Page 54 of Time To Learn

“Because fucking that girl isn’t going to solve your problems.” He places empty glasses on the bar and waves a bartenderover.

“Alex, I’m fine,” I mutter after he’s given his order.

He shrugs, but his eyes flash with irritation.

“Suit yourself. I’ll go entertain Laura and Trish, and then I’m going to make sure they get homesafe.”

Sighing, I run a hand through myhair.

“She’s got me all tied up in fucking knots,” I grumble. “She wants us to be friends, for fuck’ssake.”

Alex grins. The urge to wipe the floor with his mouth is at the forefront of mymind.

“Just ignore that. Keep working through her armour, and she’ll come around eventually. I guaranteeit.”

I blink athim.

“That’s it? Those are your words of wisdom?”

He laughs at the sarcasm dripping from my voice.

“Aaah, the youth today.” He pays for his drinks and just as he’s about to leave me, he hesitates. “Kristian, trust me when I say that the women who make you stumble…they’re the ones you fight for. They’re the ones you fall for—and even if you shag that girl tonight? You’ll keep falling. Trust me on this—it’s bound to happen. You might as well enjoy theride.”

I shake my head as I down the last of my lager. I stand up and check my phone.

It’stime.

I clap his shoulder once before I leavehim.

“Well, maybe I’ll fall—but as long as she won’t be there to catch me, there’s no reason I shouldn’t keep busy until she comes around.”

“Don’t make a mistake, lad,” Alex calls after me, but I just keep walking. I know I’m already making one, but I need to do something to forget Laura.

Maybe I can still be her friend, but not tonight. Not when I’m drunk. Not when the need to sink my cock inside a warm and willing female is there, pulling at me to just do something aboutit.

I don’t have to think when I’m fucking someone.

I don’t have tofeel.

And right now, that’s all I want. To cease thinking or feeling about a certain stubborn, scarred, sexy woman, whose eyes swim with secrets whenever they look intomine.

I frown as I pass Laura’s empty table, but then I push her away from my mind. I’m locking her away until morning. Instead, I smile at Hannah as I find her standing outside the ladies’ room, a deliciously turned-on look in hereyes.

I stop right in front of her and take a deep breath. When my chest expands, rubbing against her nipples, I grin at the way her eyes widen.

“Are you sure we won’t get interrupted?” I whisper in her ear, leaning down to run my nose against herhair.

She smells nice. Always aplus.

“We won’t. Come on, big guy—we need to hurry. My break only lasts fifteen minutes.”

I let her lead me inside and watch as she takes out a bunch of keys, locking thedoor.

“Then I guess we best make the most of it,” I mutter.

As she walks towards me, I unzip my jeans. Anticipation, lust, and alcohol course through me. When she stops in front of me, I take her hand and push it against the bulge in my pants.

“Mmm,” she sighs as she starts to rub my cock over my boxers. I hiss through my teeth as her mouth nips at myjaw.