“It’s Tide, and I’m pretty sure bathing in it goes against the warning on the label.”
“Mmm. Well, maybe I’ll just stay right here forever instead.”
Jamie made a choking sound and moved his fingers to my exposed upper back. My hands curved around the back of his neck. I began to move my hips to the beat while he swayed with me, slowly, carefully, all the while tracing soft lines across my skin.
I wanted to feel more of him, so I pressed closer, eating up the inches that had remained between our lower bodies. Almost immediately, the pleasure running through me turned more decadent, and I let out a moan. The beat of the song started to pulse between my legs.
His hands stopped. “Ivy, this is not a good idea.”
“I think this is the best idea I’ve ever had.”
“I can’t,” he said, his lips moving against my hair.
A suspicion entered my mind. “Are you dating someone?”
“No,” he responded immediately.
“Then I don’t see why we shouldn’t do this.” I ground my hips into his, and that’s when I felt it. “You’re hard,” I whispered, lifting my face to him. “You want me, too.”
“Listen to me.” He tried to gently push me away, but I clung to his neck. “You’re high, and you don’t really know what you’re doing. You’ll regret this in the morning.”
“I seriously doubt that.” Hadn’t he seen himself in the mirror? “I want to go home with you.”
“Ivy, no,” he said in a strangled voice. He wrapped his hands around my wrists and untangled my arms from his neck.
“Why?” I asked, exasperated.
His gray eyes drifted across my face, searching for something. “Is this your first time doing Molly?”
“Yeah. So what?”
He let out a long breath. “When did you take it?”
“Just before eleven.”
Jamie pulled out his phone. “It’s two now. You’re going to be coming down soon, and we should get out of here before that happens. I’m taking you home.”
“To your home?” I asked hopefully.
“No, to yours.”
I shook my head. “I can’t go there. I was supposed to stay over at Mimi’s, the friend who I lost.”
He frowned. “Why can’t you go to your place?”
“My roommate will kill me if I wake her up and she finds out I took drugs. I promised her I would crash somewhere else tonight.”
He took another deep breath and closed his eyes. I studied how his long eyelashes fanned out across his skin.
“Okay, I’ll take you back to my place.”
My pulse sped up. Oh my God. This was really happening. I was about to have sex—
“I have a guest room you can sleep in.”
His words were like a bucket of cold water thrown over my head. I whined, Iactuallywhined. “Will you sleep there with me?”
He wouldn’t look at me as he grabbed my hand and led me toward the exit.
