by Cookie Jones
“Nick…I had to say hi.”
Lord, even her voice was sexy. To think that she was the type of woman Nick usually snagged was surreal. Hell, I was just maybe a bit over average. Then I realized he was pretty drunk when we first got together. I took a silent deep breath as my self esteem took a hit.
“…and this is Clary, she’s my…uh.” Of course I chose Nick’s lapse as to what I was to him to tune back in.
“The one you gave up Europe for, seemingly?” she said and I realized she had like some sort of Hispanic accent.
“You were going to Europe?” Gina of course had to ask. I was still trying to get through the embarrassment of Nick’s introduction.
“Yeah…mostly to like get over my dad’s death, but of course I chose to stay here for—”
“You don’t have to go into a whole spiel, Nick, relax,” I said and was proud of myself for being calm and collected.
“So…yeah, shouldn’t you be overseas now anyway?” Nick only glanced at me briefly, though his gaze was trying to convey something quite intense.
“Since you abandoned me and really I’m only working for two of the fashion weeks, I figured I’d stay in the city and try to find a new date,” she said without any reservation whatsoever…then again I was just Nick’s, ‘uh.’
“That’s cool…” Nick said and then sort of glanced around the table, Buddy went to his rescue.
“So a model, huh? That’s exciting, I’m sure you won’t have any trouble finding a date,” he said and she simply blinked at him then turned her attention back to Nick.
“I guess I’ll go, you have my number if you change your mind with this group,” she said and again it wasn’t with any attitude, which made the statement that much more biting. I glanced at Gina and saw her eyebrows reaching, I knew she would say something nasty if I didn’t stop her.
“It was nice meeting you…” I said and realized I didn’t catch her name. She didn’t care enough to give it either, she just gave a polite smile and, thankfully, left.
“Well, that just took my restaurant experience down a notch,” Gina said loudly and Buddy smirked at her.
“You looked like you were ready to chase her away with a whip,” he said and she smiled innocently.
“A whip? No, never…more like a flogger, if anything,” she said and I cracked a smile.
The waiter came back in just the knick of time and I quickly perused the menu to order something. The rest of the evening, I mostly talked to Gina and Buddy; yeah, I could have, and should have, excused Nick’s general guy-like reaction to the awkward situation. But I hadn’t been feeling very level headed lately. We left the restaurant without dessert and Gina suggested we go for ice cream and the two of us rode together by her insistence to Nick. She knew I was in a mood.
“So that was awkward…but if you think about it, it could have gone much worse. She could’ve hopped into his lap and gabbed about…you know things no one would have liked to hear,” Gina said and I shrugged.
“I shouldn’t be this bothered about it, I know…I just can’t help it. After all that about how he felt for me, I’m his ‘uh’, his fucking ‘uh’, Gina. I knew I shouldn’t have gone further with things than him being the baby’s dad and that’s that.” I sighed and I felt her staring at me as I drove.
“So…this all means you feel something for him right?” Gina asked and I gave a tremendous sigh as answer.
“I just want some mint chocolate chip ice cream with brownies in a waffle cone…” I sighed and she nodded.
“That sounds perfectly fine right about now,” she said and I glanced at her.
“You like Buddy,” I observed and she smirked.
“He’s so pretty…and really good-natured,” she said and my smile grew.
“He does kind of look like that Matt Bomer guy?” I asked.
“Yes! I’ve been trying to put it together in my head all night, that’s who he looks like,” she said and I nodded.
“Yeah Buddy is pretty.”
“But not as…I mean Nick is serious in person,” she said and I snorted.
“I guess so, he’s an idiot though,” I said and she laughed.
“Yeah, I think he is…but in a good way. I don’t think he was trying to hurt your feelings or anything. He just really didn’t know what to do.” She was actually defending him…that meant she really liked him.
“I know…I know,” I murmured and she sighed.
“Obviously, I have some work to do if you guys are going to be able to be together in a lasting relationship,” she said and I glanced at her in surprise. “Oh don’t even give me that, you guys will have beautiful children, I don’t want to see just one child out of you two, a guy like Nick is God’s gift to this world. Meaning he needs to breed to create more of his kind,” she said and I nearly died from laughing so hard.
“You’re too much, Gina,” I said as I wiped the mirth from my eyes.
“I know, also you can’t be in your work clothes around him so much, let him see your other outfits, you know…sexy ones,” she said and I rolled my eyes.
“He’s seen me completely naked before Gina, he’d know what he’s missing,” I said and she smiled.
“You’ve learned much, young padawan,” Gina said and I giggled.
I found a place to park outside of the ice cream shop, somehow the guys were already there and waiting for us.
“What, did they take a shortcut?” I mumbled as we walked over to them.
“Hey, Clary, we should race sometime I drive nothing but stick shifts,” Buddy said and I snorted.
“I’ve raced before Buddy, I’m also very competitive, don’t go down that road,” I warned him and he seemed impressed.
“Oh yeah, when she just bought the car we went to a car show, it was on this track upstate … I tell you, every grease monkey and car enthusiast was drooling over her after she won about three races head to head. It was a proud moment for me,” Gina said as if she taught me everything I knew.
“Yeah…speaking of, that’s when I had…the best I’ve ever had afterwards,” I glanced at Nick with a sly barely there smirk and his gaze darkened a bit.
“Aw shit, it happened,” Buddy said as he opened the way to the ice cream parlor. “She dropped the gauntlet,” he said and I tried to hold in my smile.
Gina and Buddy went into the parlor talking loud and laughing, but Nick grabbed me around the waist and kept me outside.
“I want to talk about that whole thing at the restaurant,” he said and I simply stared up into his eyes which seemed like they were like glowing.
“It’s fine, Nick, really. She’s just a model you used to…mess with,” I said and he sighed and studied my face.
“I don’t care about her, I’m talking about when I was introducing you…I choked and that was only because I don’t know how you feel about me. Hell, I wanted to introduce you as my partner or something, I just didn’t know how you’d react,” he said and I took a deep breath.
“It’s fine, Nick, I know…” I said and he looked at me as if he really wanted me to say more. “What do you want me to say? I was sore about it, but I’ll get over it,” I said and he shook his head.
“I can’t take this, Clary, you have to give me something, do you have feelings for me at all?” he asked and I glanced around, suddenly aware of the scene we were making in public.
“Just tell me please, Clary,” Nick begged and I was a little speechless for a moment.
“I have feelings for you, Nick, of course I do…”
“But?” he asked when I started to trial off.
“Half of me is scared to have those feelings, Nick,” I said honestly and he nodded and then slid his hands into his pockets, body language for, ‘okay, I’m going to distance myself from you now.’
“Now I just want to go home,” I said and he glanced into the parlor and saw Buddy and Gina watching us while eating their newly bought ice cream.
“Are you sure you don’t want ice cream?
This place is supposed to be good,” he said and I shrugged.
Nick sighed and then took my hand and pulled me inside to get something. Of course I ended up ordering exactly what I talked about in the car.
“So guys…what’s up?” Buddy said when we joined them at the little table by the storefront window.
“I don’t know…how about we talk about this best time you’ve ever had, Clary,” Nick said and I looked at him in surprise. “Or were you making that up?” he asked and I studied his gaze a little, but only saw curiosity.
“No, I wasn’t…but do we have to talk about this now? It’s a family place.” I whispered the last bit and Gina snorted.
“There are more adults than kids around us,” she said, being devil’s advocate.
I focused on my ice cream and pretty much checked out after giving Gina a look. After ice cream, Buddy offered to give Gina a ride and I couldn’t help but raise my eyebrows at her when she accepted the offer. But then that meant I was stuck with Nick for the rest of the night.
“Can you tell me about the race track now? I won’t leave you alone about it,” he said and I shrugged.
“It was exciting because…well, we did it on the hood of my car and it was in semi-public,” I admitted and he stared at me in shock.
“You—you…wow,” was all he said and then sat with his hands folded in his lap for the rest of the ride home.
As soon as we were in the door, though, Nick pushed it shut and then pushed me against it, his lips crashed over mine and he pulled my hips forward, firmly against his. I felt his erection through all the layers of fabric and my body instantly lit up like a switchboard.
“Nick…” I breathed and he shook his head at me while he unbuttoned my blouse and pushed it off.
“No, I want you…I have to be close to you,” he said hoarsely and then pressed his lips against my neck and sucked on the sensitive skin hard. All sorts of sensations rippled out to my core, causing it to clench near painfully.
“Nick…” I said again and he managed to get my blouse off by then and was gripping my bare waist tightly in his hands. He pressed his chest against mine and his hands slid down to grip my bottom and he ground his hips, rubbing his erection against me in just the right spot. “Nick, please, get me naked already,” I said impatiently and he chuckled.
“Nope.”
I would have recoiled if I had the space to do so, but instead I groaned in protest and he covered my mouth with his. Meanwhile he lifted me up so that I could wrap my legs around his hips and he carried me to the couch. He sat down so that I straddled him and he slid one hand in between my legs so that he could rub right against my clit with just enough pressure to make me feel feverish.
“Nick, please…” I moaned and started to move my hips along with his hand.
He was unclasping my bra and then his mouth was on my extremely sensitive nipples and I cried out when he sucked hard. The pleasure was intense and it seemed like all the muscles below my belly both clenched and liquefied at the same time. He was still rubbing me through my pants and had my other nipple pinched between his fingers. I moaned and fisted my hand in his hair.
“Go ahead, Clary…don’t be scared,” he said and I jerked and looked at him in shock. “Let yourself go for me, I’ve got you,” he said and then his mouth went back to my breast and his eyes were locked on mine.
I couldn’t stop myself from the path my body was on to process his words fully. I came in a torrent of sensation and moaned loudly as my sex clenched with more force than I think I had ever experienced before…and he wasn’t even inside of me yet.
“Nick, I…” he shushed me and then kissed me softly before he started to unbutton my pants.
Then he laid me down on the couch and pulled my pants off along with my panties and pushed my legs open, though his hands slid up and down the length of them, sending tingles up to my lower belly. Then he pulled off his shirt and quickly stepped off the couch to get his pants and boxers off. When his erection sprang free I found it weird that my mouth sort of started to water. I was vividly imagining him deep inside of me and how good that would feel. He laid barely any of his weight down on me and positioned his cock to slide against my folds and, seeing as I was already wet, he slid effortlessly against me when he moved his hips.
“That must have been some orgasm, you’re soaked,” he said hoarsely, but my only response was to grind against him, hoping he’d slip and enter me.
It felt like everything in my sex was throbbing. I gripped his arms while he moved and begged him to push inside.
“You have to trust me,” he breathed just as my body tensed for another orgasm.
Nick quickly positioned himself and slid into me deep. I came almost immediately after that. We were on that couch for a good long while until I no longer had the ability to orgasm and Nick was spent as well. I was pretty sure I’d have to order some new couch cushions. He carried me off to the shower and I mostly leaned against him sleepily and let him wash me.
“Hey, Nick…” I mumbled after he had me dried off and was carrying me to bed.
“Hmm?” his chest vibrated nicely when he answered.
“I like it when you carry me,” I said and he grinned then kissed me on the top of my head.
“I like carrying you,” he said with a smile in his voice.
“You probably won’t be able to carry me when I get…more pregnant.”
Nick tensed a little then.
“Did I hurt you…that was a lot of sex,” he said worriedly as he laid me down and I shook my head.
“You didn’t do it too hard or anything,” I said and he breathed a small sigh of relief.
“Okay, I’m gonna go and try to save the couch,” he said and I laughed.
“Forget about it, I’ll just order a new one,” I said and opened my arms. “I’ll be cold,” I said and he smiled at me and gave in. I settled into his arms snugly and rested my head against his heart.
“Clary, you have to know how much you mean to me…I wouldn’t go after your heart if I didn’t know for one hundred percent that I could make you happy,” he said and I took a slow deep breath.
“Okay…” I said in a small voice and he lifted my chin so he could kiss me on the mouth.
Chapter11
Nick
As I watched Clary sleep I felt like I got my point across effectively. It seemed like simply talking to her didn’t really get through and since I didn’t want to chance giving things time it seemed natural that sex was the method I chose to go with. I fell asleep pretty quickly after Clary did.
“Oh no…I overslept, I overslept…” Clary groaned and I woke up to her round bottom quickly pacing towards the closet.
I checked the time and it was damn near eleven in the morning.
“Shoot, what happened to your alarm?” I asked her.
“I don’t know, I must have forgotten to set it or something,” she called back and I stretched before going to witness her being frazzled. I walked into the closet at the perfect moment. She was pulling on a pair of nice dark jeans and hadn’t gotten anything on her top yet, so her boobs were just swinging as she moved.
“Don’t be such a pervert, Nick,” Clary said and I grinned.
“Aren’t I allowed to be? With you?” My grin widened and she snorted a laugh.
“No,” she said and straightened to stick her tongue out at me.
“So did you miss anything with work?” I asked her and she shook her head.
“No, I have late meetings today, but it would have been nice to have the morning to fully prepare,” she said and then dressed in a surprisingly casual outfit for work.
“Are these like informal meetings or something?” I asked and she nodded.
“They are supposed to be more relaxed, that sort of thing,” she said, and grabbed a blazer to put over her blouse.
I had to give it to her, she was ready in under five minutes.
“Do you want me to make you something before you go?” I
asked and she shook her head before going over to the bathroom to brush her teeth.
“No, I have a lunch in about thirty minutes,” she said and I nodded.
I wanted to spend more time with her, but I had my own work to do.
“So can we have a nice dinner tonight? Just the two of us?” I asked her when she came out of the bathroom.
Her eyes swept over the length of me and I realized that I was pretty naked. But whatever.
“Um, yeah that sounds nice,” she smiled and I pulled her close for a kiss.
“Good, I’ll come by your job,” I said and she nodded.
“Okay, see you later,” she said in that soft voice that meant she wanted to stay for more than just a kiss goodbye.
My cock reacted to her voice and stiffened. Who knew the thing would have any function after last night.
“The couch…” I said and Clary groaned and then laughed.
“I’ll order a new one, will you be home all day?” she asked and I shook my head, I wanted to go and buy a new car since my new home was in the city and not all over the country.
“I’ll be stepping out soon for a little while, I’ll probably be back by early to mid afternoon,” I said and she nodded.
“Okay, I’ll just text you or something,” she said and then kissed me again before she was out the door.
I couldn’t help but smile, before it was just a parting few words, then a hug goodbye, then we were onto full blown kisses goodbye. Plus, she didn’t even seem suspicious about why I was so vague about where I was going. I tried to be quick with my errand, but who knew there was so much crap a person had to go through to sell off a Honda back to the dealer. Picking up my brand new Audi R8 was easy, though, since I ordered it in advance. It felt so good to drive it, though I was just cruising since I was in the city. After that, I got home just in time to let the couch people in and worked on my project. I’d have it done early and could go into the office early to show Daniel my work and hopefully clinch that position I needed. Well really I didn’t need it, but I wanted it.
