“You don’t believe me.” She said the words on a sigh. “You don’t think I’ll walk away.”
He had a few days to make her change her mind. After all, she’d said they would “throw down” once and then be done, and she was still in his bed. “I can’t make you stay with me. All I can do is enjoy the time I have with you. Sometimes in my line of business you only get so long with a subject. Like the time I got to study a seventeenth century priest’s account of his mission. They would only let me study it in a clean room, and only for two hours at a time.”
Her body started to move restlessly, as though she knew exactly where he was going. “You’re killing me, Professor.”
That was not his intention. He kissed across her belly and started down toward her pussy. His cock had spent a whole lot of time inside this gorgeous part of her, but he hadn’t had a chance to taste her yet. “Tell me why you think my brother can’t handle working with someone I’m involved with.”
This was one subject she hadn’t mentioned the night before. He needed to ease her into talking about her broken engagement. He believed her when she said she wasn’t hung up on the man himself, but it was obvious to him that the relationship and its breakup still affected her.
“It’s not that I think Kyle would give me hell,” she replied in a breathy voice. “I mean at least not more than he gives anyone. Your brother can be sarcastic.”
He kissed his way from one hip to the other, skimming over her pelvis, well aware he was building anticipation. “I know he’s obnoxious, but I’m happy he’s joking again. When he first got home, he was so unlike the brother who’d left. He’s starting to show signs of the old Kyle. Does anyone treat you differently?”
“No. Not really. I mean I’m sure we were talked about, but it was a mutual decision.” She was looking down her body, her teeth worrying that decadent bottom lip of hers. “Is it stupid that I felt like I let Charlotte Taggart down? She set us up. It should have worked.”
Now they were getting somewhere. “Spread your legs wide for me.”
She immediately moved her legs, giving him all the access he could possibly want. There was no shyness in her. It was obvious she trusted him physically. The emotional part was their problem.
She felt like she’d failed.
“I’ve spent some time around Charlotte. I happen to know she likes to set people up, and it doesn’t always work out. Oh, she’ll say she’s the best matchmaker in the world, but she’s the one who set up Boomer with that woman who ran the coffee shop she liked. The one that turned out to be a front for smuggling illegal foods. Boomer nearly got killed with a giant wheel of unpasteurized cheese. She never talks about that one.” He gripped her thighs to give her the illusion of being held down. She seemed to respond beautifully to being controlled during sex.
Sure enough, there was a sigh that came from her lips, and she relaxed against the bed. “I hadn’t heard that story. It’s good to know I’m not the only one.”
He breathed her in, glorying in the smell of her arousal. Her pearl of a clit was poking out of its hood, desperate for affection. “So you feel like you failed when all you did was be brave enough to acknowledge when something wasn’t working.”
“I know what you’re doing, David.”
“I wasn’t being subtle about it.” He pressed a soft kiss on her clitoris and felt a shudder go through her. “When I said I was going to make a study of you, I didn’t mean only your body. Though I have to say, your body is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever studied.”
He kissed her clit again, dragging his tongue over it and reveling in the way she groaned.
“It won’t work,” she said with a whimper.
He thought it was working fine, but then they were probably thinking of two very different things. “Then there’s no harm in answering my questions.”
“If I tell you what the real problem is, will you get to the point because I’m dying here.”
He sucked one side of her labia and then the other. “Yes. Tell me what truly bothers you about the thought of dating me because it isn’t that my uncle is going to fire you if you break my heart. He’ll say some sarcastic shit to me about not being able to hold on to a woman and then ask me to help Seth with his math homework. So tell me the truth and I’ll eat this pussy all morning if you want me to.”
Eating her pussy had definitely been on his list. And he would have to do it several times before he could truly judge what she responded to. A soft tongue or a nip? Maybe both. He was willing to experiment to her heart’s content.
“I don’t want to be that chick who’s dated everyone at the office and is still single. I’d rather admit that I’m supposed to be single and move on.”
Her last relationship hadn’t worked out, and it was still a sore spot for her. It might be for a while, but she would come out of it, and he intended to be there when she did. He intended to spend the next few days blanketing her in pleasure so when they did get back, she wouldn’t be able to deny him. Even if all she wanted was a D/s relationship, he would take it because he knew they were meant to be.
He speared her with his tongue, taking in her taste. She shuddered and moaned as he explored every inch of her pussy. He fucked her with his tongue and let his thumb press down on her clit as she shook and came.
Then it was his turn. He got to his knees and started to reach for the condoms.
A loud banging cut through the lust cloud he was in.
“David! David, get your butt out of bed. It’s time to go to work, my friend. It’s almost noon, and my cook is going to be angry her whole breakfast buffet went to waste.”
“It’s noon?” Tessa gasped and rolled out from under him. “I can’t believe we slept so late.”
He fell to the bed, his cock still throbbing. It was going to be a rough day.
* * * *
This morning had been a near thing. Tessa was still thinking about how close she’d come to telling David that she was being silly and of course they would see each other when they got back to Texas. How could they not when they fit so perfectly together? She’d woken up all happy and warm, and she’d had to force herself to remember that this wasn’t some fantasy where they lived happily ever after.
Your parents did. Why shouldn’t you? Stop beating yourself up. You made a mistake and now you’re never going to try again?
This. This was why she shouldn’t have even thought about getting in bed with David. Or rather she’d thought she could avoid this by doing precisely that. She’d thought she could quell all these questions if she did the man and got it out of her system.
Turned out he was pretty hard to get rid of.
She glanced down at her cell. No bars. Someone had to have a phone because she needed to call back home and get started on finding out who Mateo was.
David was in the library again, his nose in a book, of course. They’d had breakfast with Eddie and Luis and then the men had hidden themselves away in the library, and she’d been left to wander around the house. She’d gone into the gardens and strolled around, took a couple of pictures so anyone looking would see nothing more than some full of herself American tourist taking selfies for her social media.