by Alison Mello
I smile. “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to bring on such heavy conversation. That’s a side of you I don’t know.”
“I know, and someday I’ll fill you in, but not today. This is supposed to be a day of fun.” I nod my agreement and we get in line to go on our first ride. We decide to do the Minion ride first. It was a simulation ride, we had a blast. We felt like we were really on a high speed chase. Slade was laughing so loud I could hear him over all the noise around us. When we step off the ride, his face is full of amusement. I can tell he had fun and it’s great to see. He has so much stress in his life with the constant worry from always taking care of others. It’s nice to see him kick back and have some fun.
A short time later we’ve managed to go on a few more rides. Despite the fact school is still in session here, the park is packed with people and the wait for rides are a good thirty to forty-five minutes per ride. It makes me glad we don’t have to be anywhere later and we can leave when we’re ready. It’s time for us to head over to meet his friend for lunch. Slade pulls out the map and figures out the quickest route to get to the restaurant. We link hands and walk off to find his friend. We both have huge smiles on our faces. “Are you having fun?” He kisses me on the cheek.
“I’m having a blast. Thank you so much.” I’m smiling so hard my cheeks hurt.
We continue walking along when a kid runs from his mother. He’s throwing a tantrum and being a total brat. His mother tries to grab him as Slade tries to step around him but we’re not quick enough. The kid runs right into Slade, slamming his ice cream into Slade’s leg, smearing his jeans. The melting blob falls from his leg and lands on his black boot. It doesn’t matter that it’s in the seventies today, Slade always wears jeans and boots. He sighs. The mother’s eyes go wide. I swear they are going to pop out of her head. “Mister, I’m so sorry. My son is way past due for his nap and is getting out of control.”
Slade gives her a tight smile. “No worries, ma’am.” We step around and go in search of some napkins.
“Lord help me if that was my kid.” He shakes his head.
“Speaking of kids…How do you feel about them? I mean, do you want kids someday?”
“I would love to have kids someday. I’ve always wanted a family, but hadn’t found the right girl. Although I’m quite confident I may have now.” He grabs a stack of napkins from a small vendor cart and steps to the side. He lifts my chin and gently presses his lips to mine. “Did that freak you out?”
“Surprisingly, no.” I give him a small smile.
“Good, we need to meet my friend.” He quickly cleans his pants and then takes my hand as we approach the restaurant.
He tossing the napkins into the trash when we hear his name called out. “Slade, my man.” A tall man with blond hair and hazel eyes approaches us. He has broad shoulders like Slade and is well built. Slade smiles and wraps his friend in a hug. It makes me smile to see them so happy. They slap each other’s backs and then pull apart. “How have you been?” the blond man asks Slade.
“I’m good, man.” Slade takes my hand. “I want you to meet my girlfriend.” He looks at me. “This is Kara.” His eyes are full of love, or maybe it’s lust.
“Hi Kara. I’m Mason.” He sticks his hand out and we shake.
“It’s nice to meet you, Mason.”
“If you weren’t hooked up with my friend, I’d say the pleasure’s all mine.” He wiggles his brows at me.
“All right, Romeo. Let’s go eat.”
“Romeo?” I question.
“Yeah, Mason was quite the ladies’ man while we were serving.”
“Still am.” Mason pats his chest. “I don’t let this stupid thing stop me. I lost my leg, not my dick.” We all laugh as we make our way into the quick serve restaurant he’s chosen.
“What do you do here?” I’m curious to see exactly what they have our veterans doing. I’m hoping he doesn’t tell me he’s on trash detail or something stupid like that.
“I run a few of the rides. It’s a blast and really easy to do.”
“That is pretty freaking cool.” We get in line to grab our food, and as soon as we’re seated, the guys go into stories of their service days. They’re telling me about all the wild and crazy things they did while they were deployed. I discover that Slade was a Staff Sergeant and Mason was a Sergeant First Class. They were in the same unit and very close friends. They regale me with stories of drunken nights and near misses.
“Sounds rough.” I push my tray aside, done with my food.
“It was sometimes.” Slade looks to me. “There were times when it felt like any other day at work.”
“Unfortunately, the rough days outweighed the easy ones.” Mason stands from his seat, impressing me. You’d never know the guy wears a prosthetic leg.
“True story.” Slade stands with him.
“Listen, I have to get back to work, but it was great catching up with you.” He turns to me, “And you, pretty lady, it was nice to meet you. You make sure this meathead treats you right. If he doesn’t, come see me and I’ll take over.” He wiggles his brows, causing me to giggle.
“Lay off my lady. You know damn well I’ll treat her like a queen.”
Mason smiles at Slade and pulls him in for a hug. “Let’s get together soon, huh?”
“You got it, man.” Slade takes my hand and we walk out of the restaurant to enjoy the remainder of our day.
Three hours of rides later and I’m getting tired. There are cranky kids everywhere and I just want to go home. It’s been a blast, but I want to have dinner with my man and make love to him before we fall asleep. We both have a busy day tomorrow. We walk off the Tour ride and Slade asks, “What next?”
I shrug my shoulders. “I think I’ve had enough. I’m ready to go when you are.”
“All right. We need to do one last thing and we can go.”
“What’s that?” I question with my brows furrowed. What could he want to do? We’ve gone on a ton of rides.
“We need to pick up our pictures.” His voice is full of laughter.
“I totally forgot about that.” I link my arm through his and we go in search of the booth where they have all the pictures you took for the day. He scans our photo card and a minute later our images pop up. We find a couple that we like and will make nice memories for us and we ask the lady to print them out. One of them is of us standing in front of the Harry Potter castle. A photographer stopped us and asked if we wanted our picture taken and of course we agreed. The lady hands me our pictures while Slade pays for them. She thanks us and tells us to have a great day. “This has been so much fun. Thank you for coming up with this idea.”
“You’re welcome. Do you want to get something to eat or head home?”
“I would like to head home so I can enjoy a private ride.” I look into his eyes and purposely bite my lip.
“I like the way you think. We’ll order take out.” He presses his lips to mine and we make our way home.
***
Slade
This has been such an amazing day. I got to see my friend and some spend some good quality time with my girl. We had so many laughs. We enjoyed the rides, we people watched, and we played with other people’s kids while waiting in line. I wore ice cream. I internally roll my eyes. I can’t wait to take these jeans off, and not just because I’m about to make love to my girl, but because they are sticky and smell of sweet ice cream. When we pull up to my house, we both climb out of the car, tired and hungry. “What do you want to eat?” I close the door, locking it behind us.
She shrugs her shoulders. “I’m not really hungry for food right now.” She walks over to me, batting her lashes.
“Oh really. Then what are you hungry for?” I’ll play along.
She glides her fingernails down my chest to the top of my jeans. She lingers there a second then slips it lower, rubbing her hand over my semi-hard cock. This woman does things to me. She licks her lips slowly. “I’m hungry for this.” She squeezes
it and instantly my cock is hard as a rock. I grab her hand and pull her toward my room and into the bathroom.
I start the shower and then practically rip her clothes off. “I need to wash the grime from the day away and then you can ride me all night long.” I pull my shirt off over my head, toss my boots the side, and slip my dirty jeans off. She’s already in the shower washing her hair. She’s not fooling around…she wants me and she wants me now. I climb in with her, and as soon as I do, she has my body wash in her hand. She rubs some between her delicate fingers and begins massaging my body. She starts at my shoulders, rubs her soapy hands over my chest, down my abs, and then over my throbbing cock. She’s working it, with gentle squeezes before she begins massaging my balls. My eyes roll back as I look to the sky. Holy fuck that feels good. She steps to the side, letting the water rinse away the soap from my cock, but her hands never leave my body. God, I swear I’m going to blow my load any second now. She stops, and when I open my eyes, she’s down on her knees in front of me. She looks up at me through hooded lashes and wraps her warm, wet mouth around my cock. I instantly hiss.
She pulls away, licking up my full length. “Fuck my mouth.” She’s looking up at me in a seductive glare. Her eyes are closed as she enjoys rolling her tongue over the head of my cock. I slip my fingers into her hair, tugging it gently, forcing her to look up at me. She licks her lips one more time, telling me exactly what she wants.
“Are you ready?”
“Yes.” She opens her mouth wide, waiting for me to feed her my cock. I don’t disappoint. Loosening my hold on her hair, she instantly sucks my cock back into her mouth. My hips begin to thrust in rhythm with her. I can feel my cock reaching the back of her throat, she’s swallowing each time it does. Fuck me that feels amazing.
“Holy fuck, baby, I’m going to come.”
“Mmmm,” she hums around my cock, sending me over the edge. I bury myself at the back of her throat and she continues swallowing me down until she has every last drop. No sooner is her mouth off my cock I slam her against the wall, my mouth crashes down on hers, kissing her hard. I force my tongue into her mouth, tasting my seed as our tongues collide.
“You’re amazing.” I press my forehead to hers. She’s panting and her beautiful lips are slightly swollen.
“I need to feel you inside me,” she pants.
“Not before I taste you.” I shut the shower water off, wrap her in a towel, and grab one for myself. We’re both only half dry when I pick her up and carry her into the bedroom, slipping her down my body. I climb onto the bed, lying in the middle. She looks at me, a bit confused. “Sit on my face.” Her eyes go wide. “I won’t ask again.” She climbs on top of me and I can see she’s nervous. She grabs my headboard and I pull her down so her sweet pussy is on me. I devour her, switching between sucking her clit and fucking her with my tongue. Her hips grind against my face. I grab her ass, spreading her cheeks and playing with her tight virgin hole as I do. I can feel her tightening up as her orgasm takes over her body.
“Shit, Slade. I’m coming.” Her legs tighten around my face, trying to hold me still while she rides out her orgasm.
When I’ve had enough, I lift her off of me. She leans over, grabbing a condom from the nightstand. She rolls it onto my cock and slowly slips my cock inside of her. She places her hands on my chest and rides me. I know she’s trying to take her time, but I want more and I want deeper. I grab her hips, slamming her down on my cock. Her head rolls back and her eyes close, her beautiful tits bouncing. God she feels so good and she looks gorgeous. She bites her lip as she slips her hands behind her, planting them on my thighs to change the angle slightly.
I’m trying to give her some sense of control tonight, but I’m losing it. Before she even realizes what’s happening, I flip her over, biting, sucking, and licking my way down to her hardened nipples. I suck one into my mouth, nibbling on it slightly. She hisses and arches her back, feeding me more.
“Slade, please give me your cock.” She’s grinding her pussy against me. I slip my cock back inside her and begin to piston my hips, giving it to her good and deep. She’s panting and moaning as I grab one of her legs and pin it to her chest. “Fuck,” she screams out as her pussy clamps down on my cock. “I’m coming, Slade.”
“Yes, I can feel it, baby.” I plant myself balls deep inside her and empty my seed into the condom. I fucking hate these things, but we’re not ready for bareback yet, although we’ll be discussing that soon. Her eyes open and she has a huge smile on her face.
“That was the perfect ending to an amazing day. I had so much fun with you today.” A smile spreads across my face as I draw circles across her bare skin.
“Thank you for a great day. I had a lot of fun, and it was really nice meeting your friend.”
“He’s a great guy. We watched each other’s backs a lot, and now I still try to watch out for him the best I can. He does pretty well for himself, considering his situation.”
A smile spreads across her lips. “We should have him over for dinner sometime.”
“One of the things I adore about you. No matter what your situation, you are always worried and thinking about others. You amaze me.” I rub my nose on hers.
She lifts her head, pressing her lips to mine. Our kiss deepens and my cock hardens. Looks like it’s time for round two.
Chapter 11
Kara
I spent the day cleaning up while Slade’s at work. I cleaned his bathroom, dusted his furniture, vacuumed his floors, and did some laundry. I only have so many outfits here, so I have to keep cleaning them or run to my house for more. I went out to the store to get some frames for the pictures we had taken at the park, and set them up in the living room. Slade has very few pictures up, and the ones he has are of his mom. She was a beautiful woman. I got to get a closer look at them for the first time today while I was dusting. Slade is a male version of her. They have the same hair color, eyes, and even their nose is similar. I can’t help but smile as I place the frames back on the shelf he has set up on.
When I’m satisfied with the cleaning, I jump into the shower to get ready for work. Since, it’s not singles night, I can wear whatever I want. I throw on a pair of shredded shorts and a cute tank top. I curl my hair to perfection, pinning a few pieces back out of my face. I know I’m going to get hot and end up putting it up anyway. I check my watch, Slade will be home shortly to make us dinner before I have to leave. He put a turkey meatloaf together this morning and asked me to put it in the oven for him. I got some music going and then wandered into the kitchen to preheat the oven. Slade is so cute, he left me a note with directions. It includes the temp of the oven, what time I should start it, and that the oven will beep when it’s at the correct temp. I wish I could cook, I’ve tried. My mom has tried so hard to teach me, but I just manage to burn it or it tastes horrible. The oven beeps, I grab the meatloaf, and slip it into the oven. I start dancing around the kitchen to Usher when I hear the door open.
Slade walks in wearing black slacks and a gray button-down shirt. He looks hot. “Hey, sexy.” I grab his shirt and pull him toward me. I reach up on my tiptoes to press my lips to his. “Meeting today?” I question.
“Yeah, Zane and I had a meeting with a client. I have another one Monday to help a company secure their building.”
He has a look of concern on his face. “What is it?”
“I have to be at work early on Monday. The owner needs to go through the building with me first thing in the morning. That means I won’t be here to take you to the gym.”
“Slade, don’t stress it. I’ll be fine. If you want, I’ll even call one of the guys to meet me in the lot and walk me in.” I can see he’s internally struggling with this.
He shakes his head. “I guess that’s going to have to do for now. Things have been quiet, let’s hope it stays that way. Do me a favor and text me once you’re inside.”
“You got it.” I give him a sexy smile, hoping to settle him down a bit.
&n
bsp; “Thanks for starting dinner. I’m going to change and I’ll come finish it off.” I follow him to the bedroom, lean against the door, and watch him strip. He is so deep in thought he doesn’t even realize I’m there. I walk into the bathroom to throw on some makeup. When I finish, he’s in the kitchen making potatoes and steamed asparagus. I love asparagus and he knows it. We’ve had many conversations about the vegetables we both like and don’t like. I’m happy that we’re pretty much on the same page as far as that goes. There are a few things I promised him I would try like Brussels sprouts. He says he makes them really good, but I never really liked them.
Once we’re done cleaning up from dinner, Slade drives me to Thrive. He walks me in to make sure I’m safe, and then takes off after kissing me goodbye. He’s coming back a little before closing to hang out for our last drink of the night and we’ll go home together.
“Hey, girl,” Shawna greets me.
“Hey, Shawna. Do you know who I’m working the bar with tonight?”
“No, Kelly requested the night off.”
“You’re working it with me.” Dillon walks in the employee room.
“Oh cool.” I can’t help but smile as Shawna gushes over him. They’re both single and Shawna has a huge crush on him, but she won’t say anything.
“I thought so. I hear you kick ass behind the bar.” He smiles.
I laugh. “I don’t know about all that. I’ll definitely bust my ass.”
He laughs. “Let’s go see what we have to do to set up the bar.” The two of us walk out and Shawna stays frozen in her place.
“Let’s go, Shawna.” I hear her sigh and she runs up behind us.
Shane is at the first bar when we get out there. “Hey, sis. You and Dillon are on bar one tonight.”
I nod my head and hug my brother-in-law. I jump in, checking the bottles, while he and Dillon talk. I can hear him telling Dillon he better keep an eye on me where Noah’s concerned. Part of me wants them to blacklist him, but they haven’t, and they really have no reason to other than it would make my life less stressful.