Page 37 of Beautiful Noise
“This…” I swiped out of my camera app and pulled up the Elite site which I held up for him to see. He frowned, scanned the screen, and lifted his eyes.
“I’m not sure what I’m looking at?”
“My schedule. I have two days with another client and the weekends here.”
“Okay?” He frowned more.
I exhaled a sigh. “I appreciate you wanting to help, but I also don’t want a handout. Regardless of my situation I want to work for what I have, so it’s truly mine. I already feel bad enough about accepting your mother’s offer for me to stay here…”
He raised his brow and nodded at my phone. “You think that’s me?”
“Isn’t it?”
He slowly shook his head. “It’s not. That’s all Gwendolyn. If you have a problem with the schedule then take that up with my mother.”
“Are you sure this wasn’t you?”
“Positive. You already know she has her own agenda for you being here. Not that I’m complaining because you being here has been a good look so far…” His hand slipped between my thighs and I groaned when the pads of his fingers brushed across the seat of my panties. Before I allowed myself to get caught up, I pushed away and stumbled off his lap.
“What we did was fun but with the chaos in my life right now the last thing I need is you as a distraction or complication. I’m trying to wrap my brain around what’s next.”
“Damn you just hit me withdistractionandcomplication. That’s a first.”
I grinned and shrugged. “I’m sure you’ve heard worse, but in order for me to make sense of what I’m doing, I think it’s best if we keep this platonic.”
“You want to be my friend?” He frowned and I nodded.
“After you let me put my tongue and my dick in you, you want us to be platonic?”
“You’re saying that like it’s unheard of.”
“For me, it is. I’ve never had a female friend I wanted to fuck. That Ihavefucked. It’s counterproductive.”
The look of distress on his face made me laugh. When he frowned at me like I was offending him, I rolled my eyes. “You’ve never had afemalefriend before, have you?”
“No, and I’m not trying to start now. Especially not when you don’t know what the fuck clothes are.”
I grinned. “Then I’ll do better about wearing clothes if you promise to accept that right now, I don’t need this…” I waved my hand in his direction. “Distracting me from figuring out my life.”
“I can’t do that.”
I frowned at his stoic expression. “You’re refusing to be my friend?”
“Yeah, I am.”
“Okay then, roommate.”
He shook his head. “Can’t do that shit either.”
“Ezren…why not?”
He angled his head to the side while his eyes crawled down my body. “Do you want me to repeat the reason why? While your ass is standing in front of me not properly dressed?”
I tugged at the hem of my shirt but it didn’t do much good.
“That’s really not fair and for the record, I don’t do casual sex. I’m a relationship kind of girl. I know you assume I’m not because of last night but…”
“I’m not assuming shit just because we had sex. I’m not a fucking misogynist, Ri. Women can do what they want with their bodies, same as men can. Hell, I wish more women got out of their fucking heads enough to explore sexual freedom. It would make my life a lot easier.”