Total pages in book: 140
Estimated words: 135652 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 678(@200wpm)___ 543(@250wpm)___ 452(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 135652 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 678(@200wpm)___ 543(@250wpm)___ 452(@300wpm)
“Warm milk with honey.”
I quirk a brow, “Warm milk with honey?”
His eyes go slightly wider, almost defensively, “What’s wrong with latte?”
“Well, it’s…”
“A girl’s drink,” my boss chips in on a chuckle.
Caleb scowls playfully at me, “It’s my families Friday tradition. Every Friday we sit down together and watch a movie with a warm milk and honey.”
“So why are you here and not with them?”
He grins showing his perfect white teeth, “Because I’ve got a new family now and she needs to learn the tradition.”
Throb. Throb. Throb. Goes my heart.
“So, take ten minutes off and drink my girly drink with me,” he jests and pats the chair beside him. “Pleeeeeeeeease?”
“Go on,” my boss chuckles and shoves me towards my chair. “You’ve hardly had a break yet. Sit.”
“Yay,” Caleb cheers and pulls me onto his lap.
“Yay?” Charlie asks, his face showing his surprise.
“A lot of people say yay,” I defend my boyfriend. Ha! I have a boyfriend.
“Only you and him,” Charlie chuckles and gives Caleb a pointed look. “Get out while you still can.”
Caleb nips at my neck as I watch Charlie walk towards the counter, “Reckon I should get out while I still can?”
I shake my head, “No. I think you should stay.”
“Well, I guess that’s good because…” he lets his voice trail off before squeezing me tight and announcing, “I just enrolled.”
“You enrolled?” Bloody hell. He just enrolled.
“Yep and…” he lets his voice trail off once more. “I just looked at a place, I move in next week.”
Double crap. The good kind.
“Oh my god,” I laugh. “That’s…” And then the tears come.
“Hey,” he coos and pulls me tight to him, his hand stroking my hair. “What’s the matter?”
“I thought you were going to leave me,” I sniff and bury my face in his neck. “I genuinely thought you just wanted to have sex with me.”
He pulls me back and wipes at my ridiculous tears with his thumb, “Well,” he wags his eyebrows twice. “There’s that too.”
How can I laugh while I cry? That’s just weird and shouldn’t be possible. “Dork.”
“Is it wrong of me to be excited about taking your innocence and making you mine completely?”
My breath hitches and my stomach warms in anticipation for the night that will most likely come. “I don’t think so.”
“Good,” he bites the lobe of my ear. “Because I am really, really excited.” I can tell by the bulge beneath my arse and I have to say, it’s making me feel things I’ve never felt but really like feeling.
“Milk and honey times two,” Charlie says, snapping me out of my lusty daze.
“Brilliant,” Caleb grins. “Thanks.”
“Yeah,” I say and sip my hot drink. “Oh my god, this is amazing.”
“I know right?” Caleb doesn’t let me slide off his lap, he keeps me there and drinks his drink.
CHAPTER Two
I can’t believe he’s actually moving here! I never thought he would, I thought it was all a rouse to get into my pants. Not that anybody can blame me for thinking that way. Now I feel guilt and a lot of it. He’s only ever kissed me and maybe dry humped me a couple of times. Never has he once tried to actually sleep with me. Though to be honest we’ve never had the opportunity.
“What will your parents say about it?”
“My parents are dicks.” This is his response and I’m not sure on how to respond to his response. It worries me a bit.
“Tell me about them.”
He seems to think about it for a moment before continuing, “They’re rich and think they’re entitled. Nathan and I were never allowed to do anything wrong growing up. The slightest mistake and we’d be grounded for weeks, sometimes our dad would take his belt to us. Nathan got the worst of it, he took a lot of my shit for me.”
“That’s sad.”
His eyes seem to glitter for a moment, “It is what it is. They’ll hate this but I doubt they’ll care too much.”
“They’ll blame me.”
He nods, “I won’t lie, they probably will but I’ll keep you away from them. They’re vile people and I never want that anywhere near you. You shouldn’t be tainted by people like them.”
“They’re your parents.”
“And because of that reason, I do love them deep, deep, way deep down. Also because of that reason, I know what type of people they are and they’re the kind of people who you don’t want to be near.” I open my mouth to interject but he cuts me off with a finger to my lips. “They’re the kind of people I don’t want you to be near. Let me protect you from evil as much as I can. Okay?”
How can somebody be so sweet and so perfect all of the time? I ask him this.
He only smiles and responds, “I didn’t used to be.”
“Why?”
“No more story time, you need to work and I have to go to the bank and sort out my funds,” he stands, me still on his lap but his arms catch me and lower me to my feet. “I’ll pick you up when you finish.” With another light kiss to my lips and one to my neck he leaves me and my warm and aching heart behind.