by Luxx Monroe
When he started pacing again, I knew there was more to this story. “What else?” I asked and scooted a little more to the edge of the couch. “Just tell me, Jared. I can handle it.”
I heard him say something, but I swore it sounded like he’d said that he was having a baby. But that couldn’t be right. He couldn’t have kids before me. I knew there was that possibility, but the universe wasn’t that fucking cruel. Except, it was.
“What was that?” I asked in a soft voice. I couldn’t cry. I wouldn’t cry.
When he turned around, I could tell his eyes were starting to glaze over, and it looked like he was in actual pain. “I’m having a baby with Shelly. We’re having a baby.”
“Congratulations,” I said in a whisper and stood quickly, bolting out of the living room and heading straight to the kitchen. I needed to get out of that room with him. A baby? Jared was having a kid. Something he’d always wanted, something that I could never give him. And then what, he bangs some young girl and she gets pregnant right away? Fuck you, too, universe.
“Lena, wait,” he said and followed right behind me. He grabbed my shoulders and turned me around so I was facing him. “You know how much I wanted this with you, but it just wasn’t going to happen.”
“You didn’t even try. There were other options.”
“What, and make us bankrupt? You know I didn’t want to go down that road.”
I was able to fight the tears that were about to make their way through, and tried to pull away from him, but his grip was too tight. “We could have made it work, but you gave up on us. I want you to leave.”
“No, because I need to say more to you. I’m excited as hell to have a kid, and Shelly is great, but it should have been us. Lena, it’s always been you.”
He wasn’t serious, was he? “Are you fucking kidding me? Get off me, and get out!” I screamed and tried to shove him out of my way.
Just when Jared was about to pull me closer to him, a different set of strong hands were on his shoulders, pulling him away from me. “She said get your fucking hands off her.” Dax’s voice was so cool and calm that it even made me a little wary.
Jared let me go and spun around quickly. “Who the fuck are you?” he said very loudly, taking a step back when Dax moved forward, trying to reach for me.
“I’m Lena’s boyfriend, and you need to leave.”
Jared looked between Dax and me, and then started to laugh. “Are you kidding me? Are you really dating this guy?” he asked and looked Dax up and down. Dax wasn’t a small guy. In fact, he had a good thirty pounds of muscle on Jared. He was also able to slip his jeans on and wasn’t butt-ass naked, or Jared would have noticed another area that Dax had him beat in.
“Lena, do you want me to get him out of here?” Dax asked and pulled me closer to him. Despite us only knowing each other for a few days, it felt like I’d known him forever. And maybe I had. I’d heard so much about him from Krista, but in the past few years I’d never had the chance to meet him. I was glad about that, because timing is everything.
“Yes,” I said in the strongest voice I could muster, but Jared didn’t look as convinced as I was. Jared was a jock in high school, but he was a quarterback and a basketball player. He had nothing on Dax. I’d heard from Krista that he was one hell of a wrestler in high school and even took home a few state champs in his four-year period.
Dax slowly moved his arms down to his sides and locked eyes with Jared. “She said to leave. You can turn around and walk out of here like a man, or I can finally kick your ass like I’ve wanted to since I heard about how sorry of a man you are.”
Jared honestly seemed amused by the whole situation, and it made me realize what a complete dick he really was. I was just so young when we were together that I never had anyone to compare him to.
“You think I’m going to listen to you? How old are you?”
“Old enough,” Dax said with more of a bite and moved one step closer to Jared.
Jared finally took a step back and looked over at me. “Dude, you’re a young guy and not thinking straight. Lena is fucking gorgeous, but she’s a train wreck. I should never have come over here. If you want a life of disappointment, then be my—”
Jared didn’t get the chance to finish his horrible sentence about me because Dax’s fist came at his face, knocking his ass to the ground and making a horrible popping noise.
“Fuck!” Jared yelled and stood to face Dax.
“Get the fuck out of here,” Dax said again in his calm tone and looked like he was ready to pounce. “And if you ever come back here again, I’ll be the one who drives you to the hospital when I’m done beating the shit out of you.”
Jared held his jaw and contemplated what he was saying. It was obvious that Dax would have won in a fight, so he actually made a smart move. He headed toward the door. “Nice guy you’ve got there, Lena. Have him give me a call when he gets tired of you and I’ll buy him a beer.”
Dax rushed Jared, almost making it to him before Jared ran out the front door and headed toward his truck. Dax followed in a flurry and was shouting every curse word in the book until I heard Jared’s truck race off.
Watching and hearing everything that just unfolded in front of me was like a seeing a bad car wreck. I wasn’t sure whether to stand with my mouth open because of the horrible things Jared just said about me, to start screaming and freaking out that I should have been the one to punch him in his face, or to be thankful as hell we weren’t married anymore. I couldn’t believe that just happened right in front of my face. It also brought back too many memories that I’d shoved so far deep into my brain that I’d almost forgotten about them. The marriage I shared with Jared wasn’t all roses like I wanted to remember. He had a temper, he said very hurtful things to me when he was angry, and he fell out of love with me. Why had I been holding on to a relationship that wasn’t even healthy? Looking back, I realized that as much as our divorce devastated me, it also freed me.
“Are you okay?” I heard Dax ask, but I didn’t turn to look at him. Was I okay? The answer was too simple at first, but I was. Yes. I was finally okay.
“I am,” I said quietly and turned my body toward Dax. “I’m actually really okay.”
Dax apparently didn’t believe me, because he was taking a few steps toward me with both hands up in the air, the way one might approach a timid animal. It made me sigh and roll my eyes.
“Really, I’m fine.”
When he reached out and pulled me into a tight hug, I didn’t cry. That moment let me know that I was going to be okay, that I wasn’t going to let some asshole ex ruin my life anymore.
“Well, I’m glad one of us is. If I see that prick ever again, he’s going to be lucky if he steps away with everything still attached to that smug face of his.”
Snuggling closer into Dax’s body made me realize that no one had really ever stood up for me before like that. Jared wasn’t the fighting type, and if someone said something disrespectful, he’d just laugh and play it off as a joke. I could tell Dax was nothing like that. He would protect me.
“Thank you,” I whispered and lifted my head to place a small kiss on his cheek.
“I’ll never let anyone talk to you like that. He’s a fucking dickhead.”
I nodded and placed my head on his chest. It might have been wrong to be falling for my best friend’s young nephew, but nothing in my life up to that point had ever felt so right.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Dax
“You know, we should probably do something today,” Lena joked as I buried my head beneath her bedsheet and explored my new favorite toy with my tongue. “We’ve spent the entire weekend in bed, and I’m afraid Krista is going to come over any second to check on me.”
Her voice trailed off when I sucked her sensitive bud into my mouth. I tried to reply, but all that came out of my mouth were a few mumbles, making Lena laugh. I’m sure she couldn’t understand a single word I was trying to say.
“And
if she finds your face between my legs, well then, our new secret is out.”
I pulled the sheet off us and sat up on my knees. “Good. I think we should go over and tell them now.”
I could tell Lena was picturing Krista’s reaction to our new relationship. That made me also think about the text that I’d watched her send Kirk when he’d tried to call her a few times the previous day. There was nothing I liked more than watching Lena telling another man that she was taken.
“Lena, I’m serious. I loved being able to say I’m your boyfriend, even if it was to that fucking prick. This is so brand new for us, but I want to make it work. I don’t care about our age difference; you have to see that.”
And I knew she did. She seemed as happy as I did this past week, but this was all so new that I could tell she still had her doubts. “I know, but I’m just not ready yet. Let’s see how things go this summer, and then we’ll talk.”
I knew this was a battle I wouldn’t win at that moment. So I grinned and leaned down for a quick kiss. “Okay, but you’ll have to know by the end of the summer I’ll be so fucking head over heels in love with you that you’ll probably have to tell my aunt we’re more than just dating.”
Of course, she didn’t have time to analyze what I’d just said, because all I could think about was getting my mouth on that ripe little pussy of hers again.
*
After a few weeks, I was the happiest I’d ever been, except the fact that I was in love with a woman that didn’t know what she wanted. I would come to Lena’s every night I could after work and spend the evening talking and fucking. Talking wasn’t usually my favorite pastime, but talking with her was something I looked forward to. We’d been holed up in her house most of our time together, and I wanted to be the man she could see herself with for the rest of her life. I knew what I wanted when I wanted it, and I wanted Lena.
“Let me take you out tonight,” I whispered in her ear as she was trying to finish brushing her teeth at the sink in the ugliest, pinkest bathroom I’d ever seen. “And I can’t believe your ex actually agreed to this bathroom color. It’s like a little girl threw up in here and this was the result.”
Lena spit out her toothpaste and laughed, slapping my shoulder and rolling her eyes at me. “You’re just jealous.” She shot me a smug expression, but then eyed me suspiciously when I started to pull my shirt over my head. “What are you doing?”
I threw my dirty, sweaty shirt in the corner of her bathroom and started to unbuckle my jeans, showing her what was ready for her beneath them. “Taking a shower with you,” I said so matter-of-factly that she just shrugged and started to pull her sundress over her head as well. She was too easy; I fucking loved it.
“You do kind of smell. I didn’t want to be rude,” she said with a giggle. It only took me a second to scoop her up and smack her bare ass with my hand, making her squirm and try to break free of my hold. “Stop!” she screamed, but then laughed even harder when she tried to grab my nipple, but I dodged her grabby hands and flipped her over so she was standing in the shower.
“You’re going to get it,” she warned, but stopped when I stepped in behind her.
I turned her around so she was facing the shower wall and slowly moved her long hair so it was hanging over her shoulder and not down the middle of her back. “Nope, looks like the only one who’s going to get it is you,” I said playfully and spread her legs with mine, grabbing her hips and making her ass rise higher in the air.
“I love being like this with you, Dax. It’s all I think about,” she said in a breathless voice and pressed her forehead into the damp tile.
“Good,” I whispered and grabbed her hands, placing them on the tile above her head. “You’re all I think about, too.” I leaned down, sucking in a small patch of the skin on her neck, and pulled hard enough that I knew I’d leave a mark. I’d always made fun of chicks with hickies all over their necks, but with Lena it was all I could do to mark her body. I loved knowing I was at that exact spot on her.
“Why does this always feel so good, so right with you?”
While running my hands down her body, I sighed, knowing exactly what she was talking about. “Because sometimes in life, what we need appears exactly when we need it. We might not be wanting or expecting it, but that’s the funny thing about it. Life knows us better than we ever could. Quit thinking about the what ifs so much and just stay with me in this moment. Let me fuck you in this shower and then take you out. Let me treat you like you deserve to be treated.”
Lena didn’t say a word, but instead she turned around and took my mouth with hers, melding our tongues together, telling me that she was going to at least try to live in the moment.
I pulled away and started to pump my thick cock with my hand, letting the water cover our bodies. Her eyes never left my dick, and soon she was bending down, wrapping her perfect mouth around me. “Not too long, you’ll make me go.”
“So?” she muttered through her strokes and kept up a pace that was too fucking good.
I lifted her chin so she met my stare. “Because I want to come inside of you.”
Without missing a beat, I had her against the wall within seconds and spread her legs apart, guiding my aching cock into her eager pussy. “Fuck, you always feel so good. Why do you always feel so damn good?”
Her moans didn’t make any sense, but what they did tell me was that she was loving this just as much as I was. Pushing myself in and out of her made us both lose it, and soon I had her wet nipple in my mouth, sucking and nipping at her sensitive peak.
When I felt her release squeeze around me, my hot liquid filled her, and all I could feel was pure ecstasy. I pulled out and continued to stroke myself while watching her come down from the high we both just gave each other.
Finally, she looked down at me and licked her lips with a flick of her tongue. “You are so hot.”
“I’m nothing compared to you.”
That was my favorite shower to date.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Lena
Bliss. That was my life at the moment. Pure and utter bliss. Sure, I knew that sleeping with Krista’s nephew probably wasn’t the smartest thing I could do. Jeopardizing our friendship scared the shit out of me, but watching him sleep soundly beside me had other emotions rising in my chest. He joked with me that he wasn’t just going to be fucking me, he was going to fall so deeply in love with me that I’d never get rid of him. What he didn’t know was that I understood what he was saying.
I shook my head free of my thoughts and went back to my novel. There was something so wonderful about losing yourself in a book. Just as I was getting to a good part, Dax’s phone dinged by the side of my bed.
When I noticed he didn’t even flinch, I chose to ignore it and went back to my love story. However, when his phone went off three more times in a row, I reached across him and grabbed it before it woke him up.
I glanced down at his screen and noticed the texts were from his buddy Dillion. My curiosity may have gotten the better of me, because I might have swiped the bar across his phone and opened the messages from Dillion.
Duuuuude…get your ass to this party at Savannah’s place. It’s fucking off the hook! She’s asking about you. Get your limp dick out and come party. Pussy.
I rolled my eyes and laughed when I saw some pictures he’d sent of himself at what looked like a teenage kegger. I couldn’t picture Dax in the middle of it all. But then I looked at the last picture he’d sent and didn’t find it as funny. It was apparently Savannah, who was drop-dead gorgeous and showing a very impressive amount of cleavage.
“Looking at porn on my phone again?”
His voice startled me so bad that my high-pitched shriek made him jump right back and his phone went flying. “Shit! You scared me,” I said and smacked his chest.
Dax’s chuckle made my cheeks redden. I’d been caught red-handed on his phone.
“So that’s a yes? Looked like a good set of tits,” he said jokingly
, but it only made me angrier. Why? He was so young and could have a young girl who could give him everything he ever wanted, but here I was getting jealous and pissed when I thought about him being with someone else. I loved his cock, and dammit, it was mine.
“No,” I said quickly and went to grab his phone before he could see what I was looking at.
Dax was faster, though, and reached it first. “Let’s see what we were looking at, then.” His eyes went wide, but then zeroed in on whose chest it was. “Savannah? You were looking at Savannah Montgomery’s chest?”
“Oh my God,” I muttered and lay back, hiding my face with my hands. “No. Your phone kept going off and I may have peaked at what Dillion was sending you.”
He lied down next to me and pulled my hands away from my face. “Don’t be embarrassed. Savannah has a great rack, but it’s nothing compared to yours.” He smirked at me and leaned down, taking my nipple in his mouth and gently licking and sucking on it.
You’d think having sex with someone a million times would get old, but that wasn’t the case with Dax. If anything, he made me want it more each and every time.
“Besides, if you’d let me tell people about us, Dillion wouldn’t be sending me pictures of other girls.”
I moaned when his hand trailed down my naked body and pushed my legs open. His tongue continued to assault my sensitive nipples, and when his two large fingers entered me, I couldn’t take it. I grabbed his face and kissed him with such passion that I knew then and there that I was falling in love with that man. Hell, there was no falling. I had already landed.
*
“You should go. Have some fun this summer. That’s what you wanted all along in the first place.”
Dax took his last bite of some chocolate chip cookies I’d made the day earlier and lifted his eyebrow. “I’ll go if you’ll come with me,” he said, spitting a few crumbs out of his mouth.
My body was still buzzing from the multiple orgasms he’d given me a few minutes earlier, but I’d talked him out of going for a second round to come down to the kitchen to refuel. “I’m not going to a college party. Those days are so long behind me.”
