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I was too riled up to sleep. There was no way I could just get back in bed like I hadn’t been awakened by a call from the police, driven to the community center building site with dread of what had been done to it. All that adrenaline had to go somewhere once I’d done the anticlimactic inspection of the whole place and found nothing wrong. Sure, I’d check it over again in daylight, but my fight or flight response didn’t just ratchet back down to sweet dreams.
Especially after I’d been thinking about Nicole. I missed her. There, I’d admit it at least to myself.
I missed Nicole. Missed her face and her body, and her attitude and her confidence and her determination to make everything perfect by sheer force of will. God, I missed her so bad it was crazy.
What would she do? If I called her right now, middle of the damn night, and said I couldn’t sleep. She’d tell me to fuck off, or she’d hang up on me. She wasn’t the kind of woman you sent a ‘u up?’ text. I’d known that all along. There wasn’t any way she’d say, I’m awake, call me. She was probably partying in the city, out till late and stumbling in for a few hours’ sleep in the early morning hours. She wasn’t lying in some hotel bed missing me, that was for sure. I wasn’t that full of myself, to believe a girl like her would be lonely for a man like me. I clenched my fist at the very thought of another man buying her a drink, dancing with her at a club or even opening her door. I wanted to growl and grind my teeth. I had some serious territorial urges toward Nicole, which was a problem in itself.
Still, as I stretched out full length on my bed, unzipped my jeans and took my rigid cock in my fist, I was thinking of her. And there was only one her in my world.
So I let myself think what it would be like, what it could’ve been like if things were different. If we were the couple in a movie, the kind where a disagreement just spices up their workplace and the attraction is obvious. Not like us in real life, where we would probably throw hand grenades at each other just for spite once we got to arguing. I laughed softly to myself at the thought. Then I let my imagination run wild.
‘I can’t sleep,’ I’d say when she picked up the phone, ‘wish you were here.’
I was ready for her to say I was being an idiot, we’d just hooked up and it was a mistake. Instead, she gave a sultry laugh.
‘Look out in your driveway, Noah. I drove all night.’
I’d vault off the bed, get to the front door and throw it open in time to catch her in my arms and pull her inside. I’d slam the door and lock it, my hands tangled in her hair, kissing her open-mouthed and hungry, hoarsely whispering, ‘where the hell have you been?’ before my tongue slides in her mouth to claim her.
She’d be trembling in my arms. I’d peel off her suit jacket, unbutton her blouse, desperate to get my hands on her bare skin, smooth as silk and hot under my touch. She’d suck my bottom lip as I kissed her, nipping at each other back and forth, breathless, hearts hammering with a pounding lust, a need I couldn’t let myself name.
Nicole’s hands would be on my bare back, my shoulders, my biceps, her palms and fingers molding to muscle and flesh, gripping me possessively. God, I loved that, and I’d bite her lip sensually as a reward. I’d need her help to unhook and unzip her fancy suit pants that fall to her ankles in a whisper of fabric hitting the floor.
Her lush mouth at my throat would make my fingers tense in her hair, grip it in my fists as arousal knotted my body. Everything in me would feel tight, pulsing with her heartbeat and mine, the throb of pleasure starting in my spine, the hair rising on the back of my neck as she nipped with her teeth at my earlobe. I loved how fiery her responses were, but when she tried to take the lead, when I let her for a minute or two, she was an inferno. The rake of her teeth, the heat of her tongue and every curve of her body seemed to burn into my flesh, making me more alert, more sensitive than I’d ever been before. Like my body was made to respond to her, made for her and her alone to take me apart with pleasure and put me back together after screams racked my frame.
