Love Hits Hard

Chapter 10-Love and Regrets

I wake to feel the cold sheets surrounding my bare body. I go to stretch but suddenly feel something hard against my back. Shit, I think to myself, Brendan's naked too. Did we? Oh god, we did. It was amazing though. I've only known him for a day, stop it.

"Morning," Brendan says with a rough and husky tone in his voice.

"Morning," I say turning around to face him but covering my body. 

He stretches and I feel his member brush against my stomach.

"This is why I don't like you," he says to me with a frown on his face.

"Why? What did I do?" I ask him, I honestly had no clue what I did.

"I wake up next to you and I already have a painful boner," he says with a remaining frown on his face.

"Deal with it," I said as I planted a kiss on his lips. "I'm going to take a shower," I claimed as I got up and I walked to the bathroom taking my time, knowing that his eyes were following my every move.

I got in and looked at my face in the bathroom mirror. Damn, I looked terrible. I let my hair down, rinsed off my face and went over to the shower.

I turned on the water, letting it warm up but while I waited, I stood in front of the mirror, thinking about the night before.

If Mom and Dad saw me now, they would be so disappointed in me. I had only known this guy for one day and I was already fine with having his freaking kids.

I walked into the shower when it had reached the correct temperature and stood under the falling water. I began to wash my body when I heard the bathroom door open and close.

I listened to hear the toilet flush and felt the coldness from the outside, knowing that Brendan had just stepped inside. His 6'2 body towered over me in the huge shower as he closed the door behind him. I felt his arms wrap around me and he rest his head in the crook of my neck.

"Yes?" I asked him as I stopped washing myself grabbed onto his arms.

"Help me," he said with a pleading in his voice. "There's a seat in the corner, it's not going away."

"Then I don't think that you should be in a shower with me, naked on top of that."

"Please?" He said and I nodded.

Read the skipped part in the other book, Love Hits Hard: Mature Chapters

As we walked out of the bathroom, I turned to him in sudden realization. 

"Two things," I said. "One, did you remember to put the salmon away last night?"

"Yes," he said with a smile.

"Two, I don't have any clothes other than that dress."

"I can give you some clothes," he said as he walked over to his dresser.

"And three, are we moving too fast?" I asked as I sat down on the bed. "You're two years older than me, I've known you for just over a day and we've already gone further with each other than I have gone with anyone else after really long relationships."

"Well," he said as he sat down on the bed next to me. "Do you think we're going to fast?"

"I don't know, it just feels like I don't want to wait with you, like I want to spend the rest of my life doing amazing things for and with you, you make me feel alive as corny as that sounds."

"Athena," he said, placing his hand on my leg. "If that's how you feel, I don't want to stop or slow down, I love how quickly we're moving and how comfortable you feel with me. You're perfect to me," he said closing the distance between out lips. 

I straddled him and grabbed onto his hair deepening the kiss. His tongue entered my mouth but I fought back, trying to gain control. We broke apart, gasping for air and touched our forehead's to each others. 

"I have to get dressed," I said getting up and taking the towel that was wrapped around his waist and wrapped it around my wet hair. He playfully grabbed the one that was wrapped my body and wrapped it around his hair as well.

He stood up and walked towards me, turning me around to face him. He placed his hands on my waist and I jumped up, wrapping my legs around his waist. 

Read the other part of the scene in the other book, Love Hits Hard: Mature Chapters.

I got dressed and walked out to the living room, seeing that the clock read 10:46 AM. I walked into the kitchen then made myself a cup of coffee and decided that I would make Brendan one as well. I sat down at the kitchen island as sat there thinking to myself.

I had had more sex in these past 24 hours than I have had in my whole relationship with Adam. What was wrong with me? Did we use protection? Shit, I don't think we did last night. I'm so stupid, I've already gotten pregnant once from Adam.

"Hey," Brendan said walking in and sat down next to me. "What are you thinking about?"

"Why am I so stupid?" I asked him as I handed him his cup of coffee.

"What do you mean?" He asked as he took a sip.

"Its not even that I'm stupid, I'm just so careless. I've known you barely 24 hours and I'm already getting naked and having sex with you," I sighed as I placed my head between my hands.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know that you would feel this way. I feel like an awful person, I didn't mean to make you do anything that you didn't want to do."

"No, the problem is that I wanted to do it, I'm not like this. I'm not someone who gives their body away to random people that I met that same day."

"Do you not want to see me anymore? Would that help?"

"I don't know, I'm still trying to figure out if this is going to go anywhere or if I was just a fling for you."

"Well," he said placing his cup down. "You're not just a fling. I want this to go somewhere but if you need your time to think, I can drive you home."

"I think I'm just going to go on a walk," I said getting up and walking towards the door.

"Athena, you're wearing a t-shirt, sweatpants, and your hair's wet. It's also February, you're going to get sick like that."

"I'll manage," I said opening the door and slamming it behind me.

I don't know what got into me but I ran and didn't stop.

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