His tongue dives deeper into my mouth, making us both moan, and my mind now focuses on how wet I’ve grown. His hands roam to my breasts, and he pinches a nipple, making my back arch. I push him as hard as possible until he’s sitting up to take his shirt off.
I come face-to-face with his tattoo of floating feathers and numbers that seem to be coordinates. I touch the tattoo, looking up at him.
“It’s the coordinates to the house I grew up in, and the feathers…”
Have something to do with his parents. I nod, understanding that the more we speak, the more the moment seems to fade. He tucks his hand under my chin and lays me back down, kissing me passionately again, moving his hips and pressing his hard dick onto my pussy. A moan slips out, and he whimpers again.
His whimpers are going to be the death of me.
Then my phone rings, completely killing the mood.
Grayson pulls his mouth away from mine, eyes wide with disbelief over what just happened. Confusion and awe are evident on his face, but they disappear in a second.
“You should get that.” He passes me my phone from the nightstand, and Levi’s name fills the screen.
“Emma! Fucking finally, dude,” he says before I get the chance to greet him.
I sit up, and Grayson shifts aside to let me. “What’s wrong?”
“What’s wrong is that Kamila is heading back to your guys’ suite from Cam’s room to get ready for the soup kitchen, which is in forty minutes. I covered for you, telling her you caught a ride with a friend from the paper you ran into at the party.”
I take a quick look at the time and see it’s nine a.m. “Fuck, okay, thank you. I’ll head back now.”
“Where are you? Who are you with? Are you okay?” He fires the questions at me as I stand and signal to Grayson that he needs to drive me back now.
“I’m fine, and I’m not far from campus.”
Levi groans, clearly irritated. “You owe me an explanation, Emma.”
“You’ll get it, Levi, but right now I need to go.” Grayson grabs a reusable bag, which I assume is full of my clothes, and then his car keys as I put on my cowboy boots over the sweatpants.
“Soon, Ems. Promise you’ll tell me what’s going on soon.”
Putting on my jacket, I look at Grayson, who is watching my phone tucked between my neck and shoulder. “Soon, I promise.”
We hang up, and I explain to Grayson a simplified version of what just happened. Five minutes later, I’m jumping out of his truck and running to my dorm room, praying that I beat Kami.
Unlocking the door, I call out her name, and when no one answers, I shake my boots off, quickly changing into my own pajamas just before Kamila walks in.
“Hey, are you feeling okay?” she asks, dressed in Cameron’s clothes.
I yawn and pretend like I just woke up. “Yeah. Hungover but okay.”
“Good. Are you gonna shower?”
“You go ahead. I already did last night.”
Chapter Thirty-Two
GRAYSON
Jamal stands next to me, clapping along to “DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love” by Usher. Unlike the last time Emma was here, everyone is dancing now, not just the girls. That is, except for me and Jamal, who are near one of the open doors.
In the middle of the song, Emma started some sort of uncoordinated conga line, and everyone seemed to love it. Except for Dakota and Jake, when he was put behind her. The energy Emma’s been exhibiting all day is similar to the amount she had last night after showering and running around naked, which is impressive considering how weak she was last night.
“I’ve been here ten times since you opened the place, and this is the first time it’s been this fun,” my friend says loudly, causing me to cover my ear. “The playlist she made for everyone who came to eat today was great, too. I saw some of them bobbing their heads while eating.”
I nod, not surprised that Emma’s idea has made the whole place livelier for the past seven hours. It’s a long shift for a Sunday, and everyone was exhausted in the morning until she finally begged me to let Jake connect her phone to the speakers in the dining hall. After that, the servers and cooks were in betterspirits and smiled more at the guests than usual. Emma then chased me around and took pictures of me with Jake’s phone, since hers was being used for the music.