Lover (Court University 4)

She was panicking, needing to stop before her mind ran off with shit and she got crazy. She’d given me a teaser of it before, and I think that was why I did what I decided to do next.

I grabbed her, just her wrists, but it was enough to make her look at me, to get out of her fucking head for just two seconds.

To feel me, my hands on her and that she was innocent in all this. That we did nothing wrong and there wasn’t any reason to think we had. I knew the school had an ethics policy, that she could get in trouble depending on the context, but that most certainly wasn’t our situation. We’d gotten together before we even knew our roles in regard to each other.

“What are you doing, Ramses?” Her breath shallow as she looked at me, but I noticed she placed no distance between us. Didn’t push me away.

So, I pushed.

I angled against her, hitching her up to me, and her throat jumped.

Mine tightened. “I want you to listen to me. You’re not in trouble. We didn’t do anything wrong, and you acting this way is just messing with your head.”

And messing with mine, but clearly in an entirely different way. Her flowers hit my nose, hard, and I wet my lips.

She noticed, followed it down my neck and completely across my chest. In fact, her gaze took complete inventory over my shoulders, my arms, my hands before settling on their place at her wrists. Her body knocked fluid, all but languid in front of me.

Shit. Is she still…

Into this, into me, her student who was twenty-two to her thirty-five? I didn’t fucking care about that, but she sure seemed to.

“Ramses…” The warning in her voice contradicted the dilation of her pupils, her irises darkening, her eyes hooded. “Please.”

Please what? Kiss her?

Just give me the go.

I had no problem taking this woman, right here, right fucking now, the growl on my lips as my chest met hers. Her ass hit the table, my hands too, when I caged her between my arms.

“I can drop the class,” I rasped, gliding my breath along her ear. It took every ounce of strength within me not to fucking touch her. “Just tell me, Jersey girl.”

At the sound of my nickname for her, what I said in general, or whatever the fuck, she sucked a breath through her teeth.

Okay, it’s on.

Unable to fucking fight it, my hand slid between her legs, pinching her sex through her tight little pants. The moan escaped her lips in an instant and I buried my face in her neck, a single kiss before she forced me off her and headed me straight toward the valley of fucking blue balls.

“I told you. I’m not…” She worked her way through her hair again. “Just no. No.”

“Why?” I growled, tired of this shit. Tired of this. She was clearly attracted to me, and me to her. I cleared hair from my brow. “I’ll get out of the class. It won’t be a big deal.”

“It’s not about the class,” she shot, my eyes twitching open. Seeing that, she pressed palms to her eyes. “I mean, it’s about the class now, but this can’t happen. It won’t happen.”

“Why not?” I repeated. Was there something else? She had been acting weird that day, right before I’d left. I’d passed it off.

Shit, was there something?

I witnessed that all over her face, something when she cleared her hands from it. She fisted her knuckles. “Ramses, I don’t know if you noticed, but we’re both a hot mess and you’re completely unavailable.”

“How so?” Intrigued now. “What are you talking about?”

She put out a hand like it was obvious. “I heard you in the bathroom with your friend. Your friend who’s married and you were talking to the day after said marriage, who also just so happens to live next to you, and oh, yeah, you were in love with back in high school.”

I frowned. What the fuck? “Where are you even going with this?” And wait, she heard me? Fuck. “I didn’t mean to sneak around with the call. But she’s my friend and I couldn’t leave her hanging.”

Her brow jumped. “That’s all you got out of what I just said?”

Was there something else? Confusion, clearly on my end, and her response to that was grabbing her bag. She instantly fled toward the door, but I got her by the arm.