Moving my finger slowly in and out until she stops pulsing and her body relaxes, I kiss her softly then pull my mouth from hers. Our breaths are ragged and I kiss her behind her ear then whisper, “How did you like that, love?”
“I liked that very much, but I feel bad about you,” she says.
“Don’t,” I say and pull my hand out of her panties, running it up her stomach and leaving it on her ribcage as I look down at her. “I don’t want to rush you into anything. I want you to decide to let me make love to you. Not in the backseat of a car either.”
Her light brown eyes with little green flacks dart back and forth as she searches mine. “Never would I have believed you could be such a good man, never. You could have easily taken me.”
“I know that, but that’s not how I want things to start between us.” I run my hand over her blonde curls. “I want this to last, and I’ll not do a damn thing to make you think you mean less to me than what you do.”
“I mean something to you?” she asks.
I smile and kiss her lips softly then pull them away from hers. “You mean more and more to me with each passing moment, Peyton.” I look at her and ask, “Do I mean anything to you?”
Her eyes glisten as she says, “I am afraid so, and to be honest it’s scaring me to death. I know who you are what your life is and I know I have no real place in it when you have to go.”
I wink at her. “So, you’re saying you’ll miss me?”
“I will miss you, Kip. Don’t think for a second I won’t.” Her hand runs over my cheek.
I look down at her and wonder if she will accept my invitation if I give her one. I wonder if her family would give her hell if she did. They’re close and her brothers are crazy protective, and I don’t want to cause a rift between them. So I gaze at her and try to decide what the right thing is to do.
But I’m just not sure!
To be continued…
STAR GAZERS
A BILLIOANAIRE ROMANCE
Book 4
Description: Kip and Peyton take a romantic camping trip and get to know each other a lot better. Peyton finds out Kip is plenty capable of taking care of her when she gets scared and in a few other situations as well. Kip learns Peyton has a few fears, some he finds funny, and some he finds could stop their relationship from growing into what he wants it to be. After a slip up, the two have their first fight and it’s a big one. Kip asks Peyton to join him on the road and she refuses as it will upset her family. Kip’s worst fears come true as Peyton tells him no to more than one of his questions. The two part ways, leaving them both unsure if they have a future together or not, as Peyton wants to get her career and life going and doesn’t want to go against her family’s wishes for her.
Peyton
Wind blows through our hair as we ride in my Jeep with the top off to take in a day of tubing one of the crystal clear rivers our fine state has and spend the night in my family’s tent. I’m letting Kip drive so he can feel manly, something I really want him to feel like so he can protect me from all the night creatures that go along with tent camping.
We packed up all the camping gear my parents use once a year. That was after my brothers all left to go back to their homes or they would’ve protested that I should never go alone anywhere with Kip or any other man.
We have today and tomorrow then he has to go to Dallas, and he’s told me he has a surprise for me tomorrow when we go back to Austin. I suppose he wants to leave me with a remember him gift, not that I’ll ever forget, Kip Dixon.
I shake my head to throw off the melancholy I already feel with the thought that he and I can’t be like this forever. Free and happy with no cares. His hand touches my knee. “Penny for your thoughts, love.”
I’m not about to bring his mood down with the truth so I offer up a little white lie, which is really closer to the truth than it is a lie. “I’ve never camped without my parents and I get really afraid at night when all the creatures of the woods come out. I’m not sure about this sleeping in a tent thing.”
He takes my hand and gives it a light squeeze. “No worries, love. I’ll protect ya. I’ve taken on a croc before, I’m sure I can handle a few squirrels for you.”
“And just how big was this croc you took on, Kip?” I ask as I know there’s no way it was a big one.
“Size doesn’t matter when you’re talking about taking on a croc.” He gives me this look that says those things are dangerous in all sizes.
“It was a baby one wasn’t it?” I ask with a giggle. “Did it bite you?”
He laughs. “It nearly ripped my finger off!”
“Your finger, huh? Sounds like a real monster. There’s some type of a creature in the area around the river we’re going to. Kinda like a bigfoot, but meaner, so the legend goes.” I look at him to see if he’s buying my story at all.
“Oh, yeah?” he asks, but he seems not to be believing me.
“Yeah, I’ll tell you all about the stories my parents used to tell me, but tonight around the campfire. It’s better that way,” I say and see the turn to go to the camp ground. “There it is, turn here.”
“Finally!” he says. “We’ve been on the road for two hours. Is every blasted thing in this state so far away?”
“Afraid so,” I say as we pull up to the entrance. “Now we get to see if we can figure out how to set the tent up.”
“I’m sure we can, I’m no idiot, Peyton,” he says as he pulls his sunshades up and looks at me with those deep blue eyes.
“I know you’re not,” I say and squeeze his hand. “I trust you.”
He smiles and my heart melts a little. “I guess we go inside and get our site number, huh?” I nod and he jumps out and comes to my side and picks me up off the seat as I giggle like a little girl. “Come on, love, let’s get this camping thing going.”
I feel like Jane in a Tarzan movie!
Kip
I amazed Peyton by putting the tent up right the first time. She kept telling me to read the directions and was positive I was doing it wrong, but in the end it stayed up so I proved to her directions are for idiots.
Floating down the river on large tubes, I pull a couple of cans of beer out of the small ice chest I brought along and hand her one. She pops the top and takes a sip. “There’s nothing like floating in this cold water and drinking a cold beer on a hot summer afternoon,” she says as she looks up at the sky.
Her little foot with pink polish on her toenails runs through a rope around my tube, keeping us from floating away from each other. Unable to resist it any longer, I pick it up and pull her closer as I rub her foot. “It is relaxing.”
She leans her head on the headrest and says, “Mmmhmm. It is.”
Natural springs run out from the sides of the small cliffs along the river. A doe drinks from the water just ahead of us and I whisper, “Look there, love, a dear. We’re going to go right past it.”
She lifts her head and looks. “How sweet.”
We pass the deer and it looks right at me. No fear at all. I find myself taking Peyton’s hand in mine and feel a spark run through me. Everything is so beautiful, and she fits in wonderfully with it all.
I kiss her hand and she looks at me and smiles. “So, do you like?”
I nod. “Very much, this was a great idea.”
Laying her head back, she says, “It was, thanks for coming.”
My mind goes to later on tonight in the tent and I feel a warm sensation run through me as I will finally be able to hold her all night long and see her first thing in the morning and I can’t wait. I wish I could pin point what it is about her that makes her so damn appealing to me.
She’s one hundred percent natural. Pretty, smart, and knows how to have fun. We’ve only today and tomorrow then I have to get back on the road and the tour which will take us away from each other, unless I can get her to come with me. At this point I have no idea of what she’ll tell me.
The fact is I’m afraid to even ask, because if she t
ells me no, I know it’ll bring me down and I want every second with her to be great. I suppose I’ll wait until just before I have to leave.
I pray she says yes!
Her head lifts. “Do you hear that?” she asks.
“What?” I ask as I’ve been distracted by my thoughts.
“The water?” she says and sits up somewhat tensely. “It’s the first waterfall. Should we go down it or walk around?” She looks at me.
“How should I know?” I say and sit up a bit tensely myself now that she seems so damn nervous all of a sudden. “Peyton, you’re the one who’s been down this river a million times. What do you usually do?”
“I haven’t been down here in the last three years. It might be all different now. But I used to get out and walk around with Mom while Dad and my brothers went down it. They always told me I was being a baby. So what do you think we should do?”
“Hell, that’s easy. If they could do it so can we. No worries,” I say and run my foot under the rope of her tube. “I won’t let you go, love.”
She starts untying her rope and mine then ties them together. “I’m not taking the chance of your foot or mine slipping. I’m tying us together.”
“You were so relaxed a second ago. It’s just water, Peyton, if we fall off we just get back on.”
She looks as me and laughs. “Have you tubed a river before?”
“Well, no, but how hard can this be?” I ask. “No one would do it if it was truly horrible.”
With a small smile she says, “Okay then, let’s see how this goes. Don’t let me drown, please.”
The water starts to move us faster towards the now roaring sound of the water as it falls over some very large boulders. It does look ominous and we can hear other people scream as they disappear once they get to the first, large rock. Her hand has mine in a death grip and I see sweat sprout on her forehead.
We both have on sunglasses so I can’t see her eyes, but I bet they’re wide and full of fear, poor girl. “It’s going to be fun, love.”
She gives me a quick glance then she begins to back pedal with her hand. “Crap! It’s sending me down first! Shit! Kip!”
Then, BOOM, she goes over the first boulder and I’m pulled right along with her as our tubes hit the smoothed rocks and sends us down through a tunnel of the monster sized things. Some soft and some hard bumps we go through as Peyton screams I’m sure her eyes are closed tight as there really is nothing to be afraid of. It’s a fun ride.
I laugh as she screams and we’ve made it through the fall and are slowing back down. She stops screaming and starts to laugh as she looks at me. “We lived!” she shouts and lets my hand out of her death grip and holds it up for a high five.
I meet her hand in the air and wrap her hand back up in mine and give it a kiss. “Damn it, you were a wreck,” I tell her as we drift along the back to peaceful river.
“I guess I don’t do well in tense situations.” She smiles and takes a long drink of her beer.
I think if she smoked, she’d be lighting up after that little upset. “How many more falls are there?”
She shrugs. “There were five more, but like I said, it’s been years since I’ve been here, so it’s a mystery really.”
“There’s one near where we set up the tent, so we have at least one more to go through, think you can take it?” I ask as I give her a smile.
“Maybe, since you’re with me,” she says. “I’ve never went down one before, but I feel safe with you for some odd reason.”
She feels safe with me!
Peyton
We made it all the way back to our campsite and somehow I lived through five waterfalls. Me screaming through each one as Kip laughed his ass off at me. This is the first time I’ve ever been without my parents and brothers on this river and I find myself enjoying it even more than I ever did when I was a kid. Somehow Kip seems to make everything better.
Someone put up a little rock wall, making a natural small area of semi-deep water right at the edge of the water where we put our tent up. I lie back on Kip as my legs float out in front of me and he holds me loosely in his strong arms. His lips touch the top of my head and he moves his hand to stroke my stomach. In the nearly freezing water, my stomach heats up with the movement of his hand.
I twist in his arms and he leans down, placing his lips on mine and I wrap my arms around his neck and pull myself up to sit on his lap. The cold water runs over us as I go all hot inside.
He doesn’t know it yet, as I want to be sure about it before I let him in on this, but I brought a box of condoms and I think tonight will be the night for me, for us. He has to leave soon and I’ve found myself thinking that I’ll be eternally pissed at myself if I don’t give myself to him.
Even if we never see each other again after tomorrow, I’ll have that memory to keep. His hand slides down my back and over my hip, squeezing it as he pulls me closer to him. His tongue flows over mine and mine his as I run my tongue over every bit of his mouth memorizing it. I want to keep every kiss, every touch in my memory forever.
“Look, Mommy, they’re kissing!” a kid shouts as he and his large family pass us by and I pull my mouth from Kip’s as I laugh and blush.
“This isn’t like me,” I say. “You have me acting so unlike myself.”
His hand touches my chin and he whispers, “Good.” Then his mouth is back on mine and my heart flutters as he claims me in front of the people who float past us.
With a gap in the flow of river traffic, I move my legs to straddle him and feel that even in the cold water he’s managed to get a pretty great erection going, and it surprises me how large and hard it is and my mind goes to if I bought condoms that will fit him.
The sun is beginning to set and the smell of wood burning as other campers start their camp fires creeps into my senses. And Kip’s too I guess as he pulls his mouth from mine very reluctantly. “I suppose I should start us a fire before it gets dark.”
“I’ll help you,” I say and get off him, so he can stand up.
He starts to get up then hesitates. “Hmm. I better wait a few seconds before I go standing up. You’ve left me at attention.”
I blush and giggle as I walk up the bank to grab a towel from our campsite. After a minute, Kip gets up and comes up to me as I blot the water from my cold skin with the towel. His arms wrap around me and in an instant I’m no longer cold. “Ready to make a fire, love?”
He’s already got one going on inside of me!
Kip
Darkness fell quickly once the sun set and small fires glow here and there around us. Everyone is quiet, and the night is ultra-peaceful as Peyton and I lie on a blanket near our campfire and look up at the night sky. “There’s another one,” she says as she points to a falling star.
“There are supposed to be many more after midnight, I heard on the news this morning,” I say.
“A meteor shower, yeah I heard that too,” she says and snuggles her head down on my chest.
“The river water smells good on you,” I tell her as I breathe in the smell of her damp hair. “You smell like that and the slightest hint of sunshine. You remind me of what summer really is.”
“You can’t smell sunshine,” she says with a giggle. “You, smell like the river water and the smoke from the fire which I love.”
Love! Now there’s a word I want to try out and see if she thinks so too!
Only two days and I feel like this is real, what she and I have. I kiss the top her head and give her shoulders a quick squeeze. “I love the way you smell too.”
Okay, that was a step, but not quite far enough.
She giggles and her breath tickles the fine hairs on my chest as she does. I left my shirt off to entice her into wanting me as she has access to my defined abs I’ve worked so hard on. Her finger runs along the lines on my stomach as she says, “I love the way you roast a hot dog too. You are quite the master of making hotdogs and s’mores, I have to admit.”
“Well, I
love the way you set up this little campsite we have here with the small cup of wild flowers you picked while I made the fire.” I stroke her back.
She eases her leg over mine and I can feel her soft inner thigh on mine and it nearly takes my breath away. “I love how sweet you are and how easy it is to be with you.”
“I love that about you as well,” I say then I close my eyes and make myself say it. “I love you, Peyton.”
My heart stops beating as I wait to see if she’s going to jump up and run. She sighs deeply and now I’m about to start sweating as I’m more nervous than ever that she’s about to go into a long spiel about how we only have a couple of days and love isn’t a thing we can have.
Her lips kiss my chest and she says, “I love you too, Kip.”
Did I hear her right?
I open my eyes just in time to see two stars fall out of the sky, leaving long trails of light behind them. “So, we love each other then.”
“Seems so,” she says. Another kiss she places on my chest and I turn over, lying her back on the blanket.
She looks up at me, her light brown eyes are nearly green as they sparkle with the light of the fire. Her skin is bronze from the sun today and her lips are pink and begging to be kissed. “I love you,” I tell her again and she smiles.
“So I’ve heard.” She winks. “You ever tell any girl that before?”
I shake my head. “Have you?”
She shakes her head too then wiggles her finger at me to move in closer. I do as she requests and her hand cups the back of my neck as she pulls my lips to hers. They’re soft and supple and part to let me in. I kiss her softly and savor the moment. I never want to forget this moment when we let each other know how we really feel.
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