BARE SOULS: A STEAMY TEACHER/STUDENT ROMANCE

CHAPTER 56 | HARPER

He held me so tight against his hard body and I kept crying like a kid. I still believed that he was messing with me and was expecting him to push me away anytime, but he didn't.

     "If you keep crying, I'm going to start feeling really bad, you know?" He chuckled while whipping off the tears rolling down my cheeks. 

I deeply inhaled and shook my head. "Sorry... You're just too much of a roller-coaster" I laughed. He gazed at me for a second, a wry smile on his face that made my heart skip a beat and gently dropped a peck on my lips. 

    "I know... trust me" He whispered. "And if it was not Monday and already way too late for your people not to worry, trust me, I would have made you loved that roller-coaster..." He sighed and caressed my cheek. "But I guess I can wait a little..."

My heart jumped in my chest. "Who said I can?"

He frowned, an explicit smile on his face. "I'm trying to be reasonable here, don't kill my mojo!" he laughed while I thought that he already crossed any limits there could be around 'reasonable'. "Nah, no way for you to get grounded for the weekend or such. Because I intend to make you pay for the headache you gave me during my days off".

I smiled and nodded since he had already made up his mind anyway. And beside, he was right. Over the past few weeks, I had slept out way more than reasonable and I knew Mark and Lorie knew something was off whenever I lied and said that I was sleeping at Candace.

   "Fine!" I surrendered. "I just thought that us being at the exact same spot where you took me the first time would get you inspired, that's all..."

I saw a sparkle in his eyes. "So you do remember?" He asked with an irresistible smile.

    "As if I could forget..." I answered while stepping back and walking to my car, knowing that he would try to stop me after teasing him.

   "Hold on! So what? You throw a bomb and you just walk away?" he chuckled, crossing his arms, probably thinking that I was joking.

   "Yeah, you started it by taking me here and telling me all these sweet things too then throw me away by saying that I had to go home! You are such a tease, Mr Reason Mojo!" I said before sticking my tongue out and getting in my car.

He shove his hands in his pockets with a terribly cute pouting face. That guy was just too much. "Fine, sexy ass. Don't come begging after me between periods tomorrow" he said while I was starting my car.

    "Oh, no. I will diligently wait until Friday!"I laughed, not persuaded one bit that I was going to be able to wait that long.

    "You know you can't go a full week without me royally fucking you..." He smiled, confident that he knew me too well. But I was ready to prove him wrong.

    "Challenge accepted!" I said while moving the car. "See you tomorrow!"

The grin on his face translated the little faith he had in my words, but I was willing to do my best to resist. A huge smile on my lips, I was driving home, still unable to believe what happened that night.

I asked myself a hundred of questions at the same time. He didn't want to stop what was going on between us, at least I understood that. He accepted the fact that I had feelings for him, which was already incredible. But what did it meant truly? Was he getting attached to me in some ways? Did it make us a couple? I couldn't figure anything out. All I knew was that happiness within me was real and that was one feeling I wanted to hang onto, without caring about the label it might or might not come with.

Happiness... a word that meant so much yet was so subjective and short-lived. That's what I used to think until I met him and ever since he stepped into my life, he made this feeling feel more like a permanent state of mind. Beyond the tears, the questions and the uncertainties, he was the reason behind that smile on my face and I was impatient to see what the future had in store for us. Even if there were still so many questions that would later need an answer and that I felt scared to death to let myself fall deeper with that man, there was no way back anymore.