Always Series Box Set

by Becs, Lindsay

  “Fuck,” is the only thing I can manage to think or say for a second and I know it’s not what he needs from me, but fuck.

  “I don’t want Penny to know yet,” he adds.

  “Jesse…”

  “No, I know she’ll need to know soon enough, but not yet. I need to be sure first. I need to tell her when the time is right. I just… Not yet. Please, don’t say anything.”

  “You got a lot of nerve kid, asking me to not tell her something like this.”

  He nods solemnly but looks like there isn’t going to be any swaying his mind. Which, given what he’s doing, I suppose is a good thing.

  “Fine. But you will tell her in person before you leave. No sneaking off and leaving me to deal with the aftermath of hurricane Jesse. Got it?”

  He smiles a little at that. “Yeah. I want to tell her myself. I just don’t think she’s going to understand my reasons.”

  “Help her understand then.”

  He nods again before thanking me for agreeing and leaves making my head swirl with questions and thoughts.

  “Jesse!” I yell after him after he walks out of the room. He pops his head back in, and I ask the biggest question I have. “Tilly know?”

  “Yeah, she knows.”

  This time I’m the one left nodding.

  * * *

  My baby girl is graduating today. She’s eighteen and leaving soon to work, traveling with her sister and Benton at Royal King Motorcycles to do what she loves most in the world—play with engines. She has become the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen, besides her mom, of course.

  As much as it will pain me to see her go, it makes me so happy to watch her chase her dreams. She is so full of life and happiness. She’s been my sunshine through every cloudy day since her momma passed, and now it’s her time to brighten up the world for others too.

  Today was the day I finally gave her her box of letters to keep for herself. Until now, I’ve kept hers next to mine and given her letters when the occasion called for it, but now was the time to put them in her hands and let her do with them what she wants and read them when she needs to.

  I’m going to miss seeing her face light up whenever I give her one though. Nothing was better than watching the look on her face when she’d see one in my hand for her.

  “Penny’s Graduation”

  Hey, Daddy, how you doing today?

  Our baby girl is graduating, and I can’t even fathom that right now. Looking over at her tiny frame as she helps you change the oil in your truck, she’s barely tall enough to reach the door handle. Travis, the way she looks up at you though… I wish I could capture that look and keep it forever.

  I already know that you’ve had a hand in her becoming an incredible woman. I have no doubts you’ve done a great job. I also know that you are probably having a hard time with the fact that she’s grown and will probably move on soon to live her life.

  Don’t question her. Let her fly. Let her soar. I know that she is grounded and will always know where home is. Watch her do amazing things and know that you had a hand in that. Be proud not only of her, but of yourself.

  Now, don’t get soft on me, Gellar. Wipe the tears and go watch our baby walk that stage. Give her an extra hug for me today.

  Always,

  Josie

  I finish my letter and damn if I don’t have tears in my eyes. “Fucking A, Josie,” I mumble, making my way to Penny’s room to let her know it’s time to go. I stop in my tracks when I hear her talking.

  “Oh, and Jesse and I kissed. It was one heck of a kiss too, Momma. He was my first kiss…” I take a breath and step back, not wanting to eavesdrop in on her time with her momma.

  I clutch at my chest where it feels like my heart is constricting. I’m going to miss my LP when she leaves. I already do miss her momma. My girls are my whole world. What am I going to do with both of them gone?

  I close my eyes and take another breath before yelling for Penny to go. One look at her joy-filled, beautiful face, and I know Josie was right. I need to let her soar, no matter how much I want to hold her and keep her close.

  I watch her walk across that stage with a bright smile and grit my teeth to keep at bay the tears threatening to form and fall. Damn, this is hard. Ollie must notice because he bumps my shoulder with his, and I see tears swimming in his eyes too. We both laugh as we wipe at our eyes like two girls. At least I’m not the only one.

  * * *

  The past months have been a whirlwind with Penny and Jesse both leaving in different directions. It’s been strange not having them around. The house is quiet, Pretty Girl is quiet, Tilly is quiet.

  I’m at my breaking point and can’t take it any longer. What in the hell is holding us back now? Our kids are gone, we are the only houses around for almost a mile, and we both want this. Yet neither of us have made a move. Hell, we’ve barely interacted since they left.

  I just finished in the shower after a day of work. Dressing in jeans and throwing a shirt over my head, I don’t care about the cold that’s creeping in when I stalk to Tilly’s door with a purpose. I don’t even bother knocking. I slide the back door open and am greeted by Bear first.

  “Bear, what are you…” Tilly trails off when she sees me in her kitchen. She’s in a pair of pajama pants and a tank top. My eyes travel to her chest as her breathing increases. I can see her nipples through the thin fabric, and it makes my cock jump.

  “Hey,” I say, licking my lips, my eyes finding hers but not missing the pink on her cheeks.

  “Hey,” she replies as she tucks a curl behind her ear, but it falls back against her cheek.

  Stepping toward her, I reach up and pull the band from her hair, letting her curls fall around her gorgeous face and those big brown eyes I want to melt in. My fingers go into her hair as my other hand goes to her hip, pulling her into me. I lean in just a whisper away from our lips touching, my eyes still locked on hers. “Hey.” I smile before kissing her.

  I groan the second my tongue touches hers. I kiss her with purpose, with feeling, with abandon for what feels like the first time. Sucking on her full bottom lip, I hear her moan as her hands go under my shirt, and goosebumps erupt on my skin from her touch.

  I step back and stare at her, questioning her. Is this what you want? Are you ready? Are we ready?

  She gives me a shy, mischievous smile as she nods and steps closer into me. Her hands return to underneath my shirt, feeling up my stomach to my chest. “Off,” she says, and I gladly oblige, pulling my shirt over my head. It’s not the first time that Tilly has seen me without a shirt, but each time she looks at me like it is. I love the way her eyes feel on me, burning across my skin as they make a path to where my cock is hard, straining in my jeans.

  I reach down to adjust myself as her eyes prowl over me, and she whimpers. Me? I’m watching her nipples peak and her eyes darken, and it’s making me harder by the second.

  Her hands meet where her eyes are, and she goes to open my jeans. I can’t keep my mouth off of her when her hands push my pants down over my hips. I step out of my boots and pants, pushing her forward with my body to walk her farther into the house.

  We aren’t moving fast enough. Gripping her by the ass, I pull her up until her legs wrap around me and carry her up to her bedroom, never taking my mouth off of hers.

  Setting her down on her bed, she lands on her knees with me standing in front of her. Bending, I nip at one of her hard nipples through the fabric of her shirt. Her head tips back as she moans. I need more of her. I need her skin on mine. I want my mouth on her. I want inside her. I want it all.

  I rip the shirt from her body, and my hands can’t feel her soft skin fast enough, my mouth going back to her pert nipples, needing to taste them over and over. My hand goes to the back of her pants and slides inside to grab her ass. Surprised to find she’s not wearing underwear, I look up at her with a smirk. “No underwear? Dirty girl,” I tease, pulling a laugh from her.

  Her laughter soon st
ops when I pull her against me and my erection presses to her center, lining us up through the fabric of what clothes we still have on. I don’t know what I want to do first, next, now; I want it all and can’t do anything fast enough. The sounds she’s making just from this is enough to cause me to blow in my boxers.

  I push her cotton pants down over her round hips and ass, helping her remove them completely, leaving her fully naked before me. I take my time letting my eyes enjoy seeing her like this for the first time.

  She’s so beautiful. Creamy soft skin, curves for days with a small waist and the perfect size breasts. She is the definition of a beautiful woman. “You are so beautiful, Tilly,” I tell her as my fingers lightly trace across her collarbone, over her breasts, over the curves of her body, her hips until finally dipping between her legs.

  She gasps when my finger slides through her slick center and into her. Her lips stay parted as my fingers work in and out of her. I add another finger, making a scissor motion with them as my thumb presses to her clit. I watch as red begins to creep down her skin. Her head falls back, mouth open as she lets the most erotic moan escape. She picks her head up and opens her eyes to look at me with an expression of impending pleasure right on the cusp. She keeps her hooded eyes locked with mine as I bring her to orgasm. She cries out, letting her release take over and falling into me. Her labored breaths fan across my chest and go straight to my cock.

  Lifting her chin to make her look at me, I kiss her lips. “Beautiful,” I say against her mouth.

  Her hands drag down my chest, and I jump when her fingers brush against the head of my cock peeking out of my boxers. “Sensitive?” she asks with a smirk.

  “Cookie, I haven’t had sex with a woman in fifteen years. I think if you just look at my cock, it might explode.”

  “You haven’t…” she starts to ask, surprised by my revelation. I shake my head with a smile playing on my lips.

  She starts to push my boxers down and I help her, kicking them to the side, not taking our eyes off one another. Then, her eyes drop and she licks her lips, making me groan. Looking back up at me with another smirk, she says, “Well, it didn’t go off yet.”

  Gripping her hips, I toss her back onto the bed and crawl up her body. With each move upward, our bodies touch more and more, and it has me going crazy. Her legs spread for me, and when my bare cock touches her, I let out a primal groan.

  “I’m about to embarrass myself. Tilly, I’m so sorry, but I’m not going to last long, baby. I promise I’ll make it up to you later.”

  “I don’t care about that. I just want you,” she assures, reaching up to take my hand in hers.

  “Condom?” I ask while I still have a little of my senses about me, surprisingly.

  She shakes her head. “You told me you haven’t been with anyone in a long time. I haven’t either. And you already know I can’t have…” she trails off, turning her head to the side.

  “Hey.” I pull her face back to look at me. “Don’t look away from me. We’ve waited too damn long to not be right here together. Stay here—right here—with me.”

  She nods as tears start to glisten in her eyes. Wanting to soothe any pain from her, I kiss up her body until her sounds of pleasure take over again. Ending at her mouth, I kiss her. I kiss her with all the words I can’t bring myself to say yet but can put into this one kiss.

  Pulling back, I look into her eyes as I nudge her center. I run my length up and down on her, slicking myself in her arousal and making us both go crazy. We’re both already panting, and I haven’t even been inside of her. I look down to where we’re touching before gripping my cock to line up with her entrance again.

  My eyes run back up her body , locking with hers as I push inside. I go as slowly as I can, my body shaking and her trembling below me. Once I’m all the way in, I pause and keep my eyes on hers. “You OK?” I ask, my voice shaking, my resolve crumbling.

  She nods. “Yes. Fuck, yes,” she moans as she rocks her hips ever so slightly, making my eyes shut from the pleasure of feeling her around me.

  I hold her hips still and look at her again as I pull back out and push back in, achingly slow. “Fuck,” I growl, pushing back inside of her. Not able to hold back any longer, I quickly pick up the pace and thrust faster, harder, deeper. Her back arches when I reach down to rub her sensitive flesh around my cock as it’s buried inside her.

  I don’t know what I want to watch more: her face as it twists in the pleasure I’m giving her, her beautifully bouncing tits as I move our bodies, or our union as I thrust in and out of her.

  “Tilly,” I groan, feeling my balls pull tight, needing to release. I really wanted to give her another orgasm before mine, but I might have to show off later. I try to slow my pace to hold off as I work her clit faster. Her moaning increases and she reaches to her nipples and twists them in her fingers, and it’s hot as fuck to watch her. I can’t hold back any longer, coming with a loud groan as I spill inside of her.

  Falling over her, I pant trying to catch my breath before rolling to the side and pulling her leg over mine. I push my fingers inside her for a second time, wanting to give her the second orgasm I just robbed her of. In seconds, she’s moaning her own release.

  I capture her lips with mine and swallow her moans, wanting to take all she is giving me right now. I want more of her. I want it all and then some.

  I’m already getting hard again. “You good to keep going?” I ask her, wanting more. I just had my first full taste of my cookie, and now I’m like a starved man.

  She smiles, and I pull the hair sticking to her sweat-lined skin. “Damn, Travis. I don’t know why you apologized earlier. I’m pretty sure you’re a unicorn.”

  I laugh. “Well, my horn is hard, and I’m ready to make you fly with me again.”

  “Oh, cheese!” she giggles.

  I soon turn her giggles into more moans when I turn her over, slap her ass, and pull her hips up to meet my waiting cock.

  After we shower together, she makes us dinner while we wash the sheets. I can’t keep my hands or lips off of her as the rest of the night plays out. We both fall asleep in a tangled web of limbs in her bed.

  It’s the best sleep I’ve had in fifteen years.

  It’s the first night I’ve slept with a woman in fifteen years.

  It’s the first night I held a woman while I slept in fifteen years.

  It’s the first morning I woke with a smile in fifteen years.

  And it was all because of Tilly Lane.

  TILLY

  Minutes After Sleeping with Travis

  Oh, I’m going to feel all of that in the morning.

  But, oh, will it be worth it.

  Travis Gellar is a fucking sex machine!

  And he’s mine.

  He is the sexiest man I’ve ever seen, been with, known.

  And he is just as sweet and caring as he is hot and sexy.

  I can’t believe he chose me.

  Am I actually going to get my happy ending?

  TRAVIS

  “Hey, you alright?” I ask Tilly as we walk into to our hotel room.

  We’re in Texas for Jesse’s graduation from basic training. We finished at the base and took him out to dinner. He and Penny haven’t spoken much since they left, but she wanted to come surprise him. Tilly and I just left them alone to talk. Lord knows they need to.

  She leans into my side more where we’re sitting on the bed together. “Yeah. It’s just so weird seeing him like this. So… responsible and structured,” she laughs.

  I chuckle with her. “It’s good for him.” I squeeze her, kissing her on the head. She’s been an emotional mess all day.

  “I miss him so much,” she sighs. “And Penny too. I didn’t realize how much I missed them and their crazy until we saw them together today. You think they’ll work out whatever they have going on?” she asks.

  I shrug. “I hope so. I think they’re both being stupid, but they need to do this their way.”

 
“Hopefully they figure it out faster than we did,” she says, sounding exasperated.

  I tickle her side, making her laugh harder and harder until I’ve got her pinned under me on the bed. “It’s been so hard not to touch you how I want since they’ve been around. I’ll be glad to say goodbye.”

  “Travis!” she yells, hitting my shoulder.

  “What? Not like you haven’t thought about having my face between your legs since we left yesterday.”

  “I didn’t say that,” she grumbles.

  I kiss her neck, laughing as I do. We just start kissing more and more when we hear someone at the door. I jump up and grab a pillow to put on my lap to conceal my erection as Tilly sits next to me, with more space than I’d like.

  One look at my daughter’s face has my mood instantly changing. “Oh, baby girl, what happened?” I ask, patting the space between Tilly and me for her to sit.

  Kicking off her shoes, she climbs between us on the bed, leaning her head on my shoulder.

  “You wanna talk about it?” I ask her.

  “Nope,” she answers shortly. She’s like me when she’s upset. She clams up, needing to work it out on her own.

  I hand her the TV remote. She flips through the channels until she finds something she likes… Friends reruns.

  My brows furrow at first, and I think Tilly notices. I give her a wink and a reassuring smile, but I don’t feel so sure in this moment.

  Wrapping an arm around Penny, I pull her in for a hug and kiss the crown of her head. “Love you, LP.”

  “Love you too, Daddy.”

  Tilly smiles at us with tears shining in her eyes.

  Please don’t let me ruin this.

  Chapter Seventeen

  Travis

  Sixteen Years After Josie