Page 18 of One Night to Fall
“I don’t know.” He sighs. “It feels like a lot of blurred lines already.”
“I’m just saying, you’re going to get sick of me at some point and it won’t be a problem.”
“I think I liked it better when my dick was in your mouth.”
“See? It’s already working out perfectly.”
Chuffing out a laugh, he rolls on top of me, kissing his way down my neck and erasing any doubt this is anything but perfect.
For us.
For now.
13
ADRIAN
“You look happy this morning,” Wren says as she sidles up next to me in the break room on Monday morning.
“Yeah, the weekend was good. How was yours?”
Good would be an understatement, my body sore and sated after Jesse convinced me we needed to fuck on every surface in my apartment.
Getting up this morning had required more than one alarm to get me up and moving. The way Wren is smirking at me, there’s no doubt she can guessexactlywhy my weekend was so good.
“Mine was lovely although we did miss Jesse at family dinner.” Eyes sparkling, she rests her hip against the counter. “You wouldn’t know anything about that, would you?”
“Any chance I’m getting out of this?”
“Probably not.” She lifts a shoulder and lets it fall. “Even if you two are just hooking up, you’re going to have to come to family dinner eventually.”
“What? Why?”
“Because that’s how we are.”
“That…” I want to tell her that it sounds terrible and that there’s no way Jesse would allow that to happen, but I can’t quite get the words out.
“Leave him alone, Hellcat,” Merrick Ellis says from the doorway. “I’m sure we can find someone else for you to terrorize.”
“That sounds nothing like me,” she states haughtily, making him snort before nodding to me.
“Sorry, Adrian. She won’t bother you anymore.”
“He’s practically family,” she hisses.
“Family here at Mountain Side, yes. But you can’t interfere in your brother’s extracurriculars.”
Her response is cut off as he ushers her out of the break room, my heart stuttering in my chest at the exchange.
Because I can think of far worse things than being a part of the Sterling family.
The gym isempty as I rack the weights and grab my water bottle. Sweat coats my skin and I feel good, my mind clear, for the first time this week.
Being with Jesse last weekend and then dealing with Wren’s interrogation on Monday left me reeling the rest of the week.
But mostly, it made me realize how lonely I am here.
It made me wish that I was closer to my family and that my friends hadn’t blindly chosen Zack’s side when we broke up last year. Ending the relationship wasn’t nearly as painful as it should have been because even though Zack had apologized, I knew he wasn’t sorry.
