Playing The Risk - Book One in The WSU Series

- Chapter Fifty-Six -

Warning - Mature Content ahead.

"Summer is going to be awesome." Damn right. We all sat around the campfire in the boy band's backyard. The light bulbs hanging in the trees create a warm glow that complements the heat coming from the fire in front of us. "What's everyone's plans?" Alex asks while adding more logs to the fire pit. "Going back to the coast." I know Ems has been missing her family— she can't wait.

We break up for summer in around a week and I still have no plans.

"My father wants me home." Lizzie's voice filled with resentment, "sucks for you. I'm also going home but it'll be more fun." Hayden tells the group before chugging some beer. "What about you?" Roma nudges my shoulder, asking me not the group, "I don't know, probably hang around." I shrug, this will be the first summer without my mom.

I'm lost without her.

I'll probably work in the bakery every day— I'll also move back into my childhood home, it's my way of getting some closure. I guess. "I'm traveling." I smile softly, not entirely happy. I always guessed Roma would probably head home, especially after his mom gave birth. "I'm thinking Paris." My eyebrows furrow before turning my head, "Paris?" I question, I've always wanted to go. "Wanna come?" I laugh but his face doesn't change, "what?" He can't be serious. "Come to Paris with me."

His eyes shining, filled with love. I wrap my arms around his torso as he pulls me into his lap, I rest my head against his shoulder. "Paris? Together?" I honestly don't know why I'm questioning Roma, I would never go to Paris by myself and a part of me knows that Roma wouldn't either.

"You and me in the city of love."

"Really?" I whisper, I don't hear anything else, only us.

"Eleonora come to Paris with me, please?" He smiles and damns that smile. He's perfect. "I would love to." That's the last thing I say before he kisses me intensely. He pulls away just enough to whisper against my lips, "come on." I climb off his lap before extending my hand, pulling him up we head back to his room.

I'm sitting on the edge of his bed while he closes the door quietly, "what are you thinking about?" My unfocused gaze zeros in on his face. He's gorgeous— truly gorgeous. I lick my lips, "you." His breath hitches. "About about me?"

"I don't know" I whisper. When it comes to Roma everything goes out the window. He's gotten into my head and heart making it difficult for me to concentrate especially when he's so close. Roma slowly and softly drags his hands down my stomach to the tops of my thighs. Without thinking my legs part and his thumbs graze the waistband of my leggings.

"What exactly about me are you thinking about?" he whispers back.

"I'm thinking about everything I want you to do to me," I blurt out. His fingers dig into my thighs. "You wanna know what I'm thinking about?" He doesn't give me time to answer, "I think about you all the damn time Ele, and I would never have it any other way." My breathing hitches at his words "you're everything I need."