I tried not to let the thoughts swarm me as I closed the door and gestured to the pizza boxes on the kitchen counter. “I got one cheese and one supreme. I wasn’t sure what you’d prefer.”
“All pizza is good pizza,” Wrex commented with a chaste smile. “One of the best things humans ever thought of, in my opinion.”
“Hard agree.” I laughed back easily, but I could feel the tension tightening around my neck as I grabbed the pizza boxes and started heading for my bedroom.
Wrex cleared his throat, causing me to turn around and see that he wasn’t following me. I placed the pizza boxes down on the coffee table I’d just happened by. “Before we head to the bedroom, I really need to get some things off my chest. If that’s okay.”
I smiled despite the nerves twitching within my veins. “Of course that’s okay, Wrex.”
Closing the space between us, Wrex stopped when he was close enough to reach if I outstretched my arms. He looked so serious, and he looked so handsome that all I wanted to do was to crash my lips against his, but I refrained for fear of upsetting him when he clearly needed to express himself.
“What happened at the warehouse was insane,” Wrex admitted. There was no chance I was going to combat that with an opposition, so he continued. “And while I definitely don’t think I’ve completely dealt with the way that it made me feel in all aspects, it definitely brought something to light that I can’t ignore.”
The end of our situationship practically hung in the balance, ready to fall from the pedestal it had been teetering on since we started hooking up. Wrex wanted time to heal from the trauma of being kidnapped by a petrylle targeted hate group, and I couldn’t blame him for wanting to remove himself from a sexual relationship in order to do that. Not wanting my disappointment to shine, I dulled my features and nodded for him to keeping going.
“Being held at gunpoint was the scariest shit I think I’ve ever experienced,” Wrex looked away, doing his best to bury the memory so that it wasn’t easily readable on his face. “A thousand things ran through my mind. Would I ever see my family again? Would I ever find a different job besides my IT position at the construction company? Would I ever be able to finally move out on my own? Typical things that would run through your mind when a threat was placed on your life.”
His smile made it harder to accept that he was about knife our relationship in a quick lash, spilling the insides of our casual friends with benefits’ guts all over the floor of my condo. A part of me felt slighted that he could cut through our relationship with such an ease he’d yet to voice, but at the same time, he was the one that had been taken from the street and thrown into a van or however the hell Stacy and Maxim had managed to move him, not me. I had no right to regulate what he’d been through.
“But the number one thought I had when I was in that warehouse was how much regret I’d have if I never got to kiss you again.”
My head tilted as if I’d heard him wrong. “Me? Your loudest thought was about me?”
“Yes, Wallace.” He said, shaking his head, as if he couldn’t believe that I was questioning it. “You.” He stepped forward until our chests were touching, trying to keep myself from shaking when our groins connected with a rough thrust. “It’s always you, I just wouldn’t let myself hear it.”
“Wrex, I…” This wasn’t what I’d been expecting. Hell, I’d been steeling myself for the exact opposite of this conversation. Now that I was confronted with what I wanted, I suddenly couldn’t find the words to express myself. “What are you saying, exactly?”
“I’m saying that I know neither of us were looking for a relationship when we started this, but that you’re the only one that I want to be with. If that’s also what you want.”
Heart quickening with overstimulation, I couldn’t speak, couldn’t fathom grasping the right words about how I felt about him. So I grabbed both sides of his handsome face and kissed him hard like I’d been wanting to ever since he’d graced my doorstep. My hands wove patterns into his dark buzzed hair, relishing in the traced tickles they left on my fingertips. Wrex put a hand on my chest, grabbing at my bare pec while his other hand slid down my stomach and picked at my underwear’s waistband.
A light shove from my chest broke our kiss as Wrex pried us apart. “If that means you want the same thing, I’d like to hear it so I know we’re on the same page.”
Chuckling, I cupped his chiseled jaw and stared into those endless blue eyes I’d grown so accustomed to. “I want you, Wrex. You and only you. I’m not gonna lie to you, I’m still apprehensive after my divorce, but I don’t want to be with anyone else.”
“Good.” Wrex beamed. “And I’m totally okay with us taking things incredibly slow. I just…I want us to be, well, an us.”
“We already are,” I assured him. “Plus, I feel I kinda owe you.” I wrapped my arms around his neck, smirking. “Since you went and jumped in front of a bullet for me and all.” A thought, not for the first time, occurred to me and I decided to blurt it out before I never got the chance to ask. “Did you know that your luster could deflect bullets?”
“No,” Wrex admitted, mewling into my touch by sliding his hands across my lower back and pulling me into him, our hips sizzling together with tangible heat. “I just knew you couldn’t.”
Nuzzling into his skin, I tucked my head into the crook in his neck as we pulled each other close, inhaling his usual scent of fresh rain and warm laundry. I was completely taken aback that Wrex was mine. And I was his. The fact that he was willing to take things at a slower pace only made my heart throb harder for him.
We pulled apart and I placed a kiss on his lips again. “Well then, Wrex. This is me officially asking you be more than casual with me.”
He snickered, shaking his head at me. But I felt his lips on my cheek as I smiled wide. “I humbly accept.”
“Good,” I moaned, taking one of my hands and grabbing a handful of his perfect ass, jiggling it for effect. “Because I have some plans for this ass that I’d like to run by you.”
Chapter 26
Wrex’s handstangled in my hair as we wordlessly made it to my bedroom, our tongues tangled together in a display of what we meant to each other. Every lash of his tongue against mine sent fireworks beneath my skin, lighting me up from the inside out as I felt the back of my legs hit the side of my king-sized bed.
I fell backward, taking Wrex with me as we plopped on the mattress with a sizable shift of the bed. I could feel Wrex’s lips curling in amusement as we kept our kiss, not wanting to be separated any longer if we could avoid it.
My hands scoured his back, fingertips memorizing his grey skin like a map I’d never tire of laying my eyes on, pressing into every dip and divot his back had to offer. When they found a home across the globes of his ass, I gave his cheeks a deliberate squeeze, my cock jumping in my boxer briefs just from touching him without rhyme or reason guiding me.
Breaking our kiss, Wrex looked down at me as he forced his fingers through my red hair. “Tell me what you want to do to me, Wallace.”
