Page 26 of Where the Dark Knelt
SEXPERT:#1 headache remedy *smiley emoji*
SEXPERT: Please, I don’t want to leave things like this.
Pink Lady: I’m so angry with you, you need to redeem yourself.
There was no denying his ability to get around me, even if he was the cause of my low feelings.How could he be the cause and the cure?I was already mad at myself because I knew I was going to cave eventually.
I’d never felt more alone in my life, and I didn’t want to stay on my own tonight, but I most definitely didn’t intend on having sex with him.
SEXPERT:How can I redeem myself with a door between us? I’d like to do my redeeming now.
PinkLady:Where are you?
SEXPERT:PEEPHOLE?
My jaw dropped.Is he outside the apartment door?I wrapped myself in a towel and pulled on some boy short panties before going to check. As I looked through the peephole, my cell buzzed again, making me jump.
SEXPERT: Are you objectifying me through the peephole?*ninjaemoji*
Although I fought it, a smile played on my lips. Even though I tried to stay mad, he was too cute for his own good. I was also aware that I was vulnerable to his charms. Sighing, I opened the door.
Rushing at me, he swung me around behind the door, and pressed his body flush to mine. Alfie’s hand was instantly sifting my wet hair, while his mouth came toward mine.
Placing my hand between my face and his to stop him, Alfie kissed my fingers. His lips brushed against my hand, and I pushed him back. “No, Alfie, this isn’t a game. This isn’t one of your sessions. If you want to speak to me, stay. If you want more than that, then you need to go elsewhere. I’m truly not interested.”
“Thank you,” he husked.
“For… allowing you to apologize? For, forgiving you for being a pig?” I sounded annoyed and exhaled loudly.
Alfie nodded and smirked. “Okay, I deserved that.” His lips twisted to the side, then pursed before morphing into a half smile.
I turned, walking away, his glib attitude was making my temper rise again. I was too close to him and wanted some space between us so that I could think, but he caught the end of my towel, and I walked straight out of it. “Now, that’s better.” He grinned appreciatively. “But you need to lose the underwear, it’s obstructing my view.” He snickered.
Grabbing at my breasts to hide them, I spat out, “You’re unbelievable, Alfie.” I curled forward to hide myself. He tried to reach out, but I smacked his hand and took the towel back.
“Stay there while I get dressed. I’ll be back. Come near me and you’re back on the other side of the door, you hear me?”His smile was fixed, but then he realized I wasn’t playing, and it slowly deflated until his lips were settled back into position.
“Okay, I’ll behave,” he insisted, shaking his head low as if he knew he’d been defeated.
I quickly pulled on some sport shorts and a functional white cotton bra and finally a pink tank top, then went back to the sitting room. “You want something to drink?” I asked, walking around the edge of the counter and opening the fridge.
Reaching into the fridge, I grabbed myself a soda. “Water?” he asked. I pulled one from the door shelf and tossed it at him. He caught it in both hands and broke the seal, inhaling half of the bottle in no time.
I wascareful not to sit near him, choosing to face him at one end of the couch. I curled up, hugged my knees, and he smiled.
Waggling my finger between us, I asked, “What is this, Alfie? What are we doing?” His eyes searched up into his brow, as if he was looking for the answer up there.
“Our arrangement?” he asked gnawing his bottom lip at the side.
“What are you doing with me, why are you doing this?” I asked bluntly, then took a sip of my soda. “I don’t understand why you hit me up for our little arrangement when you’re dating already.”
He shifted himself on the couch and looked uncomfortable. “I’m not dating her, and I never promised you anything, Lily.” This was true, he hadn’t.
“Yeah, but, Alfie, you did all that intimate stuffwith me, and you are with another woman the same night? That’s just downright dog-like behavior.” I sighed. “Why are you still here? Why didn’t you go home?We owe each other nothing.”
Nervous eyes flicked up to mine, and he moved toward me. “I didn’t fuck her, only you, and it wasn’t intimacy between us, it was sex.”
I snickered at him. “Then that makes all of it okay. You didn’t fuck her? No? Why not, Alfie… she wouldn’t let you? I bet that pissed you off. You bought her dinner, and she didn’t put out for you. Makes me a damn cheap lay, I only cost you an OJ.” He started to move along the couch, and I held my finger up to stop him. “Not unless you want to leave. Don’t come near me, I don’t want you to touch me.”
