Page 76 of Love Thy Neighbor

“You asked for it.” She combs her fingers through her hair. “Seriously, why are you awake? You don’t have to start work for another three hours.”

“Couldn’t sleep.”

She sends me a knowing glance. “Couldn’t, or didn’t want to?”

“That obvious?”

“No. I guess I just understand. This all feels…”

“Like a wet dream?”

She laughs. “Or just a dream.”

“No, it’s definitely wet. I’m sitting in it.”

“Ew.” She wrinkles her nose. “That’s definitely your fault, not mine.”

“I’m sorry, am I the one who leaks from their orifices?”

“First of all, don’t sayorificeswhen you have a girl naked in your bed. Second, you do come, right?”

I raise a brow, smirking. “I think you know the answer to that as well as I do.”

She blushes, likely thinking of the same thing I am—her sucking me off until I spilled down her throat after we got out of the shower.

“Right. Then we’re both aware you do. So that meansyoucan leak too.”

I shrug. “Semantics.”

She starts to roll her eyes again but thinks better of it.

She turns her head, peering around the room she’s been in thousands of times before but never in this capacity. I’d be doing the same thing in her position.

“Can I ask you something?” she says quietly.

“Hmm?”

“This…us…what made you want it?”

“You mean besides watching you parade around the apartment for seven years in those ratty-ass pajamas and mud masks once a week?”

She huffs, and I laugh.

“Honestly, I don’t know,” I say, lifting a shoulder. “It just sort of snuck up on me.Yousnuck up on me.”

“Was it the hallway incident?”

“That was a big part of it, yes. I wasn’t expecting your reaction to seeing me like that. And I wasn’t expecting how much I liked you seeing me like that.”

She nods. “That’s what started it for me too. Have you ever…” I don’t have to look at her to know she’s blushing. “You know…thought about me like that before? Before last week, I mean.”

“Do you want the truth?”

“From you? Always.”

“Yes,” I tell her. “I’ve thought about it, but not too hard and not intentionally. Not one of those,Man, today I’m going to sit around and masturbate to my best friend because I’m secretly in love with herthings. It was more ofMy best friend is hot and I’m a horny teensort of deals. It never went beyond that though.”

“And now?” She tucks a strand of hair behind her ear. “What do you think now?”

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