“Like what?”
I poke him in the chest and hiss. “Like you’re stripping me naked with your eyes.”
He wets his bottom lip. “If only that were possible.”
The chuckle that rumbles out of his chest is sexy when I slap his arm playfully.
Dustin and Ivy return from the kitchen with our drinks in their hands. They pass Reid and me each one of our own, and then we head into the living room and find seats on the couches. They sit on one couch, and we sit on the other while we each set our drinks on the coffee table between them.
I try not to fidget with how close Reid is sitting, but I can feel his body warmth, and I want nothing more than to lean into it. The desire to cuddle is strong, but Dustin, even though he seems completely unaware, would definitely notice.
So instead, I snatch a blanket that’s draped over the back of the couch and snap it over my body. I squeak when Reid captures a side of it and covers himself too. Realizing what he just did, we both glance at Dustin, but he’s completely unaware, flicking through the apps on the TV. Ivy, on the other hand, witnessed the whole thing, and her eyes are narrowed as she mouths some sort of reprimand.
Huffing when she’s finished, she asks the room, “Do we have to watch horror?”
She and Dustin bicker back and forth about it, but I don’t pay attention to it because, under the blanket, Reid is reaching for me. His hand is sliding up my leg until it rests right next to my pussy and squeezes the skin there. Immediately, my body lights on fire. Still, Dustin seems unaware that I’m almost cuddling his best friend under the covers, and that best friend is laying on the moves.
He begins drawing small circles, inching closer to my pussy with each pass of his fingers. A small smirk settles on his face when I bite my bottom lip to hold in any sounds that I might involuntarily make.
Slowly, he turns his head to look at me fully. I can’t help but return the stare, and we share that moment of silentcommunication, the one we always do where we don’t need to actually say anything. I could look forever in his eyes. I could just get lost in them, and as the seconds tick by, I start to.
“Popcorn!” Ivy shouts, snapping our stare. Reid immediately lets go of my thigh as if we’ve been caught, and if the narrowed expression on Ivy’s face is anything to go by, she did catch us.
“What?” Reid asks after a moment.
“We need popcorn.” She turns to Dustin. “Do you have any?”
“Yeah,” Dustin says, rubbing the back of his neck. “I think we have a bag of puffed popcorn.”
“Good,” she says, standing up and pulling him to his feet. “Come on, lover boy. Let’s go get it.”
Dustin frowns as she steers him from the apartment, and when he’s out of earshot, she whips around with her finger jabbing in our direction. “You have a few seconds to get it out of your system, and when we come back, you’re going to act normal. Got it?”
With that said, she leaves and shuts the door.
We’re on each other immediately, lips clashing in a heated kiss. I gather myself on my knees and press my body into his. His hands roam my backside, and mine grip his shirt tightly in my fists. God, his hands feel like heaven. His touch turns me on and makes me feel safe at the same time.
Our tongues sweep over each other’s, and we make little urgent sounds into our mouths. And when we hear Dustin’s apartment door shut, we fly off of each other, quickly straightening our shirts and the blanket across our laps which had almost fallen to the floor.
My apartment door opens, and they both step through. A look of relief appears on Ivy’s face, and she gives me a little nod, one that I return, letting her know that we’ll behave for the rest of the night.
And we do. The only thing we do under the blanket is hold hands. I barely even notice the movie because I’m too busy relishing the fact that this man beside me is mine.
CHAPTER 23
REID RATHE
Rain peltsthe windows as Jacob hops off the treadmill and joins me stretching on the mats. The gym is still pretty empty. Most students are still in class, but mine was canceled. Today is Jacob’s short day, so it was a given to invite him to join me in an extra workout.
The smell of the gym and the sounds of the equipment being used soothes me. I’m a bundle of anxiety ever since Avery agreed to date me. I don’t want to let her down. I don’t want to give her a reason to end it because this girl is it for me. I know that with certainty. I fought for her, and now I have her, and I’m not going to let her go.
My phone goes off, and I grab it off the floor from beside me.
I grin at Avery’s name and then open it up. As quickly as I open it, I just as quickly press the screen to my chest and peek at Jacob to see if he saw the screen. It was a picture of Avery naked in front of her mirror.
Seeing that he’s engrossed in his leg stretches, I peel the phone away from my chest and get a second look. My cock stirs to life at the sight of her, and I have to start counting in my head so that it doesn’t get full mast.
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