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I giggled and squeezed him tighter. “Always.” Then I tilted my head to look up at him. “Maybe it truly is confidence.”
He leaned down and coaxed my lips apart. He took his time, stroking his tongue into my mouth with reverent slides, slowly exploring. At the same time, ravenous need had me pressing closer and his body hardening against mine.
He pulled away, glancing at his watch. “You need to go.”
“Right. So that kiss means you’re not mad at me?” I whispered, feeling uncomfortably vulnerable.
He shook his head, looking at me with that worshipful intensity that made me want to strip my clothes back off and climb him like a tree.
“Finish your breakfast and get going,” he said sweetly. “I don’t want to hear complaints at rehearsal this afternoon that you were late to school because some guy made you sleep in his bed last night.”
I pushed off of him with a teasing look. “Made me sleep in his bed and forced multiple orgasms on me. All night long.”
“What a terrible guy this guy is.”
“Awful,” I whined as I sat and stuffed another bite of French toast in my mouth. “And then he made me eat the most delicious breakfast I’ve ever had. I mean, who the hell does this guy think he is?”
He laughed as he cleaned around the kitchen while I took five more minutes to inhale my breakfast. By the time I kissed him and backed out of the driveway, he gave me the smile that made my heart sing again. The one I wanted permanently branded on his beautiful face.
Only after I’d driven away did my thoughts wander to this morning. The level of pressure Bennett seems to always be under with the business, yet he holds it together so well. From what I’d seen anyway.
The nagging thought that he wasn’t as perfect as I’d thought should reassure me that he was actually human. Humans had flaws.
But sometimes, those flaws made people do unpredictable things. It was the unpredictability that made me so uncomfortable…and scared.
I was falling for Bennett. And short of being a serial killer, I was willing to accept his flaws. So what was this sour sensation churning in my gut?
Bennett didn’t know one important thing about me. I might not have many friends, but those I did have remained so for life.
Like my roommate and college bestie, Lola Landry. She moved back to her hometown in Tennessee, but we still kept in touch. I’d actually even found her a job lead not too long ago. Though she ended up turning it down, I supported her no matter what.
That was me. Supporter and friend for life.
Bennett was moving well beyond just a friend. He was becoming much more. This realization should make me happy, not shoot an arrow of doubt through my heart.
But it did.
Chapter Eighteen
~BETTY~
To sayI couldn’t concentrate at school was an understatement. I’d been rereading an essay test from first period’s honor class for all of fifth period, and I still hadn’t gotten past the second paper.
My mind kept wandering back to last night. To Bennett’s hands and mouth and other admirable body parts. I was in such an insanely good mood I’d even scared Lily this morning.
Her eyes bugged out when I greeted her in an abnormally chipper manner, then declined the apple fritter she offered me since I’d already had homemade French toast by a man who knew his way around the kitchen as well as the bedroom.
And then that raincloud in the back of my mind flipped my mood to stormy, thinking about how serious Bennett and I were getting so fast. Too fast.
Since the day I’d decided I didn’t hate him so much and let the blazing lust between us flare, I’d become consumed, obsessed with him. This passion was burning too bright, like wildfire ravaging too hard and too fast to quench.
In an attempt to distract myself from my thoughts, I pulled up my lesson plans on the desktop, determined to at least get something done while my students took their tests. Someone knocked on my door before I’d gotten through Monday’s lesson.
Finn sauntered in. This wasn’t unusual. He interrupted my class at least once a day during his off periods.
“Hello, kiddos,” he said as he strode to my desk.
A few “hellos” were returned before they frantically went back to their papers.
