Page 44 of Dirty News
“You’re so beautiful, Lila.” He kissed my neck, sending shivers down myspine.
All I could do was moan, too out of my head from sensation to even say a word. My body was on fire, my insides molten lava, and my brain was all wrapped up inthat.
He rocked us until I came again, and he came along with me. Our combined sounds filled the air along with the sound ofpanting.
It wasbeautiful.
And when he laid me back then laid right next to me on his side, looking down at me as he rested his gorgeous head on the palm of his hand, I wasmesmerized.
His eyes were sparkling, his grin lopsided, his face still glowing from the orgasm. He trailed one finger along my collarbone. “I love seeing you like this in my bed,baby.”
“I love being like this in this bed too, babe.” I took his finger and kissed the tip of it. “What you do always amazesme.”
“It’s you who’s amazing.” He leaned over, letting his lips just barely graze mine. “You taste like heaven. I can’t seem to get my fill of you,girl.”
“Is that a good thing or a badthing?”
The chuckle he made sent his warm breath all over my face. He pulled back to gaze at me some more. “I hope it’s a good thing. It means I’d like to keep you around for a while. Don’t you see that as a goodthing?”
“I should, shouldn’t I?” I closed my eyes. “If we didn’t have these work rules hanging over our heads it would feel so muchbetter.”
“Hush, no talking about that. I’m still riding the high you’ve given me. Let’s not think about that for a while.” He kissed me again, this time letting his lips settle fully onmine.
I’d thought I was spent, but my body started perking back up as our mouths took us further. He pulled back, leaving me wondering what he was doingnow.
He blinked a few times before he said, “I want you to stay the nights with me. My place is a good thirty minutes closer to the station than yours is. You could stay the nights here and give yourself at least a little bit more time to sleep each morning. Our mornings are going to be pretty hard, at least atfirst.”
He was right. I knew getting up that early was going to be a chore. But could I really stay with Duke every night before going in to work, where I’d have to pretend he was nothing tome?
That would be five nights out of each week. That was more nights than I’d spend at my own place—we’d practically be living together. “I don’t know, Duke. I mean, that’s nice of you, but that’s moving things a bit too fast forme.”
“I’m not asking you to marry me, Lila.” He rolled his eyes. “It’s just an invitation to allow you to get more sleep than you would if you stayed at your place. That’s all itis.”
“I suppose you think I’m being silly about this. The obvious answer would be yes, but we have other things to consider as well. Like the fact we’d be showing up together each morning. What would people say about that?” I thought I’d stumpedhim.
But he only shook his head. “People share cabs all the time here in New York. So that won’t matter a bit. No one would blink an eye at that, I promise you that. It’s actually considered the responsible thing todo.”
“You don’t think anyone would put two and two together?” I pondered the idea as he shook hishead.
The extra sleep would be nice. Sleeping the night away in his arms might prove to be refreshing too. But I still had a little bit of worry that we’d get foundout.
“If you’re afraid that I’ll keep you up all night long, don’t be.” He gave me a wink and a naughty smile. “I think when we get home on the nights we work I’ll only give you one orgasm, so that we can get some restful sleep. And then on the weekends, we’ll catch up on those other orgasms we missed out on.” He laughed, and I had to laughtoo.
“Wow, glad you could work that all out for us. And it does sound nice. But it also sounds a little too much like we’d be living together. It’s just too soon for that.” I tapped my chin as I thought about acompromise.
“So tell me what kind of plan you can come up with. I think mine’s the best, just so you know.” He kissed the soft spot just behind my ear to punctuate hissentence.
“I know you do, Duke. But I’ve got to maintain my independence.” I’d come to a conclusion and hoped he wouldn’t be disappointed with it. “How about three nights a week? Sunday night, Wednesday night, and Thursdaynight?”
“I’ll take it!” He kissed me again to seal thedeal.
Now I just had to hope that we could pull it all off without gettingcaught.
Chapter Twenty-Two
Duke
Having Lila in my bed the whole night, getting to wake up to see her pretty face, and sharing a not-so-quick shower had me on cloud nine the next morning as we headed towork.
