Page 40 of Teaching Roman

Roman groaned at the words and for a moment I thought he had finished, but a second later, he had turned me around and spread me across his desk, shoving aside papers and sending books crashing to the ground. His momentum never faltered, but he slowed, pushing inside me with languid strokes. “You wouldn’t let me say that before.”

“I know,” I moaned. “I thought…”

“You think too much, mi bella.” He thrust into me harder as if to drive the point home.

Leaning over me, he trailed his lips up my neck and over my lips, gripping my hips as he circled against me. “I won’t ever let you go again.”

The promise washed over me, my limbs tightening and releasing in a wave of pleasure. Roman’s hands slid under my shoulders, bracketing me to him.

“This isn’t going to be easy,” I whispered.

He drew back and shook his head as if I was missing something obvious. “I don’t want easy. I want you.”

He didn’t warn me again.

But a half-hour later as I gathered my panties off his desk, my eyes fell on an essay next to them on the ground. I recognized the name—a girl in one of my science classes. Roman was an instructor. I was a student. There was a reason I’d been avoiding him since Puerto Vallarta. Being together was a risk, and we were making stupid decisions. What would the faculty say if they knew an instructor was screwing an undergrad, one of his former students, in his office? He’d be fired. Maybe even expelled from his graduate program. I could ruin him.

His eyes followed mine to the essay and his jaw twitched. He scooped the paper off the floor as I stood up and scrambled to get dressed.

“I’m s-s-sorry,” I stammered as I tugged my sweater back on. “This was a mistake. We shouldn’t be doing this.”

“Jess—” he began, hurt shining in his brown eyes, but I held up a hand to stop him.

“Don’t,” I pled. “Don’t make it harder.”

I backed up until my fingers unlocked the door. Roman didn’t say anything when I opened it. Instead he bent over his desk, muscles tensing across his chest and arms, and watched me walk away.

Again.