by Brenda Ford
“Come on.” Brad picks up the pace, dragging me with him. “Let’s get out of here already.”
As we reach the top of the stairs, he swoops me up in to his arms once more and presses me against the wall to kiss me. As his lips crash against mine, heat floods me, passion flows through me, everything intensifies. I roll my hips against him, needing him, even if we’re in public as we could get caught at any moment.
“Oh fuck, Brad,” I hiss against his mouth. “I want you. I want you so badly.”
He lights up like a fucking Christmas tree and he kisses me harder. I’m trapped between him and the cold hard wall behind me and I love it. I don’t want to move at all. I don’t want him to ever let me go.
But as he lifts me to my feet and I wrap my legs around him, I find myself not minding moving at all. I can feel his bulge between my thighs, brushing up against my core, promising me what will come next. In all the hurt and worry over the last few days, I forgot about how good this could feel.
“Oh God,” I groan, tossing my head back as we enter his bedroom. “Oh, Brad.”
He kicks his bedroom door, slamming it shut behind him, and shows me the spark in his eyes. He’s on fire, full of flames, turning me on even more. I wish I didn’t have panties on because the material is in the way now, preventing him from immediately slipping inside of me and giving me everything that I want.
Brad steps towards his bedroom and he drops me on to the bed. My dress slides up my body and I watch Brad’s eyes hungrily run over my body. All the pain I have caused Brad trickles off him as desire takes its place instead. Thank God, any awkwardness has vanished as well. We’re back to where we’re at our best.
“I’m so glad you’re here, Tami,” Brad tells me seriously. “It killed me when I thought that we were never going to get back to one another. It scared the shit out of me.”
“Me too,” I admit while reaching out to grab on to his top. I need to pull him towards me, to hold him close to me, to really feel him. “But we made it in the end.”
As I pull him on top of me, the weight of his body feeling incredible against mine, a sense of gratitude floods me. I’m so freaking happy to have this man back in my arms. His lips are on my throat, his fingers grazing down my sides, my legs wrapping around him. We fit together perfectly, like we are meant to be.
All of a sudden, a burst of passion over comes me and I twist Brad around. I push him on to his back and I sit astride him, smiling down on him. I curl my fingers around the hem line of my dress and tug it upwards to fling it over my head. As the material floods away, a loud excitable gasp erupts from Brad’s mouth.
“Oh wow, you are seriously beautiful,” he groans. “How did I get so lucky?”
“You lucky?” I chuckle. “I’m the one who gets to be with Brad Smith. Again.”
“Hey, I’m not ever letting you go again. I hope you realize that!”
As I lean down and kiss him with his hands snaking around my back to unhook my bra, that happiness over comes me. I could have lost this man. We could have been pushed apart. There are so many times this couldn’t have happened. The fact that we’re still fighting and together just says it all. We are meant to be.
Chapter Thirty-Eight
Brad
I cup her breasts in my hands and hold them gently, using my thumbs to brush over her nipples as I change things up again and I turn her on to her back. I need to hold her, to control her body like this, to have all the power, to create a fission of excitement bursting through her. The sensation of her silky skin in my hand creates an intense, almost explosive reaction in my body. It’s been too long since I got to touch her.
“Your body is everything,” I growl with excitement. “Fucking hell, you feel so good.”
I rein kisses all over her neck and collar bone, needing my mouth all over her skin. Every part of us not touched by my lips right now is wasted. As I kiss everywhere, her fingers run through my hair and she tugs with passion. Each pull creates a wildness inside of me, it unleashes the animal of desire I haven’t let out for a while.
No wonder I couldn’t let go of this, no wonder nearly losing Tami killed me. When it feels like this, then how the hell could I want anything else? Thank fuck we managed to get back together.
Eventually, my mouth slides all the way down to those stunning nipples of hers, and I take one of them between my lips. As I tug and tease with my tongue, lips, and teeth, she practically mews like a freaking pussy cat. I love the sounds coming out her mouth, they just fire me up more, as does the intense hair pulling. Everything that turns Tami on just makes this much more thrilling. I absolutely love unraveling her.
“Oh fuck,” she gasps while eagerly tugging at my trousers, desperately wanting them off. “Brad.”
Her fingers are keen to grab me, but she can’t seem to get my trousers down, so I help her along by tugging my zipper open and sliding them all the way down. But that isn’t enough for Tami, she needs my underwear gone as well so I help her shake them down. Once my erection springs free, she takes me between my fingers.
“Shit,” I gasp as her touch sends a shiver racing down my spine. “Fucking hell.”
The eruption of exploding sensations through my body is phenomenal. It leaves me utterly dizzy and thrilled. The harder and faster that she strokes my shaft, the closer to the edge she pushes me. Since her touch is so incredible, I don’t know how much longer I’m going to be able to hold myself back. Especially when she’s looking up at me like that. Like she wants me buried deep inside of her already.
I can’t give her that, not yet. Not until I have felt her. So, instead I give her a little bit of what she wants by slipping my fingers tantalizingly up her thighs, and I graze her a few times just trying to push her towards the brink of desire. Her face contorts with bliss as I trace the outside of her panties. I know her hot wet desire waits for me and it’s nearly impossible to keep away. I want to explore all of her.
“Touch me,” she cries out, the passion making her loud as she arches her back off the bed. “I need you.”
As soon as I tug the cotton to one side and I push my fingers in, the speed in which she is stroking me picks up. I plunge in to her over and over again, watching her fall apart as I do. The sensations inside of me are matched in her expression and I freaking love it. I adore every inch of her.
“You’re so wet,” I moan as I massage her insides, ecstasy warming me up. “So wet, Tami.”
“That’s what you do to me,” she whispers to me. “You send me insane.”
Her fingers curl around the sheets as the pleasure grips tightly around her. This means she lets go of me, which leaves me frustrated, but at the same time I’m glad because I get to really look at her without the thick cloud of lust covering me, affecting me. She’s utterly beautiful. Again, I find myself blown away by her once more, like I used to a lot in the early days of me and her. This stunning woman is just everything to me.
“I want you.” Her eyes fall closed. Her head lolls to the side as if she can’t hold it up any longer. “I want you so badly that it hurts. Your fingers…” Her core tightens around me. “They feel good, but I want more.”
I slip my fingers away and pull her up in to a sitting position. Her hair is all over the place, sticking up everywhere, her make up is a mess, she looks wild and unhinged… stunning.
“Come here.” I pick her up and wait for her legs to wrap around me. As she does, my cock slides in to her. She pulls me in tight, taking all of me in, sending my head spinning in to heaven. She uses her strong legs to trust over and over, taking control of me despite the position. Her lips crash to mine and she kisses me hard as her walls really start to clamp around me. The pressure of pleasure is taking control of her and soon she will be too close to the edge to move. So, I press her up against the nearest wall I can find and take control of the thrusting. I bury deep inside of her, hitting all the right spots, causing her to spasm and buckle violently as the orgasm shatters through her. Her body clings t
o me in every way, coaxing the orgasm from me too. It’s impossible for me to hold it together when she is driving me utterly insane.
The intense wave of pleasure consumes me, causing me to explode with lust. I fall apart, practically tumbling to my knees as everything flows from me. I have this wonderful woman back in my life again and I’m so happy.
As we collapse next to one another on the bed, breathless and swarming in glorious post orgasmic bliss, that joy continues to fill me up. This day started so badly, just like the rest of this week has, and I thought that it would end the same. I assumed I would be in that bar, drinking until I puke, waiting for the hang over to kick in…
Instead, I actually have a future with the woman that I love. How lucky am I?
“What now?” I ask with a chuckle. “What did you want to do now?”
She curls her body in to me and rests her head on my chest. “I don’t want to do anything. I want to stay here with you. Unless you want to go to the party downstairs, that is…”
“No, no.” I tug her closer to me. “No, I’m good here with you thank you very much.”
“Is that what you meant?” she asks suddenly. “Or are you talking long term?”
“I didn’t mean that… but we can discuss it if you want to?”
I kinda hope that she does. I think that after everything we have been through, it’s a conversation that needs to happen. Communication hasn’t always been my strongest point, or so it seems, so I don’t ever want to make that mistake again. Much as I am sure Tami knows I want her; a plan couldn’t hurt.
“Well, I want to come back to work,” she says quietly, almost shyly. “If I can. I’m sorry that I haven’t been here this week. I know that was wrong of me. I just couldn’t face everything. I didn’t realize that everyone had been fired. Oliver filled me in with that. But I couldn’t face seeing you either. Not while I needed to clear my mind. I was too scared that I would get all mixed up again.”
“Hey, you are more than welcome to come back,” I insist. “Not only because I don’t have any employees at the moment. I can’t afford to lose anymore.” Thankfully, she laughs at my joke. “But seriously, I want you back. The office hasn’t been the same without you. I love having you there.”
She breathes out with relief. “Well, that’s ne issue sorted. At least I don’t need to look for a new job.”
“What’s your other issue?” I didn’t miss that. If there is anything that I can help her with, I will.
“My home, actually,” she admits. “I don’t know how safe I feel there anymore. I know that dumb with Maria locked away and everything, but it just has some… not so nice memories.”
Guilt flows through me like an ice cold shock wave. I didn’t even realize that she felt that way. “I’m sorry.”
“No, it isn’t your fault. It’s just me and my paranoia. It can’t be helped. I just think that it’s for the best…”
“Move in here,” I blurt out like it’s the most obvious solution. “You could move in here with me.”
“Are you serious?” she giggles. “You have lost your mind, haven’t you? I can’t move in with you.”
“And why not?” I sit upright and stare down at her. “Why shouldn’t you move in with me? We both know that we are going to stay together, right? There’s no reason we shouldn’t take this step.”
“It feels a bit much though, doesn’t it?”
“No way. Not to me anyway.” I can see in her face that she isn’t certain, so I come up with another plan. “Okay, how about this? You stay here for a while, not permanently, just as a trial. It won’t really be like living together because my brothers are here too. Then if it works out, we can move somewhere else.”
“You would want to leave this massive, beautiful house?” Tami gasps, stunned.
“I don’t mind where I am, as long as I am with you.”
She pauses thoughtfully for a while, just considering this. As challenging as it is, I keep myself quiet to let her just decide. I have learned through all of this to give Tami space when she needs it because good things come from it. Having to calm myself down and compromise is just one of the ways love has taught me to be a better person. Now that Tami has agreed to have me back, that can continue.
“Okay,” she finally agrees, making my heart skip a beat with joy. “I will give it a try. I will feel much safer being with you all the time anyway. It isn’t like anything can happen with you next to me.”
I cheer and yank her towards me to hold her tight. “That’s amazing news. Thank you so much. And no, nothing bad will ever happen to you again. I can assure you of that.”
I make a silent promise to myself that I will do whatever I can to make sure that happens. That nothing will get to her again. Maria was a mistake, she slipped through the cracks because I wasn’t ready for it, but I will always be on alert when it comes to Tami in the future. She will be taken care of for life.
She is the first person that I have ever fallen in love with, and she’s going to be the last as well. This woman is my future now and I will make sure that nothing ever tears up apart again.
“I love you, Tami,” I murmur as we cuddle up next to one another in the bed. I don’t even know what the time is, but I don’t think we’re moving until the morning now. “I love that you’re all mine.”
“I love you too,” she replies quietly. “And I look forward to seeing what our future holds.”
To think I once thought that this woman was too young for me… now I know that she’s the most mature person I know.
Chapter Thirty-Nine
Tami
Six Months Later
“Oh my God,” I gasp as I stare, half in sheer joy, half in terror at the results in front of my eyes. I don’t quite know whether to believe it or not. “I wasn’t expecting this; I don’t know what to do. What do I do?”
“Why is it an issue?” Chelsea laughs while running her hands excitedly over her big bump. “This is good news, isn’t it? I’m sure this is what you want. I want it too, so I won’t be alone in this.”
“You’re not going to be! Ruby is having a baby as well, remember?” I laugh.
“Yeah, and now you can join us! Three friends from college, all having a baby at the same time. Who would have thought it? I never would have. I assumed we were all going to be in high powered careers first.”
“Hey, I don’t know what you’re talking about. I am in a high powered career. I’m a marketing exec.”
“And now you’re going to juggle that with parenthood. Won’t that be fun for you?”
I laugh again and nod while grabbing my cell phone. “I’m going to message Ruby now and tell her. I know that she is on her honeymoon right now, but this she will want to know.”
Tami: Well, you were right. The test was positive! I’m joining the mommy club! Xx
Ruby: Yay! That’s such good news. I’m so excited for you xx
“You don’t look happy,” Chelsea notes. “That worries me. Why aren’t you happy?”
“I am. I’m just a bit freaked out. It’s quite soon, isn’t it? Me and Brad haven’t been together that long.”
“Oh, don’t be silly. Brad completely adores you. He worships the ground that you walk on. He will be so happy about this. Plus, he’s a little older anyway, isn’t he? I’m sure that he’s more than ready for a family. He looked after his kid brother’s growing up as well, didn’t he? So, you already know that he has great fathering skills. You really are in the perfect boat. Better than any of the rest of us,” Chelsea laughs. “Plus, don’t forget you have been through more together in a short time than most people do in a life time. You are strong.”
I glance down at the results again, this time grinning at the little blue cross. Chelsea is right. It might not have exactly been planned as such, more a couple of slip ups in the heat of the moment – which is hardly surprising considering how hot it gets between us – but Brad isn’t going to be mad about it. We’re deeply in love!
“I guess this means we can raise our babies together, huh? All of us. That’ll be a laugh.”
“I guess so.” Chelsea pouts. “But does it mean I have to wait until you have your baby too before I can get married? I suppose you don’t want to be a pregnant bridesmaid.”
Where Ruby wasted no time and got hitched before her pregnancy was showing, Chelsea has other ideas. She has a different outlook on life and really wants the perfect wedding.
“I don’t mind,” I laugh back. “Like I said to you once before, I’m not getting in the way of your bridezilla craziness. I will do whatever it takes to keep you happy. If that means waiting longer, then so be it.”
“And that is why I love you.” Chelsea blows me a kiss. “Because you love me just the way that I am. But you better get back to work now. Your lunch break is over, and I hear your boss is a real asshole.”
We share a laugh before we say our goodbyes and head our separate ways. There is almost a skip in my step as I go, I can hardly contain myself. If I’d known what my sickness was, then I wouldn’t have got so mad about it. I’ll admit, I’ve done a lot of moaning, but that’s because Brad makes it totally okay for me to just be myself, even the parts of me that I don’t like so much. Our relationship has truly brought me out of my shell in the best way possible. I couldn’t be happier. Taking things to the next level and having a baby with him will just be exciting. Actually, the more that I think about it, the more thrilled I become.
I run past everyone else as I get into the office. I have no interest in any of them right now, there’s only one person I want to see. I’m thrilled by the prospect of the look in his eyes and to tell him everything…
