I Locked My Professor's Office Door, and Left Belonging to Three Men novel · Chapter 5 of 24

Chapter 5: Nothing Written

Hannah's POV

Nathan undid the last button of my blouse on Saturday afternoon in his study, with the rain tapping the window behind him.

He did it slowly, and he did not take his eyes off my face.

His house on Olivia Avenue smelled of paper and cold tea.

Every wall in the study was books, floor to ceiling, and a leather reading chair stood in the middle of the Persian rug.

I had walked there with my heart going so hard I could feel it in my teeth.

"You broke Thursdays," I said.

"Your term. Your break."

"Marcello decided to tell Claudia. I didn't decide that."

"I know," he said.

"He said it was his to tell."

"It was." Nathan eased the blouse off my shoulders. "And it was yours to be angry about."

He smiled a little.

"You can be angry and take your bra off at the same time, Hannah. I've read that it can be done."

I laughed, and the laugh turned into a breath when he reached behind me and unhooked it.

He drew it down my arms and set it on the arm of the chair.

His gaze moved over me, unhurried, and stayed.

"Don't talk about Claudia," I said.

"I won't."

"I can't stand it," I said.

"Then I won't say her name in this room."

He put the backs of his fingers against my cheek.

They were cool and dry and very sure.

"Tell me if I go too slowly," Nathan said.

"You will."

"Probably."

He kissed me.

It was the slowest kiss of my life.

His mouth moved against mine without any hurry at all.

His hand slid into my hair and cradled my head.

When he drew back, I was shaking.

"You tap your left thumbnail against your pencil when you're lying," he said, very low.

I stared at him.

"You do it when you tell people the chapter is going fine."

"Nathan," I said.

"You eat the crusts of a sandwich first and the middle last."

His eyes did not leave mine.

"You press your lips together when a sentence is good and you're pretending not to know it."

His thumb traced my lower lip.

"You take your glasses off before you say something brave."

"I don't wear glasses," I said.

"You take them off anyway. Your hand goes up to where they would be."

I had not known I did that.

My eyes stung.

"Three years," Nathan said. "I've watched you for three years. I have never written down one word of it."

He kissed my throat.

"Not one. Do you know why?"

"Why?" I asked.

"Because if I started I would never stop."

He walked me backward until the backs of my knees met the edge of the chair.

Then he turned me and laid me down on the rug in front of it, on my back, with a cushion under my head.

Rain ran down the glass.

He knelt over me and took his sweater off, and his chest was lean and dark-haired, with a thin scar under the ribs.

I put my hand on the scar.

"Appendix," he said. "Nineteen years old. Dull story."

"I like it."

"You will like this better."

He lowered his mouth to my breast.

He was patient there.

He kissed around it first, and then the underside, and then the edge.

I arched and begged.

Only then did he close his lips around my nipple and suck with the flat of his tongue.

I cried out and my fingers went into his hair.

"That's right," Nathan murmured against my skin. "That's exactly right. Say what you want."

"More."

"Of what?" he asked.

"Your mouth. Your hands. Everything."

"Good. Specific. I love it when you're specific."

He moved to the other breast.

His hand slid down over my stomach and unfastened my skirt, and eased it away, and I lifted my hips to help him.

My underwear went with it.

I lay naked on his rug in the gray light, and he sat back on his heels and looked.

"There you are," he said quietly.

He parted my knees.

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