There was a slight pause before Alicia answered. “Yes, but what if I get pregnant?”
The thought of Alicia being pregnant with his child kicked his masculine ego into over drive. He wouldn’t care at all if tonight made Alicia pregnant. Hell, the more he thought about it, the more he wanted to make it come true.
“Alicia, if you got pregnant it would make me the happiest man in the world,” Brad admitted. “Can I continue?” He waited as his heart pounded in the middle of his chest.
She held his gaze for a fraction of a second before she slowly nodded her head giving him her complete trust.
Mine. The word suddenly appeared in his mind and it never meant more to him than at this moment.
Sliding his hands through her hair, Brad lowered his mouth recapturing Alicia’s soft lips with his as he thrust in. Her body flinched as his cock entered her for the first time.
Brad stopped moving as the reality hit him. He couldn’t believe it. Alicia was a virgin. She hadn’t slept with Max. Alicia was truly his woman. She had saved this special gift for him.
Her nails cut into his shoulders as her body got used to having him buried deep inside of it. “Oh,” she moaned as he pushed it a little deeper. “It hurts.”
“Shhh...it will be okay, sweetheart.” Brad whispered, softly. He didn’t want to move too fast with Alicia..
He held steady within her, struggling for control not to pound into her because her warm, wetness was gripping him like a glove. She shuddered as her body tightened even more around his throbbing cock.
Leaning up on his elbows, Brad moved his hand out of her hair and pushed a silky black strand away from her creamy brown skin. He loved the color contrast between the whiteness of his skin and the perfect brown of hers.
Brad searched Alicia’s face for any signs of discomfort or lingering pain, but the only thing he saw there was desire and wonder. The look called to him making him want to stroke it and feed its need.
“Are you okay?” Please let her be ready for me to continue.
“No,” she answered.
He frowned. “What’s wrong?”
“I want you to stop talking and make love to me. Don’t you want the same thing or am I wrong?”
Brad spread Alicia’s thighs further apart and pressed his chest against her. He could see the desire lurking in her sexy bedroom eyes.
“I’m a hungry man. Are you sure you’re ready for me?”
Alicia nodded slowly.
Sliding out of her, Brad pushed back into her gently loving how her wetness slid over his cock. He felt like beating his chest and screaming at the top of his lungs like he was Tarzan because he was finally claiming Alicia as his.
His cock was so hard and it was getting even harder the more time he spent inside of Alicia. She was his addiction and he wasn’t looking for a cure. He loved how she made him feel.
If he slammed into her the way he wanted, he would hurt her and the last thing he wanted to do was hurt Alicia. She meant the world to him. Every thrust and moan that came from her captured a piece of his heart making him fall more in love with her.
Brad could tell that she was close to coming from the way her breathing changed and how her hands gripped his hips. He pulled her closer to his body as he could and sped up his thrusts until she screamed her release bucking and crying against him, but he still wanted more. He had to hear her soft voice screaming his name.
“Who am I?” Brad demanded as he continued to thrust into her welcoming heat.
“Brad,” Alicia cried out as her nails scratched his back.
Getting totally lost in the sheer pleasure of being with Alicia instead of it being a dream, Brad captured both of Alicia’s wrists in one hand and yanked them above her head. With his other hand, he wrapped her left leg higher on his waist and continued with his thrusts.
Right before his release took over Brad looked down into Alicia’s beautiful face with her eyes closed, top teeth nibbling at her bottom lip and he knew that he’d never be able to let her go. His cries echoed through her bedroom as his orgasm raked through his body.
Chapter Twenty-Two
Alicia relaxed against Brad beneath the covers as his fingers played with the skin above her navel. She couldn’t believe that she’d finally made love to Brad and it had turned out to be the best night of her life. She was so glad that she hadn’t given into Max any of that time he had tried to get her into bed just for sex.
Brad was on a totally different level than Max. Brad was loving, giving and understanding. He knew how to rise above any situation to see it with objectivity. It showed her there wasn’t a selfish bone in his handsome body. He was the kind of man that wanted to help a person to empower himself and transform into a better person.
“Sweetheart, what are you thinking about? You’re so quiet. Are you regretting what happened between us tonight? Was I too rough with you?”
She heard the concern in Brad’s deep voice and it touched her. It was just like him to be worried about her well-being instead of his.
“No, I was thinking about how perfect tonight turned out to be,” she answered honestly. “I never thought I could be with a man so completely.”
Turning her body on the bed, Alicia faced Brad running the tips of her fingers over his lips. She smiled when he nibbled at him. “I want to thank you for not giving up on me all of those times I pushed you away because I didn’t know any better.”
Brad grabbed her wandering hand and laid it against his chest and heart. Alicia felt the steady beat and its movements relaxed her. “I wasn’t about to give up on you or let you go because I welcomed the challenge of a good mystery.”
Alicia smiled at Brad’s description of her. “So, you considered me a mystery?” Alicia asked, grinning at the man she was in love with.
“Yes, the best kind.”
“What kind is that, Mr. Drace?”
“The kind of mystery a reader isn’t able to guess the ending after reading only the first five chapters. You kept me working to know about you,” Brad said. “I like that quality about you.”
“I’m glad that you did,” Alicia replied and then yawned. She couldn’t believe how tired she was.
Rolling over on his back, Brad pressed her head against his chest. “Why don’t you go to sleep? I can tell you’re struggling to stay awake.”
“No, I want to talk to you some more. There are some things I want to tell you.” Alicia didn’t want to go to sleep without telling Brad that she was in love with him.
“Darling, whatever it is can wait until you wake up. Now do as I ask and go to sleep. Nothing is going to change while you’re asleep for a few hours.”
Alicia opened her mouth to argue and then she shut up. Brad was right, she was tired and her love for him wasn’t going to change if she took a quick nap.
“Okay, I’ll go to sleep,” she said, snuggling closer. “You better still be here when I wake up.”
“I wouldn’t think about being anywhere else,” Brad answered, kissing her on the forehead before her eyes drifted closed.
****
Brad’s eyes wandered over the woman sleeping so peacefully next to him in the king size bed. He didn’t want to move around too much and wake Alicia up. She had to be the most beautiful woman that he had ever encountered in his life.
Her thick black hair stopped a few inches above her shoulders now and he liked her new haircut. It added a hint of sexiness to her, something that he found very tempting
It fit in perfectly with her cute nose and black eyebrows that were arched over a pair of brown eyes that could seduce him into doing anything when she looked at him.
When he was growing up he never thought about the woman that he would fall in love with, but he knew Alicia was his soul mate. The woman he would raise beautiful and healthy babies with. He didn’t care that Alicia was African American. All he cared about was that he could never love another woman but her and hopefully after tonight she felt the same way about him.
For years, he had to get past what the women truly wanted from him? Was it the notoriety that his name and money brought? What could they give him besides an attractive arm piece and maybe a quick hot night in their bed?
Most of them never passed his test of wanting to spend time alone instead of going out to a fancy restaurant every night. He wasn’t that kind of guy. Sure, he didn’t mind spending time alone with his female companion, but he wanted more than that.
Alicia, despite all of her protests, showed him that she could be trusted, thoughtful about his feelings when she wasn’t running scared and could give him space even when he didn’t want it half the time.
Truthfully, he never had a chance to even think about falling in love with another woman after the strong sexual vibe between him and Alicia. She’d captured his attention and held it in the palm of her tiny hand ever since.
The emotional connection created a powerful intriguing stimulation that made him realize how he had found something very rare and special in Alicia. She made him so hungry to find out what made her tick. Alicia gave him the unique impression that something about her personality could enrich his life ultimately making it better and he was right.
Alicia was giving him enough courage to tell Lee that he was quitting the firm to open up his own tennis school. He loved tennis. It was a part of him like breathing. He might even call it a passion and he wanted to pass his love on to other people and children. He knew his brothers might be stunned and try to talk him out of it, but they wouldn’t. His mind was made up and he was very pleased with his decision.
Brad saw and heard how Alicia loved talking about the complexity of her job and he wanted to have the same completeness when it came to his job. He doubted that Alicia even knew he saw or paid attention to these things when it came to her but he was intrigued by everything that was Alicia.
Complexity was another quality which had drawn him to the sleeping woman next to him. She seldom told him that things were fine. She had a fire in her eyes that came out at all the right times. He would be turned off by Alicia if he couldn’t thrive in a good old-fashion argument with her.
No matter what, passion was a huge part of Alicia’s personality. She let him in on what she aspired to be, but without coming off as needy for it. It was almost like she was allowing him to recite her dream with her.
Smiling down at Alicia, he touched the beauty mole on her cheek with his thumb. Love tugged at his heart because he was always going to remember this tender moment that he shared with her.
It would be something special that he kept with him even after the both of them had been married for years. Alicia was his one true love and nothing was going to stop him from spending the rest of his life with her.
Chapter Twenty-Three
The feel of soft lips kissing his face woke Brad up early the next morning. Opening his eyes, he found Alicia sitting on the side of his bed wearing a pair of jeans, a green t-shirt and her adorable glasses perched on top of her cute nose.
How did she get out of bed and get dressed without waking him? Was he really that tired?
“What are you doing up so early?” he asked, pulling her soft body on top of his. “I thought we could make love one more time before I left this morning.”
Alicia kissed him on the mouth and then rolled off his body to sit back on the edge of the bed. “I can’t. As much as I would love to I’ve plans this morning. My sister will be here shortly with breakfast and then I’m off to Zack and Traci’s to start the ground work on their interviews.”
Brad tried not to be disappointed, but he was. “I had plans for us today too, baby.”
Taking her hand, Brad slid it underneath the cover and wrapped it around his cock. “He wanted a little love this morning. Can’t you play for at least twenty minutes? I hate to make it so quick, but I can if we don’t have that much time.”
Alicia gave him a slight squeeze and then brushed her thumb over the tip. Brad could sense Alicia was weakening. He only had to work his magic a little more.
“Please baby. Do you want me to be like this all day? I will be because all I’ll be thinking about is how I missed out on making love to you this morning.”
“Thirty minutes,” Alicia agreed as she let go of his erection.
Flipping Alicia back on the bed, Brad quickly took off her shirt and worked on the button of her jeans as he lowered his head for a kiss. “No more than forty-five minutes,” Brad swore right before he kissed Alicia.
****
Forty minutes later, Alicia was pulling her t–shirt down over her jeans as she hurried towards the bedroom door before Brad grabbed her and yanked her against his naked chest.
“Tell Chloe I said hi,” he whispered against her mouth as the doorbell rang followed by a loud knock at the front door.
“Get in the shower and then put your clothes back on that gorgeous body of yours,” Alicia said, shoving Brad away from her and rushing out of the room.
“I’m coming,” she yelled as she raced towards the stairs.
She rushed down them and brushed her hair down and straightened her clothes. Alicia took a deep calming breath and then opened the door smiling at her sister who was frowning at her holding a large brown paper sack in her hand.
“What were you doing?” Chloe came inside the house, her eyes raking over Alicia from head to toe. “I was outside for almost five minutes.”
“Oh, I was upstairs. I didn’t hear the doorbell at first,” Alicia answered quickly slamming the door closed.
Chloe gave her another searching look before heading into the kitchen and placing the bag on the island. “Well, I’m glad you finally came because I was worried about the food getting cold on us.” Her sister removed a white container of food out of the bag along with a drink. It smelled delicious. “Go sit at the table while I get mine.”
Alicia took the food from her sister, moved over to the table and took a seat. She took a sip of her drink which turned out to be orange juice. Minutes later, Chloe joined her and flipped open her container.
Alicia opened hers and her eyes grew wide at the sausage, eggs, two biscuits and four strips of bacon piled there in front of her. God, she hoped that Chloe didn’t think she would be able to eat all of this food.
“Why in the world did you get me so much to eat?” she complained as she waved her hand over the mound of breakfast food. She was usually a coffee girl for breakfast with a donut tossed in on a rare occasion.
“Oh, it’s not that much and you’ll burn it off with the way you move around,” Chloe said before eating a fork full of scrambled eggs.
“You might be able to work it off that easily, but I won’t.” Alicia looked at her tall, model thin sister. Chloe had the perfect body that never seemed to gain an ounce of fat on it.
Shaking her head, she picked up a biscuit, tore it open and placed a sausage on it then took a bite. She tried not to moan at how good the food tasted. This was the main reason she stayed away from breakfast food, it was her one weakness. Grabbing her orange juice, she took a sip and then placed it back on the table.
“Are you going to tell me the real reason you came for a visit?” Alicia knew her sister and Chloe never did anything without a damn good reason behind it.
“I missed my kid sister and wanted to catch up with her.” Chloe took a bite of her biscuit, followed by a bite of bacon.
Alicia ate some more of her food while she stared at Chloe. No, her sister wasn’t being completely truthful with her. There was something up and she would get down to the bottom of it.
“Don’t believe you. Try again.”
Chloe picked up her orange juice and took a long sip. “How about you tel
l me about you and that handsome boyfriend of yours? How serious is it? Did you have fun with him at dinner last night?”
Alicia was thinking for an answer to pacify her sister when Chloe’s eyes got round as saucers as she glanced over her shoulder. Before she could turn around a soft kiss was placed on the back of her neck.
“Good morning, gorgeous,” Brad whispered against her skin. “Sorry, I took so long in the shower. I wish you’d been there.”
She felt her face grow warm as Chloe took another sip of her orange juice, but didn’t say a word. God, she was going to get it after Brad left. Why did he have to do this to her?
“Hmmm...I was wondering if you were still here,” Alicia answered as she got up from her chair and faced Brad. She swallowed down a moan at how good he looked with his dark hair still damp and his suit jacket folded over his arm. He could have been a model on any runway.
“You know I wouldn’t leave without telling you goodbye,” he said, reaching around her grabbing a piece of bacon and biting down on it. “God, this is so good.”
Alicia grabbed the container off the table, closed it up and gave it to Brad. “Here you can have the rest. I won’t eat anymore of it.” She had to get Brad out of here before Chloe teased him or worse, her.
“Are you sure?” Brad asked taking the food from her. “I don’t want you missing out on the most important meal of the day because of me.”
“No, I’m sure. I’ll be okay.”
“Thank you, baby,” he said then kissed her again making her body melt against his.
The sound of her sister clearing her throat broke them apart. Alicia’s eyes caught Chloe’s and her sister had a huge smile on her face that spread from ear to ear.
“Brad, I better tell you good morning now before my sister kisses all of the breath from your body,” Chloe teased.
“Good morning, Chloe,” Brad replied, wrapping his arm around Alicia’s waist. “I might be the guilty party instead of your sister. I can’t help it, but I love kissing her. It happens when you’re in love with someone.”
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