If I live forever, I can live now

17

I woke up naked and wrapped in white sheets and Luke's body.

"Luke! It's six." I sat up and my head throbbed. "Oh."

"Mm..." he said, as he woke up, and he tried to find my waist with his hand.

"How much Italian wine did we have yesterday?"

"Can't remember. Why don't you lie down again? Not even the sun is up yet."

"I can't. I have to go over my presentation a couple of times and be there early to approach Kate and her collegues before Professor Abbey turns up. But you should stay in bed." I said, and I kissed his forehead, and his chin, and his lips.

I run to the shower in the hope that cold water would stop the pounding in my head. It didn't. Coffee was my next possible ally.

Luke was typing on his laptop on the desk when I entered the room again.

"I am writing to Kate. Let's see if she agrees to meet us in a couple of hours."

"I still can't believe they didn't show up yesterday." I said, shaking my head.

"They don't know what you have. They'll probably think it's just another stupid anti-wrinkle drug; something they are not too interested in."

"Didn't you say they suspected something?"

"I thought they did. But apparently they don't."

"Yeah, they would have even been on time if they had speculated something this big."

I made my way to the closet and threw the towel on the floor.

"No! Don't do that. I have to work. I can't concentrate if I see you naked in the mirror."

"Okay, sir." I said, and I sensually crouched down to pick up my towel again.

"No!"

"What did I do wrong now?"

"Do it again. Drop your towel. Please."

I slowly walked to him and sat on his lap with my legs open. I let my towel fall and his hands touched my whole body in a few seconds. I kissed him savagely, and the throbbing in my head stopped. I pressed my body closer to his. My movement jeopardized the balance of the chair. I didn't mind. I opened my legs some more and lifted my body up so that he could bite my cleavage.

"Oh... oh!"

The chair lost its balance completely this time, and we landed on the floor in less than a second.

"Are you alright?" I asked him, amused.

"Sh." he said, putting a finger on my lips.

I heard somebody knocking on the door.

"Tessa? Are you there? It's Tim."

"Oh... it's Professor Abbey. Damn it."

I stood up and walked closer to the door.

"Good morning, Professor. I can't open the door right now. I'll be downstairs in a minute."

"That's fine, Tessa. I didn't mean to rush you. I just wanted to make sure your alarm clock had worked. I'll go check if Luke's has, too."

I looked at him and he muttered:

"What the hell do we do now?"

"I... I think he already went to breakfast, Professor. He sent an email to me about an hour ago, so he must already be down somewhere." I said, in a not very convincing tone.