Killian: I can be there in twenty. The garage I’m at isn’t far.
Liri: Don’t drive too fast.
I leave the bathroom and my stepfather is seated at the bar having a drink and talking to Dillan.
I approach him and interrupt their conversation “You can go now. Killian is picking me up.”
“As in my little brother?”
“Yes, if you must know.”
He laughs with a snort. “You’ll be waiting a while. Killian isn’t boyfriend material.”
I roll my eyes and my stepfather smiles like ‘see this guy knows what he’s talking about.’ Neither of them know him the way that I do.
“You’re overreacting and being childish, Liri. His own brother sees things for what they are. You know I wasn’t going to bring it up yet, but that art program, the one in France you wanted. There’s going to be an opening next semester. Play your cards right, I could make it happen.”
“You mean if I give up Killian.”
“That’s not what I said.”
“You didn’t have to.”
“Just think about it, Liri.” He finishes his drink and leaves me standing at the bar on the verge of tears. Paris was a pipe dream. Something Theo said not even his money could buy and now he’s using it against me. I had given up on that dream when I wasn’t accepted into the program. I always thought that I partly didn’t get it because my mother didn’t want me going far away and now, I wonder if that was exactly the case. Because I am not doing as she wishes they are going to use it as a bargaining chip to control me.
“What’s a pretty rich girl like you doing with my brother?”
“None of your business. What would you know about him anyway? You don’t even talk.”
“I know enough to advise you to listen to your rich daddy and go to Paris.” He winks at me and sets a glass on the counter. He pours dark liquor in it. “On the house.”
I know I shouldn’t be drinking but maybe a sip or two will help me to calm down. I accept it and when he offers me a second, I knock it back it hoping it will ease the burn in my throat from the first.
When Killian arrives, I am on my fourth. I feel tipsy but not drunk.
“Was lunch with your stepfather that bad?” he is speaking to me but glaring at his brother.
I lean back into his arms. “They offered me Paris if I stop seeing you.”
He tenses. “What’s in Paris?”
“Her dream art program,” Dillan answers. “Sounded pretty sweet to me.”
“They think they can control me. Snap their fingers and say Liri go to school here. Liri live here, drive this car, fuck this boy not that one.” I snap my fingers.
“Okay. Let’s get you in the car.”
His hand slides under my butt and I giggle. Maybe I drank more than I thought. “I like it when you touch my butt.” I grin at him and kiss the tip of his nose.
“You’re drunk.”
“Shh. Don’t tell my boyfriend. He will get mad at me.” I lay my head on his shoulder. “Will you carry me?”
“What the hell did you serve her?”
“Bourbon.”
“Thanks a lot, asshole.”
“You coming to the old man’s big shindig? Susie invited your girlfriend to come.”
A growl rumbles low in the back of Killian’s throat. “Why would I come? It isn’t like either of you would want me there.”
“You should come. Bring your pretty girlfriend, show off, and pretend you’re better than us like you always have.”
“Fuck off.”
“It’d mean a lot to Dad if you were there. Even Mom agreed to be there.”
“Why?”
“Because it’s his fiftieth birthday that’s why.”
“Whatever,” he complains, but then he says, “When is it?”
Chapter 38
Killian
“What were you thinking getting drunk in the middle of the day?” I brush her hair back from her face and buckle her into the passenger side of my car. She’s lucky I was close by.
“It seemed like a good idea at the time. You’re cute.” She smirks. “You look like my boyfriend.”
“You’re funny when you’re drunk.” She’s lucky she’s cute and I love her so much. I kiss her cheek and close her door.
I get in on the driver’s side and turn the key in the ignition. Liri looks at me and says, “You should let me drive this car. I’d be sexy behind the wheel.”
I appraise her pumpkin and ghost print leggings and chuckle. “If anyone could pull it off in those pants it would be you.”
Her bottom lips puckers out. “You don’t like my pants?”
“Not particularly, no.”
“Then I’ll just get rid of them.” She giggles and starts sliding them down her legs.
“Liri, don’t do that. Not until we get home.” Fuck. I look over and her pants are down to her ankles. She’s bent over in the seat fighting with her shoes and the seatbelt.
“It’s choking me,” she whines, and right now I want to turn around to go choke my brother for serving her liquor. I’m trying to think of anything but the fact that her parents are right. If this Paris thing was or is her dream and they can give it to her she should jump at the chance. She shouldn’t be wasting her time on an asshole like me. I’m selfish enough to want her to choose me though.
The stretch of road we are on is too narrow for me to pull over, and I am not sure how it would look if I pulled in at the next gas station to pull her pants up. Someone might get the wrong impression. She’s wearing these teensy white cotton panties and it is sexy as hell as she sits up. Her hair is blowing out the window and she’s singing at the top of her lungs having the best time.
I speed up loving having her in the car with me. She looks over at me and smiles.
I turn down the music. “What?”
“The way your car vibrates makes me hot.” She grins wickedly then does something that nearly cause me to go off the damn road. My crazy girl slides her hand inside her panties and starts touching herself.
“Fuck, baby, you can’t be doing that right now.”
“Go faster,” she purrs.
I step on the gas, eyes locked on her hand as it moves. Her head goes back and her lips part. She moans and my cock stretches against my zipper eager to be let free.
“Do I taste good?” She reaches across the console and rubs her fingers over my lips. I can smell and taste her arousal as I suck her fingers into my mouth.
“You’re evil.” I take a sharp right and pull onto Butler Road hoping no one else had the same idea. The clearing is empty, and I put the car into park, jerking my seatbelt off. I release Liri’s as well. She loves to taunt me. “I should spank your ass for the shit you just pulled,” I warn.
“I wish you would,” she sasses.
I exit the car and open her door. Crooking a finger at my girl, I command her, “C’mere.”
“Make me,” she taunts, touching herself again.
Two can play her little game of teasing. Undoing my pants, I grip my growing erection in my fist. Liri’s gorgeous powder blue eyes are on me, watching as I pump and stroke my shaft.
“That’s hot,” she coos and bites the tip of her finger. “Keep doing that.”
“You like to watch, baby?”
“Mhmm but I’d rather take you in my mouth.”
“If you want this cock, you’re going to have to come take it.”
“Now who’s the tease?”
“I want you bent over the hood of my car.” I shed my shirt and lay on the hood. “Palms right here.” My girl does as she is told. She is perfect standing before me barefoot in her tight-fitting tee and her white cotton bikini style bottoms. We’re playing a dangerous game. Since the first time I had her I’ve not worn a condom. I know she’s on birth control, but I shouldn’t be careless. I can’t seem to control the impulse to feel her completely. Having Liri bareback is like the perfect drug.
Lining up with her body, I p
ush in easily. She’s damn ready to be loved by me. Gripping her hips, I’m not gentle when I take her. It’s daylight and though many don’t come here except for a private spot to race it doesn’t mean we couldn’t be caught. I palm her tit under her shirt, rolling the tender bud of her nipple between my fingers.
The hard gasp ripping from her throat as I thrust inside her fuels my fire, pushing me to go harder and faster until she spasms beneath me in pure pleasure. At the last second, I pull out and smack my cock against her perfect ass as I get off, giving her the spanking she deserves.
I clean her up the best I can and get her pants back on her though she has sobered.
Her face is flushed, and her lips are swollen from me kissing her for about ten minutes before we leave to go home. We are almost to the apartment when she leans her head against the glass of the passenger side window. “I don’t feel too hot.” She heaves.
“Can you hold it until we get home?” I should have known this was coming due to the night she slept in my bed after her drunken debauchery.
“I think so.” She cracks her window to get some fresh air.
As soon as I pull into the lot, she demands I stop the car. She jumps out and goes running for the bushes still barefoot. Being the good boyfriend that I am, I follow to hold her hair back. I don’t want to experience that again. Liri has thick hair and it was a bitch to wash.
I get her upstairs and into the bathroom. While she washes her face and brushes her teeth, I get her a comfy pair of shorts and a tank top to sleep in. It’s not even seven in the evening but I know she needs sleep.
We crawl into bed together, and I can’t believe I am content to spend a Friday night in bed and it not involve sex. Normally about now I would be with Liam and the boys getting beer and pizza before a party at the frat house. I’d be sizing up the girls and seeing who my fuck for the night would be or who would be the girl to give me a blow job.
Liri changed that for me. I knew the moment I saw her she was different. I wanted so badly to hate her. Her and her stupid leggings but I was a goner and a fool to think I could ever escape the pull I feel to her.
Chapter 39
Liri
Last week royally sucked. My stepfather was a jerk, and I drank way too much. I shouldn’t have been drinking in the first place. I was so flipping upset. Who do my parents think they are holding Paris over my head like that? It’s not fair. Who treats their child that way?
In the living room I am set up on the couch with my laptop searching for a job. My mother will threaten to close my bank account next I am sure. Her and Theo think they can play me by being good cop bad cop, but it isn’t going to work. They aren’t going to convince me to breakup with Killian. I love him and I’m happy. I haven’t spoken to them since they ambushed me last week.
“Whatcha doing?” Killian’s rough voice grates in my ear and shivers course up and down my spine and fan down my arms, leaving a trail of chill bumps.
“I’m job hunting.”
“Why?” He comes around the couch and takes a seat, placing my feet in his lap.
“Because I want one.”
“Is that the only reason?”
I chew on my thumb. “Well…if I know my mother, she will switch gears and cut me off financially. I don’t know if Theo will follow through with it, but it is better to prepare myself and to show them I can do this without them.”
“You don’t have to get a job, Liri. I can take care of you.”
“I love that you want to, but we are equal partners, and if something happens and they do cut me off, that could mean my tuition doesn’t get paid. I don’t have that kind of money put back in my savings account.”
“That’s what financial aid is for.”
“Which I will apply for if the need arises, but a job could be good for me. I only want part time.”
“My dad would hire you.”
“I wouldn’t want to put you in the position to ask.”
He shrugs. “We have his birthday party tonight. I can talk to him about it then.”
With an arched brow, I ask, “We’re going?” That’s a surprise to me.
“It’s stupid. I shouldn’t want to go, but I figure if my mom can suck it up and go I can too.”
“You’ve spoken with your mom?” I was under the impression he doesn’t talk to her either.
“Dillan mentioned it.”
“Gotcha. What time is this party?”
He looks at his watch. “In like three hours. We should leave in four.” He grins.
“You aren’t showing up late. I gotta get moving. I’m going to run to the mall and get him a gift. What do you think he’d like?
“You don’t need to get him anything.”
“Who shows up to a birthday party—their boyfriend’s father’s birthday without a gift? No way.” I put my computer on the coffee table and start to get up when Killian hooks an arm around me.
“You’re not going anywhere.” He yanks me into his lap and bites the shell of my ear.
“Stop. It tickles.” I squirm, but he only tightens his hold.
“Oh, baby. Keep bouncing on my lap,” he teases.
“I’m serious. I don’t have anything to wear.”
“I am all for you being naked.” His teeth rake down my neck.
“Killian,” I say his name in protest, but his hand moves over my lower belly, his thumb teasing at the waist of my pajama bottoms. “You don’t fight fair.” I twist around to straddle him, my lips meeting his for a kiss.
“Ten minutes. Give me ten minutes then I will drive you to the mall myself.”
“Ten minutes?” I hedge.
“Liri, I can do a lot with my mouth in five,” he boasts.
“Prove it,” I challenge.
“Raise up.” He smacks my bottom. I move to my knees. “No stand up. I won’t let you fall.”
I feel like I am totally going to be hitting my head on the coffee table in five seconds, but I brace his shoulders and he holds my sides.
“What are you doing?”
His response is to bite the drawstring on my pants and tug with his teeth until the knot loosens, then he bites on the waist of them, tugging on them like a dog with his chew toy until they fall to my ankles.
“Fuck,” he swears, noticing I’m not wearing panties.
I beam down at him.
“I’m going to move and then when I tell you to, I want you to lower down to my face.”
“You want me to what?” I laugh and shake my head.
“Just do it. Clock’s ticking.”
I think he is crazy, but I do what he tells me to. I sink back down on the couch and my goods are right over his face. I’m not embarrassed or feeling self-conscious though. Killian makes me feel special and wanted.
Gripping my thighs, he flicks his tongue against my clit, then flattens it. Licking and sucking my most intimate area, he wasn’t lying. My boyfriend has a magic mouth. He reaches around me and slides his hand down his pants, jerking himself as he tongues me.
The erotic act has me seeing stars as wave after wave of pleasure rocks through me. I raise up and Killian slides me down until our bodies line up. He fills me completely and as promised within ten minutes my legs are shaking and my insides feel like goo.
Breathlessly, I lay on his chest.
“I can’t move.”
He smiles, caresses my jaw, then smacks my butt hard. “Let’s go shopping.”
**
The mall is insanely crowded. I haven’t a clue what to get his dad. I don’t know anything about the man aside from he used to drive a race car and some secondhand gossip. I am more nervous about meeting his mom. My parents meeting Killian didn’t go so hot, and I really want to make a good impression tonight. “What do you think of this one?” I step out of the dressing room in a form fitting red dress.
“I think it looks beautiful like the last five.” He laughs at me.
“Which one was your favorite?”
“Just get so
mething or we are never going to make it home to get ready,” he grumbles.
“Someone is getting testy,” I tease but then I see why he is anxious to leave.
Hayley is here with Jackie. Hayley looks directly at me then flips her hair and says something to Jackie. They both start laughing. Killian tells me to ignore them, and I roll my eyes and go change out of the dress, deciding to get the same style but in dark blue.
“Does your dad wear ties?”
“Never. Maybe to church once.”
“Is he religious?”
“No.”
“A wallet?”
“Yes, let’s go with that.” Killian insists on paying though I try to tell the salesclerk not to take his card. She laughs at us and calls us cute.
He pecks my lips with a quick kiss. Hayley and Jackie are gone, and I’m glad. I can’t believe she is hanging out with her after how she talked bad about her and called her a skank when she thought Liam was cheating with her. They deserve to be friends with each other.
Chapter 40
Liri
I grabbed a gift certificate for a massage for Killian’s dad to add to the wallet we got him. It’s hard to shop for a man you know nothing about. The bar and grill is closed for the party, but there are a lot of cars here. We are half an hour late because my boyfriend couldn’t keep his hands off me in the shower. I had to kick him out so I could shave my legs.
He’s sulked about it the whole way here.
“Do you think your mom will like me?”
“I love you and that’s all that matters. I don’t know why you care if these assholes like you. They aren’t good people, Liri.”
“Because I just do.” We share a kiss then get out of the car. He may not like them, but they are still his family and it is important to me that they like me. That they want us together.
We walk in to live music and lots of chatter. There’s a seafood buffet set up in front of the kitchen but I’m not hungry. I’m too nervous to eat. Killian hands me a fruity drink, and I gulp it down. He places our gift on the bar.
“Don’t drink too fast. I don’t need you getting drunk and trying to molest me in front of my relatives,” he grits in my ear.
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