by Anita Kidesu
“Suit yourself. At least this way you can’t run away.”
Emma turned her back on him. “I don’t want to listen to what you have to say.”
“Fine, maybe the birds will listen.”
He didn’t say anything. Emma peeked over her shoulder. Jack turned his back to her and raised his arms out toward the jungle like a minister giving the blessing at the end of a service. He grinned back at Emma. She stuck her tongue out at him.
“Baby,” he muttered loud enough to reach her ears. He turned back to the jungle. “Okay, birds, so here’s the deal. I fell in love with a woman about four years ago, but a couple of other guys were in the picture, so I couldn’t say anything. This woman loved all of us and promised not to play favorites. But like a little boy, I hoped she liked me the best.”
Emma turned and looked at Jack’s back. Did he mean her? Couldn’t be.
“Then everyone went their own way, and I couldn’t forget about this woman. I only got to be with her once a year. I tried and tried to find another woman to replace her, but she was irreplaceable.
“Once I even went to her house, but strangers answered the door. So I went to her parents’ house, but I felt guilty going behind the other guys’ backs. You see, I like the other guys. They’re my friends. If they wanted this woman, I would step aside so they would be happy. Each year it became harder and harder to share her with them. So this year, I decided to end things. Then my friends all announced they were getting married. I could finally honestly say I was in love, too. But they were in a hurry to leave the island, and I didn’t have a chance to share my feelings.
“On the plane while flying them to the mainland, they asked me who I loved. Before I answered, they guessed and encouraged me to let this woman in on my secret.
“So here I am, birds of this island, standing here, my privates shrinking into oblivion, confessing my love for Emma Rose.”
Jack finished and dropped his hands to his sides and hung his head, like all his energy had escaped and dripped into the water. He jumped when Emma’s hand touched his shoulder.
“You love me?” she whispered. “Me? I’m the woman you meant yesterday?” If she hadn’t been in the water, she’d dance a jig. She suppressed giggles building in her chest. He loved her. He’d come back for her.
She closed her eyes and held her hands over her heart. Oh man, he really loved her. A piece of her broken heart found its way back into place.
Jack nodded.
“You hated having to share me with Toby and Steve?”
He nodded again.
“You’re in love with me?”
Nod.
Emma pressed her forehead against his back. “Oh, Jack. Why didn’t you say something before? Why did you let this go on for so many years?”
He turned and faced her. “I was afraid you’d reject me, or you liked Toby or Steve better.” He held out a hand, palm side down. “See how my hand is shaking? I’m still afraid. Afraid you won’t return my love.”
Emma cupped his face with her hands. “Oh, Jack. Toby and Steve will hold a special place in my heart. But yesterday, when they told us about getting married, I was truly happy for them. When you told me you loved someone, I thought someone had put a stake through my heart. I thought I would die when you left. The only one I pictured flying away in that plane was you. That’s when I realized it was you all along.”
She ran her hands down his arms and held his hands. “You were the one who always helped me, your strength like an anchor holding me to the ground. Like telling me about sex and men, and not laughing when I burned the first hundred meals I cooked. Patiently showing me over and over what to do.”
Jack smiled.
“You were the one who so carefully took my virginity and talked me through my fears about what you guys would think about me. You convinced Toby and Steve to come with me when I faced Francois. I’ll always love Toby and Steve. But you, Jack the Adventurer, are the man I’m in love with.”
Jack grabbed Emma around the waist and lifted her in the air. She wrapped her legs around his waist and kissed him soundly as he carried her to shore.
“Will you marry me, Emma-girl?”
“Yes.”
“Will you let me put babies in your belly?”
“Lots of babies?”
“Lots of babies.”
Joy bubbled through her, and her womb sighed in awareness.
“Oh yes.”
“Will you live on this island with me?”
Her mouth fell open. She leaned back in his arms and looked at his handsome face. A piece of dark hair drooped over one eye. He was holding his breath, and his eyes held a promise of their future. “Here? On the island?”
“Yes, right here.” He laid her on their clothes piled on the sand. “On the lake.”
She pulled him against her. His hairy chest sent tingles through her nipples.
“Yes, oh yes.”
“Will you love me forever?”
“Definitely yes.”
Before his lips joined hers, their eyes met. A jolt of familiarity flew through her. How could she not have known how he’d felt about her? How could she not have known he was more special to her than Toby and Steve?
Another thought hit her. Could one man satisfy her the way three had?
Before his mouth swooped to take hers, he raked his fingers through her hair then palmed the sides of her face. His lips pecked her forehead, nose, and cheeks. Then his warm lips swept hers. A spiral of energy spiked through every nerve ending and settled in her pussy.
Keeping his mouth locked on hers, he lay next to her and rested a large hand on her breast. He tweaked a nipple. Desire coiled deep in her core.
A year. She’d waited an entire, sex-deprived year for this. Her body ached with need. Wanting more, she groaned when he released her lips. She tried to pull his mouth back to hers, but when he latched onto a nipple, she decided to let him have his way.
As he laved first one nipple then the other, his hand cupped her mound. She bucked against his palm.
“Easy, Emma-girl,” he said before slipping one finger, then two, inside her. “We have an eternity for this.”
Deciding two could play at this game, Emma took his cock in her hand and rubbed a finger over the wet, sensitive tip. His intake of breath drew her nipple farther into his mouth. Good Lord, she could come right now. She held back, wanting to wait until he was inside her.
She wrapped her hand around the base of his shaft, squeezed, pulled her hand up to the tip, and rubbed his pre-cum over the purple head. His fingers jerked inside her. She dug her heels into the sand.
Her overheated pussy gripped his fingers. His thumb grazed her clit. Sparks of light flicked behind her eyelids. Shit. She wasn’t going to be able to hold off that orgasm. She squeezed his cock.
Jack pulled his fingers from her pussy. She whimpered.
“Shh,” he said softly against her temple. He removed her hand from his cock. “I don’t think I can hold off any longer.”
“Thank God. I can’t either.”
“I don’t have a condom.”
Emma smiled. “I don’t care. I just want you inside me.”
“Glad to oblige, my lady,” he said, smiling into her eyes.
She welcomed the heaviness of his body on hers. He pressed the tip of his cock at her opening, hesitating as if unsure. Her greedy pussy nearly yelled for him to get on with it.
“What are you waiting for?”
He looked into her eyes and grinned. “You are the most incredible, most beautiful woman I’ve ever met. I love you, Emma-girl.”
Her heart swelled and leapt at the love shining in his eyes. “I love you, too, Jack. My adventurer.”
In one thrust, Emma knew one man could satisfy her—if that man was Jack Delaney.
Several orgasms later, Emma lay in Jack’s arms, her head resting on his chest. She giggled.
“What’s so funny, Emma-girl?”
“Remember when you said
you would tell your nickname to the woman you love?”
Jack ran his hands down her spine. “Yes.”
She leaned back and looked up at him. Her heart tripped at the tenderness in his eyes. “You’re really in love with me?”
“Yes.”
Emma nuzzled her nose into his neck. “Then tell me your nickname.”
He kissed her cheek and whispered in her ear, “Dolittle.”
Their laughter rode across the warm island air, over the jungle, across the wide, wide ocean and into their future.
About the Author
Anita Kidesu has been writing for years and finally decided to try her hand at erotica. She found that writing “romance with an edge” an enjoyable genre.
Anita is single and lives in Wisconsin. Her family consists of a hamster and two cats who love antagonizing each other.
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