by C. A. Harms
“You heard about that?” she said, lowering her voice.
“I don’t think there are too many people that don’t know about it,” I replied, and she closed her eyes, pressing her lips together tightly. She did her best to hide her laughter, but in a matter of seconds we were both giggling.
***
“What time do you think you girls will be done?” Noah asked as he pulled up to the front of Jackson and Bailey’s place.
Bailey recruited Amber, Tammy, Olivia, Trinity, and me to help prepare the wedding invitations for mailing. So when I walked into my apartment carrying two bottles of wine and found Noah lounging on my couch, I regretted committing to spending the evening with the girls. I would have much rather gotten my drink on and attacked my man instead.
When I’d informed him of our plans, he pouted and then insisted that since we would be drinking, he would be driving us there and picking us up after.
“Are you going home?” I asked when he placed his truck in park.
“Yeah, Stacey is gonna bring Austin over and leave him for an hour while she gets her hair colored. Afterward, she’ll stop back by and take him home.”
I had gotten so much better with accepting Stacey being around Noah. But when she was with him without me near, I always felt a small tinge of jealousy.
“I can text you when we’re about done.” I had unfastened my seat belt and gathered my bag from between my feet.
Trinity had already opened the passenger door and crawled out and was smoothing her shirt as she waited for me. I’d started to slide across the seat when Noah cupped the back of my neck, stopping me from going any farther.
“You forgetting something?” He watched me with worried eyes, and I suddenly felt bad. I let go of the bag I had just lifted from the floor and left it in the set next to me as I leaned in and wrapped my arms around Noah’s neck. “I’m sorry,” I whispered just before placing my lips against his.
I took control of the moment and rolled my tongue with his, causing him to groan. When I pulled back, he followed me, sneaking in just a few more seconds. I smiled against his lips, giving him one last peck before releasing my hold. “Until later,” I said with a wink.
He waited in the driveway until Trinity and I were safely inside with the door closed behind us.
***
When you got a few drinks in Trinity, she became a whole new ball of fun. Not to mention extremely talkative. At one point she had Bailey laughing to the point of tears before she hurried off to the bathroom with her legs pinched tightly together. She was on the verge of hyperventilating, saying something about peeing her pants in between gasps.
I watched as Tammy laughed so hard she snorted.
Olivia and Bailey were the only sober ones in the bunch. Bailey used the excuse of taking medication she couldn’t drink with. Tammy and Olivia gave her skeptical looks, but she quickly changed the subject. Olivia kept threatening us with taking some incriminating photos to use against us later, but no one seemed to care.
The invitations were all ready to go out, the first few bottles of wine had been consumed, and the radio had just been turned on. Who knew acting like a fool with a group of half-loopy women would be so fun?
“Do it.” Amber nudged me with her shoulder as she nodded toward Olivia and Trinity. Both girls were standing in the center of the room, their backs facing as us they twerked to the music. Olivia was sort of a natural as she bounced her hips and took herself lower to the floor before rising once more.
“Yeah, Alena,” Olivia taunted as she looked back over her shoulder, still shaking her ass at us. Tammy was laughing to the point of almost falling over, and Trinity was doing her best to keep up with Liv.
“Does your father know about these moves of yours?” Tammy asked between laughs, and Olivia spun around to face us as she began rolling her hips more suggestively.
“Come on, Gran, don’t be a stick-in-the-mud. Let me see you work it,” Olivia taunted, completely ignoring her question.
Tammy looked over at me, arching a brow. After a few seconds of staring at one another, we both crawled from the floor and joined the girls in the center of the room.
I knew I was tipsy, but I truly did not know just how much until I stood up. I held my hands out to my sides, trying to make the room stop spinning. My reaction only made Trinity bust out in giggles, and Amber rolled back on her back, her feet in the air as she snorted like a pig.
“Okay, now show me how to move like that,” I slurred.
Olivia got on one side of me, placing Tammy on the other side of her, and Trinity was at my left. They both began to roll their hips, making their asses bounce. The movements gradually increased, and I did my best to keep up.
I had been so focused on the music and not falling on my face that I hadn’t heard the front door open. But when I heard a loud hoot followed by a “what the fuck?” I spun around quickly.
Ryan, Jackson, and Noah were standing in the entryway, staring at us with smiles on their faces. Well, all but Ryan. He was giving his daughter a warning look.
“What?” she asked.
“I better never see you dancing like that outside of the house,” he said, and she rolled her eyes.
“Seriously, Dad.” She walked over toward the radio and flipped the switch.
“Yeah, seriously. I swear, girl, I am gonna lock your ass in the basement and feed you your meals through a goddamned hole in the door,” he mumbled as he stepped around her and walked toward his wife. “We really need to look into a big-ass padlock or steel fucking doors,” he told Amber.
We all waited for him to finish his fatherly rant before we laughed at his ridiculous behavior.
Jackson worked his way toward Bailey and curled his hand around her waist. He placed his lips only inches from her ear and began whispering—probably all sorts of dirty words, because that’s just how those two are.
Forgetting Noah was still behind me, I jumped when he wrapped his arms around my midsection. He placed a soft kiss against my shoulder before he too began to whisper near my ear. “I think you should let me take you home, strip you naked, and then I’ll lie back on the bed while you dance like you just were.” He kissed my neck just beneath my ear, and I shivered against him.
“Then you can lower yourself over me and sit down on my cock,” he said in a husky rasp.
Noah very rarely talked dirty, but I loved it when he did. He was a generous lover and very giving, but generally he was passionate in a sweet way.
Everyone in the room was so entertained with picking on Ryan that they weren’t paying attention to Noah and me. So I took the opportunity to place my hand behind my back and slide it between our bodies. The moment I made contact with his now-growing erection, I gripped him firmly and glided my palm over him.
“Or I could just take you out to my truck right now and fuck you on the hood.” He moaned, biting into the delicate part of my neck. “Please tell me you’re ready to get out of here.”
“I’m ready,” I said with no amount of hesitation.
He placed his hand over mine and removed it from his dick. “We’re gonna head on home,” he announced, causing everyone to look in our direction.
Trinity looked slightly disappointed until Oliva made her smile by saying, “Trin, do you wanna go back to Gran’s with me for the night?” Tammy smiled and nodded, suggesting she thought that was a great idea.
I was secretly happy Noah and I would be alone on the ride home. I had plans for him. We said our good-byes just before he pulled me out the door in a hurry, making me giggle all the way.
Chapter Twenty-Four
Noah
The ride home was full of sexual tension. Hell, it was so damn thick, I would have sworn in that moment it was making it almost impossible to breathe. The fact Alena had roaming hands and became horny after she drank just added to my difficulties. I really loved her forwardness and made a note to myself to remember how she got around alcohol.
We were rounding the be
nd that led to the lane to my place when she slid her hand beneath the waistband of my jeans. My legs tensed, and for a moment I pressed a little harder than I wanted to on the gas pedal. As if her hand encircling my hard cock wasn’t enough, she used her other to unbutton and unzip my jeans. I was just about to stop her when she lowered her head and took my dick into her mouth. In that moment, I lost all conscious thought. I let up off the gas and tried my damnedest not to drive off the road.
I drove up the lane to my house and slowed to a stop a few feet from my garage. Placing the truck in park, I let my head fall back and focused on the warm wetness of her heavenly mouth. She was damn good at sucking cock, so good I had a hard time not gripping her head and thrusting in harder and faster. She made me forget my control the moment she took me between her sweet lips.
“Fuck, baby, I’m gonna lose it,” I said as I brushed her hair from her face.
The little vixen looked up at me, licking over my entire length. “I give you permission,” she whispered with a knowing smile. “Let go, handsome. I want to taste you.” She didn’t wait for a response as she gripped the base of my cock and got back to work.
My eyes rolled back in my head, my toes curled, and my thighs tightened. Fuck me, I felt like my head was spinning.
She moaned as my orgasm ripped through me.
My body shook as I filled her mouth, and she accepted it all. She didn’t stop sucking and licking until she’d cleaned my cock.
“Now that was sexy,” Alena whispered before kissing my stomach and trailing her tongue up over my abs and kissing along my chest softly. “But that was only the beginning, cowboy. We have a whole night ahead of us.”
She pushed off my chest and opened the passenger door, leaving me watching after her in awe as she stepped out.
I’d hit the fucking jackpot.
She stood at the door, a seductive smile still covering her lips as I walked to her. Just as I turned the key, I leaned in and placed a soft kiss on her lips.
“You better run, sweetheart, because I’m about to devour you.”
Her eyes grew wider, and her smile turned to a sexy smirk. “What if I don’t want to run? What if I’m ready to be devoured?” She began backing into the house as she motioned with her finger for me to follow.
I closed and locked the front door and turned back to face her just in time to catch her kick off her heels and begin shimmying her pants and panties down her hips. I swallowed hard as I took in her beauty. Her eyes remained locked on mine as she continued to undress and dropped her shirt and bra to the floor. She walked backward once again and lowered herself to the couch. I walked over to her and knelt between her thighs.
As I ran my hands up them, she bit down hard on her lower lip as her eyes fluttered shut. As she lifted her hips, I knew what she was craving, yet I was enjoying teasing her. When my hands met the apex of her thighs, I gently placed my thumb over her clit and made a circular motion. She whimpered and thrust her hips, begging for more. Watching her reaction closely, I leaned in and kissed her inner thigh. Her mouth fell open. “Mm,” she moaned. Before I could make another move, she placed her hand on the back of my head and pulled me toward the place she needed me most.
Note to self—Alena also grew impatient when she drank. I tried not to chuckle at her persistence as she pushed my head downward. She lifted her hips at the same time, and that was all it took. As my tongue touched her sweetness, I no longer felt the urge to tease her. I think I needed to taste her as much as she needed to feel me.
I went in for the sweet spot and began sucking her clit as I slid my finger inside her heat. She was so fucking wet, it took little effort.
“Oh my God, Noah, I love when you do that,” she panted. “Just like that, fuck, stay right there.” She was demanding and needy, and it was fucking sexy as hell.
She rode my face toward her release, and I looked up to watch her. Alena’s mouth was slightly parted, her eyebrows scrunched in determination. She fisted the couch cushions at her sides as she rotated her hips. I continued to slide my finger in and out of her wet pussy as I concentrated on her swollen clit.
“Oh yes, right there, don’t stop,” she begged as her body tensed and she shivered through her orgasm. I did what she asked, accepting it all and continuing to take all she gave me.
My own urgency took over, and I knew I needed her. In a rush, I pulled my wallet from my back pocket and fished out a condom. In record time I had my cock shielded and was pushing inside her while she still throbbed from coming only seconds ago. Gripping her hips, I drove inside her hard and fast. I couldn’t remember a time when I was so fucking turned on. I felt light-headed, and my heart was beating so fast.
“Harder,” she demanded, her voice needy.
“Like this, baby?” I said as I drove inside her over and over. The sound of our bodies slapping together only pushed me to go faster and harder. “Fuck, Alena, I’m so close, sweetheart,” I told her as I tried to hold back. “Come for me, give me more.”
I thought I could keep it together, but when she ran her hand down her stomach and settled it where we were connected, fuck, maintaining that control became the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do.
Alena placed two fingers over her clit and began rubbing herself. My nostrils flared, and I slowed my movements and watched her pleasure herself as I fucked her slowly.
The moment she tensed around my hardness, I let go of my own release, and we came together, our eyes locked on to each other’s.
***
A tingling sensation ran over my back and along my shoulder. I shifted toward it and snuggled against the warmth beneath me. Settled, I’d begun to fade back into the comfort of sleep when the softness of her touch woke me fully.
“Mm, that feels nice,” I whispered against her shoulder.
After we had sex on the couch, we made our way to my bedroom. After making love slowly that time, we fell asleep in one another’s arms.
Alena combed her fingers through my hair, and I kissed her collarbone. My body was still covering hers, curled around her like a blanket.
My gaze met hers, and her smile pulled at something deep inside me. I knew I wanted nothing more than to spend day after day being surrounded by her love.
“I love you,” I whispered. Her eyes filled with tears, and her lower lip trembled. “I’m so in love with you, sweetheart.”
I raised myself up on my elbows and braced them on either side of her. Kissing her lips gently, I rested my forehead against hers.
“I love you too.” When she spoke those words, my heart felt like it would beat out of my chest.
I positioned myself between her thighs and slowly began sliding inside her as I lowered my lips to hers.
It took me a moment to realize why things felt so different this time. Why our lovemaking was so intense.
“Damn,” I groaned as I began to pull back, and she wrapped her legs around my waist in protest. “I need a condom,” I told her, and she smiled up at me, shaking her head gently.
I arched an eyebrow in confusion, and her smile grew wider. “No, you don’t. I got the shot almost two weeks ago.”
I stayed in place, hovering over Alena with my cock still halfway inside her. “You didn’t think to tell me that last night?” I groaned as I began to push back inside her warmth.
“Sorry.” She arched her back, and her breasts pressed against my chest as I rotated my hips. “I was a little out of it last night.”
I groaned as she clenched around me and rocked her hips, taking me inside her just a little farther.
“No more condoms,” I said. “Not after feeling you like this. Nothing between us anymore.” There was no fucking way we could go back. This felt too amazing, too intimate. “I love you so much, Len, so damn much,” I confessed as we began to rock together.
“And your love is the greatest feeling I’ve ever felt.”
My throat tightened with emotion, but before I could respond, she gripped the back of my neck and pulled m
y lips down to meet hers. So instead of words, I tried to focus on showing her just how much I adored her. She had fully captured my heart and soul.
Chapter Twenty-Five
Alena
Amber sat across me at the countertop dabbing at her eyes. I held a cup of coffee in my palms and smiled. “It was the sweetest moment,” I confessed as my eyes filled with tears. “Everything changed, and I can’t remember a time I felt more treasured.”
“I will admit the Sawyer boys were raised right. They know how to love and adore. They have both the gentleness a woman needs and the heavy love a woman craves,” Amber said before she blew her nose. “The love of a Sawyer man is consuming and overpowering. You don’t have a moment to feel neglected or lonely. They love every moment they’re near you. And I couldn’t be happier than I am right now, because you deserve that kind of love, Len.”
I had never felt a love like that.
“Speaking of Sawyer men, here come two very handsome officers,” Amber said excitedly.
I looked back over my shoulder as Ryan and Noah entered the front doors of the bakery. That confident swagger could make any woman weep. Ryan rounded the counter and went straight to his wife, and Noah stepped up behind me and pressed his chest to my back, placing one hand at either side of me on the countertop. Feeling his breath on my neck gave me the chills.
“Hey, sweetheart,” he said before he kissed my neck. “I missed you in my bed this morning.” He kissed me once again, and I was instantly turned on by his closeness, but with a man like Noah, it didn’t take much. “You don’t plan on making me sleep alone tonight, do you?”
“No,” I whispered.
I still felt guilty staying at his place when he had Austin for the night. I felt like he had already missed so much of his son’s life that their time together should be just that—their time. When I was there, I felt I just took Noah away from Austin when he deserved his daddy’s full attention. The fact Austin liked to sleep with Noah also made me a little hesitant about sleeping over, especially considering that Noah and I found ourselves naked most mornings. Tonight Austin would be with his mom, so I had every intention of being in his bed.
