Page 16 of Love in Education (De La Fuente Family 7)

She snorts out a laugh. “I’m not sure you’ve heard the word relax.” Her eyes stray to my cock before meeting my gaze. Hers is full of mirth. “You’re above average.”

I blink and throwing my head back, laugh. “I’ve never been told that before.”

“I think you should love me again just so I can make sure.”

“As much as I want to, I think we should get dressed for now...later though.” I hold my hand out and tug her from the lounger. “Will you spend the night here?”

I tilt her chin so that I can search her eyes. “I enjoyed last night, but I loved sleeping with you in my arms.”

“Then,” she wraps her arms around my neck, “I’d love to spend the night with you. It felt so right being with you.”

“Then that’s what we’ll do, and everything else can be worried about later.” I smack her on the butt and gently push her toward her clothes. I stand for a few minutes and watch her pull up her dainty panties before she covers her curves with the sundress.

She raises a brow when she glances over her shoulder and sees me standing watching her so I quickly dress, and the minute my jeans are up, I hear a car engine pulling into the drive. I look in that direction wondering who it is because it doesn’t sound like Pattie’s car.

Andie glances in my direction, so I tell her, “I have no idea who that is.”

She worries at her bottom lip, which I stop by sliding my finger between her lips to pull it free. “I’ll go and check. Don’t worry.”

Turns out that I don’t have to check because the voice that carries from the front of the house is none other than Professor Long.

Andie tunes in to my panic and after a quick kiss to the lips, whispers, “I’ll wait inside,” before she dashes through the patio doors just as the annoying woman walks through the gate. She glances at my chest so I quickly grab my shirt and shove it over my head.

“You didn’t have to dress on my account,” she drawls, sitting in the seat Andie vacated moments before.

“Why are you here?” I ask.

“It’s warm today, perhaps a glass of water?” she asks, hopeful.

Glancing toward the house, I notice Andie watching and it makes me uncomfortable. Not because I don’t want Andie to be here, but because it’s obvious what Janice wants, which is me. For the first time in my life my job is getting in the way of me being happy and it’s preventing me from shouting from the rooftops that Andie is mine.

“Why don’t you go on home and drink your water there,” I suggest and wince with how offhand I’m being. “Look, you’re probably a nice woman, but I’m not interested, okay?”

She tilts her head and watches me. “Everyone is interested when the need arises.”

I blink a few times. “I have a girlfriend.” Leaning on the table in front of her, I continue, “I’m asking you to leave politely and to leave me alone. I’m sure the cops won’t object to removing you if they have to. I mean what would the Chancellor think if it came to light that you’d been arrested for trespassing?”

“You wouldn’t?” She stands facing me, her hands on her hips.

“I would.” I sigh and run my hands through my hair. “I really don’t know what I’ve done to suddenly get you interested, but you need to leave me alone because I’m not interested period.”

“Humph, well we’ll see about that. You’re the only professor at the college who is under thirty-five, I thought we could have some fun.” She grabs her purse.

“I have plenty of fun with my girlfriend who happens to mean the world to me. So I’ll see you around the college.”

She gapes at me, but gets that I’m serious, and doing an about turn, she disappears toward the front of the house. I don’t even trust her to leave without returning so I quickly follow and add the padlock to the gate.

“She’s a pain,” Andie says, placing a hand on my back.

I turn in her arms and wrap her up against me. “Hopefully she’s gotten the message now.” Kissing the top of her head, I suggest, “Do you want to watch a movie? I have an awesome collection...or, we could go for a drive somewhere?”

Shaking her head, her smile lights her face. “I think I’d like to cuddle on the sofa and watch a movie. There’s also no chance of us being seen by anyone.” She shrugs as her smile slips, and I hate that.

I hate that we have to be careful as to who might be around while we’re out together.

Instead of saying anything more, I kiss her on the side of her head and tug her along with me into the house.

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