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“I think we’re probably done for today,” Elissa said as she blushed again. She gathered up her laptop in a bag, and I wondered if Tria could fit one of those things inside the Luggage of Lucifer. I decided not only would the laptop fit but probably the laptop bag as well.
Before saying goodbye, they made plans to work on their project some more over the weekend, and Tria turned back toward me. She looked down at the ground for a minute, then walked up and slowly put her arms around my neck and her cheek against my chest.
“You smell good,” she told me.
I laughed.
“I thought I was supposed to say that to you.”
She turned her head to look at me and just stood there for a minute and stared. I didn’t want to interrupt her thoughts because I was kind of hoping she was thinking more about her talk with her friend.
She didn’t say anything about it and was actually pretty damn quiet the rest of the day and into the evening. She made dinner, answered questions if I asked them, but didn’t offer up any conversation. She just seemed to be deep in thought, so I didn’t bug her about it.
At least when we crawled into bed, she snuggled up close to me.
Tria’s fingers traced little geometric shapes on my chest, but she didn’t move her hand any lower, and I wasn’t going to press. She’d gotten me off the night before, and I wasn’t about to demand more or complain or anything. When she turned her head up to kiss me, though, I was ready for her.
I grabbed her by her waist and pulled her up until she was straddling my stomach, making sure she wasn’t low enough to get a big ass boner in her backside. She leaned back down and kissed me, and I stroked my hands slowly up her sides. I touched the undersides of her breasts, and I ran my thumbs slowly over her though the fabric of her T-shirt was in my way.
I sat up and wrapped my arms around her back. Tria’s hands twisted around in my hair again, and I started kissing down her neck to her shoulder. Though I didn’t move her T-shirt out of the way or anything, I kissed down the front of her chest where her bra strap would be if she was wearing one.
She placed her hands immediately on my chest, which I took as a signal to back away. Tria blushed, bit at her lip nervously, and crawled off of me.
I took in a long, slow breath and let it out again as Tria situated herself under the blankets.
“Are you ever going to tell me why you’re so insecure about this?” I blurted out.
“I’m not,” she said too quickly.
“Okay…” I mumbled. “How about, are you ever going to admit you’re insecure about this?”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” she said with a completely unconvincing shrug.
“Tria, for Christ’s sakes, you curl away from me like I’m going to bite you or something!”
I hadn’t meant to yell, but the whole thing really was starting to piss me off. Tria cringed a bit, and I grumbled out an apology as she continued to deny anything was wrong.
“Just tell me,” I begged. “It can’t be all that bad.”
“It’s nothing.” Tria shrugged and turned away from me with a slight sniff.
Holy shit, I made her cry.
My fingers tightened around her elbow as I tried to get her to turn around and face me again.
“What?” I demanded. “What is it?”
“I just…I just don’t understand you at all!” Her voice cracked as she spoke. “You could have anyone you want—anyone! Why me?”
She sat up and pushed me away, and I just watched her, stunned. She moved to leave the bed, but then turned back, her eyes red.
“Why, Liam? What do you get out of it?”
“Get out of…? Tria, I have no idea what you are talking about!”
“No one wants me!” she screamed, and her hands balled into fists, pounding each word into the mattress. “No one, ever! So why are you pretending to?”
I was never one to contradict a woman in bed, but this was a load of bullshit.
