by Lynn Galli
She reached to slide her underwear off. I leaned up and stopped her. I wanted this pleasure. Her eyes followed my hands as they pulled on the cotton material. The ridge of her defined abdomen led to a light brown triangle of closely trimmed hair. I felt my eyes squeeze tight, snapping a mental picture of her magnificent body. All that hard work she did every day had shaped her body without making it bulky. And she was all mine for tonight. Hopefully for a lot longer.
Her knee rose up and landed beside my hip. The next movement had her on her hands and knees over my now prone body. She looked like a panther subduing its prey, and I had no problem being her prey.
She brought a finger up to pluck under the front clasp of my bra. It sprang open, and her eyes flared again. It felt good to see how much she approved. I wasn’t as firm as she, but she didn’t seem to mind.
I reached up and pulled her onto me. The move took her by surprise. She ended up lying fully on me, laughing. I joined her and wondered how I hadn’t known that sex could be so much fun. Sure, it felt good and it was fun to do, but I’d never let myself have fun while making love. It was always about reaching orgasm and making sure that my partner had a satisfying time. It wasn’t about letting go and just enjoying the moment.
“Fierce,” she said as the laughter died off. She lifted her head and stared straight through me. Her mouth lowered to take mine again.
I got swept up in the feeling of her entire body touching mine. She felt so good. My hands moved to push her onto her back, but she stopped me. She must have a plan, and I let her go with it. Her commanding moves were surprising considering she always took orders so well on the jobsite. I’d thought our dynamic would transfer to the bedroom, but it was exhilarating to find out that it wouldn’t.
She slid down my body, her mouth following. When her lips closed over a rigid nipple, I jerked and moaned. She added suction, and I swore. The lash of her tongue had me babbling. I’d never reacted so strongly to this kind of attention before.
“You’re just full of good spots, aren’t you?” she asked when her mouth popped off.
“You keep stopping,” I challenged. I knew I was glaring but only because I wanted her mouth back. Like right now.
“I’ve got to find them all, Vivi,” she teased, stroking a hand down my side and curling it around to squeeze my ass. I jolted at the pleasurable squeeze. She smiled, her tongue peeking between her teeth. “We could be here for a while.”
“Less talking, more finding,” I ordered and received another breathy laugh.
Her fingers slid around my thigh and grazed my swollen lips, fleeting but oh so wonderful. Then her hand was moving back up my side to caress my breast with a gentle squeeze before her finger flicked over my aching nipple. She was clearly trying to kill me.
“Nat, please, just…”
“What, Viv? Want me to kiss you here?” Her mouth pressed a kiss between my breasts. “Or here?” It moved to the left, nowhere near where I needed it.
“Explore another day, babe.”
She laughed again, and I joined her. “If you promise to let me.”
“I promise, I promise,” I chanted, using my hands to shift her head to the right position.
Her mouth came down again, sucking my nipple into her mouth. The tongue lash was relentless this time. My hips lifted to grind against her abdomen. She tilted down to give me some relief while her mouth made love to my breast and her hand made love to the other.
I slid my hands up her sides to find her breasts, cupping them. They just filled my palms, their size made for me. Her spiking nipples tickled my palms as I squeezed. I used my thumbs and middle fingers to pinch then tweak the stiff points.
Her head popped off me, and she let out an anguished moan. I might have been worried had her face not shown pure ecstasy. Found one of her spots, obviously.
Her eyes focused and gave me a determined look. She leaned up and kissed me, hard and meticulous. Her knees slipped between my legs, spreading my thighs. She made me wait forever, my thighs spread wide, anticipating her hand or thigh or mouth or anything, just something now, or now, or dammit, please now.
Her mouth let go of mine. I looked into her eyes, everything I was feeling reflected back at me. She lowered her pelvis to mine, and we both gasped at the touch. I couldn’t believe how amazing this felt. This position had never worked for me. Never enough contact, never enough friction, but when Natalie’s trimmed triangle brushed against my shaved, swollen lips, I felt every single hair scraping against me. I wasn’t even sure if I was making words, but I knew I was making noise.
She began a circular thrust with her nimble hips. All I could do was lift my legs and wrap them around her. Every pump of her hips shot a bolt of pleasure through me. I wasn’t going to last, yet I wanted it to last. I wanted to slow her down and speed her up. I wanted softer but harder, quick and long, jarring and caressing.
She leaned down to kiss me, her tongue following the motions of her hips. I brought my hands up to thumb her nipples. A muffled groan poured into my mouth as her hips doubled their effort.
I thrust against her, feeling the tingle of an orgasm approaching. Her mouth let go, moving down to kiss my neck. Holy hell, she never stopped. Every single thing she did got me hotter.
“Vivi, I have to come,” she moaned against my neck. “Please be close. Tell me you’re close.”
“Yes. God yes,” I confirmed. I hadn’t realized I’d been holding back until she spoke. With one final pump of her magical hips, I let go and crashed into orgasm. It rolled over me in waves as I clung to her.
Natalie let out a sharp yell, seizing up over me as her climax hit. I watched her eyes shut, head tilted up, and thought I’d never seen anything more beautiful in my life.
Her eyes opened to look at me. I could feel the penetrating gaze work through every thought in my head. I didn’t hide my feelings, not after finding out that being intimate with her was just as amazing as being romanced by her.
33 Vivian
An annoying ringing woke me from a blissful sleep. My hand blindly reached out from my side to the nightstand. Then the phone was at my ear without any conscious effort from me.
“Hello?” I croaked, wondering if it was my brother or Samantha calling me this early. Everyone else knew not to wake me.
“You’re still asleep?” my brother’s voice sounded in my ear as I shifted slightly for a softer landing on my pillow.
“I was,” I grumped then shivered as a soft feathery touch slid up my back. I stiffened and lifted my head. I wasn’t lying face down on my pillow. I was lying face down on Natalie. A naked, sexy, smiling Natalie. “Huh.” And suddenly my grumpiness disappeared.
“What?” Zach asked from the now forgotten phone. “Viv? You awake yet?”
I beamed at Natalie, jubilation filling every part of me. Warmth followed the careful tracks of her fingers on my bare skin. I tunneled back into her body, not even remotely horrified that I’d somehow managed to cover three quarters of her in my sleep, using her as my pillow and bed. She felt warm and soft and didn’t seem to mind that I’d used her as my mattress for at least part of the night.
“Viv?” Zach tried again. “We’re in a bind.”
I knew even before he asked what he’d need. “Which farm has the emergency?”
“Livingston. I pushed off my morning appointments, but if you could take the boys for the afternoon until Cass gets back, we’d appreciate it.”
Natalie’s eyes glittered as her fingers danced across my back, dipping for a graze of my breast then back to the other side. She didn’t seem to mind that my brother had interrupted our first morning together. Maybe she knew like I did that this would be the first of many. Hell, after last night, hopefully it would be the first of a lifetime.
“Let me call you back in a sec.” I pressed the end button and propped my chin on Natalie’s chest to get a better look at her. “You feel good in the morning.”
She laughed, causing me to sway with her chest and s
tomach. I became acutely aware that our legs were entwined, putting me in the perfect position to benefit from that. “You feel good all the time. Did you sleep well?”
“I slept on you. You were quite comfy.”
“Problems with your brother?”
“He needs a sitter. Their summer camp ended on Friday and Cass was called in for an emergency.” I tilted my head and kissed the crest of her breast. My tongue snaked out and lapped at her dark pink nipple. It grew hard instantly. I groaned, seeing how she responded to me. God, that was such a turn on. “I’m their backup on vacations.”
“Okay,” Natalie sighed, shifting to give me better access to her needy nipple.
I slid my mouth over the addictive tip and sucked. She moaned, making me smile. “Sorry, babe. I really wanted to spend the day with you.”
Her eyes fluttered opened and gave me a curious look. “I can kidsit.”
I thrust an elbow under me to pop off her. I missed the warmth, but she’d surprised me. “You want to help? The boys can be pretty exhausting.”
“If I’m with you, I’m happy.”
Oh. My. God. I was beginning to think my joke about her being too sweet for this century was no longer a joke.
I leaned up and kissed her. A proper good morning kiss for a fabulous lover and amazing woman. Her lips, which had brought me the ultimate pleasure last night, tempted me to ravish her again this morning.
“Call Zach before you forget.”
I groaned in disappointment but knew she was right. Zach would be pacing to know if I could help today before he started calling all of their backup sitters, who never seemed to be able to do anything on a moment’s notice. I pressed speed dial and slapped the phone to my ear in one motion. Zach was suitably grateful, yet another thing I loved about my brother. He never took anyone for granted, even his sister who almost always bailed him out.
Tossing the phone onto the floor, I settled back over Natalie. She looked up at me with beautiful brown eyes. My fingers grazed her cheek, swiping over the dark mole that lay just below the corner of her eye. This one was flat, as was the one on her jawline. The one at her temple was slightly raised. I had yet to memorize the texture of the rest on her body, but I’d get to them all soon enough.
“Good morning, beautiful Natalie.”
Her wide, pliant lips pulled into a smile that made her eyes twinkle. “Good morning, gorgeous Vivian.”
“How did you end up under me on my side of the bed?”
Her eyes flared, and she let out a chuckle. “You have a side in my bed?”
“I better have a side in your bed now.” I leaned down and took her earlobe between my teeth for a warning nip. “Crap, this is the side you sleep on, isn’t it?”
Her eyes told me I was right, but her mouth said, “Not anymore.”
That surprised me enough to lift my lips from where they’d wandered down her throat. “You’d give up your side of the bed for me?”
The glance she gave me told me everything I needed to know about her commitment to this relationship. “Of course.”
“Too sweet for this century.”
She smiled and slid her hand down my back to squeeze my ass again. Her thigh nudged up, pressing right where I needed it. She hissed when she felt what she’d done to me. “God, I want you again, but we can’t. You’ve got to get moving if you’re taking over for your brother soon.”
I tried not to pout. “That’s hours from now.”
“We slept in.” She nodded toward the clock on her nightstand, showing a late morning hour.
“You’re a bad influence.” I wiggled my hips against her thigh.
She laughed, and I melted. Only someone amazing would be okay with a morning tease and no hope of follow through. Others would sulk, then find some way to punish. Natalie relished the tease and the anticipation.
“I’m not the one who was still sleeping when your brother called. I’ve been trying to wake you subtly for an hour. You sleep like the dead.”
I really did. When the boys slept over, they’d race into my room and have to jump on my bed to wake me some mornings. I smiled at the thought. I couldn’t wait to spend time with the kids and Natalie together.
34 Natalie
Seth was eager to get out of the house when I called. Greg’s kids were up for the last two weeks of summer break and driving him crazy. At least now that he had his own room, he was making a better effort to get along with them. It also helped that he had a group of friends that would invite him places and a part-time job helping Luke wash the cars on his dad’s lot every weekend.
We pulled up to Vivian’s cabin and parked. She’d left an hour earlier to get home and shower before she took over for her brother for the afternoon. I wasn’t sure what she had planned to occupy the boys today, but she told me to wear a bathing suit and meet her out at her beach. When I heard her call it her beach, I grinned so much my cheeks hurt. It was a little nuts how happy I got knowing I’d made her happy.
“Seth is here!” I heard one of the boys yell before both boys burst through the trees surrounding the river and headed toward us.
“Hi, Seth!” Teddy yelled as Mason called out a hello to me then Seth. They both had on swim trunks and looked like they’d already been in the river. No shirts on either boy, and Mason still had a streak of sunblock on his cheek as he rushed up to us.
“Hey, guys,” Seth slapped their hands in greeting.
“You ready to go tubing?” Teddy asked him.
Seth shrugged. “Sure.”
“Sounds fun, fellas. Grab a bag, will you?” I handed them each a small bag filled with towels and light snacks. Seth grabbed the other end of my camping cooler and waited for me to close the truck gate before we followed the boys on the trail toward Viv’s beach.
“Wow,” Seth said when we broke through the trees and saw Vivian’s secluded spot.
She’d added two lounge chairs and two wooden chairs with an umbrella planted between them. It really did look like a beach now. A small, private one, but big enough to accommodate the five of us and a few more.
The boys plunked the bags I’d given them onto their blanket. Vivian snatched Mason into her arms, shooting a wide smile at us as she rubbed the rest of the sunblock into his cheek.
“You wriggly lizard,” she accused him. “No slipping away until I get this stuff on you guys.” She tipped her head at Seth. “Hi, Seth, glad you could make it. The boys have been looking forward to hanging out with you.”
“Hi,” he greeted and set the cooler down next to the empty lounge chair.
She stood and leaned toward me when I let go of my end. In the next second her lips were on mine for a quick hello kiss. “Hi, babe,” she whispered. “Glad you could make it, too.”
“Wouldn’t miss a chance to spend the day with you,” I told her softly, trying not to salivate at the sight of her colorful tankini and wrap. She always looked sexy, but the bathing attire stirred me up a bit.
“Eww, kissing,” Teddy whined, watching us.
“Are you Aunt Viv’s girlfriend now?” Mason asked.
“She is, Mase, and be polite, Teddy,” Viv told them without sounding terse.
I caught Seth’s expression, waiting to see if he’d react. I’d told him that Vivian and I were now dating, and he whistled like he couldn’t believe I was with someone so gorgeous. Frankly, I couldn’t either, but I wouldn’t let it stop me from enjoying it. Vivian was so much more than her looks, and I was somehow able to make her happy.
“Where are we tubing?” Seth asked, choosing to ignore the fact that he just saw his aunt kiss a woman for the first time. It didn’t seem to bother him, probably because he had to get used to seeing his mom kiss someone other than his dad over the past year.
“We drop in here then go down a ways and come out by our house,” Teddy told him.
I looked down the river, noting the gentle curves. I could see the back of Zach’s house and barn. With the bends in the river, it would probably be over
a mile trip for the tubes.
“How do we get back here?” he asked.
“Dad’s Gator,” Teddy supplied, pointing to where the utility vehicle was parked on a well-worn path through the trees.
“Aunt Viv comes and get us,” Mason said helpfully.
I swung my head back to Vivian and smiled brightly. I now knew why she didn’t look so harried about having to spend the day with the boys instead of what she’d hoped. They’d be on the river for the better part of an hour while we could enjoy her private beach. Alone, without any nephews, on a beach that made us both very happy.
“You hungry, Seth?” Vivian asked.
“We waited on lunch for you,” Teddy said.
“Sure,” he said and sat with him on the big blanket.
“We brought sandwiches and snacks,” I offered.
“You,” Vivian accused playfully.
“Seth likes that deli down the road here,” I said by way of explanation. Seth ate a lot, and it was never good for anyone when he got hungry. “Turkey, ham, salami, or roast beef?” I asked the boys first. I already knew what Seth would like.
“Ham,” Teddy said while Mason said, “Salami.”
I winked at Seth, knowing he’d been worried one of them would want his roast beef sandwich. I’d ordered two of those just to assure him, but I knew what Mason liked and assumed Teddy would like the same.
“I like that deli, too,” Teddy told Seth as he plopped down right next to him to eat his sandwich.
“Got you turkey and Swiss, all the veggies, sweet mustard, and a splash of vinegar,” I told Vivian, smiling as her eyes widened that I’d taken note of her sandwich order.
She leaned across her chair, ignoring the sandwich I held out, to kiss me on the cheek. “You delight me.”
I smiled and placed her sandwich on her lap, grabbing mine out of the bag. Vivian handed out drinks as Mason looked around for a second then decided that my lap would be the best place for him to sit and eat. It felt completely natural to try to eat around the small kid in my lap, especially when it earned warm, affectionate glances from his aunt.