I grabbed the hem of the T-shirt, raising it until it was over her head and on the floor. I stepped back a foot, capturing the sight of her bare, plump breasts, and my mouth watered in anticipation.
“You’re the most beautiful woman in the whole world.”
“You’re just sayin’ that.”
My eyes darted back to hers. “I’m serious. I want to suck and lick every inch of you right now.”
“Well, do it.” She smiled.
She didn’t have to tell me twice.
I threw my shirt on the floor beside hers and stepped forward, grabbing her left breast with my right hand. It was the perfect size for my hand. Just big enough to spill over in my palm, but not too big that I wouldn’t know what to do with it all. I bent down to stick it in my mouth, twirling my tongue around her puckered nipple.
“Do you want to turn the light off?” she asked.
I looked up at her. “Why would I want to do that?”
“I … I don’t know.” She shrugged.
“We can turn the lights off if you want, but I want to see you, baby.”
“Okay.” She smiled again.
There was something in her look that told me that when Jared fucked her, he did it with the lights off. He was a worthless piece of shit who probably got off on women who looked like men instead of this beautiful woman in front of me.
His loss!
I took her other breast in my mouth, giving her nipple the same attention as the first one. Her hands continued to play with my hair, and I could smell the distinct fragrance of her arousal.
Stepping away from her, I unbuttoned my jeans, and after I stepped out of them, I threw them and my boxers on the floor with our clothes. I watched Brooke watch me. The look in her eye was like a tiger about to pounce on its prey. But I was the tiger, and I was going to claim her first.
As I stood before her naked body, placing my hands on her hips and hooking my fingers in the elastic band of her boxers, I shimmied them down her legs, taking her panties with them. When I got to her bent legs, she laid back, straightening her legs so I could remove the rest of her clothes.
I’d imagined her naked body a thousand times, but nothing could compare to the real deal. Her smooth, golden, tanned body radiated as I looked down on her. I would never get the image out of my head as it was now engraved in every part of my brain. I wanted to go to sleep every night with it and wake up every morning to it.
It was mine.
She was mine.
She scooted back to the center of the bed, laying her head on a pillow, and I crawled over her, looking directly into her eyes until we were face to face. I brushed my lips against hers and started to taste her body again with my tongue, starting at her slender throat.
“Do you have a condom?” she asked.
Shit!
“Fuck, I didn’t expect this to happen. I left the bar quickly and came straight here. I don’t have one.”
“I have an IUD.”
“A what?” I laughed.
She laughed back. “It’s a pregnancy prevention thing that gets stuck up in your vagina.”
“I … It’s like … It means you won’t get pregnant, right?”
“Yeah.” She smiled. “It’s like the pill, but not.”
I shrugged. “I’m clean if you trust me.”
“I trust you. And I’m clean, too.”
“Good. Now that we got that out of the way, can I continue my trail?”
“Uh huh,” she said, biting her lip and smiling.
Her fucking smile made my cock twitch every time I saw it. If she kept looking at me all cute, it was going to be over sooner than I wanted. I was trying to draw it out. Trying to make this memorable for both of us because she wasn’t just some random chick I picked up at Halo. This was my Superwoman, and I wanted our first time to be the best we’d ever had.
I continued down to the valley of her breasts, stopping to suck each one in my mouth again. The scent of her arousal was getting stronger, and I needed to find out how wet she was. While I sucked a nipple into my mouth, I reached between her legs, running my middle finger between her folds. The instant I felt her slick juices, I groaned against her chest. My dick stood at attention, jealous and wanting to be covered in the fluids that my finger was getting. She gasped as I touched her clit with my finger, throwing her head back against the pillow and arching her back off the bed.
I rubbed her nub as I continued my trail with my tongue, licking her stomach, dipping into her belly button and going further south until her coarse hair tickled my tongue. I grinned against the top of her mound as realization was settling in that I was about to taste her pussy for the first time. All my senses were on high alert, and my cock throbbed, screaming at me because it wanted to be in Brooke’s warm cunt. But I needed to taste her. I’d waited too long, and even though I wanted nothing more than to give my dick what he wanted, I wanted to feel Brooke squeeze my head with her thighs as her first orgasm shot through her.
As I inched down further, a bead of pre-cum glistened on the tip of my cock. I was ready to explode just hearing Brooke moan at the first swipe of my tongue against her pussy. It tasted like candy.
Sweet fucking candy.
I lapped at her core as she continued to moan and clenched the comforter on her bed. When I flicked her clit, her body jerked a little beneath me. Her pussy was as sweet as a fucking lollipop and the best cunt I’d ever tasted—and I’d had my fair share.
I spread her folds open with my fingers and continued to lick up her sweet juices. I couldn’t believe that I was in her apartment and tasting her—ready to fuck her. I laid on the bed on my stomach, and with my other hand, I slipped first one finger and then two into her pussy as I sucked and flicked her clit.
Her body started to tighten as she was on the verge of shattering. I moved my fingers and tongue faster, needing her to release so my cock could experience her tight pussy bareback. I hadn’t gone without a condom since I was married to Dana, and I knew it was going to feel awesome.
My two fingers curled inside her drenched pussy, and that was Brooke’s undoing. She moaned, back arching and legs clenching my head like I wanted. I slowly continued to fuck her with my fingers until her body relaxed and started coming down from her high.
I rose off my belly, licking my lips and tasting her cum as I crawled up her body. Our eyes were locked as I bent my head down, capturing her mouth with mine. I didn’t think about it—I needed to kiss her. There had been some women who wouldn’t let me kiss them after, but not Brooke. She didn’t even flinch.
Her tongue darted out, tasting herself on my lips and tongue. She moaned again, running her hands along my smooth chest and rippling washboard abs, and grabbed my cock. I let her pump me a few times in her hand, but I was on the brink of losing it, so I pulled out of her grasp and eased my way between her thighs once more—this time with my dick. I pressed the tip of my cock against her entrance and ran it along her folds to gather some of her cum while looking into her lustful eyes. I eased into her, inch by inch, her legs wrapping around me so that I could go deeper once I was in all the way. Each inch warmed my cock as I sank into her.
We stared into each other’s eyes as I went further in. I’d forgotten how good it felt to go without a condom, but I knew nothing compared to her. Her warm, slick pussy wrapped around my cock each time I went deeper. Her nails raked lightly across my back, and my goose bumps returned. Not only my hair, but every nerve was standing at attention as I withdrew a little and then eased in further.
Once I was to the hilt, I leaned down, kissing her again as I moved my hips. She ran her hands through my hair—something I loved, but had never told her. She just knew.
Our bodies had a light coating of sweat as our hips rocked in sync with each other. She would moan and I would groan as the pleasure grew so intense that I knew I couldn’t last long. I’d been worked up from the moment she opened the door and I’d laid eyes on her. I was trying my hardest to wait for her
to come again.
As if she were reading my mind she whimpered, “I’m close,” in my ear.
I was even closer, I knew it.
I rested my weight on my left forearm, continuing to pump into her as I reached my hand between her legs and rubbed her clit. She titled her head to the side, and I leaned forward enough to take her lips and tongue in my mouth again. Her body tightened the same way it did when she was about to come before. I massaged her nub harder and faster, grinding my hips into her as fast as I could. Brooke moaned my name as she came beneath me, and I groaned hers in her ear as I came at the same time.
“Wow …” Brooke finally said as we lay next to each other.
“I know.”
I did know. It had been almost a year since I’d had sex. Before when I would let a girl have more than one night with me and we would end up having sex, I wouldn’t kiss her. Kissing during sex was something special. Kissing wasn’t special, but when my dick was in them, I didn’t want my tongue in their mouth. But Brooke … I couldn’t get enough. The moment her eyes locked with mine when I entered her—I was a goner. I wanted my hands, mouth, chest, cock—everything on and in her.
She leaned over, wrapped her arm around my body, and placed her head on my chest.
She fit me perfectly.
I woke to the smell of bacon and coffee … two of my favorite things. I was a little bummed that Easton wasn’t still in bed with me. I would have loved to have woken up next to him, but spending the night in his arms and waking up to him cooking breakfast was just as good.
After our first session, I laid wrapped in his arms as he lightly ran his fingertips down my arm. I was almost asleep before I realized that we had never locked the front door. After I’d made myself get out of bed to lock the door, I went back to my bedroom and was instantly awake for round two.
The things Easton could do with his tongue were out of this world. Jared had never once come close to getting me off while going down on me. After about five minutes of him asking me if I was close, I would fake it. There was no faking it with Easton.
Since the first day of the cruise, I’d imagined his fingers and tongue on my pussy, but nothing had come close to the reality. Since I’d kicked Jared out, I would use my own fingers after hanging up the phone with Easton. Just thinking about his voice and laugh, and remembering his hard body and smile, made me horny. When I saw him at my front door last night, I instantly became wet. He was no longer in my imagination; he was reality—my reality.
I slipped on his boxers and T-shirt. I hadn’t meant to steal them, but the morning I woke up to him in the shower, I’d left as soon as I could. Part of me was disappointed because I knew I could have had Easton on the cruise like I’d wanted since Jared had been cheating on me the whole time. But the other part of me was glad that our first time was in a king-size bed and not in the middle of two twins pushed together.
“Mornin’,” I said, slipping my arms around Easton’s bare stomach and leaning my head on his back. He stood in my kitchen in only his jeans, scrambling eggs.
“Did I wake you?”
“No, the bacon did.” I smiled against his back.
Easton turned in my arms, giving me a sweet kiss on the lips. “I made coffee, too. I hope it’s how you like it.”
“Nothing creamer can’t fix.” I stood on my tippy-toes, giving him a little kiss before turning to make myself a cup.
After he’d finished making the scrambled eggs and a few slices of toast, we sat at my square cherry oak table and dug in. It had been a long time since anyone had cooked me breakfast.
“Thank you for making breakfast,” I said, taking a bite of the bacon.
“You’re welcome.”
“How did you learn to cook?”
“After Dana died, I had to learn, you know? I couldn’t let Cheyenne starve. My mom taught me the basics, but over time, I’ve picked up some things here and there.” He took a sip of his coffee.
“What’s your specialty?”
“Chicken carbonara. The secret is lots of butter.” He chuckled.
“And bacon right? Bacon and butter make everything better.”
“Definitely.”
“I think the last person to cook for me was Bailee when she was maybe twelve. She made spaghetti—something you really can’t mess up.” I smiled at the memory.
“I’ll always cook for you if you want.”
Always?
I felt my face flush. Damn him and his sweet talking ways. Before I could say something back, there was a knock on my door.
“Hey, why are you guys here so early?” I asked, opening the door to see Nicole and Avery standing there.
“Early? This isn’t early. We need to leave in thirty minutes,” Nicole said, stepping past me. “Oh, shit! I didn’t know you were here, Easton.”
“You didn’t?” I questioned, turning around to see everyone standing behind me.
“I thought Avery would have told you,” he replied.
“Well, he didn’t,” she said, lightly punching Avery’s arm.
“Wait, I thought you knew he was coming and that is why you were stalling after dinner?” I asked.
“No?” she said, raising her eyebrows at him.
“I didn’t tell her, and it slipped my mind when we got back to her condo,” he said with a mischievous smile.
“Enough said,” I said, stepping around them to go get dressed. Easton followed me into the bedroom.
“I need to run to my car. I left my bag in there.”
He left to get his bag while I started to get dressed. I was going to the hospital, so they were lucky I even bothered putting on something other than my PJs. I dressed in black yoga pants and a light blue tank top that reminded me of Easton’s eyes. I didn’t put any makeup on and threw my hair back into a ponytail.
My life seemed like it was starting to go in the direction that I wanted it to. Easton had come into my life, making me happy. Nicole found Avery, and she was the happiest I’d ever seen her. Bailee was about to graduate college, and everything just seemed right. But I was starting to get nervous. Since Dr. Sam had told me about my tumor, I kept worrying about cancer, and I’d cried enough tears in the last five days to last me a lifetime. No matter what the biopsy showed, I was going to be strong. I’d always been the strong one. I couldn’t let people know that I was hurting inside. I tried not thinking about it, but I still hurt. The tumor needed to come out even if it wasn’t cancerous—I was tired of hurting.
I was thirty and felt like I was eighty. I was in my prime, ready to get married, have kids and live for seventy more years. Not battle cancer and possibly die. I knew people fought cancer all the time, but what if it was something I couldn’t fight?
After we’d dressed, Avery drove all of us to the hospital. No one brought up what we were going there for. I think they were waiting for me to say something, but I didn’t want to. I just wanted it over.
I wasn’t only scared about the results of the biopsy; I was scared about having a needle poked into me. I was scared about the pain from the needle and about the results they would get back. I was scared of the unknown. I was trying to mask how anxious I felt, but deep down I was a nervous wreck. This test could tell me that I had cancer and that was the scariest result of all.
After my CT, I’d met with a surgeon that Dr. Sam recommended, and he looked over the results and told me that it looked like the tumor was on the nerve between my first and second rib. It felt like my shoulder blade, but since it was the nerve, I figured it was all around the area, and it hurt like a bitch. The surgeon had prescribed stronger pain medication, and it was actually working. At first I felt high from the medication, but now I felt relieved for a short time—four hours to be exact. I was just happy that I was finally getting some relief from the pain.
Easton held my hand the whole way to the hospital, running his thumb across my hand and soothing me without words. That was the beauty of our relationship. Even though we were new, we felt comf
ortable with each other. We didn’t need to make conversation. Sometimes words aren’t needed, and he knew that.
Easton continued to hold my hand once we were all out of Avery’s truck. We followed Nicole to the correct department in the massive hospital. I stood in a small line, waiting to be checked in, but there was no way I was letting Easton go until I had to. After checking in and waiting to be called, it was finally time to go back and be prepped. I looked to Nicole, but she knew I needed Easton, so she didn’t put up a fight. She was my best friend, but sometimes you just needed the strong arms of your man to pull you through.
A nurse led me back into the stark hallway and into a large room with multiple hospital beds surrounded by white curtains. A chill ran through me as I stepped farther into the room. Hospitals always made me nervous. There was just something about them that creeped me out. It was probably the dreary white walls—and the sick people.
After the nurse weighed me, she led me to a bed. I grabbed Easton’s hand once I got off the scale and held it tight, not wanting to let go longer than I needed to.
“You’re going to be fine, baby,” he said, whispering in my ear as the nurse started to pull back a curtain around one of the beds. “I know you’re afraid, and honestly, so am I, but you’re never going to be alone. I promise I’m here for you and will be here when you’re done.”
“I know,” I said, looking into his eyes and giving him a weak smile.
The nurse gestured for me to lie on the bed while she took my temperature. After she got her reading, she gave me a white and blue patterned hospital gown to change into.
“Do you want me to step out while you change?” Easton asked.
“No,” I said, shaking my head.
Even though we had only seen each other naked the night before, I was comfortable with him seeing me change. I didn’t want to be alone.
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