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When I raise my brow, waiting for her to continue, she adds, “I was thinking of getting in touch with the detective who had been in charge of my mother’s disappearance.” She doesn’t let me say anything, leaning forward in her seat as if trying to convince me, her tone eager. “The car was missing all this time and now, suddenly it shows up. That has to mean something, right? They’ll have to reopen the case!”
I can see the fragile hope in her eyes and I don’t want to crush it but I also don’t want her to be devastated later on, if it turns out that her mother truly isn’t alive. “Halley,” I say, quietly. “Have you thought this through? You’re bouncing around a lot.”
She releases a huge breath before admitting, “Not really. I’m playing it by the ear. I don’t want to build my hopes up, but if there is even the tiniest possibility…”
The desperation on her face makes me determined to see this through with her. “Alright. We’ll go talk to the detective. But you should tell Raymond. He might want to get involved as well.”
Halley shakes her head. “No. Not till I know something for sure. It’s bad enough that I’m so optimistic.”
Our food arrives and the topic changes to something more pleasant.
We’re on dessert when I ask, “So, not even a single relationship. But you said you would go to clubs and bars.” I find it curious that no one has ever hit on her.
Halley grins. “Uncle Raymond provided me pamphlet after pamphlet on safe sex right after he made me go through lists and lists of sexually transmitted diseases. It was awful. Mia had to sit through some of those sessions as well. We wanted to burn our eyeballs out afterwards.”
“I can’t imagine Raymond doing something like that.”
Halley snorts as she toys with her ice cream. “Best believe it. Uncle Raymond took protection to the next level. He was so overprotective. I remember there was this one party Mia and Cameron wanted to take me to and he insisted on driving us there and picking us up.” She rolls her eyes. “If there was a dad checklist on how to embarrass any kid, he checked all the points.”
When I give her a disbelieving look, she laughs. “He’s cooled off considerably ever since I moved out. When I told him that I was an adult and needed to live on my own, I swear he cried.”
Now, I’m starting to feel sorry for the man.
“It was only after I moved out, that I started going to clubs but even then, I was so busy with projects. So, I just went to have a good time and I usually went to the gay clubs. And Cameron and Mia always stuck with me.”
“I never did the club scene,” I tell her. “I was too busy with studies and then my jobs.”
“I knew you were boring when I met you.” Halley gives me a mischievous grin.
I smirk. “And yet here you are.”
Her cheeks turn red and she turns her nose up in the air. “I’m just taking pity on you.”
However, her lips are twitching and I’m glad to see her in such a good mood.
On the ride back to our building, she regales me with escapades of her childhood, a lot of which involve Raymond’s daughter, Suzie. To anyone listening, it sounds like a happy household but there is a wistfulness to Halley’s tone.
Since we both have to get up early, we go straight home.
I walk her to her apartment and at the doorway, Halley lingers, uncertainly, as if she wants something but doesn’t quite know how to ask for it.
I tuck my hands in my pockets and smirk. “Well?”
She purses her lips together as if to keep her words from escaping.
Nonchalantly, I study the wallpaper decorating the hallway. “I did want to kiss you goodnight but…” I eye her, drawling, “…you did say you were taking pity on me.”
Halley’s face turns red as she realizes that her own words were coming to taunt her. She makes a face, which is adorably pouty, and tries to say in a dignified manner, “Good. It’s not like I wanted you to—Mmph!”
I cover her lips with mine before she’s even finished speaking as a tremor goes through her body accompanied by a soft sigh. It is so delicious. I pin her against her door with my body, one hand entwining in her hair in a firm grip to keep her in place, the other settling on her waist.
Once again, her inexperience shines through, but this time she is making an effort and it pleases me. When her lips move against mine, almost clumsily, my cock hardens and I get more aggressive.
I nip at her lower lip, tugging at it till she lets out a small cry. Then I soothe it by sucking on it. Her hair is silky and soft. I tug on it, pulling her head back, almost forcefully, and to my delight, she whimpers but lets me.
My mouth lands on her jaw and places small bites along the sharp line of it, pressing open mouthed kisses along her bare neck. She trembles in my hold and I press her even harder against the wall till there is not even an inch of space between us. I can feel every line, every curve of her small frame, and I want nothing more than to take this inside where I can just bend her over the first surface and take her till she becomes a wild, helpless little thing under me, scratching and screaming my name.
The very thought has me sucking on her neck harshly, determined to leave my mark on her, so every man that comes across her, knows she’s taken.
