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“I like turtles.”
He nodded. “I know.”
“You just need to learn how to walk like a normal person.”
“Got it. Hold on.” Adam slowed down his walk until he hovered his foot in the air, slow-motion style.
“Oh my god,” I laughed and grabbed him by the arm, yanking him away. Suddenly, I remembered Adam wasn’t the only one with a present up in his dorm. God, I bought that before I’d gotten drunk on my overnight shift but too much had happened. I snuck another look at him. "I have a gift too."
His eyebrows raised. “You got my curiosity.”
“Not that kind of gift. Remember. Your appointment.”
“Damn.”
On the walk back to the dorms, I couldn’t think of exactly what to say about the gift. Giving a present to the playboy you’re supposed to babysit, who manhandled you in public, was already a pretty weird situation to be in. And I couldn’t be less weird about it.
Words tumbled out of my mouth as nervousness crept in.
“So—um—it’s not much…” I blurted out, leaving the elevator, Adam right behind me. “This isn’t me hyping something up. You need low expectations, okay? It’s—uh—I know you can buy anything you want—” I unlocked my door and pushed it open, heading to the kitchen. “I thought—okay—what’s something he needs? You know?”
In a cardboard box on top of the fridge, I slipped out the present. Adam was quiet behind me. No laughs.
I held it in my hands for a moment. “One of my dad’s graduate students works in a tech shop. He gets really good deals. So…”
Gently, Adam took the box away from me and stared down at it.
“They’re really good headphones,” I said, fidgeting with the bottom of my shirt. “They’re a couple of years old but refurbished. I already tested them out…that’s why the…tape is cut…” I didn’t know what else to say. “You don’t have to use them. If you found something else.”
Adam gazed down with striking eyes, searching my face, breathing in deep.
I swallowed. “I don’t know if you…bought new ones…already…”
He cut the distance between us and tilted my chin up, capturing my lips for a spine-tingling kiss. Not just any kiss. The kind where his tongue slipped in just as easily—so welcomed—he moved against me, curved against me, pressing into my body with his, the kind of delicious kiss that preludes the filthiest sex imaginable.
A shiver ran up my back. Oh, god.
"Thank you," he muttered against my lips. "And now for your present. You have to come to my room to see it."
The headphones had been a specific gift that he needed. Adam was still using mine and I had my backup pair but it was time that he got a good pair of his own to use. Something that wasn’t like the seven thousand dollar waste of wires.
"Adam…I don’t need anything."
It was the linebacker’s turn to pull away and he did it with both eyebrows raised. "Do you want to walk over there with me? Or do I have to carry you?"
"You wouldn’t dare," I said.
Adam placed both hands on either side of me, pressing me back against the counters until I couldn’t move. A new glint shined in his dark eyes. "Try me, ice princess."
"Ugh." I sighed. "You would dare."
He was good for the couple of feet that we had to cross between our rooms, in that little niche of the hallway, but the moment he figured out the coast was clear, Adam pushed open his door and my stomach lurched as he swept me off my feet, kicking the door shut behind him.
"Oh my god—Adam!" I yelped.
His laugh was loud and husky. “I said it and then I had to do it.”
“I’m giving you ten seconds to put me down,” I threatened, but I touched the couch before I even started counting. That boy could spike my blood pressure. I put a hand to my heart and breathed in deeply while Adam sank into the couch next to me, effortlessly sliding a light gray box onto my lap, like he didn’t just carry me around.
