Page 18 of Cross Check My Heart
“What floor are we on?” Her brows crunch together.
“The thirteenth… why?”
Striding toward her front door, noting our clothes from last night that are leaving a messy trail down the entryway, I unlock her front door. Laughing uncontrollably as I open her door to see my condo number staring back at me across the hall.
“What are you laughing at?” Lilly questions. In response, I hold my hand out toward her. Slowly she reaches for me, and I waste no time in leading her out of her condo and to my door.
“Dom, what are you doing?” She exclaims, tugging her t-shirt down to cover her ass as I put in my code and unlock my door.
“I know exactly where I am.” Forgetting about her shirt, she gapes at my now open door before looking back to me.
“You’re shitting me!” Then she’s laughing alongside me.
“Now I know why I didn’t think twice about moving around your kitchen.” I claim as I tug her into my condo. “Mine is literally the mirror image.”
Lilly shakes her head as she laughs at the fact that I live across the hall from her.
“You live here?” I nod in response.
It’s a good thing I wasn’t planning on this being the last time I saw Lilly. We’re both silent, smiling brightly as we walk through the small hallway and further into my place. Once we reach the open living room and kitchen area, I inspect my empty condo before turning back to her.
“My furniture gets delivered on Monday but for now I have the important things.” I shoot a wink her way as my eye trails down to the hem of her shirt. “Like a bed.”
“Well at least if you were planning on doing a walk of shame this morning, it’s not going to be a long one.”
“There are absolutely no shameful feelings about what I did to you last night.” Thoughts of her sprawled out on her bed last night have my cock twitching, wanting more of her. I’ve never craved someone like this, like two or three times isn’t going to be enough.
Not that I’d say that out loud seeing as how I literally just met her last night.
Lilly leans against my kitchen island, crossing her arms and once again causing my attention to snag on her thighs, as she grins seductively at me.
“We’re neighbors.” Stepping forward and bracing my arms around her to cage her between me and the island, I lean forward until our lips are an inch apart.
“It appears so.” Her eyes darken as she gazes at me, but her forehead crunches with worry lines as she tilts her head and whispers.
“Did you plan for last night to be a one-night stand?” I let go of the counter and bend down slightly, giving her a short kiss as I reach forward and grip under her ass to hoist her on the island. With her sitting on the edge, I press myself between her thighs and squeeze her ass.
“If I told you no, what would you say?” Lilly doesn’t break eye contact with me as she leans forward, pressing her chest into me before placing a soft kiss on my lips.
“If you said no, I would ask if you had plans today. If that answer was also no, I would ask how you felt about going back across the hall with me to binge watch New Girl, eat snacks all day and maybe have another couple orgasms.”
I smile back at her, wondering if she’s fucking real.
“It’s a good thing I don’t have any plans today because that sounds like fucking heaven.”
Throughout the weekend, Dom and I managed to binge watch the first two seasons of New Girl. When I had asked him to come home with me after the game Friday night, I hadn’t really thought past the fact that I needed him in my bed. When I waswith Cam, there was never a blatant desire to be intimate or physical.
During the last two years of our relationship, our sex life had become a routine. Almost like we were just checking a box off. At the beginning, it was fresh, new… almost exciting to make him happy in whatever way he needed. But the more time that passed, the more we fell into a pattern in all areas of our relationship.
Dominik is nothing like that.
He gave me his full attention as I talked about anything and everything all while asking genuine questions. Outside of my relationship with Paige, I had forgotten what it was like to have someone give me their full attention. Occasionally topics that neither of us were ready to talk about, like his sister or my relationship with my dad, would come up but he took it in stride.
During one of our quiet cuddle sessions, I had spaced out and snatched up my laptop, my characters running wild in my mind telling me how to start the next chapter. Not wanting to forget it, I grabbed my laptop with the intention to type down a cliff notes version of my thoughts. Only once I started getting it out… I couldn’t stop. I was six hundred words in when the realization of how hard I had just spaced out dawned on me. Dom hadn’t even been fazed, he simply stayed watching the TV in comfortable silence, while running his fingers gently through my hair.
In my rush to work, I didn’t even sit back on the couch next to him. Instead, I had plopped down in front of him on the floor with my back resting against his legs and went at it. He had looked so startled when I sat up straight, slamming my laptop shut and apologizing for working while he was here.
“Honestly, I hadn’t even thought twice when you got up and came back to work like that. We were relaxing and your mind started figuring something out. That’s fucking awesome.” He spoke so calmly, so nonchalantly as he began running his handsthrough my hair again. For a long minute, I couldn’t figure out how to respond.
