Rock Your Body: A BWWM Romance

by Susan Westwood

  Colin looked around the table, then to Kelly. “You adding your two cents?”

  “I’m with Larry and Tamra. We can’t protect you if you’re gallivanting around the city.”

  He sighed. He was outnumbered, but their concern warmed him. “Okay. I’ll do whatever you ask.”

  “You’ll have to decline that benefit that Carie wants you to perform. A high school will not have enough security to make it worth the risk,” Tamra said.

  “I promised I would do it.”

  “Then blame it on me. I don’t care. You’re not doing it.”

  “You all forget that this is my career. These are my fans. I have to do what they want.”

  He’d always felt an obligation to his fans. They made him.

  “Desperate times, Colin,” Tamra said.

  “I’m with Tam, here,” observed Larry. “You need to keep safe and stay out of the public eye for a while.”

  Colin frowned. He might go stir crazy.

  ***

  She wondered if they’d found it yet. Paying that woman to be a groupie had been genius. Neither Colin nor his new girlfriend saw her.

  She wouldn’t be the girlfriend for much longer. She just needed to find some dirt to blackmail her.

  Colin would be hers. No matter what.

  ***

  Larry held Kelly’s hand as they descended in the elevator.

  “Do you have to go back to New Jersey tonight?”

  Kelly looked at him as if trying to figure out what he was asking. “I don’t have to be anywhere until tomorrow at five in the evening.”

  “I know this is short notice and I understand if you don’t want to, but I wish you would stay tonight.”

  Larry held his breath as she decided. He really wanted to see more of Kelly. Not just naked, but spend more time with her. He’d be happy if she slept in another room and had breakfast with him in the morning.

  Just so he didn’t have to say goodnight and leave her presence.

  He was enjoying himself a lot. He didn’t want the date to end.

  “I don’t have any clothes with me.”

  “Is that the only obstacle?” Larry said. He hoped. He could remedy that.

  “Well, a toothbrush.”

  “We can buy all that stuff. This is Manhattan, after all.”

  She laughed. “Then I guess I can stay.”

  “You guess? I was hoping you’d want to stay.”

  She kissed him, lightly. “I want to stay.”

  “Okay, one toothbrush and an outfit coming right up. My treat, since I didn’t tell you that you staying overnight might be on the agenda.”

  “I can’t ask you to do that.”

  “You’re not asking. I’m telling,” Larry said. “Unless you want it as a business expense.”

  “No, I can’t justify that. I doubt we’ll be talking business.”

  He laughed “No, I don’t think I’ll even be thinking about business.”

  “I hope not.”

  “No, Kelly, when I get you naked that will be all I’m thinking about.”

  ***

  Tamra lazed on the couch, her wineglass in hand. “Nice that Kelly and Larry are getting along.”

  Colin had her feet on his lap and was rubbing them. Her eyes would fall closed and she’d let out a moan worthy of an orgasm once in a while. The sound made his dick twitch, but he was not going to think about that for a moment.

  She clearly needed to talk. That was okay with him. If that’s what she needed he’d give it to her. She’d been quiet for a lot of dinner and he’d bet she was thinking about missing his stalker.

  “You know how Larry is,” Colin said.

  “Yes, I know and I’ve warned Kelly. It’s her decision.”

  “What does she want?”

  “Probably nothing serious or permanent, so it’ll all be fine,” Tamra said.

  “Guess so.” He kept rubbing. “You were pretty quiet at dinner.”

  “Mm.”

  “Something on your mind?”

  She put her wine glass on the coffee table then tucked her feet under her. “What if that person had a gun or a knife instead of a piece of paper?”

  “You would have dealt with it.”

  “That person could have injured you before I even knew it.”

  Her face was twisted in a grimace and he could see that her eyes had glazed over a little. Tamra looked like she was going to cry. He reached and took her hand in both of his. “Nothing bad happened. I’ve promised that I’ll behave and not be in public too much. Nothing’s going to happen.”

  “You don’t know that. I wasn’t a very good bodyguard. I was too busy being a lover.”

  He didn’t know how to answer that. What he said could make or break their future. The longer he knew Tamra, the more he wanted a future with her.

  “Tamra, nothing happened. I won’t put myself in the situation again. Relax.”

  “I can’t relax. What if something had happened to you?”

  He took her into his arms and whispered in her ear. “I’m fine. You’re fine. No one is going to get to me as long as you’re here.”

  “I don’t know if I should be here.”

  She can’t leave. He wouldn’t let her. “Don’t think that.”

  “Why not? I’ve put you in danger.”

  “No, Tamra, I put me in danger. It’s a hazard of the job.”

  He had to convince her to stay. His heart would go with her if she left and he didn’t want to deal with that. He couldn’t stand the thought of her being with anyone else.

  ***

  Larry unlocked the front door to his apartment. It wasn’t a penthouse like Colin’s, but pretty close. He switched on the lights to his living room and held his breath as he waited for Kelly to say something.

  He wanted her to like it. The place reflected him. He wanted her to like him. How odd that he’d found someone like her when he really wasn’t looking.

  Kelly walked around this living room that had just as good a view of Manhattan as Colin’s did. “This place is great. Homey.”

  He grabbed a remote and turned on the gas fireplace. It was still a bachelor pad.

  She dropped her bag on the floor next to his sofa and stood by the fire. “Nice.”

  “I like it. The fireplace was optional, but it reminds me of something I’d always wanted.”

  “I see.”

  “Wine?”

  “Yes, actually. I’d love a glass,” Kelly said.

  He opened a bottle in the kitchen that was open to his living room. He wasn’t much of a cook, but if he was going to do it, he wanted to in a well-stocked kitchen. He poured both of them glasses of wine.

  “I opted to not have the bear skin rug in front of the fireplace,” he said as he handed her the wine. “Too cliché.”

  “Yes, that might have been overkill. This way, it’s classy.”

  “Wait,” he said.

  He brought in his bean bag chair that sat two people.

  Kelly laughed. “That looks really comfortable.”

  “Let me hold your glass and you get on it.”

  She did and he handed her the glass back. “I should have taken my shoes off.”

  “I’ll do that.”

  Then he joined her on the chair. It was squishy enough to be comfortable, but not too much that they ran into each other. Unless they wanted to.

  “This seems almost too whimsical for you,” Kelly said.

  “I like a little whimsy. Not much. Colin has tried to loosen me up.”

  Kelly touched her glass to his, then sipped. “To your whimsy.”

  Larry laughed and he thought that Kelly had relaxed. He didn’t want to just jump on her, but he really wanted to get her naked. Kelly was one of the most beautiful women he’d ever seen.

  “Is Tamra shaken up about the stalker?”

  “She was quiet at dinner. I think she is. She probably feels she let Colin down.”

  “I doubt Colin feels that way. I’ve nev
er seen him look at a woman the way he looks at Tamra.”

  “She’s a handful and if she gets it into her head that she put him in danger, she may bring someone else in,” Kelly said.

  Larry took her hand and intertwined their fingers. “What’s your read on the situation?”

  “That there was no harm and as long as Colin stays out of the public eye for a while, he’ll be fine.”

  “I think he’ll behave because of Tamra. He hasn’t always been the most responsible client I’ve had,” Larry said.

  Kelly put her glass on the floor then shifted to face him. “Let’s not talk about work.”

  ***

  Tamra still could not believe that someone had gotten that close to Colin. He held her close and she never wanted to leave his arms. On the other hand, maybe she was too close. She was beginning to have feelings for him and that would cloud her judgment.

  She nudged at him and he released her. He held onto her hand. “I’m thinking maybe I can’t do this job. I think that I need to bring someone else in.”

  “No. You have more reason to protect me than some stranger.”

  “I know a lot of professionals, Colin. You’d be well protected. We have a large staff of freelancers.”

  “Freelancers? You’re going to give the job to someone who does it part time?”

  “I never thought of them that way, Colin. They are good at what they do. Better than I am.”

  How had she let him down? She had this vision of something bad happening to him and she’d never be able to keep her professional demeanor.

  “I want you, Tamra.”

  “Are you sure?”

  “Yes. I’ve never been surer of anything. Look. Let’s sleep on it and then talk about it with Kelly before you do anything rash. No one’s getting to me tonight.”

  She frowned. He made it all sound so easy. But he always made it sound easy. What she would give to look at life that simply, but because of her job she saw a threat everywhere. She wished she could turn that part of her brain off for one night.

  Just one night.

  She couldn’t. Her job was such a part of her. Her instincts were honed from growing up in the projects. She was unable to turn it off. They were a part of her, but clearly not as good as she thought.

  Colin stood and took her hand. “Come, Tamra. Let’s go to bed.”

  She longed to curl up in his arms and he was going to let her.

  What would she do when this was all over?

  CHAPTER 16

  Kelly leaned in and kissed Larry. This wasn’t their first kiss, just the first one that she knew was going to lead elsewhere.

  To his bedroom. She bet he had condoms. She bet he had a selection of them. At the moment, that didn’t bother her. He was probably an expert lover.

  She’d take an expert lover any day, right now would be fine.

  “You sure?”

  His eyes were dark with passion.

  “Yes, I’m sure, Larry.”

  He leaned back in to kiss her. “Good.”

  He jammed his hand into her hair, massaging her scalp as he did. Her whole body began to tingle and she wouldn’t have wanted to be anywhere else. She tugged Larry’s shirt out of his pants and ran her hands up his chest.

  More muscles than she thought. She felt hard planes and just a smattering of hair. She scraped her nails lightly over his nipples and he jerked.

  He nipped down her neck, tugging her shirt out of the way. She pushed his shirt up and off his body as he paused his kissing. Then she captured his lips again. They almost hurt from the contact, but she couldn’t break it for long.

  His breathing ratcheted up. She wanted to be skin to skin to him. Feel his warmth and hardness. She didn’t want soft. She wanted to be thoroughly made love to and she suspected Larry knew how to do that.

  She couldn’t stop touching him. His skin was soft for a guy, but underneath, his muscles bunched. He groaned into her ear. She kissed him harder as if she could get inside of him instead of the other way around.

  He ground his hips into her and she spread her legs so he could rest there. Her hands traveled south to undo his belt and pants. She reached in to find him rock hard. With one hand on his arm and one on his cock, she stroked him.

  “Oh God, Kelly.”

  She smiled, liking that this man was hard for her. Not anyone else. There was power in that.

  He undid her blouse then her bra, raking his hand over her nipples. She arched into him, not letting go. His mouth covered her nipple and she thought she would explode.

  “Hurry,” she said.

  She wanted him inside of her. Now. He rolled away from her and tugged off his pants. He fished in the pocket and came up with a packet that he held up for her.

  She smiled. Of course he was prepared. He undid her pants and slid them down her legs, kissing her skin as he revealed it. Then he kissed his way back up, avoiding the part she wanted his lips on the most.

  Then he was there, her legs splayed out to give him better access.

  “I could stay here forever,” he said.

  His tongue did magical things to her. She dug her hands into the bean bag and arched up to him. The waves built and she wriggled for release. His hands gripped her, holding her in place as his tongue tangoed across her clit.

  Then she was sailing over the edge, a moan escaping from her lips. She heard a deep chuckle from him. When she could open her eyes, he was still in between her legs, but he had a grin on his face.

  “You’re proud of yourself.”

  “I love doing that.” Then the grin fell off of his face. “Almost as much as I enjoy doing this.”

  He’d put the condom on while she was in the throes of her orgasm. Now he slid his body up her and positioned himself before thrusting into her. He filled her and she wrapped her legs around him. She had a feeling she’d be holding on for dear life.

  She wasn’t wrong. He started out slowly then build the speed as her orgasm built again. Coming to a crescendo, she gripped his shoulders. Her body fought to move, but he was on top of her and he pistoned into her, a groan escaping.

  ***

  Larry didn’t think he could move. He leaned on his elbow to take some of his weight off Kelly, though she didn’t seem in any hurry to move. He was reluctant to pull out of her, but he did have to deal with the condom.

  He didn’t want to lose contact with or ruin the moment, but he did. When he returned, he had a blanket for them.

  He put it over them then snuggled closer to her. She put her hand on his chest and her head on his shoulder. “Wow.”

  “Wow?”

  She laughed. “Yes, wow. I don’t think I can move.”

  He intertwined his fingers with hers. “Good. We can stay here as long as you like.”

  He smiled having never been so content in his life. Was this bachelor slowing down? Meeting his match? No, he just had been laid well. That was it. He liked how responsive Kelly was.

  She snuggled closer to him and he tucked the blanket around them. Like a cocoon.

  “That was interesting on the bean bag chair. Just enough firmness and give at the same time,” she said. “I can see why you bought it.”

  “I had no idea that sex would be this good on it.”

  “Really?”

  “Nope. I bought it because I like the way they feel when you sit in them.”

  She laughed. “So you haven’t had sex on this before?”

  “No, I haven’t. I promise.”

  He played with her hair, his eyes closed, just enjoying the closeness. He didn’t often bring women back here, because he wanted the option to leave. Tonight he didn’t want to be anywhere else.

  “Then I’m honored.”

  “Eventually we need to move to the bed. As romantic as it would be to sleep here, I like my bed.”

  “In a minute.”

  He hugged her closer. She could take as long as she liked. What magic had brought her into his life? What magic had made him ready to r
eceive this miracle?

  An avowed bachelor, Larry had given up on marriage. He never expected to fall in love. Maybe he’d just been dating the wrong women.

  Kelly was intelligent and beautiful and strong. She owned her own business so he didn’t have to support her. She had class and culture. Probably more than he did, despite his living in Manhattan.

  Where had she been all of his life?

  She shifted. “We better move or I’m going to fall asleep.”

  “You ready?”

  “I am.”

  “Wrap the blanket around you and follow me.”

  ***

  Colin let her curl up beside him, trying to comfort her. Sometime in the night, she stopped wanting comfort and wanted him.

  He woke to her on top of him, naked and kissing his neck.

  “Oh, honey.”

  “You’re hard to wake up.”

  “But I am now.”

  He was ready to go. Guess she’d been working hard to wake him up and now he was hard. She slid herself onto him without any preamble. She slowly slid up his shaft then down again.

  Then quicker, each time so that his body was on fire with his need for release. Then she’d stop. Sweet torture. When she started again, her hands braced on his chest, she went quickly. She must have needed this badly.

  Her orgasm shook him and he went over the edge wishing it could have lasted longer.

  She collapsed onto his chest, her breath coming out in pants. He rubbed her back. “You okay?”

  “Better now.”

  He hugged her to him. He almost told her he loved her. Too soon. And she was too fragile right now. He had to convince her that everything was okay.

  “I’m glad you woke me up. You can wake me up anytime for sex.”

  “That’s what I figured.”

  “Seriously. Are you feeling better?”

  “I don’t know. I just keep thinking that what if the stalker had a weapon.”

  “Don’t. Don’t think about it.”

  He kissed the top of her head. She shifted off of him, but didn’t lose contact.

  “I still think I should bring someone else in.”

  “If you do, I want them as a supplement to you.”

  “What do you mean?”

  “I still want you here in official capacity. As my bodyguard. No one else is going to give me such personal service.”