"You can’t wait ten minutes?" he said, positioning himself behind me and sounding more drunk now than from any sip of the champagne. “You need it again right now?”
"Yeah, so get on with it."
I tipped my hips back, and there were his hands, his firm grip holding me in place as his head dropped to nuzzle against my shoulder.
“What am I going to do with you?” he purred.
"Whatever you want, long as you do it right fucking now."
It happened then.
Orion started round two early, so I succeeded. His cock slid back into me easily. One hand fell to the bed as his hips worked, landing close to mine on the sheets. We were both grunting and rocking into each other, and between one breath and the next, he repositioned his hand on the bed, moving it to cover my own hand.
Even with all 9½ inches inside me, this perverse version of holding hands felt the most intimate.
I moaned insanely loud even as my heart clenched painfully in my chest. Even as he delivered on exactly what I wanted, a hard and dirty round two, I felt his hand over mine most strongly.
Oh no. I liked him. I had feelings for Orion Lennox.
When the day’s all saved and the monster was stopped, this ended. Forming any kind of attachment would be so incredibly stupid.
Good thing that was Future Rob’s problem. Not mine.
12.Future Problems in the Present
Orion
Rob and I were tangled together in bed. He stared out the window while I stared at him. He fit well in my arms, and I wanted to enjoy the quiet and closeness between us. But I was thinking about secrets.
In some respects, I’d been keeping secrets for a long, long time. The things that once shocked me and changed everything I thought I knew had become a comfortable weight in my chest. I never told anyone about the world beyond this. I never breathed a word about creatures from other planets and the secrets in the stars.
I supposed I became an expert in hiding the truth.
No, that wasn’t right. I found an easy solution. By not allowing anyone too close, there was no risk in revealing something I shouldn’t. Secrets were easy to keep when there was no one you trusted enough to confide in.
But now…
Rob stared out the window, but he apparently felt my gaze.
"Do you wanna know?" he asked.
Know what? Without any clue, there was no telling what or how much he was about to say. I made a noise of agreement for him to continue anyway.
"When we first met at Bliss. You found me with the sex handcuffs and maybe it looked bad. Like I was trying to steal them."
"You weren’t?"
"No! I don’t, I don’t know.” He squirmed in my arms, unsure of whether he should put distance between us or not. “Would you believe I had a good reason?"
"Maybe,” I said. “Is it the truth?"
“I really am helping out a friend,” Rob told me. “He’s had some shitty breaks in life and he needs a lead on some of his unanswered questions. Of course, I was only supposed tolocatethe cuffs and check them out, not anything else.” He fell quiet for a moment, tracing an idle pattern on my chest with his fingers. “Did Iwantto take them for a second? Yes. The more you do the wrong stuff, the easier it gets. That’s not an excuse, I... it’s just what it is. It’s second nature and then I have to remember,oh yeah, I don’t do that anymore.Sometimes I wonder if doing the right thing will ever become a habit like that.”
“It will,” I promised.
Rob nodded, not really believing me. He thought I was just telling him what he wanted to hear. He had no idea I spoke from experience.
“I hope that if I had more time,” he said quietly, “I would have remembered that I’m not that guy anymore. You’re the one who told me to have some faith in myself, so I’m giving myself some credit whether I deserve it or not. Does that sound like a load of horseshit?"
