feel, you’re my student. We can’t be involved.”
Autumn nods. “I know,” she whispers, her heartbreak shining through as another tear falls from her beautiful eyes. My thumb reaches out and instantly wipes it away.
“Please stop crying,” I urge. “Your tears are killing me.”
She watches me for a quiet, drawn-out moment before slowly looping her arms around my neck. I sink into her touch. The longer she’s there, the more I seem to like it, which only has me pulling at her waist, drawing her body tighter against mine.
Without warning, Autumn closes the gap and before I know it, her face is hovering right in front of mine, her lips just a mere breath away. It would take no effort at all to pull her that little bit closer and finally feel her lips on mine.
I know I shouldn’t. I should be telling her to put herself back together and get back to work, but I can’t. This moment has been growing between us, every day, every minute spent together, leading us toward this. To send her away now would be to commit a heinous crime.
Her eyes bore into mine, silently begging me to leap with her. I can’t resist her. Those eyes are like a beacon pulling me in.
My hand tightens around the back of her neck and in an instant, I pull her in, closing the space between us and crushing her lips to mine. Her body relaxes into mine as our lips finally begin to move.
A soft moan rumbles through her chest as my arm wraps tighter around her, keeping her as close as physically possible. It’s as though her body fits mine perfectly, effortlessly resting beside mine like two puzzle pieces that were always supposed to fit together.
Autumn’s arms tighten around my neck as our lips continue to move in a dance. I’ve never felt anything so perfect, so right. Just like that, I know that every other woman is ruined for me. I will never find anything as good as this.
Autumn has it all, and I’d be a fool to let her slip through my fingers. She pulls back, breathing heavily as she rests her forehead against mine. “I’m sorry,” she whispers. “I promise. I’ll be better from here on out.”
“No,” I say shaking my head. “It’s your third day and I should have given you a warning that you were going to be delivering those babies. That’s on me. I should have prepared you properly and made sure you were aware of what was going on before you walked into that room.”
“I’m not going to let you take the blame,” she says, running her fingers up through my hair. “I’ve had five years of nursing experience before this. I know better, but I allowed my excitement to run the show and assumed it was a normal delivery. That’s on me, but now I know better, and I swear, I will never make such a moronic mistake again. You have my word.”
I watch her for a minute, pulling her back in and gently brushing my lips over hers. “For what it’s worth, you delivered that baby perfectly. You’re a natural.”
Her eyes shimmer with joy, the pain and despair instantly fading from her eyes. “You mean that?”
“I do,” I tell her. “You really are going to be the best in the field, and with me at your side, you’ll be unstoppable.”
Autumn’s lips come crashing back to mine, and she kisses me deeply, her lips moving as though she doesn’t have a care in the world, and right now, it’s easy to say neither of us does. Her tongue explores my mouth and I let her, knowing damn well that I’ll give her anything that she wants.
When we finally pull away, she stares at me with wide, beaming eyes. “What does this mean?” she asks, panting as she untangles her fingers from my hair.
I shake my head, unable to keep the smile off my face. “I have no fucking idea,” I tell her. “But there’s no way in hell that it’s going to stop.”
Autumn grins back at me, and without another word, crushes her face back to mine.
CHAPTER 12
AUTUMN
Aalia’s high-pitched squeal rocks right through my chest as I watch her fly down the slide at the park across the road from her apartment. “Holy shit,” I gasp as I sit by her mom’s side. “I swear, she gets faster every time she goes down that thing.”
“Tell me about it,” KC says. “It scares the living shit out