Astrid stayed quiet for a long time, but I could feel her eyes on me.Then, suddenly, she curled her arm around mine and pulled me closer with it.In my peripheral vision, I saw the smallest smile on her face, cheeks rounding.
“I know,” she whispered.
She knew, and she still asked me?
“Is that why you’re leaving?”she asked.“You’re scared?”
I yanked myself out of her grasp.“Scared of what?You?”
“Not of me,” she said, readjusting herself.She scanned my face for a few moments, her gaze drifting from my eyes to my lips and then back up, her breath hitching for a moment.“I mean … of … this?”
“Of what?”I asked again.
“Of us.”
“Don’t be fucking stupid, Astrid,” I growled, throwing the door open.“There is no us.”
CHAPTERFIFTY-NINE
ASTRID
“Fuck!”I cried, tugging on Cairo’s hair and keeping him close to my pussy, his tongue drawing circles around my sensitive clit.Pleasure exploded through my body, my legs shaking uncontrollably.“Don’t s-s-s-stop!”
Cairo stared up at me through his glasses, his hands gripping my thigh.
God, how does he know exactly how to touch me?!
“We have to stop doing this at Dunkin’,” he grunted.“Next time is at my house.”
My head lolled back as I just thought about what he’d do to me there, and I bucked my hips back and forth, riding out my orgasm all over his face.Wave after wave of ecstasy flowed through me.
With my chest rising and falling in quick motions, I leaned back against Cairo’s passenger seat and pushed some hair out of my face.The Dunkin’ parking lot was quiet this morning, the occasional car pulling through the drive-through.Nobody from Redwood, thankfully.
“What’s wrong?”Cairo asked, sitting back and readjusting his glasses.
The scent of coffee and doughnuts drifted through the air, and I ran a hand through my hair.
“Nothing,” I murmured, still trying to catch my breath.
He leaned toward me slightly.“Is it the baby?”
“Yeah … the baby …”
A long silence drifted through the car, and then he cleared his throat.“Are you sad about not actually having one, or is it something else?”He placed a hand on my thigh and squeezed lightly.“It’s okay.You can?—”
I furrowed my brow.“Wait, how’d you know that?”
Cairo looked just as confused.“Arch told me.”
I rolled my eyes.“Of course he told you.”
“He didn’t tell Calix, if you’re worried about him,” Cairo said.
Well, well, well, Arch not being a dick for once?Color me shocked.
The way Arch had looked at me before leaving my room earlier was like he couldn’t get away fast enough, like there was something between us that he felt too.I closed my eyes and pushed the memory away.
“What did he actually say?”I asked, raising a brow.
