Rising Up: Finding Me book 1

by J J Harper

  "I say yes please, sexy man."

  "Good, now I'm hungry again, so shall we make up some lunch? Hey Lake! Put that fine woman down and let's get them fed."

  CHAPTER SEVEN

  Imogen

  "I'm knackered Mads. How can lying on a boat all day being pampered by two gorgeous men be so exhausting?" I'm stretching out on our large sectional sofa with a large glass of my favorite Pinot Grigio in my hand. Maddie sprawled on the rug in front of the fire with her eyes shut. Jake Bugg is singing loudly about lightning bolts from my iPod, opening her eye to look at me I can tell she's been stewing on something. "What's on your mind sweetie? I can see the cogs whirring from here."

  "Do you think Lake likes me or is he just passing time because you're with Mason?"

  "I know he likes you because Mason asked him and I asked Mason. I don't think he has ever had a long relationship with anybody before, but I think if he is beginning to want one, then you are someone he would like to have it with. I don't think he's going to come in on a white charger declaring his everlasting love for you, but he has said he would like to see where things could go with you. Why?

  You don't normally want a full time boyfriend, you like to have fun without too many strings attached. Have you changed your mind about him and can't be bothered anymore, because it works both ways Mads, don't lead him on just to dump him a month down the line, I mean if after a month you both realize it's not going to go anywhere then fine, but don't play him sweetie, we all have to work together."

  "I know and I agree with you, but I wasn't happy with his charity kiss at the market this morning, it made me feel cheap. I know my history with men is a bit shitty, and I definitely didn't come here to find a husband, but shit Ginn I want what I see you've found in Mason."

  I can see tears building up in her eyes. "Oh Maddie sweetheart, don't cry. We've only been here ten or so days, who knows what's going to happen in the next year. I don't know that Mason will always want to be with me, he's just come out of a crappy relationship with what sounds like a psycho girlfriend maybe, I'm just his rebound, I just don't know." I shrug hoping that it's not true. "So spend time with Lake if you want to, but if you don't then that's okay too. I love you Madeleine and I'm not going to let you get hurt."

  "Yeah, Lake mentioned that about Mason's ex, she sounds more suited to be with Jake than you ever were, they can be vapid narcissistic twats together."

  We both crack up at the thought and the mood lightens. "Just take it a day at a time Mads and it will be okay." There's a knock at the door so I get up giving her a kiss on her head as I go to open it.

  "Who is it?" I'm smiling as I look through the peep hole before opening it.

  "Food delivery for Ms. Banks and Ms. Stevens." Lake calls out.

  "Hey Maddie, there's two strange men at the door but it looks like they've got food so shall I let them in?"

  "Hell yeah, if only for the food." A smile crosses her face as her bad mood dissipates.

  "C'mon in then boys." I give them a cheeky wink as I let them pass.

  Mason leans down as kisses my cheek, "Don't get to cheeky Missy, I already own your ass tonight."

  "Hey Ginny." Maddie hollers. "This one says we have to pay them in sexual favors, I mean they are pretty but I don't think I'm that hungry, what do you reckon?"

  I look round to see Lake has her pinned against the kitchen counter and is devouring her mouth.

  "It looks like Lake is already eating." Mason is laughing out loud and I know we are in for a fun evening.

  *

  My head is resting on Mason's shoulder and I can feel my eyes beginning to droop so leaning over to kiss him. "I'm done for sweetie, I'm going to go to bed."

  "Okay, let's clear up and we can leave." Lifting me up from his lap we stand up and collect all the plates and glasses from the floor and table, when my brain suddenly registers what he said.

  "Aren't we staying here? C'mon Mase it's only ten feet to my very comfortable bed." I can hear the whine in my voice.

  "No, I thought we'd stay at mine tonight, I want you in my bed tonight then we can make as much noise as we like." He's grinning now as I suddenly brighten up. "I thought that would appeal to you so go and grab any shit you need and we'll get out of here."

  "Give me two minutes. Mads? I'm going to stay at Mason's tonight don't forget to lock up." I'm not sure if Lake is planning to stay here, they've been pretty close all evening but when he stands up it looks like he's ready to make a move too. Shit, I hope she's going to be okay with that. But when he looks down at her his eyebrows raised questioningly and holds his hand out to her I realize he wants to stay.

  Maddie looks at me. "Just lock up on your way out please." Taking hold of Lake's offered hand they walk down to her bedroom.

  "I don't actually know where your place is, you said you're in the same building but where?"

  "It's on the top floor, I've got one of the four top apartments up there. Lake has another, so does his brother Lucas, and the other one has two girls in it but I've never really met them. So are you ready to go? I want you naked and wet for me in about one minute’s time."

  "Mason sweetheart, I've been wet for you all bloody day." I sigh as the door of the elevator opens.

  "Good, come on we're here." Pushing his key in the lock he swings the door open and drags me in and straight towards his bedroom.

  "So I'm getting the tour in the morning then!" I laugh as he has already started pulling my clothes off.

  "Yep, the only thing I want to be showing you right now is my ceiling!”

  "And they say romance is dead."

  Mason

  "Shit, you've gotta stop or I won't last much longer Ginny!" My hands are in her hair as she sucks my dick, she dropped to her knees as soon as I'd removed her clothes and stripped my jeans down and took my hard aching length into her hot, wet mouth. But I don't want to come in her mouth, well not yet anyway, so I pull her up my body and we move towards the bed. "Stop pouting and get that ass over here."

  I place my cock at the entrance of her pussy and grab her hips hard, but before I can thrust in she's pushing back onto me and has taken my whole length. The air leaves my lungs as she squeezes her muscles around me. Pulling back and gripping her hips even harder I plough hard inside her.

  "Fuck Mason! More, I need more!"

  Who am I to deny her? "Too right babe." I can't stop myself from plunging faster and faster into her, and I can feel her body begin to tremble as her orgasm starts. Her tight walls are clamping down hard on me, reaching round to her front I pinch her clit in my fingers, I know my climax is building.

  "Oh god, Yes, yes, yes!"

  "Say my name, Ginny, say my name!" I'm panting so hard I can hardly speak.

  "Mason! God, Mason. Fuuuuuck!"

  Her vice-like grip is squeezing every ounce of my release out of me, but I just can't stop coming. My eyes have lost focus and I can only see a million bright sparks around our joined bodies. When my dick finally stops pulsing I move off her body and collapse on the bed next to her.

  "Imogen, I love you. I fucking love you," and pull her closer to me wiping the sweat dampened hair away from her face, I start to kiss her. But she hasn't said anything to me. My stomach drops when I think I might just have fucked up. "Shit Ginny, Babe. I'm sorry I didn't mean it, I didn't mean to say that I..."

  Looking me straight in the face I can see she's pissed with me, I don't blame her I'm pissed at me. "You didn't mean what you said or you didn't mean to say it? There's a hell of a difference between the two." Her green eyes flash at me angrily as she gets up and start to pull on her clothes.

  "Stop Ginny, what are you doing? Why are you getting dressed? Shit! Please Imogen. I'm sorry, let me explain." I sit up and grab my jeans and pull them on, I have a feeling I'm going to be chasing after her any minute now.

  "So was it just a post orgasm exclamation or do you think you love me?" Her eyes are blazing as her anger builds.

  "I meant what I said, I
just don't think I should've said it yet, I know the timing was wrong, and for the record I don't think I love you I know I do. I don't expect you to return my sentiment right now but I hope you will one day. I'm sorry if I upset you. Please don't leave me tonight." I'm begging her now and I don’t care.

  "Oh for God's sake Mason, man up! You have just fucked me so hard I think I went blind when I had the strongest orgasm I've ever had in my life, yes in my life, Mason and then you say the nicest, sweetest words that were so genuine and heartfelt but you immediately try and back out of it. If you'd bothered to ask me how I felt rather than panicking I would have told you that I love you too, but I think you’ve pissed all over that bonfire now don't you!!"

  Imogen

  God I'm so fucking angry!

  I pull on my T-shirt and rummage around for my flip-flops, spying them under his shirt I reach down to grab them when he puts his arms around my waist and pulls me back to the bed, and dumps me unceremoniously in the middle.

  "You are not going anywhere Imogen. We are both going to take a deep breath and decide whether we actually want to say those three words again, and if we do I'm going to remove your clothes again and make love to you, I'm not going to fuck you, I'm going to love you." His voice is ragged with raw emotion when he finishes.

  Reaching out to touch his beautiful face I stroke my fingertips over his cheekbones and down over his stubble on his jaw, before sliding them over his bottom lip, and when he puckers and kisses them my heart lurches in my chest. "I love you Mason. I don't know how or why it has happened so quickly, but I really believe we are supposed to be together. Fate stepped in the day I replied to your job advertisement, we were supposed to meet in that bar because our connection to each other was too strong." I can feel the tears sliding down my face but I don't care.

  "I love you too Imogen. The weirdest thing about this is that I wanted to go out that night, I'd been sat moping about how crap my life was for the few months, and then all of a sudden I felt the need to go out, and laugh at me if you want, but I think it was you or your body calling out to mine as you moved in downstairs. Lake couldn't believe it when I said I wanted to go out and rushed me out before I could change my mind."

  I lie back down on the bed next to him, we are lying on our sides facing each other. I can't stop touching him, my hands are still stroking his face, over the contours of his strong square jaw and up over his cheekbones leading up to his beautiful eyes, his eyebrows knot as I run my fingers over them.

  "Babe, I love you touching me... but what are doing?"

  "I'm mapping your face, you are so beautiful that just looking at you isn't enough, I want to know how ever good you look, you feel that good too."

  "That's really cool babe, but don't you think that you could do that to my cock as well? I'm sure you'd miss that too!"

  "Oh My God Mason! Seriously? I declare my love for you and you are only interested in me touching you up! What's that all about?"

  "Absolutely nothing babe. And for the record I love you too, so do me a favour and get out of your clothes and climb on top of me because right now I'm so fucking hard!"

  "I thought you were just going to make love to me, isn’t that's what you said?"

  "Yeah I know, but you are so fucking sexy."

  "No, Mason, you promised me the whole nine romantic yards and that's what I want."

  "Seriously?" I know he's laughing just as much as I am. "Okay woman, you asked for it"

  I'm flat on my back and he's sliding my clothes back off me. This is different from the last time when they were ripped from my body, now he's peeling my shorts slowly down my legs leaving a trail of kisses in their wake. My body is humming as my top is lifted off my chest, and slides over my head, all the while his kisses are erupting flames all over my body as the heat inside me intensifies.

  "You are so beautiful Imogen, I could stare at you all day." His kisses reach my mouth and he peppers my lips with tiny licks and nips and I can't stop myself from gasping as he slides between my legs and so very slowly eases himself inside me

  "God Mason...." I can't actually say anymore because when he starts to gently push his whole very hard length into me, and pull back almost completely just to repeat it all over again, all the time gazing into my eyes, I can't stop myself from rolling my hips up to his and then wrap my legs around his waist.

  Starting to pick up some speed but still not quick enough for me. "Faster Mason, please go faster!" I'm panting and my skin is covered in a light sheen of sweat. "I need more."

  "No way babe, this is gonna take time. I'm loving you and you feel so tight and hot around my dick I'm taking my time embracing every stroke. Enjoy it Ginny, I can tell you're nearly there you're trembling around me." Kissing me hard and long as he strokes slowly in and out of me.

  Then without too much warning my orgasm rises and I'm clutching him to my chest as my legs tighten around his hips, and I clamp down on his dick. "Oh God Mason! I can't stop!" The waves of pleasure roll over me and when I look up into his very dark hooded eyes he slams hard into me one last time, and pours his hot hard release inside me and cries out.

  "Fuck Imogen! So good, you feel so fucking good. I love you so so much."

  "I love you too Mason. This is it for me. You are it for me." My breathing is hard as I kiss him again pouring my heart and soul into his body.

  "Damned right babe, you aren't going anywhere, my love."

  CHAPTER EIGHT

  Mason

  Thank fuck we managed to pull back from what could have been the end of us. But after making love to her we slide together down the bed and pull the covers over our spent bodies. "Don't you think we should have a shower? I'm all sweaty."

  "I don't think I've got the energy to stand, and I love the smell of you lingering over my body." And to prove the point she leans into my chest and runs her tongue over my tattoo and bites lightly on my nipple.

  "Stop that woman, you're insatiable. Do you want to make me hard again?" I chuckle as she groans and rolls onto her back.

  "I don't think I could manage any more Mason."

  "Me neither, but my dick tends to have other ideas when you are around. So let's just sleep." Settling down I think she's going to sleep but asks me another question.

  "Do you think Maddie and Lake are going to be okay if he stays the night with her? They looked very cosy all night, but they may end up regretting things in the morning."

  "I don't know babe, I really don't, I know Lake and you know Maddie, and it seems like neither of them have ever bothered to make a commitment to someone, so I think they are going to have to work this out themselves, they are both big enough to make a decision about where they want things to go."

  "Yeah but I know Maddie and...."

  "Leave it Ginny it's not our problem." She doesn’t want to let this drop so I kiss her again to take her mind off her friend. "Come on sleep."

  *

  Waking up in the morning, I reach out for Ginny but the bed is still warm but empty, hearing the shower I get out of bed and go to join her but it switches off before I get to her. "Where do you think you're going? C'mon I need you to scrub my back." Turning her back round to face the shower I whip her towel from her body and pull her into the shower. This is a good start to the day.

  I watch her dress, pulling clothes out of her bag she bends over and grabs her underwear, I can't stop myself from giving her ass a slap.

  "Ow! What was that for?" She laughs at me while rubbing her cheek as a perfect handprint marks her.

  "For waving that delectable ass in my face." Grinning like a loon, I stand up and move out of the room.

  "I'll get breakfast on while you cover that divine body up."

  I can't believe how my life has changed in little more than a week, and all because of this stunning woman sat beside me. Lauren left such a massive angry hole in my chest that I’d been nurturing for weeks now. I unwillingly recall the hateful day.

  I'm home earlier than expected the jury ver
y quickly found the defendant guilty. I want to celebrate. I want to surprise Lauren and we can go out to dinner. "Babe I'm home! I got a win today so get yourself dressed up and we'll go out tonight." But the apartments seems empty, I’m sure I saw her car in the car lot, pulling out my cell phone to call her and hearing it ring in the kitchen, that’s odd she never goes anywhere without it.

  Then as I walk into the bedroom to shower and change, I'm greeted by the site of a guy's skinny pale ass pumping hard and fast as he fucks my girlfriend as she screams out her pleasure.

  "What the fuck!" Pulling the guy off I hit him hard leaving him to drop to the floor blood spurting from his face.

  "You've broken my fucking nose, you bastard! Who the fuck are you?" He’s clutching his nose as the blood streams down his face.

  "I'm her boyfriend, this is my home, so really I should be asking who in God's fucking name are you?"

  Lauren is screaming and trying to pull the sheet up over her body. "Shut up Lauren I'll deal with you in a minute. So do you have a name?" Not that I give a damn but I almost feel sorry for the sad fuck, this is not how he expected his afternoon to go.

  "Shit dude, she never mentioned a boyfriend. I only met her today." He's trying to get his clothes back on using only one hand while the other tries to stop the bleeding from his broken nose.

  "Get your shit on and fuck off, I don't want to ever have to see you again! For fucks sake Lauren stop screaming!"

  The nameless guy gets dressed and with another apologetic shrug he clears out.

  "Okay Lauren put your clothes on and get all your stuff together, you can get out as well."

  "Babe, Mason. Honey look at me." Her whiny voice grating on my nerves and feeding my anger.

  I turn to face her and I’m trying to get my fury under control. "What? What are you going to say that you think can make this all right?"

  "Mason, I'm so sorry, I didn't think you'd be back so soon."

  "Is that the only thing you think you should be sorry about? I get home early and catch you with your legs wrapped around some other fucking guy's neck. Aren't you sorry you were fucking someone else? Shit Lauren, how long has this been going on? Is he the first guy or is this a regular thing for you?"