Confident that I’ve got everything, I double-check my reflection in the mirror and groan. I look like shit. I’ve got messy sex hair, there are bags under my eyes from not having enough sleep, and my mascara is smudged all over my face. Charming.
I do my best to clean myself up but a bathroom with running water would go a long way in helping me. I got an Uber here last night and seeing as though my phone is dead, it looks like I’ll be walking, and if I’ll be taking one of the longest walks of shame in my life, then I want to look partially cute doing it. I toss my hair up and run my tongue over my teeth. There’s nothing worse than waking up in someone else’s home and not having a toothbrush.
Looking a million times better than when I first woke up, I start making my way to the door. “Where the hell do you think you’re going?”
My eyes bug out of my head. Fuck, fuck, FUCK! I woke the beast!
I look back over my shoulder and grin at the sight of him sitting up against the headboard looking sexy as hell. “Goodbye, Jesse,” I tell him reaching for the door handle, finding it impossible to wipe the smile off my face.
“Not so fast,” he murmurs in a deep rumbly tone that makes my insides clench with need.
I raise a brow and spin around, crossing my arms over my chest. “Excuse me?” I question sounding like a flirt while unable to take my eyes off his magnificent body, though it certainly doesn’t go unnoticed that his dick is out for the world to see and he’s not doing a thing to cover it up. He’s proud and so he should be, he’s got a monster down there.
“Come back to bed,” he tells me, laying on the charm. “I wasn’t finished with you.”
“Yeah, you were,” I laugh, wondering if this guy is actually insane. “I have to go. My mom is probably worried about me.”
Jesse gets out of bed and strides towards me, making me feel not so brave. His eyes bore into mine and the intensity is almost too much to bear. He stops right in front of me with that signature cocky grin that had me coming in my pants before he even touched me. He trails his fingers over my skin and goosebumps rise in their wake. How is it possible for that to feel so good?
Jesse steps in closer and takes my chin between his thumb and forefinger, making my stomach ache with butterflies. He raises my chin and pushes my head to the side before bringing his lips down on my neck.
My knees instantly go weak as a low, needy moan pulls from within me. “Jesse,” I whisper as his fingers drop to the hem of my shirt and pull it over my head. Without my bra, he’s able to dive straight in and not a second later, we go crashing back down to the bed with my legs around his waist as he pushes up into me.
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“How are you getting home?” Jesse questions as we walk out of Lauren’s home together, narrowly escaping being caught by anyone. Though I’m not going to lie, I feel sorry for the girl, her home is a mess.
I shrug my shoulder as I look up at the bright blue sky. “Walking,” I tell him. “I don’t have a car and my phone went dead last night so I can’t call an Uber.”
“Come on,” he says, nodding his head toward the front gate. “My place is a ten-minute walk from here. I’ll drop you home.”
“Thanks, but no,” I scoff. “You and I have already spent way too much time together.”
“Don’t be ridiculous, babe,” he tells me. “You said your mom would be worrying. So you can either walk the hour and a half back to Haven Falls, or you can walk ten minutes back to my place with me and then I can drop you home.”
I let out a groan. I’d be an idiot if I choose to walk when I have a perfectly sexy Ryder brother offering me a lift home, and it’s not like he’s doing it in hopes of getting something in return. After all, he’s already had me…twice. “Fine,” I tell him with a defeated sigh.
Jesse grins proudly as though he’s just won something and I realize that it’s going to take something huge to wipe the grin off his face. Jesse starts walking and I follow his lead, unable to remember how to get to his place.
Sure enough, we reach the famous Ryder household ten minutes later and true to his word, he rushes inside, though his bedroom window after explaining something about burning a mattress. The second he disappears through his window; his head comes shooting back out. “Hey, you hungry?” he calls below.