Page 73 of Kings of the Campus

Tessa shakes her head. “I can’t, Alec. There’s so much to do, and I’m behind on?—”

I cut her off, gently taking the laptop from her lap and setting it on the coffee table. “I know you’ve got a lot on your plate, but you need to rest. Especially now.” I brush my hand across her belly for emphasis, and she sighs, but I see the tiniest smile tug at the corner of her lips.

She hesitates, her eyes flicking to the work she’s leaving behind. “But I?—”

“You’ll feel better if you lie down for a bit,” I coax. “Come on, let’s take a nap. I’ll stay with you, okay?”

That does the trick. She’s always more willing to relax if one of us is there with her. There’s something about the way we’ve started falling into these roles like this odd but perfect little family forming around us. Without a word, she nods and lets me help her up.

We head upstairs to the bedroom, and once we settle into bed, I can feel her body slowly relaxing next to mine. I stretch my arm around her, pulling her closer, and she nuzzles into my chest, letting out a soft sigh.

“It’s crazy,” she murmurs after a few minutes of comfortable silence. “At the start of the school year, I had so many plans, so much I was going to do with my life. But then everythinghappened and it’s not at all how I thought things would go, but…” She pauses like she’s searching for the right words.

I tilt my head, looking down at her. “But what?”

She glances up at me, her green eyes soft. “I’m happy it happened. I mean, it’s been a whirlwind, and frankly, the thought of having three babies is terrifying, but I can’t imagine not having them…or not having you guys.”

Her words settle in me, warm and grounding, and I realize I feel the same way. It’s been anything but conventional, but the thought of these babies, of being a part of her life in this way…I wouldn’t change it.

“I’m happy too,” I admit quietly, running a hand through her hair. “I didn’t expect any of this, but it feels right, doesn’t it?”

Tessa turns and looks up at me, pulling me forward to press our lips together.

The kiss is soft, sweet, like a warm hug on a cold day, but then it deepens and she shifts, pushing her body into mine as her leg comes up over my thigh. I feel the heat from her core radiating against me and I nip at her bottom lip, pulling back slightly.

“I thought you were tired,” I tease.

“I’m suddenly wide awake,” she says, her voice low and husky. “And I feel like we haven’t had a chance to connect in a few days. You’ve always got studying or fraternity work lately.”

I nuzzle into her neck, kissing it slowly. “I know. We’ve both been busy. But we have some time now. We should make the most of it.”

Tessa sighs as I continue to kiss her neck, looping her arms around me and nosing into my shoulder, giving me her answer. Our hands move, exploring each other’s bodies as I kiss down her neck and across the collar of her borrowed Sigma Theta T-shirt. It’s taut over her belly, but I think it looks adorable as I run my hands over the bump, feeling the smooth expanse of skin. She’s started to feel the babies moving around inside her, whichis called the quickening according to Dr. Shepard, who’s been her prenatal care doctor since we went to the ER.

My hands rub slow circles into her belly, then they drift lower and lower until I dip into her leggings, cupping her ass and kneading it under my fingers.

Her breathing is heavier now, eyes trained on me as I slip a finger into her seam, my fingers immediately sticky with her arousal.

My cock hangs between my thighs, trapped by my sweatpants as I grind into her. I reach down with my other hand and pull it out, rubbing it along the front of her vulva as I continue to tease her with my fingers.

“Can we make love?” she asks, her voice a whisper in the shadowy afternoon sun.

“Yes,” I breathe out, need filling me until I feel like I’m going to melt in the heat. “I want to make love to you.”

I push down Tessa’s leggings and underwear and lift her leg a little higher, lining my cock at her entrance. We’re still lying sideways—a more comfortable position for her at the moment—and I slip inside, and bring her leg back down over my thigh.

Slowly, we start to rock back and forth, our bodies clinging to each other as I gaze into Tessa’s green eyes, counting the freckles that are scattered across her cheeks like constellations in the night sky.

Her eyes bore into mine and for a moment it feels like our souls are touching. I can’t believe I resisted this for so long when I could have had all this and more from the beginning.

“Oh Alec,” Tessa says, and it sounds like a sigh as she rolls her hips into me. “This feels so good. So right.”

“I know,” I say, unable to hold back the feelings inside me any longer. “I wish I’d let you into my life and my heart much sooner, sweetheart.”

Her inner walls feel like soft silk as my cock pushes into her over and over again. I need this, I need her. The thought should scare me but it doesn’t. It’s exhilarating, knowing that I’ve found someone I could see spending the rest of my life with.

Every agonizingly slow roll of our hips inches us closer and closer to the edge. I press my face to her chest, breathing her in as I try to memorize this moment, to make it last as long as possible.

Tessa squeezes around me and the exquisite heat is enough to drive me right over the edge. I can’t stop myself from coming apart as I push as deep into her as I can, filling her with my seed.

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