“You’re going to have to enjoy it while it lasts, because as soon as we get the report back from the Fire Marshall about my apartment, I’ll be moving out. I’m sure you’ll like getting your space and privacy back.” The investigation into the fire was taking longer than I’d thought it would. Every day I asked Coleman for an update because he was acting as a liaison between us, and every day I’d get the same reply of ‘don’t know shit yet’. How long did it take?
Cole was looking unsure as he chewed on his lip and looked down at me. “What’s wrong?” What had I said?
“What about making it permanent?” he asked hesitantly.
“What do you mean? Us?” I was no relationship expert, but I was kind of hoping that he was looking at us as permanent anyway. Had I been wrong?
“That too, but you living here.” I didn’t know what to say back to that. “I know it’s fast, but it isn’t really. And we could look at it as like a see how it goes type thing. You know, take it day by day,” he rambled.
“I’m not good at this,” I whispered. “I’ve never really been in a relationship.”
“Well, I haven’t been in one for years, and the last one I had was with a poisonous viper. So, maybe we can learn together?”
Thinking it over and seeing how hopeful the big dope looked, I decided I was going to live in the moment. “Okay. Day by day.”
I knew from losing Louise that life was too short, and I realized that I’d never actually just lived, and the huge grin that he was sporting now made it all hit home. I was living. And it was with the most beautiful man inside and out that I’d ever met in my life.
Cole
Opening myself up to Ebru like this had been one of the hardest things I’d had to do since the whole Adele incident, but I had been worrying about her finding her a new place to live and moving out since the day that she’d moved in. Having her here felt right.
I’d lost interest in the movie that we’d been watching, and kept my eyes on the most beautiful female I’d ever seen in my life. The position that we were lying in at the moment was distracting to say the least, so I went to shift off of her begrudgingly, but she foiled that plan by wrapping her legs around my waist.
“Cole,” I could hardly hear her saying my name she said it that quietly.
I slowly lowered my head down to hers, giving her time to back out of what was about to happen. What exactly that was I didn’t know, but I was going to let her call the shots on how far we went. When my lips were as close to hers as I could get without it actually being a kiss, she licked her lips grazing mine with her tongue, and that broke my self-control. As soon as my mouth touched hers she opened, and the kiss went from hot to furious in seconds. Our tongues flicked and licked against each other, and then she started to move. I pushed my arms between her back and the couch cushions, hooking my hands around her shoulders and holding her in place. I didn’t want to lose her mouth on mine and couldn’t help grinding my cock into her, swallowing the moan she let out in response. This was without a doubt the hottest moment of my life, and we were fully clothed.
“Cole, take me upstairs,” she groaned as I ground into her again.
Keeping her legs wrapped around my hips, I gathered her into me and lifted up off the couch. She hardly weighed anything, so I walked as quickly as I could up the staircase to the bedroom. Laying her down gently on the bed, I tried to lift off of her, but she tightened her legs not letting me move even an inch.
“Baby,” I shoved my head in her neck. “If you don’t let me go, I’m going to take this further than you’re ready for.”
“How do you know that I’m not ready?”
That got my attention, and I lifted my head out of her neck and looked down at her in shock. Ebru kept her emotions closed off, understandably, so it hadn’t even occurred to me that she would be at the same stage that I was at. I also didn’t want to push her into taking the extra steps that she wasn’t ready for, so I needed to clarify what she meant.
“What exactly are you ready for, Eb?”
“This,” she raised her pelvis and ground into my cock again.
“I need to hear the words, baby,” I said, grinding back down into her and almost seeing stars. If we didn’t stop this, it was going to be over long before it started.
“I want all of you, Cole. Every inch inside me,” she moaned.
Leaning back, I pulled her tank over her head and then moved my attention onto her shorts, removing them as quickly as I had her top. Standing up, I started to get rid of my own clothes that felt like they were strangling me, leaving her lying on the bed in the sexiest bra and panties I’d ever seen.
“Apparently white lace is a weakness of mine,” I said, leaning over her and carefully pulling the panties down her legs. There was no way that I wanted to ruin these and deprive myself of seeing them again.
“Apparently?” she questioned as I threw them over my shoulder.
“I’ve only just made the discovery,” I looked at her breasts and at how the bra created by the Gods made them look. I really didn’t want to take it off, but I needed her bare to me. “You were already one of my favorite things in the world.” Her mouth tightened at being called a ‘thing’, but I was pretty lost on how else I could describe her. “But you in lace? That’s the definition of perfection.” Her face softened as she looked back up at me, making my decision to remove her bra easier. I wanted her wearing nothing, with that expression directed at me.
Reaching beneath her, I unlatched the heavenly contraption and leaned back to pull it down her arms. I wanted to just fall on her, but I also wanted her to know how much this meant to me, and that meant that I had to rein myself in and take it slowly. Reaching back under her, I pushed between her shoulders making the upper part of her spine arch towards me. Making sure that I kept eye contact with her the whole time, I lowered my head, taking one of her perfect nipples into my mouth and sucking. I started off softly and then increased the suction until my cheeks hollowed. Ebru closed her eyes, tipped her head back and let out a long, loud moan. Releasing it from my lips, I flicked it with my tongue before moving over to the other one to do the same thing, as she undulated underneath me.
“Cole, please!” She shoved her hands into my hair and tugged, and I decided now was the time to move and discover the other areas of her.
Kissing down her body, I took the time to sporadically nip and lick to delay my arrival at her pussy, knowing that I needed to get myself under control at the same time. When I couldn't take it anymore, I dragged my tongue down her body, holding her steady with a hand on her hip. When I finally got to her core, I groaned at how wet she was.
“I need you inside me, Cole,” she tugged again on my hair, but I was a man on a mission now.
Gently moving her hands away from my head and holding them down beside her hips, I took the first swipe of my tongue up her center and groaned. I’d never tasted anything like it in my life! Her moans had turned into whimpers now, and I was amazed at how close to the edge she was already.
Licking up and down, I was determined to take my time and to build her up even more. I might be light-hearted to the world, but in bed, I knew what I wanted and was firm about it too. Ebru didn’t know this yet, but she was about to find out.
When she started tugging on my hair again, I lifted my head and looked up at her. “I don’t mind you pulling baby, but if you’re looking to move me away, I will tie your hands to the bed.” Her eyes widened as she saw how serious I was.
Holding her eyes as I lowered my head again, I firmly pressed my tongue against her, before sucking her clit back into my mouth. Her hands fell back onto the bed, and she groaned as she arched her back. I could see that she was close and sucked even harder before pushing my finger inside her. Moving it in and out as I sucked hard pulses around her nub, I waited for her to reach the point of no return before thrusting a second finger in as I sucked as hard as I could. Her scream almost made me smile, but t
he feeling of her pulsing around my fingers snapped what little self-control I had left and smiling was the furthest thing from my mind at that moment.
Quickly withdrawing my fingers, I moved up the bed, placed myself at her entrance and thrust inside her. She was so tight and wet, and her pulsing around me almost had me embarrassing myself. Moving back slightly, I then thrust back in and she let out a whimpering scream as she wrapped her legs tightly around my hips. Waiting for Ebru to get used to my size inside of her was torture, but I didn’t want to hurt her, so I could deal with it. When she started thrusting up at me seconds later, though, I knew that she was coping just fine and started a quick process of retreats and thrusts until all of me was inside her. The feeling of her surrounding me, finally, was heaven, and I had to stop for my own sake this time.
“Please move,” she rasped as she started to kiss from my ear across my jaw. I was desperate for her mouth now, so I lifted my head and turned it quickly, catching her lips just as she was about to say more. Then I was thrusting my tongue inside at the same time as I withdrew and thrust back inside her.
The tightness of her legs around my hips was restricting my movements, and I wanted to be deeper inside of her. I moved my hand down and pushed at her thigh to move it away from me, before propping my arm under her knee to hold it further up her body. Feeling myself hitting that deeper point, I increased my speed and the power behind my thrusts.
There was no warning; three thrusts later, Ebru broke away from my mouth, tilted her head away from me and screamed so loudly that if I’d been paying attention, I would have worried that someone would have heard it and come running in. Feeling her squeezing me as tightly as she was broke my self-control. Lifting up off of her body, I balanced myself on my hands with my arms locked straight and pumped harder and faster than I ever had in my life. She was still pulsing around me when it finally hit me, and growling I came so hard that I swear I saw flashing lights.
I couldn’t stop the gliding of my hips back and forth; it felt too good. With each glide, I could feel her tightening again, until she finally gave a low moan and I felt her climax around me one last time.
My arms and spine unlocked at the same time and I fell down onto her, having the sense to take some of my weight on my arms at the last second. We were both panting into each other’s necks, with tremors still hitting us for a while after it, but once my brain came back online, I realized that I had to be crushing her and went to lift off of her. She made her feelings clear on this by quickly wrapping her legs back around me and squeezing so tightly that I wondered if she’d ever had one of those thigh masters.
Putting my arm under her, I lifted her up and held her to me as I turned us around so that she was now lying on top of me, with my head against the pillows and my arms wrapped around her.
Closing my eyes, I listened to her breathing even out as I thought about how I never thought I would have this. After what Adele had done, I hadn’t been sure that I’d ever be able to trust anyone. Now though? Now I’d found my bliss, and I didn’t want to ever let her go.
Ebru
I woke up feeling a bit disorientated for some reason. Turning to snuggle back into Cole, I was disappointed to feel that his side of the bed was empty. My brain wasn’t at it’s best in the mornings, but I was pretty certain that he’d said he had this weekend off from work. Where was he?
Lifting my head slightly, I looked at the clock on the side table and saw that it was already nine o’clock. I hated mornings. Even after last night and the amount of sleep that I’d had, I hated mornings. Nothing good came from them.
I was just closing my eyes and snuggling back into my pillows when the bathroom door opened, and the worst words anyone could ever say to me were spoken. “Good morning!” I squeezed my eyes shut and started counting to twenty in my head.
I will not kill him, I will not kill him.
Losing the battle against my self-control, I waited until he had gotten closer before jumping up and smacking him as hard as I could with the pillow that I’d grabbed.
“What the fuck Eb? Jesus Christ!” I continued hitting him until he snatched the pillow away and threw it over to the other side of the room.
“Let’s try this again,” he said as he stood glaring at me with his hands on his hips. “Good morning!” He growled as he leaned toward me.
“How do you know it’s a good morning, huh?” I battled back. This was my issue with that stupid ass sentiment. “I mean, for all you know it could be a fucking shitty morning. We could have some sort of weather system take over like in The Day After Tomorrow and all freeze to death before I could burn your shit. A meteor could hit us, and we could go up in a ball of flames. And you would have jinxed it by saying good morning!” Admittedly, I didn’t need to say the last bit in a squeaky sarcastic tone, but I had hated people saying that bullshit phrase for as long as I could remember. It was a hotline to my ass hole, and not in a dirty way.
I stopped my rant and stood glaring at him as he opened and closed his mouth. In the end, he wisely said nothing and just shook his head in disbelief before walking over to the drawer unit and taking out a t-shirt, jockey shorts and a pair of sweats. As he walked back to the bathroom, he stopped and looked at me before saying, “My shit?”
It took me a second to realize what the hell he was asking. “That’s what you got from that?”
“Just so you know, if we’re ever in the situation where we’re about to freeze to death after a huge tidal wave has covered us in water, it’s your shit that’s getting burned first,” he said, and then continued into the bathroom slamming the door behind him, and leaving me wondering what the fuck had just happened.
Wait, he’d thought about this! There was no way… “You asshole!” I yelled, storming over to the bathroom door and finding it locked. “It’s your shit that’s getting burned.”
I heard the faucet turn on as he yelled, “Sorry, what did you say?”
After yelling it at the top of my lungs another three times and getting the same response, I stomped downstairs to put the coffee on. At least I’d made my point, nothing good came from saying the words good morning.
Chapter Ten
Ebru
It was Monday, another pain in my ass and something that I hated. People knew that I had an issue with the words ‘good morning’ on a good day, but say them on a Monday, and you were signing your death sentence. Even my patients knew not to say it to me.
Cole and I had spent the weekend together either in bed, talking or going out for walks around the ranch. I wanted this to work between us so badly and to trust him fully, and I hated that I wasn’t already at the stage that this was the case. The more pressure that I put on myself to do it, the more stressed I felt when I still had that tiny bit of doubt and wariness inside me. I think Cole knew it still existed, but he was such an amazing guy that he’d told me when we were lying in bed last night not to push myself and that it would happen. I hadn’t even said anything to him about it, he just seemed to know. Well, unless he was talking about something else, and then maybe I should feel guilty that I didn’t have a clue what that was, but I was pretty sure that he’d read my mind.
It was lunchtime now, and when I’d gotten to the staff room and looked at my phone, I saw that I had another three missed calls from my parents. They’d been calling for four months now, not every day but most days. I hadn’t heard from them since I’d left home apart from a message here and there, so what they wanted and why they wanted it now I didn’t know. Something didn’t strike me as being right about it.
I was staring at it when the screen lit up in my hand with their number on it. Seeing as how I was alone in the room, I answered it after a couple of rings.
“Ebru Dhyana?” I grimaced as my mother full-named me before I could even say hi. I hated my middle name with a passion. Louise had been lucky; her’s was Dharma. I’d gotten the Pagan term for a Tantric trance, joy for me.
“Mom,” I
couldn’t help the cool tone that I was using, even if I’d wanted to. The hurt that they’d both caused was too much.
“Ebru, your father and I…” she trailed off, and I heard her swallow loudly. “We…we have something we need to tell you, sweetheart.” My back instantly straightened to the point of pain. She never called, sure, but she never shared information with me either. She was also using a tone of voice that sure as shit had never ever been directed at me.
“What is it?” I asked before I could help myself. I hated that I still cared, but I did.
There was a sob, and my Dad’s voice spoke to me. “Can you come home, sweetheart?” He asked.
“What’s wrong? What’s happened?” Did it have something to do with Louise?
“Ebby,” he used Lou’s nickname for me. “We need you to come home. Can you do it?”
I was silent as I thought about it for a bit before replying. “I need to see if I can take time off or rearrange my shifts at the hospital. Let me see what I can do.”
My mother’s sobs became louder, and I heard Dad trying to gently calm her down. “Okay, Ebby. We love you,” he whispered, before ending the call leaving me standing there wondering if I was doing the right thing and also what the fuck was going on.
I needed time to think, and then I’d ask about my shifts.
Cole
Ebru was sitting on the couch staring into space when I walked into the house that night.
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