Page 91 of Nerdelicious
And then he moves. Our bodies rock in unison, a slow and tender dance. He lifts one hand to brush against my skin, cupping my breast, drawing circles around the sensitive peaks.
I lift my legs and lock around him, clasping him, guiding his movements into the perfect angle to thrust rightthere. Minutes later, pleasure ripples through me without warning, a wave that takes Beast out with me, and we’re both groaning in the aftermath of release.
Sometime later, actual time has ceased to have meaning, but the room is dark and we’re lying in bed, facing each other with my leg up over his waist.
“Are you hungry?” I ask, tracing the line of his shoulder with a finger.
He shakes his head. Then he reaches out and runs his thumb over my lips, his eyes following the movement before he meets my eyes.
“I love you.” His voice is deep and soft, comforting like hot chocolate, the words hoarse.
I can’t move. I can’t think. I can only stare at him in awestruck wonder, my heart pounding.
“Beast,” I manage to get out between frantic breaths. I push up to sitting and stare down at him. “Youtalked.”
His eyes widen in feigned shock. “I did?”
Stunned by both his words and the fact that he can make jokes at a time like this, I burst into tears.
He pulls me into his chest.
“You talked,” I blubber all over him. “You told me you loved me. You’re here. It’s all so overwhelming I’m not sure I can take it.”
His chest moves under my cheek, and I pull back to watch, holding my breath while he takes a couple long seconds to force out words again. “It’s... hard.”
The words aren’t quite as confident as his profession of love. This time, his voice is forced, a little ragged with effort.
“It’s okay.” I hold his dear face, rubbing a thumb over the scruff on his jaw, meeting his eyes. “You don’t have to. I don’t care if you never talk again. You’re perfect just as you are.”
He smiles and nods.I know, he mouths.
“Maybe I should mention that I love you, too.” I’m smiling so hard, my cheeks hurt.
His returning grin is blinding, the dimple in his cheek winking at me.
I sigh, completely infatuated with everything about him. If I were a cartoon, those little heart eyes would be popping out of my face right now.
“Oh.” A thought occurs to me. “What if ‘I love you’ was all you could say? You could be like the romantic version of Groot.” I widen my eyes, a little excited at the prospect. Beast is as probably as big as adult-sized Groot.
He pulls me down, kissing me even as his shoulders shake with laughter under my hands, his mouth curved up, smiling against my lips.
“Wait.” I sit up before we can get sucked back into Sexy Land. “You might wanna grab your phone because I have a lot of questions. How long are you staying? Why didn’t you tell me you were coming? When did you start talking?”
I slide off him and he rolls away, grabbing his phone from his pants on the floor while I continue my barrage of questions and rambling nonsense.
“We have to go to Dinosaur Bar-B-Que while you’re in town. It’s in Harlem, not quite like Granny does it, and well, maybe you could do it better but...”
He gets back in bed, holding up his phone.
I blink at the words on the screen, not registering it at first, like his phone is somehow converting the words to Dothraki.
I’m not going back to Blue Falls.
I read it twice. Meet his eyes. He nods. I read it a third time. And then a fourth. And I burst into tears all over again.
Minutes later, after I’ve pulled my shit together, he gives me the rest of the story. With his phone this time. He’s met max capacity for speaking. He tells me about Grace applying to CIA for him, her admission that she interfered with his prior application, but now he’s starting in less than a month. He even has a place to stay, since the school helped him find housing nearby.
“I wish you could live here with me.” I run a hand down his stomach, watching his muscles flex and respond to my touch.
