Chapter 23

Sierra

STANDING IN FRONT OF THE mirror, I frowned. “I don’t like it.”

Azurdee rolled her eyes as Ryn fell back onto my bed. “Holy hell. Sierra, it’s a divorce hearing . . . not a runway,” Ryn said as she covered her face with her hands.

Shaking my head, I turned to face both of them. Smiling, I looked between the two of them. “Y’all will never know how much it means to me you both came to Austin for this.”

Ryn sat up and gave me a sweet smile as Azurdee wrapped me up in her arms. “That’s what friends are for, sweetie. Now, let’s just hope Aaron kicks your husband’s lawyer’s ass!”

The mention of Aaron’s name made my body shudder with desire. Closing my eyes briefly, I thought back to this morning, and in the shower. And the kitchen.

“Oh. My. God,” Ryn said as I snapped my eyes open.

“What? What’s wrong?” I asked as I watched Ryn’s mouth drop open.

“You and Dodge. You slept with him, didn’t you?”

Azurdee’s head about broke off with how fast she turned and looked at me. “What? You slept with Dodge?” She began jumping up and down clapping as Ryn’s mouth about dropped to the ground.

“This past weekend?” Ryn asked as she narrowed her eye at me like how my father used to do when he knew I was about to lie.

Deciding not to hide the fact we were officially together, I grinned and shrugged my shoulders. “This weekend, last night, this morning.”

Ryn slammed her hands to her mouth and began screaming. Hitting her on the shoulder, I said, “My father is going to think I’m killing you in here. Stop screaming!”

Sure enough, there was a knock on my bedroom door. “Sierra, everything okay?”

Heading to the door, I opened it and gave my father an innocent smile. “Everything is fine, Daddy. Ryn is just happy I finally settled on this little black dress.”

My father looked me over. “Well, you are in mourning over all those years you wasted on that prick.”

Chuckling, I nodded my head. “Yep. You’ve got that right. We’ll be just a few more minutes, I promise.”

My father looked into my room at Azurdee and Ryn. “You two sure are some great friends to come all this way and surprise Sierra like you did.”

Ryn came and stood next to me and wrapped her arm around my waist. “That’s what friends do. Kind of like how Dodge is being such an amazing friend to Sierra. Don’t you think so, Sierra? Did you ever imagine you’d be so . . . close . . . to Dodge? I mean, Aaron. Oh no wait, are we calling him Mr. Walker today?”

Nodding his head, my father cleared his throat. “Well, hurry it along girls. Sierra, Mr. Walker, er, Dodge, er . . . Aaron wants you at the courthouse a little early.”

“Almost done, Daddy I swear.” Taking a step back into my room, I shut the door and glared at Ryn. “You bitch!”

Both Ryn and Azurdee started laughing. Shaking my head, I pointed at both of them. “Bitches, both of you. You’re both in a ten-minute time out. I’m not speaking to either one of you.”

Grabbing my black pumps, I slipped them on each foot and turned to walk out the door of the bedroom.

Azurdee cleared her throat and said, “Um . . . you forgot your purse.”

Stopping, I took in a deep breath and reached back for it. “Ten minutes starting now!”

***

Walking into the conference, I attempted not to let my breathing get out of control. I’d never had a panic attack but with the way I was dragging in air I was pretty sure I was having one.

Karen the receptionist smiled sweetly and gave me a knowing nod. The kind that says, I know you’re fucking your lawyer. Smiling back at her, I turned and walked over to the window and stared out at the capitol.

Closing my eyes, I prayed Robert didn’t have anything up his sleeve. My biggest worry was he had some smoking gun none of us would see coming. What it could be, I had no idea.

Hearing the door to the conference room open, I held my breath as I listened to it slowly shut, and then lock. Smiling, I slowly let my breath out as I felt him getting closer to me.

Turning around, I sucked a breath in. Aaron stood before me looking so damn handsome. My eyes roamed his body as I took in his black pants and white buttoned-down dress shirt. The striped tie he had on caused my cheeks to blush as I thought back to last night when he tied my hands to his headboard with that very tie and had his way with me.

My knees wobbled as he drew closer. Leaning against the wall, I tried to calm my breathing down.

Aaron stopped right in front of me and placed his left hand on the wall, while his right hand went to the window, successfully trapping me in the corner. His blue eyes captured mine as I smiled and grabbed his tie.

“This looks familiar,” I purred.

Aaron smiled and my heart felt as if it was about to explode. My entire body filled with a warmth I couldn’t describe. Placing my hand on the window to steady myself, I sucked in a breath.

“I like the color of this tie.”

Raising my eyebrows, I let out a nervous chuckle. Why in the hell was I so nervous? Jesus, I’ve spent the last week making love to this man every chance I got, and now I get nervous? The way Aaron was looking at me had my body doing all kinds of things. Butterflies danced about in my stomach, my knees felt weak, my heart rate was out of control and the pull in my lower stomach was insane.

“You certainly know how to come on to a girl, Mr. Walker.”

Aaron pulled his head back as his eyes roamed across my body. “You look beautiful, Sierra.”

Licking my lips, I whispered, “Thank you.”

Removing his hand from the window, I jumped when he touched my leg and moved his hand up my dress. Closing his eyes, he shook his head. “Please tell me I’m dreaming.”

Smiling bigger, I slowly nodded my head as I chewed on my lower lip. “You are very much awake. I need you to be alert for this trial.”

Dropping his head, Aaron moved closer to me as he brushed his lips across my neck. “You don’t have any panties on, Sierra. How in the fuck am I supposed to be alert knowing you’re pussy is exposed?”

“Oh God,” I said as I held on for dear life. Aaron talking dirty had to be the hottest damn thing ever. “I’ve . . . I put some in . . . my . . . my—”

My mind couldn’t function as he kissed along my neck and worked his fingers inside of me. “Cat got your tongue, baby?” Aaron whispered in my ear.

“Purse! They’re in my purse and I’ll put them on right now.”

Grabbing my hand and pushing it over my head and against the wall, Aaron slowly shook his head. “Keep them off,” he spoke against my lips as he quickly let go of me and stepped away. Turning, he headed to the door and unlocked it as I stood in the corner, dragging in air and trying not to fall to the ground.

The door opened and Brice walked in. Turning away so he couldn’t see my flushed face, I listened to Aaron and his father speak for a few minutes. Thank God, I needed this time to gather my wits. What in the hell was I thinking not wearing panties? I should have known Aaron would find out.

Shaking my head, I cleared my thoughts and turned to look at Aaron and Brice.

Giving my best smile, I made my way to the other end of the conference table as I tried to not let the smell of Aaron’s cologne get to me.

Stopping just shy of him, I cleared my throat and pulled out a chair to sit. “Don’t sit, Sierra. We need to head on over to the courthouse.”

My heart slammed in my chest. “Now? We have to go now?”

Brice smiled as he placed his hands on my arms. “You’re soon going to be free from all of this. The sooner the better, if you ask me.” Brice leaned in and kissed me softly on the cheek. I knew he was kissing me not because I was a client, but because I was madly in love with his son and his entire family. I prayed like hell they felt the same way about me.

“I’ll meet you both over there,” Brice said as he quickly turned and headed out the door. My eyes snapped over to Aaron.

“I don’t even want to see him, Aaron.”

Picking up the files and placing them in his briefcase, Aaron winked at me as he walked toward me. Holding his hand out, I took it as I chewed nervously on my lower lip. “Um . . . Ryn and Azurdee surprised me and came into town for the trial.”

Aaron smiled. “That was nice of them. Are Lark and Tristan here as well?”

Shaking my head, I let Aaron lead me out of the office and to the elevator. His hand on the small of my back made me feel safe. As much and as fast I was falling in love with this man I had to fight to keep my guard up.

By the time we were in the garage, I was feeling somewhat better.

Sitting in the car, I took in a few deep breaths as Aaron pulled out and headed toward the courthouse.

“Do you need relaxing, baby?”

My head popped up and I looked at Aaron as I instinctively spread my legs apart before pushing them back together.

“No. I don’t. Good lord, Aaron. We are on the way to my divorce hearing and you want to give me an orgasm?”

Aaron laughed. “Hell no. I want to watch you give yourself one.”

Rolling my eyes, I opened my purse and pulled out my panties. Slipping them over my heels, I pulled them up as I lifted my ass off the seat. Letting out a huff, I glanced over to Aaron who was now in a full on pout.

“Oh, dear God. Don’t pout, Aaron, it doesn’t become you.”

“That was just mean. That was my motivation to get this thing done and wrapped up.”

Fighting to hold back my grin, I glanced out the passenger side window. “Well, now that you know what lies under the panties, you can work at getting them off faster.”

Aaron laughed and hit the gas when it turned green. The closer we got to the courthouse, the more nervous I got.

Reaching over, Aaron took my hand in his and held it. A strange feeling moved though my body. I was instantly calmed and for the first time in months, I actually looked forward to my future.

My future with Aaron.