Animal: Confessions Of a Dominant Man(Book 1)

Chapter 5 - Pillow Talk

"Wow, this is your apartment?" Lily ask as I unlocked the front door and let her inside my place, all the lights turning on from our movement. "I bet this must of coast you a lot huh?" She moves into the living room area with a view of New York City. 

I chuckle. "Yeah, I did work pretty hard to get this place." I say, putting my hands in my pockets to try and  control myself which is getting harder by every passing second. I have the urge to touch her, touch her hair, her smooth carmel colored skin, trace my fingers over every single curve on that amazing body. I feel my fingers slightly twitching. 'Calm down Julius..' I think to myself as I look over at Lily as she stands by the window, looking out at the view.

I clear my throat. "Let me show you too the guest bedroom." I say as she pulls herself away from the window and follow me down the hallway. It seems so different having her here, I actually felt disgusted with myself and where I live. Knowing the countless number of women I brought home, took down this same hallway and into my bedroom.

I shake my head when we reach the guest bedroom, the only room in this place that haven't been tainted with my sins. "You can sleep in here for the night." I turn on the light in the room. "Do you have something I can wear?" Lily ask, sitting down on the bed and pulling off her heels. I wish I was on my knees right now in front of her and taking those off for her. I groan to myself, what the fuck am I thinking?

"Yeah sure I'll be right back." I turn and leave down to my bedroom quickly, taking off my clothes and changing into a pair of basketball shorts and a black tank top. I grab one of my shirts and boxers before leaving back into the guest bedroom. "Here you go." I say, handing her. "Thank you, I'm going to go and change." She says, getting up and going into the bathroom.

I take this time to put on new sheets and pillow cases, fixing up the bed nice for her when she comes back in. "I hate saying this but your clothes are comfy." I turn and look at her, holding in my breath as I take a look at her. She looked so cute in my shirt and boxers, her tanned legs on show as her hair is tied up in a bun, I start to feel my arousal growing.

"Well I have to say this but you are really, really short without heels on." I smirk, crossing my arms over my chest as I lean back against the dresser. It was true, she's at about 5 foot 2 while I'm at 6 foot, her heel only gave her four inches in height.

I see her scowled at me as she comes into the bedroom, folding her dress up and putting it in a chair in the corner of the bedroom where her other stuff is. "Yeah, yeah whatever." She smiles, crawling onto the bed and under the blankets. "Well, I guess that's my que." I say calmly. "I'll see you in the morning."

 I turn to leave when I hear her speak. "Stay." It came out so softly that I barely heard her. "What?" I turn around and look at her, she sits up and pulles the right side of the blanket over, patting the space. "I said stay, lay with me for a while." I sigh, shaking my head. "Lily, I can't." I say, feeling exhausted. I can't sleep next to you because I know that I'll try something!

I hear her huff. "Oh come on, nothings going to happen. You're my best friend and a gentelman, you can control yourself." She says, looking at me. 

I sigh again, holding onto the door frame with all my strength. She's right, we're best friend and we've slept in the same bed before without nothing happening. I look over at her, seeing her big brown eyes making puppy eyes at him. "Please.." She says softly.

I groan. "Fuck it." I mumble as I come over to the right side of the bed and getting under the blanket. I lay flat on my back, knowing it's the one position I can't sleep in. Lily turns off the bedroom lights and lay next to me on her left side so she can face me.

"How have you been Julius?" She ask after a few minutes of silences. "I've been good, working a lot and stuff, what about you?" I ask, turning my head to look at her. There was something so relaxing and calming about laying next to her like this.

"I've been good, working a lot as well." She says. "I just got another job again today." I stare at her wide eyed. "Another job? How many jobs do you have?" I ask, but already knowing the question to that. I know that she works at the nightclub as a bartender and at a shoe store while still going to school.

Lily sighs. "I have two jobs and now I have a third job as a waitress and I have my early morning classes too. Oh God just thinking about all that work makes me exhausted." She groans as I frown. I don't like the though of her working three jobs, that to much pressure and stress for her.

"Are you sure you can handle it?" I ask, looking at her worried. "I mean, three jobs is a lot to handle for you and balancing school along with that..." I trail off, shaking me head. "Yeah I know all of that JuJu but I have too. I have to still pay rent and pay for my books. I know it's to much for me to handle but I live on me own and have to do this all on my own." She says.

I growl quietly. She shouldn't be living life like this, having to work herself to death isn't something I'm going to let happen. "How about I do something for you?" I ask. Lily looks at me confuse. "Do what?"

I sigh, turning on my side to face her. "Let me pay for your books for this semester." I state calmly, knowing how she's going to react to this. "No." She shakes her head. "Why now?" I ask.

"Because it's not right." She says a bit loudly. "I've been paying for myself all three years of college and now that I'm at my last year I'm pretty positive I can pay for them one." She looks at me and I shake my head. "Fine, let me pay for your rent this month."

She shakes her head again. "No, I'm not letting you pay for my rent nor are you paying for my books Julius." She states, narrowing her eyes at me and I shake my head again. "Either I'm paying for your books or I'm paying for your rent. Pick one." 

We lay in silence for a while before she sighs. "Fine, you can pay for my rent for this month but that's the only thing you're paying for. Got it?" I chuckle, knowing it took a lot for her to accept that. "Yes ma'ma." I smirk, turning over to lay back on my back. I look over and see that Lily is leaning towards me, laying her head down on my chest. "Good night JuJu.." She whisper softly, hearing her heavy breathing and knowing that she's asleep. That's good for her but I know I won't get any sleep with her laying next to me.

A/N: Sorry for such a short chapter this time. I'm still not feeling well and have a fever. But I just wanted to post up a chapter for you guy. Feel free to comment and vote!