Trace of Innocence (No Control Book 3)

Chapter 48 - part i

(No Control - 48. One Way Or Another, first part)

I'm having the best dream. I'm lying on my back while Jess is sitting on top of me, riding me hard and fast, with no condom. I can feel every inch of her, and she's looking down at me with this wide-eyed innocent look on her face, her hair scooped forwards over her shoulder. I reach up to touch her and jerk awake, my hand stretched out in front of me in the empty bed. I have a raging boner.

Where is she?

I lie there for a minute, contemplating what to do. Do I go in search of her to help me put this hard-on to good use? I might bump into one of the lads. Are they even up yet? I strain to listen, and I'm sure I can hear voices filtering up the stairs. They must be in the kitchen. I can hear Louis.

Fuck. I can hear Louis, which means he's with Jess.

I spring out of bed like a jack in the box, my erection suddenly gone. I redo my hair into one of those mun things that Jess likes, pull on a clean pair of boxers and head downstairs.

Several things become apparent the second I walk into the kitchen:

Jess is wearing a tiny pair of shorts and my Green Bay Packers hoodie, and she looks absolutely incredible.

Louis and Liam are both looking at her: Liam at her face, Louis at her legs.

She is looking down at the breakfast bar, passing Liam a cup of tea.

Liam is smiling gratefully at her. Louis is perving. They are both wearing only their underwear.

I am jealous.

She looks up suddenly and her eyes rake over my body. I recognise that drooly look before she has time to hide it, and as she turns away and rolls her eyes (I'm not sure why?) I smirk to myself that she still has this reaction to me.

I follow her over to the other side of the kitchen where she is making another cup of tea, presumably for me, and I smile at her. She looks up at me, through those impossibly long eyelashes, and my stomach gives a slow roll of nerves as I think how beautiful she is and how happy I am that she is mine. Sort of.

"I didn't know where you'd gone," I pout.

"Sorry," she smiles. "I came down to make a cup of tea for us but these two distracted me." She extends her hand towards Liam and Louis. Louis is now staring at her backside appreciatively.

He catches me looking and gives me a guilty look, and averts his eyes. Fucking busted.

"Hmm, should I be worried?" I tease softly, so only she can hear me, but suddenly I don't care that Louis was ogling her, because she was ogling me, and right now she's looking up at me with this little smile that I've only seen her use towards me.

"Are we going out for breakfast?" Liam interrupts, and I vaguely recall a conversation around one o'clock this morning about this. "I'm starving," he is moaning, and he reminds me of Niall.

"Alright, Niall," I shoot at him. "Yeah, we can go to Dialog Cafe if you want."

"Awesome," Liam nods. "I'm in the mood for the full works."

"Save it for Sophia," Louis smirks, and Liam ruffles his hair.

"You're like a dog on heat, man. You're worse than usual."

Jess finishes her tea and stands up.

"I'll go and get ready," she says.

"Yeah, we wanna leave before lunch," I tease and she flips me off without looking at me and we all laugh.