Want Me (Extracurricular Activities, #1)

by Neve Wilder

Just before we pulled onto the main thoroughfare that led back in the direction of our house, Eric slanted another look at me. “You’ve probably been in more actual normal…” He paused and backed up. “Traditional relationships than I have, so you can tell me if I’m wrong or off base, but nothing has to change that we don’t want to change, know what I mean? You don’t have to suddenly parade around calling me your boyfriend with a capital B or anything.” “You don’t want me to? Are you ashamed of me?” His brows shot up. “What? No? If anything…no. I’m definitely not ashamed of you.” I broke into a laugh, and he flipped me off. “Idiot.” He focused on the road, then glanced over at me again. “I just mean that we can make our own rules, do what feels good to us.” I was itching to make some other stupid quip, but the sincerity and concern in his expression stopped me. I picked at the tab on my beer can, eyeing him, thinking about how fucking good he’d been to me—for me—and I was off and running into that emotional minefield that always had me mentally hot stepping because I was by no stretch of the imagination romantic, even though I was definitely a fool for this man. It was the strangest realization how much I liked feeling taken care of by him. In ways both as blunt as him telling me to get on my knees and suck his cock because he knew I fucking loved that shit, and as subtle as the way he glanced over me as we drove, like he was looking for some visual gauge of my headspace. In ...