Haunted by Him- Temptation

by lanie love

  “I had to see you. I miss you, Baby.”

  “Aaron, don’t.”

  “You just left without saying anything and you won’t talk to me when I call. What else was I supposed to do?”

  “Well, what more is there to say? My mom is pregnant with your dad’s baby. Our families are falling apart and we are caught in the middle. Your sister hates me. Your mom hates me. I hate your dad and you hate my mom. God, this is enough to drive everybody crazy and it’s only going to get worse when the baby comes.”

  “I know. This shit is messed up all the way around, okay? I get it. I won’t even try to lie about that. But you know what else I know? I know that I love you. Shit,” he says, taking off his cap, tossing it on the couch. “Saying that I love you doesn't even feel right anymore.” A sharp breath enters my lungs as his words stab me right in the heart.

  “You don’t love me anymore?”

  He’s holding my face up to his before the first tear can fall down my cheek.

  “Baby, I love the hell out of you. Jesus Christ, that’s not what I meant. What I feel for you, love just doesn't cut it. I’m nothing without you. I don’t give a damn about anything else. Nothing else matters more to me than you.”

  “But we don't live in a bubble, Aaron,” I say, moving away from him. I can’t even think straight when he’s close to me. “I had to leave because I’m so angry at my mom, I say things to purposely hurt her and the next time I see your dad, I can’t say I won’t punch him in the face. Your mom must be feeling the same way about me. How is any of this going to work? How can we work?”

  “We just will. Because I can’t live with us not working. Whatever happens, we won’t let it touch us.”

  “You say that now, but later,” I sigh, combing my fingers through my tangled mess of hair. “I see the writing on the wall and it’s nothing but ‘Beware’ painted in bright red.”

  He walks towards me, determined to make me listen. I tense in anticipation of his closeness.

  “Do you remember the promise I made to you,” he asks, pulling the cord with the rings he gave me from under my pajama top. “The day you moved back home and let me have it for pushing you away?”

  “You mean when I let you have it for acting like a complete ass when I was away at school?”

  “That would be the time.”

  “Then, yes. I remember. How could I forget?”

  “I need to know that no matter what happens, we'll deal with it together,” I told him. “I need to know that you'll be here for me and I need to know that you will let me be here for you. Can you stop trying to protect me from you? Can you stop thinking I picked you as some consolation prize? Can you realize how very much I love you?”

  “I… yes… I can do that,” he told me. “I can do all of that.”

  “I promised you that no matter what happens, we’d deal with it together. I mean to keep my word,” he says, letting the rings fall back in place. “Just give me a chance to prove it to you, Baby. We can maneuver ourselves around this.”

  “And if we can’t?”

  “Then, we’ll go straight through it. But we’ll go through it together.” His eyes are pleading and I nod my head, giving in to him. Not that I put up much of a fight to begin with.

  “I miss you so much,” I say.

  “I miss you, too.” His eyes roam over me.

  “I look a mess.” I try to move away to save myself some embarrassment.

  “You look beautiful,” he says, holding on to me. His breath is warm on my face as he dips down to kiss me.

  “I should brush my teeth.”

  “No point. You’re just going to dirty up this mouth of yours.”

  “What?” I screech, yanking my head back to look at him.

  “Oooh, Baby. Ass kissing works both ways.”

  I laugh when he lifts me up. I point him to the guest room. The minute my feet hit the ground again, clothes start flying off of us and onto the floor at our feet. I trample over them, pulling Aaron over to the bed and on top of me. His lips are on mine, his tongue is sensually searching the recesses of my mouth and I suck on its smooth pink flesh. A moan of protest escapes me when he tears his mouth away from mine only to be lost in the feel of him capturing my nipple. He is slow and meticulous. I’m not sure if it’s meant to pleasure or torture, but I’m feeling both.

  “Aaron.” His name comes out in a whimpered plea. My legs wrap around him. Every part of me is seeking him. I inhale, completely satisfied when he enters me, thick and hard. He fills me completely.

  “Damn, Baby. You feel so good.” His hands are on my knees, opening my legs wider as he has his way with me. Our moans mix with the sound of him plunging into my creamy wetness from me being on the edge of an orgasm. His moans turn to grunts with each stroke. My hands are on his ass pushing him in deeper.

  “I’m so close.”

  “Baby.” His lips only form the word before they capture mine. “Shit.”

  “Aaron.” My body starts to tremble as I tumble over the edge and fall into the abyss. I tumble aimlessly, each realm gives me unspeakable pleasure.

  “Allie.” His lips are on my shoulder, teeth grinding into the black cord around my neck. He sputters and grunts as he comes hard and deep inside me until neither of us no longer can feel anything but each other.

  “I really missed that,” I say, tangled up in his arms.

  “No more than me.” I lift my face up to him and he kisses my lips “Hey,” he says frowning down at me. My eyes widen in question. “You're supposed to be dirtying this sexy little mouth of yours.”

  “You’re really going to make me kiss your ass?”

  “I was thinking of something closer to the frontal groin area.”

  “Oh, really?”

  “Mm-hmm,” he grins. “You owe him big time, Baby.”

  “I always pay my debts,” I say, pulling the covers away from us. He’s already at full attention and precum is seeping from him. “Damn, already?”

  “I’m not the only one who missed you.” He shrugs.

  “Mmmm,” I say settling myself between his legs. My eyes lock with his as I stick my tongue out to lick the white droplets from his tip.

  “Shit,” he says, twitching so fast, he bounces.

  “Mmmm,” we both moan when I start to suck him, as he pumps his hips up to fuck my mouth. I swallow as more and more of him dribbles to the back of my throat. He tastes just like I remember him. It’s a heady mixture with just a hint of musky salt and all of what makes him Aaron.

  “Yeah, Baby. Just like that,” he says, gathering my hair and fisting it so he can watch me. “Shit. Shit. Shit, that feels so good.”

  I take him out and stroke the length of him while I suckle his balls. They’re cool and smooth in my mouth. I love how he grows in my hand while his precum gets me sticky.

  “Mmmm,” I say, again.

  “Aw, yes,” he groans as I run the tip of my tongue up his shaft, then plunge him in my mouth again. He throws his head back, then looks down at me again. “Baby, I’m going to cum… shit.” He’s barely able to get the words out before he erupts in my mouth. I suck and swallow until he’s still and his cock falls limp on his leg. He gives me a breathy laugh as I kiss my way back up to him.

  “Was that enough ass kissing for you?”

  “Are you kidding? You have no idea how much I needed that. Damn.” He takes me in his arms again.

  “You nearly drowned me just now so I believe you needed it.” I smile at the vibration of his chuckle through his chest.

  “It’s only been a goddamn week and I’ve turned to shit without you.”

  “You look damn good to me.”

  “Baby, I sucked on a sugar packet for breakfast this morning.”

  “What?” I raise up, pissed at him.

  “Like you're out here, living vegan, Miss Pizza and Soda.”

  “Hey, Pizza has cheese and… and meat, plus soda is very good in sodium.”

  “Damn. I missed you,” he
laughs.

  “I missed you too.”

  We quiet down when we hear the front door open. I’m waiting for Sage’s heels to click so I can gauge where she’s heading until I remember she’s in sneakers. I grab for the blankets and cover us just in time before she barges into my room.

  “Why are all the lights still off,” she starts before seeing Aaron in bed with me. “As he lives and breathes,” she laughs at him. “Damn, you move fast. I was giving you at least another day.”

  “Hey, Sage,” Aaron says, amused at her obvious delight in seeing him here with me.

  “What’s going on,” she asks.

  I look at the two of them and wonder how they can just have a conversation like we’ve all run into each other at the Bodega down the block. How can they both just ignore the fact that he and I are naked in bed after just minutes ago having sex?

  “Oh my God.” I cover my head with the sheet and throw myself backwards on the bed.

  “I forget she’s a sex newbie,” Sage teases. “See you guys later. And open a window. It’s funky as hell in here.”

  “Oh my GOD,” I groan again.

  *****

  Aaron Wade

  The sun is creeping in and I’m doing everything I can to not wake up from my dream and face another morning alone without Allie in this huge apartment. I didn’t realize how big it was until she left and took my love for mornings with her. There was nothing like waking up knowing that if she, wasn’t in my arms, she was somewhere in the apartment. Now, she’s in New York. She may as well be on the other side of the world the way I miss her. Still trying to avoid waking up, I reach for my phone in hopes that maybe she called last night. My reach is blocked by something soft and warm. I grin, inhaling the scent of her. Remembering where I am and who I’m with. Life is good again.

  “Baby,” I say, turning over on my side to spoon behind her. I thought I’d dreamed her.

  “Huh?” She grunts. I’ve caught her in mid-snore. Her hair is a mass of tangles on her head and I can’t see for sure, but I know she’s drooling out her pillow.

  I throw my arm over her waist, tucking it under hers to snuggle closer to the warmth of her naked body under the sheets.

  “Perfect fit,” I say to her filling in the space between us with her ass.

  “Let’s see how you feel when all that pizza kicks in and this sucker gets wider than the back of your pickup truck.”

  “Just more ass for me to kiss,” I say, rubbing it with my rapidly growing erection. “Among other things.”

  “I thought you were a boobs man?”

  “I’m an Allie Cat man,” I say. She turns her head to look back at me. “And before you ask, no, I haven’t been with anyone else. It’s only been a goddamn week, Allie. Do those three years mean nothing to you because they were torture for me? I wasn't going to risk you again.”

  “But this time is different. This time I broke up with you. It was final.”

  “So, you think that left the door open for me to go around fuck-festing?” I shake my head, kissing her shoulder. I’d forgotten just how brand new she is to all of this. “There was no way in hell I wasn't going to come after you.”

  “I know. I’m just being stupid. I just didn't know what else to do, so I left. I still don’t.”

  “I’ll tell you what we are going to do. We are going back to LA. We are going to get all your shit from your mom’s place and you are going to move in with me.”

  “Aaron—”

  “We’ve done it your way. For a whole damn week, we did it your way. It’s my turn to take a crack at it.”

  “What are you doing,” she asks when I reach for my phone and start scrolling.

  “Getting us on the next flight back to LA. We have a ribbon cutting ceremony to go to.”

  “I saw. I’m so excited for you.”

  “For us,” I say, booking the flight and tossing my phone to the foot of the bed before kissing her.

  Like a heat-seeking missile, my dick finds its target, sliding into her. She’s already wet. The way her perked nipples brushed my arm when I reached over her told me she would be. Her warm creamy walls tighten around my dick and the whimpering escaping her throat are driving me crazy. I know I won’t last much longer. I raise her leg, draping it over me to play with her clit as I fuck her from behind.

  “Oh, God. Oh God. Oh… Oh, God.” She comes.

  “Shit, Baby,” I come a second behind her, spilling what little cum I have left from the last three times I fucked her last night, into her. I collapse on my back, still holding her while she shakes and shivers next to me.

  “Hey?” Sage knocks loud on the door, making Allie grab for the covers. I sit up on my elbows, watching her tuck the covers securely around my waist. She’s more interested in covering me than herself, but she has nothing to worry about. Sage doesn't open the door. “Are you guys going to come and eat on something other than each other, or what?”

  “Be out in a minute,” Allie says to her before turning to me. “Stop grinning at me like that.”

  “I just love when you get all territorial.”

  “Oh, shut up,” she says, throwing off the covers she just spent time tucking around me to get up.

  “Mmmm, this feels so good,” she says of me massaging the shampoo in her scalp. “I could get so used to this.”

  The warm water from the shower is raining down my back, washing the soap she just lathered on me away. I have to agree with her. I’ve never seen the turn on with people showering together. It really didn't go into the fuck and duck type of relationships I had pre-Allie. I saw nothing beneficial in swapping dirty water, but now that it’s Allie, I’d drink her damn dirty soap water. Fuck, how pathetic am I, right? I think I’ve already tipped over the pathetic scale and I’m now adding a ten-ton weight to the scale of hopelessly lovesick and hovering over certifiable.

  “Tell me about it,” I say, kissing her soapy shoulder before turning her around and moving her under the water.

  She tips her head back, letting the shampoo run down her hair and I can’t resist kissing her neck. I spring alive again at her hands caressing my back. She groans, pouty and displeased, dropping her arms to her side.

  “We better not,” she says. “Sage will come in demanding we hurry up. Knowing her, she’d probably count the minutes.”

  “Minutes? Minutes my ass. Try hours, Baby.”

  “Oh, absolutely,” she says. She’s trying to hold it in, but I can still hear the laugh in her voice. “She’d starve to death before we were done.”

  “Damn right,” I say, shaking my dick and grunting like the wild fuck-man I am.

  “You remind me of that Gorilla we saw that time at the zoo.”

  “You mean that big, majestic fucker they have in San Diego?” I stick my chest out at the compliment.

  “Nope. The one they have in Griffith Park. That little one who sucks his thumb and throws his shit around everywhere.”

  “You sure know how to build a guy’s ego.”

  “You know I love you,” she says. “Shit throwing and all.”

  ****

  “About time,” Sage says when we finally emerge from our love den. “Let’s go down to Johnny’s. They have the best quiche.

  “Sure, as long as they have steak and eggs, I’m game.”

  Manhattan, New York

  Johnny’s Café

  Allison Moore

  “Sooo, you two are back on track,” Sage says while Aaron steps away from the table to take a phone call from Tuck.

  “You came in late last night.”

  “You noticed? I thought you were getting some and getting some good.”

  “Well, I was, until you barged in and don’t change the subject.”

  “I only changed it after you changed it first.”

  “Whatever.”

  “Hey, am I going to have to separate you two,” Aaron asks, joining us.

  “No, Daddy,” I say. Sage chokes on her Mimosa at the grin on Aaron’s fac
e.

  “Oh my God, look at you two. There’s peace in the valley again. Order and tranquility have been restored to the kingdom.”

  “Let’s not jump the gun,” I say. “We haven’t gotten back to the Kingdom yet. The King and Queen are still in the throes of chaos. Not to mention, his court.”

  “Aw, come on, Baby.”

  “Aaron’s right,” Sage says. “Forget about them. They are adults and can handle their own problems. Besides, seeing the two of you like this gives us single people hope. When I get to LA, I'm going hunting for my very own Knight in shining armor.”

  “You are so full of shit,” I tell her. “But if it will get you there faster, I’ll help you.”

  “No thanks. You and Laura suck at matchmaking. You do remember Peter the Toothpick Weiner?”

  “The what,” Aaron says.

  “She and Laura swore he was the one for me. If that’s who they think I’d go for, I have to seriously rethink what they must be thinking about me.”

  “How were we supposed to know?”

  “He wore a size six shoe.

  “Oh, hell no.” Aaron laughs. “Dead giveaway.”

  “Okay, true,” I say. “But I’ve learned a thing or two since then.”

  I touch Aaron’s thigh under the table and he beams like runway lights.

  ****

  “I'm still not sure about this, Aaron,” I say, watching him pick up my bag. “Are you sure?”

  He had planned to stay a few more days, but the call from Tuck was urgent. Of course, he refuses to leave without me going with him.

  “I'm absolutely sure. Why wouldn't I be?” He turns to me when I don't answer. “Baby, we're just going home. Whatever happens, we'll face it together.” He bends down to kiss the top of my head before pulling me to my feet. “Let’s go say goodbye to Sage. I don’t want us to miss our flight.

  “I hate goodbyes,” I say to Sage, giving her a hug.

  “It's not goodbye,” she says. “It's, see you later. I'll be in LA before you know it. You’re going to be so sick of me, you'll beg me to come back to New York.”

  “You wish,” Aaron says, giving her a quick hug. “See you soon, Shorty.”