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Caleb

Tobie is sitting on the top of a picnic table, laughing.

Her eyes are sparkling.

There is something so electric about that woman, I struggle to believe I never knew she existed until last week.

She’s real and funny and sweet.

I’ve never been around someone who wore their heart on their sleeve so openly like that before. I want to protect it because leaving yourself wide open like that means someone can lay waste to your heart. Someone already did.

That ex of hers.

How could he have hurt her ?

I’ve been thinking a lot about the park.

She didn’t know a thing about hockey, claimed not to like it, and was visibly afraid of kids hurting her, but she still joined in and was open to laughing at herself to make them laugh.

Protecting someone like her should come easy. Hurting someone like her should be impossible.

I’m about to walk over to them when Tobie slides off the table and reaches for her bag. “I have to go.”

Reid circles her wrist and tugs slightly, drawing her in for a kiss that she instantly leans into.

From the way her body softens against his, I know they recently had sex.

I can always tell who Reid has slept with, and he definitely did with Tobie.

“Stay,” he tells her.

“Don’t you have to go to the gym this morning?” she reminds him.

He does.

It’s why I was looking for him. I knocked on his door this morning, and he didn’t answer. I texted him, and he said he was out having breakfast.

“Yep,” Reid says.

“And aren’t you going to get into trouble?”

“Probably,” he cheerfully admits.

She smiles. “And isn’t Caleb going to kill you?”

“There are worse reasons to die than because I spent time with you.” He draws her in for a kiss.

“Is there a reason you’re hiding behind a tree?”

I jump at Javier’s question coming from over my left shoulder.

His gaze slides from me to the picnic table, and his confusion clears. “Ah.” He stuffs his hands in his pockets and watches them for a beat. “She looks happy.”

She does. But that’s Reid all over.

He has this ability to make a woman feel like she’s the only person in his orbit, and they fall for him hard and fast. I’m used to seeing the effect he has on women. But I’m not used to seeing Reid like this.

“So does he,” I add. “What happened to you this morning?”

Reid wasn’t the only one who flaked out on me when we usually leave to go to the gym together.

He makes a face. “Daniela.”

“She was calling again ?”

“More like showing up at my door and expecting to spend the night.”

“Fuck.” I wince. “What happened?”

“I sent her on her way is what happened, and I did something I should have done years ago… I blocked her number. I hit the gym early this morning, but I’m still as pissed at her as I was last night.

Sorry, I should have told you, but I left my phone in my room.

Didn’t want it anywhere near me, to be honest.”

“Want to blow off class and fool around in the locker room?” Reid asks Tobie, distracting me from my conversation with Javier.

“No.”

“The library? It’s pretty quiet.”

She presses her palms flat to his chest. “I am not?—”

Reid bends his head and whispers in her ear.

“No,” she says, blushing. But her denial doesn’t hit like before. “We can’t do that…”

Reid whispers some more.

I nudge Javier, curious about what Reid is whispering that’s having such an effect on her. “What do you think he’s saying?”

“No clue, but I’d kill to know what it is,” he murmurs.

“So?” Reid lifts a brow.

“We can’t,” Tobie says. “It’s not hygienic.”

“But we could…” Reid goes back to whispering.

Tobie’s cheeks are red, her breathing heavy, and those gorgeous tits are swelling. And I have to know what Reid wants to do to her because our girl fucking loves it.

I shake my head.

Our girl?

This is fake.

She’s not really ours.

“Um.” Tobie swallows. “But no books would be damaged?”

“Not one book.” Reid crosses his fingers over his heart. “Scout’s honor.”

“Then I guess we could. But…”

Reid whispers again.

She clamps her thighs together, and I suddenly have no interest in hitting the gym. I have to know what this is all about.

“What do you think he’s planning to do to her in the library?” I adjust myself in my pants as I watch them leave.

“What the fuck are you still doing there?”

I peer over my shoulder.

Javier is trailing them to the library. “Let’s go .”

He doesn’t have to tell me twice.

They’re not in the main library.

In a short hallway off the main room, study rooms are available to book for a few hours if you need a quiet space to work on a group project and not disturb others.

As I’m passing one, I spot Tobie through the glass window in the door.

She’s sitting at a desk in the study room. Alone.

I frown. “Where’s Reid?”

Tobie grips the edge of the desk, and her mouth falls open in a soundless moan.

My eyes dip.

I can’t see Reid, but I would bet anything that he’s under the desk.

“So that’s what he wanted to do to her,” Javier mutters.

Now that I know what he’s doing to her, I should leave.

I don’t know what compels me to knock on the door and push it open.

Tobie straightens, her eyes wide, as I step into the room. “Hey, Tobie. Busy studying?”

She nods. “Uh, yeah.”

I swallow my smile because there’s no book on the desk. There’s not even a pen.

Javier’s phone vibrates, and he plucks it from his pocket, glances at it, and releases a tired sigh. “It’s my sister, and I bet I know exactly what this is about. See you later.”

Tobie looks relieved as Javier answers the call and walks out of the room.

I heard her orgasm behind her closed door, and now Reid is under that table doing things to her to make her cheeks rosy and her nipples pebbled.

I want to see her orgasm. Right now.

“Have you seen Reid?”

She shakes her head. “Uh, no. It’s just me here.”

I let the door swing closed behind Javier and lean against the wall, crossing my arms as I feign casualness. “You don’t mind me keeping you company for a bit, do you?”

Her fingers tighten around the table’s edge, and she releases a choked breath. “Um…”

I cock my head, frowning slightly. “You sure you haven’t seen Reid? I could have sworn I saw you together earlier.”

“No. It was just…”

Her voice trails off, and I wonder what he’s doing for her eyes to nearly roll to the back of her head.

“Tobie?”

She breathes out a slow sigh. “Um. It’s just me here. Don’t you have practice now?”

And miss watching you come? “Nope. Want help studying?”

“I’m good.”

“You sure?”

“Oh God!”

I bite back a smile. “Oh God?”

“Oh.” A soft whimper draws my gaze to her full lips. “I have to…”

“You have to what?” I ask, but I know.

She moves both hands under the table, maybe to grab onto Reid’s hair. Definitely not to stop him because she’s still looking right at me, lips parted. “I have to… I have to…”

“What?” I hold her gaze as my cock swells and hardens in response to the need in her eyes.

“ Caleb …” The catch in her voice undoes me.

I’m out of the room and slamming into the one opposite.

It’s empty. Thank fuck.

I’m fumbling with my pants before the door has closed, yanking the zipper down and fisting the base of my cock as I fight back the need to come.

Neither of the doors closed properly—not mine or Tobie’s.

I hear Reid say, “That was fun.”

“Reid, you have to…”

My eyes are glued to the glass in my door that looks directly into their study room.

My mouth is dry as I watch Reid pin Tobie to the wall and kiss her throat. “Fuck, you’re wet.”

“Now,” she pleads. “Please, now.”

He fumbles with something out of view, through the gap in the door, I hear the metallic sound of a zipper.

I grip myself tighter in response to that sound, knowing what’s coming.

He lifts her. “Wrap your legs around me, baby. Let me give you what you need.”

She coils herself around him, and he rolls his hips.

I tighten my fist on my cock as I imagine I’m slowly pushing myself into her.

Tobie’s head falls back, and she moans, her fingers digging into Reid’s shoulders.

I tell myself to walk away. This isn’t for me.

But I’ve stepped into tar. My feet are sinking deeper into it with each passing second, and all I can do is watch Tobie’s face as Reid’s thrusts push her up the wall.

He’s groaning as he pumps into her. I’m fisting my cock as I watch. In my mind, it’s her tight pussy I’m sliding into and not my fist I’m fucking. She’s moaning, and the wet sound of sex faintly bleeds through the door.

He said she was wet.

How wet? Why the fuck do I need to know that more than I need to breathe?

I press my forehead to the cool glass, teeth gritted. I pump myself as Tobie bounces up and down Reid’s cock. In my mind, it’s not Reid. It’s me. I’m inside her, and each of my thrusts is sending her closer to the edge.

She must have been close before.

Then she’s falling. So am I. I swallow my groan as I pump harder. Then faster, drawing the pleasure out for as long as I can. A choked moan drips from her lips, her face tight with pleasure as her eyes slide my way.

I yank my head back before she can see me and struggle to adjust myself in my pants. My hands shake, and my legs aren’t steady. My knees certainly aren’t. But I slip out of the study room, let the door slam closed behind me, and walk out of the library.

What the fuck were you thinking, Caleb?

I’m not even at the bottom of the library stairs before I’m hard again, the memory of Tobie’s moans and the hitch in her voice as she fell filling my head.

Once again, I have a tent in my pants as I cross the quad, and once again, it’s because of Tobie.

If there was ever a time I needed to refocus my mind, it’s now.

I head for the gym.

If I do weights, they’re going to be light. After what I just saw, I don’t trust myself with anything heavy.