“I believe I have excellent instincts and mine are telling me there’s something going on between you and my sister.” She threaded her fingers through her hair, bringing it over one shoulder, licking the curve of her bottom lip.
Merf chuckled. He wasn’t an expert when it came to women, but he sure as hell knew when a woman was flirting, and the hair flipping and big smile certainly were on that list. “Josie, with all due respect, that’s none of your business.” He placed his glass aside and grabbed his hammer.
“No?” She cooed. “I think it’s my business, considering…”
“Considering what?” He didn’t even bring his gaze up to look at her.
“Have you forgotten? It certainly left a lasting impression for me.”
He then looked at her and she drew her bottom lip between her teeth. “That was a long time ago,” he growled.
“Oh, maybe, but I don’t see Jayde thinking that it was long enough,” she winked.
“You’re making it out to be more than it was. We kissed and that was all. It was a mistake.”
“Is it a mistake because you’re with my sister now?”
“It’s a mistake because we were both drunk and it has nothing to do with what Jayde and I share now.”
“Ah, so there is something going on between you two.” Her victory smile made his gut clench.
Shit! He’d walked right into that web, but did he really care? He wasn’t ashamed of what he and Jayde shared. In fact, he didn’t care if the whole damned world got the news. “Josie, where are you headed with this?”
She twirled a piece of her hair around her finger, keeping her eyes connected to his. “She’s my sister. I care for her and her wellbeing.”
He laughed. “Yeah, I believe that about as much as the sky is turning green. We both know you could care less about her feelings.”
He saw a sliver of hurt pass over her expression before it turned deceitful again. “I care. She’d want to know.”
“No, you want to rub salt into her wounds. Like you always do. You think she didn’t tell me about you and Ace? You’re jealous of her and you work every angle you possibly can to hurt her or bring her down. Well, let me warn you, the buck stops here. If you think she needs to know, then let’s go in there now and tell her that a long time ago, you and I shared a kiss. Otherwise, take a step back because you won’t use me as leverage to hurt her.”
“Oh, look at you. Acting like a hero and all.”
“No, I’m not acting like a hero. I’m telling you that you should quit using your pussy to gain control over your issues. Seek therapy. Less chance of catching something.”
She blinked and stood straight. Her mouth twisted. “Fuck you, Merf. She doesn’t need me to remind her that you’ve dipped your wick into every pond this side of Texas. She’s too good for you and you know it.”
“That’s where you might be right for the first time. She’s better than both of us, but I care for her and I’m willing to show her. If you care for her, as you say you do, you’ll want her to be happy.”
7
JOSIE WAS NEVER going to fall asleep, at least that’s what Jayde suspected.
But finally, sometime after one A.M.., she heard her sister’s heavy breathing and knew she’d drifted asleep.
Pushing away the cover, Jayde slid from bed and quietly made her way down the hall and to the closed door of Merf’s bedroom. She slipped in and peered into the shadows. He was snoring lightly. She hesitated at the door…waiting, but he was sound asleep. He’d gotten tired of waiting too.
With slumped shoulders, she turned and started down the hall when a strong arm snaked around her waist and dragged her against a warm, hard frame. A squeak skidded from her lips, but a hand came up to cover her mouth. “Where do you think you’re going?” Merf whispered next to her ear, sending tingles through her.
He removed his hand and she swiveled. “You were asleep.”
“But you should have woken me.” Effortlessly, he lifted her into his arms like a china doll. Sinking against him, she wrapped an arm around his neck and snuggled closer, loving how he smelled and felt. He was shirtless, making cuddling even better.
“I’m glad you caught me,” she murmured.
He stepped into the bedroom and closed the door. “I was hoping you didn’t have second thoughts.”
“Josie wanted to hash out all of our differences in one night. I didn’t think she’d ever doze off. I don’t know what’s gotten into her, but she really seems like she wants things to change between us.”
He nuzzled her neck, then kissed the tip of her nose. “Thank goodness she finally did. I fell asleep fantasizing about you.”
“Mm.” She rolled the tip of her finger around his flat nipple. “You’ll have to fill me in.”
“Fill you is exactly what I plan to do.”
She chuckled. “I’m so glad you suggested we do this.” He dumped her on the bed and she bounced.
“I was about to suggest that we forget Josie and just act like she wasn’t here. After all, you and I are adults. We don’t need anyone’s approval.”
Tugging down her short nightgown, mostly because it was tightly wound around her waist as opposed to hiding herself from his view, she shrugged. “I don’t need her approval. It’s more like, well…”
“Come on, sweetheart. Spit it out.”
Straightening her back, she moistened her lips. “Josie has always had a way of throwing rocks into spokes, if you know what I mean.”
“Explain.” He dropped to the bed and stretched out beside her.
“She finds it a challenge to steal away every man I’ve ever been interested in.” It humiliated her to say the words aloud.
“You need to be with a man who you trust and will not fall for her evil ways.” He speared a piece of her hair and brought it to his nose.
“I haven’t found one yet. Men seem to like easy.”
He cleared his throat. “Excuse me? Please don’t lump us all together. I happen to enjoy a challenge. I’m with you, sweetheart.”
“You and I aren’t exactly dating. We’re…,” how could she put it delicately. “Friends with benefits. Is there such a thing?”
His brows scrunched. “I think the more modern name for that is booty call. At least you were courteous enough not to call me your booty call. Well, whatever I am to you, I hope you realize Josie could be stark naked with a red ribbon wrapped around her and I still wouldn’t notice. I can’t see anything, anyone, but you.”
“Yea, sure. I know she’s beautiful. I heard it all while growing up. She always had the boys chasing her. While I was home reading.”
“But you, babe, are so much more.” He tapped the end of her nose. “These eyes.” He kissed one lid. “These cheeks.” He kissed one cheek. “This neck.” He left a heated trail down the dip between her collarbones. “I’m addicted. If you can’t see that, you’re crazy.”
She laughed and cuddled closer to him. “There were even some who hoped she and I shared everything, at the same time, if you get my point.”
“Loud and clear.” He tried very hard to not smile, but it happened. Luckily, she didn’t slap him silly. “Don’t worry about that shit. Those are men who probably couldn’t handle two women at once.”
She kissed his lips, then made her way down his jaw to his ear, suckling the flesh. He shuddered. “I don’t mind you fantasizing, as long as you have no expectations. In fact, I once had a fantasy of you and Ace both in my bed at once. I used my vibrator for so long that night I couldn’t rub my vagina against anything, not even panties, for days.”
His growl vibrated his entire body. “Well, same here, babe. You can fantasize, as long as that’s how far it goes. No one is joining us.” He pinned her underneath him, hovered above her, staring down at her with an expression she hadn’t seen in a long time. Then he slowly lowered his mouth and covered hers.
Words were quickly forgotten at the hands of sexual desire. His arousal was noticeable by his erection
pressing against her. She rolled her hips, playfully brushing the apex of her thighs over his cock growing underneath his boxers. He rewarded her by rubbing the stiff iron against her cleft, making her drip with need.
“I’m weak when it comes to you,” he murmured against her lips.
“Then my plan is working.” She laughed.
“Is that what you want? To wrap me around those sweet little fingers?”
“No, I’d rather tie you up with a rope.”
He moaned. “I bet you would. You have me tied up inside for sure. Just like last weekend.” He kissed her neck. “You had me wound up so tight I thought I’d explode. Watching you bending over in those itty-bitty shorts…” He whistled through his teeth.
“By the way, I hope you brought condoms. We completely forgot to use one last weekend.”
“Forgot? Or possibly you wanted me to go bare back. Just so you know, I never do that.”
Her body trembled. “Honestly, I like feeling a man without the cover, but I only experienced that with my ex and you. Do you even know how many times I came?”
“Twice? Maybe three times?”
“Try more like ten times.”
“Oh fuck! I love how responsive you are.”
She reached down and grabbed her gown, bringing it up higher on her stomach. “It’s all you. You have a special way that can’t be explained.”
“If you get as loud as you were last time I think Josie might just wake up.”
“Then you’ll have to kiss me and swallow my screams. I can’t promise that I can hold back.”
“That almost feels like a challenge. One, to see if I have it in me to match ten times. Two, to rock your world and keep you silent.”
“We shall see. I don’t know if you’re up for it.”
A slow smile brought the corners of his lips up. “Oh, I’m up or it.” He rubbed his cock against her.
“Are you done talking yet?”
*****
He removed her gown because he wanted to see all of her and was damn happy when he found her completely naked underneath. Although they’d only been together a few times, he realized he wasn’t sure he could ever get enough. Her beautiful breasts and body triggered something in him he couldn’t quite put into words.
As she stared up at him, he couldn’t figure out what he wanted to devote his attention on first. Her lips or her breasts. Her ass or her pussy. Every part of her was delicious.
She brought her hips up and brushed against him, sending a throb up his cock and making his balls as tight as rocks.
Lowering his mouth, he wrapped his lips around one nipple and suckled the hardened bead. Her firm breast rubbed his chin as he feasted. He moved his mouth and suckled the other breast, going between the two like a starving man.
“You spend entirely too long giving my breasts attention.”
“They’re amazing. Better than amazing.”
She chuckled. “I have another part that could use the same attention, just so you know.”
He loved that she wasn’t afraid to ask for what she wanted. He scooted lower and spread her legs wide, seducing her with his tongue until her juices were flowing and her pussy was swollen. His cock was so hard now that he could barely move without his balls aching. He wanted to rip his boxers away from his body and slam into her creamy passage, but she’d challenged him for the maximum amount of orgasms. He wasn’t a man to shy away from any challenge, especially one this delicious.
Sliding his tongue through her folds, then blowing a raspberry on her clit, she jerked her hips high and giggled. “Oh my,” she said in a breathless whisper.
He held her steady with his hands on her hips. “Behave yourself before you give me a bloody nose.”
“Then behave yourself and quit driving me crazy. I want you now!”
“Hey, you did say you had a spot that needed attention. I’m just obliging,” he murmured against her wet lips,
He drove his tongue inside her passage and she shivered under him. He indulged on the crux of her thighs, holding her open with his thumbs as he buried his tongue, lapping up her sweet juices. Her hands grabbed at his shoulders, her nails biting into his skin.
But he wasn’t about to stop yet.
He continued to lavish attention on her glistening nest, rolling his tongue along every gentle dip and curve.
“I’m. so. Close.”
He smiled against her and groaned. “Yeah. That’s what I’m looking for.” Her thighs spread wider. Her scent grew muskier and he knew she was dangling on the edge. “Let it go, baby. Give it to me,” he coaxed.
“Yes. I want to give it to you.” Her voice trembled.
Learning what she liked, he drew a figure eight around her clit, then suckled the skin until her scent roped him in. He loved teasing her with his mouth, loved how she responded, and then she burst in release while he kissed up the cream.
And just as he knew she would, she screamed out, her nails sinking deeper into his skin. He wasn’t done though. He suckled her vulva until her back arched again, a second release within seconds. He looked up her body and saw how she had her mouth clamped shut.
Dropping his mouth, he continued to lick heated paths on her cleft, nibbling gently before sucking her in.
Wanting to touch all of her, he sank two fingers into her slick passage while swirling his tongue over her clit. He ached to have her, but he wasn’t selfish. He wanted her to want him so badly that she’d be calling his name in every wet dream. He probed her with his fingers, finding the G-spot that definitely made her hips dance. She seized movement and he knew he’d managed to bring her to climax again. She clenched him so tightly, he thought she’d break his fingers, but she released him and her warm dew made his knuckles slick.
He couldn’t hold back any longer.
He lifted himself up, stepped off the bed, and ripped off his boxers.
8
SHE WANTED TO demand that he hurry and put her out of her misery, but she wouldn’t have been able to form the words on her trembling lips.
He didn’t make her wait long.
His boxers were forgotten and he climbed back in bed, his mouth close to hers, and she could smell her juices on his lips. It made the spasms start again, low in her belly.
He levered himself above her, his cock pressing against the vee of her thighs. His nostrils flared as he pushed his head to her pussy and with a deep moan, he buried himself inside of her in one swift thrust. He tightened and paused, an expression of pure bittersweet pain filling his expression. “Oh, fuckity fuck!”
“Come on, Merf. I need you.” She wiggled her hips. “Move.”
“I’m not super human, baby. I’m a red-blooded man that is so close to bursting. You’re my weakness.”
Wrapping her legs up around his bottom, she lifted her hips and pulled him deeper. His breath came out in a hiss. Every nerve in her channel reacted to his cock as if in a magnetic charge. She loved how his large shaft stretched her, claiming her.
Her cry came out on its own accord and she didn’t give one damn hoot who heard. Each time he plunged deep, she lost more control of herself.
She squeezed her muscles and he sucked in a breath. Ah, yes! She could tease him too.
His body tightened and he barely moved. “You’re going to make me come way too fast.”
“Fast now. Slow the next three or four times.”
“You really do believe I’m super human, don’t you?”
She wrapped her arms around his neck. “Not only do I believe it, I know what you’re capable of.”
His eyes took on a look of desperation, and as if a snap broke, he plunged his cock deep. She clenched him again, milking him, watching several expressions flicker across his face.
*****
“I won’t tell Jayde, but I suggest that you do,” Josie said from the top step of the porch. She had her bag at her feet.
Merf scrubbed his hand along his bearded jaw. “I’ll take that into consideration.”
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nbsp; She shrugged. “If you don’t, then you’re not as smart as I thought you were.” She smiled, pushed her sunglasses onto her nose and headed toward the dock.
“What was that all about?”
At the question, Merf swiveled on his heel, facing Jayde through the screen door. Her curious expression punched him right in the gut. He’d done a lot of things in the past that he wasn’t proud of, but he’d changed, and he didn’t want to hurt Jayde. He wanted to prove that she made him want things, maybe even a long-term commitment.
She stepped through the door onto the porch. “Merf? What’s wrong?”
“I have something to tell you.”
“Oh?” One thin brow popped up.
“Come. Have a seat.”
“This requires me sitting down? You’re scaring me.” Her voice was thick.
He hated this. Hated himself too. And as they sat down on the swing, he realized she might hate him after he told her the truth. “Whatever you decide, you have to listen to everything before you react. Promise?”
“Merf?”
“Come on. Promise me.”
She nodded. “Okay.”
“I want you to know that these last two weeks have been amazing. I can’t remember ever feeling so out of control, in such a good way. It’s all because of you.”
She smiled. “I feel the same.”
“I don’t want you getting hurt.”
“Good, because I don’t want to be hurt. I’m confused. Are you telling me you’re happy, or breaking things off?”
“Remember. No responding until I’m finished.”
She sighed and shrugged her shoulders, but didn’t say a word.
“I’ve been an idiot.”
“You’re scaring me.”
“You promised.”
“I don’t care what I promised. You’re making me think you did something with Josie.” When he didn’t respond, she stood, staring at him. “Merf, what did you and Josie do?” The cold tone of her voice sent a chill over his skin.
“It was a long time ago…”
She took a step back, her eyes drilling him. “What?”
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