“I’ve got practice in the morning, so I won’t have to stop at home first.And maybe I could drop in on my sister, since I’m here and…”
Then the Doctor kisses me, cutting off my last words and my weak attempt to lie.
I wasn’t going anywhere.I didn’t care about practice, the bag, or anything else.
All I wanted was to be here, in his house, with him.To sleep in his bed, safe from monsters and dragons.
“Would you like to read?”I ask him.
He looks at me, puzzled.
“I’d like to finish that book.”
“That’s not just some way of saying something else that I don’t know about, is it?”
I laugh.“No, it’s the truth.Does that sound so strange to you?”
“What?That you’re interested in a book?”
“That I’m not interested in anything else.”
“By anything else, you mean sex, yeah?”
“Yes.”
“Oh, good.At least I still get it.”
“I want it, Doctor.”I take his face in my palms again and pull him closer.“I want it so damn much.”
“Good to know.”
“And you?”
“Are you really asking me that?Just seeing you in my house, with that dangerous little face of yours, that messed-up hair, and that pants-dropping grin… I’m hard just looking at you.”
I laugh at how honest he is and kiss him again.
“And that’s not helping.”
“You make things very difficult for me, Doctor.”
“You’re hardly easy yourself, you know that?”
I let him go slowly, then take his hand.“Come on.Let’s go to your bedroom.We have some reading to do.”
“You care that much about that book?”
“I like hearing you read.I love watching your eyes follow the lines, your voice rising and falling with the story, your lips moving slowly.I like how your voice shakes a bit when it gets intense, and the slow, sensual way your mouth just rolls over every word…”
“That’s it.You’ve landed me in trouble again.”
I lean in, my mouth close to his ear.“Do you see now why I like that book so much?”
He turns to me and brushes his lips over mine.“I’m starting to really like it myself.”
Chapter52
Martin
