New Leaves, No Strings (Austin Erotic Romance Series)

by C. J. Fallowfield

  ‘Whatever, when’s this food going to be ready, its smelling really good.’

  ‘I’ll go and check.’

  Gabe was standing at the stove stirring, there was no mess or clutter on the work surface or in the sink, a man after my own heart, that was another of my tick list requirements and he didn’t even know it.

  ‘How are you doing?’ I asked as I hopped up onto the worktop next to him.

  ‘Good, five more minutes and we can eat,’ he said as he put down the spoon and moved to stand between my thighs and grip my hips. I wrapped my legs around his waist and put my arms around his neck.

  ‘You’re one handy man to have around, it smells amazing.’

  ‘You smell amazing, kiss me.’

  ‘Yes sir,’ I leaned in and he clasped my face in his hands and made my body go to mush as he worked his tongue expertly in my mouth making me groan.

  ‘I thought we were eating food, not each other,’ said Lexi as she dumped herself on one of the chairs interrupting us.

  Gabe quickly stepped back to the cooker and I hopped down off the worktop blushing and got some plates and cutlery out to go on the table. He piled some pasta on each plate and a generous spoon of Bolognese and we tucked in.

  ‘This is good, really good Gabe. Did you make it from scratch?’ I asked.

  ‘Yes, with turkey mince, which has less fat. I’m not a massive fan of processed food. There’s enough to freeze a couple of meals for you both as well as the other supplies in fridge and cupboards, so you have no excuse for popcorn for each meal or incessant take outs.’

  ‘You could just move in and be our personal chef,’ stated Lexi as she scraped the remains off her plate.

  ‘Christ I’ve never seen you eat so much Lexi.’

  ‘It’s the first decent meal I’ve had since our last night at home with your mum and Gerry. Are you going to be around for breakfast too Gabe?’

  ‘I figured I was going to head home once we’d eaten as my shirts in the drier now and it’s nearly done. What do you think?’ He looked at me for an answer.

  ‘It’s up to you.’ I wanted him to stay, but was worried I’d seem too eager.

  ‘I don’t want to make you feel like I’m suffocating you. It was one of your rules.’

  ‘I don’t mind, it’s up to you,’ I said as I shrugged.

  ‘O for god’s sake, we’ll be here all night anyway with you two debating it so you’re staying, just don’t hog the bathroom in the morning,’ warned Lexi.

  ‘So I’m staying?’ Gabe asked looking at me for confirmation.

  ‘Yes you’re staying, just don’t hog the covers in the night,’ I grinned as I stood up to rinse our plates before loading up the dishwasher.

  Gabe poured us some water and we headed back to the lounge where he grabbed my hand and pulled me down onto his lap as he sat in my recliner. Lexi grabbed the remote and started flicking through the channels. Gabe had his arms wrapped around me, his hands resting in my lap and I played with his fingers as he and Lexi argued the merits or faults of the shows that popped up on the screen. I lay my head on his chest and breathed in his masculine scent. I felt myself nodding off again and startled myself back awake with a snort, much to Gabe and Lexi’s amusement.

  ‘I’m tired,’ I protested as they laughed at me.

  ‘I’ll bet,’ she grinned.

  ‘Come on, let’s get you back to bed,’ said Gabe as he lifted me up into his arms again and headed to the door.

  ‘Night Lexi, love you,’ I waved over his shoulder.

  ‘You too.’

  ‘Night Lexi, thanks again for the clothes.’

  ‘No problem, thanks again for dinner Gabe.’

  ‘You’re welcome,’ he replied and carried me into the bathroom and put me down next to the sink and brushed his teeth. ‘Good job you had this spare toothbrush, considering weren’t going to rush things I’ve stayed two nights out of three.’

  ‘I’ve been cooked for, had sex for the first time and twice since, been fingered and licked out in public and my first anal experience all in the last three days. If anyone’s rushing things it’s you,’ I spluttered through my mouthful of toothpaste.

  ‘Any regrets?’

  ‘That you didn’t stay Saturday too,’ I replied as I rinsed and dried my mouth. He laughed as I grabbed his hand and led him back into my bedroom. ‘I always sleep naked, that wasn’t a one off on Friday, is that a problem for you again tonight?’ I asked.

  ‘Absolutely not, I’m ready to go again,’ he replied smiling.

  ‘I meant much as I enjoy sex with you and I really enjoy sex with you, I need some serious sleep. I’m drained and I’ve got History at nine.’ I slipped off my pyjama bottoms.

  ‘Bugger I have a free, I thought I’d have the morning to take advantage of you,’ he sighed as he inched his way out of Lexi’s joggers. ‘I’ll just have to try and restrain myself again then.’

  ‘No looking at me with those lustful eyes then.’ I lifted off my t-shirt and we stood in front of each other naked. I watched as he hardened in front of me and despite my tiredness my body started to respond too, it was an uncontrollable automatic reaction to him.

  ‘Who’s got lustful eyes now?’ he asked. ‘Come on get into bed so I can turn out the lights and not see you, otherwise I’ll have to go and take a cold shower to calm myself down.’

  I switched off the light and climbed into bed, checking my phone, it was already nearly eleven. I felt the bed dip as he climbed in beside me and I smiled to myself. He reached out and pulled me into him and wrapped his arms around me as I nuzzled his chest and nudged my leg between his.

  ‘Thanks for a great weekend,’ I whispered.

  ‘Thanks for letting me share it with you, now sleep baby,’ he ordered as he kissed my forehead and gently stroked the back of my neck.

  For the third time today, I fell asleep in minutes feeling totally contented.

  Monday

  I woke up lying on my right side, as was usual. I stretched out my feet and opened my eyes to see Gabe’s face on the pillow next to me. He was awake and smiling at me and I realised he was holding my hand, up on the pillow, our fingers interlocked. I wondered if we’d slept like that all night.

  ‘God you’re so beautiful,’ he whispered. ‘Good morning.’

  I felt my stomach flutter again. ‘Morning, what time is it?’

  ‘Six thirty.’

  ‘O my god, it’s still the middle of the night,’ I moaned.

  ‘I’m usually up at six every morning to swim or go to the gym and have a workout.’

  ‘You’re a crazy freak. Did you sleep ok?’

  ‘Like a log, you?’

  ‘Really well.’

  ‘You snore too you know,’ he said as his thumb ran up and down the back of my hand.

  ‘Noooo?’ I responded mortified.

  ‘Yes. It’s a gentle snore, it’s absolutely adorable.’

  ‘God as if talking in my sleep wasn’t bad enough.’

  ‘You go to sleep so quickly, I’m very jealous.’

  ‘Were you watching me again you weirdo?’

  ‘I may have, I find it hard to drop off and it’s kind of peaceful just watching you breathe,’ he reached out his free hand and cupped my chin, drawing his thumb across my bottom lip. I nipped it with my teeth and leaned over to kiss him, he responded by grasping my hip and pulling my pelvis onto his.

  ‘Are you ever soft?’ I gasped as I felt his erection graze my stomach.

  ‘Not when I’m looking at you,’ he grinned kissing me before he pushed me onto my back peeling back the duvet to leave me naked and exposed. He propped himself up on is elbow as he studied me and I squirmed under his scrutiny, embarrassed. ‘God I do love your body,’ he sighed.

  ‘Yours isn’t so bad either,’ I smiled back at him as he inspected each of my dips and curves with some kind of wonder in his eyes. He made me feel like he was seeing a naked woman for the first time and really liking what he saw.

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sp; He took his left hand and gently ran it over my collarbones and down between my breasts and across my stomach, holding my gaze as he did so. My skin tingled at his touch and I tried to reach up to pull him down to kiss me, but he shook his head and gently climbed across me, onto his knees, holding himself up above me on all fours. I could see his erection flexing as it hung down, tapping on my stomach. He kissed my forehead, then the outer corner of my eyes, gently nibbled my ear lobe and caressed my neck with his lips. I melted inside and all the hairs on my body stood to attention.

  ‘Gabe,’ I sighed and could have sworn I heard him moan softly.

  He moved lower and traced his tongue around each breast before moving onto my nipples, which he circled again and again before gently taking them between his teeth and lips and sucking. I groaned as I pressed my shoulders and hips back down into the bed and arched my back in response, gripping the sheet below me in both of my fists. He continued his journey south with his tongue, planting small kisses all over my belly.

  ‘God Mia, your skins so soft,’ he murmured. He trailed his tongue over my pubic area lightly brushing my clit and I jumped at the intensity of it, before he moved down to kiss the inside of each of my thighs. My fists still clutching the sheet, I strained to lift my head to see him but all I could see was his mess of blonde hair and the curve of his back rising to his toned bottom, it was a sensational sight. He lifted up his head and smiled at me as he gently felt between my legs.

  ‘Good you’re wet and ready for me.’

  ‘That doesn’t seem to be an issue around you,’ I replied as his fingers glided around me.

  ‘No, it’s not is it. I love that I can turn you on so much,’ he replied as he held my gaze and pushed two fingers up inside me, stroking my front wall. I inhaled sharply through my teeth and closed my eyes. ‘Keep them open Mia, I want you to keep looking at me,’ he ordered as his fingers worked quickly, but gently inside me.

  He’d found my g-spot just like that and heat surged through my pelvis as I tightened around him. I held his gaze and began to pant and spread my legs further apart and bent my knees bringing my feet up closer to my hips, lowering my stomach and forcing his fingers up harder onto the area he was stroking within me, the small cluster of nerves screaming at me.

  ‘Are you close? You look and feel like you are?’

  ‘Yes, god yes. Please don’t stop,’ I moaned as I circled my hips in time to his probing. I gripped my lower lip with my teeth to stifle the noises I wanted to make and looked at him through half closed eyes as he ramped up the pace and I felt myself shatter inside as my orgasm hit. I threw my head backwards into the pillow. It went on and on, ebbing and then returning with such ferocity. My muscles were clenching around him so tightly, I was worried I’d break his fingers.

  ‘You’re so tight Mia, so tight and warm,’ he murmured as he gently extracted them and I felt them make their way into my mouth as he shuffled back up next to me.

  I sucked them as I looked into his eyes, my body continuing to shudder from the after effects of my first ever multiple orgasm. His eyes had turned a darker shade of blue, his lips engorged with lust, I reached up with my hands and pulled his face down to mine. He removed his fingers from my mouth and replaced them with his tongue, but this time his kiss was different, it was so soft and gentle. He really took his time to explore my mouth with his tongue and I followed his lead, no one had ever kissed me the way he could kiss me, it was indescribable how good he was.

  My hands grasped his solid shoulders and I wrapped my legs around his back and he gently rocked his hips backwards and forwards so the head of his erection stroked me from top to bottom and back again, it was like a long slow masturbation which built on and prolonged the sensations I was already experiencing from his lengthy seduction. A groan escaped from him and he gently pulled away from my mouth. I let my legs fall back down and he wriggled his way down between them until I could feel his breath on my clit. I propped myself up on my elbows to watch and hold his gaze as he attached his lips and began to suck and probe, his tongue flicked from my clit, then down to penetrate me before returning upwards, repeating over and over sizzling my nerve endings at each pass.

  ‘O god,’ I groaned. My thighs gently squeezed the side of his head as I stretched out one hand to grasp the back of his hair and push him further into me. As I came again I could feel the sheets under my bottom were moist, I was going to have to buy more spare bedding if we continued at this rate. I dropped back down onto the bed and enjoyed the remains of my body’s response to my latest orgasm sweeping over me as my chest heaved. Was sex this good for everyone I wondered? Or was it just him? I could lie here all day while he did this to me, it was so good I never wanted him to stop. He leaned over to the bedside table and grabbed a condom that he must’ve placed there when he got into bed last night.

  I lifted myself and watched fascinated as he sat back on his heels, tore the wrapper with his teeth again and gently rolled it down over himself. I could see his flesh pulsating under its opaque skin, I wondered what it would feel like for both of us if he could penetrate me without one. He flashed me one of his smiles which made my stomach flip again and he leant forward and kissed his way back up my body.

  ‘Do you want me?’ he whispered as he looked at me intently.

  I bit my lip and nodded, was he crazy? Who wouldn’t want him? He kissed me again and as his lips moved around to my neck he very slowly penetrated me. I was so wet he entered easily and we both gasped at the feeling it gave each of us. He raised his head from my shoulder and repeated his request for me to hold his gaze and he gently slid in and out of me. The intensity of our eye contact seemed to stimulate me even more than the feeling of fullness, or the changes in temperature from warmth as he pushed, to the cool air rushing in as he pulled back out. He maintained the same steady rhythm as I writhed below him. After what seemed an eternity of pleasurable sensations inside and much whimpering and begging on my part, he speeded up and now didn’t withdraw all the way.

  ‘Gabe,’ I moaned as I felt myself climaxing. My nails dug into the back of his shoulder blades again as I hung on for dear life, I locked my ankles together behind his back as my legs started to shake. I wasn’t sure how much longer I could hold them up. ‘Gabe … please … please … I want you,’ I groaned as he continued and I heard him groan in response.

  I released my grip on his shoulders and placed one hand across my mouth and bit down on my fingers to hold in my screams and I reached up behind me and grabbed onto one of the wrought iron rails of my bedhead. The look on my face must’ve told him I was at breaking point, so he pushed even further into me and I began to climax again whimpering. I released my fingers from my mouth and grabbed another bed rail as his thrusts picked up even more pace, my stomach taut as my back arched up to him as I reached my peak. I collapsed back into the bed as wave after wave of orgasm hit me my body shaking all over and tears of sheer bliss and contentment streamed down my face.

  ‘Mia,’ he groaned hoarsely as he dropped down onto me and kissed me and I felt him give himself up to me.

  Our bodies were slick with perspiration as we lay there panting and I gently stroked the back of his neck. That had been different from the other times, more gentle, it was really nice. He rolled onto his back and took me over with him, so he was still inside me and I lay outstretched on his front. He swiped the sweat of my brow and pulled my head down to meet his lips and he kissed me very softly while he caressed my back.

  ‘This is so nice just lying here inside you,’ he murmured.

  ‘It feels nice lying here with you inside me. Thank you,’ I said as I caressed his temples as I looked down at his deep blue eyes.

  ‘For what?’

  ‘That, it felt different, more gentle and personal.’

  ‘I wanted it to,’ he said smiling at me as he ran his hands through my hair. ‘I wanted you to know that it’s all about you, not just the sex.’

  ‘Why?’

  ‘Because I’ve b
een with plenty of girls and it was all just about fucking.’

  ‘And this isn’t?’ I asked, secretly pleased that it wasn’t just about that. I also choose to ignore the “I’ve been with plenty of girls” comment.

  ‘No it’s not Mia. Don’t get me wrong I love to fuck, last night, me taking you from behind was me enjoying doing just that, but with you I want more. I just don’t want to fuck you, I want that connection with you. I want to know that you’re enjoying yourself instead of just me and that’s new for me.’

  ‘Ahhhh Gabe. Are you trying to say that you were making love to me instead of just rodgering me?’ I said giggling.

  ‘Yes I guess I am, is that ok?’ he asked as he scanned my face looking all serious and concerned.

  ‘You’re asking me if it’s ok that I’m not just any old body for you to shoot your load into? Then yes of course it’s ok.’ I pulled my head back looking at him puzzled. All of a sudden he looked nervous, uncomfortable even. Had I done something wrong?

  ‘You’re more than that and it’s important that you know that Mia.’

  ‘Thanks. That’s really sweet of you.’ I squirmed uncomfortably at the intense way he was looking at me. That combined with his nervousness was putting me on edge. He reached up and kissed me again as he cupped my face with his hands.

  ‘Do you get what I’m trying to tell you?’

  ‘Yes that it’s not just about the sex, you like me.’

  ‘I don’t just like you Mia, I’ve fallen in love with you,’ he whispered.

  I felt a wave of intense heat wash over me and my chest tightened. I took a couple of quick short sharp breaths, the air felt as if it were burning my lungs. I thought I’d just heard him say he was in love with me, which was ridiculous.

  ‘Has it got really hot in here?’ I asked as I pushed myself up to sit back on his thighs, his erection still firmly embedded in me.

  ‘Did you hear me? I love you, I’m in love with you Mia,’ he repeated looking concerned and scanning my face for a response.

  ‘Wow it’s really hot in here, I can’t breathe,’ I said as I held put a hand to my chest and tried to take in some more air. He had said it, he’d just bloody said it again. I could feel a ringing in my ears and as the dark shadows from the corner of the room came in towards me, my hands started to shake. Shit, it felt like that time in English, I was going to pass out again.