CHAPTER 24
Landon Lane
JOE AND I DROVE ALL night long to make it home from Vegas. It was about a thirteen-hour trip and we got back on a Sunday. The sun had already risen for a few hours before we pulled into town.
I saw a news van on our way through Desire and turned us down a side road to avoid it. I couldn’t believe Joe flipped off the crowd either. I laughed to myself at the unintended consequences of my little joke.
“How hard did you hit him?”
“Twelve percent.”
Joe nodded and stared off at the mountain peaks. “Just enough to knock him unconscious, but not enough for injury.”
“Yeah.”
“We have to ramp up your training.”
We turned off the back road and onto the country highway that led to the house. The mountains flanked us on both sides. “I know.”
“I’ve been thinking strategy.”
“What’s up?”
“You can’t technically beat him, right?” Joe looked straight ahead. I sensed the question was rhetorical.
“Correct.” I was on the verge of passing out and Joe wanted to have a serious conversation. The endorphin high was much stronger than expected and a crash was imminent. The cheers, cameras—it was almost an out-of-body experience. I needed sleep.
“You need emotional stimulation. That’s the only advantage you can have over him. He feels nothing.”
“Agreed.”
“I still don’t think you have a shot. But you could avoid death, maybe.”
His words were a jab below the belt, but I had to shake them off. Joe didn’t know how to be courteous. He spoke about my death as if it were just a likely possibility in a set of outcomes. He was slowly adapting to social cues, but still extremely rough around the edges.
“You need Cora, Logan, all of them around you during training. To remind you of the end game. And we need to incorporate more meditation. You have to be hyper-aware of yourself.”
I nodded as we pulled down the driveway. Cora’s car was there next to Janet’s and another rush of adrenaline hit me when I saw it. Joe’s words faded off toward the mountains and Cora invaded every square inch of my brain.
I hopped out and ran up through the door. Left Joe in the dust. They were all still asleep and it was nearly nine a.m.
Joe hustled up behind me.
“Keep it quiet and don’t wake them up.”
He nodded.
I walked into Logan’s room. He was decked out in WMMA pajamas and clutching his pillow. I gave him a soft peck on the top of his head. I couldn’t wait for him to wake up. But I had other plans. Janet was asleep on the couch and I was almost certain she would’ve offered Cora my bed.
I walked around the corner and there she was, curled up in my sheets. I stood in the frame of the door and just watched her for a few seconds. This could be my life in a few months if I trained hard and had a lot of luck on my side. It could be forever if I had what it took.
I walked over and stripped down to my boxer briefs and climbed in next to her. She was so fucking soft and warm as I snuggled in behind her. I wrapped an arm around her and just sat there with my head on the pillow, nuzzling into her hair. Smelled her shampoo. It was some kind of lavender.
She groaned a little and adjusted. Her ass shoved up against me and my cock was rock-hard. She wore one of my shirts that swallowed her whole body, but it had ridden up her hips. I lifted up the sheet to get a peek at the rest of her.
I let out a groan at how hard she made me. Didn’t want to wake her up, but I needed her right then like I needed air to breathe. Everything rushed back like our first time and I wanted more. I hungered for her.
I draped an arm around her and cupped one of her breasts. It fit perfectly, full in my palm, and I massaged her soft flesh over the shirt. It took everything I had not to tear her clothes off her. I rolled my hips into her and pressed my erection up tight against her ass. It was heaven.
A light moan escaped her lips and her eyelashes fluttered for a quick moment, though her eyes remained shut.
“Mmm.”
“God, I missed you so much.” I exhaled down her neck and watched goosebumps pebble down her arms.
“Missed you too, babe.” Her eyes were still closed, but her ass rocked harder up against me.
“Everyone else is asleep,” I whispered in her ear. Gave her another thrust of my hips and exhaled down her neck.
I nipped lightly at her throat and her nipple hardened against my palm. My hand traced the soft curve of her hip and then I ran it up under the shirt. No bra.
Fuck.
I got a handful of her breast and then rolled her nipple between my thumb and forefinger.
“Shh.”
She’d started to moan at my touch and I didn’t know if the situation had totally registered.
Her hand reached behind me and palmed my length. She stroked back and forth, slow.
“You’re so damn sexy when you sleep.” I kissed down her neck.
“Mmm I want you so bad right now, babe.” Her hand sped up enough to get a throaty groan out of me.
I hooked a finger through her panties and slid them down her ass and pulled them off, then moved my hand right back up between her thighs from behind. The heat from her pussy played across my hand and I stroked her clit a couple of times. Her hips rolled and pushed her wetness up against my palm.
I dipped a finger inside knuckle-deep. Fuck, she was so hot and wet for me. Her slick walls clenched, and a light moan escaped her lips.
“We have to be fast.”
She nodded against the pillow and at the same time pulled my boxer briefs down enough to spring my cock from captivity. I wanted to take my time. Take all day with her if I could, but it just wasn’t an option. Having her for even a few minutes was better than not having her at all.
I pushed my finger in farther and angled it to find the soft ridges deep inside her. She writhed underneath me, and her hips ground back and forth as she fucked my finger. I slipped it out and moved it up to her mouth. Pressed it against her lips and watched her lick and suck her arousal from it.
“Fuck, that’s hot.”
She let out a murmur when I fisted my dick and positioned the head at her hot entrance. I teased back and forth across her clit and her back arched at the friction.
“Oh my God,” she whispered. Her head turned back and she saw me out the corner of her eye.
“I love you.”
I didn’t give her a chance to respond. I pushed slowly inside of her until I was balls-deep. She winced for a split second, but then her lips made an O, and a light gasp escaped her.
I wasn’t sure what I did. Probably groaned. The sensation of her hot tight pussy wrapped around me took me into a whole different world. I wanted to just sit there inside of her all day while she clenched her slick walls around me. I moved my hand back up to her breast and tweaked her nipple.
“This is my favorite place to be.”
Her eyes fluttered closed and her words were short and labored. “Inside of me?”
I bit down lightly on her shoulder and nodded against her. Slid halfway out and then pushed back in with a slow tempo. “Tell me you’re mine.”
I pumped into her again before she could speak. Her mouth parted like she was going to say something, but it morphed into a weak gasp.
“Tell me you’re mine.” I slid out and pumped into her again.
“I’m yours.”
I gripped the back of her neck with one hand and turned her head to face me. My other hand slid down her stomach and my fingertips made contact with her clit. I pistoned slowly in and out of her. Crushed her lips with a kiss and she clamped down on me.
“Oh God, Land—”
It was all over at that point with her fully exposed and open to me. I couldn’t control myself any longer. She felt too good. We were too right together.
Her eyes were locked onto mine. “I’m yours. I want you. Fuck me, baby.”
I sped up my thrusts until the bed started to shake a little too loud for comfort, but I didn’t care. The restraint was gone. She needed to come undone and then I had to mark her again.
My fingers sped up on her clit and my other hand snaked from the back of her neck up into her hair. I balled my hand into a fist and squeezed it tight.
Her eyes rolled up into her head and then closed. “Oh God, Landon.”
“Come for me. Say my name when you come on my cock.”
I crushed her lips with another kiss and fucked her even harder. She moaned into my mouth and nodded.
I could feel another orgasm building inside of her. Just waiting to release.
I sped up my fingers and pumped into her harder and faster. “Is this what you need? What you want?”
She nodded against my hand that was still wrapped up in her hair.
My balls tightened, and a tingling sensation radiated up my shaft. I couldn’t hold out much longer. Intense, microbursts of shockwaves fired through my pelvis and down through my legs. My thighs tightened and the raw energy roiling through her body spurred on my hips.
I fucked her faster and harder until the smacking sounds of wet flesh on wet flesh echoed off the walls in the room.
I sucked along her neck and up to her ear.
“Oh God, Landon—” Her back arched right as my name fell from her lips. She shuddered and spasmed. Seized up around my cock and her hand flew back. It gripped my thigh and her nails dug hard into my leg and pulled me farther into her.
I groaned at the pleasure it sent in waves through my shaft as she came unraveled in my arms.
After her orgasm crested and subsided our eyes locked.
“Come inside me, baby.”
Her words stoked the flames in me higher and harder, until they licked the tips of my toes and fingers. My body took over and my mind rocketed into the stratosphere, almost like I watched from the corner of the room. Fucking Cora Chapman was an out-of-body experience. Both of my hands latched onto each of her shoulders and yanked her down onto me as I impaled her on my cock.
Full bore. To the hilt. I shoved into her as far and as deep as possible and released.
“Holy shit.” Her words came out on an exhale as I pumped my hot come into her tight wet pussy.
I grunted a few times and emptied everything. Black spots filled my vision as her pussy tightened around me. It took every last drop until it spilled out of her around the base of my shaft. My whole body stiffened, and I shuddered one last time before collapsing against her back.
We lay there for another thirty seconds or so, catching our breath, panting furiously. My sweaty chest rose and fell. A fine sheen of sweat coated my body.
I kept my cock buried inside her, wishing time would freeze and I could stay locked in the moment. I stroked her hair and kissed down her neck to her collarbone.
“That was—”
“Amazing.” I panted while finishing her sentence.
She turned and looked into my eyes.
I kissed the bridge of her nose. “Can I stay inside you forever?”
She nodded and stared with freshly-fucked eyes. “Please.”
We curled up and I spooned her for a few more minutes until I was so soft I slipped out of her.
I caressed the curves of her body like it was my favorite work of art and traced a finger back and forth from her shoulder, down to her hip, ass, and legs. “Didn’t mean to wake you up. You can go back to sleep if you want.”
“No.” Her words were light like they could float on air. “I’m glad you did.”
I gave her a peck on the cheek. “I need to go wake up the kiddo.”
Her eyes popped open, as if she just realized we’d had sex in a house full of people. Her body tensed up for a second.
“Don’t worry, everyone’s asleep.”
I hated to bring the perfect moment to an end, but I had to be honest with her. “We’re going to have to be really careful. Joe and I already saw a news van in town.”
“Shit.” She sprang up to attention.
“I wasn’t trying to worry you or get rid of you. I want you to stay here.”
“No, no. I appreciate it. We don’t need extra complications.”
She hopped up from the bed and pulled on her panties and a pair of jeans.
“Was it more comfortable that time?”
She nodded and smiled. “Yes, it was perfect.”
“You made the first time out to be a little better than it was, didn’t you?”
She looked away and blushed, then walked over to me. She dropped a kiss on my lips and placed her palm on my still-heaving chest. “It was perfect for a first time. I may have downplayed the pain a little bit. But I wouldn’t take it back.” She shook her head. “Not for the world.”
I started to say something but she cut me off.
“This time was incredible though. I thought I might pass out.”
I yanked her down onto me. She straddled my hips and I could still feel her heat through the jeans.
“I could get used to mornings like this. I don’t want to spend a minute away from you.”
Cora nodded and smiled. She locked her arms around me and nuzzled into my shoulder.
I kissed her forehead. “I’ll find a way to see you every day. I don’t give a shit what I have to do.”
Worry washed over her and her face went pale. She started to talk but I put my index finger to her lips.
“I was trained for covert missions.” I waggled my eyebrows at her. “I’ll sneak away to see you every chance I get.”