11. Boss
11
BOSS
L exi huffs next to me, and I smile into the darkness. “You okay?”
She huffs again. “Yeah.”
I turn to face her even though I don’t dare touch her. It’s killing me not to have her in my arms right now, but I don’t trust myself to just let her sleep. She has to be up early in the morning, and I’m not going to be the reason she gets behind on schoolwork or anything else.
I find her eyes in the darkness, and she’s staring back at me. “Talk to me, princess.”
“I don’t know. Did you change your mind?”
I lean up on my elbow. “Change my mind about what?”
She follows suit and looks at me, and her voice softens. “About me.”
I lean toward her. “I’m sorry. Did I miss something? I just claimed you in front of my club. You think I changed my mind between then and now?”
She straightens her arm out and lays her head on it. “Well, when you say it like that…”
She doesn’t finish her thought, so I scoot closer to her. “What’s going on in that pretty head of yours?”
My plan was to keep my distance so she can rest, but I’m itching to put my hands on her.
“I just thought that if you wanted me here, you’d want to do more than sleep… that’s all.”
I blow out a breath. “You have class in the morning.”
She raises up again. “Wait. Are you saying you’re not touching me because I have to be up early?”
I nod. “There’s already so many reasons why you and me are a bad idea, princess, I don’t need to add to it by not letting you get enough rest for class.”
She laughs. “Ben, I graduate in a few months.”
I nod. “Congratulations. What are your plans after?”
She lies back on the bed and looks up at the ceiling. “I’m already working. I have a marketing company and have three clients.” She holds one hand up. “And yes, before you ask, one of them is my brother, but there’s not any nepotism with the other two.”
“I’m sure you’re great at your job, princess. I’m not surprised your brother would hire you up.”
I lie down on my back and look up at the ceiling too. Our shoulders are touching, and that’s enough to make me a little crazy. “So let me get this straight. You work and go to school full-time.”
“Yep.”
“So you’re staying around here then.”
She giggles. “Well, I just found out I’m Ben Dalton’s ol’ lady, so yeah, I’m sticking around for a while.”
She rolls to her side, and before I can say anything, she lifts herself up and swings her leg over me until she’s straddling my hips. “Okay, Big Ben, I promise I will get some rest, right after this.”
My hands go to her hips, and I hold her to me, grinding my hips up against her. Her hands go to my shoulders, and she’s smiling over me.
“I had good intentions, princess. I was going to let you go to sleep, and then I was going to pull you against me and hold you until it was time to wake up.”
She gasps as she rubs herself against me. “You like to cuddle? I wouldn’t have thought that about you.”
I lean up until we’re chest to chest. I cup her face in my hands. “Yeah, well, I have never liked it before, but with you, I’m finding I’m wanting things I’ve never wanted before.”
I kiss her because I can’t hold back anymore. She’s grinding against me, and my cock is seeping, wanting to be inside her. She pulls back, breathless. “Okay, so I think we should make a few rules.”
I pull her shirt up, and she raises her arms so I can pull it off her. “I don’t like rules,” I grunt at her.
She laughs, pressing her bare breasts into my hands. “I think you’ll like these rules.”
I suckle her breast, and when I move to the other one, I whisper to her, “I’m listening.”
She groans. “I can’t think with you latched on to me like that.”
I gently nip at her nipple, and she bucks in my lap. I pull back just long enough to say, “You mentioned rules” before I cover her breast again.
She throws her head back. “Right, rules. Uh, if I stay overnight here, we cuddle. No worrying about sleep or lack of; I want you to hold me.”
I grunt in agreement.
“Rule number two, no more holding back from me. You’re not going to scare me, Boss.”
I understand the significance of her calling me by my club name in this moment. I agree with her rule. “Okay, what else you got?”
She whimpers as I reach between us and stroke her clit through her panties. “That’s it for now.” She moans.
I flip her onto her back. As I pull down her underwear, I position myself at her core. I touch her everywhere except where she needs me to. If she’s going to lay down some rules, I’m going to do the same. “You wanna hear my rules now?”
She’s gyrating her hips, needing more, but I avoid her core as I kiss and lick her inner thigh. She groans in frustration. “Later… tell me later.”
I chuckle. “Princess, now how fair would that be? I listened to yours, you should probably hear me out.”
She pulls at the sheet on the bed, shifting her body, trying to get me to her core, and I just blow my breath against her skin. She groans again. “So help me Ben?—”
I cut her off. “Rule number one. You want something from me, you take it. Easy as that.”
I lick closer to her core, and her moans fill the room. “Rule number two, if you’re in my bed, I want you naked.”
She grunts. “I’m naked right now!”
“Rule number three, I’m going to do things that piss you off.”
She stops moving and lifts her head to look at me, and I continue. “I won’t mean to, but I know I’m going to screw up. I need you to promise you won’t just walk away from me… you’ll stick around and work this out.”
She pulls me by my shoulders so that I’m leaning over her. I could easily resist her, but why would I? Anything she wants, I want to give her. She cups my face. “You already said you’re going to be faithful, so yeah, I can agree to number three.”
I lean down to kiss her, and she’s pulling at my shorts. I do my best to help her, and once my cock is free, I position myself at her entrance and slowly sink into her. Her eyes are wide open, and there’s so much emotion shining back at me. It’s on the tip of my tongue to tell her I love her, but even though I feel it, I know it’s too soon. There are things I need to work out before I can say those words to her. So I try to show her how I feel instead. After tonight, she won’t have any doubts about what I’m thinking.