“Please don’t tie me up tonight. Is not like I’m gon’ go anywhere.” She was already half asleep. I undressed, never taking my eyes off her.
“You can sleep in the bed tonight.”
“Nope.” She was surprisingly resolute, holding up a finger and waving it at me like I was a child. “Boundaries. I has them. Especially after you kissed me. Why d’you do that?”
“You kissed me back.”
“You tricked me.”
“How so?”
“Magic.” She rolled over and curled in on herself, trying to hide her goose bumps now that she was back to cold since a hundred people didn’t surround us. I pulled her up, not caring when she gasped as my erection pressed against her. She went limp, and I stumbled a little at her sudden dead weight.
“Madeline, come on. You’ll have a bad enough headache tomorrow. Just sleep in the bed. For one night.”
“I don’t consent.”
God, she was persistent. “I won’t try anything. Promise.”
“Mmkay. You do keep your promises.” She never opened her eyes as she let me help her into the bed and pull the blanket over her. She burrowed into the pillow. “You’re not helping me, you know. Being nice.”
I slipped into the bed next to her, hooking one of her legs with mine beneath the sheets. “It’s okay. You won’t remember.”
Her only answer was her breath.