“I love how wet you are. Always wet and ready for me.”
I dug my fingers into his shoulders, responding to the sensations he evoked in my body. He rammed into me fast, never looking away from me, and I felt something I hadn’t in a long time. This was more than sex. This was something else entirely, but before I could determine what this was, he gave me another orgasm, wiping off all my thoughts.
“Ah!” I leaned my head against the tiles. I was in heaven.
“Yes, Joanna. Damn… I’m cumming…”
A few thrusts later, he pushed inside to the hilt and ejaculated, holding me like he never wanted to let me go. Deep down inside, I actually wanted that. I wanted him to be mine and hold me forever.
CHAPTER 12
Anderson
The last night I’d spent with Joanna had been sexy to say the least, but the strange and distant feeling I had felt coming from her had remained persistent. Like the time before, she woke early to leave. And when we encountered each other at the office the following day, we exchanged glances but stayed careful to keep our distance from each other to avoid suspicion.
All the while, I kept trying to carry on as if I wasn’t bothered by it all. Never before had a woman’s distance, physical or emotional, actually messed with my head, as long as I got what I wanted out of the ordeal. But this time around, was entirely different. I was dying to know what was bothering Joanna, as well as how she truly felt about me. Yet the opportunity for me to ask kept evading me.
Not to mention there was the ever-present issue of Tobias’s potential reaction…
A few days had passed since my last night with Joanna. I was just about to pack up and clock out for the day when Tobias knocked on my office door, announcing his presence.
“Yeah?” I said, turning around. Like always these days, a tightness formed in my chest at the sight of him. Every time he approached me, or merely looked me in the eyes, I braced myself, afraid that he was about to confront me about Joanna. It was like walking on eggshells and hoping the whole time that Tobias, the one person in the world who probably knew me better than anyone, wouldn’t notice. I knew it was only a matter of time, though; Tobias was too intuitive, especially when it came to me and Joanna, to remain in the dark for much longer. We simply wouldn’t be able to keep this under wraps with Tobias constantly lurking around.
“What are you doing tonight?” he asked, stepping into my office with his hands in his pockets.
I stared, wondering if this was a trick question of some sort. I glanced down to the way he held his hands in his pants pockets, wondering if he was forming fists, ready to punch my lights out in a moment’s notice.
“Um…nothing,” I said.
Tobias nodded. “Cool. Why don’t you come over to my place for a drink?”
Again, I delayed my response, watching him carefully. Was there a chance he wanted to get me and Joanna in the same spot so that he could confront us both at the same time?
I suddenly felt like I was fourteen years old again—that time when my parents finally figured out that I’d been late coming home from school because I’d been sneaking around with a girl. Tobias wasn’t my parent but ironically, I felt even more nervous now than I had back then.
“Any special occasion I don’t know about?” I asked, feeling my palms growing swe
aty.
Tobias shook his head. “Nope,” he said, and then turned around to leave. I could hear him whistling as he headed down the hall.
I swore to myself, feeling certain that I had wound up in some kind of trap. And considering that I had failed to give him a clear answer, I saw no way of escaping. Tobias would be expecting me to show up since I hadn’t said otherwise. And if I had to face Joanna right in front him, who knew what would happen.
I stood there, contemplating whether I should tell Tobias that I couldn’t make it. I would need a believable excuse though, and my mind was already drawing a blank. Ultimately, however, I realized that being afraid to hang out with my best friend would do nothing but make me look even more suspicious, if he wasn’t feeling suspicious of me already.
With a sigh, I turned off the lights to my office, deciding that I would stop by my apartment first, drop off my briefcase, change clothes, and then head to Tobias’s place, praying that the evening wouldn’t conclude in the end of the best friendship I’d ever known.
CHAPTER 13
Anderson
“Why are you just standing around like that, man? Sit down. Make yourself at home. Stop acting weird,” Tobias said as I stood in his dining room, presumably looking like a deer caught in headlights.
I gave a wry laugh and headed for the dining room table.
“Dude, I’m not serving you dinner,” Tobias said.
“Oh… Right. Yeah,” I said, and then headed to the living room to sit on the couch instead.