Page 5 of Kissed By My Roommate

Zoey blinks at me and then chuckles while she shakes her head in admonishment. She lifts one of her hands as if she’s going to touch me. I still with the hope that she does, feeling her touch me may send me over the edge, but I desperately crave it. When her hand drops, air rushes from my lungs as I try to hide the disappointment I’m feeling, but it’s probably right there on my face for her to see.

“It’s okay, Juniper.” My cock throbs when she says my name and it takes all my willpower not to press her back against the counter with my body so she can feel just what she does to me. “You have to work too, and I know it.”

I cup her cheek, letting myself take this one small liberty even though I know I shouldn’t. “I have some welding to do, but I won’t hammer anything else today.”

“I don’t want to be the reason you don’t get the pieces completed you need for your show,” she gnaws on her lip, a plea in her words and her eyes.

I let my hand drop from her, knowing I need to take things slow with my woman, even though everything in me screams not to. My instincts tell me to kiss her and never stop.

But if she’s not ready and she pushes me away, it would kill me.

I take a step back. Then another. Then a third for good measure. I need some distance.

I almost take back my promise not to hammer anymore because the pent up need inside of me desperately needs an outlet. I take my Zoey in again, including the dark circles under her eyes, and I hold my tongue. What I need will never be more important than what she needs.

Right now, my girl needs sleep. If being quiet is all she needs from me, then so be it.

“Thank you,” she whispers before she slips out of the kitchen again.

I listen to the way her feed softly pad up the stairs as I force myself not to follow her. I desperately want to, but I can’t. Not yet.

I don’t know when the right time will be, but I can only hope I know it when it happens because I don’t know how much longer I can wait. But I will because I want her to know she’s everything to me.

If only I could be softer for her.

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