Page 114 of Already At Risk
The pull of Cameron’s lips was unreadable.
“No, Sunshine.” He continued to smooth my hair, like he didn’t know how to stop. “It’s not always that good.”
Somehow, I had a feeling that was what he was going to say.
CHAPTER THIRTY
natalie
“NATALIE NOELLE LONDON, I need to knoweverything.” Ellie’s black hair was thrown into a bun on top of her head, her short, wispy bangs swept to the side, framing a face with a gleaming expression as she plopped down into the seat across from me at the Bellflower Bar. She wore an oversized graphic tee with a black cat on the front that said,Karma is a Cat.“How was the cardio?”
I took a long sip of my mimosa before I answered, my face growing hotter by the second. “It was definitely the…all of the aboveoption.”
“I knew it.” Ellie crossed her arms over her chest with a look of triumph. “He looked like a man of many talents.”
I sighed into my drink. “Cameron is…amazing.”
“Oh?”
Ellie seemed surprised by my response, and I realized how I must have just sounded: wistful and infatuated, like this man had put a spell on me. So unlike me, as evidenced by my best friend’s raised brows and twitching smile.
Butlast night.
How was I supposed to act any other way after last night?
As though his first performance of the night hadn’t already been mind-blowing, Cameron fucked me two more times. Once in front of the bathroom mirror, taking me from behind while never moving his eyes off me in our reflection. And once more when we were curled up in his bed, a slow, sensual joining of our bodies that once again changed my perception of sex, pushing me to a new limit until we were both gasping and falling asleep within minutes afterward.
He might not have even pulled out.
I should care about that, right?
I hadn’t wanted to leave this morning. I’d see him in a few days for that baseball game, assuming Chloe wanted to go, but we’d be back to pretending our relationship was professional, friendly.
We agreed to five lessons, though. That meant two more, right? I’d get two more nights with him but just didn’t know when they’d be yet.
“I mean, in bed. He’s just amazing in bed.” I sat up straighter, tucking my hair behind my ear. “Of course.”
“Of course,” Ellie repeated slowly. “But you know…”
I shook my head, already knowing where she was going with this.
“Ellie—”
“He won’t be your lawyerforever, Nat,” she cut in, determined as always. “And he seems like a genuinely good guy. I was talking to his brother-in-law for a while last night, Beau? He said Cameron is?—”
“Sully hated that, by the way.”
It was an asshole move of me to derail her points about Cameron by bringing up my brother and the ex she’d never gotten over. But I also wanted her to know that he’d never gotten over her, either.
Ellie froze.
“What?”
“Sully kept glaring at Beau.” I lifted a brow. “Couldn’t keep his eyes off wherever you were.”
“I know he’s your brother, but…” Ellie rolled her eyes, but I saw the flush working its way up her neck. “Sully can go to?—”
“What can I get you ladies to eat today?”
