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I gasp as soon as his tongue touches me. “Adam.” He lets out a soft grunt in reply. “Don’t stop.” I try not to writhe away from him as the warmth builds inside me, spreading out from my core in furious waves. “Adam!”
“Say it louder,” he says, and the sensation of his breath and the vibration of his voice send chills through me.
As the orgasm reverberates through my body, a cry of euphoria explodes from my lips. “Adam!”
I hear a soft chuckle as he finishes me off with another lick and a soft kiss. My body trembles as he kisses each of my breasts then sits up. He takes off his jeans and I attempt to recover as he slides a condom on.
“Sweeter than sugar,” he says, as he lies on top of me, resting his elbows on either side of my head, and kisses me.
I rake my nails softly over his ribs and he twitches between my legs. He kisses me slowly, taking his time, drawing out the moment until I finally grab fistfuls of his hair and pull his face back. I don’t say anything. He knows what I want as soon as he sees the hunger in my eyes.
He eases himself into me and I wrap my legs around his hips to coax him farther inside. I draw in a sharp breath as he hits my core and a spark of pain ignites the fire inside me.
His eyes are locked on mine, his brow furrowed as he watches every change in my face while moving rhythmically in and out of me. “Are you okay?” I nod and he kisses my forehead. “I love you, Claire.”
“I love you, Adam.”
He presses his lips to mine and I know, from that one look and the way he’s kissing me so tenderly, that there’s something he’s not telling me.
Chapter Nine
Adam
WAKING UP IN CLAIRE’S BED is always disorienting. I sleep like the dead in my own bed, but sharing a twin bed with Claire while Senia is lying eight feet away from us is not my idea of the perfect sleeping arrangements. Especially when all I have to do is smell Claire and I get turned on.
I sweep her hair to the side and kiss the back of her neck to wake her up. She stirs against me then pauses when she feels me stiff against her backside. I scoot back a little so she doesn’t think I’m trying to make any suggestions. She turns around to face me and I kiss her forehead.
“Good morning, babydoll.”
She curls her leg over my hip and tucks her head under my chin. “Good morning. What are we doing today? I don’t have to study until six or seven, so we have all day.”
I lightly drag my fingertips up and down the silky skin on her thigh as I try to think of a way to break the news to her. “Baby, I have bad news. I can’t stay the entire weekend anymore.”
She jerks her head up and hits the underside of my chin forcing my teeth to clamp down hard. “Sorry,” she says as she rubs my chin. “What do you mean you can’t stay? When are you leaving?”
I pull her hand away from my chin and kiss her delicate fingers. She stares at me with those beautiful blue eyes and the disappointment in her face makes me want to tell my dad to go to hell with his last-minute demands, but I can’t.
“I’m leaving around noon. I have to help my mom with some closeout documents for a project.”
She sighs as she unfurls herself from me to lie on her back as she stares at the ceiling. “This sucks. I thought we were going to spend the whole weekend together. Now I’ll have to go to that Chi Omega brunch at the gallery tomorrow with Senia.”
“I can hear you,” Senia mutters from the other side of the room.
“So looking forward to it,” Claire shouts back.
I slip my hand under her tank top and she smiles as my fingers crawl over her skin. I take her breast in my hand and squeeze. She finally turns to look at me.
“Why didn’t you tell me this last night?”
“Because I wanted to enjoy what could possibly be our last night together for a couple of months.” She glares at me, unsatisfied with my incomplete response. “We have a conference call with the C.O. at Barking Sands on Thursday. They’re going to tell us if we got the project. I’m almost one hundred percent certain we got it.”
“You’re going to Hawaii? Why don’t you look more upset?”
“I am upset. I’m very fucking upset, but this trip is a long-term investment.” I slide my hand down and under the waistband of her panties. I love that she lets me do this with Senia just a few feet away. “I’ve already entered a competition over there and I told my dad that this would be the last project I work on for the company before I quit.”
“And he agreed to that?”
I nod as my fingers search for her spot. I know I’ve found it when she lets out a small gasp. I stroke her gently and her eyes close as her mouth falls open in a silent cry.
“Once this trip is over, I’m free. I already have another job lined up with an architectural firm in Raleigh.” I slide my finger inside her and I can tell she’s holding her breath. “I’ll be back before Thanksgiving. Then we can be together.” I slide my finger out and use her wetness to caress her. “Every day.”
Her hips writhe against my hand and I move my fingers in time with the rhythm of her thrusts. I smile as she squeezes her eyes and mouth tightly shut to suppress her cries. Finally, her body quivers and curls into me as she climaxes. I tease her a little more, just to torture her, then she opens her eyes as I pull my hand out of her panties.
“Two months,” she says in a breathy voice as she looks up at me. “I can hardly handle two hours. This is cruel.”
I slowly slide my finger into my mouth because I have to taste her. “You taste like a fucking cream pie,” I whisper in her ear.
She giggles as she curls herself around me again. “Who’s going to check on Cora while you’re gone?”
“I’m going to threaten Tina into doing all the shit she slacks off on.”
“You can’t threaten her.”
“I’m only kidding. I’m gonna bribe her.”
She smiles and I tilt her face up to kiss her. I want her to know that I feel the same way about leaving. I want her not just to remember me; I want her to feel me when I’m gone. She molds her body to mine and I grab the back of her neck to hold her steady as I roll her on top of me.
“Ew… I can see you guys,” Senia complains as she jumps out of bed.
Claire sits up so she’s straddling my stomach as she watches Senia pull on some shorts and a hooded T-shirt. Senia pulls the hood over her head, probably to hide her messy bedhead hair, then slides her feet into some sneakers.
“Where are you going?” Claire asks, but I stay quiet. I’m looking forward to having Claire all to myself for a few hours before I leave.
“I’m going to Starbucks then to hang out with Isabel. I’ll be back later. You guys just… enjoy each other while you can.”
She slams the door on her way out and Claire stares at the door for a moment in a daze. She looks down at me and I can see she’s upset.
“It’s Eddie. I think seeing us together is too much for her right now. I feel horrible. Should I go after her?”
I try not to look disappointed as I reply, “You should, if you think it will make both of you feel better.”
She stares at me for a moment as she contemplates her options. It feels like everything and everyone is conspiring to get between Claire and me, and it’s really starting to piss me the fuck off. But I try not to let her see this.
I want to believe that Claire and I will survive our time apart. And I know that it shouldn’t matter whether I leave now or in three hours, but our relationship already seems to be hanging by a thread. This is really bad timing to go on a long trip, but this is my way out of the family company. And I need to get out. I can’t work a hundred miles away from Claire for the next two to three years.
“I’ll talk to her later,” she says as she lies on top of me.
I grab her face and kiss her hard, the kind of kiss she won’t forget for a long time. I kiss her until I’m certain she’ll suffocate if she doesn’t come up for air. I pull her face back to look at her and s
he’s crying.
“Why? Why do you have to leave?”
“Because sometimes you have to suffer without the things you want now so you can have everything you need later.”
I brush the tears from her face with my thumbs and she closes her eyes as she leans into my hand. This is too fucking hard.
We spend two hours lying in bed, talking and studying each other like curious animals, exploring every curve and crevice and savoring every blissful sensation. The whole time, the unspoken question of whether we can make it through this is heavy between us, like an invisible shield separating us, protecting us from getting close enough to get hurt. This is exactly how I wanted to spend my last day with Claire and it’s also not at all how I wanted to spend it.
We stand just inside the door of her dorm as I get ready to leave. Her arms are wrapped around my waist and I stroke her hair as we gaze at each other in silence. The ache in my chest turns into a throbbing dread that something is going to happen with Chris while I’m gone. I trust Claire, but I don’t trust him for a second.
“I love you, Claire. I want you to know that I won’t do anything to jeopardize what we have. And I trust you, but I also want you to know that if anything does happen while I’m gone, I won’t hesitate to hop on a plane and come back here to fight for what’s mine. I can’t lose you.”
“You’re not going to lose me. You’re still my favorite olive.”
I smile for the first time in hours and I know there’s only one thing left to do.
“Knock, knock.”
She rolls her eyes. “Who’s there?”
“Sherwood.”
“Sherwood, who?”
“Sherwood like to stay, but I have to get going now.”
She shakes her head. “I love you so much.”
I wrap my arms around her waist and lift her off the ground to give her one last kiss. I trace my tongue over her top lip then take her bottom lip into my mouth and suck gently. She moans and just the sound makes me want to take her back to bed so I pull my head back before we get carried away.
