“What do you mean, ‘of course’?”
He paused, staring at me. “I just mean, of course. You can change your mind. So, I stopped.”
“Wait…I thought you stopped because you didn’t want to keep going.”
“No,” he said, shaking his head. He closed his eyes, his lips thinning to a tight line. “I wasn’tstoppingstopping. I just…” His eyes flashed open and he sighed. “I was embarrassingly close to coming in my shorts.”
My eyes bugged before I could stop them.
He groaned, dropping to his elbows to bury his face in my neck. His hot breath tickled my skin.
“I know. I know. I can’t help it. You’re so,” he groaned again, his hips lowering back down to mine. “You’re so fucking sexy.”
My cheeks flushed and I bit into my bottom lip.
He thinks I’msexy? Me?
“Have you looked in the mirror lately?” I asked with a soft chuckle. “I get turned on just seeing you in your work uniform.”
He chuckled against me, kissing the pulse point on my neck.
“Oh yeah?”
“Yes,” I sighed with exasperation.
His mouth moved against my skin, trailing kisses up my neck, across my jaw, until his lips finally met mine and my eyes closed with contentment.
I didn’t want him to stop this time. I wanted his hands on my skin, wanted his kisses all over my body.
He leaned his weight onto one arm, his other reaching down to hook behind my knee. His hand skimmed my leggings, gently skating past the bandage on my thigh and I winced. Enoch immediately pulled back, to stare down at me. The silent question was written across his face, and I was quick to respond.
“I didn’t. I haven’t since Monday. I promise,” I rushed out.
His eyes narrowed, like he might be able to detect whether I was lying by staring into my soul.
His lips pursed as he debated whether I was telling him the truth.
“I’m…I want to believe you, but…you understand why I’m hesitant to do so, right?”
I swallowed, nodding slowly as the anger burned in my chest. He didn’t trust me. My cheeks felt hot and I shoved him off my legs so that I could stand.
“I know that we agreed that we weren’t going to do body checks, because you wanted privacy, but I’m worried that might have been a mistake. I don’t want to take away your rights to your body, and who you show it to, but…” Enoch’s jaw ticked, as he pulled himself to stand in front of me.
“But you want to see for yourself,” I finished for him.
We stared in silence for a tense minute before I closed my eyes and slowly dragged the waistband of my leggings down to reveal the bandage on my thigh. “It’s just sore. From the sparring,” I explained, opening my eyes and cringing at the redness behind the bandage.
Enoch dropped to his knees, gently pulling the bandage back. I watched his shoulders drop as he hopefully realized that there weren’t any new cuts there.
“Let me clean this up and get you a new bandage,” he said softly, standing.
“Front door open,” the alarm chirped from the hall.
The sudden interruption had my whole body tensing, eyes wide.
Enoch quickly pulled my leggings back up to my waist.
Jae opened the door behind Enoch, looking up with momentary surprise before smiling at me.
