Long May She Reign by Ellen Emerson White

Author:Ellen Emerson White
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends

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THEY REALLY DIDN’T get much work done, but it still seemed as though they had accomplished something. That they were no longer strangers to the same degree, maybe.

“Do I get to take you all the way up to your room?” he asked, when they were walking—very, very slowly, because her knee was so bad—to her dorm.

She nodded.

“Do I get to come inside for a while?” he asked.

She nodded, after only a very short hesitation.

“Cool,” he said, and held the door for her.

She caught a glimpse of Garth on one of the phones inside the main security room, which seemed odd, since he technically wasn’t on duty, but he had been working on the security plans for spring break, which were fairly complicated. As far as she knew, all of the agents on her regular detail were going to be given at least a little time off, as well as going up to Beltsville for some of their never-ending training sessions, which meant that there would be replacement agents stationed on the campus, as well as following her around Washington. So, there had been a lot more briefings and meetings than usual during the past day or two, arranging the transition.

“Do we get to do some serious making-out?” Jack asked in the elevator.

She glanced over at him. “Define ‘serious.’”

“On your bed together, naked,” he said.

He could not be faulted for a lack of ambition. “How about on my bed together, fully dressed,” she said.

He grinned. “Okay. I can work with that.”

Yes, she’d had a feeling that such might be the case.

* * *

IT WAS LATE when he left, and they were both in good moods.

And, okay, she had let him talk her, literally and figuratively, out of both her shirt, and her bra.

With really no argument whatsoever.

She didn’t get much sleep—there seemed to be some extra activity going on out in the halls; looming midterms leading to dormwide insomnia, probably—but, when her alarm went off after what seemed like only about ten minutes, she still felt pretty cheerful.

Very cheerful, even.

It had, indeed, been serious making-out. More crucially, it had been successful making-out, despite the impediment of her brace and splint.

Totally fun making-out. And she hadn’t had anything resembling fun since—it had been so long that she couldn’t actually remember.

But, as nice as it would be to lie around ruminating about the details, she needed to get up, take a shower, double-check her psychology lab report, and maybe grab something to eat before class. She paused to check her email, and found one from Jack, which said, “Same time, same place?” and—to amuse herself—she wrote back, “Wicked excellent,” before logging off.

When she came out of her room, Jose was in the hall, right by her door—so close that she had to stop short to keep from bumping into him—and Ed was at the security desk.

Weird. “What’s going on?” she asked.

“Just testing out some new procedures,” Jose said.

Well, okay. Whatever. She grinned at him. “So, my mother didn’t jet off to other lands this morning without telling me?” Thereby unilaterally jacking up her protection.

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