Page 60 of Autumn Secrets

Then I realised why he stopped. Someone was in the hallway. He slowly pulled himself off me. His hair was tousled, like he’d just gotten out of bed.

“Here.” He gave me back my shirt and planted a soft kiss on my lips, before pulling his T-shirt back on. “It’s Elijah. I’ll go and distract him while you, uh, make yourself decent.” He winked.

I quickly got up from the couch and threw my shirt back on. I found myself in a big living room, decorated in earthy colours, with an open fire in the middle. It felt very cosy. There were no photographs of the Hunter family, just huge paintings covering the walls. I stood there in the middle of the living room trying desperately to straighten my appearance, when Elijah walked in.

“Aurora, good to see you again. How’s things?”

“Good.” I blushed. “And you?”

“Very good,” he replied and threw himself on the couch. Just the thought of what Adrian and I had been doing on that couch, minutes earlier, made me flustered. I shifted my gaze around the room. “Nice place.”

Elijah chuckled. “Thanks, I guess.”

Adrian came back and shot Elijah a quick look before turning to me.

“Aurora, why don’t we go upstairs for a while?”

“Okay.”

Elijah raised an eyebrow and studied me with a grin on his face.

“See you at school,” was the only thing I could come up with.Awkward.

“Sure thing, sunshine.” He smirked.

I nodded and left the room with Adrian. I had no idea when I had become so brave. The old Aurora would have run for the door at the thought of spending time with a boy alone, but here I was, eagerly anticipating what was going to happen next. He steered us into his bedroom on the second floor, and I scanned the room curiously as he closed the door behind us. There was a large bed in the middle of the room, surrounded by dark wooden furniture and dark grey walls.

I wasn’t sure what to say to him after what had happened on the couch. What was it for him? Was he serious, or were we still playing one of his games? The boundaries had become so blurred. I knew my reasons were pretty clear. I stole a quick glance at Adrian and felt my body light up with that fierce passion, pounding along with my raging heartbeat. Yep, I certainly knew why I had kissed him. This was so much more than a little crush for me. As if he sensed me staring, he glanced my way with a grin on his face.

“What is it, angel?”

“Nothing, I…I thought of my homework. Do you have a lot of homework?” I shook my head. That was so lame, even by my standards.

He moved so fast, and suddenly he was standing right in front of me. “I don’t really want to talk about homework right now, not with you here in my bedroom,” he said softly and tucked my hair behind my ear. His touch was so gentle, but my body was already on fire.

His hands moved up and gently cupped my face, before he leaned in and kissed me, sending my head spiralling again. It didn’t take long before my hands were back in his hair. His hand shifted and started to move over my back. I pushed myself against him, trying to erase any unnecessary space left between us. He lifted me up and I wrapped my legs around his waist, as he started to move us across the room.

As we collapsed on his bed, his mouth found mine in a heated rush. My arms encircled his neck as our kiss deepened. I felt his hand slide under my shirt, slowly exposing me as he gently touched my bare skin. Every touch was so sensual, so erotic. I didn’t want to stop. This was exactly where I wanted to be. It felt so right. Adrian planted another soft kiss on my lips before gently pulling back. I met his eyes. God, was it that obvious that I’d never done anything like this before?

“You are so beautiful,” he whispered and propped himself up on one elbow.

“So, why are we stopping?” I asked confused, while I desperately tried to catch my breath at the same time.

Adrian dropped a soft kiss on the top of my nose. “I don’t want to stop, believe me. It’s just…I need to know if you’ve done this before?”

I felt my cheeks redden instantly. “N-no.”Is it that obvious?

“Please don’t think that. I…I’m just trying to do the right thing here.”

I stared at him. Surely, I hadn’t spilled my insecurities out loud. “Think what? I didn’t say anything.”Out loud.

Adrian stared at me, and for a moment I saw something flicker in his blue eyes. Like he had been caught doing something he shouldn’t, but he quickly recovered.

“I know you didn’t,” he said smoothly. “I just want to assure you, you know… That there isn’t something wrong withyou, or anything like that. I…I’m trying to do the right thing.” He planted a soft kiss on my lips. “Let’s not rush anything. For both of our sakes. I really want to get to know you.”

Well, I couldn’t argue with that, no matter how much I wanted this right now. “Okay,” I whispered. “We have all the time in the world, I guess.”

If I had only known then, how wrong I was…