Graduation and Gifts (Untouchable Book 8)

by Heather Long

  “That’s part of what I was trying to say earlier. I don’t know if I am,” she whispered and then nuzzled the corner of my mouth. This time when I turned into the kiss, it was long and sweet and soul touching. Finally, I eased her to her feet and helped her finish showering. The water had gone from hot to warm, so probably a good plan to get a move on before it went cold.

  Even Archie’s house might have a water limit. With her back to my chest, Frankie arched forward, and there was no accident as she rubbed her ass against my rapidly growing more interested dick. He was always interested when she was around.

  “Frankie,” I warned as I shaped my hands from her shoulders to her hips. The little rosette of her ass peeked at me as she bent in half, almost as though she really needed to see her ankles to do what she was doing.

  “I want you,” she told me, and it was as simple as that. With a heated groan, I rubbed her back as she pressed her hands against the wall, and I lost what little battle I considered waging against the need to push into her again. She was hotter, slicker, and more swollen from the earlier orgasm. This time, we didn’t tease or taunt, I just rode her with a kind of abandon that included stroking and cupping her breasts and as she rocked and twisted her hips.

  Our next pair of orgasms took us until the water was almost tepid and my heart raced, but fuck, it felt good to come inside her. We finished rinsing off lazily. I didn’t even care about the almost cold water. Once I’d shut it off, Frankie reached for a towel and made another fantasy come true for me as she stood there dripping wet and naked in the bathroom, running her hands all over me along with the towel and pressing kisses here and there, including to my dick that twitched with promise.

  We might even squeeze in round three if we handled it correctly. The hot suction of her mouth caught me off guard, and I glanced down to find her watching me as she sucked my softened dick between her lips.

  Holy shit.

  It was every fantasy I’d jerked off to in the ninth grade, and she kept the suction gentle and the tongue strokes firm until I was hardening between her lips. Not once did she pull away, in fact, she increased the pressure. When my cock bumped against her throat, she made a little gagging sound but wouldn’t let me retreat.

  “Fuck,” I whispered. “Sorry.” But her eyes held no censure, and the increased pressure accompanied by her hand fisting around my base had me coming in a rush. The hot release pulled my balls up tight and had me bracing one hand on the counter and the other in her hair.

  Knees weak, as soon as she pulled off, I dropped to the floor next to her and kissed her. The lingering flavor of me was not remotely a deterrent. Arms around me, Frankie returned the kiss with enthusiasm. Fuck, we had a bed like ten feet away…

  “Yo,” Jake called as he knocked on the bedroom door. The sound stripped away my next fantasy. “We need to get a move on. The car is here. Dress now, fuck later.”

  “Who says we didn’t already?” Frankie called, a daring grin on her lips. “You know, two or three times. Enough that I’ll be a little sore for whatever we’re doing next.”

  “You’ll be fine,” I assured her. “The flight isn’t that long, and we’re gonna be at the airport. I guarantee Archie will have a car waiting for us on the other side.”

  “Lucky bastard,” Jake called again, then hit the door with one thump. “Glad you’re enjoying yourself, Baby Girl. But let’s go. Get dressed so we can get this summer vacay off to a great start.”

  Frankie burst out laughing and grinned at me. “Be hard to top this.”

  I opened my mouth to retort, then froze. I actually had an idea of where we were going and why. “Oh, sweetheart,” I said slowly. “I am so proud of you. Were you determined to screw my brains out so I’d slip and tell you the surprise?”

  A saucy smile curved her lips as she stood, and a lone drop sliding down her breast to linger over her nipple before it finally fell held me transfixed. “No,” she assured me. “That was just a perk.”

  Brat.

  I pinched her ass, and she laughed. We goofed around, but we did manage to dry, Frankie blew out her hair real quick, and then we both dressed. All of the guys were waiting for us when I opened the door.

  The stares I got just made me grin. Not my fault she picked me over them. Archie just laughed though and shook his head as he held out a hand to Frankie. “You ready to go for a magic carpet ride, babe?”

  “Magic carpet…” Frankie said slowly, and then her eyes got huge. “We’re going to Orlando.”

  “That wasn’t a question,” Jake teased as he kissed her behind one ear before thumping me. We all set off together, and Frankie practically danced in place as we made it to the stairs.

  “Are we going to Disney World?”

  Archie made a point of looking thoughtful. “Do you want to go?”

  That earned him a stare we would normally all avoid, but not Archie. He took that look like a challenge every time and just waited her out. Finally, she rolled her eyes and said, “Yes!”

  “Good,” Archie told her as Jeremy opened the doors for us to reveal the limo all decked out in festive black, round ears that also sparkled under the summer sun. “Because your magical carpet ride starts right here…”

  Chapter Fifteen

  Happiest Escape on Earth

  Frankie

  Laughter vied with disbelief, but both failed against the utter joy of the surprise. “Really?” And yes, it came out like a damn squeal. I didn’t even care as I bounced up to throw my arms around Archie. He caught me close and hugged me. Then twisted to hand me to Jake. His arms tightened around me briefly before we turned, and then Ian just picked me up, laughing, and buried his face against my neck. I caught Coop’s gaze over his shoulder, and the wide grin on his face just had my heart doing somersaults.

  “Did all of you know?” I demanded, and Archie hooked an arm around my middle and tugged me back to him.

  With a nip at my ear, he said, “They asked me to plan it because they figured I’d do it anyway.”

  At Jake’s and Ian’s equally pointed and exasperated looks, I laughed and rubbed Archie’s arm. “I’ve always wanted to go to Disney World.”

  “We know,” he told me, indulgent if a little smug grin in place. “Now, get in the car, Cinderella, we have a plane to catch.”

  I didn’t have to ask if they’d packed for me, ’cause they probably had. It also explained the various shopping trips I’d been invited on, both with and without the guys. Jeremy waved us off. We definitely needed to bring him a souvenir.

  The guys were teasing each other about what we had to do first when we got to Florida. I settled between Coop and Archie and just grinned at their teasing.

  “Maybe we should ask Frankie what she wants to do,” Ian pointed out with a wink toward me.

  “That’s easy,” Jake said with a snort and an affectionate grin.

  “She wants to do everything,” Coop finished before nipping my ear, and I laughed. They weren’t wrong.

  “I’m just glad to escape together.” The words kind of dimmed the humor, just a little bit. Escape seemed like a weird word. We were moving. We’d graduated. We’d already escaped. But since graduation, I’d been waiting for the other shoe to drop with Maddy. Not that she’d made a single appearance. I’d heard from Patience regularly. My dad’s—Hank’s text messages arrived right on time. In fact, I got one at the airport while we were waiting for our flight to board. He told me to have a great time, and I had to laugh. Of course the guys had told him.

  I caught Archie watching me, and I shifted over two seats while Coop and Jake were hunting coffee. Ian was on my right now and Archie on my left. “You told my dad.” It wasn’t a question.

  “I’m a Standish,” Archie told me. “I have a lot of ground to make up for with your father. I figure this is a little way I can prove to him we have his little girl’s interests at heart.”

  Ian said, “It’s a good idea, Angel. We don’t want anything to get in the way of this relationshi
p. As long as it’s what you want.”

  “Exactly. Not who I am or…”

  “Stop,” I told Archie with a hand over his. “Who you are is someone I love, very much. Hank knows that. If he doesn’t accept you…I don’t care what your last name is, you come first. All of you.”

  Nothing would change that. Not high school bitches. Not bullies. Not where I came from or who I came from and certainly not him.

  “Especially since I think Grandpa Ted is the bomb,” I continued, and Archie’s grin grew wider and relief flickered in his dark eyes.

  “I love you, babe,” he whispered in that lower register that was almost a croon. The cup of his fingers against my jaw beckoned me forward, and he feathered a kiss over my lips. The fact Ian slid his hand over my free one and interlaced our fingers as Archie kissed me slow and sweet just made my heart swell.

  Even as Archie released me, a smile still in his eyes, he slid his arm through mine and then captured my other hand. I leaned to rest my head against his shoulder and then stroked my thumb along the side of Ian’s hand. A woman across the way just sort of stared at me, lips tight, frown firm, and an almost prudish look of distaste in her expression.

  Coop cut off my view as he appeared with coffee and a grin. His smile faded as he looked at me, and before I could say anything, he twisted around and the woman who’d been scowling found somewhere else to stare.

  “Yeah, I’d look somewhere else too. Your expression is gonna get stuck like that.” He was not quiet about it, and Jake pivoted.

  “Nope,” I said with some vehemence as I straightened. “Don’t…”

  “Eh, she’s not worth it,” Jake said without raising his voice. He winked at me as he handed Ian his coffee. Coop passed me my own, and Archie took his. We had to unlock from each other to take them. Or I did at least. They settled into the seats opposite us, and Coop grumbled but Jake elbowed him. “Yo, I’m the hothead. Get back in your lane.”

  “Former hothead,” Ian reminded him. “You’re trying to turn over a new leaf.”

  “Yeah,” Jake said slowly. “Not working for me so far. Not if our Zen master is going to take the leap off the deep end.”

  “You don’t think you can handle being Zen if you swap?” I challenged, and Coop flashed me a quick grin.

  Jake snorted. “If Coop wants hothead, then I want Bubba’s.”

  Heat swept my face.

  Ian just shook his head. “You couldn’t handle my job without Coop’s Zen mastery.”

  “Ha,” Coop retorted. “Besides, I’d make a better Archie. I’m very good at spoiling our girl.”

  Archie smirked. “She only needs one of me. Besides, do you want me to be the Zen master?”

  “Maybe,” Coop said. “If you were after Bubba’s job too. Give you a little flex room. Bubba could tackle hothead.”

  “But what happens to Bubba’s job?” Archie challenged.

  They were going to kill me with this.

  “If—note I said if—I take hothead, Archie gets Zen, and you get Archie’s daddy dom…”

  Had he really just said…?

  “That still leaves Jake with mine, and you said he wasn’t ready for it.”

  Coop’s whole expression fell.

  “And you aren’t ready for daddy dom,” Ian continued, and I swore my face had to be the shade of my red Converse at the moment.

  “Daddy dom?” Archie said. “Really? I just thought sexy multi-billionaire genius sex god worked fine.”

  “Except you’re not really a multi-billionaire.” Ian didn’t argue the other points, and I was torn between embarrassment and laughter. Maybe both. Or none of the above?

  “Yet.” The confidence in Archie’s voice couldn’t be denied.

  This whole conversation. I stared at Coop.

  “Don’t look at me like that,” Coop said. “Not my fault. Blame Jake, he told me to get back in my lane, and apparently, we have lanes…”

  “Hey…” Jake protested.

  “Nor did I bring up someone else’s dick in the shower.” He did not.

  Fuck me, he did.

  To say it devolved from there… Well, I focused on my phone and sending texts to Rachel. She was less than helpful.

  Rachel: You could have had all this, but you went for four of them. Just saying. You gotta take the bad with the good.

  I laughed.

  Me: Bitch.

  Rachel: Yep and you love me for it.

  I ended up sitting next to Ian, and he didn’t press me for an answer. But for the sake of my ass, I gave him one anyway. A faint murmur in his ear about the piercing and the fact I had admitted I had no idea what one would feel like earned me a long, studying look and him stroking his lower lip with his thumb.

  A shiver went through me.

  Fine, if I got spanked, at least it would be for what I said directly. Besides, we were going to Disney World, I didn’t think I’d be sitting long enough for a sore bottom to give me issues. “It was metaphorical,” I promised him.

  “But you are curious,” he murmured almost to himself.

  “I’m curious about a lot of things,” I reminded him and caught his hand so I could kiss him lightly.

  He chuckled. “Fair.”

  Jake twisted to look over the seat at us and he grinned wide. “So that’s two out of four, but I think you’re gonna have to make it up to all of us.”

  “Oh, that’s fine. I’m only going to be sleeping with three of you, so I’ll have plenty of time.”

  Archie’s soft laughter drifted up from behind me, followed by Coop’s muffled oath. Ian’s grin widened, and even Jake looked amused.

  I wasn’t going to be the only one groveling on this trip. Though, I resisted Archie’s suggestion of the mile-high club and prepayment. Just barely.

  As soon as we landed though, I kind of forgot all about the teasing. They did too. I was practically buzzing as we grabbed our luggage and then out to meet the car Archie had waiting for us. I didn’t even question it, nor was I surprised. Not really.

  The minute we were inside, however, I squealed and then climbed over to be closest to the big windows and twisted to look out at them. “Where are we staying?”

  “You’ll see,” Archie teased, and I groaned at him, but you know what? I didn’t care. We could stay at a motel by the airport, and I’d be happy. I was with my guys and we were going to go to the best damn place ever, and I couldn’t wait.

  The drive out of downtown took us through sunny Orlando. I had to laugh at the road construction. There was so much of it, and the traffic thickened then thinned. We passed literally dozens of hotels. “You know, I read somewhere that the majority of jobs in this area were in the hospitality business.”

  “Of course you did,” Coop teased. “And you wonder why we waited to tell you where we were going.”

  “There’s nothing wrong with researching a place,” I told him primly, and Jake snorted a laugh.

  “Not a thing at all, Baby Girl.”

  When we passed the sign welcoming us onto the property itself, I swore my eyes must have grown huge. That sense of vibrating in my soul seemed to expand everywhere. We were here. We were really going. I tried to catch the names on all the exit signs to get a clue for where we were going.

  The hotel was the same one that was located right on the edge of the savannah. The whole place just radiated happy energy, and the music set the mood with the rhythm and the colorful outfits. I don’t think my eyes had ever been this big.

  I barely heard anything as we checked in to one of the fancier suites on the club level. The view from the room itself was incredible. I had the door open and I was out on the patio as Archie put in a call for lunch and drinks. My stomach rumbled in appreciation, but nothing could dissuade me from staying out here when a giraffe wandered by. I spotted some okapi, and there was a zebra.

  The birds… There were so many birds.

  Jake slid his arms around me. “You happy?”

  I leaned back against his chest.
“Deliriously.”

  “Not thinking about anyone else’s dicks?” The tease as he nipped my ear with teeth just sharp enough to make it hurt had me bursting out laughing all over again. One of the okapi lifted their head and stared up at me like they wanted to shush me, and I clapped a hand over my mouth.

  “I promise,” I stage-whispered. “I was never thinking about anyone else’s anyway.”

  “Good,” he murmured. “I’ll let you make it up to me later.”

  I snorted, head back against his shoulder. “Only if you make up to me the fact you won’t get a piercing.”

  This time, he bit my throat and sucked against the spot to bring the bruise up. Damn hickey monsters. “That’s for being a brat,” he said with an unrepentant grin.

  Twisting in his arms, I hopped up, trusting in the fact he’d catch me. Jake didn’t disappoint, cupping his hands under my ass and lifting me as I hitched my thighs to his hips. I nipped his lower lip with a kiss before returning his hickey with one of my own. The stubble of his beard reminded me that he hadn’t shaved in a couple of days. Not that I minded it.

  He looked good all rough and tumble. His chuckle as I sucked at the hickey made me smile. “Is that for me being a brat too?”

  “Yep.”

  “Come on, lovebirds,” Coop called as he tugged the door open. “Lunch is here, and then we’re planning what parks we’re hitting first.”

  “Yay!” I let out a squeal and slid down Jake with a little more contact than necessary. His eyes sparked, but I escaped around Coop before Jake could retaliate. As it was, I climbed right over Ian to use him as protection.

  Lunch was all kinds of appetizers along with burgers and fries. Staples. No arguments here. Archie had out his phone and a series of brochures for the different parks. “Frankie, pick a park, any park.” He fanned them out like they were cards, and I chewed my lip.

  I wanted to see all of them. At once.