Chapter Eleven
Garrett
Slowly, firmly, I slide my tongue into Callie’s warm, waiting mouth. Her lips are rose-petal soft, and with every inhale I breathe in the sweet, delicious scent of her.
I forgot about kissing. Just kissing.
How good it can be—how hot—all by itself. The kind of hot that feels like my heart is going to punch out of my chest and my cock is going to bust through my zipper.
I forgot . . . but with every brush of her lips, Callie reminds me.
I feel the tip of her wet tongue stroking mine and I moan. I lean forward over her, my arms pulling her closer, my hands sliding into the silk of her hair, cradling her head—holding her right where I want her. Where I need her to stay—tight, flush against me, chest to chest, breath to breath. Right here, right there.
One hand stays fisted in her hair, while the other slips down, brushing her neck where her pulse thrums against my fingertips, and across her collarbone.
Over the years, I’ve touched lots of breasts. Hundreds. Probably thousands, if you count them separately. I’m a connoisseur of breasts, an expert. If tits were restaurants—I’d be fucking Zagat’s.
But these . . . these are Callie’s breasts.
And that makes it different. More. Better.
My fingertip circles her nipple, feather light and teasing, making it stiffen beneath the cotton of her blouse. I slide the rigid point between my thumb and forefinger, softly at first, then harder, pinching. And then I open my palm and cup Callie’s breast in my hand, massaging and rubbing.
Hello, sweet friend, how I’ve missed you.
She’s perfect . . . fucking perfect in my hand—all soft and full, warm and firm. I want to drop to my knees and worship her. Lick up her stomach, suck the hard, scorching point of her nipple into my mouth, and feast on her until she screams my name.
Callie’s hips rotate, rubbing against me, searching for friction, and the sexiest purr rolls from the back of her throat.
That’s it, baby. Give me those sounds. Fuck me, this is good.
It’s also insane.
Riiiiiiing
The bell screams outside the heavy door, disturbing our happy place—sucking face in the fucking janitor’s closet. Ray’s whack-job palace. This is what we’ve been reduced to, this is who we are—two horny teenagers stealing kisses and dry-humping the first chance we get.
Between Callie taking care of her parents and their house, me grading papers—which is more fucking time consuming than the world will ever know—football practices and the extra one-one-one practices with Parker Thompson, our after-school availability is practically nil. We talk on the phone every night—long, good, deep conversations that end when we’re yawning more than speaking. Phone sex isn’t on the table just yet, so I’ve made do with jerking off to the memory of Callie’s sultry, sleepy voice after we hang up. I also had dinner at Callie’s parents’ place on Tuesday. We all watched Jeopardy and ate KFC together while I copped a feel of Callie’s smooth, bare leg under the dining room table.
It’s ridiculous. Like high school all over again. I’m seriously considering sneaking through Callie’s bedroom window tonight. I wonder if Mr. Carpenter still has that shotgun.
“Shit,” I pant, pressing my forehead to hers, trying to catch my breath—and get the steel pipe of my dick under control.
I need to find a textbook to hide behind. Male teachers walking the halls with too-obvious-to-be-missed boners are generally frowned upon by the school board.
“Damn it, I have to go.” Callie straightens her clothes and pats at her freshly fucked looking hair. “I need to be at the auditorium before the late bell and traffic in the C-wing is always a bitch.”
I nod, blowing out a slow breath. “Yeah, okay. So, you’re definitely not making it to the game tonight?”
“No, I can’t. My dad has a cold. My mom might hurt herself trying to take care of him, because of course he says he’s dying.” She shakes her head, muttering, “Men.”
“Hey, take it easy on us. Colds hit us harder than women; everyone knows that. Our immune systems are fragile . . . like our egos. Present company excluded, of course.”
“Of course.” She smiles as she kisses me one last time. “But I’ll be listening to the game on the radio. Good luck tonight, Garrett.”
“Thanks. We’re gonna frigging need it.”
I crack the door and take a quick look into the hallway to make sure it’s empty. But I don’t look hard enough—because when Callie and I step out, it’s into the direct path of Miss McCarthy. And she’s got David Burke with her, probably hauling his ass to the office for vaping in the bathroom or something.
McCarthy narrows her eyes, like a snake.
And I don’t have to worry about that textbook anymore—my hard-on runs for his life.
“What’s going on here?”
“We were just looking for . . .”
“Spackle.” Callie finishes, her eyes wide like quarters.
She’s a stage actress so you’d guess she’d be good at lying. But she’s really not. She never was.
“Spackle?” Miss McCarthy asks.
“Yeah,” Callie swallows so loud I think I hear her gulp. “There was a . . . crack . . . in the . . . floor . . . in my . . . classroom. And Garrett was helping me find spackle to . . . fill it. Don’t want to risk a lawsuit.”
David smacks his lips together. “Wow, that was lame. Are you sure you two went to college?”
McCarthy holds up her finger to David. “Zip it.” Then she turns the finger on us. “You’re already on my shit list, Daniels.” She pins Callie with her beady eyes. “And now you’re on my radar too, cupcake. There will be no filling of cracks on school grounds, am I clear?”
“As crystal.”
“Yes, Miss McCarthy.” Callie nods.
She shoos us with her hand. “Now get to class.”
After one last glance at each other, Callie and I head off in opposite directions.
And I think I just discovered the fountain of youth—getting busted by your high school principal. Cause, god damn if I don’t feel sixteen again.
~ ~ ~
Here’s the thing about teenagers—they have the ability to turn even the simplest event into a major production. A life or death type of drama.
Case in point: two of my team captains, John Wilson and Anthony Bertucci, and my receiver, Damon John, approach me in the hallway just after fourth period. They’re wearing their suits and ties—and serious as hell expressions.
“We’ve got a problem, Coach,” Wilson tells me.
I step back into the classroom and the boys converge around me in a huddle.
“What’s up?”
Bertucci tilts his head towards Damon John, and his voice goes low.
“DJ’s gotta take a shit.”
I blink at them.
Then I glance at DJ. “Congratulations. Why is this a problem?”
“I gotta go home,” DJ says.
“There’s a bathroom in every hallway in this building.”
DJ’s already shaking his head. “I can’t go here. I get like . . . stage fright . . . the pipes lock down, you know?”
“Well . . . try,” I tell him.
“I have tried.” He sighs miserably. “It doesn’t work, and then it feels like I’ve got concrete in my stomach. How am I supposed to play tonight with concrete in my gut?”
Yeah, that could be problem.
“What about the faculty bathroom?” I suggest. “I can get you in there.”
“Nah, Coach, no other place feels right. It’s gotta be my house. That’s where the magic happens.”
God damn, kids are fucking helpless these days.
“Can you hold it until after school?” I ask. “Coach Walker can drive you home then.”
Again, it’s a negative.
“That’s hours from now. The turtle is rearing its head—once it’s back in its shell, there could be muscle strain—”
I hold up my hand. “Yeah, yeah, thanks . . . I get it.”
Wilson presses his lips together. “But we have a plan.”
Oh boy.
“What’s that?”
“I go out and talk up Officer Tearney in the parking lot. My brother was in the academy with him.” Wilson motions with his hands and if we had a white board, he’d be illustrating his play on it. “I block Tearney’s view of the south exit while DJ goes out the bathroom window in the locker room and Bertucci stands guard to make sure he can get back in.”
DJ adds, “I can sprint home in ten, do the deed, and be back here in fifteen.”
Apparently, DJ shits as fast as he runs—there’s something I could’ve gone my whole damn life without knowing.
I squeeze the bridge of my nose. “And why are you telling me this?”
“We wanted to make sure you were good with it,” Wilson says. “In case things go south and we get pinched. We didn’t want you to be pissed.”
Now that’s respect. Yes, technically they should be able to take a shit without my blessing, but still, as a coach—I’m touched.
“Text me if you get busted. I’ll cover for you.” I point at DJ. “Don’t twist an ankle getting home. And save some energy for the field—don’t sprint and shit it all out.”
They all nod and we bump fists.
“Cool.”
“Thanks, Coach D.”
“You the man.”
“Good luck, boys. Go with God.” As they walk tall down the hallway, I can’t help but think . . . this is my job, this is my life, this is what I do. This is the stuff no one tells you about when you’re in college earning that teaching degree.
~ ~ ~
Operation DJ Takes a Shit is a success, and a few hours later, my team is in the locker room suiting up. Music is big—it helps them get in the right head space—so I play a lot of Metallica, some Bon Jovi and “Goodnight Saigon” by Billy Joel to instill that brotherhood, we’re-all-in-this-together kind of feel.
Parker Thompson looks small and shaken in his shoulder pads as he stands in front of Lipinski’s old locker—his new locker.
I move to the center of the room, Dean turns the music down, and all eyes turn to me, waiting for me to say the words that will inspire them, that they can take onto the field and lead them to victory.
Speeches are serious business with me. I spend the week writing them, because they matter to these kids. Some weeks are easier to write than others.
“I’m proud of you.” I look at each of their young faces. “Every one of you. You’ve worked hard, put in the time, put your heart into this team. For some of you seniors, this may be the last season you ever step out onto a field . . . and things have happened in the last few weeks that aren’t how you thought this would go.”
I turn slowly, meeting their eyes. “And I know you guys talk . . . like my mom and her club ladies . . .”
Muffled, guilty chuckles reverberate through the locker room.
“. . . and I know some of you think that I let my ego get in the way—that Lipinski’s not here because of some pissing contest between the two of us.”
I shake my head.
“It wasn’t like that. Pride’s a good thing—it makes you work hard, strive to be better . . . but I would sacrifice my pride for any one of you. I would bend and I would break, in a heartbeat, if I thought it’d make us a better team, a stronger team.”
I point at Lipinski’s locker. “Brandon’s not here because he chose not to be here. It was his choice. He wasn’t thinking of you and he sure as shit wasn’t thinking of the team when he made it. And that’s on him. It’s easy to work hard, to be proud when things are going your way . . . when all the pieces fall into place in front of you. But the true test of a man—of a team—is what happens when those unexpected hits come. When you get your teeth knocked out and you’re down on your knees . . . are you gonna stay down and whine that it wasn’t supposed to be this way? Or are you gonna stand up, with your head high, dig deep and move forward? Pull together all your intensity, all your strength, and get it fucking done—push the ball down that field.”
I watch their gazes intensify and their heads nod as the words penetrate. I step towards Parker and tap his shoulder. “Parker made a choice too. And it wasn’t easy. We’ve asked a lot of him—a shit-ton of responsibility is riding on his shoulders. But he stepped up for you, for this school, for this team!”
My voice rises and my players get to their feet. “So, we’re gonna go out there, together, and play our fucking hearts out—together. You’ll make me proud and you’ll make yourselves proud and we’ll leave it all on the field—because that’s who we are! That’s what we do!”
“Hell yeah!” someone yells.
And then they all start yelling, stomping their feet and clapping their hands—fired up, like gladiators in the bowels of the Colosseum.
Wilson yells, “Who are we?”
And the answer bounces off the walls and rattles the lockers.
“Lions!”
“Who are we?” Bertucci bellows.
“Lions!”
“God damn right you are!” I point towards the locker room door that leads out to the field. “Now go be fucking heroes.”
~ ~ ~
They end up being heroes, all right. The kind of heroes who get slaughtered—300, Spartacus kind of heroes. It’s a bloodbath.
Ninety percent of football is mental, and with the shake-up in our team’s leadership, their heads are messed up. Parker Thompson only had two completions and even our defense played like dog shit.
I hate losing. It leaves a black, twisting feeling in my gut—an awful mix of frustration and embarrassment. Coach Saber used to tell us, “Losers lose and say—I can’t do it. Winners lose—and figure out what they did wrong, so they can do better the next time.”
It’s a principle I try to live by . . . but it still blows.
The next day, Saturday afternoon, I lie on the couch with the shades drawn, the lights off, and Snoopy curled in a depressed puddle of fur around my feet.
He hates losing too.
There’s a knock at the door and I know immediately it’s not a member of my family—they know better than to disturb me in my period of mourning. I drag myself to the door and open it . . . to find Callie on my front step, graceful and glowing, looking like a ray of sunshine made flesh.
I sent her a text when I got home from the game last night—and it wasn’t even dirty. I’m ashamed.
“Hey!” Her glossy, strawberry lips smile.
Callie was always beautiful, she doesn’t know how to be anything else, but there’s something extra now—a boldness, a womanly confidence that turns me right the hell on. Even in my sad, loser bubble—my cock perks up. He has all kinds of ideas on how sweet Callie could comfort us, each one filthier than the last.
I lean down, pecking her lips hello.
“Hey.”
She runs her hand over the stubble on my jaw. “How are you doing?”
She’s wearing snug jeans that hug her hips, high brown boots, a burgundy V-neck sweater that shows off her creamy neck, and her blond bouncy hair is held back by a thick black headband—giving her a sexy, Mod-Squad, ’60s kind of look.
“Fine.”
Yes, I grumble. And I’m probably pouting too.
She bobs her head, nodding. “Riiight.”
Callie looks down at Snoopy. “He’s still doing the post-loss pouting thing, huh? I figured as much.”
I leave the door open for her, turn around, and walk back into my living room—face-planting back onto my trusty couch. He’ll never let me down.
I can’t see her, but I feel it when Callie follows me into the room.
“So, apparently my parents never bothered to replace the mattress in my bedroom . . . ever. And it’s only going to take one more night for the springs to actually puncture my spine.”
I grunt in response.
“Colleen is with them now, and while I’m sure you have lots of sulking to do, I thought maybe you’d want to leave the pit of despair for a few hours and . . . come shopping with me? It’ll cheer you up.”
I roll over. “Wait, let me check.”
I slide my hand into my pants, cupping my junk.
“Yeah, I still have a dick. Why would shopping cheer me up?”
Callie’s eyes roll behind those thick, long lashes.
“Because, McGrumpy-face, I thought you may want to help me break in the new bed, after we set it up in my room?” She throws her arms up from her sides and sighs mockingly. “Buuut, if you’d rather stay here . . .”
I’m intrigued.
“A bed, you say?”
Callie nods.
“In your room? The one with a door? And . . . without your parents?”
“Yep.” She pops her p, making me stare at her lips, her mouth. I fucking love Callie’s mouth. “What do you think, Garrett?”
And she looks so damn cute, and sexy and sweet . . . my cock’s cheered way the hell up already. And my frown turns around into a grin.
“I think we’re going to get you a kickass bed, baby.”
~ ~ ~
I call my brother’s cell, so we can borrow his pickup truck. When it goes to voicemail, we head over to my parents’ house. On the way, I glance over at Callie, her hair lifting in the breeze of the open window, her eyes lighting up when I beep, and she waves to Ollie Munson. There’s just something so good, so fucking right about seeing her in the car next to me—after all this time—that fills my chest with a peaceful, settled sensation. I thread our fingers together, holding her hand for the rest of the drive.
“Callie!” My mother engulfs her in a hug. They were close back in the day—sitting together at my football games, having Betty Crocker chats in the kitchen. My mom was pretty wrecked when we broke up. For years, every new girl I started hanging out with got the “not as (fill in the blank) as Callie” stamp of disapproval.
“Look how beautiful you are! You haven’t changed a bit. Doesn’t she look beautiful, Ray?”
“Beautiful,” my dad grunts, staring at the television remote in his hands like he’s disarming a bomb as he changes the batteries. “Good to see you, sweetheart.”
“Thanks, Mr. Daniels.”
Then he fixes his crusty, disapproving gaze on me.
Here we go.
“Your boys got crushed last night, son.”
Moral support was never his strong suit.
“Yeah, Dad, thanks. I was there. I know.”
“Your quarterback’s playing scared. He’s got no confidence.”
“I’m working on it.” I sigh, rubbing the back of my neck. I look to my mom. “Is Connor around? We need to borrow his truck.”
“No, he went by the house to see the boys. It’s not his weekend, but he had the afternoon off so he wanted to spend some time with them.”
It’s like a frigging scavenger hunt around here. While my mother pours Callie a cup of coffee and they start talking about all things San Diego, I try my brother’s phone again. Still a bust—straight to voicemail.
So, a little while later, Callie and I pull up to Connor’s stone-front behemoth of a house. His pickup is in the driveway, the blue spruce he planted the first year they moved in is growing in the front yard, and his German shephard, Rosie, is barking in the back.
But inside . . . all hell is breaking loose.
Before we get to the front door, I can hear Stacey and my brother arguing, yelling, their voices overlapping in sharp, angry verbal slashes. But their words are drowned out by the roar of a . . . chainsaw? Is that a chainsaw?
I look up at the upstairs window, half-expecting to see Leather Face staring back at me.
In the foyer my nephews look like they don’t know where to go first—like three baby bears who’ve lost their momma.
“Uncle Garrett!” Spencer runs to me. “Dad’s freaking out—he’s chopping the house down!”
And the sound of the spitting chainsaw roars louder.
“What the hell is going on?” I ask my oldest nephew, Aaron.
“Dad took us for ice cream,” he explains, his face tight and flushed. “We were supposed to go to the park after, but Spencer got a stomachache so we came home early. And Mom was here . . . with Mr. Lawson.”
“He’s her new friend,” Spencer says, all round-eyed innocence.
“He’s Brayden’s basketball coach,” Aaron adds quietly. “They were upstairs.”
“He ran out the back when Dad got the chainsaw from the garage,” Brayden finishes.
Jesus. Out of the four of us . . . Connor’s the fucking calm one.
“Wait here,” I tell the boys, then take the stairs two at a time.
Inside the bedroom, my brother’s just finished sawing off the last post of the four-poster bed and he’s getting to work on the footboard.
Stacey waves her arms, her dark hair flying around her face. “Stop it! You’re acting like a psycho, Connor!”
My brother just squints behind his safety goggles. “You want to screw someone else—knock yourself out. But it’s not gonna be in our bed. That’s where I draw the line.”
Zzzzz . . . boom . . . and down goes the footboard.
“Hey!” I cup my hands around my mouth. “You two geniuses realize you’ve got three kids downstairs?”
Only they’re not downstairs anymore. They shuffle through the doorway, staring at what’s left of their parents’ bed and getting a front row seat to the Jerry Springer-level marital dysfunction.
My brother switches off the chainsaw. But Stacey still screeches, ’cause that’s how she rolls.
“Tell your brother that! He’s decided to be Super Dad all of a sudden, even though he was never there for me!”
“I. Was. Working!” My brother pushes his hands through his hair, making it stick up at every angle. “I’m a doctor. When I get called in—I have to go, even if it’s fucking girl’s night out!”
And they go back and forth, hurling sins and grievances at each other like a tennis ball at Wimbledon.
Until Aaron’s quiet, lethal words cut through the air.
“You are such a whore.”
And all the oxygen is sucked out of the room. Like that vacuum sealing food preserver my mother uses. No one moves, no one says a word, it’s silent.
Until the smack of Stacey’s palm slapping Aaron’s face rings out, sharp and cracking.
“Never speak to me like that again.” She points at him, her voice trembling with fury, and heartache.
My brother yanks his safety goggles off his face. “Aaron. You can’t talk to your mother that way.”
Thirteen-year-old Aaron’s eyes dart between his parents, filling with tears. “Are you serious right now? You’re holding a chainsaw.”
My brother glances down at the power tool in his hands, like he’s just realizing he’s holding it.
“Look at you . . . both of you . . .” Aaron’s voice cracks. “Look at what you’ve done to us.”
And this—this is why I don’t have kids of my own. Why I probably never will.
Remember those egg assignments we all got in middle school? The ones where we had to carry around an egg for a week, take care of it like it was a real baby? It’s a stupid assignment.
Kids are so much more breakable. Fragile. It’s so easy to screw them up. With our own selfishness. Our mistakes and regrets.
I see it all the time. Every day.
My nephew swipes at his cheeks roughly and glares at the two people who gave him life.
“You’re both assholes. I’m out of here.”
And he rushes from the room.
“Don’t leave, Aaron!” Spencer cries.
Stacey sobs into her hands and my brother moves to run after Aaron, but I cut him off.
“Let me. Let me talk to him.”
Connor nods and I turn, meeting Callie’s eyes. One of the best things about being around someone who’s known you forever is . . . no words are needed.
She puts one arm around Spencer and the other around Brayden, ruffling their hair.
“Hey, guys, I noticed you have a treehouse in your backyard. I love treehouses—can you show it to me?”
Outside, I catch my nephew in the middle of the yard. He whips around, taking a swing at me. I bear-hug him, locking his arms at his sides.
“Let me go! Let me go!” He struggles.
“Easy . . . come on, Aaron, stop. You have to stop.”
He fights and twists some more. But eventually he wears himself out, breathing hard and going slack in my arms, leaning against me.
“They suck,” he chokes against my shirt.
“I know.”
“I hate them.”
“You won’t always.” I lean back, looking down into his eyes. Aaron’s so much like my brother—smart, good, steady—when he’s not hurting. “It won’t be like this forever, Aaron. I promise.”
He wipes his cheeks with the back of his hand, sniffling and nodding.
I hook my arm around his neck, dragging him along. “Come on, I’m driving you guys over to Nana and Pop’s. You’re staying there tonight.”
~ ~ ~
After my family drama quota is filled for the day, Callie and I finally make it to Mr. Martinez’s furniture store and find her a white wrought-iron bed. Getting the queen-sized mattress inside her room is a trip and a half, mostly because Callie’s dad insists on helping me drag the fucker in.
From his wheelchair. With his right, casted leg sticking straight out like jousting lance.
“You’re going the wrong way, Stanley!” Callie’s mom yells from the open back screen door, with a cigarette hanging from her lips.
“I’m not going the wrong way!” he shouts back.
But, yeah, he kind of is.
Still, we manage to get the mattress into the hallway, which, thankfully, is too narrow for his wheelchair.
“Thanks for the help, Mr. Carpenter. I got it from here.”
Callie’s room hasn’t changed a bit. Same pink walls, same flowery curtains hanging over the window I used to sneak through after her curfew—so we could screw quietly on her blanket on the floor. Good times.
Her old CD player is still here too—playing her favorite band.
“Jesus, Callie, ABBA? I see living in California didn’t improve your taste in music.”
She slaps my ass, scowling all fierce and protective of her bad music. It’s really fucking cute.
“Leave my ABBA alone. They’re classic and they make me happy.” With “SOS” as our background music, Callie picks up a wrench and opens the assembly instructions, tilting her head in a way that makes me want to bite her pale, graceful neck. “Now let’s get this sucker put together. Time’s a-wasting, Coach.”
Half an hour later, I slide the mattress on the bed frame and push it into the corner. With a naughty look on her face, Callie slips around me to her bedroom door, opens it a crack, and listens. The only sound from the living room is the hum of the TV. She shuts the door, meets my eyes . . . and locks it with a decisive click.
Then she hops on her bed—her tits bouncing beautifully under her sweater—and my mouth goes dry. She lies back on her elbows, with one foot braced on the mattress and the other dangling off the edge.
“We’ve got about fifteen minutes before they start trying to maneuver the wheelchairs around the kitchen to fix dinner for themselves. Until then . . . wanna make out?”
It’s absolutely crazy how much those words turn me on. All the blood in my body rushes south to my groin, making my head go light and my balls heavy. I want her. Even in the rapture of our horniest, hormonal adolescent days, I don’t think I wanted her this much.
Callie’s green eyes rake down over me, like she’s imagining all the things we can do to each other in that timeframe—and we can do a lot. I’m efficient like that.
And I don’t think about the game last night, or my brother’s issues this morning—they’re not even a whisper in my mind. All there is, all I see, is me and Callie alone in this god-awful pink room, with ABBA playing on the radio and her beckoning me to the bed with those smiling lips and dancing eyes.
She gives a throaty laugh when I practically pounce on her, nestling my hips between her oh-so-welcoming thighs. I take that pretty mouth in a deep kiss, and thrust slow and firm against her, feeling how hot she is for me, for this, through our jeans. Sensation races up my spine and Callie gasps into my mouth.
Things go from playful to rock-hard serious real fucking quick. Callie pushes against my chest, and I grasp her waist, keeping us tight and flushed together as we roll over. We’re chest to chest, her long legs straddling my hips and her hot, sweet pussy sits on my straining dick.
Perfect . . . she feels so fucking perfect.
“Garrett,” she breathes out in an airy moan.
And I groan back, low in my throat, “Callie. Jesus, Callie.”
Her hips roll and rock, back and forth, slow at first . . . then in a faster . . . a more desperate slide that makes my eyes roll back in my fucking head. My fingers dig into the flesh of Callie’s ass and I thrust up quick and hard against her.
“Fuck me . . .”
Roughly, I yank the neck of her sweater down, baring one breast covered in a pale pink bra. I break my mouth from Callie’s and blaze a trail of licking kisses down her chest. Callie sucks at my shoulder, biting at the base of my neck, rotating her hips in glorious circles, rubbing her clit on my thick cock, jerking us both off with the pressure.
I dip my head and wrap my lips around her, taking in a mouthful of delicate lace and gorgeous tit. I suckle her hard . . . then harder . . . flicking my tongue relentlessly over her perfect pebbled nipple. Callie’s back bows, arching, giving me more of her breast. God damn delicious. She yanks at my hair, holding me tight, writhing in perfect, shameless abandon.
But times flies. And life’s not a bitch . . . it’s a cockblocker.
Because just as Callie starts to chant my name in that beautiful, high-pitched, keening voice—always a telltale sign she’s about to fall apart in my arms . . . Mrs. Carpenter’s raspy voice punches through the bedroom walls.
“Callie! Is Garrett staying for dinner?” There’s a crash of pots and pans, like a full set of cymbals got knocked to the ground. “I’m making sloppy joes!”
We freeze, mid-hump. And the fiery lust fusing us together gets doused with a big bucket of arctic seawater.
“Fuck,” Callie pants against my hair.
I release her breast with a pop of my lips. “That was the idea.”
She laughs, but it’s more of a painful, choking sound. “This is awful.”
I breathe slow against her, working to get my shit under control.
“No. No, it’s okay. It’s better this way.” And I try and make myself believe that, which is hard when your cock is achingly . . . well . . . hard.
I brush her cheek with my fingers. “I want to be able to take my time with you, Callie.” My voice goes harsh, low, as I give words to the fantasy unfurling in my mind. “I don’t want clothes between us or your parents on the other side of the wall. I want to feel it when you come all around me. And when I’m inside you, I’m going to want to stay for a hell of a lot longer than fifteen minutes.”
Callie’s eyes are glazed, lust-drunk, and I wonder if I can make her come like this with words and promises alone.
“I want to be above you, beneath you, behind you . . . I want you weak, drained from coming, hoarse from screaming my name. I’m going to need hours, baby . . . fucking days...”
Her hips lift, rubbing against me, starting us up all over again. “Yeah . . . God, Garrett, I want that too.”
“Callie!” Mrs. Carpenter yells again. “Did you hear me?”
I give up. I collapse back on the bed.
“Yes!” Callie yells at the wall. “Yes, I’m coming.”
And then she groans while smiling, looking down at me. “Except I’m really not.”
I laugh, even though it hurts. And my dick starts thinking of new, inventive ways to kill me for toying with him this way.
Callie takes a deep, cleansing breath. Then she drags herself away from me, standing next to her shiny new bed. “Do you want to stay for dinner?”
“No, thanks.” I glance down at the massive bulge straining my pants. “I’m going to just head home and spend the night rubbing one out. Or maybe . . . five.”
She leans down, her hair falling around us as she pecks my lips. “Same.”