Love in Education: De La Fuente Book Seven

by Buchanan, Lexi

“Andie, it’s okay.” I kiss her on the forehead and slip my hand into hers and face Diego. “I do have something to say about your comment, but I’d rather say it once, so I’ll wait until your wife is present.”

  A few seconds later, he nods and I’m sure I see respect in his gaze. “Rae’s waiting inside.”

  “Impatiently,” we hear shouted.

  Diego laughs. “She’s been told to rest up. The heat and her age,” he whispers, “doesn’t go well with high blood pressure.”

  “She’s okay though, right?” Andie asks, her voice strained with worry as she moves toward him.

  “If she does what the doctor orders then yes.” Diego pulls her back into his arms. “She’s going to be fine, Andie. The last thing she’d want is for you to worry about her.”

  Pulling back Andie looks worried but resigned. “She’s stubborn.”

  “There is nothing wrong with my hearing.”

  Andie laughs and dashes into the house leaving me to follow behind Diego who seems eager to get to his wife.

  I’m surprised when I see her because she’s nothing like I expected, and certainly doesn’t look old enough to be Andie’s mom, sister maybe.

  The small redhead with a large pregnant belly, looks me over from feet to head before she grins and pats her daughters hand. “You’ve done good, honey.”

  “I know.” Andie beams up at me from her position on the sofa with her mom.

  Diego hovers and it’s obvious that he wants to sit with his wife, which Andie gets. She jumps up and tugs me onto the sofa opposite. “All you had to tell me was to move over, Diego.”

  “Rae’s been excited to see you so I wasn’t about to do that.”

  Both women laugh. “Honey, you’re about as subtle as your mother.”

  He rolls his eyes but not before I catch the wince he can’t hide. “Let’s not get into that.”

  Rae settles into his arms and after Diego kisses her on the top of her head, he prompts, “So, you have something to say.”

  Andie places her palm on my thigh, which I quickly remove and intertwine our fingers together. She smirks and I groan inwardly when I realize that her parents are watching our every move.

  Clearing my throat, I say, “I’m not sure what to say really because you’ve obviously heard about me from Andie.” I glance at her and notice the slight blush along her cheeks. “You know I’m her Professor, which is awkward, but I’ve been attracted to your daughter from the first time I met her. I did fight against it, but you know her right? She isn’t easy to forget.” I bring our joined hands up and kiss her knuckles. “I love her, this between us is more than forbidden fruit and all that. I’m old enough to know what I want and that’s Andie.”

  “Oh, honey!” Rae bursts into tears and Diego just rolls with it, passing her a box of Kleenex. “I’m so happy you finally got your professor.”

  Andie grins. “Me too.”

  Diego clears his throat. “You do realize that the walls in this place are thin, right?”

  I glance at Andie and try not to grin at the embarrassment I see on her face. “I’ve slept in my room numerous times since you moved in here Diego, so yes, I know how thin the walls are.”

  Rae chuckles. “He wasn’t expecting that when he gave you a warning.”

  “Hey, I’m thinking about your delicate ears,” he tells his wife.

  “A train traveling through the house wouldn’t wake me with how deeply I’ve been sleeping so I very much doubt anything else will.”

  “Mom, Diego, it’s okay. We have a room booked at La Quinta Inn. I want to mix family time with showing Sawyer around town.”

  “But—” Rae starts.

  “Andie is going to be close by.” Diego hugs his wife. “They’ll be fine there.”

  I’m glad that he’s okay with us staying elsewhere because it would be too awkward staying here. I sure as hell wouldn’t be making love to Andie in her family home, which is how I persuaded her to let me book us somewhere in town.

  “As my husband is going to be more comfortable with that arrangement, I’ll leave it.” Rae says. “But you better not be late for the baby shower.”

  “I won’t. Where’s it being held?”

  “At Kasey and Felicity’s new place. They can’t wait to show it off to you. They’ve just finished having a ramp built for Blake to use.” Rae sighs softly. “I think they planned on having Blake live with them, which I think Kasey would have been more on board with if Felicity wasn’t pregnant. Blake obviously realized it as well and he’s refused and is still living in town with violet.”

  “Oh boy! I bet Felicity wasn’t happy having Blake refuse to move in. Did she know that Kasey wasn’t happy with her idea?”

  “Oh yes! Didn’t last for long though when he reasoned with her.” Rae shrugs. “Blake is fine where he is and I think it would have broken Violet’s heart to have him move out.” She smiles. “They’re a right pair.”

  “He needs a kick in the ass before he loses Violet to someone else,” Diego adds.

  “Why Diego,” Andie teases, “I didn’t know you liked to gossip.”

  Rae throws back her head and laughs. “The De La Fuente men love to gossip. I swear they gossip more than a bunch of church women.”

  “Hey now,” Diego complains, his lips twitching. “If we didn’t gossip about our women we wouldn’t know half of the stuff that we do.” He smirks.

  “God, I don’t even want to know.” Rae shakes her head, and focuses on me. “I’m curious Sawyer, how have you and my daughter been able to hide what’s going on between you both? Isn’t anyone curious?”

  “I haven’t hid the fact that I have a girlfriend or that I’m in love with her.” I smile at Andie. “I just haven’t told anyone her name.” I look between her mom and Diego, and admit, “It hurts not being able to go anywhere together as a couple, which is why I wanted us to stay in town here. I want to be able to take Andie out and treat her to everything I’ve been unable to back in Denver, because the chances of us bumping into someone that we know is a lot higher back there.

  “She deserves everything, and up to now we’ve had to hold off. My sister Pattie was staying with me and she helped us some, but now we just spend our time at my home. I have a pool that’s private, which means we’re not spending all our time indoors, hiding away...But, I’m hoping that very soon, to be able to walk down the street at the College while holding her hand.”

  “Oh,” Rae gasps. “You really are in love with my daughter.”

  “Jeez Rae, don’t do that.” Diego clutches his chest. “You gasp and I panic.”

  “You didn’t panic last night, you—” she stops talking with a twinkle in her eyes as Diego covers her mouth with his hand.

  Andie jumps up. “And, that’s our cue to leave.”

  14

  Sawyer

  After spending an hour with the men of Andie’s family, I can honestly say that I think I fit in well. It was a toss up as to who would be the one to head out to Kasey’s house first, and yes I was included in that.

  Kasey is the first through the door and the women start laughing as we all file in behind him. I spot Andie shaking her head as I make my way over to her and move in for a kiss. My hands linger on her hips and one slips down to grab a handful of her plump ass.

  I nuzzle into her neck. “I can’t keep my hands off you.”

  “I’ve noticed,” she mumbles, biting my earlobe.

  I shudder and meet her gaze. “Don’t start something we can’t finish here.”

  “God! Please don’t,” Kasey says from beside us.

  We glance at him and find him grinning while shoving his mouth full with a strawberry and cream pastry. He smirks. “Thought I better remind you both that you aren’t alone.”

  “As though I’d forget. Jeez, Kasey.” Andie slips an arm around my waist and hangs on to me. I have no complaint.

  “So Andie,” Mateo joins us, “you’ve finally got your Professor.” He grins. “We approve. Just in case
you were wondering.”

  She rolls her eyes as he disappears. “That’s nice to know.” She turns to Kasey. “Where’s Blake?”

  Kasey loses his smile and sighs. “He didn’t really want to come, but I guilt him into it. So he’s probably sulking out back.” He glances in what I presume to be the correct direction before he moves away, distracted.

  “Blake didn’t seem to be all that interested earlier, and when the guys suggested crashing here, he asked for a lift home.” I shrug. “I don’t know him well enough to form a judgment, but I think he feels like a stranger looking in.”

  Andie doesn’t miss anything, and asks, “Is that how you feel?”

  “I only met them an hour ago. They made me feel welcome, but they’re a unit and I’m not part of that...yet.” I squeeze her hand. “One day.”

  She snuggles against me. “On the odd occasion I still feel like that, but Kasey always seems to know when I’m going in on myself and manages to change that. He’s a good friend.”

  “I’m glad. Everyone needs that one good friend,” I say with a wistful note to my voice. “Pattie’s mine,” I admit. “After Mom left, Dad worked long hours to put food on the table so we were left alone a lot.” I shrug when she searches my gaze. “She’s nosey and interferes when she thinks I’m screwing something up, but she’s always been there. More than anyone.”

  Reaching up she places a soft kiss on my nose. “Well, I hope you know that you have me now too.” Nuzzling into my neck, she adds, “I mean that, Sawyer.”

  I bring my hand up and caress the nape of her neck. “I know that. We have each other.”

  Just standing here with Andie in my arms while the rest of her family talk and laugh is surreal. I’ve wanted to be with her for so long that sometimes during the day I have to pinch myself to make sure I’m not dreaming.

  At the back of my mind though is the fact that she’s my TA and that I’m her graduate adviser. I could lose my job for being with her, but as I feel her breathing softly against my chest, I realize that I’m not bothered if that happens because she’d be worth it. She’s worth every damn thing that I have.

  “You two are looking awfully cozy,” Eric drawls, a bottle of coke tipped at his lips.

  Andie immediately pulls away and going up on her toes, wraps her arms around Eric’s broad shoulders, or at least tries to as the man looks startled before he returns her hug. “Sylvia told us. Congratulations.”

  Eric’s grin spreads across his face as he laughs. “She let the cat out of the bag did she?”

  “Hmm, so did Erin and Sarah as well,” Andie says laughing. “It’s a right baby boom. I bet Lucia doesn’t know which way to turn.”

  Eric laughs as Andie takes ahold of my hand.

  “Lucia will be in her element with all these babies, so will my dad.” He chuckles. “It’s nice to have you along for the ride, Sawyer.” Eric holds his hand out, which I accept and shake.

  “I wouldn’t wish to be anywhere else,” I admit while looking directly at Andie.

  “These women have a habit of grabbing a guy by the balls and not letting go,” his gaze softens as they land on his wife, “and I wouldn’t change that for anything.” He grins. “Catch you around.”

  Eric disappears and I feel Andie tugging on my hand. “Let’s go and find Blake.”

  Andie leads me by the hand out of the house through the back patio and that’s where we find Blake. He’s moved himself from the wheelchair to one of the patio chairs and looks deep in thought as he peels the label on the water bottle.

  He spots us approaching and just watches with a scowl on his face. He probably wants to be left alone at least by us because I certainly saw him take notice when Violet’s name was mentioned before we arrived here to join the ladies. He’d gotten upset when Kasey had mentioned some guy in town had been asking Violet out for a while now, and that he thought she’d eventually accept. So yeah, Blake hadn’t been impressed.

  Wrapping her arm around Blake’s neck, she kisses him on his cheek before sitting beside him. “It’s good to see you.”

  He offers a wry smile and watches as I sit next to Andie. “It’s good to see you too. Been a while.”

  “Too long.” Andie grins. “I’m still waiting for you to visit me in Colorado...and I don’t want to hear anything about the chair, okay. Just say the word and we’ll get you there...please.”

  Blake stares at Andie for a few minutes and then offers her a soft smile before he looks at me. “Don’t screw it up with her.”

  “I’ve no intention of doing that.”

  “Talking about screwing up,” Andie glares at Blake, “what did we talk about the last time we hung out?”

  Blake blushes but holds her gaze. “I’m stuck in a chair. I can’t even get a job like this. She deserves the world, Andie. I can’t give her that.”

  “I’m not going to hound you because I can see you don’t need that, but, have you thought that maybe the only world she wants is yours?”

  Blake stills until he moves his gaze over to the mountains in the distance.

  Kissing his cheek, Andie whispers something before kissing him once more and taking my hand she drags me further into the garden.

  “What was that about?” I ask the minute we’re alone. “All that kissing.”

  She grins. “You’re jealous of me kissing him?”

  I think about it for a minute and realize that I am but I decide to stay silent because I don’t think she’d appreciate my jealousy at least when it’s directed at Blake.

  Pushing me up against a tree, out of the view of others, she cups my face in her cool hands, so I let my hands wander and cupping her bottom, I tug her up against me.

  Her eyes roll before she focuses on me. “Blake is a friend, and only a friend. He is a handsome guy, but I met you first, and there is no comparison. My guy is sexy and so damn hot that my panties melt when he looks at me. Plus, Blake is in love with Violet, but won’t admit it. Or what I really believe is that he has admitted it to himself, but thinks that he doesn’t have anything to offer her, which he’s practically admitted.” She shrugs. “He’s a great guy and I really want him to have a life with Violet. So does Felicity, except she has no patience with him right now. I think it’s her hormones.”

  “Yeah, women and their hormones.” I shudder and laugh at the surprise on Andie’s face. “What? Pattie has enough hormones for five women. Scares the fuck out of me.”

  She laughs and drags a groan from between my lips when she rubs against my dick.

  Pressing her tightly against me, I beg, “Not here where your family can find us.”

  “You’re rock hard.” She moans. “I think we can be quick.” On her last words, she gives me a cheeky smirk and slowly starts to nuzzle down my chest until her fingers find my belt.

  With ease she unbuckles me and I’ve lost the will to stop her. Even with the possibility of being caught, I can’t stop her. I ache for her touch just like I do all the damn time. She knows this too and uses it to her advantage, which I have to say, I’m totally okay with.

  Her fingers feel amazing as they wrap around me and bring my cock out and toward her waiting mouth. I pant with the arousal coursing through me. The sight of her on her knees with my cockhead hovering so close to her red lips has precum tingling through the length and seeping from the tip. My breaths become heavier as I wait with anticipation for her to take me into her mouth.

  I don’t wait long and quiver when she reaches out, wrapping her hand around the base of my shaft. “Don’t take your eyes off me,” she whispers, and then I can’t breathe as the crown of my cock disappears between her red lips. The feel and the visual have my balls aching and then when she closes her mouth tightly around me, my legs quiver. She slowly pulls back, teasing me to the brink. The impression of her lips is on my cock, making me harder at the sight.

  Her lips tip up at the corners in a wide grin as she looks at her handy work, and strokes with one finger along the underside before pressin
g her nail between the slit. “I want you to come in my mouth while you watch me work you over.”

  I let out a gargled groan of ecstasy as my flesh disappears into her mouth. She takes me slowly until her nose nuzzles the hairs on my pelvis...and then she just as slowly lets me slip out to the tip before she sucks, getting the volcano inside my balls ready to explode.

  I arch toward her mouth, grabbing ahold of the branches above me for support. The heat and wetness surrounding my cock feels amazing and then I nudge the back of her throat as she takes me so deep that I’m snug. The combination of the hand between my legs, the vibrations along my cock, and the visual, have my balls bursting, shooting the fire along my cock as I spill down her throat. She swallows everything and the more she swallows the more I spill. I’m sure the top of my head is about to blow off, and I don’t mean the one on my shoulders.

  Her tongue wraps around me and my belly quivers when her fingers reach under my shirt. Digging her nails into my chest she slowly drags them down and tangles her fingers in my pubes.

  My hoarse groan brings me back to my senses and gasping for breath, I gently push her away, freeing my rapidly hardening dick.

  “I don’t know what to say,” I moan, staring into her delighted gaze.

  “That was amazing.” She swirls her tongue around her lips and smirks when my cock bobs in front of her face. “I think someone else enjoyed it.” She kisses the tip and holds her hand out so that I can pull her up from the ground.

  She wraps herself in my arms and as our lips meld together the kiss is so heated that my toes curl and my cock becomes so stiff that I wouldn’t have thought I’d only just come hard.

  “I liked having you stretched out like that,” she whispers against our parted lips. “It made me wet having you at my mercy while my red lips wrapped around you. Giving you pleasure.”

  “Stop.” I breathe. “We’re in your family’s back garden and all I want to do is pull your dress up and fuck your wet pussy.”

  She groans, rubbing against me. “I’m so tempted to let you.”

  “I know.” I kiss her button nose and put her away from me.