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lips were
against the back of her neck and she felt him push his hips closer.
    Now his cock was against her, and she
felt him stirring, but he seemed content just to be close to her for now.
    This
feels way too good.
    It
feels like we’re a couple, like we’re actually together.   But we aren’t.   I’m just some average girl he hooked up
with tonight.
    Her heart ached, because she’d never felt
so sexy, so hot and excited for a man before in her life, but she already knew
it was doomed to be a one-night stand.  
    Liam had somehow opened her up in a way
that nobody had ever been able to do.
    But Grace was anxious, because she didn’t
know if she liked being this vulnerable, especially not this vulnerable to
someone like Liam Houston.   This would
be just another fling in a series of meaningless hookups for him, and for her
it was very different.
    Maybe
it doesn’t have to be so weird.   Maybe you can do a fling just as easily as he can.
    She sunk into him, really let herself be held, and snuggling against his warm skin, his
strong body, and she allowed herself to imagine what more of this could be
like.   Just to pretend, for a little
while, that this could be real.
    She’d waited so many years of her life
before she’d realized that she could even feel something like this.   Tonight, Liam Houston had opened a
secret door that Grace hadn’t even known existed.   When would she be able to experience it
again?
    The next time might be twenty years from
now.
    Just
try and enjoy something for once, Grace.   Right now, it’s still happening.   You might as well make the most of it.
    Soon, Liam was asleep and she heard his
rhythmic breathing as the pressure from his arms slackened a bit.   He was blissfully unaware of her plight,
of her confusion and the thoughts rapidly cycling through her mind.
    But not long after, Grace began to drift
off as well.   She was tired from a
long day of work, not to mention a hot night of passion.
    Her eyes closed.
    And as she finally drifted off, her lips
made a faint, faint smile.
     
    ***
     
    Grace awoke first, her eyes snapping open
and seeing the alarm clock beside the bed.   It read 7:45 a.m.   Liam had
turned over sometime during the night and now his back was to her.  
    She sat up on her elbow and looked at
him.  
    His back was expanding and contracting as
he breathed evenly, peaceful, the way only someone with his looks and money
could sleep at this time of day.  
    She was trained to wake up early from
years of getting up for work, school, activities that couldn’t be foisted onto
some nanny, or some hired help.   And
so even though she was tired and groggy and hung over, Grace was awake.
    Meanwhile, the young prince slept soundly
in his king-sized bed, in his personal suite within the castle walls.
    Grace felt every bit the servant girl
who’d been invited up for a bit of naughtiness, and now she had to scurry back
to her position in the bowels of the castle.   Except, of course, for the fact that she
didn’t even work in the castle.
    She had no job, no position.   She was unemployed.
    That ten thousand dollars he promised me would’ve come in handy right about now.
    But
you never slept with him.   So you
didn’t earn your side of the ten thousand, even if he’d been serious about
paying you.
    It wasn’t from lack of trying or
willingness to do it, though.
    As Grace got up and got dressed, she
wondered about that.   Why had Liam
been so reluctant to have sex with her?   She’d begged him to do it.   She’d wanted him so badly that there had been no consideration of any
consequences around doing it.
    He’d clearly been aroused.   They’d done oral, they’d almost done everything.   But
somehow, Liam had been the one to stop them short of going all the way.
    And it wasn’t as though she was the type
to run out and have one-night stands.   Grace had only slept with three people, and two of them had been
long-term boyfriends.   Only one guy
had