Irresistible

5 ×Never Enough×

Never Enough

We went back to his parents house and I texted Adam that I had left with Alex so that he wasn't waiting or wondering about where I had gone. When we went inside, Joanne paused in the kitchen doorway when she saw us. Her eyes flickered back and forth and then down to our joined hands.

"Thanks Anne. I really appreciate it, although you really didn't need to. Adam has your card and he'll bring it whenever he gets back, I guess," I said quickly. She gave me a small smile and nodded once and then Alex and I wordlessly went towards the stairs so I followed him to the other side of the mansion, on the opposite side from my bedroom.

His bedroom was here and it was simply decorated except for a few posters of race cars and bands along the wall that I didn't even know he had been interested in. Yet another thing I didn't know about him. He sat down on the edge of his bed and I stood in front of him, looking down at him with my arms crossed.

"If I'm going to stay with you, then I need to know about you, the real you, whether it's good or bad. No more secrets, and no lies. Trust is a big thing for me and you know it but I've let you avoid my questions long enough," I said, trying to appear assertive.

He smiled and hooked his finger into the hem of my underwear, through my dress, and pulled me closer. He wrapped his arms around my chest and laid his head on my stomach, like he had done many times before and I dutifully pushed my fingers into his hair.

"I'm sorry. I promise that there will be no more secrets. I'll tell you everything you want to know," he said quietly. I nodded and sat down on his lap, my arms around his neck.

"Okay. What drugs were Benjamin talking about," I asked, referring to what his father had said the night before at the dinner table. He took a deep breath and answered.

"I used to have a friend who had a drug problem. Once, the cops were chasing him, I didn't know, and he slipped some drugs into my pocket without my noticing and then suddenly the cops were there and he was running away and I got down like they told me to. They found the baggie and I was hauled to jail, where my dad had to come bail me out, though he never believed my version of it. I had never done drugs or anything."

"That's terrible. What happened to your friend?"

"He's dead. At least, to me he is. I haven't spoken to him since that day," he responded. I wasn't sure what to say so I just leaned down and kissed his familiar lips. I had the sudden thought that this was nothing compared to Adam's kiss, which had been deliciously sweet and careful, where as Alex's was a little sloppy and more hurried. I immediately pulled away at the thought of kissing his brother, feeling dirty.

"I'm sorry about last night. About the proposal thing. I didn't mean to embarrass you," I said quietly. His jaw tightened for a second before he pressed his forehead against mine.

"Don't worry about it. I understand. I just wish I hadn't reacted the way I did," he whispered. Then he kissed me again and flipped me on my back so that I was lying on the bed with him pressing over me.

"Also, I was thinking," he began, nuzzling my neck. "I think that maybe we could move down here. Sell the apartment and move closer to my parents? They want to be in my future and I figured that maybe I should give them the chance to try."

I looked at him in surprise. He had told me for years how much he resented his parents and now he was trying to be closer to them. I was never told what happened between them, and I never pried, but now he was ready to move past that conflict. I wish that I had the same chance with my own parents, but they were gone and I could never reconcile what we once had.

"That sounds great, but what about my college classes? I can't just drop them. I need to finish school. I have one semester left," I explained. He nodded once.