“Nix?” Grabbing his hand, she smiled when he laced their fingers together over where her thigh was submerged.
“Even before we met, I knew that my life was ready for a change.” Nix tickled her palm, as if trying to lighten his words. “I was getting bored with the same game every Friday night.”
“Why?”
He shrugged his big shoulders, the muscles playing under the skin at his nonchalant movement. “I guess maybe because I’ve watched Will and Leo fall for their women and be happier because of it.”
“So, you were jealous?” Louise squinted at him trying to understand what he was saying.
“No…I wouldn’t say it was jealousy. More like, I could see what they had was real. It was all new to me honestly. I didn’t grow up seeing those types of relationships.”
“Your parents didn’t have that?”
“I don’t remember my dad. He was a long-distance trucker, and my folks split up when I was four. Hell, it’s not like they were married or anything. I guess he had another family somewhere on the coast, and half of his time he was with them. When my mom found out about it…well, let’s just say that was the end of that. He left and went back to his other family, and we never saw him again. I don’t know if he’s still alive or not. Hell, I never even learned how many other kids he had. It didn’t matter to us though; we had each other and that was all we needed.”
Louise could tell that Nix wasn’t as unaffected as he tried to act. “I’m sorry,” Louise said reassuringly.
“Don’t be. My mom did the best she could with what she had, which honestly wasn’t much. I started working around the neighborhood when I was old enough to take some of the pressure off my mom. Lawns, oil changes, random repairs that people didn’t want to hire or pay professionals for. She wanted me to focus on school, but I couldn’t watch her work two jobs and not do anything about it. When I was old enough to get a real job, I almost dropped out.”
“What happened?”
“My mom threatened to kick my ass.” Nix chuckled. “She said that I would never get ahead if I didn’t graduate, which she knew about firsthand since she dropped out when she got pregnant with me. She worked until her fingers bled. Literally. Her night job was housekeeping, and the company was so cheap they didn’t supply gloves for her when she needed to handle all of those chemicals. She never complained though, and she was just grateful we had a roof over our heads and food on the table.”
“She sounds like an amazing woman,” Louise said with a smile.
“She was,” Nix answered softly, his voice dimmed at his agreement. “She died a few weeks after I turned eighteen. She always had some sort of cough. It didn’t matter what time of year it was. The only thing that ever changed was sometimes it was just annoying, but other times it took her breath away. Of course, she never went to the doctor for it. It didn’t matter that she took me to the doctor for anything and everything. She never would go herself. When she coughed in the summer, she blamed allergies. When she coughed in the winter, it was because of a simple cold. There was no way I could get her to go to the doctor despite how bad it got.”
“Why wouldn’t she go? Did she have some sort of phobia about it?” Louise knew a few people who would literally avoid seeing a doctor at almost all costs because of white-coat syndrome.
“I wish it had simply been that.” Nix shook his head. “If it had been fear, then I could have somehow convinced her. She never went because, without letting me know, she lost her insurance when one of the jobs she worked cut her hours. She didn’t qualify for full-time benefits because she wasn’t scheduled full-time, and they wouldn’t put her on the schedule because they didn’t want to pay their portion. It didn’t matter that she consistently worked enough overtime to qualify. Even then, she talked herself out of looking for a new job because she didn’t have the time or a diploma. She paid for a single policy for me, and that was it.”
“So, what happened?”
“One night she was making dinner, and we were joking around. She started laughing, then wheezing, and crumpled right there in front of the stove. It scared the shit out of me. She wouldn’t let me call an ambulance, so I ended up driving her to the hospital.” Nix swallowed hard. His eyes became glassy. “She never came home after that night.”
“I’m so sorry.” Louise couldn’t imagine losing her parents now, much less being a kid of only eighteen and going through that trauma.
“Hey, I didn’t tell you this to get you upset.” Nix squeezed her fingers. “I just wanted to try to make you understand why I need to be in charge, why I need to take care of those in my life.”
“That explains a lot,” Louise acknowledged, running through the list of everything he had taken care of for her this past week.
“I’m not crazy,” Nix said quickly. “I just prefer to be in control.”
“No joke,” Louise teased. “Remember when we argued over who raked the other day?”
“I didn’t want you to get blisters, and my gloves didn’t fit your tiny hands,” Nix shot back. “Regardless, I wanted you to know that what we have here isn’t my normal shtick.”
“You have a shtick?” Louise questioned with a smile.
“Not anymore.” Nix raised her wet fist to his lips to ghost a kiss over her knuckles. “It’s different with you. Not bad different, just different. You confuse me. I’m not used to feeling anything but the urge to take care of my needs when I’m with a woman. I know it sounds shitty, but that’s all it’s ever been. You mix it all up though.”
“I’m sorry,” Louise said, not sure what else to say.
“Don’t be sorry, I like it. It’s different, but it’s definitely not bad.” Nix reached forward to pull her into a kiss, hovering over her in the bathtub. “You’re turning into a prune. How about I help you out of there, and we go back to your comfortable bed?”
“That sounds like a plan,” Louise answered pointing to her towel sitting on the counter. “Hand me that will you?”
“Of course.” After wrapping her in a towel, Nix nodded to where she had stashed her vibrator. “Don’t forget that.”
Watching his tight ass walk out of the room in nothing but boxer briefs, knowing what was to come made her gulp. “Oh dear,” she said softly.
Chapter 15
Her bedroom was lit sufficiently from the light coming from the bathroom. Standing in the doorway, Louise watched Nix as he straightened the pillows on the bed before turning toward her.
The intensity of his gaze tracing the skin uncovered by her towel made her extremely aware of the small amount of moisture still lingering on her body. Shivering from the cooler air of the bedroom, her knuckles tightened on the towel where it was tucked by her breasts.
“You with me, sweetheart?” Nix asked, not moving from his position next to the bed.
Louise thought for a moment. Was she ready for this? Hell yes. Was she nervous? Of course.
“Yeah,” she answered softly, her voice shaking slightly.
“Remember, we go at your pace,” Nix reminded her gently, his assurance laced with complete honestly.
“I thought you liked to be in charge?” Louise moved closer to him, not stopping until she was standing directly in front of him. She dropped her vibe on the bed like it was some sort of hot potato.
“I do.” Nix smiled at her action and reached for the towel where it was secured. With a flick of his wrist the cotton fell away from her body leaving her completely bared to him. “That doesn’t mean that I’m not going to listen to what you need too.”
Nix leaned down as if to kiss her, but his head dipped lower for him to trace her collar bone with his lips. “I’m going to watch how you react, I’m going to listen to the noises you make, and I’m going to love every fucking second of it.”
“Well…okay then,” Louise said huskily, her voice sounding not her own with such heavy arousal dripping from her words.
“Let’s get you dried off.” Nix dropped to his knees, startling Louise
with the abrupt motion. Picking up the towel, he moved it up and down her legs, catching the water she had neglected to wipe away earlier. His touch was firm as it explored her limbs, making sure to dry every bit of her except for the areas that really wanted his attention. The insides of her thighs were stroked, but her pussy was ignored. The undersides of her breasts were lifted, yet he bypassed her hard nipples.
Tossing the towel toward the basket in the corner, Nix nudged her toward the bed. “Lie down, sweetheart.”
Louise turned and climbed onto the bed. Her legs were far too short for her to do any sort of sexy shimmy to get onto the high mattress. Figuring she was supposed to lie in the middle, she stopped moving when she heard Nix groan from behind her.
“That is a beautiful sight,” Nix said admiringly just before she felt his fingertips tease the roundness of her ass. Giving him a little wiggle, she jumped and squealed when the action caused him to smack the offered flesh. “Fucking gorgeous,” he murmured squeezing the plump cheek.
“You think?” Louise asked, knowing that she was different than the women he normally was with.
“Lou.” Nix waited until she was settled on her back in the center of the mattress before continuing. “There are only the two of us in this bed, understand? There’s nowhere else I would rather be. No one else I would rather be with. Nod if you understand me.”
Louise nodded, feeling the truth of his words, and relaxed back into the pillows.
Nix grinned, causing a dimple to pop up on his left cheek.
“I’ve never noticed that before.” Louise admired, poking her finger at the previously hidden dimple.
Taking her hand from his face, Nix winked before placing her forgotten vibrator back into her grip.
“Don’t look shy now,” he teased, obviously seeing the red she felt creeping up in her face. “Show me how you make yourself feel good. I want to watch you.”
Louise felt her face burning but wasn’t about to back down from the challenge he was laying down. Pretending as if this was something that she did all the time, she opened her legs and twisted the end of her toy. Feeling it buzz on the lowest setting, she traced the cylinder up and down the lips that protected the entrance to her body.
“Are you going to tease me, baby?” Nix asked, his voice deep.
Watching him as he licked his lips, she decided to do some teasing of her own. “Isn’t that the point?”
“A little. I also want to see what you like,” he admitted. His eyes were glued to where her hand was busy between her legs. “Show me what makes you wet.”
Raising her legs until her knees were up, and her feet flat on the sheets, Louise opened up farther. Feeling an incredible power over her own body, and the man watching her, Louise inserted the vibrating tip just barely into her body. “Can you turn it up for me?”
At her words, Nix’s eyes shot to her face. With a nod, he reached forward and turned the dial not once but two clicks. “How’s that, darlin’?”
“Perfect.” Louise hissed at the sensation. Her knees fell open even more. Nix placed his large palm over one of them to keep her in place and wide open for him. Tracing the small amount of hair protecting her entrance, he growled softly when his fingers came away covered in her wet heat.
“Keep going, baby,” he whispered and leaned over, sucking one hard nipple into his mouth. The action made her hiss and arch off the bed like a cat in heat.
Digging her heels into the bed beneath her, Louise realized she was done teasing both herself and him. With one familiar movement, she pushed the entire eight inches of rubber into her tight channel. The wetness from their foreplay helped it slide effortlessly.
With her free hand, Louise gripped his head where it was still suckling at her nipple. Holding tight, she used her thumb to twirl the base of her vibrator ramping up the power.
The combination of Nix’s expert lips moving from one breast to the other with the fullness vibrating, now in her pelvis, caused her to almost instantly ignite. Lost in the sensations, she was only partially aware of his movements. It wasn’t until Nix slipped one hand down and masterfully thumbed her slick clit did she explode.
Unable to keep the keening cries from bubbling out of her mouth, her entire body shook with pleasure. It wasn’t until Nix carefully covered her mouth with his hand that she remembered why she needed to be quiet. The last thing they needed right now was her nephew running into the room to see what was going on, or worse, calling 911 again.
Panting softly, she pulled out the toy and let it slip to the bed still buzzing against her leg. Even though her eyes were shut, she knew that Nix was watching…waiting for her to acknowledge what had just happened.
Blinking slowly, the first thing she saw was his face as he studied her.
“How did that feel?” Nix rumbled. His thumb continued stroking up and down her sensitive clit although his touch was much lighter than before, almost soothing.
“Nice,” she answered, feeling more relaxed than ever before. “Now, it’s your turn.”
“Now it’s our turn,” Nix corrected with a wink. “Turn over.”
His words caught her off guard. “Turn over?” she asked timidly.
“That’s what I said.” Smacking her hip, he helped her roll over on her belly. Before she could settle on the bed, Nix took hold of her hips and raised her. “On your knees.”
The bed dipped as he moved behind her, kneeling in the space left by her spread legs.
Nix traced one hand down the center of her back before settling on one plump cheek of her rump. “Hang on,” he commanded before gracing her with a sharp swat. The sound of a packet opening startled her for a moment before she was grateful at least one of them was thinking about birth control.
He lined up his now sheathed cock at her opening and reached down to cup one breast as he thrust forward heavily. As her body was speared, she jolted forward only to be held in place by his rough grip on her breast and hip. The dominating hold kept her anchored to take his thrusts and left her at his mercy.
“Fuuuck.” Louise groaned, feeling his penetration deep within her.
This was way better than any toy she could ever use. The sensation of the thick head of his dick spreading her open overshadowed all other experiences before it, not that there were that many to begin with. The wide crown paved the way for the rest of his cock as it slid solidly into her pussy causing a slight, yet not unpleasant, burn at the intrusion. Nix didn’t give her any time to become accustomed to his size either. His hips moved like a well-oiled piston against her own. There was no lag in his thrusts as he pummeled her steadily, his balls tapping against her clit to the beat of his rocking.
Louise did the only thing she was able to do in this position.
She took it.
She took him.
And she loved every fucking second of it.
Muscles that had been previously relaxed from her earlier orgasm were now coiling in anticipation of another release. With Nix’s finger pinching and pulling one nipple, Louise reached underneath her to tweak the other. Facedown on the bed, she was grateful that the sheets muffled the sounds that she was unable to stop from bubbling out of her throat. Behind her, Nix’s harsh groans were low and deep. The sound of his heavy breathing formed a cadence with the slapping of his hips against her rounded ass.
The pleasure was overwhelming. Louise knew exactly what she needed to go over the precipice that shimmered in the distance. Propping herself up, she reached between her legs to rub her clit and every so often gracing the balls swinging heavily against her with Nix’s thrusts.
“I don’t think so, sweetheart.” Making a tsk sound, Nix removed her hand from between her legs. Letting go of his handholds for only a moment, he shackled both her wrists within one large hand at the base of her back. The motion sufficiently cuffed her hands, so she was unable to touch herself, and caused her body to lie farther down on the bed since she could no longer support her upper body.
The new angle caused h
im to seat himself even farther within her body, both groaning at the new depths he was able to reach.
Louise turned her head to the side, breathing heavily, yet unable to raise her head from the mattress. Staring across the room, she caught sight of the standing mirror that she had hung next to her closet door, and the reflection caught her off guard.
Her pale body was masterfully held and in the control of the godlike figure pumping into her from behind. The image was not only hot as hell, but also incredibly beautiful. The muscles on Nix’s body were shining with a fine sheen of sweat as he moved back and forth. His hips and buttocks displayed his strength with every thrust, the curved muscle clenching and releasing hypnotically. Strong arms and shoulders held her captive while his abs tightened in a rhythm over and over again.
Watching as their bodies danced to a beat that he controlled, Louise was surprised at the sudden rippling that started low in her stomach.
“Please,” she begged, knowing she needed just a little something to help her over the edge. Just a little pressure on her clit and she’d detonate.
“I got you.” Nix moved his free hand to the fleshy cheek of her ass. Giving it a hearty smack, he grinned at her gasp. His expression was almost feral with lust. With a twist of his hips, he adjusted his movements to include a swirl and dip at the end of each thrust while reaching underneath to pinch her clit.
The sharp sensation was just what her body had been waiting for.
The next few seconds seemed to last for hours. Shaking and moaning, Louise gave in to the pleasure overtaking her entire body. Shivering at the intensity, she felt out of control with euphoria while Nix slowed his movements. Her pussy clutched at him greedily as he emptied himself into her body.
“Fuck, Lou.”
Blowing a strand of hair off her sweaty face, she mumbled, “Uh huh.”
Pulling out of her body, Nix held the spent rubber securely on his cock while he smoothed one hand up and down her damp back. “You alright?”
Louise licked her lips to replace the moisture that had disappeared from all her panting. “Maybe.”
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