Same Time Next Year by Bailey Tessa

Author:Bailey, Tessa
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Amazon Original Stories
Published: 2023-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

BRITTA

When Sumner pulls up outside my building and puts his truck in park, I unfasten my seat belt and dive out the passenger side door, fumbling my keys with useless fingers. My heart hasn’t stopped racing since we left the concert prematurely. The ride home was dead silent, so he must have heard the incessant beating. It’s going off like gunfire in my ears.

I reach the entrance of my building and hear the driver’s side door slam, too, indicating that Sumner is following me. Walking me home. Like a gentleman. But I really should not let that happen. For one, his unorthodox offer is still jogging around in the forefront of my mind.

Put parental controls on my phone, my laptop, block porn sites. Track my location. Lock my dick in a cage. I’ll do whatever it takes to make you realize I’m not going anywhere. I’m staying right here. I’ll make you feel secure until you realize it’s only ever going to be you.

I’m still in shock over the offer itself, which I would never accept, because that would make me controlling. But Sumner wanting to give me those reassurances felt like a giant gulp of oxygen. There’s no pretending otherwise. And that tells me a lot about myself that I didn’t know this morning. I’m scarred from the nature of my parents’ divorce and my father’s infidelity. I already knew that. But the pure yearning in my chest when Sumner told me it would only ever be me? I didn’t expect that. I didn’t see it coming.

Have I been harboring a secret hope that I could be in a normal, functioning relationship someday? Or has Sumner created that desire in me?

When I see his reflection approaching behind me in the glass door of my building and a ripple carries through my heart, I’m terrified that I have my answer.

It’s . . . him. It’s just Sumner.

Okay. Okay, I admitted it. I’m definitely falling hard for this man. But I need some time to sit with this knowledge before he comes for any more of my vulnerabilities.

“I don’t need you to walk me to my door.”

“I will always make sure you get inside safely, Britta.”

Shaking my head, I unlock the door and stomp inside, through the vestibule and up the stairs, trying very hard not to think about the fact that Sumner could almost definitely see up my skirt as he follows in my wake. In his current state, the view is probably causing him a lot of pain, and I don’t put a little extra sway in my hips, because that would be mean.

I’d probably snap your headboard in half.

A pulse between my thighs is beginning to pound with mounting insistence when I reach my apartment door. Do I want to have sex with Sumner?

Yes. Obviously, I do.

It’s the commitment he will expect afterward that scares me. Maybe with a little more time and thought, it won’t cause me to break out in a cold sweat, but right now, it does.

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