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“After this lovely father-daughter date? I don’t think so.” I roll my eyes and grab my half-empty latte and begin walking away before he has a chance to.
He’s walked away from me once. It’s my turn now.
Ateary eyed Stassia coming through the door has my anger already through the roof before she even speaks a word. She doesn’t even try to hide from me or hide the fact that she needs me as she pushes herself into my arms and burrows her face into my chest. Seth is one room over and although he’s privy to our relationship, I don’t think she’ll talk as freely in front of him. I nod towards the stairs, guiding her with my hand on her back as I pull her into my bedroom and lock the door. I set her on the bed and kneel in front of her, rubbing the tears from beneath her eyes. “What happened, baby?”
“He…he was so angry. He offered to pay for an apartment for me to live off campus at school and I politely declined and it was like I’d offended him or something. I just felt so weird about it. Living in an apartment building he owned and letting him pay for it? It just felt like I would owe him something if I did and I didn’t feel comfortable with that. Like I’d be in his debt.”
I curl my hands into fists, wondering what the fuck he thought the outcome of that would be. “We went back and forth for a little while,” she continues, “and then he got up, like he was done with the conversation. Done with me.Again.We’d been talking for ten minutes and it was like he was fed up with what I had to say and he was over it. He was walking away from me. My God, that alone crushed me. So, I got up and walked away from him first.”
Atta girl.
“I don’t want a relationship with him. He doesn’t know what it means to be a family. He wants to control me or something. Or push some agenda he has on me. It’s just odd. Every single conversation we’ve had, it’s him giving me his opinion on something I’m doing wrong. Like I haven’t gotten this far in lifewithouthim. I don’t need him.” She looks away and I can see the moment the sadness leaves her face and anger replaces it. It’s like I’m watching her heart harden in her chest right in front of me and it hurts me to watch her lose that piece of her innocence.
The first time someone really lets you down. Sadly, it’s someone who’d let her down her whole life, but she’d tried to give him another chance. And even still he didn’t get it. She didn’t want anything from him but a relationship and he couldn’t even give her that.
“Baby, sometimes…people just aren’t good. They are miserable and angry because they let the world make them hard. I won’t have you being like that. You are too good and positive. You are a ray of light in even the darkest of times.” I rub my thumb along her lip and she bites down gently and gives me a smile before she sucks on my thumb. “Now? You know Seth is here.”
“I don’t care,” she whispers. “I just want…I want the only man that’s never let me down to…make love to me.” She looks up at me through her eyelashes probably because she knows I can’t deny her anything when she looks at me like that.
“You don’t want to wait for…that? Until we’re alone?” She’s used that phrase once before, but now that the words linger in the air especially that second one, I know I need to have her completely alone for what I have planned for her.
“I can’t wait two days for this. I need you to make it better. To fix it. Fix me.”
“I don’t need to fix you, baby; you’re perfect.” I kiss her nose and run my lips down her face to her sweet lips and suck her bottom one into my mouth. I bite on it gently, and she whimpers in my mouth.
“Dominic…” She stands up and takes a few steps away from me. “I think…I think I’m falling in love with you.” Her lip trembles and when she looks up, her eyes are watery. “And that scares the shit out of me because…what happens if…where do we go from here if this ends badly?” Tears begin to roll down her face. “Do I lose you forever?”
“No,” I tell her. The mere thought of not having her in my life feels like a pierce to the heart. I need her in whatever way she needed me. “I’ll never leave you.”
“How can you…after what we’ve done. How would we ever go back?”
“I wouldn’t call it going back, Stassia. We’d have to form a new normal. One that allows us to be in each other’s lives as we try to separate ourselves from our past.” I take a few steps towards her and look down at her. “I don’t want to think about that though. I don’t want to think about a world where you don’t let me kiss your tears away.” I press my lips to hers. “And then kiss your pussy.” A smile finds her lips. “There she is, there’s that smile that makes everything better.” I kiss her forehead and wrap my arms around her, squeezing her so tightly I hope she believes I’ll never let her go. I lift her chin to look at me. “I never imagined this for my life. You…and…me…but now I can’t imagine my life without you. Without us.”
She slides the straps of her dress down and her dress pools at the floor by her feet leaving her in a lacy white thong and a matching strapless bra. “Us? There’s an us?”
“There’sbeenan us. For longer than both of us probably realized. You and I, we were unexpected, Stassia. A surprise that I never saw coming. But fuck, am I glad you happened.” My fingertip traces down her collarbone to the space between her breasts and over the cups. My hands move around her back and unclasp her bra and I watch as her perky breasts spring free. Her nipples are hard and I can see she’s cold with the goosebumps appearing all over her flesh. “Are you cold?”
“No.” Her gaze is hooded as she slides her panties down her legs leaving her completely naked and gorgeous.
“I’m going to send Seth out. I want to be alone with you.” The growing need to possess and protect her is being fueled by the fact that Micah sent her back to me teary eyed and devastated by his words and actions. The idea of beating the shit out of him flashes through my mind, but I know that is the wrong course of action.
“Really?”
I don’t answer her, I just head out of the room and down the stairs to find Seth eating pizza on the couch. “I need you to go. Go find something to do. Anywhere.”
“Why?”
I cock my head to the side and he drops the pizza and shakes his head. “Are you joking? Can you two keep it in your pants for two days?”
“No. So get out,” I call over my shoulder as I head into the kitchen and grab two bottles of water for us.
“You can’t fuck in the shower like normal people trying to hide the sound?” he calls from the couch as he seems to be making zero effort to move.
“I don’t want Stassi to feel uncomfortable.”
“What about ME? What about if I’m uncomfortable?”
“Oh my God, take my car. Go do something. Anything. I know you don’t need an excuse to go out and party.”
