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The title read, “Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen”.
Hmm, interesting.
What felt like minutes turned to hours.
Maybelle had comfortably sat herself on the floor with her back against the wall and was about halfway through the beautiful, infuriating, confusing romance of Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet when a loud knock on her bedroom door made her jump.
“Come in.” She called, her voice shaking with surprise.
Her door opened to reveal Trey, still as handsome as ever which made her fume. He couldn’t act the way he had and be that pretty, it was unfair.
“Hey, sorry to bother you. I just saw your light was still on and wanted to check and make sure you were alright.” He said quietly.
Maybelle looked at the digital alarm clock on her desk, it was already past midnight, “Oh, I didn’t realize how late it was.”
She looked back at Trey who studied her in the doorway.
“What are you still doing up?” She questioned, her breathing heavier under his gorgeous scrutiny.
When Trey first got back from school, he had been wearing a royal blue shirt with his school's name painted across the back in jeans and sneakers but now he had on black gym shorts and a gray t-shirt that clung to his built upper body in all the right ways.
She was drooling, shamelessly, murderously, gawking at him as he entered farther into her room.
“I couldn’t sleep after how dinner went.” He said, his head bowing as he looked at her through lowered lashes.
Maybelle nodded and used the wall to rise to her feet, her joints stiff from sitting on the floor for so long. Her muscles quaked with her efforts to walk to the bed.
Trey met her there and offered his hand to help lower her on the bed. She took his hand but paused before settling onto the pink quilted mattress.
She looked up at him, still astonished by his height compared to her as she stood level to his broad chest, “How about you sit with me, and we catch up?”
She offered the truce and gestured to the bed.
Trey stared at the bed for a moment then side eyed her wearily. Maybelle snorted, “Get your mind out of the gutter you weirdo.”
Trey chuckled, pinched her chin between his thumb and forefinger then turned her head so she could see what he saw.Her black lace bralette she’d worn earlier, and her freaking matching black thong laid on the bed atop her shirt and pants.
Her eyes almost fell out of her skull. Whoops…
Earlier that week Chelsea had given Maybelle access to her card and a few online shopping cites to purchase any essentials she may need that Chelsea hadn’t provided with her hand-me-downs. When Maybelle discovered the seductive lingerie set her first thought had beenhow pretty, the second thought wasI’d look real good in that, now the third, deciding thought that had her purchasing the set may have been a little inappropriate and might have been centered around the man who was looking at her right then with so much humor mixed with cockiness it drove her crazy but he didn’t have to know that.
She uncomfortably giggled and shrugged, “Welp, I understand the confusion now.”
Maybelle leaned down bunching the small clothing articles in one hand and holding them behind her back. Her chin still trapped in between his fingers Maybelle started searching with her eyes around the room.
“What are you looking for?” Trey smiled as he tilted her chin up at him.
Maybelle didn’t meet his eyes as her gaze still roamed the room, “I’m looking for a quick escape from my humiliation. I was thinking my best option might be to throw myself out the window.”
Her smile was coy as she finally looked back at him.
Good godhe was beautiful, those green eyes were piercing into her very soul as he watched her, a sweet smile still pulling up his lips, “Please don’t run from me, Mayhem. I’d miss you too much.”
He teasingly shook her head by the chin then dropped his hand to her shoulder, his other hand still holding hersand keeping her stable. Well, that’ll do it, she was breathless, thoughtless, boneless.
Trey spared her from responding by nodding toward the bed. Maybelle followed his lead and they both fell into the pillows. She took this opportunity to stuff the underwear from her hand into the crevice between the wall and the mattress to be dealt with at a later time.
The two of them sat shoulder to shoulder, Maybelle grabbed a pillow from her side and hugged it on her lap while Trey folded his arms across his middle.
