Shattered Edge

by A. M. Hargrove

  He moved back to my legs and positioned himself between them. Spreading them wide, he looked at me to ask if it was okay. I gave him a nod and his mouth dipped down to the insides of first one thigh and then the next, really sucking hard and then licking and blowing cool air across them. I was about to scream and climax, and the man had yet to touch me where it counted.

  My breathing was heavy and I clamped my lower lip between my teeth. For sure I would have bite marks on it. He continued to torture me and I was so close...oh so close. He touched me then and I tumbled straight into orgasmia. One tiny touch. No rubbing, no circling, no sucking, no licking. Nothing. One. Freakin’. Touch.

  “Jesus Terri, you’re so hot and wet. You’re close to dripping, babe.”

  I was also moaning my ass off but he didn’t bother to mention that.

  “Oh God, Justin,” I cried.

  Then he slid his thumb inside of me and spread me apart with his fingers. His tongue followed. Now came the licking and sucking. He moved his tongue back and forth, sideways, around and across. I was soon climaxing again, pulsating around his thumb as he slid it in and out and continued to lick and suck me.

  I was swollen with need for him. “Now Justin. I need you inside of me now.”

  I had to feel him there...deep within that place. He moved over me and I felt him sliding inside of me. I felt so full of him. He grabbed my hands and held them above my head in one of his as he leaned on his other elbow. His eyes were locked on mine as he moved within me. Then he released my hands and brought his hand beneath me to grab my ass. The rhythm could not have been better. Things were suddenly building as I looked at him and said, “Come with me this time Justin.” My hands brushed across his chest, landing on the tips of his hardened peaks. He made the sexiest sound in the back of his throat.

  His hair fell across his forehead as he leaned into a kiss. Our tongues tangled up for a minute and then we were both lost in our climaxes.

  When things began to settle down, when we both could talk again, he just looked at me, let out a long slow breath and smiled. He blinked a few times, shook his head and said, “Babe, that was the best sex ever.”

  “Yeah, I know right?” That was really an understatement. I’d had three orgasms. That had never happened to me before.

  He must’ve read my mind because suddenly he had this shit eating grin on his face. “So you came, what, three times?” His lids were half closed and he looked sexy and hot as all hell.

  “Don’t tell me you couldn’t tell.”

  “Oh I could tell all right. You were stunning Terri.”

  “Yeah, well so were you.”

  “I gotta ask you though, what’s up with your eyelashes? Is that stuff ever gonna come off?”

  I picked up the pillow and smacked him with it.

  ********

  We both must’ve dozed because I woke up to something soft tickling my ear. I opened my eyes to see Justin’s face next to mine and he was wearing a huge smile.

  “Hey.”

  “Hey to you.”

  He took his finger, hooked my hair on it and tucked it behind my ear. Then his tongue was on my neck. He hadn’t kissed my neck earlier, but he was making up for it now. His tongue was painting swirls from my ear to my shoulder and hovering over my pulse point, causing my breath to catch in my throat. Everything in the world was edged out of my mind except for one thing...Justin. My body had rapidly turned into a raging furnace as I felt my craving for him unfold. Every nerve ending tingled in response and the ache between my legs had built into something nearly unbearable.

  My lips were parted as I lay there panting, wanting him inside of me.

  “My God Terri, you are so ready for me,” he said as he touched me between my legs.

  “I need you Justin. Now. Please.”

  “Roll on your side and face me babe.”

  I did as he asked.

  “Lift up your leg.” I looked down and those series of horrid scars glared at me. I tried to cover them with my arm, but they were too massive.

  Again, he read my thoughts, brushing my arm to the side. “Don’t. They may not be beautiful to you, but to me they mean something miraculous.”

  I stared into his eyes and wanted to crawl into them. Didn’t that sound like the most perfect thing ever?

  He touched his thumb to my lips and then put my leg across his hips and entered me. I felt his fullness as he started sliding in and out. He would tease me, pulling almost all the way out, swiveling his hips a bit and then he’d stop for a second. When I thought he wasn’t going to move again, he would slam himself back inside of me and I thought I would scream every single time. His hand cupped my thigh and we moved like that...back and forth...until he had me calling his name. As we lay together in the aftermath, he rolled me on my back and just kept walking his fingers all over my body. Not long after that, those very fingers were inside of me, making me climax all over again. Then his head was on my stomach and he was kissing me there, while my fingers were twisted up in his hair.

  “I think I quite enjoy waking up next to you,” he said, chuckling.

  “Hmm, that makes two of us. Are you hungry?”

  Justin gave a huge belly laugh. “Terri, have I deprived you of food?”

  I laughed too. “Yes, but it was well worth it.”

  “Do you have anything we can cook or would you rather I take you somewhere? Or would you like to go back to my place and I could make you something there?”

  “I need to shower if we go anywhere. I’m not sure what I have.”

  “How about we go look?”

  We got up and I went in search of a robe when he asked, “What are you looking for?”

  “Um...a robe.”

  “No clothing please.”

  “But Justin.”

  “Look Terri, I’ve seen you in every position naked, and trust me, you do not need clothes.”

  I grinned. I was self-conscious, but what the hell? So I got up and we both padded into the kitchen in search of some nourishment.

  CHAPTER FIVE

  Justin

  What a way to wake up! Terri is amazing. I’m still reveling in the fact that she let me stay last night...that she agreed to a six month trial. I feel giddy as hell. I knew I had a sappy assed grin on my face, but damn it all, I couldn’t help it. I feel all gooey inside. God, if any of my friends could hear me now, they’d beat the crap out of me. They’d call me a pussy. Well, hell, maybe that’s what I am. I don’t know. I’ve just never felt so damn happy before.

  “What are you thinking about?” I heard her ask.

  I was rummaging through her refrigerator and she was standing next to me.

  “Huh?”

  “What are you thinking about?”

  “You. Why?”

  “Because you have this goofy grin on your face.”

  “Is it bad?”

  “Yeah. You look like a moron.”

  I gave her one of those looks right before I picked her up and threw her over my shoulder. Her bare ass was right next to my head so I couldn’t resist giving it a couple of slaps and then I rolled her a little so my mouth had access to it. I gave her a little nip until her squeals turned into giggles.

  “Are you gonna take that remark back?”

  “That depends.”

  “On what?”

  “On whether you still have that look on your face.”

  I marched back to the bedroom, tossed her on the bed and started the tickle torture. She was dying in no time, begging for mercy.

  “Are you gonna take it back?”

  “YES! I take it all back,” she eked out through fits of giggles.

  “You swear it Terrington Mitchell?”

  “YES!”

  “Say it.”

  “I swear it!”

  I released her and she just stayed in the bed laughing. God help me but I felt myself get hard again. I cocked my head to the side and just stared at her. Her laughter dwindled down and my heart beat started tha
t giddy-upping.

  She sat up and scooted to the edge of the bed and wrapped her slender fingers around me and before I had time to think, she had her hot and wet mouth around my hardness.

  “Oh Christ Terri.” I felt her heat all the way to the arches of my feet. She slid her mouth up and down on me and I knew I couldn’t last very long, watching her like that. Her long dark hair hung loosely around her wrists and suddenly she looked up at me and her eyes, oh fuck, those azure blues of hers settled on mine and I couldn’t get a damn meager bit of air into my lungs.

  One of her hands inched its way up to my stomach and she started doing little things with her fingers that made me want to scream out her name.

  I threw my head back and I knew I was going to release, but I didn’t want to do that to her.

  “Terri stop.”

  She kept going.

  “Terri, baby, I’m not going to last.”

  She stopped then, but only for a second. “I don’t want you to last Justin.” And then her mouth was back on me.

  I didn’t want to do that to her, I really didn’t. “Please Terri. I don’t want to do this to you.”

  My words set her off and she grabbed my ass with both hands and squeezed and that’s all it took. I was a goner. Nothing but one massive orgasm.

  My arms ached to hold her; my body was hypersensitive to all touch; I was lightheaded as I stood there. She released me and I immediately picked her up and kissed her, wrapping my body around hers. I couldn’t speak yet...my throat was still thick with my hunger for her.

  When my voice found its way back to me I told her, “You are an amazing woman Terrington Mitchell.”

  She responded with a husky laugh. “Well, I’m glad you think so.”

  “Oh, there’s no thinking about it babe. I know so.” I kissed her again. “Now I really need to feed you because I know you must’ve worked up an appetite over that.”

  She laughed again. “Well, you can say I owed you for earlier this morning.”

  I felt like I’d been punched in the gut. “Hey, there’s no owing. I don’t want you to ever do anything because you think you owe me.”

  From the look on her face, I knew I had mistaken her comment.

  “No, Justin, that’s not what I meant. I wanted to do that. I wanted to do that earlier but you wouldn’t let me. You’re so sexy...I just wanted to...well, I...what I mean is...”

  “Hey, Terri, just say it. No need to be shy here.”

  “Okay. You are totally sexy and I want to lick you all over. How’s that? This was just the beginning.”

  Wow! How’s that? I’ll tell you how’s that? I want to do a flip right now.

  “You like?” she asked.

  “Er, yeah. How can you tell?”

  “If your smile was any bigger, it’d be at your ears.”

  “Well, the image I get of you licking me all over puts that on my face sweetheart.” I brushed the hair off of her face and kissed her nose. “You are some kind of beautiful, by the way.”

  She smiled.

  “Hey, we need to eat. If we keep this up, we’ll never get out of here!”

  “I know, right?”

  I grabbed her hand and pulled her back into the kitchen where I started to cook up a huge breakfast of omelets, grits and toast. When we were finished feasting, we cleaned up the dishes and she looked at me and burst out laughing.

  I furrowed my brow and asked, “What’s so funny?”

  She shook her head and replied, “I’ve never cooked, eaten and then cleaned up afterward butt ass naked before.”

  A wave of intense jealousy vibrated through my body. The thought of her naked with another man suddenly sickened me. I almost wanted to lose the breakfast I’d just eaten. I could barely breathe.

  Holy shit! I get it now. I finally understand how she felt when she found out about me with those other women. Right now, just the thought of her being naked with another man has me reeling, let alone fucking two women at once. My God! I am such a shit! How could I not understand that? How did I not know how it would hurt her so badly? How could a man be so blind and stupid all at once? Was I that selfish?

  I grabbed my hair with both fists.

  She noticed something wasn’t right.

  “What is it?”

  I looked at her and grabbed her by the shoulders. Then I said, “I’m so sorry. I didn’t know. I never knew. Shit Terri, I’m so goddamn sorry.”

  I pulled her to me and held her against my chest and kept telling her how sorry I was.

  “Hey, Justin, what’s going on?”

  I just held her to me and I trembled with a chest full of emotions. I got to the point where I couldn’t speak. My throat got so tight and thick. I rubbed her back in circles. She tried to pull away but I wouldn’t release her. I could only get a mere “Huh uh,” out. I felt her arms go around my waist and squeeze. Then I knew I’d never deserve this woman.

  “Whatever it is, it’s okay.”

  My voice returned to me and I told her, “It’s not okay. I never got it until now. The thought of you naked with another man set me off. And then I thought about what you must’ve gone through when you found out about me and those two sluts. I’m a total shit Terri and I’ll never forgive myself for hurting you like that. It will take a life time...”

  “Wow. I wasn’t expecting this at all.”

  I’d blindsided her with it, but I wasn’t going to hide how sorry I was or the fact that I really hadn’t gotten it until now.

  “I don’t know how I didn’t know. I’m so sorry. I’m so stupid.”

  “Justin, you’re eventually going to have to let all of this go. I’m not over it yet. I told you that last night. It’s a work in progress. I don’t like what I see in my head when I think of it, but if we keep going there, you and I don’t stand a chance.”

  Then I asked the question I feared the answer to the most. “Terri, do you think you and I even have a chance?”

  “I’d like to think so...yeah. Because this morning was the best morning of my life. I don’t know about you...”

  “Let me tell you then. It was the very best of my life too. I never thought mornings like this existed.”

  “Then I have to hope that we have a chance.”

  I looked her straight in the eye and said, “God, I hope so too.”

  “But Justin, it can’t be only about the sex.”

  She just doused me with a bucket of ice water. “Wait! Is that what you think? Because let me disabuse you of that notion right now. The sex is only the icing on the cake honey. I would’ve waited forever for that. I put that ball in your court, if you recall.”

  “I know. But once we crossed that sex line, it changed everything. I tried not to do it, but you’re irresistible.”

  “I am?” I admit I felt like preening a bit.

  She gave me the biggest eye roll. I almost thought her eyes were going to roll right out of her head. “Oh come on Justin. Women throw themselves at you.”

  That bit was true but I quit paying attention to that long ago. Most of them were pains in the asses anyway.

  “I don’t pay attention to them,” I responded.

  “Come on!”

  “I don’t! It’s been going on since I was twelve. Look, I have a confession here. Pearce is the nice guy in the family. He’s the one with the manners. I’m the asshat. I’m the one that used women. I didn’t give a shit. A few years ago I got over it all. I decided that I wasn’t going to date anyone unless they meant something to me. End of story. You’re the first woman I’ve been interested in quite a while.”

  She snorted and asked, “Is that supposed to make me feel special? Because if so, it’s not working.”

  “No! I didn’t tell you that so you would feel special. I told you that to reveal a part of my nature. Basically I’m a jerk Terri.”

  She rubbed her chest, as if it ached. “Why would you say that?”

  I bent my neck back, in order to ease the building tension. “I’m bein
g honest here. I could give a monkey’s ass about other women throwing themselves at me. I only care about one woman. The one who is standing in front of me right this very second. The beautiful naked woman named Terri. I want her to know who I am. I’m the most imperfect human being that God ever created. I’m an ass. I’m selfish a lot of the time. And apparently I’m stupid as hell too. But I’m trying to become a better person. What I want with you isn’t just about the sex. It’s about everything. I want to walk with you on the beach at sunrise. I want to lay with you on a blanket under the stars on a crisp fall night. I want to take you for a drive on the Blue Ridge Parkway when all the leaves have changed color in the fall. I want to take you to Vail at Christmas time so you can see all the decorations in the village. I want to watch your face when the snowflakes hit it. None of that has anything to do with sex. But I want to get to know you first Terri. I can’t do any of those things unless I know you.”

  She smiled, really smiled when I finished talking. “That was the sweetest thing anyone’s ever said to me.”

  I hadn’t meant for it to be sweet. I’d only meant to reveal that part of myself that I wanted her to know I was working on. “Terri, I wasn’t trying to be sweet.”

  “But that’s the whole point Justin. That’s exactly why it was sweet. The best things in life are the ones that aren’t contrived.”

  Well damn, she had a point there.

  “I suppose so. How’d you get so damn smart...and sexy too?”

  “Lucky I guess. Wanna take a shower?”

  Now how the hell could I refuse that? I allowed her to pull me into her bathroom. Every few seconds, she’d glance back at me and give me one of those seductive, smoldering looks. My boner was about to shoot sparks out of it. That girl could get me rocking with a simple glance.

  Thank God her shower was huge. It was a walk in with one of those dual shower heads, one of them being a hand held. I had all sorts of ideas flying through my head when I saw that. It was going to be a long shower indeed.

  CHAPTER SIX

  Terri