Chapter 32 – Andy
Chapter Thirty-Two
ANDY
When I hear someone at the door, I leap off the bed, rushing out of Niki’s bedroom. The front door is barely open, and I’m throwing myself at Niki when I see him. All of the worry and anxiety I’ve had leaves me. Niki lets out a grunt but catches me, his hands going to my ass to lift me off my feet.
“Shit, sorry, sorry.” My eyes search his face, but there isn’t a new mark on him. “I shouldn’t have launched myself at you.” My nerves got the best of me. I knew he was going to see Rico today. I’ve been on edge about it.
My mind has been a jumbled mess between thinking about Rico, and then drifting over to Niki and me having sex last night. It’s been giving me whiplash.
“This is how you should always greet me.” His expression is dead serious. I only shake my head but kiss him.
“I’m okay; no one worry about me.” I hear Bam. I glance over Niki’s shoulder to see Bam standing in the doorway. I couldn’t be more grateful for how good of a friend he is to Niki.
“You want a hug too?” I tease.
“I mean—”
“Fuck off,” Niki cuts in, making Bam chuckle.
“Can I at least go fuck off in my room?”
Niki steps out of the way but doesn’t put me down.
“Thank you for keeping him safe,” I tell Bam as he passes by.
He shrugs it off like it’s not a big deal when it really is.
Bam and Niki might as well be brothers. Bam was worked up for those few hours that we couldn’t find Niki.
“He loves you. You know that,” I say to Niki when Bam’s bedroom door closes.
“And what about you?” His question jolts me because when I said that to Bam, I’d thought about me loving him.
“Can we talk?” Niki’s hands on my ass tighten. “It’s not bad; it’s just, ah—”
“Are you sure it’s not bad?” Niki asks. “After last night, there is no going back for us.” Does he think I’m about to bolt on him? “Who am I kidding? You sealed your fate that first day.”
“I do love you, Niki, but—”
He shuts me up, pressing his mouth to mine.
Before I know it, I’m naked, and he’s deep inside of me.
I wrap my legs around him. How am I so close already?
The man knows how to work my body over. It's a skill set only he has ever had.
It has been that way from the very start. A few touches and I was coming undone.
Is that part of love? Does it intensify the sex? It has to be. This connection with him courses through every part of me. All of it is linked together.
“You love me.” Niki’s eyes are intense, which is par for the course of who he is, but it’s a different intensity this time. He is willing this to be true. Damn, if I didn’t know I loved him before, it would be a done deal now.
"I love you," I say, meaning it with every fiber of my being. I have never felt more connected to anyone in my life or protected, for that matter. Life isn’t so scary when you know someone is always at your back, or with Niki, at my front, wanting to shield me from the world.
“You’re mine, Andy. Forever.” With those words, Niki picks up the pace, shifting his hips so that each thrust hits just the right spot deep inside of me.
It doesn’t take long before my legs are shaking and I’m going over the edge.
The orgasm is so intense not only physically but emotionally as well.
I hear Niki grunt out my name before feeling his warm release inside of me.
I feel his lips on mine seconds before he rolls us so that I’m lying on top of him.
Our breathing is the only sound in the room, falling in tune together.
I rest my head on his chest. Niki’s fingers drift up and down my spine.
“I love you too.”
I lift my head. “I know.” I kiss his chest over his heart.
“Then what did you want to talk about?”
I suddenly no longer want to discuss the subject. I only want to keep lying here. I wish we could stay like this forever. In our own little world.
“I’m relaxed and content now. Maybe tomorrow we will talk about it.”
“All right,” he agrees. “I’ll order us food and check in with my mom and let her know—”
“Niki, you don’t have to stay with me. I can go home so you can do the same. You’ve been missing too much time with your sister. I don’t like being the cause of that.”
“No,” he protests, shaking his head adamantly. “It's fine; I just told my mom I was bringing you over tonight for dinner. I'll tell her that—"
"I'll go," I blurt out. The thought of getting to see another part of Niki’s life fills me with happiness.
"That's a quick change of pace." He lets out a low chuckle. I worry my bottom lip between my teeth. "Shit, is that what you wanted to talk about? Family?"
Niki might be a man of few words, but he doesn't miss shit. He's damn smart, and I'm not sure he knows that.
“I was thinking while waiting for you to get home—I mean back.” That was all I could do. I tried to read and do other things, but I was too worried.
“Home was right, babe.”
“But—”
Niki rolls, pinning me under him. “Home isn’t a place, at least not here. For now it’s us, together.”
“I really love the sound of that.” No place I have lived has ever given me a sense of home, but I have that when Niki is near.
“There is more. You’re holding back.”
“There’s not. I mean, I was going to ask about meeting your family, but then I realized it’s dumb because I haven’t told my mom yet, and I’m not sure when I will.” She knows there's someone, but I haven’t gotten into any details.
“Because she’s got enough on her plate.”
“Right.” I smile up at him. See, he already gets it without me having to tell him.
“You can meet my sister and mom.”
“I wasn’t sure you wanted that.”
Niki strokes the hair out of my face. “I want you. Fuck, I’m pretty sure I need you.”
“Same,” I agree, pulling him back down for a kiss, knowing that’s all I need to say.
He gets it; he always does.