by Kahlen Aymes
“Not so much.” Julia’s voice filtered softly around me and I rolled onto my side to see her emerge from our closet. She was beautiful, her long hair flowing in soft waves around her face and the soft smile on her mouth, glistening softly with lip gloss.
I sat up, dropping the paper and iPod in my hand to the floor. “What—?” I shook my head slightly, unbelieving, yet joy filled me. “I thought— Is Aidan here, too?”
“He will be soon. Kiss me.”
Her knees came to rest beside my thighs on the bed as she climbed onto my lap and our arms wound around each other. I laughed softly as her hands pushed my hair back and our lips touched gently. The kiss started with slow gentle caresses and light licking and sucking, but it grew passionate and wild, our tongues tangling roughly and each of us pouring all of our love into it. When I finally pulled my mouth from hers, we were both panting and I was rock hard, but I was still concerned for my son.
“No, seriously. Where’s the baby? Everyone will be so disappointed.”
Julia sat back on her haunches, still resting on my knees. My hands slid down to cup her bottom and I squeezed gently. Her lips curled into a bright smile. “No one’s disappointed. Are you disappointed?”
I kissed her mouth again, hard and then more softly. “You know the answer to that— I didn’t really want you to go.” I whispered reaching for another kiss.
The house was quiet and I could hear our back door open and voices coming from below as Julia pulled away and stood up, grabbing my hand and pulling me up behind her. “We have to go downstairs. Aidan is sleeping and I need to put him down, but I’m pretty sure there are others who want to see you.”
“What did you do?”
“Jenna and I decided you and Aaron weren’t shipping us out. We made our own plans and everyone is here.”
“You and Jenna—are amazing.”
“Merry Christmas,” Julia said, smiling softly. She was so sweet to me. “I love you. We all do. Everyone is here.”
As much as I wanted to rush downstairs, I had to wait a minute. “Baby, I’ve got a raging boner. I can’t go downstairs right away.”
Julia burst out laughing. “Okay. I’ll get Aidan to bed and you change, first, but hurry, I have dinner ready.”
“If your father is here, does that mean Black Forrest?”
She stopped and turned, shaking her head. “I can’t fool you, Matthews.”
“Oh, you fooled me, alright.”
I stood and walked to her, my hand coming up to cup her face. I brushed her jaw with my thumb and starred into her dark green eyes.
“Thank you for always knowing what I need. What’s on the iPod?”
She stood on tiptoe to kiss my lips. “I found a song that made me think us us… back at Stanford, when we first met. At the time, I didn’t dare to hope for this.”
My heart swelled until it felt as if it would crack open my chest. I brushed the back of my knuckles against her petal soft cheek. It hurt to have ever caused her pain, albeit unintentionally. If only she’d know I was in love with right away. I wished we could just crawl into the middle of our bed and share the iPod like we started doing so long ago.
“I thought about getting one of those dual headphone jacks…” Her eyes shot up to mine, so luminous.
“Don’t you dare,” I whispered, shaking my head and lightly caressing her mouth with mine.
Her breath quickened and she laughed softly, kissing me back. It was all I could do to remember the others in the lower level of our house.
“I want to see them, but damn if I don’t wish we could just close the door.”
“There is time for that, later. My mom will get up with Aidan tonight. But we thought we’d try the cereal. My parents convinced me to trust my doctor-husband.”
Her lips lifted in a soft smile.
“Sounds good.”
I kissed her hand before she left the room and I stood there for a minute, still stunned at the turn of events. I didn’t know why I was surprised. Whenever I tried to take care of her, she took care of me. It was just like Julia to do exactly what I needed. Each and every time.
The End
Author’s Note:
The Song… on the iPod
1000 Times… by Sara Bareilles. I found it while searching for music to inspire me. It spoke to me of Ryan & Julia… so perfectly for them in the beginning of their relationship… when their feelings were a secret. I just had to get it in here, somehow. Absolutely love it!
You can listen to it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rj_Ur-RAAs
If you like it, please support Sara by purchasing it.
Also by Kahlen Aymes
The After Dark Series~(A billionaire romance)
1. Angel After Dark
2. Confessions After Dark
3. Promises After Dark
The FAMOUS Novel Series (A celebrity Romance)
1. FAMOUS
2. More Than FAMOUS
3. Beyond FAMOUS
One Step Closer (Stepbrother Romance Stand Alone)
Trading Yesterday (Second Chance Stand Alone)
City Girl’s Cowboy
(A WANTED Novella for Kindle Worlds)
Upcoming Titles
Finding Tomorrow
The #SexyDuet
1. #SexyMF
2. #SexyAF
Smut University
LICK (An After Dark Novel)
Hold Me After Dark
Covered in Rain
Beck and Call Girl
You and You Alone
Unfinished Business
Hostile Takeover
Boxers & Briefs
So Damn Beautiful
Stripped
Composure
Marriage Material
Pages of My Soul
The Other Half of the Sky
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About the Author
Kahlen Aymes is a USA Today bestselling author who writes steamy romance novels that cross genre lines between New Adult, Adult Contemporary, and Erotica, and strives to put her readers into her books, to feel everything her characters experience.
Kahlen has been on several bestseller lists including Barnes & Noble, Amazon Top 100, Smashwords Top 100, Publisher's Weekly, iBooks and USA Today!
She began her writing career without ever planning on publishing a single word and won multiple awards in the world’s second largest fan fiction community, including BEST Author, BEST RPF, Best All-Human that Knocks You Off Your Feet, and several others! Her reader’s encouragement and support are what prompted publication.
Kahlen enjoys reading, as well as writing, theater arts, cooking, roller skating and going for long walks. She is the proud mom to one teenage daughter and two golden retrievers, who basically rule her world.
With a strong love of writing and romance, and you can count on her to deliver strong, relatable characters, deep and detailed plots, sexy love scenes, and emotion overflow!
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