“Do you treat all your clients like this?” She stomps over to stand right in front of me.
“No, but when I’m dealing with a difficult client like you, especially with our history, I don’t have much choice. Shawn, can you make a note in Robin’s file?” Robin huffs angrily turning on her heels and leaves.
“I hate that woman,” Shawn says as he makes a note in the file and on the computer.
I walk into my office, and Abby and Sarah are in there chatting and laughing. “Now this is something I could get used to.”
“What?” Abby asks.
“I have my girl and her best friend laughing.”
“Your girl?” Sarah stands and crosses her arms.
“Yes,” Abby and I say at the same time. Shawn appears in the doorway to let me know that the vendor for New Year’s Eve is here to discuss the fireworks. I kiss Abby goodbye as the girls return to Sally’s office to look over the rest of the schedule for the next two days.
“Hey, I’m going to go up and change for dinner tonight.” Abby’s voice pulls me from the work I’m engrossed in sometime later. I glance at the computer clock to see that it’s 5:30. I meant to be done two hours ago.
“I didn’t realize how late it was getting. Are you going to move your stuff into my room now or later when we get back?” I ask her as I finish up an email.
“You moving in with him already?” Sarah asks, causing Abby to blush.
“I asked her to stay with me while you guys are here.”
“Oh, that’s cool. I can help you move your stuff.” Sarah raises an eyebrow at Abby in question, who nods in response.
“We can do it later. I want to get ready and leave. Is that okay?” Abby looks at us as though asking permission.
“Your wish is my command.” I wink at her. When we reach the lobby, Shawn is there. “Wanna come up with me and then we can all leave together?” I ask him.
“Sounds good, man. I’m going to check in with the kitchen first. If I’m not up there before you’re ready, text me so I know to meet you out front.”
“Sorry I took you away from your friends today, but your help was appreciated. I would probably still be working.” I say when we get into the elevator. I grab Abby’s hand to bring it to my lips and kiss it.
“I had fun. It was so different from teaching.” Abby says and Sarah agrees with her.
“I bet it is different but almost the same too. You have to deal with children and sometimes the brides are just as bad if not worse than children.” I say laughing.
“You’re so right about that,” Sarah responds as she’s texting. “Sorry, Max is wondering where we were and what we’re doing for dinner. What’s this place like? We need to know how to dress.”
“We’re just going to a bar, so I usually wear jeans and a t-shirt.”
“But you’re a guy, and we’re two single ladies,” Sarah say, typing away on her phone.
I clear my throat to get Sarah’s attention. “Only one is single.”
Sarah looks between the two of us and smiles.
ABBY
We enter our room laughing, spotting Max sitting on the bed in his basketball shorts, flipping through the channels.
“How was work, ladies?” He asks as he knocks on the door to Rob and Aaron’s room.
“It was a lot of fun. We’re working tomorrow too.” I say as I slide my sandals off.
“You know that you’re on vacation right?”
“Of course, I know that. We’re just going to hang out at the beach during the day and go out on a night. That’s always been our plan unless something changed that I don’t know about?”
“No, you’re right. The days were just meant for the beach and pool. Do whatever the hell you want.” Max storms out of the room.
“What the fuck was that?” I ask Sarah as she sits dumbfounded.
“I have no clue. The whole idea of this trip was for you to spend time with Cash. He was pissed at me last night. We got into a fight about stupid shit. I noticed that Cash mentioned about you moving upstairs with him.” Sarah says wiggling her eyebrows. I throw the pillow at her, laughing.
“He doesn’t want to waste any time together. I don’t either but with the way Max is acting, I’m not sure what to do now. I want to spend all this time with Cash because we leave soon, but Max is my brother. We made a pact that we would never put someone before our relationship.”
“This has nothing to do with you, squirt.” Max comes back into the room and sits next to me. “I’m having a bad day, and I’m sorry that I took it out on you. You’re the most important person in my life. I can’t lose you.”
“Max, you’ll never lose us. You’re stuck.” I kiss his cheek as he blushes. Max is not one for PDA of any kind.
A knock on the door interrupts our heart to heart; Sarah pulls the door open to reveal Cash, looking so damn beautiful in a tight black t-shirt and jeans. I smile as he comes over to me. “Am I interrupting something? I can come back,” he asks, taking in everyone’s facial expressions.
Max is the first to speak. “Nah, man. We were just waiting for you. So what’s the plan for tonight?” Cash explains that we’re going to Nic’s bar.
He grabs my hand as we head out of the room. Max and I are standing together, so I lean into him. “Talk to Mom and Dad?” He rolls his eyes at me and tells me that he has talked to them, but he’s now shut his phone for the remainder of the trip. I nod, knowing all too well how that conversation went.
A short cab rides later; we walk into Nic’s bar. Cash and I are hand in hand as Shawn yells out a greeting to the beautiful woman behind the bar. “Nic, come over here and meet my new kickass friends. What’s your poison?” he asks as Nic moves out from behind the bar.
“Nice to meet you, Cash has told me a lot about you,” Nic says to me as she shakes my hand.
“Same here,” I tell her as she shakes hands with everyone, before walking away to attend to other customers. A few drinks and several laughs later, I notice Cash is silent and not interacting with the group. I walk over and snuggle with him. “What’s wrong?”
“I want to hear about Pennsylvania, but I don’t want to think about it because then reality will set in,” he replies in a somber tone.
“I know. I keep looking at the calendar. How do we enjoy our time together when it’s just going to end?” I ask him with tears forming in my eyes.
“We’re not going to end, Abby. We just have to figure out the traveling,” he reassures me as he signals for refills. I sit down on the stool and look at him, confused.
“What do you mean traveling?”
He sighs before answering. “Abby, there’s this thing called an airplane. We book a ride on it, and we can go to other places,” he says in a sarcastic tone.
“Don’t be a smartass.” I’m getting pissed off at him.
“I wasn’t trying to be a smartass. We’ll make plans for once a month to fly back and forth. During the summer, you can stay here with me since your classes will be over.”
“You thought about this?” I tilt my head while I play with the label on my beer bottle, a nervous habit.
“I looked at flights and my schedule earlier. I have a few dates that we need to discuss, but I will be in Pennsylvania in February, I want to spend Valentine’s Day with my girl,” he tells me as he grabs my hand and kisses it. Max comes over and stands behind me. “What’s going on, man?” Cash asks him.
“Your friend Nic is entertaining. Thanks for inviting all of us out.” He shakes Cash’s hand. “But we still need to eat.”
“Yes, we do. Nic, can we have some menus?” Cash yells out and Nic brings a couple to us. I get off the bar stool to head to a table. We wave over the waitress and order lots of greasy bar food.
“I’m coming to sit with you guys. I need to get to know my buddy’s girl.” Nic slaps Cash on his back, and he winced.
“Uh oh, are you the one going to grill me?” I ask her, and she nods.
CASH
I love hearing Ab
by laugh but to hear my friends Nic and Shawn laughing with her, is the greatest feeling. “So tell me what Cash was like in high school.”
I fake a yawn. “Oh, man. I can’t believe how tired I am. Let’s go back to the hotel.”
“Goodnight, Cash,” Nic tells me as she turns back to Abby. I sigh in defeat as Nic is getting animated with her voice and arms. Nic’s arms are explaining something that I don’t quite remember. I probably should pay attention, but I’m watching Abby. I felt a tap on my shoulder and see it’s Max.
“Can we go outside to talk?” I get up follow Max outside. He looks pissed off, but that seems to be his typical face when I’m around.
“What’s up?” I ask him as we walk away from the door, which makes me think that yelling or throwing punches is about to go down.
“Abby’s going to kick my ass if she finds out we’re talking without her being here.” Max stands there with his hands in his pocket with his head down.
“Is there a problem?” I’m growing concerned about what’s so important to pull me away from the group.
“I’m concerned for Abby. I think she’s getting too attached too fast.” He’s now staring at me, and I can’t hide my shocked expression.
“I don’t understand. We’ve been talking for a while now; we’re not getting attached too fast. We’ve been this way for a year now.” I tell him, trying to get where his head is in this whole situation.
“She doesn’t feel worthy of love because of her past which I’m still not sure where it came from, but I think after this week, you need to take the time to figure if this is even worth it.”
“This is worth it. She is worth it. I’m going to do everything in my power to make her happy. Are you worried about her moving here?” He snaps his head up from looking at the ground. I hit the nail on the head.
“I didn’t say anything about moving here, have you talked about it?” Max’s shoulders drooped down.
“No, we haven’t talked about it, but when we do, you’ll know about it.” I’m trying to reassure him, but I’m not getting there.
“Cash? Max? Are you two okay?” Abby is standing in between us now.
“Yeah, we’re just talking.” I push the hair from her face and smile. “You ready to go?”
“Can we? I am having a hard time keeping my eyes open.” Abby keeps glancing between Max and me, not sure what to think.
“I beat too. All this relaxing and doing nothing is exhausting.” Max jokes as we walk into the bar. Abby heads over to the table, but I grab Max’s arm.
“Max, your sister means the world to me. I’m going to do right by her. I’ll make her cry because I’m not perfect. I’ll fail her, but I promise to take care of her.” Max just sighs and goes find Abby. I walk over the bartender Torrie to pay our tab. We say goodnight to everyone and head back to the hotel.
Abby says goodnight as we head to our floor.
We decide to take an early dinner since work was slow today. We stay at the hotel and order some of the dishes that the hotel is famous for as talk. Rob and Aaron are discussing possibly getting married in the hotel, which I think is an excellent idea. It was time for us to head our separate ways. Rob found this indoor laser tag center that he wants to try out. They all need to get some rest as they are leaving at 7 a.m.
During the walk towards the elevator, I notice that Max and Abby aren’t speaking to each other. Sarah sees as well; she links arms with them two, pulling them together. Max smiles when she moves to the outside, so he’s in the middle. Knowing about the fight between them, I hope they’ll be able to figure their shit out before the end of this trip.
“How about we ditch these weirdos and have some time for just us?” Abby comes up beside me and intertwines our fingers.
“It would be my pleasure,” I tell her as I kiss her temple. We pile into the elevator, and I quietly listen to them making their plans for the following day. Abby isn’t too excited, but she knows whatever makes Rob happy, she will do it. We say goodnight to everyone and ride the elevator to my floor. She snuggles up to me as we walk to my room. “I’m going to go shower, care to join me?” She gives me a wink, and we quickly head to the bathroom, ridding ourselves of our clothes on the way. I climb in behind her and pull her close to me. She rubs her ass against my cock, and I feel myself growing harder. She moans as I move my hips, I spin her to face me, so I move to kiss her nose, jawline, and neck. She tilts her head so I can have better access. I’m going to leave my mark on her so everyone will know that she belongs to me. She moves her hands down to my cock and starts rubbing.
“I need to be inside you, Abby.” My words come out in a husky tone. She lowers to her knees and puts my cock into her mouth. Her tongue is all over my head, and I move my hips in the same rhythm. “I’m so close, Abby.” She keeps going, looking up and winking at me. She puts her hands on my cock and wrapped her mouth tighter and sucked. I push my hips forward and grunt as I release, shuddering as she swallows everything I give her.
“You’re going to be the death of me,” I tell her as she snuggles into my neck.
“At least, you’ll die a happy man.”
“Very true, my love.” We stay this way for a couple of minutes, and then she shrieks. The water has turned cold, and she’s jumping up and down as it rains down on us. With a laugh, I shut the water off so we can climb out and wrap ourselves in towels. “I’m kinda hungry. Want to order some room service?” I ask her, and she nods. After I order, we lay in bed naked. Her warm, slightly damp body next to mine has my cock coming back to life. I get on top of her and pin her hands above her head. I’m so hard from her touching me that I slide right into her. She gasps in surprise and arches her back high enough for me to capture one of her nipples in my mouth. This time is going to be fast and hard. I settle into a good rhythm and the noises coming from her drive me crazy. I pull out of her and tell her to get on her hands and knees. She obeys and seeing her ass and pussy exposed like this is pure heaven. I slide back into her, pushing her down and pulling her ass up when she pants at me to go harder. I know she’s getting close because she moves her hand down to her clit. I increase my pace, and her fingers move right along with me. She squeezes down on my cock with her pussy and arches up towards me, screaming my name as she comes. It’s a beautiful sight; seeing her come apart. I keep pounding into her, knowing that she’ll come again if I keep going. I kiss each ass cheek as she moans my name.
“Cash.” She’s panting and gets more vocal as her hands move to pinch and twist her nipples. I grab onto her hips, moving faster. I’m so fucking close, but I need her to be ready. I love when we come together; the way her pussy milks my cock dry. I take my finger and run it down her folds, finding her clit and pinching it. She gasps and I pull out of her to slam into her one last time as we both reach our release together. I grunt out her name, and I fall onto her completely sweaty, exhausted. I pull out of her slowly as my cock is still sensitive. Abby lays down on her stomach, and I crash to my side. We lay there breathing heavy, trying to catch our breath.
A knock on the door and a voice from the hall calling out “Room Service!” startles us both. I forgot that ordered chocolate covered strawberries and champagne from my smartphone in the elevator. I grab the sheet to cover Abby.
“No one sees what is mine.” I kiss her and put on my boxers to open the door and accept the tray from the waiter; thanking him.
ABBY
When Cash first saw me naked, I needed the light to be off, but now I’m much more comfortable. I see the way he looks at me, clothed or naked, I’ve felt and experienced his desire for me. I truly never knew that someone could want me as much as Cash wants me. “Stop staring at me like I’m a piece of meat. You look like you’re about to devour me.”
“Abby, Abby, Abby.” He shakes his head as he puts his food on the floor. He’s on me in three seconds flat. “I will continue to stare at you and devour you anytime I want. You belong to me.” His kiss is full of authority.
I’ve
read about alpha males in books and couldn’t stand them. I’d complain to Sarah and Max about how no one would be turned on by the Neanderthal, ‘You Jane, me Tarzan,’ speak but I was so wrong. Cash is telling me that I belong to him and outlining what he’s going to do to me sends shivers through my body.
He stops kissing me and looks down at me, a somber expression on his face. I reach up to touch his face, smiling. “I love you, Cash,” I mutter. I can’t believe I gave him the words. Panic fills me with the fear of rejection slowly crawls up my spine. I try to get away from him, but he firmly holds me in place.
“I love you too, Abby. I was afraid to say it to you.”
My voice is barely a whisper. “You do?”
“Yes, I do, and I don’t ever want you to doubt how I feel about you.”
I’ve always read about love like this, but I’ve never experienced it, thought I deserved it or had it in my life. I lock my arms around his neck, kissing his neck and collarbone.
“I want to spend the next few hours showing you how much I love you,” he tells me, and we spend the entire night making love. He’s so gentle, sweet, and makes sure to kiss and touch every inch of me. We don’t rush, and it isn’t about giving the other person an orgasm. I’m sitting on his lap with my legs around his waist and him inside me when he grabs my hair. He gives it a tug so that I expose my neck to him. He trails kisses to my ear, causing me to shiver. “I could spend forever kissing you and showing you how much I love you.”
“I wish time would stop so we can just be like this forever.” Single tear rolls down my face and he uses his thumb to wipe it away.
“No tears, not tonight. There will only be love and happiness in this room.” I don’t know what I’m going to do in five days when I have to leave. We finally fall asleep about five a.m., wrapped around each other.
His phone jolts us both awake at six-thirty. He groans and tries to ignore it, but it doesn’t stop. Cursing, he answers it. “WHAT?! Sally, what do you want?”
“I’m running late, and need you to take my morning appointments.” My head is right next to his and I can hear their entire conversation.
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