FOREVER SERIES: COMPLETE BOX SET

by Lynn, Sandi

  “Ah, baby, you’re so wet already.”

  “Mhmm. Only for you,” she whispered.

  “I need to taste you first,” I moaned as I knelt down and planted my mouth against her, tasting her pleasure.

  She grabbed my hair and began thrusting her hips back and forth. “Oh God, I’m going to come already!” she yelled.

  “Do it, baby. I want to hear you and I want to feel you,” I said as my tongue flicked in and out of her rapidly.

  Her body tightened and swelled against my mouth, releasing the orgasm that I brought her to have. “Oh God. Oh God,” she kept yelling.

  “Are you ready, baby?” I asked.

  “Yes,” she said with bated breath.

  I placed my cock inside her and pushed into her with force. She wrapped her legs around me which caused me to go deeper inside her.

  “AH!” I moaned from the pleasure I felt.

  I held her up by her perfect ass and pounded in and out of her. Her tits were shaking all over the place as she begged me to suck them. I slowed down and took her in my mouth, biting and licking her hard nipple like she commanded.

  “Faster, Collin. Faster. I’m going to come again!” she yelled.

  I held her up with one hand this time as I pressed my other hand against the wall. I thrust in and out of her as fast as I could, building up for my release. Her moans grew with each thrust and just as her legs tightened around me, I could feel her come pouring onto me as I released myself deep inside her. Our hearts were racing, and we were both out of breath. Once I pushed every last milky drop inside of her, I buried my face into her neck. She brought her hand up to my head and softly stroked my hair.

  “I love you, Collin.”

  “I love you too, Amelia. More than you’ll ever know.” I lifted my head and softly kissed her on the lips. “Let’s go furniture shopping, shall we?” I smiled.

  “I would love to.” She smiled back.

  * * *

  We were at the furniture store when my phone rang. I pulled it out of my pocket, and it was Hailey calling. I sighed as Amelia looked at me.

  “Why is she calling you?”

  “Probably because I blew her off today.”

  “What? What the hell are you talking about?”

  “She sent me a text this morning and asked me if we could talk because she told her parents about the baby and they were really upset.”

  “So she has to talk to you about it?” Amelia asked with a little bit of an attitude.

  “Baby, listen. Don’t you worry about Hailey. You know I love you. I’m just trying to nice, I guess.”

  “She’s going to get the wrong impression, Collin.”

  “Well if she does, I’ll set her straight. No big deal. Now come on, help me pick out a bed.” I winked.

  I bought all the furniture I needed. It was fun shopping with Amelia. She and I had the same taste in furniture. We picked up Thai food on the way back to my apartment and we set a blanket on the floor as we ate with chopsticks out of the carton, talking and laughing about life.

  “Go ahead and call Hailey back. Meet with her tomorrow and let her talk. I’m okay with it,” Amelia said.

  “Are you sure? Because I don’t have to if it’s going to upset you.”

  “It won’t upset me. Just do it.”

  I grabbed my phone and dialed Hailey’s number. She answered on the second ring and we set up to meet at Starbucks tomorrow morning around ten. I looked at Amelia and smiled.

  “Can you stay here for a second? I have to run across the hall.”

  “Sure.”

  I got up and stepped across the hall to Julia’s apartment. I softly knocked and Jake answered the door.

  “Hey, neighbor. What’s up?”

  “Do you have a couple extra blankets I can borrow for a couple nights? I don’t want to go upstairs and be interrogated by the parents.”

  “HAHA!” Jake laughed. “Sure, we have extra blankets. Come on in.”

  Julia came walking from the bedroom and smiled when she saw me. Oh my God did she look huge in her night gown. But I didn’t dare say anything.

  “What are you doing here, handsome?” she asked as she kissed my cheek.

  “Your little brother is spending the night at his new pad and he asked to borrow a couple of blankets. I’m thinking he may be having a sleepover.” Jake smiled.

  “Oh, really? Is that true?” Julia asked.

  “Yes, Amelia is spending the night,” I said as I took the blankets from Jake.”

  “Have fun!” Julia said as I opened the door.

  I turned around and smiled at her. “To quote, Dad, I fully intend to.”

  Julia covered her ears. “Stop that! And you better wash those blankets before you give them back!”

  I laughed as I shut the door, walked over to my place, laid down the blankets in the bedroom and made sweet love to my girl again.

  Chapter 27

  I looked at my watch and it was ten fifteen. I sat there with my cup of coffee and looked out the window to see if I could see Hailey walking down the street. I pulled out my phone and sent her a text message.

  “Hey, where are you? I have to get back to work.”

  I sat and waited for another ten minutes and there was no Hailey and no reply text message. I sighed as I got up from the table and my phone began to ring. I thought it was strange that Amelia was calling me during her clinicals.

  “Hey, baby. Is something wrong?”

  “Collin, I’m doing clinicals in the Labor and Delivery unit and Hailey is here. I saw her and her mom asked me to call you.”

  “Is she okay?”

  “She lost the baby. I really think you should come to the hospital.”

  “Thanks, baby. I’m on my way. I love you.”

  “I love you too. See you soon.”

  Oh man. I couldn’t believe she lost the baby. I drove to the hospital and went up to the Labor and Delivery unit. The nurse at the desk told me which room Hailey was in and when I went there, Peyton and Henry were in the room with her.

  “Hi, Collin. You’re so sweet for coming,” Peyton said as she hugged me.

  “Hi, Collin. Thanks, man,” Henry said as he walked over and shook my hand.

  They both left the room and I walked over to the side of Hailey’s bed and sat down in the chair. She wouldn’t look at me. She just stared at the blank wall.

  “Hey, Hailey.”

  “Hey,” she whispered as she wiped a tear that fell from her eye.

  “I’m sorry about the baby.”

  “I’m not. Why are you here?” she asked as she turned and looked at me.

  “Your mom asked me to come.”

  “That’s just fucking great. I’m asking you to leave.”

  “Why?”

  “Because I don’t want you here. You’re the last person I want to see.”

  “Really, Hailey? Because yesterday you wanted to talk,” I said.

  “That was then, this is now, and I don’t want to see you. I needed you when I came back and you turned your back on me.”

  I was getting angrier by the minute. I couldn’t yell at her because she’d just lost the baby and she was emotional. I got up from the chair and placed my hand on hers.

  “I hope you feel better, Hailey.” I walked out of the room and saw Amelia down the hall. I walked over to her and grabbed her hand.

  “I know you’re busy, so I’ll see you later. Okay?”

  “Okay. Are you all right?” she asked.

  “I’m perfectly fine, baby,” I said as I kissed her forehead and went to the office.

  * * *

  A couple of weeks had passed, and Amelia and I spent them going out with friends and organizing all the things my mom bought me for my apartment. I sent Ralph to pick up Amelia from the hospital because I was making dinner for her. I heard the door open and instantly I smiled. I wiped my hands on the kitchen towel and walked to the foyer.

  “Hi, baby,” I said as I kissed her. Did you ha
ve a nice ride home with Ralphie?”

  She smiled and then let out a giggle. “Be nice. It smells wonderful in here.”

  “Thank you. How was your day?” I asked.

  “It was good. How was yours?”

  “It’s better now that you’re here.” I smiled as I gripped her hips and kissed her.

  There was a knock at the door and Amelia looked at me. “Are you expecting someone?”

  “No,” I said as I walked over to the door and opened it. To my surprise, Hailey was standing on the other side.

  “Hey, do you have a minute to talk?”

  “Actually, I don’t. I’m in the middle of—”

  “It’s okay, sweetheart. You two talk. I’ll go over and see Julia. Hi, Hailey,” Amelia said as she walked across the hall.

  I shut the door and sighed. “What do you want, Hailey?”

  “I want to apologize for what I said at the hospital. It was rude and I was out of line.”

  I stood there nodding my head. “Okay. Apology accepted. Now if you’ll excuse me,” I said as I walked towards the kitchen.

  “I still love you, Collin, and I want you to give us another chance,” she shouted.

  I stopped dead in my tracks. “What? I have a girlfriend.”

  “So what. Break up with her. I know you still love me.”

  I couldn’t believe I was standing there listening to what she was saying. She didn’t have a clue what she did to me. I turned around and glared at her.

  “I hate to break the news to you Hailey, but I don’t love you. To be honest, I never really did.”

  “How the fuck can you say that after six years of being in a relationship?”

  “I was young. Neither one of us knew what love really was, and I’m pretty sure you still don’t.”

  “Oh and you do?” she asked.

  “Yeah, I do know because the girl I’m madly in love with is across the hall right now. Hailey, if you truly loved me, you wouldn’t have done what you did. You couldn’t have so easily walked away. But you did and you broke my heart. You told me numerous times that we weren’t meant to be and that I needed to move on. So I did. Now you come back to New York and you think we can pick up where we left off? Did you honestly think that I would be waiting for you after what you did?”

  “I’m sorry. I made a mistake. Please forgive me,” she cried.

  By this time, the tears were flowing from her uncontrollably and I felt bad. But there was nothing I could do for her.

  “The only mistake you made was thinking that you could have me back. You’ll find someone, Hailey.”

  “I already have found someone, Collin. You. I want you back in my life. I want to hold you and kiss you and make love to you,” she cried.

  “I’m sorry.”

  She walked up to me and smashed her mouth against mine. I pushed her away and looked at her tear-filled eyes.

  “Now tell me that you didn’t feel something,” she said.

  I stood there as I was about to break her heart one last time. “No, Hailey. I felt nothing. It’s been over between us for a long time. Now, please leave so I can finish cooking dinner.”

  She ran to the door of my apartment and flung it opening before running down the hallway, crying her eyes out. I stood there with my head down feeling bad for hurting her; even though I shouldn’t have felt that way. Amelia walked in the apartment and wrapped her arms around me.

  “She’ll be okay, Collin.”

  “I know she’ll be,” I said as I kissed her head. “Come on, let’s eat.”

  * * *

  A couple of days later, we got word from the nurse my dad hired, that Denny had passed away from a massive heart attack. I’d never seen my dad take anything so hard in his life. When he received the call, I was there in his office, and watched as a tear fell from his eye. My mom wasn’t handling it very well either and as much as Julia and I loved Denny, we felt like we needed to be strong for our parents. We all suffered a huge loss, but it was my parents that were hit the hardest. We were all meeting at the penthouse because Denny’s lawyer, which was also my father’s, was coming over to read a few things that Denny had left. He was instructed to read the letters one day after his death.

  Before heading up to the penthouse, I showered. As I stepped out, I wrapped a towel around my waist and sat at the end of the bed. Amelia was in the room changing her clothes.

  “Are you okay, sweetheart?” she asked.

  I finally broke down and let it out. I kept my head lowered as I shook it back and forth and the tears started to pour from my eyes.

  “Collin,” she said as she sat down next to me and hugged me. “I’m so sorry you have to go through this.”

  I wrapped my arm around hers and gripped her tight as I buried my head into her shoulder and cried. She gently rubbed my back and told me that everything was going to be all right. I was thankful she was there because I needed her more now than ever. Once I composed myself, I got dressed and we headed up to the penthouse. Julia and Jake were walking out of their apartment at the same time, and Julia’s eyes were red and swollen. I kissed her and put my arm around her.

  When we stepped off the elevator, we gathered in the dining room and sat down at the table.

  “Thank you all for being here tonight. I’m so sorry for your loss. The letter I have in my hand is from Denny which he wrote approximately a month ago. Are you ready for me to read it?”

  “Go ahead,” my dad said as he looked down.

  The lawyer cleared his throat and unfolded the white piece of paper. His glasses sat far down on the bridge of his nose as he looked at the paper and began to read from it.

  “Hello, family. If you’re sitting around the dining room table listening to this, then that means one thing: I’ve finally kicked the bucket. Connor, make sure your scotch is a double as you’re listening to me because you always needed a double during my lectures. Now, I want you all to listen very carefully to what I’m about to say. This is my funeral and I’m the host. I want you all to dry the tears because there will be no crying at my funeral. So, I’m going to give you all a moment to compose yourselves so we can get on with this.”

  We all just sat there and looked at each other. The lawyer told us to take five minutes to talk and to get anything we needed before moving on. My dad got up, walked into the living room and straight over to the bar. I followed behind him.

  “Your mom wants a glass of red wine. Could you please get her a glass and I’ll pour you a scotch?”

  “Sure, Dad. Make it a double,” I said with a small smile.

  I walked to the kitchen and poured a glass of wine for my mom and Amelia. I grabbed a bottle of water from the fridge for Julia and walked back to the dining room.

  “Here you go, Mom,” I said as I set down the glass in front of her.

  “Thank you, sweetheart,” she replied.

  I sat down and handed Amelia her wine and Julia her water. The lawyer entered the room and took his seat where he continued to read from the white paper.

  “Now that everyone has gotten what they needed, we can move on. Connor I’m assuming you’re cussing me out about now and went and got your double scotch. But anyway, here are my wishes. Once you have my body cremated, I want you to spread my ashes across the Pacific Ocean. Thank you, Connor and Ellery, for taking care of me all these years. Words can never express how much I love you both. Julia and Collin, watching you grow up was the best part of my life and watching Connor struggle trying to be the perfect father was the highlight. Connor, you did well, and I hope that I had a hand in helping you make the right decisions in your life. Jake, you and Julia are going to make wonderful parents and any child of yours is going to be blessed and incredibly lucky. Ellery, you were always a daughter to me, and we’ve been through a lot together over the years. In fact, you and Connor exhausted me more times than I want to remember with all of your stubbornness. But it was a part of my life I would never change. If he gets out of line, slap him around a fe
w times and tell him it’s from me.”

  We all let out a soft laugh and my dad smiled.

  “Collin, a true chip off the old block. You are definitely your father’s son and I couldn’t be prouder of you just like I was of him. Watching you grow into a man has been a great journey for me and I’m proud to have considered you like a grandson. Julia, you’re a beautiful young woman and I wish I could have stayed around to see that baby boy of yours, but the Gods have called me home. You’re just like your mom and watching you grow up and defy your dad the way you did was priceless. I am proud to have considered you my granddaughter. Connor, I have a separate letter for you to read alone because I don’t need you getting all sappy on me. You can call me a fool, but these are my wishes. Black family, you have given me more out of life than I can ever thank you for. I love you all very much so don’t go getting used to the idea that I’m gone. I’ll always be around watching over all of you. Did you hear that, Connor? You aren’t getting rid of me just yet. Now go get another drink, eat and celebrate Black family. Peace to you all. Love, Denny.

  The lawyer reached in his brief case and handed my dad a sealed envelope. My dad took it and put it in his suit pocket. We all got up from the table and hugged one another. I watched as my mom hugged my dad tightly. I put my arm around Amelia as we walked into the kitchen and Julia and I started to set the food out. My mom and dad walked in and hugged us one last time before we sat down to eat and talk about the life with Denny.

  Chapter 28

  A week later, as I was sitting in my office, Julia walked in and handed me a file to sign off on. She sat down and she looked really uncomfortable.