Page 123 of College-Virgin & Dark Bully Next-Door

“Sky!” her name comes out choked as he moves up my arm.

I actually whimper as he keeps moving until she gently coaxes him into her hands, promising him crickets as if he’s some puppy and will just understand. When she sets him back in his tank and closes the lid, she climbs on top of my lap and kisses me hungrily, devouring everything I want to say and every thought in my brain.

“You held him.”

“Never again,” I warn.

But her kissing is way more convincing. I’ll do whatever Sky fucking wants as long as she keeps kissing me like she loves me, like there’s no one else in the world she could possibly want more than me.

Groaning, I go for her shirt, and we go another two rounds before she pulls the blankets up around us and kisses across my neck and chest. “I’m so proud of you, Bunny.”

“Yeah. Yeah,” I grumble. “Held a spider.”

“You don’t know how much it means to me,” she insists, snuggling closer. “I’ve been working so hard to talk to you more. To tell you things I feel and think. It’s been so hard and sometimes I get mad because it’s so easy for you, and it feels like I’m struggling to catch up, just like when we were little.”

“Hey.” I tip her chin up so I can watch her face. “It’s not like that.”

“But you just did something for me that’s really hard for you,” she says, getting that damn soft smile and bright glint to her eyes. “And even though you hate spiders, you did it for me, and you didn’t drop him or anything. I’m so proud of you, and I’m so happy.”

I kiss her and nibble her bottom lip.

We hear a car door close, and I curse as I struggle to get into my clothes. Sky laughs until I throw her clothes at her. She pulls them on, ignoring a bra and underwear. She simply kicks those under the bed, pulls the comforter so it looks made and makes me sit while getting up to take pictures of Dracula.

“I’m telling you. He’s a star.”

“He’s a tarantula,” I correct, still frustrated that I held the thing. “Way too many eyes. Way too many legs.”

She laughs kicks at me before taking another photo. “Did you know they use a hydraulic system to power their legs. It’s all about their blood pressure pushing blood around. Isn’t that amazing.”

“So … no muscles in their legs?”

“Nope.”

“I could take him,” I say surely.

A knock sounds on the door. Sky glances around the room before yelling, “Come in!”

Her dad enters a second later, looking between us. He arches an eyebrow. “How is everything?”

“I’m teaching Ash all about spiders,” Sky answers. “I even got him to hold Drac.”

Her dad shivers. “Make sure the lid is on tight. We don’t need him escaping again.”

“Again?” I glare at Sky as her dad chuckles and walks away. “Again?How many times has he escaped, Sky?”

“Not too many. Maybe … five times? I’ve had him three years. It happens,” she shrugs.

“That’s it. I’m never spending the night. No way you can bribe me into that. Fuck no.” I start to grab my socks.

Sky takes my hand, glances at the door and pulls my hand up her shirt. I caress her breast because I’m not physically able to stop myself, but she doesn’t stop until my hand is over her heart. I can feel it fluttering under her skin. She sits on top of me and presses her forehead to mine.

“I wish I could wake up to you.”

“Sky,” I pant. “I … if I ever wake up to that thing on me, I can’t promise I’m not going to throw the fucker across the room.”

She kisses me softly and nods. “Understood.”

I end up being kicked back home so they can have dinner as a family before Chase has to start his road-trip back to school in the morning. The next day, I say a long goodbye to Peter, actually hugging him at the airport.

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