Page 53 of Fate Forever and Always

With that, he walked out the door.

What in the world just happened?Nick couldn’t be a virgin. I mean, I knew some of the girls he’d dated. Not once did they say anything bad about him or mention that they didn’t have sex. I’ve only heard good things, actually. It always made me feel weird hearing about him being with other people. Although,now that I think about it, they never said anything about actually sleeping with him.

I sat back on the bed, my mind swirling with confusion. Once the confusion cleared a little, the realization hit me once again.

He waited. Even though I was marrying Jake, he waited.I don’t know whether to absolutely melt at how fucking charming that is or cry my eyes out because I feel horrible that I didn’t give in sooner and share my genuine feelings with him. Our lives could have been so different.

I heard the lock on the door click. I sat up, and he put the bucket down on the side table next to the door. He leaned on the door with his arms crossed and his head looking down. “Sorry. I shouldn’t have run out like that. I was embar-“

I got up while he was talking and took his mouth in a sweet kiss. When we broke the kiss, his eyes went down again, so I lifted his chin.

“You waited,”I whispered.

A small smile grew on his face before he nodded. “I would have waited forever for you.”

I gripped his hands in mine and started leading him toward the bed.

“What…what are you doing, Cal?”

I looked up at him with admiration. “We're going to bed. Today was a lot. You are going to hold me, and we are going to sleep. Everything else can wait until tomorrow.”

We stopped next to the bed, both still fully dressed in our day clothes. I laid him down, covered him up, and snuggled into him.

“Callie, It's six o'clock, we haven’t even eaten dinner. If we go to bed now, we will wake up at two in the morning.”

I smirked at him. “Two in the morning is tomorrow.”

I kissed his lips softly.

He remained quiet for a few minutes until I felt his body moving. I realized he was laughing, so I sat up to look at him.

“Are you laughing?”

He pushed the hair out of my face and behind my ear. “Yes.”

“Okay, I’ll bite. Why?”

He pulled me in closer and kissed me deeply. “I just wanted to ask if I could set an alarm for midnight since you didn’t specify when tomorrow and didn’t seem to care how early it was.”

I started laughing so hard I couldn’t even answer him. As funny as it was, I don’t think he was joking.

Chapter twenty-two

Nick

Since I didn’t set the alarm, I woke up at three-thirty the next morning, and Callie was snoring away. It sounded like a small freight train was in the distance. It took everything in me not to laugh, even though my stomach was growling almost as loud as Callie was snoring. I grabbed an orange we had sitting on the kitchen table and scarfed it down before heading to the bathroom. I needed to wash my face, brush my teeth, and maybe even get into something a little more comfortable since I hadn’t changed before we fell asleep.

Showering was next on my list so I could wash all this oil and lotion off from the massages, but I didn’t want to wake her with the sound of the shower water running. I made a mental note to make sure we asked for a set of new sheets later today.

Just as I finished washing my face, the door opened and Callie stepped in. She winced at the bright light, and her appearance made me chuckle. Her hair was disheveled and falling all over the place, which was surprising because I hadn’t felt her move much, and when I woke up, she was still on my chest.

I stared, appreciating the view. I was waiting for her to say something, but she just smiled and walked farther into the bathroom. She started undressing slowly like she was putting on a show for me. My heart rate quickened, followed by my cock hardening more and more with every item she took off.

She walked toward the shower, putting her perfectly curvy body on display for me. Her body was fucking perfection, but her ass was like a fucking wet dream all on its own. She opened the shower curtain. Before she fully got in, she turned with the sexiest grin I'd ever seen and said, “You coming?”

Fuck yes, I’m coming. Hopefully, in more ways than one. I started undressing immediately without saying another word. Once we got into the shower, she ran her hands up my torso and around my neck, digging her nails into the hair at the nape of my neck as the water cascaded over us. I let out a low groan as I pulled her into my embrace and kissed her softly.

“How did you sleep?” she asked.

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