“I can’t let her go.”
Cord pushed his fingers though his hair. “Damn it, Trevor. What do you mean you can’t let her go?”
Trevor started pacing. “I told myself the first time we slept together it was only that one time. Then we ran into each other a week later, and we ended up back at her place and we slept together…again. Then she ended up getting sick and she called me over to her house. We didn’t sleep together that night, but I fucking stayed and took care of her, holding her in my arms and I liked it. I liked it too much. Something about that night changed everything. Holding her like that. It messed with my head.”
Cord sighed. “And that’s a bad thing, Trevor, to feel something for a woman?”
“Yes! It is. I’m not the type of guy who wants to be tied down to one woman. I’m not. I like sex. I like women. Fuck, I’m only twenty-five and just starting my life. I’m not looking for a relationship.”
“Then why do you keep going back to her?” Cord asked.
“I don’t know. She’s got some weird hold over me.”
His hand sliced over his buzzed head again, and the pained expression on his face almost made me feel sorry for him. “She’s constantly on my mind and the only way I can get her out is if I’m with other women.”
“That’s fucking stupid, man,” Cord snapped. “That’s called having feelings for someone. Wanting to be with that person.”
Trevor shrugged. “I can’t.”
“You can’t…or you won’t?” I asked.
His gaze dropped to the floor. The look on Cord’s face told me he was about to drop the news on Trevor. Stepping up to him, I placed my hand on his chest and shook me head.
With me voice low, I said, “It’s not yours to tell.”
Lacing his fingers with mine, Cord pulled me to the door but stopped before opening it.
“Do you know how mom has always said that true love only comes once in a lifetime?”
Trevor’s eyes met Cord’s.
“You’ve got it right in front of your fucking face, but you’re too goddamn scared to see it. I feel sorry for you, Trevor. You don’t even know what you have, dude. And if you aren’t careful, you’ll never get the chance to find out.”
Trevor let out a gruff laugh. “That’s where you’re wrong. I know exactly what I have, Cord. And I’m happy with my life.”
Me heart dropped and me chest ached for Scarlett and for Trevor. And for their unborn baby.
With a shake of his head, Cord let out an exasperated breath before he spoke again. “You keep telling yourself that, bro. Let me know how it works out for you.”
Maebh leaned her body back into mine and traced a pattern on my thigh as she stared up at the stars. We’d made love earlier, and she’d asked me to sit out on the rooftop patio with her. We’d been sitting in silence for the last few minutes, each of us lost in thought.
“I can’t imagine me life without you in it,” she whispered.
My arm wrapped tighter around her. “I feel the same, baby.”
“We’re going to mess up.”
“Yes, we are.”
She tilted her head back and gazed up at me with those beautiful green eyes of hers.
“When we do, we’ll work it out.”
Bending over, I kissed her nose. “Yes, we will.”
“Because what we share is the most amazing thing I’ve ever experienced, and I never want to lose it.”
I let go of her body and turned her to face me. She straddled me, like it was the most natural thing in the world, her arms resting on my shoulders, her fingers playing with my hair.
“Want to do something daring?” she asked with a sexy-as-sin smile.
“Depends. Does it involve my cock in your pussy? Or your mouth on my dick? Or my mouth in between your thighs?”
Her cheeks turned pink. “That mouth of yours, Cord Parker.”
“You like it. Admit it.”
The corner of her mouth rose slightly. “I do like it.”
Squeezing her ass, I said, “Tell me about this game.”
“Okay, so this game does involve sex.”
“I like it already. How do we play?”
She twirled my hair more, and it was relaxing as fuck. “Well, it’s not really a game.”
I faked a pout and she giggled. “Then what is it?”
“It’s more like an adventure of sorts.”
I lifted my brow. “Keep going.”
“I want to have sex out here on the roof. Right now.”
Fuuuck…” I groaned out. “Maebh, I don’t want anyone to see us.”
She smiled. “It’s late and me back will be the only thing facing out.”
“And your ass.”
Chewing on the side of her mouth, she looked sexy as fuck.
“No one is seeing my girl’s ass.”
She giggled, then pressed into me. “Come on, Cord. Let’s be daring. Remember that day on your boat at the lake?”
My cock grew painfully harder. “Fine. Stand up and strip out of your clothes.”
Maebh stood and moved to the side of the lounge chair. I stood on the other side and nearly ripped my damn sweats off. Reaching for my shirt, I pulled it over my head and tossed it onto my pants. Maebh undressed in record time. My eyes scanned over the other rooftops across the square. No one lived between Maebh and me, and both of us owned the corner of each block. We stood there naked on the rooftop in the dark with nothing but the moonlight and stars casting a soft glow.
I sat down on the chair again and motioned for her to crawl on me.
“Did you see anything?” she asked, her cheeks turning a slight pink.
“No, but if someone is watching, they’re fixin’ to get a show.”
She giggled and buried her face into my neck, her sweet, wet pussy pressing against my cock.
“I’m going to come the moment you slide down on me, darlin’. You’ve been warned.”
With a pout, she replied, “Let’s hope not.”
My hands went to her hips where I guided her right over my throbbing cock. We both moaned when she started to move down me.
“Take all of me, baby. Fuck yes,” I hissed.
“Cord,” she panted. “I want to scream or moan, but what if someone hears me?”
“That makes it even hotter, baby. I won’t stop you if you start.” She gave me this sexy-ass smirk that almost had me coming right then and there.
I pinned her hips, not letting her move. “Let me just feel myself inside you, agra.” My eyes closed, and I took in how warm her body was.
“Please,” she whimpered, circling her hips to get friction.
Moving my hands to her ass, I pulled her toward me.
“God, yes,” Maebh hissed out, her head dropping back while she let out a soft moan. Leaning forward, I took a nipple into my mouth and rolled my tongue over it, flicking it a few times before sucking on it hard.
“Cord!” she cried out as she placed her feet onto the ground so she had better control of her up and down movement. Pressing her hands on my chest, she pushed me so I was lying back in the chair. “Oh, Cord, you are so damn deep this way. I swear you haven’t been this deep before.”
“Oh, I have, but damn, you are hitting all the right places. That’s it, baby. Look at me when you fuck me. I want to see you when you come on my cock.”
Her eyes snapped open and our gaze met. “Cord!” she softly moaned, her orgasm hitting her and making her squeeze around me. Her body trembled, and I fucking loved seeing her come undone. I wasn’t going to last much longer.
“Baby,” I whispered, gripping the back of her hips and pumping into her hard and fast.
Her body looked to be building up again. Her eyes glassed over, and she reached up and grabbed her tits, giving them a squeeze while she moaned out my name. That right there was my undoing. I came so fucking hard my body spasmed and I gasped her name.
She collapsed onto my chest, both of us breathing like we’d run a marathon. Sex wit
h this woman was unlike anything I’d ever experienced. There was something about fucking out in public that made this time more exciting. I’d come so damn hard I saw stars.
“Cord, that…was…incredible.”
My arms wrapped around her and I held her to me. Both of us were covered in a slight sheen of sweat. Even with the cooler temperatures, our passion was overwhelming.
“Yeah, it was.”
“I like sex out in public in the middle of the night with the low probability of someone seeing us.”
I laughed.
We laid like that for a few more minutes, neither one of us attempting to move or even get dressed. When Maebh finally pushed up off my chest, she gave me that sweet smile I’d fallen in love with so many months ago.
“Shower?”
With a nod, I lifted her off of me and reached for my shirt. After cleaning myself off, I folded it and handed it to Maebh. I carried her into the house and straight to her shower. Afterward, we made our way to the bed and collapsed onto it. Two more amazing rounds of lovemaking left me exhausted.
Maebh curled into my side, her head resting on my chest as her finger moved around my stomach and back up to my chest, then back down again. I’d never been so completely relaxed in my entire life.
“Do you know the most perfect thing on this Earth?” I asked, sliding my own fingers over her arm.
She tilted her head and looked up at me like she was trying to figure out what I would say.
“What?”
“This love. You, me, our life together. I don’t think I could ask God for anything else and feel this happy.”
Her smile made my chest squeeze, and my stomach drop.
“Maybe a baby someday,” she said.
My face broke into a wide grin as I looked into the eyes of the woman I loved more than the air around me.
Lacing my fingers in hers, I leaned in for a kiss. “Yes, a baby for sure, maybe sooner rather than later. I hear there’s something in the Irish water, so who knows what we’ll bring back with us after the wedding.”
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Trevor
“Why don’t you let me give you a ride home? You’re pretty trashed,” Wade yelled at me.
“Fuck no! It’s Brad’s fucking bachelor party. I’m not leaving until I see him get fucked by the stripper…and I’m not trashed.”
Wade rolled his eyes. “Dude, he’s not fucking a stripper a few days before his wedding.”
“Why not?” I asked as I eyed the blonde. Those seemed to be the type I was going for lately. They had to be blonde, or I couldn’t fuck them. As a matter of fact, I was finding myself having a hard time fucking any woman lately. I hadn’t been with anyone in weeks. Hell…maybe even in a few months.
“I’d fuck her,” I deadpanned.
The stripper looked my way and grinned before she walked toward me. She had wrapped up her little dance and was talking to Brad. She sat right on my lap, her glorious tits all in my face.
“Want to go home with me, baby?” I asked, my mouth against her ear, my hand on her thong-covered ass. She leaned back and winked as she pushed into me. Too bad my dick wasn’t really in the mood.
“Hell yeah. I’m getting lucky tonight,” I said, standing and reaching for her hand.
Wade pulled me to a stop and shook his head. “Damn, Trevor. Are you sure you want to do this?”
“Why wouldn’t I?”
He shrugged and then leaned in closer. “Scarlett?”
I tossed my head back and laughed—even though her name felt like a knife in my chest. I’d tried calling her earlier when I was still sober, I wanted to stop by and talk, but sent me to voicemail. Like she did every time I called her. She’d been avoiding me ever since that day she saw me talking to Traci Stephens, Sierra’s best friend, and the maid of honor in a good friend’s wedding.
We’d all met that day to talk about the destination wedding Brad and Sierra were having. I hadn’t met Traci before and she was flirting with me something fierce. I gave her some harmless flirting back, with no intentions of sleeping with her, and Scarlett had seen it all go down. I knew what it looked like. I also knew I was a motherfucker for the way I had treated Scarlett a month before that. It was the last time we’d slept together, and the only time I’d ever been reckless while having sex.
I vowed to myself I wasn’t going to sleep with her again, but I saw her out running near her house. Watching her sprint up the sidewalk, do a few stretches, and make her way into her house did something to me. There was no way I could stop the attraction I had toward Scarlett. I’d tried to push her away, but she always pulled me back to her. Parking in front of her house, I got out and made my way up the porch. All I wanted to do was talk to her. She’d been so upset with me the night after she admitted her feelings, and I basically told her there could never be anything between us.
I hadn’t been able to sleep the whole night. All I saw was the hurt in her eyes when I told her I could never settle down. That I wasn’t a one-woman kind of guy. She nodded and walked to her front door.
“It’s over, Trevor. I’m not doing this anymore. I need you to leave and not come back.”
Scarlett’s words haunted my thoughts the whole night, keeping me from sleeping.
Stepping up to her door, I knocked. When Scarlett answered, I pulled her into my arms and kissed the living fuck out of her. She didn’t return my kiss right away, but soon we were in her house, clothes being ripped off on the way to her bedroom. We hadn’t fucked that day. We made love. I went slow, and it had never felt so fucking good in my entire life. It was too late before I realized why it felt so damn amazing. We’d gotten so caught up in each other we made love without a condom.
When I realized what I’d done, I freaked and jumped out of the bed. I never even looked back at her after I got dressed and rushed out of her house.
I shook the memory from my head and slapped Wade on the back. “Dude, Scarlett is done with me, and I’m done with her.”
“You’re done with her?” he asked, anger filling his eyes. “Was she a used piece of furniture or something?”
Anger hit my chest and nearly knocked me on my ass. “You know what? Fuck you, dude. You don’t know anything.”
Wade’s hands slipped into his pocket as he looked at the girl to my side. “I know if you leave here with her, you’re going to regret it.”
Forcing myself to smile, I lied. “Yeah, I don’t think so.”
As the blonde and I walked toward my truck, Wade’s words hit me again. “You’re going to regret it.”
The stripper was all over me. Her hand landed on my deflated cock that wasn’t the least bit interested in her as she pushed me against the truck and licked my neck.
“I can’t wait to have your strong arms holding me up while you pound into me,” she said against my lips.
What in the hell am I doing?
I didn’t want this. No, I did want it. I wanted to fuck her brains out; I wanted to fuck someone’s memory out of my own head, but a part of me wanted to push her away. I was so fucking confused, but once I came to my senses, I knew what I needed to do.
I needed this woman away from me right now.
Pulling my mouth away from her, I went to push her away, but before I had the chance, I saw her out of the corner of my eye.
Scarlett.
I pushed the stripper and shouted, “Enough.” When I turned to look at Scarlett, she was walking away. A guy was walking with her, his hand on her lower back, guiding her away from me. He whispered something to her as they kept moving.
“Scarlett? Scarlett! Wait!” I shouted as I made my way toward her. “Please, wait! I wasn’t going to do anything with her.”
The guilt hit me right in the gut because I had let this woman touch and kiss all over me not two seconds ago.
When the guy glanced over hi
s shoulder, I stopped in my tracks.
Eric. The guy from Maebh’s restaurant. He shot me a dirty look and ushered Scarlett into her car and climbed into the driver’s seat. My eyes darted over to her, and she was crying. My legs felt like they were going to give out when I saw exactly how hard she was crying.
“Scarlett!” I screamed, causing her to look up at me and then say something to the bastard in the driver’s seat. He pulled out and did a U-turn on Main. I stood there and watched her car until I could no longer see the red taillights anymore.
Dragging my hands over my face I let out a frustrated groan. “What did I do? What the fuck did I just do?”
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Camilia Cabello – “Never Be the Same”
Shania Twain – “No One Needs to Know”
Blake Shelton – “Why Me?”
Maebh telling Cord she’s a virgin.
Demi Lovato – “Hitchhiker”
Cord and Maebh dancing in kitchen at lake house.
Justin Timberlake – “Filthy”
Justin Bieber – “The Feeling”
Chris Young – “Woke Up Like This”
Miranda Lambert – “Tinman”
Maebh thinking Cord cheated.
Keith Urban – “All For You”
When Cord goes to Ireland after Maebh.
Brooks Jefferson – “To Make You Feel My Love”
Foreigner – “Waiting For a Girl Like You”
Foreigner – “Hot Blooded”
Boston – “More Than a Feeling”
Shania Twain – “Swinging with My Eyes Closed”
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