Hot as Hale (Hale Series Book 3)

by Marie James

  How does an admittedly nonsexual touch become so sensual?

  I see Josie strumming her fingers unevenly on her other leg, the condition of her arousal evident in the irregular beat. It seems like a millennium before my house comes into view. A quick glance at the clock tells me we have just over an hour before the rest of the group is to arrive. I’m eager to get her inside.

  I pull into the garage and before the garage door can make it half way down Josie is scurrying over the center console onto my lap. Her needy mouth lands on mine in a scorching kiss. I return the kiss with fervor. To allow more room for her, I press the side button on the seat; the whirring noise of the seat moving back combining with our panting breaths. Once the seat is in its furthest position, I cut the engine, nothing like dying of carbon monoxide poisoning to ruin an impromptu make-out session.

  Not breaking our kiss, Josie reaches for the fly of my jeans; I make no move to stop her. Instead, I lift my hips once my zipper is down and push my pants to my knees. Sliding my hands up her thighs, I gather her skirt around her waist. My fingers slide up her waist, searching for the non-existent underwear.

  I gasp when I pull her skirt up a few more inches and see her bare mound. “You planned this?” I ask amazed at her brazenness.

  She shrugs with a giggle. “I’d hoped.”

  “You’re insatiable, Mariposa. Did I not satisfy you this morning?” I love the gleam in her eye as she remembers our morning in bed together.

  She groans as I nibble the sensitive spot below her ear. “I can’t help it that I want you so much,” she whimpers.

  “I don’t want you to help it, Josie.” I reach between us and stand my length up, lined up at her entrance, feeling the heat of my skin against her as she slowly sinks down onto me.

  I hiss at the contact as I slide into her heat; she moans, the alluring sound causing me to thicken further.

  “So good,” she sighs against my neck.

  I hold her hips and lend a very small amount of help as she rides me. Our panting breaths have fogged the windows, cocooning us against the outside world.

  “Josie,” I whisper as I lift her shirt and free a breast from her sexy bra. She pauses on a downward stroke, her core taking my entire length as she pulls her t-shirt over her head. I hold her in place and grind my hips against her, my pubic bone rubbing against her swollen, pink clit; I feel her tremble in my arms at the stimulation.

  Taking her hardened nipple into my mouth, I swipe at it briskly with my tongue. With my hands under her hips, I begin to control the tempo of her descent, tilting her hips a fraction allowing my cock head to hit her at the perfect spot inside.

  Her internal muscles begin to tighten further, and I know if she doesn’t come soon, the situation is going to get embarrassing very quickly. I’ve come three times already today, and one would think each subsequent time from the first I would last longer, but Josie’s tight core doesn’t allow for it.

  With my hands busy, the only additional thing I can think of to help send her over hits me and I clamp down with my teeth on her nipple flicking the trapped point with my tongue. She shutters, and I feel the tight pulsing of her orgasm gripping my entire length.

  “Oh! Kaleb!” she proclaims as her eyes roll and close.

  I release one hip and grip the back of her neck with my hand, pulling her forehead against mine. “Ride me hard,” I demand against her lips. Less than a second later she complies and is slamming herself down on me. “Fuck!” I yell as my release hits, filling her with pulsing streams of come. Oversensitivity makes me grip her hips and settle her actions.

  Our heavy breathing has created so much condensation on the inside of the truck, the windows are not only fogged up, but they are now dripping rivulets of water down the windows, the water leaving voids in their wake.

  I laugh, knowing we were so hot for each other that we couldn’t even take the time to crawl out of the vehicle and go into the house. I lift my lips to hers and kiss her sweetly. “You plan on attacking me anymore today?”

  She smiles and bites her bottom lip. “Only if the mood strikes,” she answers with a shrug. “Do you mind?” She asks with feigned shyness.

  “It’s absolute torture, but I’m here if you need me.” I smile at her knowing I’d quit my job and live inside of her if she’d allow it.

  Josie attempts to lift herself off of me, but I still her hips with my hand.

  “Wait,” I instruct as I grab some napkins from the center console. “Lift up slowly.”

  The slow glide of her core off my body almost has my eyes rolling into the back of my head, and there’s no way to stop the groan that escaped my lips at the sensation. I do my best to clean her as the evidence of my release slicks the insides of her thighs.

  “You’re going to need another shower,” I observe as she slides back into her seat on the passenger side and manages to straighten her skirt and get her shirt back on. I tug my pants back up my hips, and I’m able to zip them most of the way, and I leave the top button undone.

  We each sit in our respective seats for a few minutes, allowing our bodies to calm. I watch as she writes her name in cursive on her window. I laugh. “We fogged it up pretty good in here, didn’t we?”

  She turns her head and smiles at me; I grin back at the sight of her overly flushed face and hair wet at the roots.

  “Quick shower, then get the groceries out?” I question her.

  “We can go ahead and grab them now if you want.” I chuckle at her and shake my head.

  She tilts her head to the side, confusion marking her beautiful face.

  I don’t respond; I get out of the vehicle and make my way around to her side, opening her door and holding my hand out to assist her out. The second she jumps down her eyes dart to mine. I grin at her.

  “Shower first!” She exclaims.

  I nod at her and watch as she walks awkwardly into the house, knowing what I left inside of her is now snaking its way down her legs. Just as I cross the threshold, I hear the doorbell ring. I bite my lip to keep from smiling. I grab her hand as I walk by. “Let’s greet our guests.” She’s stammering about a shower as I tug her towards the door.

  She appears very uncomfortable as I pluck the front door open. Alexa and Garrett are on the front porch, holding several bags of groceries.

  I step to the side. “Come in, please.”

  I don’t miss the smile on Alexa’s face as her eyes dart towards Josie. Garrett walks towards the kitchen with the groceries, and as Alexa slides past Josie following him, I hear her whisper, “Your shirt’s on inside out.”

  Josie gasps and her eyes go wide in my direction. I walk towards her and wrap my arms around her waist. She strikes my chest with her tiny fist. “It was dark in the garage,” I explain because I know she blames me for not informing her of her clothing mishap.

  I turn her towards the master suite and give her a light smack on the ass as she starts to walk away. The small giggle she emits lets me know she’s not truly mad.

  I walk into the kitchen and watch as Alexa makes herself at home, placing things in the fridge and on the counter, emptying the reusable bags they carried in.

  Alexa raises her eyes to me and gives me a knowing smile. The approval on her face makes my chest swell, and I pray that Lorali will give off the same unspoken blessing.

  I incline my head towards the back of the house before speaking. “You guys make yourselves at home.” They both grin at me and know they are aware of what we were doing before we answered the door, but I’m unsure of what excuse to use to slip away and grab a quick shower.

  Garrett grabs Alexa by the hips and turns her in his arms. Throwing me a bone he nods at me. “Sure thing,” he says just before pulling her in for a kiss.

  I take the opportunity to leave and wonder what I’ll be walking back into after we get out of the shower.

  Chapter 17

  Josie

  I cannot believe he pulled me to the door, knowing his essence was dribbling down
my legs. I thought for a brief second it was rather erotic sharing this secret with him until Alexa looked me in the eye and read me like a book in less than a second. I might as well have been standing there naked wearing a sign that said, ‘Kaleb and I just did the dirty.’

  I feel the wisp of cold air hit my body and turn to see Kaleb stepping inside and closing the glass shower door behind him.

  “What are you doing?” Alexa and Garrett are in the house, and he’s sliding in the shower like we have all the time in the world.

  He smirks at me. “You got me dirty. I need a shower.”

  I huff. “You got me dirtier!” I now understood the look he gave me when I suggested we go ahead and grab the groceries before showering. He knew what was going to happen.

  He slowly stalks towards me, and I take a step back until my hot body is against the cold tile of the shower, the dual sensations are exquisite. He runs a finger up the inside of my thigh and gently grazes the delicate flesh at the apex of my thighs.

  “Let’s get clean, Josie so we can get dirty again later.” He towers over me, his large body shielding me from the flow of water.

  I rub my hands over his strong chest, my thumbs applying pressure to his nipples. I want to pinch them, but I don’t know how that will be received. I’m already embarrassed with how I acted in the car. Never in my whole life would I have ever thought I’d attack a man and demand he have sex with me with only actions and no words.

  I mean I hoped it would happen when I excused myself to the restroom while we were at the grocery store. The discarded panties in my purse proved it. I’d refused to go grocery shopping without underwear and had to put on the same ones from yesterday. Removing them had been two-fold. Kaleb’s groan brings my attention back to him, and I realize my hands have made their way over his taut abs straight to his engorged cock.

  He covers my mouth with his as I stroke his length with my hands. I suck his tongue into my mouth, and the husky groan from his chest makes me want to suck him elsewhere. I pull my mouth from his and look down at our connection.

  “Please.” I hear him beg and it’s all I need to drop to my knees and make his wish come true.

  ***

  I lick my lips, and I can still taste Kaleb on my tongue. I’m blow drying my hair in the bathroom after a very titillating shower when a movement catches my eye. I jump at the reflection of Alexa and Lorali in the mirror.

  Once I finished drying my hair, I stare back at their reflection and wind the cord up on the hair dryer Kaleb spent way too much on at the grocery store.

  “What?” I smile at their grinning faces.

  Lorali narrows her eyes at me. “Weren’t you just getting out of the shower when we got here earlier?”

  I raise an eyebrow at her. “And?” She crosses her arms over her chest and throws a foot out at an angle. “I got dirty and needed another one.”

  “Dirty huh?” Alexa chimes in. “How did you get dirty?”

  I glare at her. “Grocery shopping.” I pull the towel I have wrapped around me tighter as I slide past them into the room. My duffle bag on the chair is gone. I glance all around the room looking for it. I even pull the edge of the blanket back, so I can see under the bed.

  I hear Lorali clear her throat from the other side of the room. She’s standing in the doorway of the walk-in closet. She doesn’t say anything just angles her head inside.

  I walk past her into the closet and stop short when I see all of my clothes hanging to one side of the overly large closet. “What in the world?”

  I feel Alexa at my back as she leans in to see what has drawn our attention. “Looks like he wants you to stay a while,” she whispers in my ear before stepping back.

  The idea scares me to death. Never having had a boyfriend or any real type of relationship to moving in with Kaleb in a matter of days into whatever this is? I’ve never even been on my own having moved from my parents to college and straight into living with Alexa and Lorali. I think a conversation with him is due; we need to set the parameters of our relationship. The thought of him telling me we’re just having a good time and not to think too much of it hits me like a brick.

  I walk across the room and look out of the window. I watch as Lorali grabs clean clothes for me off the hanger.

  “Panties?” she asks quietly.

  “Don’t have any,” I mutter as I take the shirt and skirt from her hands. “Kaleb was only able to grab things from the closet. The rest of my clothes were trashed on the floor.”

  I walk across the room and close myself in the bathroom. Dressing quickly, I go back out into the bedroom to talk to the girls. My emotions are better under control as I sit down on the bench at the end of the bed. I can’t hide the small wince from the twinge of pain I feel as I settle. If I had any doubt of where Kaleb had spent most of the day, the mild twinge when I sit serves as a reminder.

  “Sore?” Alexa asks with a knowing glare.

  “Deliciously!” The words are out of my mouth before I even realize what I’m saying.

  I hear Lorali gasp, and I stare at her with a hand cupped over my mouth, just as shocked as she is with what I just said.

  Alexa throws her head back and laughs. “I knew it wouldn’t take much to turn you into a hussy!”

  I drop my hand from my mouth, and I wish I could say I’m appalled by what she just said, but how can I be? I’ve practically thrown myself at Kaleb. He woke up this morning in my mouth and I all but attacked him less than an hour ago in the garage. Is this what happens when you go too long without sex? Am I coming on too strong? Does he think I’m acting like a slut?

  “Damn!” I exclaim.

  “What’s wrong?” Lorali asks with a look of alarm on her face.

  “Do you…do you think he thinks I’m a slut?” I lower myself heavily to the bench at the end of the massive bed and hang my head. I didn’t even take his opinion of me into consideration until this very minute.

  I hear Alexa chuckle and see Lorali smack her gently on the arm as I raise my head to look at them.

  “What?” She glares at Lorali.

  “You’re not helping,” my sister tells her. “Look, Josie. I seriously doubt he thinks you’re a slut. He’s been throwing his business cards at you and practically begging you to call him for weeks now.”

  “But what if he was just doing it to get me in bed?” My eyes plead with her.

  “A man who just wants to sleep with you doesn’t bring you home and hang your clothes in his closet,” Alexa explains. “And they certainly don’t turn sex down in the beginning as a means of making sure you’re ready for the next step.”

  I can see her point. He wants to use the word we, and he did insist that I pick out groceries for the week. I nod my head, acknowledging that they are probably right and I’m worrying over nothing.

  Lorali rubs my back gently as I stand up. “If you are worried about it, then ask him. Don’t make the same mistake I did with Ian. If you have questions, ask. It will be way better than assuming and getting it wrong.”

  “Thanks,” I say with renewed faith. I’ll talk with him this evening after everyone leaves. Not only do we need to discuss where this relationship is going, but we also need to talk about how long I’ll be here. I wonder if he will help me find a more secure apartment. The idea of leaving the safety he has provided before my burglar is caught makes me shudder. I shake the thought off and make my way to the closed bedroom door. “You ready to go see what the guys are up to?”

  “Umm…” Lorali looks like she has bad news.

  “What?” I prod.

  “I talked to Mom and Dad earlier, and I let it slip that the apartment got broken into.” She answers.

  “And?” I know that’s not all she has to tell me.

  “And…they’re worried about you and are coming to town tomorrow.” I narrow my eyes at her.

  “And?” I demand.

  “And…Since you were so snuggly with Kaleb earlier, I might have mentioned that you have a boyfriend.
And they want us all to go to lunch tomorrow.” She says the last part very fast and takes a step back waiting for the retribution.

  “You did what!?!” I glare at her. “You told them I have a boyfriend? I don’t even know if he is my boyfriend, Lorali!” I pace back and forth in front of the closed bedroom door frustrated that she has once again overstepped.

  “I didn’t know that you guys haven’t declared it yet!” She explains.

  “All the more reason to mind your damn business!” Alexa steps forward and gets in between us.

  “Josie, calm down. Lorali is just excited you’ve found someone you’re interested in.” Her voice is calm and tranquil and helps to level my anger.

  “Fuck,” I mumble under my breath.

  “Josie!” Lorali chastises my use of foul language.

  I glare at her. “I’m not some petulant child, Lorali. Do not castigate me for using bad words!”

  She hangs her head. “Sorry. Please don’t be mad at me!”

  “I’ll get over it,” I huff and open the door and leave the room.

  Chapter 18

  Kaleb

  Even during the conversation with the guys my eyes can’t help but keep track of Josie’s every movement. After our shower, I made a point to put on super tight, ultra-restrictive underwear in hopes that the erection I know I’ll have more than once this evening will be restricted enough and less noticeable.

  I catch her looking my way several times as well. She gives me a small smile, but I can tell that something is bothering her. I can’t help but wonder if she’s regretting this get together or worse yet, regretting me. I try my best to give her a reassuring smile, but she cuts her eyes away from me before I can.

  Her regressive behavior has me on edge, and I refuse to let it fester. I waited weeks for her to call me. I was patient each time I saw her knowing that giving her my card once again was going to be futile. I’ll not allow her to slip back into old habits.