The Honeymoon Period (The Austin Series) (28 page)

‘And I
can’t believe you aren’t, Mia.’

‘You really
think it’s that serious?’

‘Well, Doug
said he’s never seen Gabe like this, he’s really concerned about him. Plus it
feels like every time you and I arrange to get together to have some girl time
he goes and screws that up as well. It’s not normal to be that clingy, not for
a guy who seemed as confident about himself as Gabe was when you started
dating.’

‘I know,’ I
sighed as I rubbed my eyes. ‘I’ve been trying to play it down Lex, or I’d have
gone out of my mind with worry, but I’m really hoping it was the stress of his
recovery and the lack of sex.’

‘Looks like
you’re more than making up for that,’ she nodded, her eyes on my neck.

‘Don’t. You
should see my shoulders and breasts, I was furious. He’s been better this
weekend though and this trip away will do him the world of good. We’re through
the worst of it, I’m sure.’

‘So what
are you going to do about this Adam situation?’

‘Not a lot
I can do, but if I see him again and he acts the same I think I need to get
some advice as to what I can do, I just have a really bad feeling about him.’

‘You don’t
think that …’ She was interrupted by a knock at the door and Gabe stuck his
head around.

‘What are
you two talking about? You’ve been in here over an hour.’

‘Shit,
really?’ I asked and looked at the clock and realised he was right, it was
coming up to eight-thirty. ‘Sorry, we got carried away catching up. You ok?’

‘Feeling a
bit tired actually. I think the swimming has done me in. Do you mind if we have
an early night? I need some sleep.’

‘But it’s
not even nine,’ I looked at him surprised and Lexi got up.

‘I’ll leave
you both to it. Lovely to have you back.’ She hugged me and gave me a kiss on
the cheek. ‘Even you,’ she said as she passed Gabe in the doorway and punched
his good arm, then did a whipping motion behind his back as she raised her
eyebrows at me. She was right, it was like he was scared of letting me out of
his sight for too long, even in my own home with my best friend. I decided to
let it go, it had been a heavy weekend already, but this really had to stop
once we got home from our trip.

‘Thanks,
Lex,’ he called as he closed the door behind her. ‘You better get undressed
baby. I hope you’re ready for me.’ I saw the twinkle in his eye and looked down
and saw the bulge in his jeans.

‘I thought
you were tired?’

‘That was
just an excuse to get you alone. You’d have chatted all bloody night and I’ve
plans for you.’ He pulled his shirt out of his jeans and pulled it over his
head, leaving me salivating at his ripped body, that lovely grove on display
accentuated by his sharply defined abs. Damn him, he knew he could make me
forget my own name when sex with him was on offer, he knew exactly how to keep
me distracted from what was really going on with him. I moistened my lips as I
saw his jeans flexing and he grinned as he saw me looking.

‘Are you
just going to sit watching, or are you going to join me in removing some of
your clothes?’ he asked. I quickly kicked off my trainers and ripped my jumper
off making him laugh and then he made a low growling noise as he spotted the
bra I had on, with my stiff nipples poking through the black material. ‘
I
get to take that off tonight,’ he growled. I shivered, the way he was looking
at me was so carnal, I sat in my jeans and bra and watched him unbutton his and
peel them apart and felt all my clit throb as I looked at his crotch encased in
a pair of tight red Ralph Lauren Polo stretch trunks.

‘You look
so good in red.’

‘You look
so good in nothing, why are those jeans not off?’ He walked over and grabbed
them by the top band and yanked me up and started undoing them for me as I went
all lightheaded and giddy looking up at him. ‘What’s the matter baby?’ he asked
as he crouched down and pulled them and wiggled them down to my ankles.

‘You.
You’re just so …
hot
,’ I sighed as I looked down at him and ran my
fingers through his hair. He laughed and lifted one foot at a time pulling my
jeans off completely and then sat back on his heels and looked up at me before
pulling me closer and laying a trail of kisses along my stomach and the edge of
my knickers and then ran his tongue around the edge of my tattoo and I sighed
and held his head.

‘I meant to
tell you that I was happy to see you’d put my belly bar in on Friday, but I was
sort of distracted with other things.’

‘It’s
beautiful Gabe, I love it,’ I smiled. He stood up quickly and pulled me into
him, tipped my head back and kissed me deeply, opening my mouth with his
tongue, exploring and groaning. His arms tightened around me as he felt me sag
against him. How could he stay so upright, when I went to jelly? He lowered me
down onto the bed, our lips still attached and lay down on top of me and rolled,
taking me with him, until I was lying on his front. I pushed my hands up into
his hair as one of his hands slid down the back of my knickers to cup my
buttock and the other ran up my spine and held the nape of my neck, his thumb
caressing it slowly. I moaned and flexed my hips pressing into his and his rock
solid cock and he stopped kissing me.

‘What’s the
rush baby? I told you we were going to do this slowly.’

‘You’re
making me giddy. Giddy and wet,’ I sighed. He just smiled softly at me and
rolled me onto my side and started kissing me gently again. His hands slowly
skimming my every curve, delighting in the texture of my skin. He’d stop me as
I tried to touch him and I gave up, closed my eyes and let myself enjoy his
attentions, it seemed to please him as much as it did me. I softly cried out
his name as his lips moved across my body, worshipping me, as he took off my
underwear and spent an hour making me climax over and again, begging me to let
him have my pleasure each time I thought I couldn’t let go again.

‘Look at me
baby, watch as I fill you,’ he whispered. I opened my eyes, best I could,
feeling exhausted. I parted my lips as I took in his blond tousled hair, flushed
cheeks, stunning eyes, that bone structure and
those
lips…those perfect
lips. I felt tears flow over the damn of my lower lids. ‘Baby what’s wrong?’ he
kissed the tears as they rolled down my cheekbones.

‘You’re so
gorgeous and you’re so selfless in bed, always looking after me. I love you,
Gabe.’ He smoothed my fringe back with his fingers and carefully sank himself
into me and I arched up to meet him, feeling butterflies in my stomach to see
the way he looked down at me so tenderly. He started to move inside me, slowly
and steadily and I matched his rhythm with my pelvis.

‘Give me
your hands,’ he whispered. I reached up and placed them top side down and he palmed
them and slid his fingers between mine and we closed them around each other’s tightly
as he kissed me again. He continued to move in and out of me, circling
occasionally and all I could hear was our breathing as I lost myself in his
eyes.

‘
Gabe
,’
I moaned and let out small gasps of pleasure.

‘
Mia
.’
He moved a little faster and I could feel the perspiration on both of us,
helping our skin glide against each other’s, I was hot, so hot and even after
an hours’ worth of orgasms already, my body was still aching for him. A deep
gnawing ache that I’d never felt before. Every fibre of my being was in love
with him and it felt so overwhelming, my body started its preparation to climax.

‘Gabe,’ I
whispered. ‘Gabe, I
love you.’

‘O God Mia,
look at me like that and say it again,’ he begged as he circled his hips
caressing every inch of my insides.

‘I love
you. I love you, Gabriel,’ I whispered. He closed his eyes and made a painful
groan, reopened them and looked back at me.

‘You mean
it, you really mean it, I can see it in your eyes and I can feel it in your
body.’

‘Of course
I … mean it. I … love you.’ I tipped my head back and closed my eyes as I felt
my cheeks burning, the familiar tingling in my head, down my spine and in my core,
as my clit sunk back in readiness for me to come.

‘Mia … God …
Mia, look  …look at me … please look at me,’ he pleaded. I opened my eyes and
my mouth spasmed as my back arched, his pupils were wide and his face
contorted, but he kept his eyes on me as I climaxed and shook below him. It was
slow and gentle, but the tremors ran on for ages as I whimpered and squeaked. I
felt him push deep and saw his face relax as he flooded me still looking into
my eyes. He lay still above me, breathing heavily, his fingers tight on mine
and smiled as a couple of tears rolled down his face.

‘Gabe, are
you ok?’ I whispered.

‘I’m great,
better than great, That was amazing.’

‘You’re
crying.’

‘So only
woman are allowed to cry when they have an emotional experience?’ he said
gently.

‘No, I love
that you’re in tune with your emotions, it’s just you don’t often cry when we
have sex. Not like me.’

‘We fuck a
lot Mia. We fuck and I adore fucking you, but that’s also partly about us
getting off. That wasn’t fucking. That was … it was so …’

‘Amazing,’
I agreed.

‘Yes. My
stomach knotted when you looked at me and said “
I love you, Gabriel”
it’s
like I felt it to my core this time.’

‘So you
believe me? It’s not that I don’t love you enough Gabe, I promise you it’s not
you.’

‘I believe
you, Mia.’

‘You do?’

‘I do, I
promise I do.’ He leaned down and kissed me, let go of my hands and slid his
under my neck and the small of my back and rolled onto his left hand side
taking me with him. We just lay looking at each other, planting the occasional
kiss on each other’s lips until I giggled.

‘What?’ he
asked looking surprised.

‘I’m so
happy,’ I sighed.

‘Really?’

‘Yes. It’s
like all the crap of the last month and a bit’s behind us and you seem more
relaxed and happy and we’re going away and we can be normal again.’

He rubbed his
nose on mine and kissed me. ‘I don’t think on any scale we’d ever be considered
normal Mia, but I know what you mean. We can start going out again, running
together, holding each other and having sex with me on top. I’m happy too baby.’

‘I’m also tired
and exhausted too. How are you not tired from doing all that work?’

‘It’s not
work making you come Mia, it’s amazing, I love doing it. Come on, you need to
sleep. You’ve a long day of lectures tomorrow.’

‘Thank you.’

‘For what?’

‘All my
orgasms today, I’ve had
many.
’

‘I love
giving them to you baby, I told you if ever you need one you only have to ask,
I don’t mind giving you some with nothing else in it for me.’ He kissed me
again and I could feel my eyes closing, I was so exhausted, very happily
exhausted. ‘Come on baby, sleep. You can have a good eight hours uninterrupted,
enjoy it.’

‘But I need
to brush my teeth.’

‘It won’t
kill you to miss one night. Sleep for me baby, you need it.’

‘Hmmm.’ I agreed
as I felt my eyes closing and a soft kiss on my forehead.

I woke up and it took me a
while to realise where I was, I hardly recognised my own room as it had been so
long since I’d woken up here. I lay on my side facing him, his arm draped over
my waist and I smiled to see how close I finally was to him, not having rolled
away in the night, and also to see he was still asleep. When we first met it
was always him awake first, but he said he slept better with me and it looked
as if it were true. It seemed only minutes since I’d fallen asleep last night,
but when I looked at my clock it was already ten to eight. I needed to get up
and ready, so I lightly kissed his forehead and he made a cute little noise of
contentment and I wriggled out from under his arm giving him big boy the panda
who he clutched and kissed which made me chuckle.

I grabbed
my clothes and went into the bathroom for a quick shower and got ready in my
jeans and ballet wrap top and pulled my hair into a high top knot then put on
some concealer under my eyes. Despite a good night’s sleep I still looked tired
and wondered if I’d ever get rid of these dark circles that had appeared. I
headed into the kitchen and found Lexi already up drinking her coffee.

‘Morning,’
I grinned as I went to make myself one.

‘Morning.
God it’s nice to say that to you again.’

‘I know. We’ll
have to knock on each other’s doors when I move over the landing.’

‘What were
you two up to last night? You sounded very happy, for a
very
long time.’

‘I was, extended
foreplay.’ I grinned at her and she stuck her tongue out. ‘Still not wow for
you?’

‘Sssshhhh,
he’s next door and like anyone wants to try and compete with you two going at
it in the room next door.’

‘God, can
you really hear that much?’ I exclaimed as I sipped my coffee.

‘Ermmm, YES.’

‘You’ll be
pleased to know we’re having next door sound proofed as much as possible then.’

‘Thank God.
When are you moving in?’

‘Gabe is
hoping by New Year’s Eve. He wants to have a party to celebrate so we’d better
start making some friends or it’ll just be the four of us and Milo.’

‘Awkward,’
Lexi grimaced.

‘O don’t
you start as well,’ I replied with a roll of my eyes.

‘Mia, he
was asking me every five minutes how you were doing while you were off.’

‘He’s a
friend. A concerned friend that’s all.’

‘Yeah right,
and I’m the Virgin Mary. I’m going to go and load my books up, you’d better get
a shift on.’

I drained
my coffee and grabbed my Uni bag, pleased I’d packed it last night. I went back
in the bedroom and found Gabe missing so stuck my head in through the bathroom
door and sighed to see him in the shower with soapy water pouring down his
sculpted shoulder blades. He was trying to wash his hair one armed and I wished
I’d more time to get in there and offer to help him out and take advantage of
his naked state.

‘Gabe.’

‘Shit Mia,
you startled me,’ he said as he jumped and turned around.

‘Nice view,’
I grinned, as I looked at his morning erection.

‘Are you
telling me you’re still not satisfied after yesterday’s orgasmathon?’

‘I was
incredibly satisfied yesterday, today is another day.’

‘You could
join me now,’ he gave me one of his amazing smiles that just slayed me.

‘O God
don’t do that, you know what it does to me. I can’t, I’ve got to go, Lexi’s
waiting. Good luck this morning, let me know how it goes and I’ll see you later.’

‘You’re not
going anywhere without kissing me first, Mia.’

‘You’re all
wet and soapy.’

He flicked
me with water making me scream. ‘I’ll drag you in here and make you wetter if
you don’t kiss me.’

‘That
sounds more like a promise than a threat, you like me wet.’ I gave him a smile
and a wink.

‘Mia Page, you’ve
sex on the brain.’

‘Mia, we
need to go,’ yelled Lexi from outside my bedroom door.

‘Quick then
and don’t wet me.’ I stood behind the glass partition and stuck my head around
and gave him a quick peck on the lips.

‘That was
it?’ he looked at me incredulously.

‘Yes, I’ve
places to be and things to do. I wasn’t put on this earth just to please you,
Gabe Austin. See you later.’ I blew him a kiss and left before he’d a chance to
moan and Lexi and I ran down for the bus.

I sent him
a text from History.

Hey
sexy. I’m finding it hard to concentrate when images of you naked, soapy, wet
and ripped in that shower keep interrupting my study process. Good luck this
morning, let me know how it goes. Love you M xx

I found the
lecture interesting, now I’d caught up it was easier to follow and I was
averaging sixty-eight percent in my assignments, which was a lot better than
Lexi who was only averaging the mid forties. I was pleased we’d agreed a new
study regime together, I knew I could definitely do better though and I was
going to have to pull her up with me. I felt my phone buzz and saw it was
already mid-day and it was Gabe.

Hi baby.
I love that you’ve images of me like that. Maybe tomorrow morning we can do
that together :-) Had to go shopping, other than alcohol, bread, butter and
milk you had nothing in. Doing a Thai green chicken curry for dinner for us
all. Going for a run then a rest this afternoon, in case I don’t reply. Enjoy
Jenkins lecture ;-) Can’t wait for Thursday <3 you too G xxx

I frowned
when I noticed he’d not answered my question about his swimming therapy. When
we left the lecture I found Milo waiting outside and Lexi tutted at me under
her breath and headed off to the cafeteria.

‘Hey Mia,
how was your weekend?’ he asked kissing me on the cheek.

‘Amazing,
thanks. Yours? Did you go home and see Jenny?’

‘Yes, we had
a great time.’

‘I’m
heading to the cafeteria if you want to join Lexi and I for something to eat?’

‘Sure, I
was going to ask if you wanted to catch up over lunch, so that works out great.
We still on for Thursday?’

‘No, sorry,
Gabe’s taking me away Thursday morning. A sort of thank you for looking after
him.’

‘How’s he doing?’

‘Much
better. He’s just got back into the pool yesterday to try swimming again,
though I’m worried how it’s going to affect him if he can’t make the team again.’

‘It’s that
big a deal to him?’

‘Gabe?’ I
looked at Milo with raised brows. ‘Christ, yes. He has to be the best at
everything he does. He hates not winning.’

‘Is there
anything else he can do if he can’t swim again?’

‘He’s a
good long distance runner, but I’m not sure if that’ll be enough for him.’

‘Let’s hope
it is. Are they still no closer to finding out how it happened?’

‘No,’ I
sighed. ‘They’ve had to close the investigation and put it down to an accident,
someone panicking and driving off, but there’s this guy that I pissed off one
night by refusing his advances and I’m worried that maybe he has something to
do with it.’

‘You think
it was deliberate?’ he looked at me stunned.

‘I don’t know,’
I said as I shuddered recalling the look on Adam’s face as he’d hissed at me. ‘Let’s
talk about something nicer, what are your plans for Christmas break?’

‘I’ll
probably go home and come back the weekend after Christmas. You?’

‘I’m
staying here, my parents are going away. We’re thinking of having a New Year’s
party if you’d be interested? A bring your own booze sort of thing and we’d put
on some food.’

‘Sounds
great. Cheaper than the pubs or clubs.’

‘Would any
of your friends be interested? Lexi and I haven’t really been all that sociable
and hardly know anyone.’

‘Well, I
can guarantee five of my male friends, though you may need to spend the evening
fighting them off. They all fancy you with the exception of Dan who has the
hots for Lexi something chronic.’

‘Then you
better warn them I’m spoken for and he’s the jealous type,’ I laughed. ‘And
Lexi is actually dating too.’

We joined
the queue in the cafeteria and I ordered a cheese and ham toastie and coffee,
while Milo had spaghetti bolognese and a coke and we joined Lexi who was sitting
by the window playing on her phone.

‘Jesus Mia,
eating at lunch time? What’s got into you?’

‘I’ve not
eaten since five o’clock yesterday and I’m starving, Lex.’

‘It’s all
that horizontal mambo you’re doing, enough to stimulate anyone’s appetite.’

‘
Lexi,
we’ve company.’ I gave her a glare.

‘
Please
,
like Milo’s a virgin. You having sex isn’t going to be news to him.’

‘So not the
point.’ I looked at Milo embarrassed and he smiled awkwardly.

‘Should I
go and sit somewhere else?’ he volunteered.

‘No Milo,
Lexi and I can continue this discussion in our own time,
in private
.’

‘Touchy. So
Milo how are things?’

‘Good,
thanks, Lex. Mia’s ditching me on Thursday, something about a weekend away
being more exciting than hitting the gym with me. You up for filling her place?’

‘You’re
joking right? Do I look the type to gym?’

‘Milo, Lexi
doesn’t do any form of exercise at all.’

‘Not even
the horizontal mambo?’ he grinned. I shook my head and ate as the two of them
bounced off each other arguing the merits of sex over going to the gym. We
headed to English early and Jenkins was already there. I took a deep breath and
went to talk to him about the notes for Friday’s lecture that I’d miss.

‘You’re
aware that all of my notes are also uploaded onto your online account?’

‘I’ve an online
account?’ I asked surprised. He leaned back on his desk, took off his glasses
and rubbed his eyes looking frustrated.

‘Mia, did
you not attend freshers’ week? I appreciate you’ve had a difficult time with
your absence and that of whom, I assume to be your boyfriend,’ he waved in the
general direction of Gabe’s seat. ‘But you show real promise in your work and I
feel that you aren’t fully committing. You’re averaging a 2:1 at present and
you should be looking for a first, which I believe is entirely achievable if
you were focussed. I’m hard on you because I recognise your ability, yet you
seem intent on missing as many of my lectures as possible. You’re an adult now,
I can’t make you attend, but choose wisely. You’ve great potential.’

‘I don’t
know what to say,’ I mumbled.

‘Say
nothing. I’ve said my peace. Look up your online account, which should be of
some help to you if you decide you wish to make more of an effort. I need to
prepare now please.’ He stood up and turned around and started going through
his notes. I felt like I’d just been giving a pep talk by a parent.

‘Thank you,
I’ll try harder Mr. Jenkins.’

‘Do, Miss
Page.’

I went back
to my desk feeling suitably chastised.

‘You ok?’
asked Lexi.

‘Not sure,
I was just given a parental style lecture on not trying hard enough.’

‘Seriously?’

‘Yes, he
says I could get a first if I pulled my finger out and stopped missing
lectures. Did you know we’ve an online account to access study notes and stuff?’

‘No,
seriously?’ She looked at me in amazement and I nodded.

‘Apparently
so.’

‘Well, they
should tell you this shit,’ she uttered indignantly.

‘They
probably did during freshers’ week, which we didn’t attend Lex, or in the
welcome pack we never bothered reading much of.’ I let out a sigh wondering if
this was why Jenkins had been so hard on me. He was right, I’d been putting in
the bare minimum to get by the last couple of months.

It was nearly
six when we got home and before I’d even had a chance to put my bag down and
kick off my trainers Gabe strode out of the lounge, clasped my face and kissed
me passionately making my stomach flip.

‘Get a room
you two. I need some Xbox practice while Doug’s out so I’m commandeering the
lounge.’ She pulled her tongue out at me and headed in.

‘Wow Gabe,
I could get used to a greeting like that.’

‘I’d like
to give you another greeting. Now,’ he murmured in my ear as he ground his
pelvis hard against mine again and started undoing the ties on my top.

‘What about
dinner?’ I asked breathlessly as he started kissing my neck.

‘Dinner can
wait, I can’t. It’s the longest I’ve been without coming in weeks.’

‘It’s not
even twenty-four hours,’ I sighed leaning on the hall wall.

‘Still too
long. Move it. Now.’ He grabbed my hand and pulled me into the bedroom where he
pushed the door shut and I’d only just dropped my bag on the floor when he came
at me.