Page 97 of Unbearable

The corner of her lip curls into a grin. “You have a plan for everything, don’t you?”

“If it means getting you naked then yes, I will always have a plan.”

“Your plan is pushing boundaries,” she tells me, a warning clear in her voice.

Playfully I hold my hands up and scoot away from her picking up a box of noodles and chopsticks. “I’ll stop.”

We eat mostly in silence, though she asks if I stayed upstairs like I was supposed to today. I lie at first and then grin. “I got really bored and went downstairs. Red yelled at me.”

“Well, good. You should rest and get better.”

I can’t tell her that resting isn’t possible with the pent-up frustration I have. If only she could relieve some of it. “Should we watch a movie?” she asks, attempting to distract me from her body.

I know what watching a movie is going to do. She’ll lie down and I’ll be thinking of all the ways I could cover my body with hers. Groaning, I sit back, running my hands over my face before dropping them on my lap. “Sure.”

She scowls at me and the tone of my voice, unknowingly being completely fucking adorable with such a simple gesture. “Don’t sound so enthused.”

“I don’t know how Red did this for so long. I’m fucking bored out of my mind. And horny.”

Her cheeks flush. “Well, I can keep you company but we’re not having sex.”

“When did the naughty nurse have so many rules? In my fantasy of what a naughty nurse would do for me, there were no rules…or clothes.” My hand moves to her thigh, higher, until she catches it.

Laughing, she stands up, making her way over to the TV and the movies surrounding it. She doesn’t even look at the movie she puts in the DVD player and sits down next to me.

I wait a few minutes before I ask, “Will you go somewhere with me?”

There’s a heavy sigh, one that I swear comes from her feet. “Tyler, we agreed. No dating. And no, I’m not going to your bedroom with you either.”

“Didwe?” I scratch my jaw. “I don’t remember making any rules this time around. And how will this work if we don’t date?”

Her eyes never leave my hands and I know what she’s thinking. She loves my hands and this is hard for her too. “We haven’tyet, but we will. And that includes no dinner dates. We’ll get to dating soon.”

“That’s a dumb rule.” I point to the now empty containers of Chinese food. “We’re literally eating dinner right now.”

“This is different. I brought this over and it’s takeout.”

Her rules make no sense and I think she knows it, but I’m not going to pressure her right now. This is new and we’re still trying to figure out what it means. As much as I hated it at the time, I know why Raven pushed me away once I decided I wanted her too.

Now she’s afraid if we give it a label, it will hurt worse if it doesn’t work. I don’t want that either but I’m going with whatever she wants this time.

“Okay, so no going out to dinner?” I’m not liking these rules at all.

She nods, twirling noodles around her chopsticks. “Precisely.”

I frown and push the container away from me, leaning back. “I’m going to dinner with my parents Wednesday night.”

Her face is expressionless when I say it, but her eyes give her away. “I’ll totally go with you for that. Where are we going?”

“Valentino’s.”

“My last class on Wednesday is at noon. I’ll come up after that.”

My mind immediately focuses on the word come and she shakes her head when my eyes light up with amusement. Taking the pillow from beside her, she stuffs it between us. I don’t care. As long as she’s here with me, I’ll take it slow, even though I don’t want to.

It’s something like ten minutes into the movie and I look over at Raven, my sexual frustration amplified as she walks around my apartment making herself at home and making popcorn. “Can I at least touch your boobs?”

She shrugs and sits down with a bowl of popcorn in her lap. Taking my hand, she places it on her boob. “Hell, why not.”

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