Always Mine: A Bad Boy Next Door Romance

by Lauren Wood

  Why was it so hard to just push the button? He was here not even a couple of hours ago, so why was it so hard to just call him and ask him over? I had a legitimate excuse, so I could back out of it at any time if I wanted to.

  Pushing the button, I held my breath and waited for him to answer. After the first couple of rings, I almost hung up, but I knew that my number was going to show up on his caller ID. I didn’t want to seem like I was nervous or anything like that. Even though I was full of nerves, I didn’t want him to know the truth.

  “Hello?”

  His voice was sleepy and I looked at the clock. Why was he sleeping at this time of the day?

  “Hi, Joel?”

  “Yeah?”

  “This is Cameron…”

  “Cameron?”

  The voice perked up and I smiled to myself. At least he wanted to hear from me if nothing else.

  “Yeah, sorry to bother you if you were sleeping...”

  “No, really it is fine. I shouldn’t be sleeping this late anyways. What can I do for you?”

  “Well, um, my air conditioner has been out for a while.”

  “I know. I don’t know how you are sleeping up there in that heat.”

  “I am really not. It is really hot all of the time and even though I have tried to open windows, it just doesn’t seem to help. There hasn’t been much of a breeze lately.”

  “So you want me to come fix it?”

  He sounded disappointed like I was calling for something else and the realization that I was calling for that didn’t seem to make him happy.

  “Yeah, whenever you have time. There is no rush of course. I know you have been busy lately, so I just wanted to get on the list.”

  “Are you working today?”

  The question had me frowning and I didn’t want to think about it. I was supposed to be at work now, but I didn’t have a job anymore.

  “Nope, no work for me today.”

  “Right, sorry I forgot.”

  I didn’t remember telling him, but I had a way of letting it all out when I was drinking and I was just going to blame it on that. I had said some things that I shouldn’t have and I knew that I was going to regret more of them.

  “Well that is not what I was calling about Joel. I just wanted to see if you could fix that air conditioner when you have time.”

  “I can be over there in five minutes.”

  That wasn’t what I had expected. I had expected a time and date, later than today where I could be more prepared. I didn’t feel prepared at all at the moment and there was a big part of me that wanted to say no. But I was in it now and after I was the one that had called, I didn’t know how I was supposed to be able to back out now.

  “No, I don’t want to rush you. Please take your time, really there is no rush.”

  As soon as I said it, I had a feeling that he wasn’t going to go with what it was that I wanted. While I wanted some time to get myself together, Joel promised that he would be there in five minutes. I agreed because I didn’t see a way not to and looked down after the phone clicked that he had hung up. I looked a mess and I needed to take a shower real quick. I could still smell rum on me from the night before. This was not how I wanted him to see me and I was sure that there was going to be a moment that I would want to look proper.

  I couldn’t decide what to do, so I unlocked the door and turned the shower on. I knew that he was going to be up here soon, so I told myself that I was just going to rinse off. I needed it and I needed to wake up, so it seemed like I could bang them both out at the same time. I just didn’t know that he wouldn’t even take five minutes.

  As I was getting into the bathroom, I heard Joel at the door. I had already gotten undressed and I wrapped a towel around me to go answer the door. I was feeling far more nervous than I should have been. He wasn’t just there to fix my air conditioner. I needed him to help fix other aspects of me and one of them immediately called out to him as I opened the front door.

  “Hey.” His eyes ran up my body and I looked away so that I wouldn’t have to see the need on his face. It was hard to ignore and I liked the fact that he liked what he was seeing. It was going to make seducing him a lot easier.

  “Come on in Joel. I need to go jump in the shower. The air conditioner is in my bedroom. I don’t know why it won’t work, but if you could take a look, I would really appreciate it.”

  I asked him if he had a tool bag because I wasn’t into fixing things. I might have had a hammer somewhere, but I wouldn’t even promise that.

  “I just want to take a look at it and once I know what it is I will need, I will go down and get it. You just take your shower Cameron and I will take care of everything else.”

  I had a feeling that he was more than capable of giving me everything that I needed. I wasn’t even thinking about the temperature anymore, even though it was starting to get noticeably hotter in the room. I knew that it was because of the way Joel was eyeing me. I made my way to the bathroom just to shield myself from his view. It was mighty hard to ignore the way he made me feel inside, my heart skipping a bit every few minutes.

  The water to the shower was hot and had steamed the room up. It was almost to the point that I couldn’t see that far ahead of me, but it was how I liked it. It made me feel a little more mysterious as well, as I couldn’t even see my own reflection in the mirror. The bathroom was just how I wanted it and in my fantasies, Joel would come in and come up behind me. I waited for a few heartbeats, hoping that was what would happen, but I wasn’t surprised when it didn’t. I gave a lot of conflicting signals and I would have been confused if I were him. Hell, I didn’t even know what I wanted in truth. I knew I wanted Joel, but I wasn’t sure how to go about it.

  When I got out, my skin was pink and damp from the shower. I stepped out in the hallway to hear where Joel was. He was in the bedroom and I had forgotten my clothes in there. It was going to seem strange to go in there, especially after I had hoped that he would walk in so many times while I was in the shower. If he wasn’t going to play along, I guess I was going to have to help him get the picture. I was new to the seduction game, but I wanted to try for Joel. He brought out a whole other side to me that I wanted to explore further.

  “Sorry Cameron, I will get out of here.”

  “No, it’s okay. I just need to find something to wear.”

  I could barely look at him, afraid that he would find me silly, but I wanted to see if what I wanted from him was the same as what he wanted from me.

  “It looks like you need another air conditioner. I will have to order one, but I think that there is one downstairs in the basement that I can put in for now.”

  He was getting ready to leave and I asked him when he was going to be back. Joel glanced back and then stopped. I was still wearing my towel. I had forgotten that and his eyes took me in enough that I was feeling heat from his dark eyes.

  “Was there anything else that you needed Cameron?”

  It was the question that he asked me in my fantasy. I wanted to do what I had imagined I would do next, but I couldn’t bring myself to do it. I wanted to be bold and to show him that I wasn’t afraid of what was going to happen next, but I was frozen in place.

  “Cameron, are you okay?”

  I nodded my head that I was fine. I might have a heart attack at any minute, but I was fine, really I was.

  “Yeah, I just… I don’t know.”

  “Whatever it is that you want, all you have to do is ask.”

  It didn’t feel that easy and if it was so hard to breathe, I didn’t think that talking was going to be a possibility.

  Chapter 15

  Joel

  Cameron had this look in her eyes that drove me wild. She was standing in her towel, with it pulled up tight against her. I wanted to grab the fabric and rip it off of her, seeing finally what was underneath it. That was all I could think about and when I moved towards her, it was more my subconscious, then me actually walking towards her. I set the wire
s down that I had picked up behind the air conditioner and stopped in front of her.

  “Tell me what it is that you want Cameron. I am here for all of your needs, not just the mechanical ones.”

  It sounded cliché, but I didn’t know another way to get my point across. She was practically naked and staring up at me with those big blue eyes. What was I supposed to do? The first thing that sprang to my mind was to take her and make her mine. It had been in my thoughts since I had first met her and seeing her there like this was not doing anything to help that. All I needed was a sign.

  “I don’t know what you are talking about Joel.”

  She was playing coy and I was flustered. Moving a step closer, I lifted up her chin to have her really look at me. Cameron didn’t fight me and the woman’s shampoo was like an aphrodisiac. I couldn’t get enough of it and before I could stop myself, I was leaning down for a kiss. She didn’t have to answer me. Her body was doing enough talking for the both of us.

  Hearing a small whimper come from between her lips, I pushed my tongue in. She sighed and slumped against me a little bit. There was something about the sound and the softness in my arms that pushed me to the point of no return. I didn’t know why I was here, what her reasons were anyways, but I was very certain of mine.

  “Do you want me to stop?”

  It took a minute for Cameron to open her eyes and I could tell right away that she didn’t want me to stop. Her hands moved up to pull me back down, her hair spread all around her on the bed. The towel was coming undone and wouldn’t have taken anything to flick it the rest of the way off.

  Cameron shook her head after our eyes met. She didn’t say it out loud, but she didn’t have to. I had a feeling that this was what she wanted all along. I had just been too blind to see it. Why else would she have come out of the shower like this?

  “If I go any further, I am not going to be able to stop myself. I feel like I should warn you.”

  Cameron giggled and moved the towel to the side, revealing half of her body in one shot. I sucked in a breath and filled my eyes with all of her. Her skin was porcelain and there were small freckles on her shoulders that I wanted to explore. As I moved to climb back over her, her hips rose up and her hands started to undo my pants. I pulled back and told her not yet. There was no way that I was going to have a morsel of control if she put her hands on me. I wasn’t that strong of a man and I knew that.

  “Let me touch you and really see you. I have wanted to get my hands on you for a long time Cameron. Just let me love you.”

  She stopped with my words and I was pretty sure it was the last bit that she had heard the most. I did love her. Carlos had seen it and even though I tried to deny it, it was there for all to see. Her eyes closed as my hands moved to push the other side of the towel down and let it fall beside her onto the bed.

  The perfection was complete and she was everything that I had hoped she would be. Cameron didn’t try to hide herself, but she didn’t seem able to look me in my eyes as I touched her. Not at first anyways, so that just left me time to really take every curve of her in. When my body leaned in to kiss her neck, I rubbed the part of me that desired her most against her own heated core and I heard the soft whimper come through her lips. Each sound and rise of her towards me made it harder than ever to take things slow.

  It was impossible to keep her hands off of me and while I kissed on her, Cameron was pulling my shirt off and over my head. I tried to stop her, but in the end I lifted up to help her. She was determined and I was ready to feel her hot skin against mine.

  Cameron was getting impatient, as was I. I moved to slide between her thighs, my mouth anxious to get a taste of her.

  “No Joel, I can’t.”

  I didn’t know what she was telling me no about, so I moved up to look at her. Did she really want me to stop? I was ready to burst at the seams and she was ready to stop. It didn’t make sense to me no matter how many times I played it in my head.

  “What?”

  “I don’t want to wait anymore. I want to feel you inside of me.”

  That was not what I had expected or along the lines I had been thinking. As long as she wanted me, I didn’t care which way.

  “What do you want?”

  “I want you inside of me Joel. Right now. That is why I called you here.”

  I moved back from her and stood up, fighting my pants off and almost falling because I forgot that I had to take my boots off first. While I had wanted to be sexy and manly, Cameron ended up doubled over in tears from laughter. It wasn’t the impression that I was trying to leave in her, though it all changed when I climbed back on top of her and she looked between our bodies.

  “Oh.”

  Grinning at her, I positioned myself right at her wet opening and pressed in. I didn’t give her time to ready herself. She didn’t need it because she was soaked from our kisses. Gritting my teeth to the hot tightness, I heard Cameron cry out underneath me. She felt so good and I was lost in lust, not able to stop the quick thrusting that my hips began. It was impossible not to slam forward over and over again, each time rewarded with more of her hot sheath and desperates sound from her mouth. It was all too perfect and I had to pull out before I made it end too soon.

  “Don’t stop, please Joel. I am about to come!”

  Pushing forward till I hit bottom, Cameron made a gasping sound as my cock flooded with fluid. It was so much I had to pull out from the pressure and with it came a gush of wetness. She wasn’t joking about coming and the very action sent my mind into a spiral.

  With the sound of her wetness on our skin slapping together, I moved faster, prolonging her pleasure as I came to my own. It was then that I knew she was mine forever.

  Breathing heavy, I moved down to kiss her and she moaned as I jerked in her depths. I had never been so relaxed in all of my life. I had been waiting for this day for a very long time and there was no part of me that wanted to leave her. If there was a way for me to have stayed inside of her forever, I would have.

  “I need a minute Joel.”

  I had gotten hard inside of her almost immediately and moved deeper to see her reaction. Her hand moved to my chest and I knew that she really did need some time. I had been rough with her and I wanted to do it again. She felt too good to stop, but the pressure on my chest was enough to snap me out of it. I wanted her to beg for more, not for me to stop.

  Pulling free, she relaxed and I was left looking down at her. I wasn’t done, couldn’t be done, but it was clear to me that she was. Her back was still arched from where I had held her and she was tempting me back into the bed.

  “If you need a minute Cameron, you are going to have to cover up a bit better.”

  She giggled, unaware of how serious I was and how close I felt to losing myself inside of her once more. She was perfect, Cameron really was and I was sure that she didn’t know it.

  “Is that a threat?”

  “No, it is a promise.”

  She covered up, but it was only for a few minutes before she was pulling it back off and calling me on my bluff. It wasn’t a bluff though and I was quickly showing her that I was a man of my word.

  Chapter 16

  Cameron

  It took a bit of convincing, but I finally got Joel out of my apartment. I had to tell him simply that I just couldn’t think with him there and I had some thinking to do. Everything that I had imagined it would be, it was and somehow more. He was perfect for me in some ways, but so wrong in others. It was hard to see which way would be best. I didn’t want to think about everything that was going on with him though. I needed to focus on work and finding something else.

  He wanted to see me later the next day, but I told him I wasn’t sure. I still wasn’t sure what it was that I was doing with him. That was something that I needed to figure out first that didn’t involve him. My life in the city was in question and even though I had gotten a great severance package, I still had to find something soon or I wasn’t going to be able to s
tay in the city I had grown to love.

  I called around to a couple of job placement agencies to see what they had available. After a few calls I had several prospects in mind and an interview to do a few tests. I didn’t mind something temporary until I could find something else. Not only would it help with me not dipping into my savings, but I would have something that I could do to keep my mind off of all of the unanswered questions running around up there.

  Just about to leave for the interview downtown, the doorbell rang and I was sure that it was Joel. I hadn’t seen him all day and I was starting to think that I shouldn’t have said anything about him coming over later. I wanted to see him and my heart started to race a little more when I thought he felt the same way and wanted to see me too.

  “Hey…”

  It wasn’t Joel. It was actually one of the last people that I would want to see then.

  “Stephen, what are you doing here?”

  I looked around out in the hallway, sure I was going to see Joel there ready to fight him again. If he knew the whole story, I was sure that he would, but I didn’t want any more trouble. The two of them acting like children had already ruined everything, so I certainly wasn’t going to encourage it.

  “I wanted to see you. I heard about what happened and I just wanted to say I was sorry. I had to do something to get the settlement and you know that I needed it.”

  I didn’t know anything except that I wanted him to leave. “Can you please just go? I don’t want to talk to you about this. I got fired because you lied and from what I hear, insisted that I get fired, so why are you here? Are you here just to rub it in my face?”

  The more I said, the more indignant I became. Why in the world was he even here?

  “Aren’t you going to invite me in? I wanted to talk to you and you are not making this easy. I wanted to tell you that I am sorry.”

  “You already did. You can go now Stephen. I have heard enough.”

  I went to shut the door and he stopped it with his hand and a foot. There was a touch of something in his eyes and the blonde-man wasn’t as appealing as he had been in the past. I had never really liked who he was, but even his outer attraction was gone when his face was screwed up in such a way.