“Baby,” he grumbles, pulling my glasses free, setting them beside us and then gently wipes his fingers under my eyes. The tears spill even more with him being so sweet. “You’re not going to lose me. I promise that too. I’m not going anywhere that you can’t come too. You’re it for me, Kadence.”
“You can’t promise me; you don’t know that. What if you’re gone all the time, and then you get lonely? Women will start to look better to you and then next thing I know, you’re divorcing me for some model or groupie.”
He ignores my dramatics, being compassionate. “If I’m lonely, then I’ll call you, or you can come with me, and we’re married now?”
“You know what I mean,” I grumble, and he wipes more of my tears away. The thought of not having him in my life is like this huge black cloud waiting to suffocate me, and he’s the only one who can give me oxygen.
“Shhh, Pretty. Stop this. I love you, and you have nothing to worry about. I will do everything I can to make sure you’re happy, and we’re together—a lot, in fact. And I do promise you.”
“You’re not going to sign with anyone dumb, right?” As soon as the words leave my mouth, he starts laughing which makes me grin too. “Shut up; it’s a legit question.”
“I thought you knew which two teams I wanted to sign with?”
“Well yeah, I remember our talk about it. You wanted New England or New Orleans, but what if another offers you more money? You’re so freaking good, and they all know it. They’d be dumb not to offer you some great options.”
He shrugs. “If it comes to that, then I guess I make less money. As long as I have you, I’m able to take care of you and help out my brothers, then that’s all I really need. I don’t need a contract for twenty million dollars or anything crazy. I think we could live a very comfortable life with just a couple million, don’t you?”
“Definitely. I could live a comfortable life on thousands right now,” I reply, and he chuckles again.
“Okay good. I talked it over with Clyde, and if I get a chance to go with a team that I want, well then I’m going to do it, okay?”
“All right, but what if they don’t offer you one? I think they will, but these are some of the bazillion questions running through my head right now. I need to cover some bases, so I’ll stop freaking out so badly inside. This is huge and to be included, it has me all twisted up with excitement and nerves. I don’t know how you can be so calm.”
“If that ends up happening, then I’ll let you know what’s on the board as far as options go and we’ll decide on something together. This is our future, not just mine. I want you happy with the decision too. And, I am excited inside. Trust me, I feel like I’m going to puke most days because it’s becoming real, but I’m good at acting like it doesn’t bother me. Part of my game face, I suppose.”
“I’m so stupid sometimes; I shouldn’t have doubted you. Thank you for thinking of me too in the overall plan.” I overreacted. I know it, but he did too. That excitement he mentioned must’ve been bubbling up for him too. Those calls bring on so much more pressure than I ever would’ve imagined. The whole process will probably make my hair fall out at this rate.
At least it got us to really talk about things. I didn’t realize I had so much worry filling me up inside, waiting for the chance to burst free. Just hearing him say that he’s considering me and my needs through the whole process and that he wants me to be happy alongside him, helps ease my fears of this big change coming into our lives.
“Always, Kadence, always. You’re nothing even remotely close to stupid, sweetheart. I think you’re pretty damn amazing.”
Ditto hot stuff…ditto.” I wink and kiss him sweetly on the forehead like he does me all the time. “I love you so damn much, Ty.”
“I love you too, Pretty, with everything that I am.”
The conversation ends as our bodies take over wanting to be even closer than we already are. I can never have enough of this man, and if I’m lucky, he’ll never be able to get enough of me either. His need for me is already insatiable; I hope it never wavers no matter what we end up facing together.
“You’ll always be mine, sweetheart.” The words whisper against my breasts as he nips at them through my shirt. “I’ll love you with every breath in my body.” His hands push the shirt up, exposing my thin bra.
Sitting up, I help rid myself of the material, and then he rolls us until I’m under him.
“I’m going to make love to you, Kadence.”
“Yes, I want you so badly, Ty.”
“Good, never stop wanting me, baby.”
“I couldn’t even if I tried. Each time I try to be mad at you, I think I fall a little deeper in love with you.”
“I’ll piss you off more then.” His empty threat is said with him peeling away my jeans.
“You’re so romantic,” I chuckle and lift my butt so he can free me from my panties.
“And you’re perfect. Every last inch of you is my favorite part.”
“Even my toes?”
“Yeah, baby, even your toes.” He ends his confession by pressing tiny, sweet kisses to the tops of my toes and feet. Eventually making his way up my calves and thighs, raining chaste kisses as he goes, he pauses to bite into my thighs right under my core. It’s phenomenal, the way his teeth lightly press into me, just rough enough to cause goose bumps to overtake my flesh, everywhere.
My nipples grow hard, aching to have more attention bestowed onto them from his sinful mouth. Not one to be alone in my nakedness, I lift his shirt, freeing his magnificent body. He’s delicious. I’ve never met another man that was so beautiful on the outside and just as gorgeous on the inside.
“I swear your body’s heaven, babe.” His voice is deep and a bit gruff, laced with his arousal and it does amazing things to my insides, hearing him sound like that.
“I could say the same about you.” Biting my bottom lip, I push his jeans off his lean hips, exposing his glorious V. After being completely spoiled with him, I could never be satisfied by another man, this I know. He treats me like the most precious thing in the entire world while making love to me like he’s the devil himself.
Tempting.
Erotic.
Lustful.
I can never get enough of him or be close enough. This is how I know that he’s my forever. My heart already loves him with every last drop and my body has totally relented, letting him have his way with me completely.
His hardness bobs excitedly as his boxer briefs fall to his feet, and in seconds he’s plunging into me. It’s hard and fast and fucking amazing.
“I want on top of you, Tyler. I want to watch you with each move I make until you come inside me.”
He nods, swallowing roughly at my admission and shifts, so I ride him. His large hands palm my breasts as my hips rock forward and back then left to right. He loves it when I go in all different directions, so I pick myself up a little and rotate my lower half to make circles on his cock.
He moans, over and over, quiet noises leave him full of pleasure. His eyes are watching me with each tilt and shift my body makes and has me working up a sweat quickly, panting as my own orgasm starts to show up.
He doesn’t even have to move to make me hot all over. Just knowing that his full attention’s trained on me is enough. My core aches, wanting to swallow him in farther. Strong hands make their way over my stomach, pausing to grip my hips tightly. He’s getting closer; I can see it in the way his skin’s flushed and the muscles in his neck growing more pronounced.
He’s buff and sexy and feels so damn amazing with each drive, but most of all, I know he loves me, and that’s what pushes me over. Witnessing the love shining in his beautiful sparkly gaze as I bring his body pleasure.
Sitting up, he pulls me into him more, wrapping his muscular arms around me, holding my body to him as he drives up into me powerfully.
“My God!” The moan leaves my lips as my orgasm barrels down full force, his hips grinding against my clit. Th
e sensations are so blissful I feel like my mind goes to another place for a few seconds. He’s right there with me as he races after his own satisfaction. One long moan as I ride my wave spurs him on the last little push he needed and his cock swells. His hardness pulses as cum escapes him and it has me crying out in ecstasy.
He’s my everything.
You get to decide the legacy that you leave.
Christmas time rolled around, and the phone calls stopped. To say I started to sweat was an understatement. I ordered Kadence the promise ring but decided to hold off on that too. I didn’t want my promise to be her Christmas gift. My commitment should be separate. She deserves more because she is so much more to me.
So here I am, already at the end of January, trying to think of some way to give her this ring without coming off as a total sap or not doing enough, so it doesn’t seem like that big of a deal when it is to me. What’s in the middle and why have I let myself put it off so long? She deserved this back when we first got together. She’s stuck beside me the entire time and has given me her full support. How I ended up with someone like her, I’ll never know, but I’m so, so grateful.
Nate says to give her—and I quote—a good dicking and then just slide it on her finger. I can see why my brother’s still single with that one.
Clyde, on the other hand, (yes, I broke down and asked him too) suggested that I should cook for her and maybe put it inside a cake or something.
Yeah, NO.
Clyde’s answer to everything is food. If he ever ends up married, he’s going to have to roll the chick around from stuffing her full of food all the damn time. Kadence thought I was bad about it. She has no idea what Clyde’s woman will go through. Poor lady.
Kadence had such a great time when we’d swam at the pond, and she loves the ranch as much as I do, so I was thinking about doing it there. Maybe laying out a blanket, bringing some snacks—‘cause let’s face it, my brother has rubbed off on me a bit—and then just tell her how much she means to me. I should probably light a fire and bring marshmallows, she loved those too, and she gets cold easily. Oh, and chocolate sauce too. She can dip them in the sauce, and I can also use it to lick off her.
That sounds fantastic. I should’ve thought of this sooner.
A slap on my shoulder shakes me out of my wonderful thoughts of her covered in sugary chocolate sauce. “Yoo-hoo, bro, you were in la-la land. Care to share?” JJ grins and turns back to the video game that he and Niner are busily playing.
“I was just thinking about—”
“Kadence?” Niner interrupts, his eyebrow cocked.
JJ laughs. “Go figure; I’d be surprised if you have a cock between those legs anymore.”
“Shut up, dickface. I’d whip it out, but I don’t want to hurt your feelings,” I retort and Niner snickers. “I was thinking, JJ, have you heard anything new about Briggs? Do you know what went down after he was finally caught?”
“Nope, I know nothing, bro. The last thing Chan said to me about it was that he’d called the police office again, but they still won’t tell him jack. Lila and Haley want nothing to do with any of it, and he’s a wreck trying to get them to press charges. He admitted to me that he’d called one of them twenty-two times one night.”
“Shit, such a mess. I’m glad Briggs is off the field and away from campus at the very least.”
Niner grumbles, staring me down. “I can’t believe it happened to so many females and no one wants to come forward. Next time something like this goes down, you two better say something to me. I’d like the chance to punch him too. No fair you get to have all the fun.”
“Promise man,” I start to reply, but my phone goes off, signaling an incoming call. It’s an out-of-state number, one that I’ve never seen before. Glancing back at the guys, I hold it up, “I gotta get this. I’ll be back.”
They nod as I stand and swipe my finger across the screen, answering as I head toward my bedroom.
“Hello?”
“Yeah, I’m looking for Tyler Owens.”
“Speaking, can I help you?”
“Well, I’m hoping so.”
“Okay.” I drag out the word, not having a clue who it is, but apparently, they know who I am.
“I’d like to discuss a few things with you if you’d be open to it?”
“Excuse me, but who is this?”
“My name’s Brandon…Brandon Diamond, I’m the head coach for New England.” As soon as the words leave his mouth, I want to scream and puke all at the same time. This is the one phone call I’ve been waiting for my entire life it seems like.
“Sir, whatever you need, the answer’s yes.”
They can offer me a ride on the bench and to only make a hundred grand the first year; I couldn’t care less. Because I plan to work my ass off for that team every single day until they give me the shot that I so desperately want. This franchise makes careers, and I want football to be my future.
Coach Diamond chuckles at my response. “How about you fly up here for a visit and check things out?”
“I’d be absolutely honored, sir.”
“Great. I’ll have Rachel get on the line, and she’ll get your travel all booked up. New England can’t wait to see what you’ve got.”
“Thank you,” I reply and damn near die on the spot. One thing’s for certain; I gotta get that ring on my girl’s finger.
Valentine’s Day…
Ty leads me toward the pond.
“So, just what are you up to, man hunk of mine?”
“We have lots to talk about.”
“Oh, you mean like that trip you just took to Massachusetts? You keep saying it went good, but I know you’re holding back details, mister, and you need to tell me all about it.”
“There may be a few things I failed to mention.” He pops a kiss on my forehead and smirks. He’s holding back, and it’s driving me crazy inside.
“I knew it!” My smile’s wide as excitement floods my stomach. He said his trip went well and then left it at that. I had tests all day yesterday, so I was too distracted to get him to crack and tell me what really happened while he was out of town. “So, what did you think of Foxboro?” I always loved that area, all the trees everywhere, made it sort of majestic. Minus the snow shoveling, I can pass on that part even if it was like something out of a picture there in the wintertime.
“It was beautiful and cold. I can only imagine it in the spring or summer.”
I nod. He’ll fall in love with it there too. “I can’t believe you got to meet with the head coach already. What did you think of him?”
“I’ve never been so intimidated in my life. Stratton is good, don’t get me wrong, but Diamond, he’s a legend.”
“You will be one day too, Tyler, I know it.”
He’s amazingly talented, and for the number one team in the league to see it is extraordinary. I’ve met Brandon Diamond many times. He’s a good man and definitely knows what he’s doing. Ty would do wonderful having someone like Brandon around to coach him. My father loved being on the team with him in charge.
We get to the pond where someone has set up a blanket and a small stack of firewood already. It couldn’t have been Ty. We barely arrived from campus an hour ago, and he’s been with me at the house the entire time.
I gesture to the setup. “Oops, are we interrupting one of your brothers?” There wasn’t anyone at the house with them, but clearly, someone has something planned.
“Nope, it’s for us.” He grins, pulling my hand until I sit in the middle of the blanket. This man is always surprising me with sweet gestures.
“Us? Did you have Nate or Clyde set this up?”
“Yup, I sure did, so just relax.”
He’s so freaking amazing and thoughtful. I remembered to pick him up a small box of chocolates, but I didn’t plan anything out. I knew we were coming out here so there wasn’t much I could do. I never thought of asking his brothers to help me do something, but now I know for future reference.
“Ohhh, you brought snacks too!”
“I’m an overachiever.” He shrugs making me laugh and tosses a new bottle of chocolate syrup down beside me.
“Clearly. I could eat this entire bag.” I freaking love them, and I can only imagine how great they’ll taste coated in the gooey, sweet chocolate syrup too.
He places the small pieces of wood together, stacking them to resemble a triangle and gets the fire going. It’s not too cold out here, even in the middle of February, but the breeze is a bit chilly. The fire gives off the perfect amount of heat to make it comfortable.
“You brought me out here to roast marshmallows? I have to say, Tyler; this is the most romantic Valentine’s Day I’ve ever celebrated. Thank you.”
No one’s ever done anything special for me, besides my dad. He’d send balloons or a stuffed animal for Valentine’s Day, and one year, my favorite year, he had Nan go shopping and buy every topping she could find, and we made ginormous banana splits to celebrate. We were covered in sticky toppings, but each bite was delicious, and we got to make them together. I loved every minute of it.
“You’re special to me, so I wanted it to be special for you. I know some guys go over the top with a bunch of flowers and all that stuff, but I wanted to do something where we got to spend time together. You’re the best Valentine gift I could ever have.”
It’s so sweet and thoughtful I could kiss his lips off and then screw him senseless for being so damn amazing to me.
“I freaking love you, Tyler Owens.”
“I love you too, Pretty.” He smiles widely, those pearly whites lighting up his face and making him even more handsome to stare at. I don’t know how it’s even possible, but he pulls it off.
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