Page 23 of Call and Response

CHAPTERSIX

Noble

It was hard to sleep.

Wait, scratch that.

Post-sex exhaustion madefallingasleep incredibly easy.

But once something changed in the middle of the night, throwing me off enough to pull me awake, I couldn’t get back.

It only took a moment for me to recognize what the change was.

Audra.

She was no longer in my bed.

Taking the parts of her personality I'd been introduced to so far into account, it wasn't far-fetched to think she'd simply left in the middle of the night, effectively treating me like a sneaky link.

But…nah.

She was still in my apartment.

Somehow I just… knew.

And since I knew, was I supposed to investigate?

Or did I assume she wanted to be alone?

Surely after the level of intimacy we’d shared, it wouldn't be ill conceived for me to find and check on her, right?

Intimacy.

Was that what we were calling casual casually fucking a near stranger now?

Casual fucking.

Near stranger.

If only either of those things struck me as particularly accurate.

Shit.

That, right there, was the exact reason I hadn't been dealing with anybody lately.

I didn't know the rules anymore, and if I didn't want to wind up in an accidentally toxic situation, it was best to just completely leave it all alone.

Too late for that now.

“Fuuuuck,” I groaned, rolling out of bed to cover my naked ass in a pair of boxers before I went searching.

Not that we hadn’t seen everything at this point, but coming to find her with my dick swinging just didn’t seem like the right vibe.

It was a small apartment, so there were only a few places she could be. She wasn't in the bathroom, so I took the opportunity to procrastinate a bit, relieving myself and washing my hands.

I hated awkward moments.

Butwhywas this so potentially awkward?

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