The Moreau Estates

by Danielle James

  “I don’t even know how my dick is still hard right now but I’m about to murder you with it.” His voice was a low growl that made me hungry. “Grab your ankles. Now.” He tapped my ass and I came out of my clothes then bent at the waist, holding on to my ankles for dear life.

  He wasn’t lying.

  His dick was like steel as he spread me open. He paused the minute he got deep inside of me. I clenched my walls around him, wanting to drink him in any way I could. I was needy for him.

  “Fuck, Matt. You feel so good,” I whined. I slid my ass back and forth along his cock and he held on to my hips. I looked over my shoulder to see him watching the way I threw it back. He was in awe.

  “So do you, baby.” His fingers slid down my spine as he thrust into me finally. The torture was almost too much. Tingles assaulted my skin like a million tiny electrical currents washing over me.

  He must have known how much I needed to release and forget because he fucked me until I was hoarse from calling his name. He fucked me from one end of the room to the other.

  Somehow I ended up with my breasts and stomach flush against the wall while he held my leg and drilled into my slippery cunt. He fucked all the stress from my joints and bones until I was putty in his hands.

  Sweat rolled down my back and coated my forehead. I shuddered against the wall when I felt sweat fall from Matt onto me. I loved any moment that he was being absorbed into my skin.

  For a few moments before I came, I thought I would dig my nails into the wall and climb it like fucking Spiderman. He was so deep inside of me I contemplated giving him babies. I can’t lie.

  His long fingers rubbed my clit until I gave him climaxes in triplicate. I hummed a satisfied, satiated tune when his teeth found my earlobe and his fingers found my hard nipples. “Krissy,” he uttered before shooting deep inside of me.

  My name on his lips made my eyes fall shut.

  We were still while he pulsed inside of me and our breathing synced up. “God, Matt. I want to stay holed up with you all day,” I smiled, resting my forehead against the wall.

  “We need to make that happen one day, baby girl.” He kissed the back of my neck and pulled out of me.

  “Shit…Riri and Roman are gonna be here soon,” I remembered out loud.

  “Shower?” Matt asked, pushing hair from his forehead.

  “Yes. No sex,” I warned.

  “You’re the one that started sucking my dick while I was on an innocent phone call. I don’t think I’m the one you need to worry about.”

  We made our way to the shower and I shoved him along the way. “You shouldn’t have looked so good. Who the fuck looks good while they’re talking about a resume, Matt?”

  “That goddamn resume. Don’t even remind me about that shit,” he grumbled, cutting on the water. My lips fell to a frown and I stepped into the cloud of steam and hot water.

  “What is it with you and Liam’s resume?” I quizzed.

  “He won’t fucking listen. All I wanted him to do was add a few links to show his previous work. The asshole has an engineering degree and worked as a paid intern with our father at Jamison and Martin. We both did. He has a great skillset that would make him a shoe-in but he’s self-sabotaging over the stupidest shit. He’s picking apart this resume and in a little while the positions are going to be gone.”

  I cocked my head to the side a bit and held up a finger while Matt washed his perfect body.

  “Um, did you say you both worked with your dad at Jamison and Martin? So…you have engineering experience too?” I quizzed.

  “Yeah. I have a degree just like Liam.”

  “And you ended up being a calculus teacher? Matt, what the fuck?”

  “Job market wasn’t exactly booming when I took the job at Aspen Grove, Krissy.”

  “Uh huh…” I swept my hair on top of my head while he washed my back. “Sounds a lot like you and Liam are both self-sabotaging. Baby, you could actually work in the field you have a degree in. You said this company has jobs. Plural. Why aren’t you sending them your resume?”

  “I have a job,” he reasoned.

  “A shitty job. What’s the company Liam’s trying to work for?” I asked.

  “Chevron.” He said it so casually I almost choked.

  “Motherfucking Chevron? Like the gas?”

  “Yeah,” he said. I tossed him one of the towels I brought from home and he wrapped it around his waist. It was slung dangerously low giving me a view of his devastating V cut. I lost my words for a moment as I stared at him.

  I blinked a few times to snap me out of it and continued speaking. “Why don’t you go for it? You have an engineering degree and you’re helping your brother get this great job and ignoring yourself?”

  He opened his mouth to answer me but the doorbell cut him short. We shared a glance then rushed to put on clothes. I grabbed Matt’s sweatshirt and a pair of leggings and ran to open the doors.

  “Riri!” I tossed my arms around her.

  “Krissy!” When we broke our embrace I smiled at Roman. He towered over Zuri and even though he wasn’t touching her, he still seemed to have a hold on her.

  “Matt!”

  “Rome! Oh my god!” The men mocked us while we glared at them.

  “Fuck the both of you,” I frowned.

  “Speaking of the both of you…” Riri said in a sing-song voice. Her chocolate eyes darted from me to Matt. “Anything you two want to tell us?” She was hopping from one foot to the other like it was the news she’d been waiting to hear forever.

  Matt hooked his arm around my waist and kissed my temple. In that split second, he managed to make me feel like I was floating. “We’re official. Have been for a while,” He said, staring at me. I touched the side of his face and it seemed like our friends faded into the background. He was all I could see.

  “Aww! Look at how they’re looking at each other, baby. It’s so cute! Are you two in love?” Riri’s voice pulled everything back into focus and I looked at her with a telling grin.

  “She’s okay,” Matt shrugged.

  “You and Roman hang around each other entirely too much,” Zuri sighed, shaking her head at Matt.

  “Well, I’m happy for you guys.” Roman hugged me then slapped hands with Matt. “Please be careful. Don’t end up like me,” he chuckled with a hand on his chest.

  “I’m eighteen though,” I smiled.

  “You’re still a student at Aspen Grove,” Matt pointed out.

  “He’s right. Be careful, Krissy,” Roman put on his Mr. Clermont voice and I rolled my eyes at him.

  “I know, sir. I’ll be careful. Tell your friend stop bending me over his desk and we’ll be okay.”

  “Jesus, Krissy,” Roman groaned while Matt gave me a warning glance.

  “Let’s get some beer to celebrate,” Matt said.

  “Wine,” Riri and I spoke in unison.

  “Or we could do champagne,” Roman suggested with a shrug.

  “Oh God, Mr. Bougie Billionaire wants champagne,” I teased.

  “We’ll come back with alcohol, how about that?” Matt said, silencing everyone. He had a way about him that quietly commanded every room he was in and it turned me the fuck on.

  “Okay, Matt,” I purred.

  “And in the meantime, you can tell me what the fuck this house is,” Roman shook his head as they headed toward the door. Once they were gone, Riri looked at me with a raised eyebrow.

  “Yeah, what the hell is going on with this house? Is it Matt’s? I didn’t know he lived in the Moreau Estates.” We walked into the kitchen and sat at the island. I swung my feet back and forth and drummed my nails on the countertop.

  “It’s not Matt’s place,” I said. Zuri poked her lips out and narrowed her eyes.

  “O…kay. So, whose house is it, Krissy?”

  “Nobody’s. It’s vacant. I mean it’s furnished in case they need to show it but it’s a vacant house.”

  “Girl, what the entire fuck? How did you get
into a vacant house, squatter?” Laughter rippled through the air and I shook my head at her.

  “Shut up. I’m not a squatter, bitch. If I tell you, you’re going to think I’m insane.”

  “Well, I already think you’re insane so tell me.”

  “Okay…” I sucked in a breath and wished that I already had whatever liquor Matt was bringing home. “You know Matt was fucking Palmer’s wife…right?”

  “Yeah, Roman told me about that. He’s done with her, right?” She asked, looking at me incredulously.

  “Yes. He’s done,” I nodded. “Palmer lives in the first house as you enter the Moreau Estates. It’s the biggest house on the corner.”

  “Oh shit. That’s his house?” She said with wide eyes.

  “Yeah. So, turns out his wife’s family owns the Moreau Estates. She had the keys to this vacant house and she wanted to use it for her and Matt to meet so they wouldn’t always be in her house.”

  “Wow…so wait, she doesn’t know he’s up in here with you?”

  “No. He’s going to give her the keys back soon.”

  “Have you two been seeing each other in this house ever since he stopped talking to Palmer’s wife?”

  “Yup. We got copies of the keys made so when he gives her the keys we can still see each other. Honestly, I’d be lost if I couldn’t see him all the time.”

  “Well what are you two going to do when someone buys this house, Krissy?”

  “It’s been on the market for over a year. I don’t think anyone is going to buy it. At least not any time soon. By the time they do, we’ll be long gone. Right now I like it though. It feels like home.”

  “God, this is so risky. What if security comes by? Roman’s car is in the driveway,” Zuri frowned.

  “Shit. We can pull it in the garage. That’s what we’ve been doing all this time.” Things fell silent between Riri and me for a moment. She examined the golden monarch charm bracelet on her wrist then looked up at me.

  “I’m so happy for you, Krissy. Matt is a great guy,” she said.

  “He really is. It feels like I fell hard and fast but at the same time, it feels like I’ve loved him forever. My parents are going to go apeshit when they find out about us and I don’t care. They can’t make me stop seeing him.” I was defiant and stubborn but I was very serious.

  “I’m sure your dad will try his best though. You know how he is.” Riri sighed and looked at me, placing her hands on mine. “Be careful and be happy. It’ll all fix itself somehow.”

  “Yeah…somehow,” I muttered.

  When Roman and Matt came back with beer, wine, and champagne, we had drinks by candlelight and watched Netflix on Matt’s computer. We tried not to use too much electricity because we didn’t want to tip anyone off that we were staying there intermittently.

  It felt good to finally have my relationship with Matt out in the open amongst friends that understood and didn’t judge. It was therapy for me. For both of us. I don’t know how Matt knew what I needed but I was grateful that he did.

  I cried healing tears when I told Zuri about my parents not being together and she hugged me until my eyes were dry again and Roman offered to help however he could. It hit me that the family I chose was just as important as the family I was born into.

  **

  MATTHEW

  I thought I would die of boredom at the stupid fucking ceremony until Rome walked in. I did a double take. What the fuck was he even doing at Aspen Grove? I walked over to him and we stood shoulder to shoulder, looking at all the phony assholes laughing and talking.

  “Yo, Rome…may I ask what the hell you’re doing here since you don’t work here anymore and you hate Palmer?” I asked.

  “I wanted to see him off and watch him pretend like he doesn’t want my head on a platter. It’s a special form of entertainment.” He shrugged then waved at some of the teachers who were staring at him from across the auditorium.

  “Ah, Roman, Matthew, nice to see you, gentlemen.” Ray’s face was tight as he pretended to be polite to us.

  “Nice to see you too, Palmer. Unfortunate that it has to be at your farewell ceremony though,” Roman sighed.

  “Yes. It is,” Ray gritted out. “Matthew, how are you?” He eyed me suspiciously and I wondered if he could tell I’d been inside of his wife more than he had in the past year.

  “I’m fine.” I nodded and tried not to carry on too much of a conversation because annoyance would leak through in my tone.

  “Can I speak to you over here?” Palmer motioned to an empty corner and I sighed heavily, following behind him. I wasn’t in the mood to deal with a confrontation right then. I was scanning the room for Eve so I could give her the keys back and tell her we were done. I was tired of her avoiding me.

  “What is it, Ray?” I asked, folding my arms across my chest. Just because I didn’t want to deal with a confrontation didn’t mean I wouldn’t.

  “I know you and Roman are good friends and it’s my understanding that birds of a feather flock together.” He eyed me like he had so much more to say.

  “Get to the point or we really don’t have anything to discuss. I don’t have to pretend to be polite anymore since you’re on your way out, remember?” My tolerance for Palmer was in the negatives. It was even worse since Rome told me that between his dad and Eve’s dad, they pulled some strings to get who they wanted as the new principal for Aspen Grove. Someone that would go along with their agenda and piss Ray off.

  “I’ve noticed that you spend a lot of time with Kristabella Lucas. A lot of time alone, Wilmore. You’re aware of what happened between Clermont and Zuri Okolo, correct?”

  “I’m not aware of anything,” I scoffed, looking down at him. He wasn’t a very tall man and I was a head taller than him, easily.

  “I can put in a word to the new principal to see that you’re properly investigated concerning this manner with Miss Lucas. I don’t think it’s right that you spend so much time alone with a student.”

  “Well, hypothetically if I were keeping Krissy after school for anything but a purely teacher-student relationship, then I’d probably fuck her all over my room and dare you to say one goddamn thing about it. Since I’m not though, we don’t have to worry about it.” I slapped Ray on the back and left him standing there with his mouth hanging open.

  I needed to get across the auditorium, I saw Eve.

  She looked beautiful as always but my dick didn’t even think about standing to greet her. Krissy had me on lock and I wasn’t mad about it at all.

  “Matthew, what a pleasant surprise,” she purred and held her hand out for me to shake it.

  “Yes, nice to see you as always, Mrs. Palmer.”

  “Call me Eve,” she smiled.

  “Eve, would you mind if I had a word with you in my classroom? It’s the Universal Room a few halls over. I’ll be waiting.” I left the auditorium and headed down the hall. I figured it would take her a while to slip away from her husband so I got out some papers and worked on grades while I waited.

  The more minutes ticked by, the more I realized I had to cut ties with Eve. We were a steamy flash and that was it. There was no sustenance there. Not like I had with Krissy.

  Eve was something dangerous and fun but beyond that we didn’t have chemistry. I was ready to move on and be with Krissy. She made life brighter. She was home base.

  “Mr. Wilmore, you wanted to see me?” Eve’s soft voice made me look up from my computer. I nodded then stood to close the doors behind her. “God, you look so handsome, Matthew. I could devour you right here.” She slid her hands along my shoulders then down my chest. I grabbed her slender wrists in my hand and held her back at arm’s length. I was done being sucked in by sex with her. She didn’t have an appeal to me anymore.

  “What’s wrong, Matthew?” She pouted. “Haven’t you missed me as much as I’ve missed you?”

  “Probably not,” I huffed. I took a seat on the edge of my desk then pulled the keys to the mansion from my p
ocket. “I’m giving these back to you, Eve.” The look on her face when I plopped them in her palm was one of pure shock.

  “You’re giving them back? But…why? I mean I know it’s been a while since we’ve had the chance to make love but Matthew, this is extreme,” she shook her head and inky tresses fell over her shoulders.

  “Saying that we ever made love is an overstatement. We were fucking. It was hot but now it has to stop.” I kept my voice firm and strong and I made sure to look her in the eye. I didn’t want to give her any chance to wiggle out of the conversation we were in the middle of.

  I waited for the tears to arrive and they did. On cue. They made her sterling gray eyes shimmer and they were gorgeous but they didn’t sway me.

  “Matthew, I…I love you. I don’t want this to end. I’ve been trying to appear as the dutiful wife to Raymond but you have to know that my heart has been with you the entire time. I don’t want it to seem like I’m neglecting you.” She blinked and looked up at me, dabbing the corners of her eyes.

  “I don’t care about being neglected. It’s the farthest thing from my mind, Eve. I’m moving on and you should too.”

  “You made me happy though,” she sniffled.

  “You’re married. Your husband should make you happy. I was beyond wrong for fucking you. I own that. I won’t be messing around with any more married women, trust me. It’s more drama than it’s fucking worth,” I grumbled.

  “Matthew, what did I do wrong?” She grabbed my hand in hers and tried to get me to hold on to the keys.”

  “Nothing. I realize that we can’t keep this going though. It’s not fair to either of us or Ray and it’s not smart.” I placed the keys back in her hand and wiped her tears. I didn’t want to seem like a total asshole. Eve was a great girl she just wasn’t for me.

  “It had to have been me. Something I did or didn’t do. Matthew, I can’t lose you. You’re the best sex I’ve ever had. You’re amazing.” She stood between my legs and touched the side of my face.

  “You’re pretty cool too, Eve and we had amazing sex but it’s time to move on,” I reiterated. I knew she would be hard to shake but I didn’t know exactly how hard. I stood to my feet and pushed a hand through my hair.