by Thia Finn
“There you are. Those people at the desk wouldn’t let us go back there. Said there were too many people already,” Ryan told Hayden. “Peri was ready to take the nurse on, and we can’t have that. How is he?”
“He’s fine now, and we know what caused it, too.”
“What’s wrong?” Peri asked.
“He had an asthma attack caused by holding a kitten that the boys have been keeping behind the pool room.”
“What? Where did they find a kitten?” Peri couldn’t believe what I said.
“Who knows, but it’s living in a towel behind the pool room and apparently the boys have been feeding it milk.” Hayden gave them the rest of the news.
Ryan spoke up. “But Crew’s going to be okay?”
“Yeah, he’ll be fine and now that we know he’s allergic to cats, we know not to get one for the kids.”
“I’m kinda partial to dogs myself, anyway,” Ryan said with a smile.
“We’ll have to see about that. He might be allergic to those, too.” Hayden didn’t want to discuss pets of any kind right then from his tone.
“Right. No pets with any kind of fur. How does a fish sound?” Peri asked.
“Fish sounds good to me. They’re going to let him go in a little while so thanks for coming guys, but I think you can all go home now,” Hayden told the group.
“That’s great news, Hayden,” Carter spoke up. “Want me to give you a ride, Halo?”
I looked at him. Was he serious? We had this conversation already. We need to leave each other alone. “Uh, I think KeeMac and Chandler are taking me.” I hadn’t asked them, but I knew they would.
“Sorry, we were all riding the Harleys so we came straight here,” Chandler told me. I looked at Gunner, and he shook his head.
“My bike only holds one person. Sorry, but I can call you a cab.”
“No, that’s fine. Carter can drop me off.” I looked at him, and he got a huge smile on his face. We waited around a little longer until they released Crew. He, Nanny and Hayden crawled into his truck and sped away for home. The others climbed on their bikes and took off, too, leaving Carter and me standing there.
“You ready?” he asked.
“I suppose. You need to take me to the studio. That’s where we were when Nanny called.” It wasn’t too far away from the hospital, thank God.
“Sure thing,” he said. “My car’s right over there.” He pointed to this classic antique looking race car. I had no idea what it was, but I loved it so much that I ran over to it.
“Oh my God, Carter. What is this thing? I love it?”
“It’s a 1965 Roush Shelby Cobra. She’s a beauty, isn’t she?”
“Oh. My. God. I fucking love it. Does it go fast?”
“Fast enough. Climb in.” He opened the door for me. This car screamed fast and sexy to me. Yes, definitely sexy.
“What do you call her?” I asked him. Cars like this had to have a sexy name.
He smirked at me. “Lo.”
“Lo? That’s weird.”
“Well, Hey didn’t work for me so I went with Lo. So like, Hey Lo where do you want to ride today? Get it?” No smirk this time. He laughed out loud.
“You did not just say that?”
“Yes, as a matter of fact, I did, and that’s exactly what I call her. Lo, so get over it.”
I ran my hand over the sleek fender and across the dashboard admiring the curve in front of the driver while he rounded the front of it watching me. He stepped in and looked at me. “You need to buckle up, sweets. We’re going for a ride, and it’ll be fast and hard.” Sex oozed from his mouth as he said it, but I didn’t care. This car was made for speed and sex.
We drove out to the winding roads leading to Lake Travis. The car’s performance as it hugged the pavement thrilled me. She took curves like she was designed for. Carter knew exactly what he was doing when he accelerated her into them. I loved the feel of the power under me as she hummed. The feel of her engine roared my libido to life. I throbbed at the sheer rumble she emitted. God, this ride might lead to another.
Wait, I’m done with him. I’m supposed to be mad, but how can I be mad and ride this bad girl? Her open top liberated all the anger from me for now. I held my arms up as we took a curve and a dip in the road at the same time. My stomach did that funny thing only a dip can cause, and I loved every minute of the ride. I began to laugh as the lurching feeling subsided. How could I possibly stay angry? I think he had me at Cobra.
We finally came to a crawl when he entered Pale Face Park. We’d been here a million times as teenagers. He drove down to the lakeside and stopped. It was dusk, and the park had emptied out long before we arrived. He walked around the car and opened my side offering his hand to help me out of the low-slung vehicle. When he closed the door behind me, he trapped me between his and her hard bodies.
“Did you like that, Halo?” I could feel him growing behind the tightness of his jeans. The ride had obviously gotten to him as well.
“Yeah, Carter. Hmm, maybe as much as you.”
“It doesn’t happen every time, but yeah sometimes the thrill of the drive does get my engine going.” He forced my legs apart with his foot and stepped between my legs in search of warmer parts of me. My senses were on edge already, and the closeness made it difficult to not push back against him. Hell, I wanted to push back against him. I wanted to strip him down and take advantage of him right here.
“You look a little flushed in the face, Halo.” The way he rolled my name off his lips with such an erotic vibration to it, my breathing increased simply hearing him say it. “Did the ride do it for you?”
I nodded before I wrapped my hands behind his neck and pulled him down for a kiss. I wanted a real kiss that added to the fire down below, but he didn’t allow it. Moving back from my lips, he kissed the corners of my mouth in a slow sweet fondle before moving across my jaw dropping light kisses and nibbles. He reached my ear and nosed his way across it before licking the outer edge from top to bottom where he took my lobe between his teeth. His bite was more like a clip as he slid his teeth down and off the edge in a slow caress.
When he returned to my lips this time, he launched an all-out assault on them. His tongue breached my lips and began a dance with my own to set me on fire for him. By the time he backed away, pulling my lower lip with him, I melted against him hanging on for dear life.
“What are we doing, Carter?” I pleaded.
“Shhh. We’re two adults enjoying the moment, sweets. Don’t think, Halo. Just feel.” He put his hands under my ass and lifted me, pulling my legs around him. Picking me up, he made his way to the front of the sleek blue hood where he sat me down on the wide white stripe dividing her hood into perfect sections.
“Lay back, sweets, so I can make love to you while Lo provides you with her hard body for support.” I laid back while Carter peeled my skinny jeans and satin panties down my legs. My shoes were long forgotten on Lo’s floorboard. I stripped my tank top over my head and threw it over the small windshield.
My bare skin cooled quickly to the touch of Lo’s cold hard steel. The smoothness of her body from years of waxing added a sexy feel to her as I slipped and slid around on her, loving the way it felt on my bare skin. Carter wrapped his hands around my ankles and moved them up on the hood, sliding me further up to her windshield so I could rest my head while I watched him feast on my body. Leaning over, he placed his hands on my knees and peeled them apart while inching down my inner thighs, opening me for all the world to see knowing he was the only lucky one.
His darkened eyes held mine while he kissed one thigh and then the other following his decent to the prize he sought. The final wet kiss, landing at the seam between my legs and the swollen bud that screamed a silent cry for attention, caused a loud moan of desire to bubble up from deep within me and escape without any thought to another human hearing.
“Like that, do you?” he questioned hovering over my needy pussy, and then his flattened tongue started
its slow ascent from my opening to the top. By the time he reached above the bundle of nerves that wanted attention so badly, I bucked straight up on Lo’s hood. His hand started where his tongue stopped and grazed my skin all the way to my throat pushing me back down.
“She’ll like it better if you’ll just lay back and enjoy the ride, Halo.” His fingers found my left breast and squeezed the nipple, tugging, and turning. The pleasured pain it caused shot straight to my core where liquid gathered in anticipation of racing to the finish when he raced into the passage.
“Fuck what she’ll enjoy. The sensations on this hood and your lips and fingers are almost too much.” He smiled at me this time.
“I want you to love every minute.” Like he thought I wouldn’t?
His mouth kissed a trail from my navel back to my slit where he spread me open and used his warm tongue to circle my clit and then draw a line down to my opening and back up to my clit again. He did this several times causing me to writhe around on the hood. It would have still been slippery, but now a fine sheen of sweat formed on my skin caused by the sensations his mouth and tongue treated me to.
When I didn’t think I could take much more, he slipped a finger inside me so slowly I thought I’d die from the pure pleasure it offered.
“Oh my God, Carter,” I screamed when it was fully seated in the perfect spot to curl upward and graze across the roughened patch at the same time he sucked down on my clit. As I came hard, he added another finger pumping in and out across the perfect internal spot causing the orgasm to go on and on. He finally stopped and pulled his fingers free from where my walls convulsed around them trying to swallow the digits further inside.
Slowly I caught my breath and looked up to see him staring at me. “That good, huh?”
“You know it was. You’ve obviously learned a lot of good techniques.” I closed my eyes again and concentrated on sucking air in and breathing it out to calm my body and mind.
“Oh, sweets, we are just getting started on the tricks I’m going to treat you to, but right now I need to be buried deep inside you. It was all I could do to let you recover. This time when I enter this sweet spot,” he kissed me on the lips protecting my clit, “you’ll know it’s me and never forget who this has always belonged to.”
He pulled a condom from his billfold and threw it on my stomach. “Don’t want it sliding off Lo’s curves.” He winked at me and made quick work of getting his jeans off where his dick popped from to stand at attention.
“Commando?” I grinned at him.
“Waste of time and one more layer between us. I don’t want layers between us, sweets.” He gave me a solemn look, and I knew he meant much more by that statement than what the words conveyed.
Leaning forward, he kissed me slow and easy but when I wrapped my legs around his back, his tongue went deeper into my mouth and mimicked exactly what his unsheathed cock waited impatiently to have a chance at. Taking his full length in hand, he reached my slit and moved from my clit to my back entry purposely skipping my wet entrance each time. I wanted to swallow him up as he passed over or slid around but he was having none of it yet.
He broke the kiss and looked down at me. “You are so beautiful, Halo. The sight you make lying out on my car, frantic with a growing anticipation in those violet eyes, makes me want to speed into you. I know I could get lost every fucking time you catch me looking in them.”
“Yes, but right now, there’s another location I would love for you to get lost in and never find your way out.”
He smiled at me and rose up to grab the packet, opening it with his teeth so he could torture me some more with the smooth head of his swollen cock. He stood and rolled it on himself, made a slow ride through the valley once again, and finally drove it home without using the brakes. After the first few frantic times, he stood and grabbed my thighs to anchor himself so he could propel his body forward burying himself in my warmth.
He pulled my legs up higher almost bending me in half but the angle it provided hit the spot I needed to speed home once again.
“Carter,” my voice started with a low rumble as I felt my desire building to another climax. “Carter,” I said again, this time in a muffled sound as I bucked up toward him. “Carter,” I screamed as I came hard again, but he roared to life and raced faster and faster until he emptied himself finally rolling to a stop.
“Damn, Halo.” He pulled my legs down and laid over on my chest resting himself in my arms.
“Yeah, what you said.” I closed my eyes knowing I could sleep wrapped around him all night long.
We had a quiet ride home. He held my hand even to shift the Cobra. The sweet gesture kept the connection until we reached the outskirts of the city. He stopped at a red light and looked over at me. “Sweets, where do you want to go tonight, my house or home?”
“Where do you want me to go, Carter?”
He pulled my hand to his lips and softly kissed the palm. “I want you with me, but I’ll understand if you don’t.”
“I feel the same way. I’m at a loss as to what we can do or have, Carter. I want you. I think you know that.”
“Yeah, and you know I want us to be together, but can we make this work? Do you want to make this work?”
“Part of me says yes, we can do this but the realistic side says, we’ll spend more time apart than together. I don’t want to have a part-time boyfriend.”
“And I don’t want to be one. Like I said, I want to be an us.” He drove slowly until we were forced to make a choice on where I was going.
“Please come home with me, sweets. I need you.” The smoldering look in his eyes said everything I felt so I nodded my consent.
Chapter Thirty-Six
Halo went to the studio hoping the two of them could pick up where they left off. We talked about whether Hayden could leave Crew with Nanny today, but the music waited on them so she decided to go in and continue.
I called her around noon thinking we could grab some lunch. “Did Hayden make it in?”
“No, he finally texted and said he didn’t want to leave his son, and I told him I understood.”
“Yeah, I’m sure it’s hard on him.”
“Why don’t you bring me some lunch? I’ll promise you a reward.” Now, this flirty Halo was one I liked.
“Sure, but do I get to pick my reward?”
“No, but I’m sure you’ll like it.” She dropped her voice an octave. “I will do something very special for you.”
Shit, how could I say no to that? “I’m on my way.”
The next day when Hayden didn’t show again, I knew Halo worried how this was going to play out for them. I decided to go in with her and see what more the two of us could do.
“Not here again?” Cash stuck his head in seeing us sitting with our guitars.
“No, I guess he’s scared to leave him yet,” Halo told him.
Cash came in and sat down with us. “I get it. I really do so this is going to sound callous, but we need to get this CD finished and ready to release. Do you think he would consider bringing Crew with him here?”
“I don’t know, maybe. We’d have to ask him.” Halo looked at me when she said it. I knew Cash’s comments made her uncomfortable.
“What are you doing up here again, Carter. You’re on a break from music remember?”
“I know, but I figured if Hayden couldn’t get in again today, maybe I’d sit in and work on the songs with Halo until he could get his head back in the game.”
“That’s a good idea, but we need Hayden.” Cash’s tone verified the anger he refused to acknowledge.
“It’s okay, Cash. Carter and I did some work a few days ago, and it turned out great. It was on some music Hayden and I were fighting with. Maybe the two of us can get it finished.”
He rubbed the back of his neck and finally nodded, leaving the room without saying anymore.
“I get that he’s pissed, but what’s Hayden supposed to do? Crew-man has to come first,” Carter said a
fter the door closed.
“I know, but I don’t know how to help Hayden. We need to get this done since Cash has already started lining up the next tour.”
“Yeah, I bet Hayden’s even more worried about that. The way the two kids come and go on the tours and now with the two of y’all going in different directions than AD, it’ll only make it harder on Hayden.”
“I thought that, too.”
Carter surprised me with a fresh new sound he added to the music. We always sounded good together before, but he chose to move on to the bass when he had the opportunity to play with AD. Being back together again, we were able to write and add to what Hayden and I started.
At the end of the day, we both felt satisfied with the progress we’d made and hoped Hayden would be on board with the changes.
“Let’s go get something to eat,” Carter suggested about the same time my phone rang.
“It’s Hayden.” I answered it. I looked at Carter when I ended the call.
“He wants us to come by. I told him we’d pick up dinner for us all.”
“Has Ryan’s bunch come back from Colorado yet?” The three of them had taken a short vacation since they wouldn’t be able to travel together when Peri started getting closer to her due date.
“No, not yet. So we only need it for Hayden, Crew, and Nanny.”
We picked up barbeque for everyone. Crew loved it so we knew he would eat.
We visited and went over the new music. Hayden didn’t seem interested in anything but tending to his son. I supposed if he were mine, I would feel the same way.
Nanny finally announced it was time to put Crew to bed so we stood to leave.
“No, guys,” Hayden started. “Y’all stay so we can talk.”
We sat back down and looked at each other. This didn’t sound good, but we hoped maybe he had made some decisions.
When he returned, he sat down and looked at both of us. I had a bad feeling about where this was going.
“I’m glad y’all came out tonight.”
