Romance: Close Encounters Boxed Set Books 1 thru 6 ( New Adult and College Series Books 1 thru 6) (10 page)

three

I give Grant all of my passion and desire the minute I walk in the door tonight because in the back of my mind I’m afraid this will have to end soon. He seems a little surprised when I practically attack him as soon as we get in the front door of his condo. I kiss him, devouring him. My hand reaches and squeezes his manhood through his jeans.

“I need you,” I say, I crave my addiction. He picks me up and carries me into his bedroom. We both strip off every piece of clothing we have on and I drop to my knees in front of him and take his erection in my hand and stroke him before I wrap my lips around him. I look up at him, as I taste him.

“God Clarissa, you’re a vision,” he growls and throws his head back with a groan. After I’ve enjoyed my appetizer, I stand up and we crawl into his bed. I push him onto his back. I want to ride him.

“What’s gotten into you tonight?” he questions.

“Shhh,” I hush him. His fingers reach down between my thighs and he finds my most sensitive nub. All he has to do is touch it and I shudder. He knows just the right pressure to make me quiver.

“God, you’re already so wet for me baby, you want me inside you?” I gaze at him and all I want to do is consume and devour his luscious body, but he has other ideas for me as he swiftly rolls me onto my back.

“I want to make love to you,” he says tenderly. Oh. My. God. His words make my entire body melt and heat up with lust for him, but those words scare me to death at the same time. How am I ever going to let him go? I just look up at him looming over me in the darkness. My hand reaches up and strokes his cheek. His lips take mine in the most tantalizing kiss. I wrap my legs around him, pulling his shaft against me. He slides home into my slick core inch by glorious inch I take him in deeply skin-to-skin.

“God, you feel so good,” he moans out.

“I love having you inside me like this, I can really feel every inch of you,” I gasp parting my legs wider to let all of him in. I hold him tightly tonight.

“Clarissa, I’m falling for you.” Grants words fall into the darkness as he continues to pump into me. I don’t know what to say, even though I feel the same way, I fight it every single day.

“I know you feel the same way, I can feel it every time you share your body with me Clarissa.”

“You’re right Professor, and I fight it every day,” I say, looking deep into his pool blue eyes. With that he continues making love to me, taking me away to oblivion as I come undone in his arms.

“I’m addicted to you,” he says as he rolls off me.

“Well, I could say the feeling is mutual,” is all I can commit to.

“Grant, what would happen to you if someone found out about us?” I venture to ask.

“I would be fired,” he admits.

“What would you do if you didn’t teach?”

“Don’t worry about me, I would land on my feet.”

“What would they do to me?”

“Probably nothing, you would be seen as the victim of my seduction. Why the twenty questions?” he asks. I don’t answer him right away. I don’t know whether I should tell him or not.

*****

~GRANT~

I never dreamed I would get so attached to Clarissa, because I don’t do attachment. Her innocence drew me in and I let my guard down. I let her in and I may have to pay the price for it. For some reason she’s fighting it, fighting us. She’s trying to deny the inevitable, that we care about each other beyond the sex. She’s torn, she struggles with us, I can tell. I’m not stupid.

The Bancroft kid won’t let up on her, maybe he’s wearing her down. Why doesn’t he find some other hot coed to go after instead of my Clarissa? The campus is full of them especially in the Greek System that they both seem to be a part of. It’s maddening to see him always being so damn attentive to her. And then of course monetarily I can’t compete with the kid; come on the Bancroft family could write a check for a campus building, no problem. Although I don’t gather money is the driving force for Clarissa. She is such an incredibly genuine person and that’s what makes her special, part of her charm. What you see is what you get, there’s no BS or snobbery about her. Do I have it bad for her? She has definitely gotten under my skin without even trying to ever press for more with me.

What was with the twenty questions? Sure, I could lose my job, but honestly, I don’t care.

four

~CLARISSA~

It’s Monday night and Deena and I are getting ready for Monday night dinner at our respective Sororities. Every Monday night all the Sororities and Fraternities have a formal dinner at the house and break out into meetings afterwards. The pledge class has their own separate meeting. During dinner the Frat guys may pay us a visit to invite us to an exchange and tonight none other than THE Jason Bancroft is announced with a couple of his frat bad boys to invite us to an exchange. The girls sitting at my table perk up when Jason and his Posse walk into the dining room and I must say, they all are extremely hunk worthy.

“Can you say yum? I’ll take the hottie on the right.” I overhear Nicole, one of my pledge sisters say under her breath. Looking at the three, Jason is the one on the right. He does look pretty hot standing up there in all his handsome glory. I laugh at Nicole’s comment.

“What’s so funny Clarissa, wouldn’t you agree? He’s sex on a stick,” Nicole continues to salivate over him. I think it’s funny, I’m sorry. I try not to look at Jason that way, although it has been getting harder and harder to ignore his good looks and perfect male physique. Nicole is right, he is sex on a stick and I think he may just know it.

“He knows it too,” I mumble. After the tall one of the group invites us over for an exchange, which basically is the Sigma Chi house inviting our entire Sorority over to their house for a party, typically on a Thursday night, the frat boys file out. Jason sees me and offers a small smile in my direction.

“Do you know him? That’s Jason Bancroft,” Nicole tells me like I don’t know.

“Yeah I know, we’re friends. He’s in my English class,” I say as I continue to eat dinner.

“Really, what’s he like?”

“He’s nice,” is all I offer and Nicole looks frustrated by my response.

“Care to elaborate?”

“He’s a nice guy, what more is there to say?”

“I’ve seen you eating lunch with him,” Maci chimes in from across the table.

“You need to introduce us at the exchange okay?” Nicole says.

“Okay, remind me,” I say, knowing she won’t forget.

five

Grant wants me to come over Thursday night, but I can’t. I need to go to our exchange with Jason’s fraternity that night. All pledges are required to attend every exchange, they do a role call before the guys come to get us. At the appointed hour, the entire Sigma Chi Fraternity comes over and rings the doorbell. The whole Sorority crowds along the staircase and the foyer and then we open the door to greet the hot studs. They belt out their Fraternity song. After they finish serenading us, we sing out our Sorority song. It’s a little corny, but it is a tradition all the houses still follow.

The guys then walk us over to their house and we party. Some of us party harder than others. There are free flowing kegs of beer and usually a DJ is playing great tunes. Of course there are always random hook ups by the end of the night. That’s all part of the coming of age that goes on in college I suppose. Although I have never par taken in one of those. I’ve never been a one-night stand kind of girl. Grant was supposed to be the exception to the rule. I did go into that one thinking it would be my first one-night stand, but it has turned out to be way more than that, I think with a heavy heart.

I’m now in the backyard of the Sigma Chi house, with a drink in hand, and standing in a circle with a few of my pledge sisters. Nicole is standing next to me and gives me a nudge.

“There’s Bancroft, introduce us,” she whispers. I follow where her eyes are looking and see him by the keg filling his cup with beer and laughing with one of his frat brothers. He’s got on a snug fitting black v-neck t-shirt, dark snug jeans and his hair is gelled just so. He stands a little over six feet and has a perfect build, not too muscular but just right in my opinion. I look away before he catches me checking him out.

“He’s coming this way, catch his eye,” Nicole says. God, she is aggressive in an annoying way. She’s gorgeous though, she should have no problem hooking up with any one of these guys here tonight.

“Hi Ladies,” Jason comes and welcomes our group with his confident and drop-dead smile. His eyes stay on me longer than anyone else as he takes a drink out of his cup. Nicole elbows me.

“Jason, let me introduce my pledge sisters to you. This is Nicole, Maci and Bella. Girls this is Jason Bancroft.” As if he needed introducing. Each girl inflates her chest.

“It’s nice to meet you ladies,” Jason says.

“The pleasure is all mine,” Nicole says sultrily extending her hand. I have to take a drink and look away so I don’t burst out laughing. This reminds me of
The Millionaire Matchmaker
or
The Bachelor
shows when all these girls are vying for the attention of one Bachelor. I find it all so pathetic.

“Nice to meet you Nicole,” Jason says, shaking her hand and I don’t miss his eyes peruse her from head to toe and back up again, his eyes resting on her chest. Nicole is a tall model thin blonde with long lean legs that go on for miles. She’s too thin, I think bitterly. We are complete opposites. I have long brown hair, curves and am on the petite side. Maroon 5’s
Love Somebody
starts to play.

“Oh, I love this song.” I start moving to the music.

“Come on, let’s dance,” Jason says, motioning for all of us to follow him. The dance floor is pretty crowded and we spill over the edge. Jason starts grinding on Nicole and their eyes are locked on each other. It’s quite the nauseating spectacle. It causes my stomach to lurch and I’m not sure why it’s affecting me like this. Some of his frat brothers move in on us. That tall, dark and handsome one who came by the house the other night to invite us to the exchange is smiling down at me and dancing very closely invading my space.

“Hi I’m John, what’s your name beautiful?” A real charmer this guy is, gorgeous face and cocky as all get out.

“Hi I’m Clarissa and this is Maci.” He barely acknowledges poor Maci, he just keeps staring at me and getting close enough to start grinding on me. I close my eyes getting lost in the music, not caring if he is getting up close and personal on me. These exchanges can be so much fun. I’m trying not to even look at Jason making his move on Nicole or should I say Nicole making her move on him. I continue to writhe and dance with John, turning my back towards them. I start to feel some guy grinding up to my backside as I gyrate and wave my arms up high in the air getting so lost in the rhythm of the music. How I love to dance, I could stay out on this dance floor all night and I practically do. I turn around and it’s Jason grinding on me and he places his hand suggestively on my body. One goes to the front of my thigh and the other pulls me into him at the waist. I think I just felt his rigid manhood press against my behind.

“Jason, stop it,” I say, scolding him. I try to dance away from him.

“Where’s your mystery man tonight?” I act like I don’t hear him as I move away from him and cozy up to John. Let Jason go for Nicole tonight. She has made it obvious she’s all his for the night or their lifetime I laugh out loud. These girls look at him with dollar signs in their eyes, it’s so apparent. He whips around and is grinding on Nicole again and then takes her hand and leads her off the dance floor. My gut clenches when I see them walk off together. Is he taking her to his room just like that? I think I’m going to be sick as they walk off disappearing amongst this party crowd. Dancing suddenly loses its luster and I want to go home and crawl in bed. Something about Jason hooking up with someone right in front of my eyes bothers me to no end. It does literally make me sick.

“I’m leaving,” I tell Maci and Bella.

“Why so early?” they ask.

“I don’t feel too good, it’s my stomach. You guys stay and have a good time,” I tell them.

“Hey Clarissa, where are you going?” John follows after me.

“Oh, I’m not feeling too great, I’m going to call it a night.”

“Let me walk you back to your place. Where do you live?”

“In an apartment around the corner, I’ll be fine. Thanks anyway.”

“No really, I can’t let you walk home alone.”

“If you don’t mind,” I say, looking up at him with a small smile. It’s sweet of him to walk me home. Normally Jason would, but I suppose he’s busy getting himself some tonight. John and I chat on the way back to my place.

“Goodnight Clarissa. Can I take you to dinner this weekend?” he asks. I pause before I answer.

“You know John, normally I would love to, but I’m kind of seeing someone right now.”

“Oh, okay. Well, goodnight.”

“Thanks for seeing me home, it was really sweet of you,” I smile at him.

“Happy to oblige, take care,” John replies.

I get into our apartment, take off my make up and put on my comfy pink PJ’s with hearts on them and climb into bed. It makes me upset to even think about Jason with Nicole. It’s really bugging me. It’s sick really, she’s a slut and he’s a man whore. The way these people just hook up randomly. All right, I admit I’m being a hypocrite. I was just as bad that first night I drove over to Grant’s condo. I need to forget about them and just get myself some shuteye.  Deena better not be bringing a guy home tonight.

Morning comes too soon. Deena’s bed hasn’t been slept in, which is no great surprise. I wander out to the kitchen for some breakfast and Kara and Lexi are enjoying some pancakes Kara whipped up. Jake from upstairs is sitting at the table eating pancakes with them. Hold on here, did he spend the night or just show up this morning?

“Hi guys,” I say groggily.

“Good morning, there’s some pancakes for you,” Kara offers.

“Oh great, thanks.”

After I eat breakfast, shower and get dressed I ride my bike to school. I pass by the Sigma Chi house like I do every day and low and behold who do I see doing the walk of shame this morning? None other than Nicole walking back to the Sorority house in what she was wearing last night. An emotion hits me in the gut and it’s a mixture of anger and jealousy. Those are the two words I would use to describe these mixed emotions. I don’t like how all this makes me feel. Why should I care? I have Grant and we have a great thing going, I’ve never been happier. So why does Jason sleeping with Nicole bother me so much? I don’t even want to go to English today and have to see him all smug because he got laid last night. Maybe I will skip class today and park my butt in the library instead, and that’s just what I do.

He texts me after class is over. He’s looking for me. I have my head buried in a book when I hear his voice.

“Hey,” Jason says.

“Hey yourself,” I say, looking up at him wearily.

“You hungover, why didn’t you make it to English today?” he pries.

“No, I didn’t drink that much last night,” I answer.

“What’s up with you then, you’re acting strangely? Is this because I hooked up with Nicole?” he asks.

“Look, what and who you do is your business. All I know is it bothered me and I don’t know why. Are you happy now, I admitted it? Let’s drop this now, end of conversation,” I admit and start packing up my things. He just stares at me and let’s out a long sigh of exasperation as he runs his hands through his hair and looks sexy as hell at this moment. Damn, bet he’s great in bed. Will I need to ask Nicole? Yeah right, when hell freezes over. I don’t even want to lay eyes on her, that slut. Bet she is entertaining the idea that she’s going to hook THE Jason Bancroft, she better think again. Sleeping with him after knowing him 30 minutes isn’t going to hold his attention for long I can guarantee you that. He’s done with her. She was just an itch for him to scratch. Something tells me she isn’t going to be that easy to cast aside. With her looks, she is probably used to getting what she wants, you know the typical entitled USC Sorority girl, mark my words. Jason and Nicole really are a match made in heaven, they just don’t know it yet.