispers. “I like this.”
“Are you here with me, or are you thinking of him?”
“Who?” She stiffens beneath me.
“Whoever it is you’ve been using me as a placeholder for.”
“It’s not like that.” The words leave her in a rush.
“Then tell me what it is like.”
