All Chapters of Lust next door : Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

She spent the night with me.Beside me.Although we barely got any sleep last night. After we got back from the restaurant, we could barely keep our hands to ourselves. Like the few days of abstinence did something to our minds.The second our eyes locked in the car, downstairs at the parking lot, we knew our ‘let me walk you to your apartment’, and our ‘good night’ meant nothing. Our mouths connected the second we stepped out of the car.Starved. That’s how I felt. Like I had been starved of her, I couldn’t get enough.Her fingers impatient as they tugged on my pants in front of my door.I couldn’t get the key in the key hole fast enough. She had dropped to her knees the second we slipped into the apartment.“You have no idea how hard it was to pretend I didn’t want this.” she moaned, hands tugging down on my pants.The sight before me, her words.I’m not sure which undoes me, because with a groan, I help her with my pants.A soft gasp escapes her mouth.That does it. I forced h

“A painting?” she asks with a small laugh.One that sounds like she is in disbelief and slightly relieved.I nod. “I completely cut off painting from my life after everything that happened… then I realize after last night that Elora would hate to know that I stopped, especially because of her. She used to say she would visit every museum that had my paintings… she wouldn’t have much places to visit now since they are almost no paintings.” Regina nods, taking a bite out of her pancakes, and smearing whipped cream at the corner of her mouth. With a slight chuckle, I stretch my hand opposite me, and with my thumb, I wipe the smear, underneath my finger, she stills. “There was something at the corner of your mouth.”She nods, her hair forming a curtain around her face, her eyes are on the table in front of us. Another thing was solidified in my mind, one that I can’t bring up with her.I made up my mind to like Regina as much as I can, she doesn’t have to like me back. I wouldn't pre

I know who it is immediately I set my eyes on her.She is breath taking. Her eyes similar to Hosea’s, her smile even more so.She looks care free, like she had zero cares in the world. She is laughing to her heart’s content. “She was beautiful.” I whisper, taking in the portrait of his sister.Her name is spelled out on a bracelet she cradles close to her, it clearly meant a lot to her. I feel like I am standing right beside her on the beach, like I can feel the wind that makes wisps of her hair fly across her face. And if I reach out, I could touch her mint green sweater. “It’s one of the last moments we spent together, it wasn’t a real beach, we lived too far away from any body of water, but she loved it.”I turn to him, he is watching the painting like he is reliving the memory. “I think it was because she was with you.”He smiles, this time it’s full of gratitude. He lifts his eyes away from the painting and kisses the top of my nose. Surprising me. “I’ll wash up and then we

I can’t face Hosea.Admitting that Lara is right feels like I am betraying him and maybe I am, maybe I am not. But it doesn’t feel good. Am I scared I would turn out to be the Regina from before? The one that had been so lost she couldn’t see past her toes, and ended up falling from grace? Yes.I am actually terrified of being her again.But that is only bound to happen if I fall in love with Hosea. What we have now is the farthest thing from love. The kind of relationship that would’ve sent old Regina into a frenzy.Shaking my head and clearing the thoughts. Now is not the time for it. It shouldn’t be the time for their shift yet. So I look through the Mart’s website for Thea’s full name, and when I find it, I search for her on social media. She is quick and easy to find since she uses her real name instead of some made up one. Luckily, she also agrees to meet for a few minutes before her shift. “I really don’t want to meet up with you.” she says with a sharp look in her eyes

You’re just friends.Friends who happen to be sleeping together.But this scene in front of me… She quickly shakes his hand off hers. But I can’t stop looking at where his hands had just been. “I have been looking everywhere for you, and when I heard you moved here… I just had to come…” Regina gives him a smile. The sight churns my belly.“Let’s talk about it elsewhere.” she says, turning away from me and walking out of the door. Johnson follows bwhind her like a lost puppy. Inside me feels like she had pushed her hand through my chest and was squeezing down hard on my heart. Returning to my station, hands make people’s coffee, my mind however, keeps reeling.She called him Johnson.He held her like he knows her. Like a flash, it hits me.The ex her best friend was talking about.The same one she loved more than life itself.I swallow hard. My eyes remain on the door the rest of my shift. None of them return.Back at home, I am restless. I keep checking my phone for a message fr