by B. Love
His toes curled and thighs clenched as he groaned, signaling his release was right around the corner. I took him back into my mouth, and as soon as I did, he wrapped his hand around my neck and pressed my head into the sink. Keeping me in place, he fucked my mouth until his seeds shot down my throat.
When his jerking subsided, Jace pulled his still hard dick out and carried me over to the table. I wanted to spread my legs around him because they were a little weak, but he spread them wide instead. Each time he entered me deeply, slowly, my bottom lip trembled as I inhaled a hissed breath. And when he pulled himself out my body shuddered in ecstasy.
The sound of my walls sucking him in grew louder and louder with each stroke as my juices coated his shaft. It took no time for my legs to start closing as my toes curled. Jace put my ankles on his shoulders and increased to a medium speed, allowing his dangerously delicious dick to stay inside of me as he delivered deeply dizzying strokes. Tilting my head back, I closed my eyes and surrendered to just how good he was making me feel.
And the satisfaction only increased when he began to moan.
“You’re about to make me cum,” I moaned, feeling that familiar tingle spread through my heated body.
“Is that alright, Hoops? Can I make you cum again and again?”
“Yessss,” I moaned, spreading my legs so I could feel him deeper.
Jace took full advantage, wrapping his arms around my thighs, gripping my waist, and slightly lifting me off the table. He pulled me into him each time he stroked me, adding even more pleasure with the pressure on my clit. Pressing my hand into his chest, I convulsed against him as I came, and Jace soon followed.
Biting down on my ear, Jace intensified my orgasm as he surrendered to his. He released one final, soft moan before whispering, “One more day,” into my ear.
With a smile, I wrapped my arms around his neck as he sat me back down on the table. “One more day.”
Cupping his cheek, I pulled his lips to mine and gave him a sweet kiss. Which turned more tender and passionate than I expected it to. I guess we both started thinking about the fact that we would have to return to our separate rooms.
Resting his forehead on mine, Jace sighed as he squeezed my waist.
“I love you, Hoops.”
Smiling, I kissed his lips softly before declaring, “I love you too.”
7
The Last Day
When the second week of our lockdown started, time seemed to literally fly by. We had game nights, cooked together, played drunk Uno, indoor basketball, and had a romantic evening of dinner and making love last night.
There were only two hiccups when we started spending time together and that was one of Jace’s neighbors trying to leave his condo. Jace had to play save a nigga and went out with him, and I thought they both were going to be shot! Thankfully, Jace was able to talk the man down and convince him to return to his condo before something crazy happened.
The other hiccup happened the night we went live on Facebook and sang karaoke. We did it from his page, but he tagged me, which meant Evan was able to tune in. Of course he called me going off, like he hadn’t been ignoring me for over a week. At that point I was over the bullshit and told him that I would see him when we were able to move freely. Even with all of the progress we’d made, Jace and I still hadn’t become an official couple. I expected that to happen, but as he interlocked his fingers with mine and pressed my body into my car, I knew that wouldn’t be the case.
“Is it crazy that I miss you already?” he asked, causing us both to smile.
“Not at all. I miss you already too. I feel like I have to force myself to spend time away from you just so we won’t become too attached to each other too soon…”
With a sigh, Jace ran his hand down the back of my slicked down, blonde, pixie cut. When his hand reached my neck, he used it to pull us off my car.
“Let me know when you’ve made it home. I guess I’ll see you this weekend.”
“Okay, sounds good.”
He didn’t bother heading inside and I didn’t even try to get into my car. We chuckled softly before hugging again. Finally, he opened my door, and I got inside.
“What do we do now, Jace?”
He shrugged as he shoved his hands into his pockets. “We live… we create… and we love. I meant what I said – I don’t want us to rush back into this. I know we’re going to end up together, but I want you to be sure. Take some time and really think about it now that we will be apart. And if this is still what you want, we will make that happen.”
I couldn’t help but love him more for that. This was what we needed back then – to be able to be each other’s logic when there was too much emotion and vice versa. After I agreed, he closed my door and I drove off. Since my family had already made plans to meet for dinner later, I decided to go and see Evan before going home. As I drove, I had no idea what I would say when I actually saw him… if I would say anything at all.
A part of me wanted to take his ring out of my purse and hand it to him.
The other part of me wanted to at least hear him out.
When I arrived at his home and saw his baby mama walking to her car, the decision was made for me. All this time he’d been giving me a hard time about Jace when he’d spent the past two weeks with her! I watched as he bit down on his bottom lip and smacked her ass, getting a giggle out of her. She clapped her ass cheeks a few times before getting in her car and blowing him a kiss.
As soon as she pulled out, I pulled in, wishing I could have recorded his expression when he saw me. His eyes were wide, brows were lifted, and mouth hung open. Not even bothering to cut off my car, I put it in park and grabbed his ring out of my purse.
If this was fate… she was definitely working overtime to make clear her choice for me.
“I can explain,” he started, as soon as I opened the door.
Normally I would have said there was no need, but I was curious as to what he could possibly have to say. Stepping out, I handed him the ring, then crossed my arms over my chest.
“Explain.”
“Why are you giving this to me?” Evan looked down at the ring as if it was a foreign object.
“Because I no longer have a use for it. Tell me something, and be perfectly honest with me…” He gave me his eyes. “Did you buy her that ring? Is that the real reason why it didn’t fit, and you had to get it resized? Because I specifically remember telling you my ring size when we were at the mall one day, so I couldn’t understand why you’d get a ring that was two sizes too big… but I didn’t want to assume or overthink so I let it ride. Was that her engagement ring, Evan?”
“Is this your way of saying you don’t want to be with me?”
“Clearly you don’t want to be with me,” I yelled, flailing my arms and hopping up from the car.
“Look, she got stuck over here unintentionally. I was worried sick over you, and she was worried sick over me because I didn’t come to get the kids. She thought something was wrong, so she took them to her mother’s house to come and check on me. We ended up falling asleep on separate ends of the couch as I waited to hear from you.”
“And how did that turn into you smacking her ass and her twerking before she left?”
Running his hand over his face, Evan sighed. He shrugged and avoided my eyes as he spoke.
“I don’t know, Sasha. I guess with us spending uninterrupted time together we were able to work through a few issues to get on good terms.” His eyes met mine. “I won’t lie to you, we did have sex, but we agreed not to get into a relationship. We’re going to tell our attorneys we want partial custody of the kids and take it from there. But I still want to be with you. I’m loyal to you.”
Chuckling, I shook my head and looked towards the sky. “You’re not loyal to me – you’re loyal to what I was going to do for you, just like I was loyal to the money you were giving me.”
“So you used me?”
“Just as much as you’ve been using
me.”
Our eyes locked. The faux anger he tried to convey fizzled within seconds. Soon, his head hung, and shoulders slouched.
“Now what? It’s just… over?”
“Yea. I guess so.”
I turned to open the door as he asked, “This is about him isn’t it? You wouldn’t be saying this if you hadn’t spent the last two weeks with him.”
With a chuckle, I got into my car. “You’re so blinded by his light you can’t even own up to your own darkness. This has nothing to do with Jace and everything to do with us. The fact that our relationship isn’t solid enough for us to be apart for two weeks and not act like we don’t even give a fuck. I’m happy that you and her are on good terms and I pray it stays that way for the sake of your children. I get that maybe… we were temporarily slot fillers in each other’s lives until the people we truly wanted got on some act right. Whatever the case, be well, Evan, and delete my fucking number.”
Slamming my door, I inhaled a deep, calming breath. So the hell what if it was hypocritical of me to be upset over him spending time with his ex when I was with mine? At least he knew I was with Jace. He hadn’t said anything to me about her at all! And I bet he never would have mentioned it if I wouldn’t have pulled up. That would have been something for her to hang over my head and laugh to herself about until she got angry enough to tell me.
Jesus Christ. I feel like I just dodged a major bullet!
As I drove home, my mind instantly began to replay some of my favorite moments with Jace and the time we shared. A huge grin covered my face, not even leaving once I’d made it home. After hugging Ava for so long our arms began to hurt, we released each other, and I went to my room to undress. After fixing myself a quick salad, I scarfed it down quickly and headed back to my room. I pulled out my phone to let Jace know that I was home. Instead of texting him like I originally planned to, I called him.
“You home?” was his greeting.
I nodded with a smile as I plopped down onto my bed. It felt good as hell to be back in my own space. I couldn’t wait to fully undress, shower, and take a long ass nap in my own bed. Though I was sure I’d miss having Jace’s arms wrapped around me.
“Yes.”
“How did your meeting with Evan go?”
Since I didn’t tell him I was going to see Evan, it took me a while to respond. I had to get the confused, goofy ass look off my face.
“You swear you know me so damn well.”
“I do. So how did it go?”
“It was cool. I gave him the ring back.”
I counted five slow Mississippi’s before Jace replied. “Yea?”
“Yea.”
“What does that mean?”
Laying back onto the edge of my bed, I smiled as I stared at the ceiling. “It means I want all gas with you – no breaks. No more intermissions. You’re the only man I want.” He was quiet for so long I had to call his name.
“Open the most recent note on your phone.”
Lowering the phone from my ear, I looked at it briefly before doing as he said. When I opened the note and saw that it was one that he’d written for me I smiled as I began to read.
There was one final note I had to write you. One for you to read when you decided to leave. One with a promise… to propose within a year if you give me a second chance to love you for eternity.
“Jace,” I whined into the phone.
“There should be a small box in your bag. Open it.”
Putting the phone on speaker, I set it on my bed with a squeal. Rushing over to my purse, I rummaged through it until I found the box. A black ring box. Opening it, I gasped at the sight of the princess cut diamond ring. Slowly, I made my way back over to the bed, but I couldn’t pick up the phone. I slid the ring onto my ring finger, and of course it was the perfect fit.
“You there?” he asked. I nodded as tears began to fall from my eyes. “Hoops?”
“When did you buy this, Jace?”
“When I got my first royalty check.”
With a smile, I wiped my tears away. “So you just knew I would be back, huh?”
“I told you, it was only a break.”
“It’s perfect,” I complimented, just above a whisper before sniffling. “Thanks, babe.”
“It’s just a promise ring, but I promise the real thing will come sooner than you think. I love you, Sasha. Thank you for taking a second chance on me.”
Finally picking the phone back up, I took it off speaker and put it to my ear. We talked until I fell asleep, and when I woke up, I quickly showered and headed to my parents’ house for dinner. The entire ride there, I battled with if I wanted to tell them about me and Jace or not. Twisting the ring around my finger, I smiled. I hadn’t been able to even feel the void of Evan before it was replaced with something… someone… ten times better.
No matter what anyone thought about us, no matter what happened with Evan and the boutique, I was determined to do whatever it took to make my relationship with Jace work and last this time around. I’d been taught a powerful lesson… the power of waiting and not settling for less than you deserve. The power of not seeking instant gratification in relationships or your career.
A squealed slipped from my lips as I looked down at the ring.
Thank God our brief intermission was over!
Epilogue
The End
A little over seven months later
“I don’t think I can do this. I—I don’t want to do this anymore,” I decided, sitting down in the wheelchair. I felt a panic attack coming on, so it was good that I was already at the hospital.
While Jace and I were fucking all around his condo like rabbits, I forgot I didn’t have my birth control pills with me. Needless to say, I found out about three weeks later that we had a little bundle of joy on the way. Even though I wanted to be married before I started my family, I was excited about there being a little person that was half of me and half of Jace.
Our relationship wasn’t perfect, but it was definitely perfect for us. We took our time to fall in love all over again, and I enjoyed every day that I had him in my life. I didn’t ask him to, but Jace bought Evan out. He said it was because he didn’t want Evan to be able to ever hold the boutique over me and Ava’s heads since we weren’t together anymore, but I think he also didn’t want any man to be able to say he’d done something so great as to invest such a large amount of money into my business.
The boutique was doing well. We’d finally started to establish our tribe and see some return profit. At first, Ava was going to move out, but about six months into my pregnancy, Jace and I decided it would be best if I moved in with him.
His books were doing exceptionally well, and he was in the process of turning his bestselling one into a Netflix original.
Last I heard Evan was still involved in a toxic ass relationship with his baby mama, and I was starting to think they legit belonged together. I don’t know who else could put up with their bullshit better than each other. It was crazy as hell of me to think his jealousy and possessive nature was his way of showing love. Even if it was, it was a toxic love, and I was too damn grown to be in a situation like that.
Especially with a baby on the way. I don’t know how that would have worked if I would have stayed with Evan. No… it wouldn’t have worked if I would have stayed with Evan. Eventually, his ways and paranoia and mistrust of Jace would have run me off.
“Hoops…” Jace chuckled and shook his head as he stepped in front of me. “You don’t have a choice, babe. It’s time for us to meet our little girl.”
Sticking my bottom lip out, I resisted the urge to tell him that I wasn’t prepared. That I was scared out of my fucking mind. That I didn’t know if I was prepared to be somebody’s mama. Hell, I wasn’t prepared to be somebody’s mama. But was anyone ever really prepared for such a monumental role? I was sure we would both fuck this child up along the way, but we’d be doing it together and learning together and loving and nurturing our ch
ild together every step of the way.
“Jace… are we really about to have a baby?”
Cupping my cheeks, he kissed my lips, then my forehead. “We are, and I will be there with you every step of the way. I got you… and Saphia.”
Our eyes remained locked for a few seconds before I nodded and gave the nurse permission to push my wheelchair. Squeezing his hand tightly, I waved at my parents who had damn near beat us to the hospital when Jace called and told them that my water broke. My brothers and his family were on the way, and I was starting to get excited over there being another girl in the family.
This time around, they were all accepting of my relationship of Jace. Not that it mattered. We were going to make our love work no matter what his family or mine had to say. But I’d be lying if I said having their approval wasn’t like the cherry on top of a sundae.
Once we made it into the delivery room, the nurse hooked me up to what felt like a million monitors and told me my doctor would be in soon. After checking to see if I was comfortable enough to be left alone, she gave me and Jace some privacy. He was still holding my hand, seated in a chair next to me. His head lowered to the bed, and I nuzzled his neck with my chin.
“You okay?” I checked, hoping he wasn’t about to start panicking. I was sure I would do enough of that for the both of us.
“I am. I’m just trying to figure out how I’m going to convince you to leave the baby here so we can go on our honeymoon a couple of weeks from now.”
Head tilted and mouth opened, I stared at him until my eyes were forced to blink. Laughing at my expression, Jace used his pointer finger to close my mouth, but it opened right up again when I asked, “What you say?”