Page 43 of Honey Undone
“Adeline,” her name rolled off my lips from the bottom of my throat. “What does that mean?”I asked her again.
“If you tell anyone, I’ll sick Kaia on you,” she stuck her hand in the air, trying to be serious and I paused my slow approach. “I’m scared of the dark and I wouldn’t be opposed to some cuddling,” she uttered words like it pained her to say them and I couldn’t help but smile at her. “No laughing!”
“I’m not laughing,” I said, raising my hands and lowering to my knees between her legs. “That’s probably the most endearing thing I’ve ever heard out of your mouth.”
“Don’t tease me,” she snapped. “It’s not sexy and I’m a little tipsy so…”
“It’s incredibly sexy that you’re scared of the dark,” I dropped my tone for her and spread my hands out over the bed beside her hips until our noses almost touched and our chests met. “I guess you could say I’m a hero,” I joked, “I couldn’t bear the thought of you sleeping alone in that big bed in the dark.”
She laughed finally and her shoulders relaxed a little.
“Feel better?” I asked her, desperate to kiss her but restraining until she asked me for one. “There’s some extra t-shirts in my duffle.” I told her after a beat of silence, her glassy eyes flickering back and forth watching mine. Despite what Adeline believed I hadn’t gone into the date expecting sex. I had truly just wanted so desperately to spend the day with her that I wouldn’t have cared if we sat on the floor in her apartment and just stared at each other.
It had only been about hanging out with her at a distance that I could touch her and hear her laugh. “Go change, I’ll find us a movie or something,” I said to her pushing up off the bed and wandering around the room to look for the remote.
She picked up my duffle from the floor and locked herself in the bathroom giving me a few seconds to collect my thoughts as I flipped through the pay-per-view rentals. I could hear her shuffling around on the other side of the door as I pulled off my shirt and laid across the bed in my jeans. I laughed seeing the first Fast and Furious movie as an option and hovered over it knowing that it would rile her up to see it playing. "Thirteen dollars?" I scoffed and hit enter, starting just as the door clicked open.
I tried to keep my eyes in my head but Adeline sauntered across the room in nothing more than one of my navy Hornets gym shirts. It hung around her thighs and I thought for a second I might die right there and then when I realized she had taken off her shorts.
“You’re making it impossible tomostlykeep my hands to myself,” I whispered to her and she smiled, looking down at herself with a feeble shrug before she crawled across the top of the bed toward the pillows. The hem of the shirt lifted, falling over the curve of her perfect ass and gave view to the small pair of black underwear she was wearing beneath. I shifted uncomfortably on the bed to hide how hard the sight of her made me.
“Is this—”
“Fast and Furious,” I rolled over onto my back to look at her from the end of the bed. My eyes roamed up her bare legs and my mouth went dry at the sight of her completely unarmored and relaxed in the dim light of the lamp.
“What are the chances?” She giggled, sinking down into the mountain of pillows. I watched her wiggle beneath the comforter and get comfy. “I was joking, but I really do love these movies.” Her eyes broke from the screen for a quick second to smile at me.
“I’ll be right back,” I said, as I climbed from bed and found my spare shorts, before retreating to the bathroom to calm down. I wasn’t going to last much longer that close to her without saying something stupid and ruining her confidence in me to behave.
I splashed some cold water on my face in a weak attempt to wash the image of her toned skin from my mind but the peek of her black underwear as she climbed across the bed was burned into the back of my eyelids and every time I shut them my stupid dick got hard.
Shuffling out of my jeans and boxers, I threw on the shorts and tied them up around my hips loosely. I gave myself one more pep talk in the mirror before returning to a sleepy Adeline curled into the bed smiling lazily up at the movie.
She looked like an angel. Her messy, thick hair consumed the pillow in dark waves and I almost didn’t want to disturb her but I couldn’t stand being that far away for much longer. I walked around the bed, and her eyes broke from the TV to follow my path. She kept to her side as I pulled back the sheets and crawled in next to her.
“I love this movie,” she hummed as I wrapped my arm around one of the pillows, angling my head to look at the screen but still keeping her in my peripherals.
Today had been nice, I couldn’t have dreamt up a better first date if I tried. I truly hadn’t meant for us to end up in the same bed but I’d be lying to myself and her if I didn’t like having her so damn close. She smelled so good and looked so comfortable.
“Thank you for today,” she said, exhaling a deep breath. “And for behaving,” her laughter was like honey, “I know it can’t be easy when you have a half-naked girl in your bed.”
My eyes flickered downward to her fingers playing with the hem of the shirt and chuckled softly. “Well, I’d like to think that I have some self-control,” I said, hiding how little of a grip I actually had on that control with her just out of reach. “Besides, ravishing you on the first date might scare you off.”
“Is that what you planned on doing? Ravishing me?” She teased me, looking over at me with a smile on her face. “Who even uses that word anymore,” she giggled and I shrugged. I smirked up at her, shifting on the bed so I was closer, “I won’t lie, the thought did cross my mind. But I figured I should at least try to be a gentleman first. I’m trying to make a good impression here,” I said back.
In reality there were too many clothes, too many sheets and not enough pretty noises dripping from her. It was driving me nuts. I curled my hand into the sheets to keep from touching her but she was right there, so close I could feel the heat radiating off her.
“And after the good impression?” She turned her face downward, sliding into the pillows more and inching toward me. “What would you do?” She asked me in a tone that turned my resolve into steam, it rolled off my body and I couldn’t help but brush my hand over her bare thigh.
Her eyes darkened at the touch but she didn’t move away. “After? I’d kiss you senseless, explore every inch of you with my hands and my tongue. Leave you so desperate you beg me for more.” I whispered and watched her throat bob. I could get off from the sight of her like that, flushed cheeks, parted lips, her eyes wide and hazy.
I was getting hard from the thought of what that pretty mouth could do given the chance, all of the control I thought I had was slipping.
“A woman never begs,” she said, rolling her eyes at me made her lashes flutter and when she looked back at me it was a heavy lidded lusty gaze that pushed all of the blood between my legs.
A low, husky laugh left my lips at her declaration, “Sure. Well, it’ll be fun proving you wrong and I’m not someone who backs away from a challenge.”
“Right,you’re not a quitter,” she mocked me.
