Almost Easy (Sinister Ascent Book 1)

by Brittany Clark

I laughed and sent her the name of the shop that we were in. She hadn’t told me when she would stop by, but I was hoping that it would be soon. It was a foreign thing for me, and a hard one to admit, but I missed her like crazy when she was away from me for more than an hour. It did terrify me at times. It hit me often that at any time I could lose her, and if that happened I wouldn’t know what I would do. But leaving her was not an option. In the past I would run when it got this serious with her, in fear that she would hurt me. But then I lost her and that hurt me more than I could imagine. So I would get over my fears. We were meant to be together. In the end I knew that it would all work out, it simply had to.

  Hell, just the way that she responded to me last night proved that. When we came together we lit the fucking sky on fire. And there was nothing fucking better in this world than giving Chloe pleasure. Of going down on her, the sounds she makes, the pants and whimpers that she lets out. The broken moans and sighs that escaped her lips, the way her fingers tangled into my hair to hold me in place as she ground herself against my tongue, feeling her quiver and throb beneath me. Watching her toes curl as her grasp on my head tightened for those few glorious seconds before she fell back in exhaustion. Fuck, now I was hard. But the image was so fucking erotic, and I couldn’t wait to get her back into my bed.

  “Hey, good looking,” Chloe said pulling me out of my very dirty thoughts seconds before her mouth pressed down onto mine.

  I moaned against her lips earning yet another chuckle from Blaze, but the guy that was tattooing me didn’t laugh this time. When she pulled away from my mouth I had a huge smile on my face and pure love shining out of my eyes. I was so lost in her that I hadn’t realized the needle was no longer pressed into my skin. I tore my eyes away from her to look over at the tattoo dude, and nearly growled when I saw his eyes raking over my Chloe.

  “That’s enough,” I hissed, “Yeah, she’s hot but she’s also mine so take your eyes off of her,”

  The guy snapped back to himself and got back to work causing me to smirk down at him before I looked back up at Chloe. This was the second time that a man couldn’t keep his eyes off of her, and I didn’t fucking blame them. I had a hard fucking time keeping my eyes off of her myself. Blaze sent her a smile and she leaned down to kiss his cheek. This was how I knew without a doubt that I was okay with what happened between the two of them. Seeing her kiss his cheek should have made me jealous, but I knew that Chloe loved me, not Blaze. And Blaze might love her, but it wasn’t a romantic type of love.

  “Why don’t you get a tattoo, Chloe?” I heard Blaze ask Chloe, but I couldn’t hear what she responded.

  I tried leaning in so that I could hear them better, but the noise was too loud and she was whispering her response to him. I watched the two of them talk for a few more minutes before she turned around and walked over to the counter to talk to the other tattoo person in the room. The guy was nodding at whatever it was that she was saying, then he was pulling out paperwork to draw out whatever it was that she had asked him about. I was now very intrigued. Chloe didn’t have any tattoos on her body, and I wanted to know what it was that she would get.

  “Hey, Hotty, what the hell are you getting done?” I shouted earning yet more chuckles.

  “You’ll see,” She responded sending me a sexy little smirk that had my dick springing to life.

  The guy that was drawing up her design lifted the paper and showed her. I leaned forward trying to see it, but I couldn’t make it out. All I could see was that it wasn’t a huge design, and I knew that it wasn’t too intricate because it was drawn in only a few minutes. What I was able to see was Chloe’s eyes. They lit up when she saw the design and her head nodded up and down fast. Then she followed the dude into another room where I lost sight of her. I tried distracting myself by talking to Blaze, but it didn’t work, I wanted to know what the hell it was that she was getting, and where the hell she was putting it.

  “Did she tell you what she was going to get?” I asked Blaze not so subtly.

  “Yup,” he responded popping the p in a very irritating way. The fucker was openly mocking me.

  “Well, what is it?”

  “I’m not telling you. She wants it to be a surprise,”

  “I can act, just tell me and I swear I will act surprised,”

  “Hell no. Drop it, Zane. I am not telling you,”

  “Dude, what the hell? Tell me,”

  “Nope. She wants to do this and see the look on your face once she does. Let it go man, you can beg and plead all you want to, I ain’t saying shit,”

  I sighed and gave up. It was obvious that he wouldn’t tell me, and I hated and loved him for that. If the man was told something in confidence, you could guarantee that it would never get spread around. That was something I thought was great, but I hated when it was something that I wanted to know. Because the man was like a vault and would never fucking say a word to me. I sat back and made myself comfortable as the guy finished my tattoo and I waited.

  Chloe walked out of the other room a little under an hour later. I scanned my eyes over her body and landed on her wrist where I saw the tape that was holding down the saran wrap, but she also had a paper towel under it so that I couldn’t see what the design was. I shot her a look that said show it to me, and she shook her head no before walking over to me to give me another kiss. The guy that was tattooing me splashed my arm with green soap and wiped off the extra ink before he wrapped it up.

  Blaze who had already been done got to his feet when we stood up and after each of us paid we walked out together. I put my receipt away and smiled to myself when I saw the price of Chloe’s tattoo on there. She had fought me in the shop, but there was no way I was letting her pay for it. Blaze had made a comment about it only being fair which made me confused but Chloe smacked Blaze’s arm to shut him up. I let it go, I would see her tattoo eventually.

  “Want to grab some lunch?” Chloe asked Blaze and I as we walked down the sidewalk.

  “You and Blaze can. I have other plans,” Blaze responded in a dry tone that said he was up to something. I didn’t care what it was because it meant that I was going to be alone with the woman I loved.

  I linked my hand through hers and pulled her along the sidewalk after Blaze walked back toward the studio. Chloe leaned into my side and led me to a deli that she had been trying to get me to go to for months. I let her drag me into it, she usually was dead on in finding food places that I loved so I gave in.

  “Is this place good?” I asked when she grabbed a table near the window.

  “It is, I love the pastrami sandwich,” she said in way of an answer.

  “I’ll take your word for it. I will go order for us, the pastrami is what you want right?”

  “I can do it Zane,”

  “I know you can, but I’m going to,”

  Before she could argue I walked to the counter and placed our orders. Within minutes I was back at the table with her. She smiled at me and rested her chin on her hand. My eyes were instantly drawn to her wrapped wrist. I badly wanted to know what she had gotten tattooed on her.

  “What did you get, Chloe?” I asked reaching my arm out to trace my finger over the saran wrap.

  “Wait and see,”

  “How long do I have to wait? Until it heals?”

  “No, but at least let me get home and clean it first. Then it won’t be as swollen and red,”

  Fine. But it must be something really good,”

  “Why do you say that?”

  I went to answer her but was interrupted by our number being called. Chloe hopped up before I could and went to grab our food and drinks. I shot her a smirk as she walked back. She wasn’t a normal girl. She didn’t expect me to do everything for her. She sat down across from me again and handed me my food. I watched as she unwrapped hers and took a huge bite and I did the same. The perfect combination of warm meat and bread hit my tongue and I nearly moaned.

  “Holy shit, this is the best damn sandwich I’ve ever ha
d,”

  “Told you,” she sand earning a small laugh from me. I took another huge bite before I finished our previous conversation.

  “I think that the tattoo has to be something really good because you’ve told me that you would never get a tattoo, yet you have one now. So it has to mean a lot to you to make you put it on your body,”

  “Let’s just say that that is exactly why I got it,”

  “I hate it when you tease me,”

  “You love it when I tease you,” Chloe responded with a cute little smirk on her face, one that had my jeans tightening as my dick sprang to life, “I promise you will like it though. I just want it to lose a little of the redness around it first,”

  “That’s fine babe, I can wait,”

  I sent her a wink and then dug into my food. She was right the sandwich was really good. I don’t know why I doubted her, she knew what I liked. If she told me I would like it then I knew that I would. Within minutes I had scarfed down my food. Chloe laughed and gave me the other half of hers.

  “What are you doing for the rest of the day?” She asked me after I balled up our trash and threw it away.

  “I’m hanging out with my hot ass girlfriend,”

  “Oh, is that right?”

  “Damn straight,”

  Chloe just shrugged and nodded letting me know that she wanted to hang out with me as well. We stood up and began the walk back to the tattoo shop where my car was still parked. I opened the car door for her, once she was in and buckled I shut the door and ran to my side. When we were both ready I pulled out of the parking lot and headed to my house. I reached over and grabbed her hand with mine. There was this need inside of me to always be touching her. I wasn’t sure what the hell it was, maybe it was the fear that she would disappear on me if I let her go. Within minutes we were at my house. I opened the front door and she brushed past me with a smirk as her chest rubbed intimately against mine.

  Just like that I was ready to go. How the fuck was it possible that I could be so hungry for her when I had her most of the night? I should be tired, hell my dick shouldn’t be able to get an erection for a year after the night that we had, but I couldn’t keep the little fucker down. All she had to do was look at me with those beautiful eyes and I was hard as a rock.

  “I’m going to go clean my tattoo, I’ll be right back,”

  I nodded and watched her as she walked into my bathroom. The suspense was killing me. I wanted badly to know what it was. Then there was the fear that I wouldn’t like whatever it was that she had gotten. Since it had meant enough to her that she actually marked her body with it forever, I really hoped that wasn’t the case.

  CHLOE

  I pulled the saran wrap off of my wrist revealing the purple script that lay beneath. I gently cleaned it with dial soap then washed it off and covered it with A&D ointment. All too soon I was heading out of the bathroom to where Zane was sitting in the living room. I had made the decision to get the tattoo on a whim, and now I was thinking that maybe I should have asked Zane first.

  “Zane,” I whispered earning his attention

  “What’s up, babe?”

  “I think I should have asked you before I got the tattoo,”

  “Why is that?”

  “Just tell me the truth when you see it okay?”

  “Baby girl I’m sure it will be fine,”

  I nodded and brought my lower lip between my teeth as I held my wrist out for him to see. Zane stood up and put his body behind mine so that he could see the writing better. It wasn’t written so that it was facing out for the world to see, it was written towards me so that when I looked down it was facing the right way for me to read it. I felt his body tense up behind me as his eyes scanned over what the tattoo said.

  His finger came up and traced over the tattoo gently not wanting to hurt me. There in front of his eyes was a purple swirly script that spelled out his name. Through it all he had stayed silent, and that was beginning to freak me out.

  “Did I make a mistake?” I whispered, “I’m thinking now that maybe I should have asked you first,”

  Zane still didn’t say anything, he just let his finger keep tracing his own name over and over again. I felt my hands get clammy as my heart began to pound. Things had been going so well between us, and maybe I made a huge mistake when I put his name on me. I didn’t do it to try to make us move things along faster, but maybe that’s how he was seeing it. Why the hell didn’t I think things through before I let my heart speak for me instead of my brain?

  “Did I fuck up?” I croaked out

  “Are you kidding me?” he finally answered, but I took his words to mean that I really did fuck up.

  “I’m sorry, I went with my heart here and leaped before I looked. “Zane do you like it?” I breathed out. “I know I should have asked first, but I thought that it would be a nice surprise, and then while I was cleaning it I started thinking that this was probably something that I should have asked. And you're not saying anything so I'm going to take that as a you don't like it..”

  “Shut up Chloe. You put my name on your body. This means that you’re fucking mine. You branded yourself as mine, this is exactly something I wanted from you and I didn’t even have to ask you for it. Now anytime someone sees you they will know that you belong to me,”

  “You really like it?”

  “I fucking love it. I don’t care if it makes me sound like a caveman, but fuck this is so hot. I have to be inside of you, right fucking now,”

  Just like that he spun me around and crashed his lips to mine. I gasped when he tore my shirt off then grabbed my thighs, lifting me up until my legs wrapped around his waist.

  ZANE

  I had stayed silent when she first showed me the tattoo, I hadn’t done it to scare her, or to make her think that I didn’t like it. No, I had stayed silent because I was trying to control my emotions. Then I just couldn’t take it anymore. She had branded her body with my name and it was time for me to brand her once again with my body. I let out a moan when my lips touched hers, it was like an instant high the moment her lips touched mine. I was already gone and being gentle flew right out the window. One of my hands reached up and took a fistful of her hair, moving it to the side so that I could grasp the base of her neck. I could feel my cock pounding with blood, my erection was begging to break free so that it could be inside of her.

  Fuck, the way she made me feel when her body was rubbing against mine, with her soft lips taking the harshness of my mouth like a pro. I sucked her lower lip into my mouth and nibbled on it, when I released that perfect bottom lip I shoved my tongue into her mouth, then groaned when she sucked on my tongue hard. She let out a hiss when I bit her tongue, then I let mine come out and massage hers. The kiss felt like it went on and on, but I didn’t lose all of my focus. My hands gripped her ass tight pushing her core onto my hard, aching dick and held her in place as I walked up my stairs. With each step up the stairs we rubbed together in all the right places. By the time I kicked my bedroom door open we were both on edge.

  That’s when we both attacked. I heard my shirt being ripped off as I tore her bra from her body. I set her down on her feet so that I could unsnap her jeans and she did the same to me. I felt a chill hit me when she pushed my pants and boxers off. Once we had each other naked I picked her back up and slammed her against the wall. Then my mouth was all over, I nipped down her neck and took her nipple into my mouth and bit down hard, earning a scream from her as she ran her hands through my hair. Then one of her vixen little hands dropped down between us and found the head of my dick, giving it a squeeze. I let out a deep rumble from my throat as electric bolts of pleasure shot through me. I pulled my mouth away from hers and instantly saw that her eyes were smoldering with desire.

  Chloe leaned forward and kissed me, shoving her tongue into my mouth. My hands came back up and grabbed her breasts with my thumb and pointer finger, gripping her nipples and rolling them. I usually was the one who took control between the tw
o of us, but today it seemed as if she wanted it. She dropped her legs down and pushed me until I sat on the edge of the bed. I went to reach for her but she beat me to the punch by straddling me. She sank down right over my throbbing cock, her wetness completely swallowing me. I let out a moan then took the enticing nipple that was in my face into my mouth. Then Chloe started to move. She rode me like I was a damn bull. I gripped her hips in my hands, but I didn’t guide her, I let her move at her own pace, one that I was very satisfied with. She was bouncing up and down on me so hard that my balls were smacking her ass hard, bringing us both that much closer.

  “Look,” she whispered guiding my eyes to the mirror that was behind her.

  I saw myself in the mirror sitting on the bed, with Chloe bouncing on my lap. She grinded on my cock and twisted a little moaning loud when she found something that hit her spot dead on. I was moaning with her but I couldn’t take my eyes away from the mirror, seeing the way my face looked while Chloe took me to heaven, and seeing her move over me was making me about to shoot my load way before I was ready.

  “Do you like this, baby?” She moaned into my ear.

  “Fuck yes, Chloe,”

  Chloe started panting from the workout of bouncing herself up and down, so I lifted my hips to fuck her deep. Chloe’s thighs smacked against mine as she fucked me furiously. I gripped her shoulders as I drove my body upward at the same time as my lips met hers. My heart was pounding in my chest and I loved every second of it. I felt the hot surge of cum heading up from my balls to my dick.

  “Shit baby, you’re going to make me fucking cum,”

  “Good,”

  I smirked at her, but I couldn’t let myself cum before her. I dropped my hand down finding her clit and applied enough pressure to hurt, but it hurt so fucking good. Then my hand was moving in fast circles. I felt Chloe’s wetness start to spread, and her walls start to clamp me, she was close but needed something else to push her over the edge. Without a second thought I pinched her clit hard and heard her scream as her body arched and exploded.