Chapter Seven
DRAVEN
I wake up not really knowing where I am. The bed beneath me is so soft I honestly wonder if I might be asleep at all. Maybe I’m not asleep, maybe I am dead and in heaven.
But then the doorbell rings.
Did I have plans this morning? I think I did. I’m almost sure I did…but what?
I open my eyes. “Shit! What time is it?!”
The doorbell sounds again, and I fall out of bed reaching for the things I wore yesterday. “Fuck! I’m coming! Hold the hell on!”
Stumbling down the stairs in my dirty clothes, I flip the switch allowing the shades to reveal the heavy fog of morning crowding the yard. The sight brings a contented smile to my face.
Wow…it really is beautiful here.
Ding dong!!!!
“Jesus!” I screech, opening the door. “The fuck is your deal?”
He stands there looking sexy as hell, the hint of a smile on his face. “I told you nine a.m. sharp.”
Domonic.
Of course. I forgot all about the breakfast appointment.
smoothly, rubbing the sleep from my
late. It’s ten
my chest and trying not to notice how crisp and fuckable he looks in white sweats and a stark white
muscles. And I want to put my mouth on each and every one. Holy
then… his perfume wafts toward me and I nearly
smell
angry. I can’t explain why, nor do I have
roll around for a few more minutes laughing because, I
smile disappears. “You got what you wanted.
shut the door in his face is thwarted by a bright white Nike sneaker. I nearly
down! Wait a minute! I told you we were going
saccharine grin.”No. We’re not. Have breakfast
half smile quirking up as he wets his lips.
“Oh yeah? Did she mark
a sarcastic frown. His face looks so
warily. Then with a roll of my
get
his eyes downward as if
home, last night,” I quip at him and slanting my eyes as I push the door closed,
the back of his neck nervously, glancing left and right as if someone might jump in and save him from my wrath. “I was going to but I-,” he stops, crossing his arms over his chest and idadvertanlty making his pectorals more prominently visible.
the door, but he pushes inside, and I throw my hands up in frustration. “Really?” I snap, stomping my foot in annoyance. “You’re just going to push yourself inside? You see? This is why I want to pay rent! So that I don’t have to let you in here and
face me, his eyes are shing with perverse pleasure. “You’re jealous,” he accuses, rotating his shoulders and sizing me up as he steps
your bitch. I never intended to
know what else to say. They finally fall on me and
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