Almost Easy (Sinister Ascent Book 1)

by Brittany Clark

  Honestly I didn’t fucking care. She had me under a spell, one where her taste was mixing with mine as her tongue came out to play with me. There was no way in hell I was going to break this spell by asking her questions. I felt her nibble over my lower lip, my hands squeezed her hips harder as I let my tongue dart out and force its way into her mouth. At that moment I was once again in heaven. She sucked my tongue deeper into her mouth and bit it gently. Fuck that was sexy as hell. Chloe pulled her mouth away from mine and I took a much needed gasp of breath, but she didn’t stop. She tilted her head down and let her lips skim over my neck gently, nipping and sucking every so often. She worked her way up my neck until her lips were skimming my jaw, until she got to the spot behind my ear that made me sees stars.

  I couldn’t get my mind on straight. I knew that there was something that she and I needed to talk about. I just couldn’t remember what it was. The only thing I could think about right now was the fact that Chloe was back in my arms, sucking on my neck, as she worked her way to my collar bone. She bit down gently, causing my dick to jerk in my pants. Her hands tugged my hair, which caused me to jump back to the present as I realized that she was doing all the work. Why the hell wasn’t I licking every part of her skin that was made visible to me? Chloe gripped my hair tighter as I wrapped my hand around her ponytail. I tugged back until her head snapped back and her neck was bared to me. Then it was my turn. I brought my lips to the pulse point in her neck earning a purring noise from her. That sound drove me fucking insane, I had missed it more than water these past few months. When her hands left my hair and started traveling up my shirt I snapped back to reality. This, although it was something that I wanted more than my next breath, was not going to fix anything.

  “Wait, Chloe,” I breathed tightening my hands on her hips to push her back a little. I growled when her very lust filled eyes met mine. Why the hell was I stopping this right now?

  “What? What’s wrong?” She asked as her eyes darted back and forth between my eyes and my lips. Her tongue darted out to lick over her bottom lip. My eyes snapped down and followed that sexy movement of her tongue.

  Just like that I was lost again. My head tilted down on its own accord so that I could bring her tongue between my teeth and nip. I was about to deepen the kiss when I remembered once again that this was not going to solve anything. Slowly I released her tongue and pulled back.

  “I want you, Chloe. Fuck I do, but this isn’t going to solve anything,”

  “What?” She asked as her body brushed tighter against mine. I growled when her hard nipples brushed my chest and she shivered in my arms.

  “We need to talk, and as much as I want you, I want more than a quick tumble between the sheets,”

  “One, it would not be quick and we both know that,” I closed my eyes and breathed deep as her words rolled in my mind, “Two, you’re right we need to talk. So you need to stop fucking growling or I won’t be able to stop myself,”

  “Shit, you’re perfect for me,”

  “I’ve been saying that for years, Zane,”

  “I know you have. Now I’m listening to it,”

  Chloe nodded but made no move to get off of my lap. I gripped her hips tighter, letting her know that I didn’t want her to move from where she was. It was pure fucking torture having her on my lap, but I couldn’t bring myself to move her. It was sweet agony and I would force myself to endure it if it meant keeping her in my arms.

  “Chloe, you told me that you don’t forgive me. Tell me what I need to do,”

  “First, tell me what it is you want, Zane,”

  “I want you, and not just as a friend that I fuck. I want you as mine and only mine. I want to be with you, I want to be yours,”

  “So you want to be my boyfriend,”

  “Please?” I whispered out with real fear in my eyes. I was terrified as fuck that she would turn me down.

  “Never once in all of this time have you begged me, and you don’t have to start now,”

  I smiled wide as I heard the words that I had said to her all those months ago when I made love to her. My lips sought out hers again and she kissed me back with everything that she had. The kiss heated up and was just about to turn into something more, but I couldn’t toss her down on the bed and bury myself into her until I knew why she said she hadn’t forgiven me. Slowly I pulled back and looked into her eyes.

  “You said you don’t forgive me. Why not?”

  “Look, Zane, for years you’ve dangled me along and never once showed me any type of romance,” I clenched my teeth as pure pain slashed through me, “I want that to change. If you want to be with me, then we have to start over,”

  “What does that mean exactly?”

  “I want you to take me out, like a normal couple. We can go out on dates, and I want to be with the real you,”

  “You have always been with the real me. I never pretended to be someone else with you. But I get what you’re saying. You want to act like I met you somewhere and asked you out,”

  “Something like that. I mean we have been friends since forever so we know everything there is to know about each other. But I want to be with you, does that make sense?”

  I sent her my trademark smirk as I nodded at her. “I love this idea Chloe. I want to make everything between us right. If we start fresh, then I can do everything I should have been doing from the beginning,”

  Chloe laughed and wrapped her arms around my neck then tugged bringing me closer to her. Before her lips could crush into mine, I slowly pulled back. She stuck her lower lip out earning a pained chuckle from me. She had no idea what it cost me to stop this from going farther. It didn’t help when she made that cute little face she was making right now. But I wanted to do this right.

  “Wait, no Chloe,”

  “What do you mean no?”

  “If we’re doing this, we’re doing it right. That means that we aren’t going to be using this bed under us right now. I want to take you out and really get to know you. Like an actual couple does, before we jump into bed,”

  “But I want you,” She breathed across my lips earning a low grumble from me.

  “I know, shit I want you to baby girl. But I want to do this right,”

  Chloe sighed but nodded her head. There was nothing I wanted more than to toss her down on this bed and ravish her until she was screaming my name so damn loud that the neighbors called the cops on us. However I would stop myself. It would work in my favor to hold myself back as well. I knew that I was proving to her that I was serious about her and that I wanted her, and not just to get her back into bed. I saw all of her thoughts flash across her face. She was so easy to read to me, and I could tell that I had made the right decision just now in saying that we should wait. It might kill me, but it would be worth it in the end.

  “So Chloe, will you go out with me on Friday?” I asked earning a very enthusiastic nod from her as well as a cute little smile.

  She slowly got off my lap, and I was instantly surrounded by the cold. I missed her body heat right away and had to stop myself from reaching out and dragging her back into my lap and never let her go.

  “I would love to go on an actual date with you, but can I suggest something?”

  “Hit me,” I said smiling at how fucking cute she looked right now.

  “What if we pretend that we just met? Like we bumped into each other in a grocery store or something and I gave you my number. So I will be expecting a call from you later,”

  “I’m supposed to wait three days. I mean that’s guy code,”

  Chloe laughed and pecked the side of my mouth, before she got up to leave. She was at my bedroom door when I pushed my ass off the bed. I brushed up against her until every part of my front was snuggled into her back.

  “I need to know something first Chloe,” I breathed into her ear, torturing myself more when she shivered against my already aching dick.

  “What?”

  “Are you still with Blaze?”

>   She turned in my arms and brought her hands up and around my neck, “No, I chose you,”

  I felt my heart expand as I brought my lips down to hers for a small kiss that left us both aching for more. It took everything I had inside of me to pull myself away from her lips, but I did it, slowly I pulled back and she took the hint by removing her delicious lips away from mine. I knew that this was the right thing to do, and I wanted to finally show her what it was like to be in a great relationship with me. Over the years I had pretty much used her, and she had no idea what it felt like to be on the receiving end of something great, and not just the greatness that was my dick. I watched her leave and the second I was alone I tossed myself back on my bed. Then I let my mind roam, thinking about all the places that I could take her on what would technically be our first date. Hell I had a date with a beautiful woman, and I needed to impress her.

  CHLOE

  I walked out of Zane’s house with the biggest smile on my face. I knew without a doubt that I was making the right choice by giving him another chance. There was no doubt in my mind that I was in love with him, and that there would never be another man for me. Hell dating Blaze was amazing, even if it was fake, but the entire time I knew that there was something missing. Those few seconds I was in Zane’s lap just now showed me everything I was missing. It felt like home.

  It might be stupid on my part to give the man that broke my heart over a million times another chance, but I would regret it for the rest of my life and always ask what if, if I didn’t. Plus he had tried so hard to get me back, and if all he wanted was to get me back into bed then he would have done it just now. Hell I was on his lap and could feel his dick pressing hard against me. He could have easily tossed me down on the bed and had his way with me. Something that we both knew. Yet he didn’t. He held himself back. The man either had just jerked off, or he had the restraint of a saint. Since he was hard and rearing to go, I doubted that he had just jerked off. That showed me everything I needed to know.

  The man wanted to prove to me that this was more than what we used to have. So I would give him that chance. It would be his last. Fuck, I hope he didn’t ruin this. I wanted to be with him more than I ever wanted anything else. It would suck if it didn’t work out, or if Zane once again ruined this. I jumped when my phone rang beside me in the car. Damn I was lost deeper in thought than I knew. Zane’s name flashed across my screen next to an envelope signaling that I had a text message. My heart began to pound in my chest as I thought about all the things that Zane could have said to me. What if he was messaging me to cancel our date? Or worse, to tell me that we were better off being friends, and all he wanted was to get me into bed one more time? Hell did I really want to know what he had to say? I put my phone down. I was able to keep myself in check for an entire five seconds before I grabbed the phone again and clicked on the message. Then my heart stopped.

  “Hey, Chloe, this is the guy you met in the grocery store. I wanted you to know that I can’t stop thinking about you. Would you go out with me on Friday?”

  A huge smile stole across my face as I understood what he was doing. He was going along with the suggestion that I had made about us pretending to had just met. We had a lot of history with each other, so this idea wasn’t perfect, but it gave us both the chance of letting the past go. I didn’t want us going into a relationship where we were constantly throwing the past in each other’s faces. Well where I would be throwing the past in his face, because there was nothing that he could use against me except for my brief relationship with Blaze. Either way I wanted a fresh slate between us. I shook myself out of my thoughts and messaged back.

  “I’m free Friday. What did you have in mind?”

  “I made reservations for two for dinner, and then maybe I can think of something else if the date goes well,”

  “A little presumptuous of you, already making the reservations don’t you think?”

  “No, just a hopeful man, hoping that the beautiful woman I met the other day will agree to go out with me,”

  “How the hell am I supposed to say no to that?”

  “You aren’t. So nine-0-clock on Friday?”

  “Sounds good, see you then,”

  “Can’t wait beautiful,”

  My smile grew as I read his words over and over. Hell this just might work out the way that I wanted it to. Zane was proving that he really did want this to be more than just sex. Although I wouldn’t get my hopes up just yet, it was too soon to tell if he was sincere or not. There was still the possibility that Zane just wanted what he couldn’t have. There was a fear inside of me that he would get me and then realize that I wasn’t what he wanted. Only time would tell.

  22

  ZANE

  I knocked on Chloe’s door right on time, and felt my hands sweating. It had been a long time since I felt nervous about taking a woman out on a date, but this was Chloe. When it came to Chloe nothing else ever made me more nervous. I had already hurt her more than she deserved and I couldn’t risk hurting her again, this I knew would be my last chance with her, and I would not let her get away from me again. I was pulled out of my thoughts when the woman of my dreams pulled open her door.

  I was met with a vision of my perfect woman. Chloe’s gorgeous body was wrapped in a form fitting black dress that hid all her secrets from me, leaving me wanting more. I was hard in an instant, how the hell was I supposed to get through this dinner without jumping across the table and ravishing her? My eyes skimmed down her curves down to the sexy fuck me heels she was wearing before making their way back up to her eyes. At that moment Chloe sent me a sexy little smirk that told me that she knew exactly what she was doing to me. My dick jerked in my pants and I knew I was in trouble.

  “Damn you’re beautiful,” I whispered as I handed her the roses I had bought for her. Her eyes lit up as she took them from me. She buried her nose into the buds and breathed deep. I knew that I would remember the way she looked at that moment for the rest of my life.

  “Let me put these in water and then we can go,” I nodded and followed her into her house shutting the door behind me. It was time for us to pretend that this was our first time seeing each other’s places and all of that.

  “This is a nice place, have you lived here long?” I asked leaning against her kitchen counter, Chloe laughed but played along.

  “Yeah, about six years. It isn’t much but I like it,”

  “I can see that. The place looks cozy,”

  “If you say so,” Chloe responded laughing, she then placed the roses in a vase on the counter, making a few more adjustments to them. Once she was done she turned and grabbed her purse “Are we ready to go?”

  “Yeah let’s get out of here,”

  I laced my fingers between hers and pulled her to the door. We walked to my car in silence, and she shot me a shocked look when I pulled open the door for her. Fuck if that didn’t make me feel like the biggest piece of shit on the planet. It hurt me to see how easily she was shocked by me doing simple fucking things like opening her door for her. However it was also going to make for an interesting date for the two of us tonight. I was going to show her how I treated my girlfriends and she would be beyond shocked by the end of the night. I gently closed the car door and ran around the hood to get in.

  “So what do you do Zane?” Chloe asked me as she rested her head on the back of her seat, turning to look at me. I chuckled slightly but continued the ruse we were playing.

  “I’m in a band actually,”

  “Oh so you’re some famous guy?”

  “Famous rockstar to be exact,” I said as I pulled into a parking lot. Before she could respond to me I hopped out of the car and ran to her side to open her door for her.

  I gently grabbed her hand and helped her down before walking her to the door of the restaurant, opening that door for her as well. Chloe stood silently beside me as I told the hostess my name. We were brought to our table, where I pulled out Chloe’s chair for her, then pushed it in b
efore I walked around to take my own seat. Chloe by this time was looking at me with huge eyes. That’s right baby girl, I know how to be a gentleman when I need to be. I looked away from her to give our wine order to the waiter who discretely walked away leaving Chloe and me alone again. I turned to look at the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. Fuck, did I actually think that this woman wasn’t perfect for me?

  “So, mister famous rockstar, what band are you in? Would I have heard any of your music?” Chloe asked, slipping seamlessly back into the role we were playing.

  “Only if you like rock,”

  “I do actually. Oh wait I know who you are,”

  I raised a brow at her as I tried to hide my chuckle, I succeeded but I could not hide my smile. “You do, do you?”

  “Yeah, Sinister Affliction right?”

  “You got me,”

  “Damn. How did I miss that? You’re the hot ass guitar player. I’ve always admired your fingers,”

  I smirked at her response. I had never been on a date with Chloe before, and I was learning that I liked the little spitfire that was sitting across from me. She was fucking incredible, and what she was saying to me was hinting that we could be intimate soon. A slight teasing over dinner that would leave me wanting to come back for more. All in all Chloe was turning out to be one hell of a date.

  “Really? Why is that?” I asked taking the glass from the waiter, after I tasted the wine and nodded to say that I liked it, he poured Chloe a glass then once again walked off.

  “Well you move them so fast, and make amazing noise with them. I just always admired guitar players for that. Also it always left me wondering if you can move them that fast over a woman, and make her let out amazing noises as you brought her to heaven,”

  I sucked air in through my teeth as her words conjured up images for both of us. I could see my hands running over her body as I shoved deeply inside of her. My already aching dick hardened further, pressing tightly against my zipper. I closed my eyes trying hard as hell to calm myself down, when the vixen across from me did the worst thing she could ever do. She moaned. My eyes snapped open and met hers across the table, at that moment we both realized how hard this was going to be.