Keeper

by Robyn Roze

  She looked over at him with an arched brow. “Oh, is he now? So, you knew this before you lured me into your sex lair.” She smiled wickedly at him as she rolled to face him.

  Jake could feel the beast starting to stir from her heated look and the taunting pink nipple peeking out just above the sheet. He swallowed, licking his lips. “I’m not exactly sure who lured who, Miss Marshall.” He returned a sexy grin and raised a brow at her. Olivia pulled a pillow out from under her and hit him with it.

  “Hey, no need to resort to violence!” he joked, pinning her to the bed. “Let’s go eat something and then we’ll see if I can lure you back to my sex lair,” he suggested huskily. As he dropped to kiss Olivia, she wedged a pillow between their faces and scooted out from under him.

  She turned on a lamp and scanned the room looking for her clothes. “Where’s my shirt…oh, yeah, I remember now.” She grinned to herself and bent to pick up Jake’s Charlotte Hounds Lacrosse jersey from the floor looking at the logo and shaking her head. “I guess I’m in the dog house now,” she snorted. “And don’t even think about calling me your bitch.” She pointed and lowered her face at him.

  Jake started laughing. “You are something else, Olivia Marshall.” He continued laughing and shaking his head as he slid his jeans on, watching her as she draped her body in his oversized shirt. He decided that it looked a hell of a lot better on her. They headed to the kitchen and the pungent aroma of Chinese takeout. Jake’s iPhone was still docked and releasing currents of sexy rhythmic music.

  Olivia looked tentatively at the horde of food. “Think we should really eat this? It’s been sitting out for awhile.”

  Jake started shoving cartons into the microwave. “Nothing a little radiation can’t fix.” He smiled and started the reheating process.

  Olivia rummaged through the refrigerator for something to drink, while Jake filled a glass with water and watched the way the light from the refrigerator flirtatiously outlined her curves under his shirt. He smiled at her cute-as-hell bed head because he knew exactly how she had gotten it.

  Then he heard Uncle Kracker drifting from the speakers. He put down his glass, grabbed Olivia’s hand, and shut the refrigerator door. “Dance with me,” Jake said as he hastily pulled her into the living room and turned up the volume. He started swaying to the music and Olivia began smiling.

  Olivia had heard “Follow Me” before and liked the melody. Jake cocked his head and teased, “Are you going to laugh at me again, Miss Marshall.”

  No, she wasn’t. He looked hot wearing only his low hanging faded jeans and that sexy-as-hell smile. “No, Mr. McCloud, I’m not. I think you found your speed.”

  He swaggered toward her with his hips and shoulders sweeping to the rhythm, pulled her against him, and started singing the chorus as she followed his lead around the room. He had one hand on her lower back and held her other hand up against his bare chest. She could not help but giggle and laugh, but not at him. She just couldn’t remember the last time she felt so free. She was feeling very aroused by the Adonis that had a goofy side and shared it so easily with her. God, could he get any sexier, she wondered dreamily as her eyes drank him in.

  Jake finessed Olivia in flowing elliptical loops all around the living room in time with the beat. He moved agilely at this tempo and she didn’t want it to end anytime soon, because Jake was damned sexy right now. Then he spun her around so that her back was against his front, and holding their hands around her waist and nuzzling her ear, he sang along with the chorus again.

  His hands started to roam to her breasts and between her legs, and she wrapped her arms up around his neck to shimmy her curvaceous ass against him, feeling his growing arousal. Nibbling her ear lobe, he grazed her with his stubble before deftly turning her to face him. Holding her hands, he pushed away twirling her around in front of him and pulling her back up against him.

  Holding her waist with one arm, he cupped her face in his other hand, rested his forehead against hers, and continued dancing and singing the chorus. Now Olivia was repeating the chorus back to him, too. Then he bent down and started kissing her hungrily, squeezing her soft bare ass in both hands. They were still flowing in time to the music when he scooped her up in his arms and headed back to his lair.

  “Wait. I thought we were going to eat first.” Olivia said, glancing back at the microwave that was now chiming its completed cycle.

  “Change of plans,” Jake replied huskily.

  He set Olivia down in his room, disappearing into the en suite bath where she heard the shower running and then he reappeared in the doorway. Devouring her with smoldering hooded eyes, he motioned seductively with his finger to follow him. She swallowed hard. Oh, God, when he looked at her like that she knew she would do anything he asked. Stripping his jersey off herself, she sauntered naked toward him as he freed himself from his jeans and kept his eyes glued to her svelte body.

  Guiding her into the steamy shower, he coveted her lean form as the water started spilling over her breasts and angled down to cascade over her vee. Olivia tilted her head back and let the hot water soak her hair and face while Jake’s hands massaged her all over with his body wash. He seemed determined not to miss a square inch, she thought, grinning to herself. Then he cupped her ass and pulled her close, and she saw that look again and stood on tiptoes to kiss him hard with her hands in his hair pulling him down to her. His magnificent erection was rock hard and pressed boldly against her belly. Stepping back to view him, the shared suds on his sculpted body made her smile and she started rubbing the suds around his cut abs, trailing up to his expansive chest and finally his strong, broad shoulders. She looked up at him and saw that his eyes had clouded over.

  Teasingly trailing her hands down to cup his sac and grip his hard shaft, she started slowly at first and then increased the intensity rounding out on the tip. He leaned back against the shower wall as her hold on him strengthened and his chest expanded with heavier breathing. Before she could go too far, he pulled her hands off him and turned her around so that his throbbing hardness was pinned hot against her lower back.

  “Why do you always stop me?” she asked a little agitated.

  He answered huskily in her ear, “I want to pace myself, Olivia, that’s all.” She was determined she would get her way tonight.

  Nuzzling her ear and nipping at her lobe, his thumbs rounded her nipples and his hands caressed her slick breasts. Jake gently brushed his five-o-clock shadow along her neck and shoulder keeping one hand on her breasts while the other roamed between her legs.

  Olivia’s hands streamed down onto his arm holding him in place. He spread three of his fingers down, sliding between her inner and outer folds and gently squeezing them. Olivia’s breathing hitched as he smoothed his fingers back and forth mixed with the hot water pulsating against her slick grooves. As she started to moan and writhe, Jake held her more tightly against his pulsing heat and slipped two fingers inside her burning core slightly curling them inside her. He discovered her erogenous spot and began rubbing it while skillfully applying pressure all around her clit with the heel of his hand. The cliff’s edge was in Olivia’s horizon and Jake kept her upper half still while her lower half danced to its own tune. She breathlessly groaned his name louder and clasped her hands securely around the nape of his neck. Then she let go and plunged deliriously head first off the cliff. Her legs clenched together and her feet stepped off the shower floor while her upper body arched and stiffened, greedily accepting the onslaught of waves. Jake held her up against him until she relaxed and regained her footing.

  Caressing her belly and breasts, he whispered seductively into her ear, “I love to watch you come, Olivia.” He brought his hand to her face and pulled her mouth to his for a feverish kiss.

  Olivia broke away from his hot kiss and repositioned herself under the waterfall, watching him watch her as she smoothed her hands over her wet body. She provocatively slipped her hand between her legs and inserted a warm finger into her hot center.
Jake’s breathing hitched and he froze at what he was seeing, as Olivia trailed her finger back up to her mouth and lazily sucked it. She saw a fire flash in Jake’s eyes before directing her gaze down to his glorious hardness. Licking her lips, she met his ravenous stare with her own.

  She stepped out of the shower without touching him, and when she reached the door, she looked back smiling impishly and motioned with her finger for him to follow her. Obediently, he quickly turned off the shower and enthusiastically did as she commanded. When he entered the bedroom, she was slinking cat like across the bed before sitting back on her heels.

  She patted the bed next to her and smiled slyly, “Lay down, Jake.” It was a veiled order, but she knew he was in no mood to argue because he would do anything that she asked right now. She was still wet from the shower and he couldn’t wait to get his hands on her slick body.

  She straddled him and slid up his torso offering her breasts to his mouth. He ardently complied, sucking and nipping at them while stroking her wet back and firm ass. Beginning her descent, she covered his neck and chest in kisses and tender bites working her way down the marked trail that led to his needy erection.

  She feathered her fingers gently along the veins and then grasped him with both hands and began stroking him slowly from root to tip. Then she gently sucked around his balls, slowly taking each one fully into her mouth and massaging underneath them with her thumb while using her other hand to stroke his shaft. Working her way up, she took his crown into her mouth and circled her tongue around the tip feeling Jake’s stuttered movements and hearing his labored breathing. She used her tongue to cut trails up and down and all around his length before heading back to the top and taking more of him into her mouth. As she applied increasing pressure with her lips, she moved up and down his shaft. Then she took her hand and began stroking harder and sucking him while kneading deeply at his root with her other hand. He was starting to moan and thrash more as she increased the intensity.

  Wanting to take more of him, she decided to change her bearings so that her backside was alongside Jake and facing the headboard. She went down as far she could and he let out a rippling groan that ended in a growl. She increased the pressure and speed as Jake thrust his hand between her legs pushing two fingers into her hot core and massaging around her clit with his thumb. Olivia began to squirm as he did his best to distract her from what she wanted to do to him.

  Before she knew what had happened, Jake grabbed her hips and repositioned her so that her legs were straddling his shoulders. He submersed his tongue around her nub and started sucking it while gripping her ass tightly. Oh, God, he was not playing fair, but she was not going to let him deny her again. Finally, Olivia couldn’t take it anymore and she came hard, moaning and twisting her mouth around his hardness, stroking him tenaciously as she worked through her quivering orgasm. She didn’t let up on him and he started to groan louder and toss around more on the bed. She removed herself from his shoulders and continued her unyielding onslaught.

  As he began to struggle more, an arm came up over his face and he moaned while his other hand made a feeble attempt to pull her off him. She batted his hand away. Not this time. She wanted to know what he tasted like and she only intensified his torment. She stroked, squeezed, sucked and took as much of him into her mouth and throat as she could. She could tell he was past the point of no return, and he exploded like thunder into her. His arms stiffened at his sides and a loud, deep moan tore out of him that sounded like a passing speeding train.

  Olivia drank every sweet drop and was very pleased that she had finally gotten her way. Trailing kisses back up to his neck, she saw his eyes still closed. A satisfied smile spread across her face as she rolled onto her back, exhaling deeply. As she was about to doze off, Jake unexpectedly rolled over taking her into his arms, giving her a slow, deep kiss, as if savoring the way their flavors mixed in his mouth, and he kissed her even harder.

  Before tonight, Jake had had a lot of great sex, but for some reason it all felt different with Olivia. He felt different. He didn’t know why and frankly didn’t care. He just knew he had to make sure he never did anything that would cause Olivia Marshall to leave him.

  CHAPTER 17

  The sun was doing its best to break through Jake’s slatted wood blinds, skipping shadows and a dusty haze around the room as clouds skated across the yellow titan. He moved slowly from his stomach, stretching to his back and then rolled over to look at the time. It was already after eleven-thirty in the morning. He flipped over in the other direction to spoon Olivia awake - and other things, but his eyes popped open when he found her side cold and empty. He quickly shifted to his elbow and looked around the room. The door to his bathroom was standing open and it was quiet inside. “Olivia,” he called out into the silent house. He swept the sheet and blanket off, swung his legs over the edge of the bed, and grabbed his jeans off the floor.

  There was no trace of her. He searched for his cell phone to call her and found that he had received a text from her several hours earlier.

  *meeting study group

  at library. call you later.

  oxox ;) *

  Jake decided to take a shower and head over to the library to surprise her. He didn’t feel like waiting for later.

  ****

  The University Library was busy for a Saturday. Jake made his way past students, the Bookmark Café, circulation and periodicals all the while scanning for Olivia. He headed up to the second level with no sign of her and continued on to the next floor. As he entered, he heard her laughter and followed the infectious melody along the aisles of publications. Upon approach, he saw someone sitting next to her and laughing, as well. Jake stopped and stepped into a row of books where he could observe them undetected.

  The guy she was sitting next to looked like he belonged on the West Coast with a surfboard. They were sitting on a two-seat sofa and he had his hand hooked casually on the back of it near Olivia’s shoulder. Jake could see the way Blondie was ogling Olivia and knew exactly what that guy was thinking. He repositioned himself in the book aisle to see if this was a study group for two.

  To his relief, there were two other students sitting across from them and there were books and papers spread out on the coffee table anchored between the sofas. They seemed to have been studying at some point, but were just visiting now. Olivia picked up a bottle of water and took a long drink. Jake noticed the way Blondie focused on Olivia’s mouth as she drank from the bottle. He wanted to rip the guys head off. Time to introduce himself, he decided.

  Jake exited the row of books and headed toward Olivia. When he was a few feet from her, she turned to look up at him and her face lit up like a five-hundred-watt halogen. She jumped up taking his hand and planted a soft kiss on his cheek. He remained focused on the guy sitting next to her.

  “This is unexpected. Did you try to call me?” Olivia asked.

  Without shifting his eyes, he said, “No, I thought I’d surprise you and see if you’d like to take a lunch break.” Jake continued staring down the surfer.

  “Oh, well your timing is perfect. We were just wrapping things up and I was going to call you.” Olivia caught the way Jake was sizing up her classmate reclining on the sofa where she had been moments ago and decided it best to introduce everyone. “Um, Jake, this is Kyle and that’s Carter and Danielle over there. We’re all in anatomy class together.” Jake pretended to glance at Carter and Danielle, but kept his laser focus on the douche bag.

  Kyle sat angled back casually in the corner of the sofa with his arms open and resting on the padded arm and back cushion as if he didn’t have a care in the world. He was glancing between Olivia and Jake and said nonchalantly, “I didn’t catch your name.” He met Jake’s hard stare with his own.

  One corner of Jake’s mouth curled up slightly as he narrowed his eyes at Kyle and wrapped his arm around Olivia’s waist gently pulling her closer and replying definitively, “Jake. The boyfriend.”

  Kyle nodded slo
wly and half smiled before shifting to pack his books and papers away. Olivia looked up at Jake who was still targeting Kyle. She shook her head and laughed to herself - marking his territory again. She could tease him about it, but she rather liked it. Then she happened to catch Danielle’s approving appraisal of Jake, causing Olivia instinctually to stand closer to him.

  Olivia looked up at Jake, brushing her hand softly against his chest and quietly whispered, “Hey.” Jake finally broke his glaring stare from Kyle and looked down into her emerald green eyes. She noticed his expression immediately soften, and on tiptoes, she reached up and gave him a kiss. Olivia decided she could mark her territory, too. Then Jake pulled her closer and cupped her face with his other hand, deepening their kiss.

  ****

  He carried Olivia’s backpack as they walked hand in hand out to the parking lot. “So, are you hungry?” he asked.

  She placed her free hand on her stomach. “Starving!” She had worked up a tremendous appetite after their incredible sexual marathon. They did finally get to the Chinese takeout in the wee hours, but her belly was rumbling now.

  Jake smiled down at her. “Worked up an appetite, huh?”

  “Yeah, that study group was grueling,” she replied, smiling as she looked away.

  “Oh, it was the study group that was so grueling,” Jake countered with a raised brow and grin.

  “What else could it be?” She glanced up at him and winked.

  He let go of her hand and wrapped his arm around her waist. “You know, I’m sure we could scrounge something up at my place,” he rumbled, nuzzling her sweet scented hair.

  Olivia’s core clenched as she happily remembered why there had been such a long delay with the Chinese takeout last night. “I think we should eat before we go to your place,” she replied reluctantly. Although, Jake McCloud was a compelling reason to fast.