Page 62 of Unfinished

“Can we have no expectations but make a promise not to date anyone else?” I asked.

“No.” She shook her head and I gave her a confused look. “If we promise not to date anyone else, and a picture gets posted somewhere, one of us is going to be devastated. That type of situation will pull focus away from schooling. It'd drive us to do irrational things, and cause arguments. We have to label this as friends to protect us both.”

She had a point and I understood it, especially with what we recently went through.

“We can be friends for now on one condition,” I said.

“What?”

“At the beginning of every semester, we sit down and reevaluate and have honest and open discussions about the possibility of us.”

“Okay … benefits?” She asked and my eyebrows rose.

“What type of benefits?” I asked.

“Our sex is really good. Do we allow for benefits when we do see each other?”

“How good is it?” I grabbed her and pulled her to me and she huffed a laugh as I caused her to straddle me.

“It’s very good… but, I’m afraid if we allow benefits it’ll complicate things and blur the lines. If all we ever were was friends with benefits, it wouldn’t be so bad, but we were more than that and if…”

I kissed her jaw. “If we have sex,” then I kissed her neck, “you’re afraid it will,” I kissed her collarbone, “remind us of our,” I kissed her chest and gripped her hips as she rolled them, grinding against my hardening cock, “connection and,” I kissed the corner of her mouth, “how perfect we fit,” I kissed the other corner of her mouth while sliding my hand under her shirt and spreading my fingers out over her spine, “how we are made for each other.”

I looked into her eyes and she looked into mine. Her breathing was heavier and my heart was beating hard.

“Maybe we should,” she started and then swallowed, “you know… one last time to get it out of our systems.”

I really wanted to bury my cock in her tight pussy. I wanted to taste her and make her come so hard she forgot this stupid deal and decided to be with me again. I wanted to fuck her into compliance.

“No,” I said.

“What?” She was shocked.

“I don’t want friends with benefits, I want the whole thing, and if I do this now, I won’t be able to stop doing it. I won’t be able to give you what you need to focus on at school. I’ll march right down to the rental office and pay for an entire year’s worth of rent, then fill your kitchen with food so you never have to work again and I can come into town and fuck you every single weekend. I will make you forget about your stubborn independence and I’ll hire security to follow you everywhere and kill anyone who even thinks about touching you. So no Hannah, I will not fuck you one last time to get it out of our systems because you cannot be removed from my system and I know I can’t be removed from yours.”

My face was inches from hers and she was speechless. Her eyes wide, lips parted, breathing stopped, and I practically heard the thoughts swirling in her head. She wanted me, wanted to be with me, and her pride in being able to do this on her own was getting in her way. She was afraid of being labeled a gold-digger even when we and those closest to us knew she was the furthest thing from that.

Come on beautiful, just agree because this is it for us. You will be my wife one day, I promise it.

She pushed off me and crossed the bedroom, “Fuck!”

She was silent as she had her internal battle with wanting to let me do what I wanted to do and keeping her independence. She spun around to me and her eyes were hard but wary.

“I want to let you do it all,” she said.

“Why do you refuse?”

“Because what if this doesn’t work? How can I have you pay for my apartment, food, and expenses when we aren’t…” she stopped because the next words out of her mouth were dangerous for her.

“When we aren’t married?” I questioned, standing and taking two steps to cross the room to where she stood.

“Yes,” she whispered.

I ran my fingers through her hair and tilted her head back so she was looking me in the eyes. We both knew I would fly us off to Vegas and make her my wife. I silently asked her the question, knowing that eventually she’d say yes. It wouldn’t be today.

“No,” she answered my silent question, and I nodded.

“No benefits,” I said and she nodded.

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