This time he pulled his face away from mine so he could crook his head to look at me.“What are you getting at, Em?”
I shrugged a shoulder, shifting against him so I could angle my body and look at him.“I just wanted to be sure that your rash decision to move to Arizona was…going the direction you wanted it to.”He more than proved himself to me, but I just didn’t understand why he didn’t try and pursue a sexual relationship with me.Was he interested in another woman?I didn’t think so, not really, but when a guy and girl were living together,sleeping together, one would just assume other things would be happening in that bed other than fully clothed cuddling.
His green eyes stayed locked with mine, but the stare down didn’t feel uncomfortable in the slightest.After a grand pause, he finally said through a serious face, “I would do it again.”
“Yeah?”
“Yeah.”
He stared me down again and with his eyes looking so intently in mine and his hands locked over my hip, I knew without a doubt he spoke the truth.But it still didn’t sit right with me, the fact he hadn’t made any advances sexually.With as hard as he pursued me before, one would think thatsurelyhe’d find a green light in there somewhere.
I needed to know why.
I pushed myself up, hearing him grunt when I elbowed his stomach in the process, and blurted, “Then why won’t you sleep with me?”
Rory pushed himself up to a sit, one leg falling over the side of the couch.“What do you propose I’ve been doing in your bed every night, Em?”
He could be so frustrating.
I crossed my arms over my chest, a mix of hurt and pissed off that I wasn’t aware I was feeling.“Don’t be a smartass, Rory.Why won’t you fuck me?Is that better?”
5
Rory
I will bethe first to admit that I love riling Emily up.I love pushing her buttons until she explodes.It was a game when I first met her, trying to get her to warm up to me, and now I just liked to see the woman flustered.
But even I knew that there was a time to push buttons, and now really wasn’t it.Still though, I had to push one.Just one.
Looking up at her as she sat there, crooked and on a hip between my legs, I pushed myself to sit up.“What do you propose I’ve been doing in your bed every night, Em?”I’ve been sleeping with her.And it was fucking torture, but I was doing it.
Emily crossed her arms and a mix of emotions crossed her face, telling me that I should have stuck with my gut and not pressed this particular button.Someone wasn’t feeling very much like joking at the moment.
“Don’t be a smartass, Rory.Why won’t you fuck me?Is that better?”
If I hadn’t already sat up, that would have done it.Fuck her?She wants to know why I won’tfuckher?How about because I was falling in lo—
Woah there.Slow your jets, Rore.Let’s not let that cat out yet…
I could feel energy coursing through me and I wanted nothing more than to pace it off, but I was going to sit my ass right here and make her face what she just said.
“One,” I started, holding a finger between us.“When we get there, it will not befucking.”I may have sneered the word.
No, I definitely sneered the word.
“Two.”A second finger joined the first.“I thought we established we were,I was, doing this different with you.I’m proving to you that I can be a good guy, someone you can count on and rely on.Mefucking youright out the gate certainly wouldn’t prove that.”
It had been a long time since I’d gotten so easily heated over a discussion, but I could feel it happening.Were all my efforts the last few months—the last fuckingtwo years—for naught?
“And three—” I folded my index finger down, holding up my back three fingers.Before I could come up with something on the spot, because I had nothing, Emily threw her body forward, knocking me backward and causing my head to hit the wall behind the arm of the couch.
“Goddamn,” I mumbled, reaching for my head, all while Emily lay over me, her laughing face buried in my shirt.“Yeah, yeah, laugh it up,” I said, feeling a smile try to break out on my face.
Emily pushed herself up, her hands in the center of my chest, with hair falling all around her.Half was still in a loose, low ponytail, and the other half had wrestled itself free.Her face was split in a huge grin and I couldn’t help but think she was freaking beautiful.
And she was afraid I wasn’t happy in Arizona, just sleeping beside her?
Shit.I’d do it again and again.
