Take Me with You (Take Me #2)(12)

“Absolutely nothing,” I whispered.

“And you’re going to tell your parents?”

I bit my lip and nodded. “Yeah. Eventually.”

“Okay. Then, we’re good.”

“Just like that?” I asked, wondering where the catch was.

He nodded. “Just like that.”

“You want me to go in there?” I pointed at the brick library building in front of us.

“Come on,” Ari said. “I have my O-chem study session, and the girls are already inside. We can go get dinner afterward like a totally normal couple who do things other than live in your bedroom.” She raised her eyebrows at me.

“I didn’t realize other couples lived in my bedroom, but I’m liking the way this sounds.”

She laughed and shook her head. “Please.”

“The library really isn’t my thing, Princess.” I glanced away from her hurricane-blue eyes and shifted uncomfortably from one foot to the other.

The next morning after Ari and I had left the League, we’d agreed that we wanted things to go back to the way they’d been last semester—before the ski lodge when she had caught some groupie, Kristin, trying to seduce me in my room¸ before the band had started taking off, before she’d kissed someone else. I’d f*cked Ari and then f*cked it all up that weekend, and then she’d been too afraid to tell me about what had happened with her. Now, we were both trying to compensate for those problems.

To her, that meant we should tone down our time in the bedroom and put more effort into talking.

With disdain, I stared up at the imposing building. I hadn’t realized that our conversation would lead to…the library.

“I know.” Ari ran her hands down the front of my shirt. “But think of all those books…so many dark corners in the stacks…”

“Are you bribing me with sex?”

“Is it working?” she asked hopefully.

“Yes. Let’s go.” I grabbed her hand and dragged her toward the entrance.

“Oh my God. Why am I not surprised that worked so easily?”

“Because I’m a guy.”

She laughed lightly, and it was all I could do not to throw her up against the wall right then and there. She’d said she didn’t want to f*ck against a wall outside of the League, but she hadn’t said anything about outside the library.

I pressed her against the wall next to the sliding glass door and silenced whatever she was about to say with a kiss. I didn’t need to hear her complaints. She wanted me, and I wanted her. If she was planning to be adventurous tonight, then I was only going to encourage her.

“Grant,” she groaned between kisses.

I slipped my hands underneath her shirt and touched her warm soft skin. She shivered at my touch.

Fuck. I wanted her.

“Ahem.” Someone coughed behind us.

Ari pushed me a step back and straightened out her top. “Sorry,” she mumbled.

“Can we help you?” I asked, annoyed.

A blonde stared back at me. Her cheeks were bright red, and she couldn’t meet my eyes. “Uh…hey, Grant. I just—”

“What are you doing here, Kristin?” I wouldn’t forget that face soon. She had slipped through the cracks one too many times for me not to remember her now. Fucking whore had tried to ruin everything.

“She’s in my study session,” Ari spoke up. “We have a couple of classes together this semester.”

“Right. You mentioned that,” I grumbled.

Didn’t seem like the best idea for me to stick around with Kristin here. Ari had said she was over it, but I didn’t want to f*ck things up right when everything was good again between us.

“I was seeing if you wanted to walk up to the session together,” Kristin peeped.

“Maybe I should go,” I said.

“No!” Ari and Kristin said at the same time.

I raised my eyebrows in question.

“I mean…not on my account,” Kristin murmured.

“I’ll meet you in there,” Ari said.

Kristin nodded in understanding and fled into the building.

“I can’t believe she’s even f*cking talking to you,” I said.

“Don’t remind me. I have to see her all the time, and I have to refrain from stabbing her eyes out.”

“Now, that is something I’d like to see.”

She quizzically looked at me. “You want to see me stab someone?”

“It’d be f*cking hilarious. Completely out of character.”

“Speaking of things out of character…”

She grabbed my arm and pulled me into the library. I groaned but kept walking. I clearly would do anything for her. I was proving that shit every time I put one foot in front of the other in this place.

We walked through the front room and into a long open corridor. My eyes widened as I took in the sheer number of books. Every shelf was filled several stories high. Who had the time to read all of this shit?

“Maybe you’ll find something you like,” she whispered into my ear.

“They have porn here?”

“Sometimes, I don’t have words for you, Grant.”

I smirked. “That’s not how I remember it. You’re actually pretty vocal.”