Summer of the Cougar (Cougar Challenge)

by Nicole Austin

  It’s my own fault for putting this part of my life on hold and never letting the kids see me around men other than family. They just aren’t prepared for the reality of mom being human and having sex. Oh Lord, what a mess! The last thing I need is my kids racing home to confront my much younger lover. Yikes! What the heck do I do now? How do I handle this?

  Lori: Oh boy, this is tough, honey. Listen up! First, settle down a little bit and when you are good and calm, have a heart-to-heart with her. Tell her what you just told us. You are a woman in your prime and your life isn’t over. Why shouldn’t you have love and happiness and all the good things? Assure her that your relationship with them won’t change. You love them but why shouldn’t you have your own happily ever after?

  Stevie: Yeah, well, when they show up and find you two naked and draped across the couch, they’ll get used to it fast enough! LOL Live your life for you not them. You’ve done that already.

  Elizabeth: Rissa! First, you sit yourself down and repeat after me. “I deserve to have a sex life. I am woman, hear me roar!” Next, sit your daughter down and gently but firmly draw the line. This is something I had to do with my girls, too. Turns out what they were really looking for was reassurance that my relationship with them wasn’t going to change, and that I really did know what I was doing with Kevin. Then sit JD down and reassure him that your relationship with your daughter is not going to dictate how you feel about him. Rissa, I may be delving too deep here, but it sounds like JD used the only option you left open for him to get his point across. Your refusal to tell Mariah about him probably hurt. You’ve got a good thing going here. Don’t let anyone but you and JD dictate where this relationship goes.

  Her friends used scary words. Happily ever after, relationship. Yikes!

  They were right about talking to Mariah though. Rissa would prefer to do so in person but might have to settle for a phone call considering the geographical distance between them.

  But Elizabeth’s reply made her pulse beat frantically. Could her friend be right? Had she hurt JD’s feelings by refusing to tell Mariah about him? In that moment all she’d wanted was to end the conversation not draw it out. She had no problem with telling her daughter about him, but not on the phone while he pleasured her.

  She made a mental note to reassure JD she wasn’t embarrassed to be sleeping with him.

  * * * * *

  After breakfast they headed to the market then went to see the latest action flick critics had been raving about. The movie didn’t have much plot, just lots of shooting, things blowing up, fast cars and beautiful women. JD loved it. Rissa had remained lost to her worries over whether she should say something about what happened earlier or not.

  She leaned against a tall wooden fence and took in her surroundings. Children raced around oak trees, laughing and carefree. Adults congregated in intimate groupings, discussing a wide variety of topics. The teenagers all stayed inside to play video games. A large dog sat next to a smoking barbeque grill, begging for a taste of the sizzling burgers. She seemed to be the only one who noticed the magnificent pink blush highlighting puffy clouds as day faded into night.

  How the hell did I wind up here?

  “Didn’t you come with JD?”

  Oh great! She hadn’t intended to actually ask that question out loud. Biting her lip, she tried to remember the name of the petite blonde seated at the nearby picnic bench giving her a concerned glance. Was it Trisha? Tracey? She’d been introduced to so many people that she wasn’t sure but thought Tracey was right.

  “Sorry, just thinking out loud.”

  Tracey laughed. “JD does tend to have that effect on women. Not that he’s ever brought one around before.”

  Interesting. Tracey seemed to have the down and dirty on JD. Rissa sat on the bench. After helping the toddler seated between them with his cup, her attention returned to his mother. “So he’s a player? Not that there’s anything wrong with that,” she rushed to add.

  Tracey considered for a moment before responding. “I wouldn’t necessarily call him a player. JD just had not found what he’s looking for.” Bright blue eyes sparkled as she flashed a knowing grin. “Not until recently.”

  “What makes you think that?” Rissa scoffed.

  “I’ve known JD for a long time. I’ve never seen him so aware of a woman before. He may appear to be engrossed in whatever the guys are saying, but no more than a minute or two goes by before his eyes are on you. Plus, Doug told me they’re all sick of hearing about you. He’s talked about nothing else for the past few weeks.”

  And how had her one-night stand turned into weeks?

  “He’s special to you too.”

  Rissa’s gaze snapped to Tracey’s. “What? What gave you that impression?”

  “You’re not hard to read and every time you look at him there’s a dreamy longing. When your eyes lock with his the desire rolls off the two of you in waves everyone feels.”

  She groaned and before she could stop herself, she was searching him out through the crowd. The corner of her lip twitched as she watched him lift a small girl high above his head and spin her around. The girl squealed in delight. Another child, a boy, wrapped himself around JD’s leg and he reached down to ruffle the head of dark hair.

  He’d be a great dad.

  A sharp pang sliced through her chest and killed her train of thought. She had to keep this real or one of them—probably both—would get hurt.

  “Lust,” she mumbled. “A summer fling. There’s no future for us. JD’s young, a thrill seeker. One day he’ll want to start a family. I’ve already raised my children, seen them off to college.” She wasn’t capable of giving him that even if she wanted to.

  “Maybe,” Tracey conceded. “Maybe not. Have you discussed any of this with him?”

  Rissa shrugged. “No. JD’s a good time. There’s nothing serious between us.”

  As if on cue, JD’s dark eyes found her, stroking over her skin, heating her blood. Her nipples hardened and her panties got wet.

  “If you say so but I don’t buy it, Rissa. Looks like serious intent written all over his face to me.”

  She shook her head in denial but her heart pounded harder in agreement. And just what was she supposed to do with these growing emotions? Their time together had an expiration date. In August, like Cinderella at the stroke of midnight, she’d turn back into “Miss Cross”. Go back to her normal life. A life that had no place in it for a summer lover.

  And yet the thought of not having JD in her life made it hard for her to breathe.

  What a colossal mess!

  * * * * *

  The dreamy look on Rissa’s face made his heart ache and fill with hope. He’d achieved a great feat this morning getting her to say yes to the barbeque, then lost ground when she refused to tell her daughter about him. The woman drove him nuts with her insistence on keeping distance between them. Personal subjects were forbidden and she’d refused every previous invite to meet his friends and family. Her daughter’s phone call confirmed his suspicion that her kids had no idea she was seeing someone.

  He was happy to see her start talking with Tracey. Maybe now that the ice had been broken and she’d met his friends from the station Rissa would be comfortable enough to let him into her life. He’d love to meet some of the people who were important to her, especially her kids.

  “You might not want to leave her alone with Tracey for too long,” Doug cautioned. “There’s no telling what my wife will tell her.”

  JD laughed. “I don’t have any secrets.”

  “Yeah, right,” Doug scoffed. “That’s why you’ve told her how hard you worked to earn your degree. I bet you didn’t even tell her about the new job.”

  He sighed and rubbed his scalp. Feeling stubble rasp against his fingers, he made a mental note to shave in the morning. “It’s complicated.”

  “Hell, everything about women is complicated.” Jordan Moore, B shift’s captain, took a long pull on his beer then pointed the bot
tle at JD. “It’s your job to figure out how to make it simple.”

  All of the guys within hearing range laughed, a few commenting on the impossibility of reaching such a lofty goal.

  “Hey,” Jordan griped. “Once I laid down the law with Mary life got a lot easier.”

  Sam Lang, B shift’s lieutenant, choked on his beer. “You are full of shit, Jordan. Mary’s the one who laid down the law. It wasn’t until you learned to obey that the two of you stopped fighting all the damn time.”

  Running from her brother, Kyle’s daughter, Jillian, launched herself into his arms. JD lifted her up high and spun the girl until she screeched. Her brother, Evan, tried to tackle him, only managing to hug his leg and attempt to climb up and reach his sister. Absently, JD mussed the boy’s unruly hair, imagining how much he was going to enjoy being a teacher.

  He loved kids, babysitting his nieces and nephews had shown him how much. When he realized how good he was with them he’d started thinking about teaching. Taking charge of school field trips at the station only reinforced his desire to work with children. In another month his dream would become reality. JD couldn’t wait.

  He was dying to get some pointers and ideas from Rissa but every time he tried to talk about his new job she’d shut him down. Finally he’d stopped trying. Maybe tonight would change that.

  JD glanced over at her again and his heart beat faster. She was so damn beautiful, smart and funny. Everything he’d ever wanted. He had a lot riding on his hopes and dreams for the future. With Rissa at his side, he just might have a chance of seeing them come true.

  Chapter Seven

  Warm air skated over his cock, which jerked, snapping to attention. JD reveled in the exquisite dream. The tip of a damp tongue circled his crown before dipping into the slit to lap up a salty drop of pre-cum. A hum vibrated through his flesh and the skin covering his balls grew taut. Tight, wet heat engulfed the tip of his cock, taking him from sultry dream to waking reality.

  Opening his eyes, he looked down his torso. In the dim light of her bedroom, he drank in the heady sight of Rissa curled up over his groin as she devoured him with her desire-filled gaze. Her plump red lips were stretched wide around his cock and the dark mass of her silken hair fanned out to blanket his lower body. He knew the image would haunt him for the rest of his life.

  God, she was so fucking beautiful. And he was totally and completely in love.

  Pressure squeezed his chest, pushing his heart up into his throat, and lightning jolted his sternum. His heart stopped beating and he tensed for several long moments. Then just as suddenly his mind and body eased as he slowly came to terms with his fate. He was head over heels in love with a woman who wanted him for nothing more than sex.

  Unaffected by his inner turmoil, Rissa continued her sensual assault, twirling her tongue around the ridge of his crown before taking him to the back of her throat, strong muscles swallowing around him, milking his cock. At the sound of his guttural moan she redoubled her efforts, sucking with hard pulls, tonguing him with new enthusiasm.

  Needing to touch her, without conscious direction, JD’s hands cradled her head, fingers spearing into her dark hair, flexing against her scalp. “Damn, baby. So good.”

  Mind-blowing good.

  He’d been tired from his last shift at the station but sleep was highly overrated compared to the sexual hungers of his fiery lover.

  Her lips released him and her tongue trailed the length of his shaft, sliding lower, down to his scrotum. Gently she took first one then the other globe into her mouth, suckling and swirling her tongue insatiably.

  JD became lost in the sensation of having Rissa pleasuring him with her mouth. She shifted, one hand gliding over sleek curves and moving between her legs. Two slender fingers disappeared with a wet slurp that drove him wild.

  Sexy as it was to watch Rissa fuck her fingers, JD was dying for a taste of her sweet cream. “Come here,” he demanded.

  Rissa shuddered and he couldn’t suppress a satisfied grin. The strong-willed, confident woman loved surrendering to his command in the bedroom.

  Releasing her hair, he patted his chest. “Straddle me, baby. Give me that delicious pussy. I’m hungry.”

  She refused to let go, stroking his shaft as she swiftly moved to assume the position he wanted. With her knees bracketing his shoulders, she knelt over him, palming his balls, her ravenous lips closing around him once again.

  JD stretched out the moment, forcing both of them to wait as he blew a hot stream of air over her drenched pink folds. He swirled a finger in the fluids gathered along her slit, drawing the lubrication back over the shallow groove all the way to her tight pucker. His fingertip pressed past the ring of muscle, stimulating her hidden nerve endings.

  Rissa sucked in a hard breath around the cock filling her mouth. While he had hinted at his desire for anal sex, JD had only ever gone so far as fingering the forbidden channel. It was the only thing they had not yet explored together. There was no denying that his finger shafting into her ass felt incredible. Still, the idea of trying to take his huge cock in the tiny orifice filled her with anxiety, fear and excitement.

  Would he be content to finger her ass or would this be the time he went further? She realized that JD was the one man she trusted not to hurt her. The one man she could relax and enjoy a new experience with.

  So focused on the shallow thrust of his finger stroking the sensitive tissues just inside her bottom, Rissa faltered and his engorged shaft slid from her slack mouth. The wonderful friction immediately ceased.

  “You want more, Rissa?”

  “Oh god, yes. Please, JD. Don’t stop.”

  His teeth nipped at the juncture of her thigh and shudders tore through her body.

  “Then keep going, baby. You stop and I stop.”

  She eagerly took him back into her mouth, sucking on his turgid flesh, twirling her tongue around him. Whatever he wanted, she’d do it as long as he continued to pleasure her.

  JD stayed still for a drawn-out moment but his finger began to move again, making small circles, stretching her narrow channel. He pressed a hot kiss against the susceptible spot on the outer curve of her ass that always drove her wild. He licked a hot path along the fold where her thigh and bottom joined, all the way to the crease of her ass, then slowly inched toward her empty, aching pussy.

  As his tongue thrust past her trembling entrance, his finger drove deeper into her ass. Rissa groaned and scraped her teeth gently over his length. JD’s moan vibrated through her pussy and his hips bucked.

  He licked and sucked at her swollen tissues, that talented tongue searching out all her most sensitive areas and tormenting them with earth-shattering bliss. A second finger joined the first in her ass, moving in conjunction with the two slamming into her pussy and reaching that wonderful bundle of nerves high on her upper wall. At the same time his lips closed around her clit and his tongue flicked it rapidly.

  A powerful orgasm crashed over her, crushing her under a wave of debilitating ecstasy. She couldn’t breathe or move as intense spasms blasted through her from head to toe. JD murmured encouragement against her overstimulated flesh, keeping her climax going until the pleasure became almost painful.

  She collapsed on top of him, gasping for air, and his touch gentled, bringing her softly back down until his palm landed a jarring swat to her ass.

  “Don’t you dare fall asleep now that you’ve got me wide awake. We’re far from finished.”

  “Damn,” she panted. “I love…your enthusiasm.”

  Every muscle cushioning her body stiffened and Rissa cringed as her choice of words filtered through her mind. Crap, she’d messed up again. Now he’d think she was getting all touchy-feely and be freaked out.

  “Give me a second.” Rissa rolled to the side and up onto her hands and knees, using what always worked with JD—distraction. She wiggled her ass suggestively and tossed a come-hither glance over her shoulder. Gathering her courage, she looked him straight in the eye
and dropped the equivalent of a sexual bomb.

  “I want you to fuck my ass.”

  Her words had the desired effect, erasing her previous slip from his mind. The heat of JD’s gaze slid over her bottom as he blindly reached for the nightstand, fumbling for the lube she kept in the drawer with her toys.

  A pink vibrator, her favorite, rolled across the sheets and settled next to her knee, followed closely by a butterfly-shaped clit teaser. Silver Ben Wa balls sailed right off the end of the bed. A flash of red caught her eye a split second before the leather tails of her flogger snapped against her ass. The heavy thud stung for only a moment before warmth spread through the fleshy globes. Rissa moaned and lifted her ass into the next swat.

  “Damn, baby. I would have done this sweet ass weeks ago if I’d known you had a flogger hidden away with your toys.”

  JD landed several more heavy swats then his hand rubbed over her stinging ass, spreading the heat. “So pink and beautiful,” he praised.

  The leather tails connected with her upturned ass over and over, and Rissa was lost to the decadent thrill. She had bought the flogger on a whim, more as a novelty, never expecting to feel the thuddy sensation on her bare flesh or to be so turned-on by it. Mere minutes ago she had been sated, yet after a few swats her desires roared back to life. With each lash her body rocked, breasts swinging, pebbled nipples dragging across the sheets. Her clit swelled, throbbed, needing attention. Hot fluids gushed from her pussy, the walls clenching, emphasizing its emptiness.

  “JD,” she moaned. “Please.”

  He dropped the flogger and a big palm smoothed over her flaming flesh, making her even hotter. “Please what, baby? What do you need?”

  Something blunt pressed at her opening and she gasped, arched her back and thrust her hips, impaling herself on the vibrator he held. Strong muscles flexed, drew the toy deeper.