Ink Enduring (Montgomery Ink #5)

by Carrie Ann Ryan

  He growled and licked over the place she’d just touched with her tongue. She shivered in his arms. “You didn’t answer the question. Can I fuck you in the ass?”

  “So polite,” she whispered.

  He smacked her butt, and she let out a groan. “Maya.”

  When she wiggled in his arms, he smacked her again, and she moaned this time. “Yes, you can fuck me in the ass. But first, I want you in my cunt. Actually, the first thing I want is to ride your face. What do you say? Oh, and I want this tongue ring on your cock again. You remember that, Jake? You remember the feel of my mouth around your dick? Because I remember how you taste, and I want it again.”

  Jake crushed his mouth to hers and she was lost, needing his kiss, needing him. When he picked her up, hands under her ass, she wrapped her arms around his neck and her legs around his waist. They both moaned at the position since his very hard cock rested between her thighs now. He carried her to his bedroom, all the while massaging her butt and kissing her like he couldn’t get enough of her. Good, because she couldn’t get enough of him either.

  Border’s face came to mind, and she couldn’t help the shiver that rolled through her. She knew so much about him because of Jake, though she’d just met the man. He was important to Jake, so therefore he would be important to her. They’d figure out what to do about him later, because for now, this was about Jake and her.

  Something that should have happened long ago, and yet had never been right.

  Until now.

  When Jake got them to the edge of his California King bed, he set her down on her feet. Maya made sure to slide down his body nice and slow. She loved the way his eyes darkened as she did it. She loved a lot of things about this man.

  And that was enough thinking along those lines. Because they were just going to have sex and see where it led. No freaking out.

  Sure.

  He kissed her again, cupping her face softly. She ran her nails down his chest before going around to do the same to his back. She’d thought they’d both be naked by now, fucking and getting it on. But this slow burn was so much better than anything she imagined they’d do.

  When he pulled back and tried to catch his breath, she went to her knees in front of him. He tried to pull her up by her shoulders, but she shook her head.

  “Maya, you don’t have to do this. I thought you wanted my mouth on you.”

  She looked up at him even as she worked on the button of his jeans. “I do want your mouth on me, and you will be eating me out next. But I want your dick in my mouth. Got a problem with that?”

  Jake threw back his head and laughed. “Hell, Maya. I love your mouth. On my dick, and when you speak. So if you want to eat me first? Go for it, baby.”

  She tilted her head to the side. “I don’t know if I like being called baby.” She slid her hand into his jeans and pulled out his dick. He groaned when she pumped him once, twice.

  He slid his hand over her cheek and licked his lips. “Why don’t I find something you like?”

  She batted her eyes up at him and licked up the length of him. “Okay.”

  With that, she sucked on the head before swallowing him whole. He let out a grunt, and she rolled her tongue, letting her tongue ring do its magic against him. She couldn’t quite get all of him in, so she wrapped her hand around the base of him, working him there even as she bobbed her head. She liked blowjobs, liked the feel of power that came with them. She liked knowing she would be the one to bring Jake right to the edge with just her mouth and hands alone.

  Jake slid his hand through her hair before wrapping it around his fist. When he looked down at her, she pulled back and let her mouth stay wide.

  “You’re so fucking hot, Maya.” He slid back into her mouth, tapping the back of her throat before pulling back. She didn’t gag, thankfully, and the next time Jake pumped into her, he didn’t go as deep. “I don’t want to hurt you, but I want to fuck your face. How does that sound?”

  In answer, she suctioned her mouth on him and his eyes crossed. Good. He slid out of her mouth again before fucking her like he’d said he wanted to. She kept her hands on his big thighs, her nails digging into his skin. He’d pushed his jeans down to below his knees when she’d first went down on him so it gave her a better grip.

  When he pulled back again, this time taking a full step, she growled. “I wasn’t done yet. You never let me finish.”

  He smiled at her and pulled her up so he could take her mouth with his own. “I’m not as young as I used to be. I want to come inside you, Maya. I’ll come in your mouth another time.”

  She met his gaze. “That’s what you said last time. And yet I still had you.”

  He studied her face before nodding. “That may be, but last time we had to stop because of things out of our control. This time? This time we aren’t stopping. And the next time? Yeah, we’re getting a next time.”

  Maya stayed silent and watched the emotions play on his face. This wasn’t the last time, wasn’t a game. This was something more than best friends hooking up, and yet if she thought about that, she’d break. So for now, it was best friends finding one another.

  Not just for a night.

  It wouldn’t be.

  It couldn’t be.

  When Jake pulled her shirt over her head, she let him do it slowly, let him watch her. He wanted to be in control so bad, she could feel it, and for once, she thought she could let him have that. Maybe not fully, but enough that she could just feel.

  He undid the clasp on her bra, and she pulled on the cups, letting the fabric fall to the floor to the side of them. He quickly undid her pants, and she helped him pull them off. Since she didn’t want to be the only naked one in the room, she tugged on the bottom of his shirt, and he let her pull it over his head. Then he shucked his pants across the room and pushed at her chest gently.

  She let out a small laugh as her ass hit the bed, that quickly became a squeak, then a groan as he lifted her legs so they rested on his shoulders, yanked her ass to the edge of the bed, and licked her cunt.

  She gripped the bed with one hand and tangled her fingers of the other into his hair. He ate like he was starving, like he was a fucking oral master. She couldn’t breathe, couldn’t speak, but she knew despite their joking, Jake Gallagher was the King of Oral.

  He sucked her lower lips into his mouth before letting them go with a pop. Then he licked around her clit, teasing, before sucking the whole damn thing into his mouth and flicking his tongue over her. She shuddered, her body bowing, so freaking close to the edge.

  When he speared her with two fingers, she came on a gasp. Her pussy clenched around him as she came, but he didn’t stop pumping those two fingers in and out of her. Instead, he sped up, keeping his mouth on her clit as he continued to suck. The action let her rise again, and this time when she crashed, her nipples ached something fierce and she couldn’t quite catch her breath.

  “Jake,” she gasped. “I…I can’t breathe.”

  He lifted his head, his mouth wet from her juices. “Did I pass your test?”

  She growled again and reached for him. The damn man refused to budge. Instead, he put his wet fingers to her lips, and she opened for him. The taste of herself on his fingers almost made her come again, and from the look on his face, the damn man knew it.

  “Suck them, baby, suck them like you were sucking my cock.” He growled, his mouth still wet. It wasn’t fair that he was so freaking hot.

  She pulled back and let his fingers slide out of her mouth. “If you don’t fuck me right now, I won’t be responsible for what I do.”

  He grinned again before pulling away. “I need a condom. One sec.” He practically ran to the nightstand, his very impressive cock bouncing against his belly as he did so.

  “You’re looking mighty fine, Gallagher. I need that cock in me. Okay?”

  He smiled wide as he walked back to the edge of the bed, rolling the condom over himself as he did. Very, very talented was her Jake.

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nbsp; She went to push herself up farther on the bed, but he gripped her knees. “What, Gallagher?”

  “I want you like this,” he said, then took her by the ankles and grinned. “Legs on my shoulders while I’m fucking you.” He slowly slid into her and she gasped, her body shaking. “Fucking perfection.”

  When he was seated fully, tears sprang to her eyes. This was Jake. This wasn’t some guy she was seeing, not a dude she’d taken for the night to scratch an itch. This was the man who knew her inside and out. Who brought over pistachio gelato during the first two days of her period because he knew it was the only thing she could keep down because of the pain. Jake was the one who had consoled her after her ex dumped her, and who held her hair back after she’d had too much tequila. He was friends with her family, hung out with them even if she wasn’t in the vicinity. He helped her brothers and sisters figure out their love lives if they needed him.

  He was her everything.

  And he was inside her, his body still, and his eyes on hers.

  No wonder she let the first tear fall.

  “Maya?” he asked, his voice hoarse.

  She couldn’t ruin this with her emotions, but she couldn’t hide them either. Not with Jake. Never with Jake. The only time he hadn’t known what she was feeling was when he’d been hiding himself, and this wasn’t one of those times.

  “You feel…amazing.” She’d whispered it, and he smiled softly at her.

  He leaned forward to take her lips, and she couldn’t help but smile. “I’ve never felt anything as good as being inside you, Maya. This…this is everything.”

  Since her ankles were currently by her ears at the moment, she couldn’t help but laugh. He looked affronted for a moment before smiling with her.

  “You’re very, very, flexible, Montgomery.” He wiggled his eyebrows, and she reached around to grip his thighs.

  “Years of gymnastics and random working out.” She tightened her inner muscles and he sucked in a breath. “Now, fuck me, Jake Gallagher. Fuck me until my tits bounce and I come hard on your cock.”

  He stood up straight at that, pulling her legs with him. “As my lady commands.”

  Maya licked her lips. “I like the sound of that.” She tugged on her nipple rings, and Jake swallowed hard. Since his nipples were pierced, as well, she couldn’t wait to give those a tug also. They’d been so into their kisses, she hadn’t had a chance to fully take her time with his body, but next time? Next time, she’d lick every inch of him.

  When Jake pulled out of her, he kept his gaze on hers before sliding back in. She sucked in a breath, rolling her hips to meet his as he continued to fuck her. Their speed increased as they found their rhythm, and she couldn’t help but want to come at the same time as him.

  When she reached for him, he pushed her farther up on the bed slightly and moved so he was fucking her at the same speed, but instead of him standing off the bed, he was kneeling on the edge and so much closer. He leaned forward, and she tugged on his nipples rings. He let out a hiss but his eyes darkened.

  “You like that?” she asked.

  He reached between them and tugged on one of her nipple rings. At her hiss, he licked his lips. “Yeah, I liked it Maya. I want you to do it again, and again, and again.”

  She raked her nails down his chest, then down his arms, and he lowered himself fully on her, his pace never breaking.

  She hugged him close, rocking her hips as they came closer and closer to the edge. When he reached between them and ran his thumb over her clit, she came, her body bowing. Jake took her lips, and she could feel him fill the condom deep inside her.

  They’d come together, crashing and falling as one in a heated cascade of bliss and promise.

  And when they were both able to breathe again, he tucked her to his side, his cock still buried between her thighs, and they just rested.

  “That was…” Jake began.

  “…everything,” she finished.

  There were no more words, no sense of awkwardness, no promises, no regrets. There couldn’t be right then. Not between her and Jake. And later, when she was alone, she’d deal with what had just happened. Right then, though, this was all she needed. Jake at her side and his scent covering her body.

  He was all she needed.

  And when he went to Border because she wasn’t all he needed, she wouldn’t feel jealous.

  Because she couldn’t, not really. And that fact should have worried her, only it didn’t.

  Everything had changed, and yet all Maya Montgomery knew, was that she’d endure the ride and maybe, just maybe, find the peace she’d always searched for.

  Maya ran a hand over her face and tried not to yawn. She and Jake had been up way too late the night before, though she hadn’t stayed the night. She’d left before Border had gotten home, and while she was glad for it on one hand, on the other she kind of wanted to see him. There had been a connection there, and since he was part of Jake’s past and present, she needed to know him.

  Of course, since she hadn’t gotten much sleep, she should have probably taken a nap that afternoon. Instead, since it was her day off from the shop, she’d done all her errands and tried to get ready for the girls’ night at her house. The fact that their not-so-weekly girls’ night just happened to end up at her house the night after she’d slept with Jake probably meant fate was out to get her.

  There would be no keeping secrets from this lot.

  Of course, she was usually the one prying, but she wasn’t going to look too closely at that detail.

  The doorbell to her two-bedroom apartment rang, and she rolled her shoulders. Time to face the firing squad.

  Meghan and Miranda, her sisters and other halves, stood on the other side of the door, smiles on their faces and laughter in their eyes.

  They pushed past her before Maya could invite them in. “Come in,” she said dryly.

  Meghan waved her off and set the dish she carried on the counter. “You’re lucky we didn’t walk right in like you do,” she said with a smile.

  Miranda sat another dish next to Meghan’s and rolled her eyes. “That’s the truth.” Her sisters went to work getting the two casserole dip things ready for the evening while Maya turned to close the door. She really didn’t know what they’d brought, but it would be fantastic and probably put four pounds on her ass.

  An ass Jake apparently really liked.

  As soon as she closed the door, someone knocked, and she opened it right back up again. Autumn, Griffin’s girlfriend, and Sierra, Austin’s wife, stood on the other side. Maya waved them in, then laughed when Tabby, Hailey, and Callie came in as a group. Tabby worked for Wes and Storm, Hailey owned the café next door to the tattoo shop and was with Sloane, while Callie worked at Montgomery Ink and was with Morgan.

  They were seriously running out of single women in this group. In fact…Maya and Tabby were it, and maybe not even Maya anymore.

  “The gang’s all here,” Maya said dryly. The only person really missing was Holly, and Maya didn’t think she’d be back. Maya had liked the other woman, but talk about awkward now.

  Maya rolled her shoulders and prepared herself for a night of gossip, real talk, and drinking for those who weren’t pregnant or driving home right away. That meant Maya would be the one drinking the most. Yay her, because she needed a drink or seven to figure out what the hell she was doing.

  She hadn’t freaked out that much in bed with Jake, but now she was flipping the fuck out. What was she doing? She’d fucked her best friend. Slept with him. Hooked up. Made love. Maybe not the making love part since that would include feelings she wasn’t afraid to admit she was too frightened to feel.

  And what else had she done? She’d told him to fuck Border, too. And Border had kissed her temple and given her one damn heated look.

  Dear lord, she’d gone and fallen into a teen drama show. Complete with angst and secrets. All she needed was a sassy voiceover telling the world that she wasn’t quite an idiot and had all the powe
r. Or maybe that voice would tell the world she was freaking crazy and didn’t have a clue what to do next.

  Did she call Jake? Did she go over there to see him and Border? Would the two guys be fucking right now? And why didn’t that bother her? Why did she want that?

  “You got laid,” Tabby said firmly.

  Maya blinked. Of all the people she figured would notice that Maya had slept with someone, Tabby was the last person on that list. Tabby ruled Montgomery Inc.. She knew how to organize Wes and Storm, and do it all while looking sexy as hell in high heels and pencil skirts.

  But she wasn’t as loud and crazy as the rest of them. Instead, she circled the edges of the group to the point Maya didn’t know her as well as she knew the others.

  Yet Tabby had seen what the others hadn’t yet.

  “Who did you sleep with?” Miranda asked.

  Tabby winced. “Sorry. I don’t know why I blurted that out like that. I think you Montgomerys are rubbing off on me.”

  Meghan and Miranda toasted her with their sodas while Maya tried to breathe.

  “Was it Jake?” Callie asked, and the room went silent. “What? I know he and Holly aren’t together anymore, and I’ve always thought you and Jake should be together.”

  Maya swallowed. Normally, at this point, when someone asked when she was going to sleep with Jake, she’d laugh and tell them to fuck off. Only this time she couldn’t.

  When she nodded slightly, the girls screamed and threw their hands up in the air.

  “It’s about time!” Meghan called out.

  “I’m so happy for you,” Hailey said.

  Tabby stared at her. “Should we be happy for you?” she whispered. “Are you okay?”

  Maya blinked at the group of women and let out a breath. “No, I’m not okay. I’m freaking out.” But she couldn’t tell them everything. Not when it was all so new, and it wasn’t her secret to tell. “But I can’t talk about it. Not yet. Okay? So let’s drink, eat, and talk about other things. Just know that I’m freaking out, but I need time to do it on my own before I freak out all over you.”