fear love¹ | rafe cameron

twenty-nine

The next morning I woke up to warm rays of sunlight shining into my face through a crack in the curtains. I turned around with my eyes closed and wrapped myself in my warm blanket and tried to sleep further.

»You're beautiful« he whispered softly. »And hot« he continued.
»Am I?« I asked with a grin, opening my eyes slightly.

»What are your plans for today?« asked Rafe, kissing me on the forehead. »I'm meeting Sarah« I said and at that moment I snapped my eyes open and grabbed my phone, almost knocking the alarm down.

»Shit, shit, shit« I said as I saw all the missed calls from my friends on the screen.

We were planning to meet at Sarah's house today, as she had told that Ward and Rose would be out until tonight, as the two of them had some real estate business to take care of.

Since Ward would not allow the Pogues to be there, we wanted to take advantage of that and have a little party by the pool among the six of us.

The moment I was about to call Sarah back, she called. Without her being able to say anything, I apologized a thousand times that I was already two hours late.

»Where are you?« she asked through the phone and I covered Rafe's mouth because he wanted to say something.

»I'm still at home« I stuttered as Rafe grabbed me by my waist and pulled me to him and started kissing my neck. »I'll be there in twenty minutes« I tried to stifle my laughter and in the background I could still hear JJ yelling for me to bring canned beer.

Without saying anything else I pressed the red button and when I hung up I threw my phone next to me and tried to get out of Rafe's grip. »You have to stop« I said laughing.

»You're so hot when you're stressed, you know that« Rafe mumbled in his morning raspy voice.

»Come on get up« I said completely out of breath and threw his pants and shirt in his face when I managed to break free from his tight grip.

I put on my bikini when I was in the bathroom, combed my hair and ran back into the room with a toothbrush to pick out clothes to put on.

I pulled my eyebrows together when I saw Rafe looking at me with a smirk on his lips.
»What?« I tried to ask clearly with a toothbrush and foaming toothpaste in my mouth.

I looked in the mirror to see if there was anything wrong with my bikini, if I was wearing it backwards or had two different pieces on. I wrenched my eyes open and the toothbrush almost fell out of my mouth when I saw the slightly visible marks on my body that Rafe left on my skin yesterday when he kissed my body.

»You're mine« he said with a grin as he stood behind me and examined my body in the mirror.
»Don't ever say you have control over me again, because I do« he whispered in my ear, stroking his finger along the strap of my bikini.

There were slight hickeys on my ribs and the inside of my thigh. Oh god.

I blushed slightly at the sight of the hickeys on my body. How was I going to be at the pool party like this without my best friends seeing them?

I put on a pink colored dress that covered the marks well. »Can we make a quick trip to the supermarket?« I asked while he pulled his shirt over his head and he nodded afterwards.

Before we walked to a small supermarket, I pulled the sweater from him over the dress, which didn't really fit visually, but I didn't care since it warmed me, because it was still pretty cold from storms and it wasn't supposed to get warmer until this afternoon.

We walked to the nearest supermarket on the corner and got the beer after JJ had asked earlier.

After some time we got closer to the Cameron's property and where Sarah was already waiting with the others. It was clear to me and him that we couldn't walk into the house together, at the same time, which is why Rafe waited at the corner and I went ahead.