by Blue Saffire
“Oh shit,” I groan as my legs start to quiver.
“Yes, Baby,” Nick growls into my folds. “That’s it, come for me.”
His words are more of a command more than anything. And being that my body knows that Nick owns it, it response on queue. My orgasm is so intense; I am seeing more stars than the ones in the sky above us.
Nick laps up my juices, making sure to suck on my sensitive clit for good measure. Nick does let up and soon he is back to devouring my core and bringing me to my second climax. As he drinks it all up with moan and groans of pleasure, I whimper and shake my head back and forth, unable to find the words to tell him I am thoroughly thrashed.
I close my eyes and throw my arm over my face. I feel Nick pulling my body down the hood, bringing my ass to the edge of the car, but I think nothing of it. Not until I hear his belt buckle and zipper release.
I am so spent I don’t even have time to process or react to the sounds I am hearing. I cry out loudly as Nick enters me in one powerful thrust that sends me sliding back up the hood of the car. Nick reaches for my legs again, pinning them back to my shoulders as he leans over me. He holds me in place by my legs as he pounds into me.
“Always so fucking wet. I can’t get enough of you. You drive me crazy, Baby. I love being inside you, I love your tight heat wrapped around me,” his voice is so husky as his eyes roll back in his head and he groans. “Sephora, fuck, Sephora.”
Nick is so tall that his knees are bent and his thrusts are coming down on me, instead up into me in this position. I look down and lick my lips, it is a beautiful sight to see his huge penis moving in and out of me. I can see his length glistening from my wetness. My mouth starts to water as it falls open in awe.
His light skin looks so gorgeous next to my chocolate skin. I can feel my sex wrapping around him trying to suck him in deeper. My body is just so greedy for him and his touch. I want to feel him everywhere, to be filled by him and to take as much of him as I can get.
As always Nick is in my thoughts. He dips his head and captures my right nipple in his mouth. Nick sucks hard over the fabric of my shirt and bra. It’s not enough for either of us. Nick releases my leg long enough to pull down the strap of my tank top and the cup of my strapless bra.
As soon as I am free he grabs my calf again and latches onto the nipple he has exposed for his tasting pleasure. Nick hums against my nipple, then growls as he feels my sex spasm around him. I come hard on an open mouth silent scream.
Nick lifts his head to look into my eyes as I continue to fall to pieces. His eyes drop to the insanely sexy view of us joining, his face twisting in ecstasy. His pace quickens and I know he is close I can feel it.
“I need you to come with me,” Nick demands. His hand shooting to my sensitive nub. I haven’t completely come down from the previous release. Leave it to Nick to send my body into multiples at breakneck speed. “Fuck, I’m coming, Baby. Let go now!”
Request granted. My body yields to his demand like never before. This is not a light aftershock of a multiple. I come back to back three more times and they are equally as mind numbing and body shattering as the last. How the hell does he do this to me?
My lids droop and I’m not sure how I am getting back into the car. I just want to pass out right here and go to sleep. I think I do nod off quickly, only opening my eyes again when I feel Nick pulling me into his arms against his chest.
“I have always wanted to fuck on the hood of a car,” Nick’s deep voice chuckles in my ear.
“Oh really,” I giggle sleepily. “Glad I could make your dreams come true.”
Nick laughs and it vibrates through my body making me feel at home and safe. I cuddle deeper into his body, placing a kiss to the center of his chest through his sweat dampened t-shirt. I am in heaven.
Suddenly, the air shifts and I can feel Nick tense beneath me as he rubs my back. I sigh because I know what is coming. He is ready to move forward with the rest of his reveal. I’m just not so sure that I am ready to hear it.
I am left without a choice as Nick’s voice fills the air. I am relieved that his voice and the soothing feel of his hand, stroking my back counters the unease in my belly. I take a deep breath and get ready.
“You asked what changed,” Nick snorts. “Everything, everything changed. Once I went off to college things were different. I was still a bit shy, but I was coming into my own as well. You couldn’t hang out with guys like Luke, Kevin, and Wyatt and not come out of your shell.”
“Wait, you mean Wyatt Black. Ryan mentioned you two know each other,” I say and wrinkle my brows trying to remember.
I feel Nick’s body tighten even more and regret the words I have just spoken instantly. I know Ryan Black is still a sore topic with him.
I look up can sure enough Nick has a scowl in his face and his eyes are narrowed on me. I reach to cup his face and lift to place a kiss to his lips. Nick’s fingers bury into my hair and he kisses me with a fierce possessiveness.
I pull away breathlessly and smirk up at him. “You are the only one I want and love, Nick. It was a mistake. One that will never happen again. Ry is just a friend and I can see why you are friends with Wyatt. He is a piece of work.” I laugh at the memory of my time spent with Ryan’s brothers and the women in their lives.
“Humph,” Nick grunts, but gives me one last chaste kiss before continuing with his story. “Yes, I mean Wyatt Black. He is the only reason I haven’t gone to kick Ryan’s ass yet. Anyway, one night Wyatt dragged us all out to a club. I was so inexperienced in life.
“When I wasn’t away at school, I was under my father’s wing. The few summers and vacations I spent hanging with Wyatt had offered a little reprieve from my father’s watchful eye and constant drills on how I should live my life.
“I just was never much on putting myself out there. However, I was ready to get my feet wet a little. I wanted to be carefree like Kevin and Wyatt,” Nick chuckles and reaches to massage my neck. “Girls thought Luke and I were just the brooding type. Truth was I was never around girls much before college and Luke, well, I think he thought it was cool to be aloof when it came to girls.”
I love the smile on Nick’s face as he gets lost in his thoughts of his past. It gives me hope that this story is not as bad as I have been thinking it is. Something flashes in his eyes, however, that makes me second guess that thought.
“I wasn’t expecting her. She changed all of our lives without us even knowing it. I haven’t spoken her name in years,” Nick swallows hard before pushing out his next words. “Ivana… her name was Ivana.”
Nick looks into my eyes searching. I can’t help but let recognition show. Ivana Graves was one of the names in the encrypted file from A&T’s server. I didn’t tell Nick this before, but I saw a picture of her in the file.
She was gorgeous. Her smile seemed to light up the whole picture. I could tell that she was tall from the man she was standing next to in the picture. Her hair was shoulder length and blonde. Her eyes were dark and almost haunting despite her warm smile. Everything about her drew me into her presence in the photo.
To know now that she and Nick were involved is like a punch to my gut. At least, that is what I fear he is trying to tell me. That he and that stunning woman were together. I start to compare all of my shortcomings to this woman. A woman that no longer exists.
Would Nick be with her if she were still alive? She knew him when he was in college, so she was older, closer to his age than I am. Am I some sad replacement for the love of his life?
“I see the wheels turning in your head, Baby,” Nick says and presses his lips. “Let me tell you everything before you jump to conclusions. I will tell you this first, however, my love. You are and always will be the love of my life. I have never loved another the way I love you. So no matter what I am about to tell you, know that you hold my heart and I am forever, totally and truly yours.”
Nick pauses to let his words sink in. I absorb them and let the tension release from my bod
y. I nod my head in understanding and prompt him to continue.
Nick releases a heavy sigh. “Wyatt dragged us all to a club one night and Ivana grabbed my attention right away. I admired her boldness when she came to me and pulled me onto the dance floor. I was different then. I let her take the lead.
“After that night, Ivana became one of the guys, but she and I were more. She was two years older than I was, but she never treated me like some kid. Instead, she helped me find my way out of my shell. Ivana could be mysterious at times, but it was one of the things I liked about her.
“My father started to become more demanding. I would vent to Ivana about my father wanting me to take over the business. One night, she talked me and the guys into joining her at this club. She said it was different and she thought we would all find an outlet for some of the things we were going through.
“By this point we all shared most of each other’s secrets. Ivana knew we all had pressure coming down on us from home. This was her way of offering us control,” Nick chuckles and shakes his head.
“If you would have told me that my girlfriend was taking me and my crazy group of friends to a BDSM club I would have looked at you like you were crazy. I was livid at first, but curiosity won out in the end.
“Won’t get into the specifics of that time in my life, but you have to understand that I found myself in the life. I found my voice. I was ready to tell my father that I wanted to do my own thing. I found my confidence and I channeled it all into moving forward to make my own path. That is until forces unknown to me started to interfere with my life.”
Nick scowls deeply and his jaw works under his skin. I reach to cover his jaw and look him in the eyes. He closes his eyes reining in his calm.
“I trusted Ivana. We all did. So when she came to me and told me she was pregnant, I thought nothing of it. I was twenty-two by then. We had been together since I was nineteen. I was pretty sure I was in love,” Nick shrugs.
“Until then I had kept Ivana and my family apart. I’m sure now that my father already knew about her, but as long as I wasn’t bringing her home he thought nothing of it. Well, I decided to take her home so my parents could meet the mother of my child.
“I had every intention of asking Ivana to marry me. My father and mother lost it. I’d never seen them behave the way they had. They were adamant that we get rid of the baby. My parents had never been like this with me. I was floored to see this side of them.
“Needless to say I took off and took the mother of my child with me. Like I said I’m a planner. I had been creating a little nest egg all along. I thought Ivana would be happy, but she kept pushing the subject of me getting back in my parent’s good graces.
“I brushed it off as her wanting my parents in the baby’s life. Our little girl wouldn’t have wanted for anything with or without my parents. I didn’t need to go running back to them. I just wanted to finish my senior year and move on with my life,” Nick’s jaw tightens and I can see he is getting to a part in the story that angers him.
“Ivana talked me and the guys into going on one last trip before the baby was born. So we all flew out to Daytona Beach for spring break. Ivana was five months by then so we spent most of our time in a private beach house.
“When we returned home my place was trashed. I had no idea what they were looking for. Nothing was missing. Kevin offered to have a friend wire my place with cameras and a security system. Mind you, I still didn’t know Kevin was a part of Briggs Security.
“Two weeks later, I just had this nagging feeling to pull up the feed and watch the footage from my apartment. I scrolled through for about an hour before I almost gave up, but something caught my attention.
“I forgot to tell Ivana about the security cameras. I found it odd when she walked into my office on her cell phone. She went through a few drawers and at first I thought she was looking for a pen maybe or something to write on. Only she pulled out a file and started going through it, but she stopped, stood, and began banging on the desk,” Nick stops once again, clenching and unclenching his fist.
“At that point I replayed the footage and turned on the sound to hear what was being said. I remember the feeling of the ice filling my veins as Ivana placed the phone on speaker and the other voice filled the room,” this time I can see that Nick is lost in the past as his words cut off and he looks off into the distance.
Nick
I watched Ivana on the screen of my laptop wondering what she was doing. I’d been sitting here not even knowing why I decided to watch this footage. It had been nagging at me all night. Ivana decided to go out with some friends and I just wanted some time alone.
My father had been calling me all day pleading with my voicemail for me to call him. I wasn’t ready to call him. I still need time. I can’t believe Mom and Dad wanted me to kill my little girl and now…. I just don’t want to deal with whatever they want now.
In the video, Ivana sits at my desk and starts to rummage through the drawers. I lift my brows, watching as she lifts a file from the drawer. She starts to go through the file, then stops to bang on the desk I see her lips moving rapidly as her chest heaves. Pissed and curious now, I stopped the playback and restarted it from the point where Ivana entered the room, turning on the sound to listen in this time.
This time I watched Ivana more closely. I noticed that her hands are shaking as she starts to go through the drawers. There is a look of impatience on her face. Her dark eyes have a mix of sadness, frustration, and anger.
“I’m looking,” she growls into the phone at her ear. After a small pause, she speaks again. “I don’t know. You were supposed to do this. I gave you all the time you needed. You can’t blame this on me.”
I watched as Ivana shakes her head at what is said on the other end of the phone. She opens the bottom door and looks inside. With a frown, she pulls out a file. Placing it on the desk and removing the phone from her ear to place it on the desk as well, she starts moving through the file.
Suddenly, her lips part and she lifts to her feet slamming her hands on the desk. “I can’t do this. Why can’t you just leave him alone. I don’t understand why you are doing this,” Ivana yells. “If you have a problem with them, fine, but why drag Nick into this?”
“You stupid bitch. I’ve been paying you good money to stay close to him to get me what I need. I never paid you to fall in love with him or to get fucking pregnant. I should have left you where I found you. You have been nothing but trouble. The parents are on to you. Find what I need now,” the male voice growls into the phone.
I don’t recognize the voice, but it sends chills down my spine. My veins fill with ice and questions fill my head. I trusted Ivana. Has she been in my life for an ulterior motive all along? Who is the them Ivana mentioned? Could she be talking about my parents? What is this guy trying to drag me into?
I stopped the playback as fury consumed me. For the first time in a long time I felt out of control and I didn’t like it. I thought of the one person that may be able to help me find answers. I didn’t want to drag him into this, but I needed someone to help me get to the bottom of this.
Chapter 11
Loose Skeletons
Sephora
He hasn’t said a word for about five minutes now. I have sat here patiently waiting for him to come back from wherever he has disappeared to. I have so many questions, but they will have to wait. Right now I just want to understand the scowl on his face.
I won’t pretend to ignore the ping of hurt in my chest at knowing Nick has a daughter or that he was once going to marry her mother. I can’t help but wonder what happened to the little girl. This is the first I am hearing of her and there wasn’t any mention of her in the file as far as I know.
“Ivana betrayed my trust. I didn’t know what to do,” Nick says when he finally speaks. He goes on to tell me what happened when he watched the playback and heard the things Ivana and the man on the other end of the phone said.
My heart hurts f
or him. I can see the pain in his eyes and feel the despair that is rolling off of him. This is the most vulnerable I have ever seen Nick.
“I called the guys, Wyatt first. He was the one I knew could help me. I didn’t know then that I was putting all of my friends and their families in danger,” Nick swallows hard and shakes his head.
He snorts. “Whoever was after me decided to target more than just me. The more we started to dig the more we uncovered and that is when things got crazy.
“Ivana never returned that night, that I watched the video. I waited. We all did. She just fell off the grid. Wyatt even brought his brother in to see if we could find her. I was scared out of my mind. Yes, she betrayed me, but she was also carrying my little girl.”
Nick stops and pushes a hand through his hair. The hand that had been soothing my neck was now tense against me. I gently tug away to sit up and look at him.
I shiver when I am no longer encompassed in his warmth. Nick notices and frowns. He gets up and slides off the hood walking to the back of the car. Nick retrieves his leather jacket and brings it to wrap around my shoulders.
Nick plucks me off the hood and places me between his legs. Propping his butt against the car, he wraps his body around mine to keep me warm. I can feel the tension still running through him.
“You don’t have to finish telling me this. We can just try to enjoy the rest of the night,” I whisper softly, just loud enough for him to hear me.
Nick shakes his head in the crook of my neck. “No, I promised myself that I would get this out tonight. I want it over and done with. My priority is protecting you and starting our lives together as husband and wife. I can’t do that with this hanging over our heads.”
I gasp and spin in his arms. It is not the first time Nick has mentioned me being his wife, but there is something about the way he just said it that knocks the wind from me.
I cup his face and pull him to me for a kiss. Nick deepens the kiss sending a different type of shiver through me. I think I have effectively changed the topic and course of this evening until Nick breaks the kiss.
