by E Molgaard
“But something I realized today is that I’ve known, at least since you have come back into my life, everything they said to me was a lie. They just used your words that were only for me against me. But the biggest thing I realized is I’ve trusted you openly for the last couple of months and I haven’t done that with a man since you six years ago.”
Liam waits a second making sure I’m done before he pulls me to him and kisses me with everything inside him. I can feel all the love he had for me in high school, the pain of us being apart, the peace of us reconnecting, and the happiness of us being us again. “Liz you are my sun, moon, and stars. I will never say that to another woman because they aren’t you. Only you can brighten up my life, make me dream of the future, and show me where I want to be.”
I don’t have words to explain what Liam is to me. The one word that comes to mind is everything and it still doesn’t feel right. I want Liam to know how he makes me feel but the only way I know how, is to show him. The inches between us disappear as I bring my mouth back to his and kiss him with everything I have. He has all of me but most importantly he owns my heart and soul. I arch into him wanting no distance between us but it just doesn’t feel close enough. I want us skin to skin. Grabbing a handful of his shirt I moan against his mouth, “Liam… please.”
His hands leave my sides as he quickly pulls his shirt over his head. But instead of his hands returning to where they were, they grab the edge of my tank top and slowly lift it up my body and over my head. He claims my mouth again before my shirt even hits the ground but this time our kiss is full of need and desire.
I rock my hips against the bulge in his pants as his hands run down my sides to my butt taking each cheek in a hand and squeezing. I moan against his mouth which he must like as he bucks against me. The next thing I know I’m in the air as Liam carries me into his room, laying me down on the bed. He runs his hand from my shoulder down in between my breasts, unhooking the front clasp of my strapless bra, releasing them, and down over my stomach to my shorts as my body arches into his touch.
He hooks his fingers into my shorts and panties pulling them down my legs leaving me naked in front of him. With anyone else I’d feel exposed being completely naked and open with him still half dressed but with Liam I feel hot, needed, and admired. Liam reaches for his pants but I stop him as I sit up and move his hands aside. I unbutton his pants as I kiss across his abs and push them and his briefs down his legs. When they hit the floor, Liam pulls my head back a little claiming my mouth again as he kicks his pants off his feet and climbs over top of me.
I open my legs wider for him as he rubs his erection against my center causing a moan to escapes my mouth. Liam’s mouth moves to my neck as I rock against him running my hands down his back, pushing him closer to me. Liam hums against my skin sending a shiver through my body. Hoping Liam keeps his condoms in his side table, I pull it open blindly searching for them.
Liam chuckles against me causing me to smirk at myself. “Do you need help finding them?”
“Are they not in this drawer?”
Liam kisses across my shoulder as he runs his hand over my arm that I have in the drawer. “They are.”
Since he knows exactly where they are, he finds one within seconds and hands it to me. I bring the condom up to my teeth to tear the package open as I push against his chest. He rolls on to his back as I roll with them, straddling him. “You really should make them easier to find.”
“Maybe you should go through my drawers so you know where they are.”
“Maybe I will.” I know he’s waiting for me to roll the condom on but instead I wrap my hand around him and pump him a few times causing him to buck against my hand and groan my name. I love the feeling of his erection in my hand and his reaction to it. It really makes me want to watch him come undone by my mouth. But Liam has other plans as he flips me onto my back, grabbing the condom and rolling it on.
“You’re driving me crazy.” He slams his mouth to mine as he lowers himself to me and I wrap my legs around his waist. He sinks into me slowly and I arch into him loving the feeling.
A moan escapes me when he’s fully in me and I pull him closer to me. “Liam.”
He hums against my neck as I run my fingers down his back. “You feel so amazing babe.”
I pull his face to mine so I can kiss him. As we kiss, Liam moves in and out of me sending sparks through me. I rock into his thrusts and he goes deeper into me, moaning against my mouth. I run my hands down his arms and he grabs them moving them over my head and interlocks our fingers. In this position there’s too much space between us so I arch into him moaning his name. He breaks our kiss to pull out, causing me to groan. He flips me so I’m on my hands and knees facing the headboard. He slides back into me and covers me with his entire body. “Am I close enough now?”
I move my hands from the bed to the headboard as he moves in and out of me for support. “Yes...Yes.”
I turn my head to look back at him and he kisses me moving my hair to the side so he has clear access to my neck when he breaks our kiss to move down my neck to my shoulder. His thrusts pick up speed as I push back against him. “Fuck Liz.”
He bites my shoulder as I hum with pleasure. Liam hands move from my hips up my stomach to my breasts where he takes each of them in his hands and gives them a squeeze causing me to arch further into his hands. I clench around him when he pinches my nipples sending me right to the edge. “I can feel you like that.”
He does it again and I buck against him moaning his name. “Do you like it when I do that?”
I love how powerful and breathy he sounds. It makes everything he’s doing more intense. “Yes,” comes out of my mouth and I barely recognize my own voice. He moves one of his hands from my breast back down my stomach and when he circles my clit at the same pace as his thrusts, I buck against him again throwing my head back moaning. “Oh yes. Yes. Yes.”
“Oh babe. You're squeezing me so hard. It feels so good. Let’s see what happens when I do this.”
He continues circling my clit as he squeezes my nipple sending me skyrocketing. All I see are sparks as I scream Liam’s name but I can barely hear myself over Liam groaning my name as he comes with me. I come around him for what feels like forever as he continues to thrust into me slowly, prolonging both of our orgasms.
I’m so numb in a good way that I barely feel Liam pull out of me and pull me against his side as he tosses the condom in the trash next to the bed. That was so amazing. I’m speechless. I’ve never been so connected with someone that we’ve come at the same time. And that orgasm. It felt like it would last forever. I don’t know if it was the build up from us waiting or just Liam. All I know is I can’t wait to do it again.
I chuckle to myself as I think about what Mack said at lunch about how it would just happen in the right moment. I never would’ve guessed the right moment would’ve been a couple hours later.
Liam runs his fingers down my back and kisses the top of my head. “Whatcha chuckling about?”
I rotate a little so I’m looking up at him. “I was just thinking that I need to talk to Mack more about our sex life if it’s going to lead to more sex.”
He grabs my hips pulling me over him so I have my knees on either side of him. “You don’t need to talk to Mack about sex to get sex. I think we can work that out together. Naked.”
“I do like the sound of that.” I lean down and kiss him, letting him know I’m ready for round two as I rock my hips against his growing erection.
Chapter Twenty-Five
Liam
October 2011
It’s Friday night and Friday nights in the fall only mean one thing. Football. But this game is one of the most important games because we’re playing against our rivals West Wake. If we lose this game, West Wake will have bragging rights for a whole year and they haven’t beat us in ten years. This is our senior year and we can’t leave like that. I’m sitting on the bench watching our defensive line holding back Wes
t Wake’s offensive line so they aren’t able to gain the twenty yards they need in order to score another touchdown making them twenty-one points ahead of us. I look up at the scoreboard board to see there’s only fifty-three seconds left in the second quarter.
They can hold them off for that long. West Wake hikes the ball and the quarterback is searching for an open receiver for a throwing play. I watch the play and it’s like in slow motion as he throws to the receiver in the end zone that Zach is covering but instead of the West Wake player catching the ball, it goes right into Zach’s hand and he takes off running. We all stand up off the bench and the fans are cheering as we watch Zach run past the West Wake players all the way to the forty-yard line before he is run out of bounds. Everyone is cheering as I run out onto the field passing Zach giving him a fist bump.
Now it’s time to focus. I haven’t had a great game so far. I’ve missed a few passes and if I would’ve gotten them, we’d probably be tied right now. I huddle into the group as the quarterback calls the play telling us that I’m to go long along the left edge of the field and he is going to throw the ball to our thirty-yard line. That means I have fifty yards to cover. This play is designed for me because I’m the fastest receiver on the team and they know I can get the distance in time.
We all clap as we leave the huddle to head to our positions. As I wait for the quarterback to start the play, I hear my name called out from the crowd and I know it Liz. A smile forms on my face as the quarterback starts to hike the ball and I take off to the left and cross the line scrimmage right as they snap the ball running down the edge of the field. At the fifty-yard line I look back to see the West Wake defenseman that’s supposed to be covering me five yards behind me. I hear the buzzer go off letting me know this quarter is done and this is the last play of the half.
At the forty-yard line I look back at our quarterback seeing he’s throwing the ball. My eyes are on the ball as soon as it leaves his hand and based on the speed of it, I have to slow down or I’m going to out run it. The ball falls perfectly into my hands right before the thirty-yard line and I take off towards the end zone.
I make it to the ten-yard line when I notice a West Wake player coming right at me. I sidestep in order to miss his reach and continue to the end zone. I cross the goal line and all my teammates run up to me cheering but all I hear is the referees whistle blowing. Looking over at him, he’s waving his arms out in front of him signaling no goal. Then his words register. “No goal. Out of bounds at the nine-yard line.”
“What?!” My coach and teammates say at the same time. I hang my head and start walking towards our locker room as a second referee walks over confirming the call. The West Wake team is cheering as they walk into the guest locker rooms. Once in the locker room, I take my helmet off and throw it against my locker and continue to walk out the back needing fresh air. I’m pacing back and forth trying to calm down because I’m pissed at myself for how poorly I’m playing when I see someone in peripheral walking up. “I don’t want to talk about it, Drew.”
“Well that’s hurtful. Do I look like Drew?”
Hearing her voice instantly puts me in a better mood. I turn to face Liz in her blue and white Eagles jersey with a huge smile on her face carrying a bottle of water and nachos. “You guys are twins.”
She gasps like she’s hurt by what I said but her smile tells me she’s not. “I saw you pacing back here and wanted to see if you wanted any.”
She holds out her food and drink but I know she’s really checking in on me. “Can I have a nacho?”
She steps closer to me. “Sure.”
“My hands are dirty. Will you put it in my mouth?”
She shakes her head while dunking a chip in the cheese. “So needy.”
I take the chip in my mouth and rub my stomach as I chew. “Yum. That’s the best nacho I’ve ever had. I should get you to feed me all the time. It makes things so good.”
She chuckles which has me chuckling. “That’s not happening. If anything, you should be feeding me.”
“Okay.” I reach for the nachos but she pulls them away from me as she sees my hands.
“Not with those dirty hands.” She tries to step further away from me but I loop my arm around her waist pulling her to me.
Her face softens as she looks up at my face but her smile tells me she’s happy being here with me. “Liz you are my sun.” She tilts her head to the side waiting for me to explain. “You bring me out of the dark. You make me smile when I’m down. You make all my worries disappear when your around. You brighten up my world.”
Liz wraps her arms around my middle pulling me into a hug. “That’s the most beautiful thing anyone has ever said to me.” She pulls back to look up at me. “You’ll always have me.”
“Liz…” Someone coughs behind her and I look up to see Carly, my girlfriend. Liz quickly steps away from me and I want to pull her back.
“Hi Carly!” Liz looks between Carly and I. “Well I better get going. Good luck with the rest of the game and don’t worry about the last play. If the other guys were blocking for you like they should’ve been, you wouldn’t have stepped out of bounds. The player wouldn’t have come near you.”
She walks around the corner of the building and I’m left with Carly. She smiles at me as she walks over to me and kisses me. “Don’t listen to her. You didn’t step out of bounds.”
Carly is wrong. I believe the referees and Liz that I did because I know they’re watching the game. Carly was probably behind the stands hanging out with her friends. God, I wish Liz was here instead of Carly. The calmness Liz gave me is slowly evaporating with Carly here. I need to get away from her so I can keep my head clear for the rest of the game. I quickly give her a kiss and point towards the locker room door. “I should get back in there. Coach is probably looking for me.”
“Okay. I’ll see you after the game.” She kisses me again and I head to the door. I look back over my shoulder hoping to see a glimpse of Liz but she’s nowhere to be seen. Instead, Carly is standing there waving her fingers at me and I give her a small smile and a nod before closing the locker room door behind me.
Chapter Twenty-Six
Liam
Present
Tonight’s the night we’re getting the break we need in our investigation. We have enough evidence against Bradley Jones to arrest him for drug dealing but what we really want is information. Caleb and I bust into Jones’s apartment announcing ourselves as Raleigh PD with our guns out, ready to fire if needed. We clear the front hallway together and as we approach the first opening, I turn first into the doorway which leads to the living room and quickly scan the room seeing no one there.
We check each room as we walk down the hallway, clearing the kitchen, closets, and bathroom. We get to the final room in the apartment and I’m starting to think Jones isn’t here even though we watched him enter the building an hour ago, waiting for the go ahead to arrest him. Caleb tests the knob to what has to be the bedroom and it’s locked. We both step back and Caleb kicks open the door as I quickly step into the room. The room is empty but the window is open and as I stick my head out, I see Jones climbing down the fire escape. “Caleb!” I start climbing out of the window too. “He’s on the fire escape.”
I can barely hear Caleb yell he’s taking the stairs as I take off after Jones. I don’t get to use my speed too much ever since I joined the narcotics unit but now, I’m thankful for it. Jones has easily a three block lead on me as I jump off the fire escape and take off after him. It takes me two blocks to get within a few feet of Jones and I’m about to grab onto him when all of a sudden my mom is there.
I’m standing still and instead of it being dark outside, it’s white all around. What the…? I turn in a circle and my surrounding changes to a beautifully decorated church full of my family and friends. I stop when I come face to face with Liz looking breathtaking in a white lace wedding dress as she looks up at me with so much love in her eyes. “Mr. Camden.” I jump as a man ap
pears out of nowhere. “Do you take Liz to be your wife? To love and cherish? In sickness and in health until death do you part?”
Liz reaches for my hands and I wrap mine arounds hers with a huge smile on my face. “I do.”
“Ms. Baker. Do you take Liam to be your husband? To love and cherish? In sickness and in health until death do you part?”
Liz brings our hands to her mouth and she kisses the back of mine. “I do.”
“I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may kiss the bride.”
I pull Liz to me and kiss her with everything I have. We pull apart and face everyone but instead of seeing a church full of people, the only people that are there are my mom and dad. “Mom? Dad?”
Liz places her hand in the center of my chest over my heart. “They will always be with you.”
I shake my head no. “They’re here.” I look back over to my parents but as I step towards them to give them a hug, they slowly start to disappear and a loud hum rings out. “Noo.” I let go of Liz’s hand to try to catch them but they’re dust in the air by the time I reach them. I turn to Liz as I hear her call my name to see her disappearing too as she tries to reach out for me. I run to her to try to catch her but I trip on her dress pilled on the floor and fall into a dark hole.
I jolt up in bed breathing hard as the dream slowly fades and I gather my surroundings. I’m in my room. I’m awake. The loud hum starts again but this time it not coming from everywhere; it’s coming from my night stand. Liz moves next to me. “Liam?” She sits up with worry in her eyes. “Are you okay? You’re phones ringing.”