"That's not possible."
"You're beautiful." He takes my hand guiding me to the edge of the bed. "I'll take you home in a minute. I want to talk about something first." His tone is serious now.
"What is it?" I ask even though I'm not sure I want to know the answer.
"I wish I could hide away in a room with you forever." His beautiful lips are so close to mine.
"That would be heaven," I whisper.
The fingers of his left hand pull at the collar of the shirt he just put on me. "I can't though. I have to go do this trip but I need you to understand that I'd much rather spend that time with you. Here or anywhere."
"I do understand." I nod slightly. "I wish you could stay here too."
"The moment I'm back I'll pick you up and we'll spend the entire day together if you're not working."
I smile at the promise. I'll make sure I'm not working that day. I can't wait to be back in his arms again. "Maybe we could..." I let the words trail from my mouth as I kiss his lips softly. "Maybe you could help me look for a place of my own and then I could give you one of my keys."
"I'd love nothing more." His mouth curves into a soft smile. "I'm going to miss you so much."
"I'll miss you too." I shiver as I lean into him.
"You're cold." He pulls away from to retrieve the suit coat he pushed off his shoulders before we made love. He wraps it tenderly around my body. "Wear this. Let's get you home."
I smile at how loving he's being with me. "Can I have my key back?"
"It's in the pocket." He gestures to the jacket. "Keep it until I'm back. I like the idea of you wearing my stuff."
Chapter 18
"So all is good on the Hunter front?" Alexa is looking through my dresser drawers. "Where's that pink t-shirt you bought last month? I want to borrow it."
I point to a pile of clothes on the chair by my desk. "Somewhere in that mess and you can have it. Once you wear it, it's going to be stretched out." I motion to her chest.
She grins as she reaches to pick up Hunter's suit jacket from the top of the messily stacked clothes. "Since when do you wear men's business suits?"
"That's Hunter's. He gave it to me the other night. I was cold."
"This is premium." She slips it over her shoulders. "Not only is he a great fuck, he has good taste in clothes."
I laugh as I
join her at the desk. I start rifling through the pile of clothes trying to find the pink t-shirt that she's suddenly claimed as her own.
"Seriously, this is gorgeous." She runs her hands over the fabric of the jacket. "This suit costs a lot of money. I can't afford anything nice on a teacher's salary. Maybe I need to go into the restaurant consultation business too."
I laugh at the suggestion of her switching careers at this point. The reason she wanted to be a teacher in the first place was for all the vacation time.
"He left his keys in here." She whips the keys he gave me out from one of the pockets. "He should have noticed by now that he didn't have these."
"They're mine." I beam. "He gave me keys to his place."
"Shut. The. Fuck. Up," she says slowly. "You have keys to his apartment. You can come and go as you please?"
"I guess." I realize when I answer that Hunter and I never defined any rules for when I can go over there. "He didn't say otherwise."
"This is way more serious than you've been letting on." She sits next to me. "You're practically living with him."
"I'm not," I scoff. "It's just keys."