Completion (Cambria University Series Book 3)

by Sadie T. Williams

  Fuck my life. Here I sit, empty chip bowl and juice box in front of me, looking like a hot mess.

  “Hey,” he says as he sits down next to me on the couch. The baritone in his voice vibrating right down to my lady parts.

  “Hi, thanks for coming over.” I don’t look at him. Instead I look down at my hands where I’m spinning his infinity ring around my middle finger.

  “We have a lot to discuss.”

  I nod and turn to face him on the couch when he grabs the back of my neck and slams his mouth onto mine.

  The kiss is desperate, wanting and needy. I don’t miss how he feverishly kisses me like he’s afraid if he stops we’ll never be this way again.

  His tongue swoops into my mouth, claiming me like it has in the past. His other hand wraps around my waist and pressing into the small of my back, bringing us closer together.

  I feel the tingling sensation that only Jessup has been able to elicit spreading through my body. The searing heat in my core and the dampening of my panties. This kiss isn’t just a kiss. It’s a promise of truth and the hope of what comes after.

  Jessup finally breaks our kiss and sits back so he can look me in the eye.

  “Jess, I-“

  “I love you.”

  We both try to speak at the same time and immediately stop. Whatever it was my brain was trying to say is going to have to wait.

  “You what?”

  “I. Love. You.” His voice is confident and unwavering. How can he be so sure after everything that’s happened?

  “I, um, I thought you wanted to talk?”

  He smiles that perfect smile and I melt a little more. My resolve is weak.

  “I do, but I’ve been craving you since we left Georgia. I have a lot to tell you, but first,” he pauses.

  “But first?”

  “First, I need to ask you something.”

  I nod.

  Jessup slides off the couch and drops to one knee.

  “That better not be the knee we’re rehabbing!” I practically shout.

  He shakes his head. “I’m good, Stanz. Can you not ruin this?”

  Oh. My. God. It finally clicks what just happened. He can’t be serious right now.

  Jessup takes my hand, the one where his infinity ring has been since the day he gave it to me.

  “Stanzy, when I gave you this ring,” he begins and twists the infinity ring around my finger, “I told you that one day I would put another ring right next to it.”

  “Jess,” I whisper.

  “I’ve never been more serious about anything in entire life as I was that day. Our story, Stanzy, is a mess. I’m a mess. I have so much to tell you about who I am, what’s happened in my life since the night I left. But right now, after everything, the only truth I know is you. You’ve been my constant. My north star guiding me home. You’re my air, my life, and I can’t exist without you. I’ve loved you since I was six. That’s never going to change.”

  Tears are streaming down my face at his words. My hurt little boy has grown into a strong, yet vulnerable, man and he still loves me.

  “I want you with me on this ride. Good, bad, all of it. It’s not easy, but it’s us. You and me, together for as long as we can. And I want for as long as we can to be forever. Will you marry me, Stanzy Rae Sutton?”

  As Jessup asks the question he pulls a small black box out of his jacket pocket. My breathing is so rapid I may start to hyperventilate. This is not where I thought this day would go. But I can’t say that I’m disappointed. Our love story has never been conventional, so why start now.

  Jessup opens the box and inside is the most gorgeous ring I’ve ever seen. It’s a pear-shaped amethyst stone surrounded by pave diamonds on a platinum band.

  “Jess,” I whisper again because my voice is lost. This ring is me. The gigantic diamond that Chipper gave me was not. But this? This is perfection and of course he would know that.

  “Is that a yes?” he asks, sounding hopeful.

  “Yes, Jessup. It’s a yes. It’s always been a yes with you.”

  The smile that breaks out over his face is consuming as he slips the ring onto my finger next to my infinity band.

  “Thank God,” he says and stands up, scooping me up in the process. “Now, I need to be inside you. Then we’ll talk.”

  “Yes, please,” I nearly moan.

  I want this too. Who was I kidding? I love him. I always have and I always will. I can lie to myself all I want, but my heart and soul know the truth. I fell in love with Jessup when I was five and I’ve never fallen out of love with him.

  He’s engraved in my heart and he will be forever.

  Jessup carries me into my bedroom and kicks the door closed even though Staley isn’t home.

  “Off,” he commands. I raise my arms and he slips my sweatshirt off over my head. Unclasping my bra is tosses it aside and immediately latches onto my nipple while his skilled fingers work the other.

  I toss my head back at the feeling of his lips and hands on my body. He knows my body like the back of his hand. He navigates it will ease and precision.

  “Fuck, I’ve missed you.”

  “Same,” I pant.

  He slips his thumbs into my leggings and slides my pants and panties down my legs in one motion. After removing them completely, he leans in and breathes in my sex.

  “Mmm, you smell so good.”

  The vibration of his moan against me sends a shiver down my spine.

  He lifts me up so I’m straddling his face, turns and presses me against the wall. He’s holding me gently by my ass and when I look down he’s staring back at me, smirking.

  “Ride my face, Stanz,” he commands and flicks his tongue over my clit. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

  I let out a soft moan and then he goes in for the kill.

  “Holy fuck!” I scream as he sucks my clit into his mouth and inserts two fingers inside of me simultaneously. His tongue tortures me as his fingers curl inside, repeatedly hitting my g-spot and sending rockets shooting through my body.

  “Jess, oh God, Jess,” I moan and squeeze his head between my thighs. I’ve been wound so tight there is only one thing I can do. Explode. And I do, all over his face. I can practically feel is smile on my sex as I climax.

  “That’s what I needed to hear,” he says as he slides me gently back down to the floor. My breathing is labored and Jessup looks downright pleased as he wipes my orgasm from his chin. “And now I’ll get to taste you until the day I die.”

  Standing in front of him, coming down from my orgasm, he’s still completely clothed.

  “Unacceptable,” I say as I motion toward his fully clothed body while dropping to my knees. Undoing his belt, I unbutton and unzip his pants, sliding them down to his ankles. Standing, I push him slowly backward so he doesn’t trip on his pants, and playfully shove him onto my bed. Removing his shoes, socks, pants and boxers, I climb on top of his body.

  “I love this shirt,” I say I’m straddling his stiffness. Gently sliding my wetness along his shaft, his eyes are narrowed at me as if he’s trying to figure out what I’m going to do.

  Sliding my fingers between his buttons I pull, hard. Buttons go flying everywhere and Jess is lying underneath me, bare chested except for his tie, eyes wide and burning for me.

  “Fuck, Stanzy. I want you so bad,” he murmurs.

  “Shh,” I say while running a hand down his chest and tracing a finger between each of his abs.

  Sitting up I grip his cock and slide myself down on top of it.

  “Stanzy,” he growls my name again and it sounds almost feral. “Fuck. Me,” he groans.

  “I plan to, baby,” I reply with a smirk of my own.

  I tighten my walls around him and he groans again as his eyes close.

  I ride him with everything I have. After a minute of letting me control the pace, Jessup bucks his hips and begins meeting my rhythm. Each thrust hits deep in my core and soon I can feel the warmth spreading through my body just before I detona
te again and my orgasm consumes my entire body. Shaking thighs and abs clenched, I ride his cock until I’ve completely come down.

  When Jessup is sure I’m done he commands, “On your stomach.”

  I think back to the time in his house and the all-consuming orgasm I had while laying this way. I do as I’m told, excitement building as to where this is going to go.

  I hear him whip off his tie, “Arms out.” I stretch my arms straight out over my head and Jessup ties them together and then to my headboard with his tie. I’m immobile and this is thrilling. I’ve never been tied up before and handing over control to Jess sends waves anticipation through me.

  “I knew I liked this tie,” I toy.

  “My turn,” he says against my ear as he leans into me. His chest is pressing against my back and I can feel is hard cock pressing to my butt cheeks.

  He rises, running a hand down my back which causes my skin to break out in goosebumps under his touch.

  “I’ve loved this ass since I was sixteen,” he says as he grips my hips and lifts my ass into the air until I’m on my knees with chest against the mattress. Jessup palms my cheeks with both hands. Turning my head to see what he’s doing, I watch as he lifts one hand to his mouth and sucks on his finger. “I can still taste you.”

  His words make me squirm and the prospect of what’s to come has me on edge. The tie, the ass play, his erection pressing on me, but not into me yet. This is erotic and exciting and I’m so fucking turned on right now. I feel my pussy clench, ready and wanting.

  “Have you done this before?” he asks as he pops his finger out of his mouth.

  I shake my head.

  “Good, I’m going to be the first to claim all of your holes.” With that warning he slides a finger into my ass and I involuntarily tighten around him. “One day, Stanzy, my cock is going to be so deep inside here,” he tells me as he slides his finger out only to put it right back in. At first, it felt strange, foreign, but after a minute the pleasure it elicits through me is taking me higher than I’ve ever been. I don’t think I can go much higher before crashing back down.

  With his finger still inside me, Jessup grips my hip with his free hand and slams his cock into my pussy hitting a spot so deep that I cry out his name.

  I lied. I’ve just gone higher. Total ecstasy.

  Between his cock tormenting my pussy and his finger in my ass, I can’t take it. I seize, my entire body orgasming around Jessup.

  “Stanzy!” he growl-shouts my name, removing his finger and grabbing both my hips. He slams into me repeatedly for a few more minutes until I feel him tense and then relax with his own release.

  After Jessup finishes, he unties my wrists and we both collapse onto my bed. Thoroughly exhausted, sweating and completely sated.

  “I’ll only marry you if you promise to make me come like that for the rest of my life,” I tease.

  “I’ll write it in my vows, baby.”

  After resting for a few more minutes, Jessup and I shower together, washing each other, exploring the bodies we once knew in a whole new way. Once we’re clean, dry, and dressed, I order a pizza because we’re both starving.

  Sitting back down on the couch, I look toward Jessup whose deep in thought.

  “Ready?” he asks.

  “I am.”

  “This may change the way you see me, so I’m glad I proposed first,” he says with a sly smirk.

  “Jess, nothing is going to change the way I feel about you.”

  With a soft smile, he starts at the beginning, the night he told Rowen he was accepting a scholarship to Cambria and Rowen told him he wasn’t his son.

  Chapter 36: Rhodes

  After laying it all out there for Stanzy, I sit back and watch her expression. It changed several times throughout, but she never once asked me to stop talking. A few tears snuck out when I talked about my mom and then, what I’m assuming were different tears, rolled down her cheeks when I explained what happened with Tori and all the girls after her. I tell her that Blake essentially played a key role when he convinced me to end it with Tori and to fight for us.

  “You were really waiting for me?”

  I nod. “I was. It was kind of stupid really. You didn’t know. I’m not sure what I really expected.”

  “I had sex with Chipper,” she blurts out.

  The words cut through me and a sharp pain fills my chest. Get a grip. You’ve slept with a small country compared to that.

  “I just needed to say it. We’re always honest with each other and we can’t be us if there’s any secrets.

  “It’s okay, Stanzy. You were engaged to him. I didn’t expect you to wait for me. I don’t know what I expected. My head was a mess,” I tell her. But, thinking of his hands on her and his dick inside of her makes me ill. I need to push those feelings aside. This isn’t on her. It’s on me.

  “I wish I’d have known. I wish none of this would have happened. We would have been okay, Jess. I never doubted it.”

  “Stanzy,” I say and hold up her left hand, “we’re more than okay.”

  She smiles. “I’m sorry for everything that’s happened to you.”

  “I’m not.”

  “What? Why?”

  “Because I’m here now and this is where I’m supposed to be. Where we’re supposed to be. It’s never been easy, but it’s worth it.”

  Her eyes widen like what I just said resonated in her soul.

  “My mama said the same exact thing,” she practically whispers as if she can’t believe it.

  Just then Staley walks in.

  “Shit, were you done? Do I need to lea- What the hell is that?” she gasps midsentence.

  She drops her purse and rushes over to where we’re sitting on the couch and grabs Stanzy’s hand that I’m holding. “What is that?” she asks again. Apparently nothing gets past twins.

  “Will you be my maid of honor?” Stanzy says with a laugh.

  “Holy fucking shit. I leave for two hours and… you’re fucking engaged.”

  “I know. It wasn’t what I was expecting either, but Stay, it’s right. You have to know that.”

  “I do. It’s always been Jess,” she says with a genuine smile. “Even when he was a complete dick.”

  “Hey!” I try to protest and then shrug in defeat. “I deserve that.”

  We all laugh.

  “Did you call Mama and Daddy?”

  “Not yet.”

  “Uh, they know,” I chime in. “I called Cada and asked his permission.”

  “My perfect southern gentleman!” Stanzy shouts and wraps her arms around my neck.

  “I’m far from perfect, baby.”

  “You’re perfect for me. I love you.”

  “I love you too,” I reply and kiss her forehead as she relaxes against my chest and I wrap my arms around her.

  “Ugh. You two make me puke. It’s so not fair. You’ve been engaged twice now. Meanwhile, I can’t get a guy to stick around longer than six weeks.”

  “Well, Stay, I’ve got hundred guys on my team. What’re you looking for?”

  Staley perks up, “I knew you were always my favorite, Jess.”

  There’s a knock on the door. “Must be the pizza.”

  I get up to get the food and we all sit back down to watch The Office while we eat. Looking around, my fiancée on my right, her sister on my left. I’m in the best place I’ve ever been.

  It wasn’t a straight path or an easy journey to get us here. It was a very messy, toddler-esque scribbled circle, but here we are. Back where we belong. Together. This time for as long as we can will be forever. I’ll make sure of that.

  Chapter 37: Rhodes

  Six Years Later

  Hosting a Super Bowl party for my entire team, their significant others and some of our closest family and friends seemed like a good idea at the time. Who am I kidding, it was a great fucking idea! We’re Super Bowl champions!

  The house is bustling with my teammates, friends, family and Vikings staff. Tw
o bars are set up on either end of the house and waiters and waitresses are serving some fine looking hors d’oeuvres.

  “Rhodes, well done, my man, well done,” Blake says as he looks around the room, snatching a shrimp looking something from a tray passing by. “I thought we had you guys, but you’re still fucking shifty. You must’ve had some badass doctor whopping your ass on the daily.” He laughs as he smiles at Stanzy.

  Thanks to Stanzy and Dr. What’s-His-Nuts, it took less than a year before I returned to my team, stronger and more determined than ever. I know, it’s Dr. Colletti, but I still like giving him shit. He’s here tonight somewhere.

  The Vikings had never won a Super Bowl until this season, and thanks to Trey, our fearless leader, Millsy for getting my ass back to the grind and some great leadership in the front office, we made it happen. Beating Blake’s team in the final minutes of the game on my touchdown run. It still doesn’t feel real.

  “Baby,” Stanzy says and squeezes my arm.

  “Hmm?” I reply, gazing around our house in Bliss Lake that Stanzy has turned into a home over the last six years. I’m at peace.

  We’ve been married for two years now, but she moved in a few months after we got engaged. Staley protested at first, but since I agreed she could have sleepovers every Sunday so they could the watch an episode of the The Bachelor/Bachelorette from the previous week, she caved pretty quick.

  We had a traditional southern wedding during the offseason in the park of our hometown. The park where Stanzy practiced football with me, we’d swing, and have ice cream treats she’d sneak from her house when we were young.

  Cada walked Stanzy down the aisle, crying like a baby of course. Avery cried everyday they planned the wedding I think. Cada was so ecstatic the day I called him to ask him if I could marry Stanzy I thought he was going to jump through the phone and hug me. They’ve always treated me like a son, not just a son-in-law.