Total pages in book: 177
Estimated words: 163387 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 817(@200wpm)___ 654(@250wpm)___ 545(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 163387 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 817(@200wpm)___ 654(@250wpm)___ 545(@300wpm)
My sigh of delight when I closed the door behind me and rested against it was loud enough to wake the building. “How was it?” Alexis’ voice came from her side of the room in the dark. She didn’t yell, but there was something approaching reverence in her voice, which seemed like the perfect touch to the evening I’d just had.
CODY
She’s a virgin; I’d bet bank on it. I should’ve known after the shy smiles and secret looks in the cafeteria earlier, but somehow I couldn’t bring myself to believe that it was true. A virgin, here? She’d be the first since middle school.
I found myself grinning like an ass all the way back to my side of campus. I couldn’t believe how much time had passed when I looked at the clock on the dash. We’d spent hours talking over dinner and after, and I could’ve spent more listening to her, something I haven’t enjoyed in way too long.
Most of the females here were, after one thing. It’s like fucking every guy they met was on their college bucket list, something I have no interest in. I know because of my looks and the stigma that comes with being Captain of the football team, I’m supposed to be the type to like that shit, but nothing could be further from the truth. I detest that shit.
I didn’t always think and feel that way. When I was a kid, I lived for that shit; the more, the merrier, but as a man, I’m more into quality than quantity, and that right there is Grade-A quality female. No artifice, no hidden agenda, just pure as fuck. And definitely not something I want to just walk away from.
I spent a sleepless night trying to fit her into my plans. She doesn’t know it yet, but her coming out with me tonight had sealed her fate. I hadn’t made the decision to go to her class to pick her up lightly. But when she refused to leave my thoughts all afternoon, I knew my mind wouldn’t let me rest until I saw where the attraction was going.
If she’d turned out to be just like all the rest, it would’ve been an easy call to just walk, but she was different. I could feel it in my bones. Then over dinner, I’d got to see more of her, and listening to her talk about her life had only drawn me in even more.
I’m a pretty good judge of character. That’s why I’ve never given that incubus Susie the time of day. Shit, I’d almost forgotten her existence. No matter, I doubt she’s dumb enough to come between me and Lisa, and if she is, I owe her one.
I won't’ make her pay for what she tried to do to me, but if she goes after that sweet girl in any way, we’re gonna have a problem. Sweet girl! That suits her; she has that quality about her, kind of like the kind of woman a man wants in his life for a lifetime. Only time will tell, though, if my instincts are on point. There must be something there, though, or it wouldn’t have been that easy for her to get me to give up my self-inflicted moratorium on women.
All I could think when I left her was that someone else was going to snatch her up if I didn’t stake my claim, so after tossing and turning all night, I’ve made up my mind about what I had to do. She didn’t seem like the type to get in the way, more like the kind of woman who’d stand next to you and cheer you on.
The only drawback is her age. She’s eighteen, only three years younger than me in years but a hell of a lot younger in experience. She didn’t talk like the average teenager, though; she seemed to have a good head on her shoulder like she knew what she wanted.
It doesn’t bother me that she obviously comes from money, and I don’t because the girl doesn’t seem to have a materialistic bone in her body. I somehow get the feeling that she’s a blank canvas just waiting to be drawn on by me.
I took all these things into consideration as I lay in bed wide awake, mapping shit out in my head. I don’t know what I was expecting when I asked her out, but it sure wasn’t to stay awake making life decisions. She’d literally turned my life upside down, and I’ve only known her for a day.
It seems rather odd, the ease with which she’d caught my interest. I know myself well enough to know that I wouldn’t have taken that first step had I not planned on things going somewhere. I’m just a bit surprised at myself. I’d spent the last four years or more walking one path diligently, and no one has ever been able to get me to put even a toe-off of it, until now, until her. Lisa…