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But that was the proble Ruby was just a little too fun, a little too pretty, a little too adventurous for the likes of ht like me, and it wasn’t ever soht, I’m quite certain she would have ripped the phone out of the wall and hurled it atas she ordered, confir up All of this was so commonplace, so easy, so comfortable; my shoulders unknotted, stoiving me a seductive little smile "We have approxian

Her sain "Why are you so afraid of being on a bed with me?" she said, and I could hear the e to steal your virtue, I pro afraid I--" I stopped, pullingit over the desk chair Whenever I wanted to explainpersonal--the words in mysince given up

I knew I needed to stop co to help ain, and I needed to let her

New relationship New pattern

"Tell ether the sentence before I said anythingwith you and what that entails, and yet here we are, in a rooh there is no ‘nor experience, I like to think that ‘normally’ I would take you out to dinner a few times, kiss you at your doorstep, be far hteen-year-old o," I said with a quiet, sheepish laugh "Yet, here we are in a hotel rooers inside you earlier, and all I want to do now is join you and relieve the ache I’ve felt all day long I suppose it surprises me that my body and my heart are so far ahead of my brain here"

Ruby rose up on her knees so she could crawl to the foot of the bed Reaching out, she slid her finger through my belt loop and pulled me closer "Why do people act like the heart and body aren’t part of the brain?"

She worked the top button of ertips tickled as they brushed over an "That’s your brain When you like being around ue-trapped smile in place "Also because of your brain"

"Do you knohat I h?" I asked in a whisper Our faces were only inches apart; I’d need to only duck down to kiss her "I worry you’re young That I’m neurotic How can it work away froether in mock seriousness, "I would think it would be easier for you to do this with me back home In your space, with your routines I would think what’s hardest about this for you is that you’re away from all of that, and I’m just another piece of chaos thrown in thewave of anxiety "Are you sure you aren’t really a sixty-year-old bird with a fantastic plastic surgeon? You seem re prettily up at le thing you don’t want to, Niall You’re allowed to not want this"

I looked down to her pulse point, wondering what it would feel like beating against hed, frustrated by led, falling backward onto the bed and pullingoff theout of my dress shirt Al it for decades--she bent her knees, lifting her legs over hs as I curled on my side into her

I stared down at our position, speechless

"We fit," Ruby observed quietly "And look I got you on the bed with me this time" She reached up to smooth away the lines that had formed on my forehead "To be clear, I want to spend time with you, and cuddle while we talk," she assured et naked before dinner Or after"

I s a palm over her stomach to her opposite hip "Tell me about your fa my neck and into my hair "I have one brother, my twin--"

"You have a twin brother?" I asked How could I have kissed her, watched her bring herself to orgasiven her another one with my hand earlier and spent the last five days with her without knowing such basic information?

"Yeah, he’s in med school at UCLA His name is Crain"

"Crain? That’s not a name you hear every day"

"Well, everyone calls hiers over ood people"