She swallows slowly and her eyes search my face as if she is trying to decide if I’m joking or being serious.
“You can do whatever you want with my body,” she whispers as if she just signed her life away.
I grin. “You sound scared.”
She arches an eyebrow and lifts her chin. “Show me what you got.”
I chuckle. “In time I will.” I’m going to have her for the rest of my life. That gives me plenty of time to show her what I am made of.
I pull back and slam into her. I’ve had enough talking. Right now, I want to make her mine, over and over again.
I unwrap her legs from around my hips and spread them, allowing me to thrust deeper. She arches her back and whimpers again. “Put them on my shoulders,” I order through my teeth as I slam into her once again. She does it without question. I lay my body on top of her and spread my arms wide, grabbing each side of the table.
She cries out at the new position and tries to move farther up the table. “Grab your legs,” I demand.
She takes a deep breath and reaches up to grab them. I fuck her shamelessly, as if I will never get enough chances. She screams out over and over again, and it just fuels me to fuck her that much harder.
It doesn’t take long before I feel her clamp down around me, and she throws her head back letting out a cry of ecstasy. I pound into her one last time before I find my own release.
I roll away and she takes several deep breaths now that my weight is off of her. “Are you okay?” I ask, turning onto my side and reaching for her. She nods, unable to speak.
I continue to hold her slick body to mine as she tries once again to calm down her trembling.
She moves her head to look up at me. “I can’t believe we had sex on the kitchen table.”
I push a few slick pieces of her hair away from her face. “There is no place that I wouldn’t take you, Angel. You should know that by now.”
She laughs, placing her hand over her chest. “Did I hurt you?”
“No, it was just hard to breathe a few times.” She slides her eyes over to me with a playful smile on her face.
“You liked it.”
She giggles and snuggles up to me. I close my eyes and listen to the silence that now fills the room, opening them when I feel her pull away.
“Sorry I yelled at you,” she says with a smile on her face. “I was just pissed at Courtney and you were the closest to take it out on.”
“You can take it out on me anytime,” I tease, trailing one hand over her flat stomach.
She starts to speak but is interrupted by the doorbell. She rolls off the table, stands up, and runs on shaky legs to look out the peephole. “It’s Josh and Courtney.” She spins around and starts picking up her clothes. I laugh as I watch her try to collect all of her buttons before she tosses me my clothes. “I’ll be right back,” she tells me as she is running down the hall naked.
“One second,” I yell, chuckling to myself. I get dressed quickly and walk to the door. I open it to reveal a sad looking Courtney, but when I look at Josh he smiles brightly. I frown. Why is he happy? She doesn’t look very happy.
“Hey guys. Come on in.” I step to the side as they enter. “Angel will be out in a few.”
We just sit down in the living room when Angel walks in. She sits down on the couch and faces Courtney, who sits with Josh across from us.
“Courtney, I’m—”
“Let me go first,” Courtney interrupts her. “I’m sorry for how I’ve behaved. I’m sorry for what I said. I honestly don’t know why I acted the way I did.” She shrugs. “I know you loved your mother. I was there with you when your dad passed. I saw how everything was, your mom pushing you away. I know you would have stayed with her. I just freaked when I saw you this time. I remembered seeing you like that at your dorm and I panicked. I thought I was going to lose you again. You always wanted to be alone. And all I wanted to do was help you,” she implores, sounding choked up. “I know you love Slade. I knew you had fallen in love with him the night you called me crying over him.”
I look at Angel. She had called Courtney crying? Over me? There’s no telling what I had done to make her cry. I hate to know that I’ve made her upset, but sometimes I just don’t have the right words to say. I try to be sensitive, but I always find a way to fuck it up.
“Courtney. You know I love you. I’m sorry for what I said regarding you and Josh.” Angel looks from Courtney to Josh. “I know you feel differently about him.”
I smile knowing that Angel just repeated the same words Josh had once said to me.
“I’ve just been emotional lately,” Courtney admits. Josh gives her a little nod before she turns back to Angel. “I’ve decided to locate my father,” she finishes quietly.
“That’s great, Court!” Angel says excitedly. “You know I am here for you no matter what. I will help you however I can.”
Courtney nods as she starts to cry. Angel moves to sit by her and pulls her in for a hug. Josh and I stand to walk to the kitchen giving the girls their privacy.
I let out a breath watching them now cry in the living room as they hug one another. “I’ve always wondered if all women were like Angel; emotionally unstable. Now I guess I have my answer.”
Josh lets out a little laugh. “I don’t know. I’ve only had one other relationship, and my ex was always such a stone cold bitch.”
I nod my head in agreement, watching the girls talk quietly.
“You know she didn’t leave me,” Josh speaks, pulling my attention away from the girls.
He looks down to the floor then takes a deep breath. “That night of my birthday.” He looks up to me. “I heard her come on to you. I heard all the things she said about me. Thanks for being a true friend and turning her down.”
“Uh?” I stutter as I remember throwing a house party for Josh’s birthday the beginning of this year.
I walk out of my bathroom to find her lying on my bed in her signature skinny jeans and tight fitting top that shows off her chest. “What are you doing in here?” I ask, looking around. “Where’s Josh?”
“Out there drinking,” she says, twirling a piece of hair around her finger.
“Why are you in here? Get out.” I point to the door.
She slowly pushes herself off the bed and walks toward me. I stalk over to the door and start to open it when she pushes it shut with her hand.
“I’m not ready to leave.” She presses her hands against my chest.
My jaw clenches at the audacity of this bitch. I grab her hands and spin her around pushing her back against the door.
“Hmm,” she hums, “I like it rough.” She smirks.
“You think I want you?” I laugh. “You’re engaged to my best friend.”
“I won’t tell him. Come on, Slade, give me that ride all the girls brag about.”
“It’s his birthday you fucking bitch,” I grit through my teeth.
“Trust me. It will be worth it.”
I tighten my hands around her wrist. “I would never fuck you. Even if you begged me,” I growl, pushing away, letting go of her wrists. “Now get the fuck out of my room.”
She takes a step away from the wall. “I know he’s fucked around on me.” I have never wanted to slap a woman, but I sure want to right now.
“Josh would never fuck around on you, he loves you.” I look her in her eyes. “Although, I don’t know why.”
She gives me a little laugh. “Love has nothing to do with wanting to fuck someone, Slade. You are a prime example of that. Come on. You can do whatever you want with me.”
Grabbing her arm tightly, I open my bedroom door. “Right now, all I want to do is throw you out with the fucking trash. Where you belong.” I push her outside and slam the door shut behind her.”
I had stayed in my room for a few minutes trying to figure out a way to tell my best friend that his fiancé was in my room trying to persuade me to fuck her. But when I came out, I couldn’t find him.
“I’m sor
ry, Josh. I wanted to tell you the next morning, when I saw you, but you told me she had left you. I knew how much you loved her. I didn’t want to make it worse.”
“I know,” he says quietly. “When she came out of the room I was standing there and confronted her about what I had heard. She said you tried to seduce her.” He rubs his hand over his forehead. “Even if I had not heard what was said on the other side of that door, I still wouldn’t have believed her. In all honesty, I didn’t want you to tell me. I left the party right after that knowing you would tell me.” He shrugs. “I just didn’t want to hear it. I thought it would just be easier to tell everyone she left me.”
“Why did you let her talk all that shit about you?” I grit my teeth now, pissed that he let her do that to him. The very next day she had started talking shit about how he had been cheating on her. The bitch just wanted people to feel sorry for her and she knew Josh was too good of a guy to bash her fucking ass. I knew it was all a lie, but I still saw the hurt in his eyes when someone believed the rumors she was spreading.
“Because she may have broken my heart, but I still had my dignity. What was worse? Her telling people I cheated? Or that she tried to sleep with my best friend and I was too stupid to ever even suspect it? There were probably more than I care to know about who didn’t turn her down.” I stand there speechless. After all this time, he always knew. “I wanted them to know anything but the truth.”
“I’m sorry you had to hear it,” I say sincerely. I always hated that bitch. She was a whore. Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with a girl being a little slutty, since that was the kind I fucked around with, but then you get into the ones that use you. That was what she was. One the entire town knew about, but for some reason, she chose Josh to have a relationship with. He fell for her, hard and fast. I was not going to tell him not to go the relationship route with her. I mean, I’m a prime example. I fell for someone who has changed my life forever. It only took a phone call and seeing her in a bathroom one night to change my mind about what I wanted out of life.
“No worries, she was a mistake. And you learn from mistakes.” Then he starts to laugh.
“What’s so funny?”
He nods, looking down at my shirt. “It looks like you got some,” he teases.
I crinkle my brows somewhat confused. “Huh?”
He points to my shirt. “It’s inside out. It wasn’t that way at the club.” He chuckles again.
I look down and sure enough, it’s inside out. I reach up and pull it over my head before putting it on the right way.
“So the twins didn’t get you in trouble?” he asks with a smirk on his face.
“Oh, they did.” I laugh, recalling her rant in the car on the way home.
“Why do you find that amusing?”
I start to answer, but the girls get our attention as they start to walk toward us with smiles on their faces.
“I’m going to cook pancakes,” Angel states.
“Isn’t it a little late to cook pancakes? Aren’t you tired” I look down at my watch to see it is two thirty.
“It’s now Sunday. We can sleep all day,” Angel tosses at me offhandedly.
We all walk into the kitchen as she starts to whip up some breakfast.
*****
“Okay,” Angel says, getting our attention, “now that it’s only us, I want to know about the bet.”
I take in a deep breath hoping that this does not start another fight between us.
Josh starts shaking his head when Courtney speaks. “Josh had to get his dick pierced,” she says with a smile on her face.
She pats Angel’s back as she starts choking. “What?” she says in a high pitch voice before her eyes land on mine.
“You made him get his dick pierced?” She looks at me accusingly.
I look from Josh then back to her. “Hey, he took the bet.”
“I thought I was going to win.” Josh shrugs. “Slade would have done it if I had won.”
Angel points at me. “You would have had to pierce your dick if he would have slept with them?” she asks, wide-eyed.
I nod. “Yep.” It was not the best bet, but hey, we were drunk and trying to cheer Josh up. It was right after his ex-fiancé had left him. Well, that’s how we had thought it went down. What other way to cheer him up other than sleeping with twins?
“Hmm,” she says as she gives me a small smile. “Interesting.” I have a feeling she is wishing I would have lost. She turns to speak to Courtney. “Anyway, are you going to tell your mom about looking for your dad?”
“No. I’m going to do it on my own. You know she’s a drama queen.”
“All girls are,” I tease, making Josh and I both laugh.
“What?” Angel eyes us both. I just shake my head. “You think I’m a drama queen?” she asks, arching an eyebrow.
“No,” I state immediately before that comment gets me in trouble.
“Well, he did use the words ‘emotionally unstable’ a minute ago.”
I look at Josh in shock. “I can’t believe you just threw me under the bus like that,” I say in disbelief.
“What?” he asks offended. “You did.” He shrugs trying not to smile.
I narrow my eyes at him. “Yeah. In private,” I snap. I look over to Angel ready to plead for my life when she and Courtney start laughing out loud. I shake my head and smile as Josh joins in. I watch the love of my life laughing with her best friend, the same friend that not three hours ago she was yelling at in a parking lot. I realize what I said earlier was wrong. The reason her emotions are everywhere is because she loves with all she has. When she’s mad, you had better run for cover because she is damn sure going to let you have it. But when she’s happy, she will give you one of those breathtaking smiles that convey all is right in the world. My world. And that smile is addictive. You will do anything to see it.
*****
SAMANTHA
I open my eyes in our dark room and lay there silently for a few seconds. Then I hear the noise again that woke me. Since I can’t see a damn thing due to the darkness, I reach over to feel Slade, still sleeping beside me.
“Slade,” I whisper, trying to wake him. When he doesn’t respond I get out of bed. I know we had a chance of storms early this morning, so maybe that’s what I heard. I look over at my phone to see it is almost six in the morning. We have only been asleep for maybe an hour. Courtney and Josh had stayed and visited for quite a while.
I grab Slade’s t-shirt from the foot of the bed and slip it on. I’m going to go get a glass of water from the kitchen.
As I’m walking down the hallway, I hear glass break and someone cuss softly.
I stand there frozen for a few seconds as my heart beats wildly in my chest. I know that was not Slade, as he is still in the bedroom behind me. It sounded like it came from in front of me near the kitchen.
I try looking around quickly, but it’s too dark to see anything. I reach out my right hand and feel a doorknob. Once I realize I’m in front of Slade’s office, I dart in and shut the door quietly behind me. I lean up against it as I try to stop my heart from pounding.
Someone is in our house! What the hell? Shit! I should have tried harder to wake Slade, but I didn’t think there was a burglar in the house!
I slowly turn the lock on the door and run over to his desk, thinking I will use the phone to call the police. My heart sinks when it has no dial tone. This is worse than I thought. This was planned. But the question is what are they planning on doing?
Shit! I have to get back to Slade before they go in our bedroom but I can’t walk back through the hall unarmed.
I open his desk drawer and grab a few pens. I hold one up and then throw them to the floor. What the hell do I plan to do with a pen? Color them to death? I go over to his closet and open it up. I catch sight of a baseball bat and grab it.
I slowly walk back to the door and place my ear to it. I don’t hear anything, so I slowly unlock the door and peek out. It�
�s too dark for me to see anything, but I will feel much safer once I get back to our bedroom. I just need to wake Slade and get to my cell phone.
I step out into the hallway as I hold onto the bat for dear life. As I take a step toward our bedroom, I feel the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Before I can turn around a hand covers my mouth. I try to scream while I try to swing the bat around, but an arm goes around my stomach and pulls me backward.
“Shh. It’s me, Angel,” Slade whispers into my ear.
I relax as he pulls me back into the office.
He releases me and shuts the door once again. “Where in the fuck have you been?” he demands in a quiet voice as soon as the door is closed.
“Really?” I hold up the bat. “You want to have this conversation now? A noise woke me then I tried to wake you.” I squint in the dark trying to make out his face.
“And when I didn’t wake up, you decided to go attack an intruder with a bat?” he snaps.
“No. I didn’t know there was someone in the house. I—”
“We don’t have time for this,” he says turning away from me. “The police are on their way. I need to go and see if someone is still in the house.”
I bite my bottom lip, not wanting him to leave me to check the house. “Please don’t,” I say shakily. I don’t want something to happen to him.
He ignores my plea as he goes over to his closet. He reaches up, grabbing a small black case from the top shelf. He lays it on his desk and unlocks it, pulling out a gun. He releases the clip and checks it before sliding it back in.
I swallow nervously. The fact that he’s carrying a gun makes me even more uncomfortable. I’m not afraid of guns. Hell, I was raised around guns, but I don’t know if he knows how to use one. What if the burglar is still in the house and takes it from him?
He walks toward the door and turns to lock it before he looks up at me. “Don’t fucking leave this room!” he warns before he walks out and closes it.
I stand there staring at the door, praying he will be okay. I wait in the dark silence, listening for a gunshot or for someone to scream. My throat tightens and tears threaten my eyes. What would I do if something happened to him? It would be all my fault.
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