Hate to Lose You

by Penny Wylder

  Her breathing goes faster, sharper. Her hands reach down to bury in my hair, and her thighs clench on either side of me, pressing against my face and pulling me closer to her. I spread my mouth, take her whole pussy into it and continue to lap at her with my tongue, my lips pressed flush against hers.

  Her sharp breaths become moans, and before long, she’s crying out, her whole body shaking from the force of her orgasm as it sweeps through her.

  She’s still gasping when I slide down to press my tongue into her pussy. I can feel her clenching around my tongue, twitching from the climax, and I curl my tongue up, press the tip against her front wall and start to thrust in and out of her, licking harder, faster.

  Her head falls back against the bed. “Fuck, Bronson,” she manages to gasp, as I lick her over and over, drawing her near to the peak again. This time when she comes, she arches her back, twisting and writhing across the bed. I grip her ass with both hands to pin her in place as I lick her, savoring the taste of her, the hot wet rush across my tongue, and the way I control her pleasure, every ounce of it.

  She’s mine. Now and always.

  Finally, I pull my tongue out of her and slide up her body, all the way up her length until we’re nose-to-nose. “You’re mine, Daisy,” I whisper, before I kiss her, my tongue slipping into her mouth so she can taste herself on my lips, savor the taste the same way I do.

  “And you’re mine,” she breathes when we break apart, smiling.

  “And now I’m going to claim you all over again,” I reply, my hand sliding down to catch her thigh, lifting her leg until she wraps it around my waist. Her hands find the buckle of my pants and start to tug on it, releasing it. She pushes my jeans down, and I toss them aside, boxers next, before her hands find my already throbbing cock, and start to stroke. Her soft hands feel so fucking good against my hard shaft, as she strokes me expertly, holding on just tight enough to make me groan with desire.

  “I love how hard you get for me, Bronson,” she whispers.

  “I love how well you know how to get me hard, Daisy,” I reply with a smirk. “Hell, one damn look from you and I have trouble walking. I just want to pin you down and fuck you so badly.”

  Finally, when I can’t take it anymore, I pull her hands away and gently hold them over her head, trapping her beneath me on the mattress. I guide the head of my cock to her pussy, and slowly push inside her, both of us moaning aloud.

  “Right there,” she groans into my mouth. “I love how you feel inside me. I feel so fucking full.”

  “Your pussy is fucking heaven, Daisy.” I draw back from her, then thrust back inside, right as she arches up to meet me, both her legs wrapped tight around my waist now, her ankles hooked behind me to give her the best angle. I reach down to catch her hips with my hands, and start to fuck her in slow, steady strokes, in and out, just fast enough to make her moan with frustration that I’m not going faster.

  “Fuck me, Bronson,” she begs, her voice going low and throaty in the way it does when she’s really desperate.

  “You want me to fuck you harder, dirty girl?” I ask, still keeping to that slow, steady stroke.

  “Fuck yes,” she whispers.

  “I didn’t hear you,” I reply with a smirk. Her eyes flash bright. She always claims to hate me for teasing her, but I know deep down she loves the build-up. The delay makes the release that much sweeter.

  “Fuck me,” she says, louder this time, a note of desperation in her voice. “Please, fuck me, hard.”

  This time I listen. I start to thrust faster, pounding into her, and she cries out with pleasure and rocks up against me, giving as good as she gets. We can be as loud as we want tonight, and we fucking are, both of us moaning one another’s names as I drive into her again and again.

  She comes again with my cock deep inside her, and the way her pussy clenches and releases around me makes it hard for me to stay focused and keep thrusting into her. Fucking hell, I love this woman. “I love you,” I tell her, and she moans in pleasure.

  “I love you,” she manages in a breathy response, just as I’m nearing my peak.

  I grab both her hips roughly, drive into her again and again until, with a low, guttural roar, I come inside her, coating her pussy with my juices. She moans, and I keep pumping into her, filling her, until I can’t move anymore, and I collapse across her, both of our bodies slick with sweat.

  She nuzzles her nose against my neck, kissing me lightly, and I smile into her hair.

  “How the hell did I get so lucky?” I murmur.

  She laughs softly. “Guess that gambling of yours paid off after all.”

  I tilt her chin back so I can meet her eyes. “Definitely,” I agree. Then I kiss her again, this woman who’s going to be the mother of my child, who I’m going to make my wife. And I have never been happier in my life.

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  Chapter One

  Jasper

  60 miles per hour.

  70.

  80.

  85.

  I floor the gas pedal, a wild grin on my face as I careen toward the corner of the track.

  “Jasper…” warns a voice in my ear.

  “I’ve got this,” I murmur, in response to my usual test track monitor, safely above in a booth, watching me and this brand new gem of a car speed around the test track.

  “We haven’t tested the tires on curves yet. Slow down to a more reasonable—”

  I reach up and tap the headset attached to the crash helmet. The voice fades away. My smile widens.

  The turn approaches. I swing the wheel hard. I feel the tires skid under the car, and for a pulse-stopping, heart-in-my-throat instant, I worry if the voice in my helmet was right. If I’ve taken the curve too fast, put too much stress on this new model, a car that hasn’t even been unveiled to the public yet, let alone tested by the scientists and engineers who oversee the production of all new car regulations in the country.

  If the car skids, flips, this could be it…

  But then I feel the rubber screech, catch purchase again, and I rev the engine, accelerating with the turn instead of against it, so the car flows around the sharp turn of the track smooth as a knife through butter.

  Safely onto the straightaway once more, I let out a loud whoop and gun it. I watch the speedometer leap up to 100, 120, 140… Higher. Faster.

  I love this. I love getting to drive cars like this, and really put them through their paces. Drive them the way they’re built to be driven—with abandon, and without road laws getting in the way. Germany has it right, I think briefly. If only the United States had its own autobahn. One road, one spot where people could let loose.

  But, of course, that’s a pipe dream for another time. For now, I’ll have to settle for this closed test track, and the chance to pacify my inner speed demon from time to time—and earn a paycheck for it, no less.

  I reach the makeshift finish line, really just a little dugout where we modify and prep the cars for the track, and squint through the visor of my crash helmet at my assistant, Greg.

  Greg’s enormous arms are crossed, his brow lowered in the thunderous expression he gets when he doesn’t approve of something I’ve been doing. Of course, I’m his boss, so Greg can’t really protest too much when I do things like this. But that doesn’t mean he can’t allow his disapproval to show on his face.

  I skid to a halt outside the engineer shelter, and climb from the car while several test engineers flood the area, bending to take measurements of the axels, the tires, and one popping the hood to study how the engine held up, as another inspects the fuel gauges.

  “How about that turning radius, huh?” I shout over the clank and clatter of tools and measuring devices. I sidestep a pair of engineers to reach Greg, and he removes
his own earpiece.

  “You shut off your radio,” complains Greg, the voice in my ear, who has now become the constant voice in the back of my head. My conscience, one might even say. He’s constantly watching me, overseeing things, warning me to slow down, take it easy, be more careful. I know my father puts him up to half of these disapproving glares and lectures, but even so, it can wear on a man. Especially when I know what I’m doing.

  You might say I have a lot of practice ignoring the conscience in the back of my head. “Your talking was distracting me,” I say. “It was a finicky turn.”

  “Because you were driving at least twenty miles per hour faster than we’d run the car even in simulations,” Greg mutters.

  “And look how well it turned out!” I clap my assistant on the back. “Now we can all skip a few of the intermediate stress tests and put this model straight into pre-production status.”

  Greg rolls his eyes. “It was still an unnecessary risk—”

  “But you say that about every risk,” I point out, jamming a single finger into Greg’s bicep. It barely makes a dent.

  I take after my father’s side of the family—all lean, slim, sculpted muscle. We’re built for running. Descended from the first marathon runners of ancient Greece, Dad always claims. Me, I mention that a fair amount too, albeit for different reasons. I blame those ancestors for my need for speed. “My speed demon was inherited,” I always say. “Nothing I can do about it.”

  But Greg, he’s a distant cousin, part of my dad’s grandmother’s vast clan. The line Greg comes from isn’t built like marathoners so much as like walls.

  Greg narrows his eyes at me.

  I smirk and stride toward the main building. “Come on, worry wart. Lunch is on me to make up for your stress-induced high cholesterol levels.”

  “I would love to take you up on that, Jasper, but you have a lunch appointment.” Greg flips open his tablet and squints down at the screen, scrolling through it with a finger.

  “With who?” I frown. I don’t remember any new clients planning to stop in and check out the factory today, and it’s far too early in the production schedule for any fellow manufacturers to be poking around. Maybe early buyers? Wholesalers we invited to view the pre-public models…?

  “Your father,” Greg replies, and my stomach sinks. In an instant, the happy mood I manage to whip myself into on the test track evaporates, like a bubble popping in midair.

  Not that my old man and I don’t get along. Quite to the contrary. I work for him, I spend every day helping build the family business—testing our latest models of cars, suggesting improvements or modifications to the designs, marketing and selling them on the front end… I have a hand in every part of our company, and Dad’s been grooming me to take over for him since I was about sixteen years old. I love this job, love my life, and I love my dad too. There’s nothing I’d change about my life right now.

  Well. Except for one tiny thing…

  Dad’s current mood. Because even without seeing his face, I can already guess what he’s going to be on about today. The same thing he’s been on about for the last several years. The same thing he railed at me over when I broke up with Karen, a friend-with-benefits who lasted a grand total of a month. The same thing he freaked out about again when I stopped seeing Meghan. Then Brooke. Then… who was that girl with the horses?

  I can’t even remember her name, truth be told.

  What can I say? I’ve never been the dating type. Or the relationship type. Or the anything more than casual sex type. And who cares? Certainly not the girls I hook up with—I make it clear up front that things will only ever be casual between us, and none of them have complained. Well, except Stacey, who smashed the taillights of my car when I broke things off. But, well, you can see why I had to break off our casual arrangement, given her temper and possessive streak.

  No, that one anomaly aside, nobody cares that I’m not the settling down type… Nobody except my father.

  And with our family reunion looming on the horizon, an enormous affair he hosts every five years, he has grandbabies on the mind worse than ever. This reunion will be the biggest of all, because at this reunion, Dad’s announcing his retirement. His retirement and the appointment of the new company CEO. The future heir apparent to Quint Motors. Me.

  But with all the reflecting Dad has been doing on the company’s history, it just makes him more sentimental than ever about what’s still missing in his life. Namely, grandchildren.

  “I’m suddenly feeling really dizzy,” I tell Greg. “Think I’m coming down with something. Head cold, maybe? Flu? Isn’t it still flu season?”

  Greg narrows his eyes at me. “Your father is already waiting out front in the Andromeda.”

  Ah, the Andromeda. The first car our company, Quint Motors, ever released, way back in the 1970s when my dad was barely old enough to drive himself. He loves that thing. Not only because his father gifted it to him on his (way too young, if you ask me) wedding day. But also because it reminds him of family. If there’s one thing that’s more important to my father than our business, building cars, and putting the best product we can out into the market—it’s the family behind all that.

  “Family is the most important thing in the world,” he’s always saying. “Even when you want to strangle them.” He usually adds that last line while he’s glaring at me over a cup of coffee, having just learned from Greg (who, for being my personal assistant, can definitely be a real narc when it comes to sharing my extracurricular activities with the old man) about one of my exploits or another.

  What can I say? It’s my job to keep this family interesting.

  I just wish it wasn’t my job to listen to hours-long lectures on how interesting I make it. “No chance of talking my way out of this, huh?” I sigh and square my shoulders. “All right. Time to face the music.”

  “Bring a coat,” Greg shouts at my retreating spine. “It’s the Waldorf again.”

  Dad’s favorite lunch spot. I’m halfway through the office when one of our other admins, an older man named Marco, waves a hand to flag my attention. “Jasper, thank goodness, I’ve been looking all over for you.” He holds out a file almost as thick as my arm. “We got the list of interns for the summer season. We need to start sorting them into departments…”

  “Tell Greg to put something on my calendar,” I say, already snatching a suit coat from the back of my chair and shrugging it on as I walk toward the distant front entrance, and the driveway where I can already see Dad’s car idling. Tugging the jacket on over my work shirt at least gives the appearance that I dressed for the occasion.

  So I think. Then I drop into the front seat, and find Dad eying my neck, nose scrunched up in disapproval.

  “No tie?” he says. “And when was the last time you shaved?”

  “This morning,” I reply. “Not my fault I inherited your ridiculously fast hair-growth genes.” Permanent five o’clock shadow, just one of the many markers of a Quint man. That, a tall but muscular frame, and our thick dark hair—mine and Dad’s look almost exactly the same, messy and wavy in front, with a shock falling across our eyes. Even though he’s pushing sixty now, his is still as dark and thick as ever. Pretty sure Quint men will still pass for young men in their mid-twenties from behind right up until we’re on our backs in coffins.

  “Always blaming me.” Dad shakes his head, but I notice he peels out of the driveway just as fast as always, and cuts corners the whole way to the Waldorf, speeding through every yellow light along the route.

  My speed demon genes didn’t pop out of thin air either, much as he never cares to admit where I got it.

  We skid into the Waldorf parking lot, and Dad barely glances at the valet as he tosses his keys over his shoulder for the man to catch. I stride after him through the broad double doors, past the hotel lobby, and back into the dining room, where we’ve got our usual booth.

  He’s in a mood today. I can tell by the way he starts in before we’ve even had a
chance to sit down, let alone give the menus a once-over. “The reunion is in one month, Jasper.”

  “Yes, I know. It would be impossible not to—it’s all you’ve been talking about for the last six months.” I shoot the waiter who’s appeared at our table an apologetic glance, then wave him off to come back later.

  “The reunion is in one month,” Dad plows on as though I haven’t even spoken, “and I’m planning to announce the company’s future. My own retirement. My successor. But that’s not what I’m really looking forward to. Do you know what I’m looking forward to most?”

  Here we go. “What, Dad?” is all I say.

  “The family. We’ll get to see your cousin Sofia—you know she’s pregnant again. That’ll make five for her and her husband. And your cousin Alexander and his three little boys. Chloe and the twins; Luke and his newborn; and did I tell you Jason is married? I hear he and his wife are trying for a baby now, God bless them. I hope they don’t have the same trouble your mother and I did.”

  “Dad…” Thankfully, the waiter returns to spare me for the time being. I order a glass of water, but don’t decide on any food for the time being. My stomach is already tensing up just listening to this.

  Dad takes time to order his usual—steak, medium rare, a side salad and mashed potatoes, heavy on the gravy. He thinks it’s healthier than French fries. Who am I to deny the old man one of his few vices in life?

  Mom would be throwing a fit if she knew. She’s always on about his cholesterol levels and the bad hearts that run in his side of the enormous family he’s just been listing off.

  The pause for food ordering only spares me for so long. Then Dad lays down his menu and crosses his hands on the table once more. “Your Aunt Zoe is a grandmother how many times over now? Fifteen? Aunt Alyssa has Chloe’s little twins to keep her busy. Uncle Xavier spoils Sofia’s tribe rotten.”

  “Dad—”

  “Everyone’s family lines are carrying on except mine. Mine has stalled out like a bad clutch on a car destined for the junk yard.”