Don't You Dare by CE Ricci

Author:CE Ricci [Ricci, CE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-02-21T16:00:00+00:00

Twenty-One

Aspen

A firm, muscled arm wraps around my stomach, stirring me from sleep. My eyes are blurry and stinging when I open them, and it takes me a minute to gain my bearings. I’m definitely in my bed, if the time glowing on the ceiling from my alarm clock is any indication. And it’s telling me it’s four in the morning, only a few hours since we fell asleep.

We.

Keene.

There hasn’t been another person in my bed for months now, until tonight. His breath comes out hot against my shoulder as he inhales and exhales slowly. His soft, golden hair tickling my skin with each rise and fall of his chest.

I didn’t realize he stayed in here to sleep, though I can’t really say I blame him for knocking out before he could crawl back to his own bed after our bath.

And who am I kidding, anyway? I’m more than happy to have him here. A shocking turn of events, considering my distaste for snuggling or sharing a bed in general.

As gently as I can, I pull my arm and shoulder from beneath his head, letting it slide down onto one of the pillows. Though I try my best not to wake him, it doesn’t matter. Long, thick lashes flutter against his cheekbones for a few seconds before two brown eyes blink up at me, full of hazy sleep.

And I feel a new kind of tugging at my heart. One that speaks more of longing than it does of friendship.

Jesus Christ, Kee. What are you doing to me?

“Hey,” I whisper. Then I clear my throat, trying to get my words to sound less like a prepubescent teen. “I didn’t mean to wake you.”

He groans and rolls his head back and forth on the pillow a couple times, something he’s done since we were kids. The first time I ever saw him do it, he said it was to shake the cobwebs out of his brain, and the gullible idiot I was at six years old, believed spiders crawled into heads every night and made their homes there.

Now, it just makes me irrationally happy if I see him do it.

His gaze collides with me and he gives me a sleepy smile. “You didn’t.”

I let out a soft laugh. “Really?”

“Mmm,” he mumbles, leaning in to kiss me softly. Sensually. Achingly fucking slow. “Nope, not at all.”

It takes everything in my power not to grab his face and spear my tongue between his lips or roll him onto his back and pin him to the mattress beneath me. Just the thought and his mouth on mine alone has my dick stirring beneath my briefs.

“See,” he mutters when he pulls away. “Still sleeping.”

Then the shithead rolls away from me to actually go back to sleep. I mean, yeah, it’s four in the morning and we’ve barely slept, having stayed up way too late talking and playing games before getting in a little studying. I should probably take a page from his book and also get some more shut eye, if only for another hour.

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