“Hey, Nic?”
“Yeah?”
“You aren’t pissed about what happened with that Eric guy earlier, are you? I know it might have seemed childish, but I can’t stand having to see any other man touch you.” While his alpha side might frustrate me, I also know it’s his way of showing me that he really cares about me.
“No, I’m surprisingly not mad. Even if I were, I would say you definitely made it up to me. Besides, Eric is an idiot. All he kept talking about today was how our rooms were right next to each other if I got lonely.” I shake my head, thinking about how pushy and over-confident he was.
Jason’s head snaps up and I see a fire in his eyes. Shit, should I not have said that? “His room is next to us?”
“Yeah, I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have even mentioned it.”
“I’m actually glad that you told me.” He walks over to me and kisses me. “Now, I get the chance to show Eric how not lonely you are.” Before I know what is happening, he picks me up, carries me into the other room, and throws me onto the bed.
I feel bad for Eric by the time we are done. I don’t think even a pair of headphones will help him.
Chapter Thirteen
Jason
I couldn’t believe it was already time for Thanksgiving break. I feel like the semester just started, and I am really not looking forward to going home alone. I thought about asking Nicole to come with me, but I don’t think it will go over well. My dad really isn’t the biggest fan of relationships or women since what happened with my mom, and I doubt she would even want to come.
I am on my way over to the girl’s house to say goodbye to her, when my phone starts to ring. I look at it and see it is Carter. We are driving home together to save money, so I answer right away. “Hey, I’m on my way over to Nic’s to say goodbye, then I’ll be ready to leave.”
“That’s fine, but can I ask you something?”
“Yeah, what’s up?”
“Why didn’t you ask Nicole to come home with you? I mean, it kind of sucks that she is going home to spend the holidays in an empty house.”
What the hell does he mean? Her dad and stepmom live there. I know they aren’t the best company, but she won’t be alone. “She isn’t going to be alone. She is going to her dad’s house.”
“No, idiot, her dad and stepmom went away for the holidays.”
Why wouldn’t she tell me this when we talked about break? She never once said her dad would be away and that she would be there all by herself. “I just got to the house, I’ll call you back.”
I walk up to the door and when I knock, Holly answers. “Hey, Jason, she is upstairs packing.”
“Thanks, Holls. When are you and Christen leaving?”
“Probably later tonight. We want to grab dinner first.”
I give her a hug goodbye. Holly has been like a little sister to me ever since I met Carter. “Text me when you get in safe, okay?”
“I will.”
I go upstairs to Nicole’s room and stand in her open doorway. She is trying to get something off the top shelf of her closet, but even on her tiptoes, there is no way it is going to happen. I sneak up behind her, grab her hips, and lift her up so she can reach it. She jumps, but once she realizes it is me, she relaxes. When she pulls down what she has been trying to reach, I see it is my sweatshirt. I gave it to her last New Year’s Eve in the hospital because she was freezing in the tiny dress she had on.
When I put her down, she turns around and smiles at me. “I didn’t even hear you come in.” She throws her arms around my neck and leans up to kiss me. It scares me how comfortable I am with the amount of affection she shows me, and how much I want to give it back to her. “When are you guys leaving?”
“In like an hour, I think. Can we talk for a minute?” She looks up at me, and seems scared of what I am about to say. I take her hand and lead her over to the bed to sit down. “Why didn’t you tell me you were going to be home alone all break?”
I can tell she is shocked that I know, and wasn’t expecting me to say that. Her eyes grow wide and she looks at the floor. “I am fine with it. It won’t be the first time.” I can barely hear her reply.
“I’m not fine with it. Why don’t you, um…why don’t you just come home with me?” I scratch the back of my head, uncomfortable with the idea, but even more with her being alone.
“No.” She stands up and walks back over to her suitcase.
“No? Why the hell not?” My voice rises. It pisses me off that I just offered this to her and she turned me down flat.
“This is why I didn’t tell you, Jason! I didn’t want you to feel obligated to bring me home with you. I don’t need you to take care of me. I can handle it myself.” She is throwing things into a suitcase. I do feel bad about her being at her house alone, but I also just want her near me. My dad’s reaction was really the only thing holding me back.
I walk over to her and grab her hands, so she stops throwing things in the suitcase and looks at me. “Why are you always so goddamn stubborn? You are not going home by yourself all weekend, Nicole. I don’t care if I need to handcuff us together and strap you into the seat myself. You are going to come home with me and you are going to drop this independent woman bullshit. I get it already, but know that you are still mine and I am not okay with you being alone at that house the rest of the week. Not only that, but maybe I want you with me. I want to be with you.”
I prepare myself for some snotty comeback or maybe even some physical retaliation, but I never expected what she actually does. She wraps her arms around my waist and rests her head against my chest.
“Okay.”
I breathe a sigh of relief, “I will text Carter. You finish packing your suitcase.”
I text Carter to let him know Nic is coming with us. Then I lie down on the bed while she finishes packing her things. I also text my dad to let him know I am bringing someone home with me. I think I am worried about his reaction more than anything. I know I am in deep with Nicole; it is like this force that is always drawing me to her. I can’t stay away and I am fighting the urge to less and less every day.
Nicole
When Carter pulls up to pick me and Jason up, I start to get nervous. I didn’t tell him about my dad being away because I didn’t want him to feel like he had to bring me with him. I have to say I love it when he gets all demanding, alpha male on me though.
I am so anxious to meet his dad because from everything he has told me, he is not a huge fan of relationships. We have grown so much as a couple in the past couple months that I don’t want this to set us back.
I am glad Carter lives so close. At least we can spend some part of the break with him and Maddy.
She turns around and smiles at me. “We are thinking of a day trip to Myrtle Beach on Saturday. You want to join?”
“Um…yeah sure, I guess.” I turn to Jason to see his reaction to it.
Jason leans close to my ear and my whole body breaks out in goose bumps. “You don’t have to worry about me not wanting to go, babe. As long as you own a bikini.” Then he drags his teeth over my earlobe, causing my heartbeat to speed up. He always had this effect on me; it was like I couldn’t even think straight when he was so close to me.
“It’s Thanksgiving; I don’t think I can wear a bikini.”
He raises his eyebrows at me, “You can inside, that will do for now.” I nudge his arm as I laugh.
When I look up, I see Maddy smiling at me and feel the blush invading my cheeks. This is going to be a long car ride. She tells me about how Carter proposed to her last night and I am so happy for her. Those two have been through some crazy crap and I think their relationship gave Jason and me the push to go for it.
We have been trying to listen to music the entire drive, but with Carter and Jason wanting rock, and Maddy and I trying to convince them to let us listen to country, we end up shutting it off. As we get closer to Jason’s house, I am getting more and more nervous.
What if his da
d didn’t like me? What if he didn’t think I was right for him? I feel Jason put his hand on my leg and when I look up, he shoots me a reassuring smile. He can be so sweet when he isn’t being an ass.
We get out of the car and say our goodbyes to Carter and Mads. When we walk into his house, no one is home. At least I can fix myself up before his dad gets home. I follow J into his room and wait for him to show me where I am sleeping.
He looks over at me with a confused look on his face. “Aren’t you gonna put your stuff down?”
I was staying in here? With him? “I didn’t think I was staying with you.”
“Are you nuts? There is no way you are sleeping in any bed in this house that isn’t mine.”
He walks over and crushes his mouth to mine, turns me around, kicks the door shut with his foot, and backs me up toward the bed. I am not going to have sex with him here! His dad can walk in and hear us! “J, stop.”
He pulls back to look at me. “Listen, I get that you’re trying to be respectful and shit, but there is no way we are spending this break together and not having sex. I think it’s cute, but I am not Carter, babe.” Madison has a no sex rule whenever she stays at Carter’s house.
He pushes me back onto the bed and before I can object, he has my top off and my pants pulled down. He starts to kiss my panty line and any objection I have disappears. I have no experience before Jason, but I have to say that he is amazing when it came to this stuff. I hate to think it is because he has done it so often, but that is probably the case.
He starts to slide my underwear down and I am already squirming. He spreads my legs and makes his way up my body, stopping and kissing me with so much fire that it takes my breath away. He pulls me up with him, lifting my dress off of me in one quick move.
I reach for the hem of his shirt and lift it off of him. I start kissing his well-defined chest, nipping and licking the way that I know drives him crazy. God, I love him.
I love him.
Shit.
I am officially screwed.
Chapter Fourteen
Jason
I can’t believe she thought I would be able to go this whole break without touching her. Half of the time, I can’t even go ten minutes. I lie her back down and stand up to take off my jeans and boxers. Seeing her lying in my room like this is crazy. I never brought girls back here. My dad was always weird whenever I tried to, so I just started going to their houses, or cars, or the locker room. Hell, any room that had a door.
I know my dad will be home soon and I don’t have long with her. I love foreplay and doing other things with her because she is always so responsive, but today, I am going to need to get her there quickly.
I bend my head down and her scent fills my nostrils. She smells so fucking amazing all the time. I run my tongue up the length of her and feel her jerk beneath me. I grab her hips and hold her steady so that she can’t move. I rest my one forearm across her stomach so that I can free up one of my hands.
When I moved my mouth up to her clit and insert two fingers into her, she lets out a moan. I know Nicole well enough now that I know she is close. She was always so quick, which was why I usually like to tease her. There isn’t any time for that today. I start moving my fingers fast and sucking on her clit at the same time. She screams my name when she comes, and I have to say, it is the most beautiful fucking sound I have ever heard.
I sit up and sink myself deep into her without giving her any time to recover. I put my hands back on her hips and use the leverage to slam myself into her even harder.
“God, J! That feels so good!”
She moves her hands up to her tits and starts to play with her nipples. Just the sight of her doing this pushes me over the edge, and I empty myself into her. When I collapse beside her onto the bed, she moves to rest her head on my chest.
“I have to tell you, at the risk of inflating your ego; you are so good at that.”
I laughed, “At which part?”
“All of it, but especially the foreplay. It’s crazy how worked up you can get me and how fast you can get me there.”
“Thanks, babe, that’s good to know. Unlike the sex part, I haven’t done that very much.”
She looked up at me in disbelief, “Why is that?”
I don’t know how this is going to come out, but I have never held my tongue before. “Because half of the girls I have been with, I wouldn’t even touch with my finger much less my mouth. They are dirty and easy. Any girl that lets any dude that comes along ‘do her’, is not someone I want my mouth near. At least I wrap my junk up and protect it.”
She starts to laugh and I pull her closer to me. It is in moments like this that my running instinct kicks in. It is personal and emotional and everything I thought I never wanted. I hear the front door shut and sit up. “That would be my dad. We need to get dressed.”
Watching Nicole jump up and try to put herself together that fast is hysterical. She is so frantic, and at one point, she tries to put her bra on backwards. I laugh and get up to get dressed. I doubt my dad even knows we are here yet, it’s not like my car is in the driveway.
“How do I look?”
I look up at her and she looks gorgeous. I can tell she is nervous and I am too. “You look perfect, babe. Come on.”
When we walk into the kitchen, my dad looks up and the shock on his face is obvious. I texted him that I was bringing a girl home, but knowing him, he probably thought I was joking.
“Dad, this is Nicole. Nicole, this is my dad, Paul.”
After he is done staring at her like an idiot, he closes the couple steps between us. “It’s nice to meet you, Nicole.”
“You too, Mr. Smith.”
“Don’t call me Mr. Smith, just Paul is fine.” His tone is neutral; it’s not rude but definitely not a warm welcome.
He walks into the living room and I hear the TV turn on. That actually went better than I expected. When I look down at Nic, I can see that she thinks something is wrong. It’s like I can see the wheels in her head turning and that is never good. “Hey, you did fine. He is really antisocial, so don’t expect too much. This is kind of why I never thought to invite you here.”
“It’s fine. Are you sure it isn’t me, though?”
“No, it isn’t. Now come on, let’s go sit down.”
We go into the living room and sit on the couch. “Dad, Carter invited us over for dinner tomorrow. What do you say?”
He turns to look at me like I have five heads. “Mike knows less about cooking than I do. Why would we go there for dinner?”
This should be fun. “Carter’s fiancée, Madison, is going to be cooking a big dinner for them.”
His eyes get huge and I can tell he is taken back by the revelation, “His fiancée?”
“Yeah, they just got engaged about three months ago. She is great.”
“You kids have all lost your damn minds. If you want to go there, I guess we will.”
With that, he turns back to the TV. I glanced at Nicole and I can tell she is uncomfortable. I don’t know what to do at this point; this is what I was afraid would happen.
“Hey, do you want to go for a walk?”
She looks up at me and smiles, silently thanking me for saving her, “Yeah, sure.”
Once we are out of the house, I am finally able to relax. “Listen, before you say anything, the way my dad is has absolutely nothing to do with you, Nic. He lost it after my mom left and he never really got it back. If you want to stay at Carter’s, I really wouldn’t blame you.” I might not blame her, but it sure as hell would hurt.
She pulls me to a stop and turns to face me. Her hands run up my chest, ending at my neck. “I am not going anywhere, so stop trying to give me an out.”
She is finally starting to break down the wall I built years ago and I know she is telling the truth when she says things like that. Nicole is absolutely nothing like my mother and the sooner I accept that, the better. I bend my head down to kiss her and enjoy the fact that she
is mine.
Nicole
I have to say that when we get to Carter’s house for Thanksgiving dinner, I am really impressed. I knew Maddy could cook from all of the dinners we had together, but she really went all out. Carter introduces me to his dad and brother. I have to laugh when Jason smacks Carter’s teenage brother Anthony on the back of the head for staring at my boobs.
His response is even better, though. He turns to Carter and says, “Every college brochure Dad gives me has these ugly nerdy chicks on the front. If they put the two of you on there, enrollment would double.”
That comment earns him smacks and things thrown at him from just about everyone. I go into the kitchen to talk to Mads and see if she needs any help.
“Hey, girl!” She runs over and gives me a hug, and I laugh at how perfect she looks in this role. She has her hair in a neat little ponytail with an apron and oven mitts on. “So, how is everything with Jason’s dad?”
I am so glad I had someone to talk to, because I really don’t know what to do. “I feel like he hates me, Mads. I mean, he can barely stand to look at me, it’s like I repulse him.”
“Carter told me last night about how Jason’s dad can be. I know it has to be hard. Has he said anything about it?”
“He’s been great, better than he has ever been. I think, in some strange way, this is helping him to see that he doesn’t want to end up like his dad. I just wish that things were different and he wasn’t so against me from the start.”
She gives me a hug that I really need right now, things were so tense last night. Thank God Jason has a TV in his room, because at least that provides us with an escape.
“Hey, listen, you are only going to be there tonight and tomorrow night. Then Saturday, we are all staying in Myrtle Beach together!”
“I know, I can’t wait. I hope it is nice enough to go on the beach even if we have to wear sweatshirts.”
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