Chapter Fourteen
Lindsey
Saturday
“Come on, let’s get out of here,” Adam grunted, much to my relief. As he held out his hand for me to take, relief flooded me completely. Every part of me had tensed up as I thought this nice family barbecue was about to turn into a fight…and all because of me. It was utterly unbelievable, I was supposed to help, not hinder! “Mom, we’re going. See you later.”
I shot Debbie a sorrowful look as the lavish garden and all the shocked faces within it faded away. I didn’t want to leave so suddenly when I was having such a nice time with her, especially since I was pretty sure that I’d been paid for way longer than under an hour, but I didn’t have any choice. Adam was dragging me away from his family home, so I just had to go.
She’s smart, cleverer than you, kind, sweet, beautiful.
Did he really think that I was beautiful? As those words circled my mind over and over again I wasn’t sure what to believe. He said them with such conviction that he appeared to really mean them, but maybe it was all just a part of the game. Maybe he was playing his role just as well as I was. Still I couldn’t stop the words from spinning and affecting me deeply.
“I’m sorry,” I muttered as soon as we were safely sat in his car and the engine was on. “That was my fault, right? I didn’t think that mentioning my job would cause such uproar.”
“It isn’t your fault,” Adam glowered as he pulled out onto the street. “It’s my family and their bullshit expectations of everyone. Honestly, you’d think that no one has ever struggled in their world. You’d think that everything was permanently hunky dory. You’d think…”
He trailed off shaking his head, but I noticed that his knuckles were white from where he was gripping the steering wheel too hard. Without even thinking about it, I reached across and rested my fingers on his to try and calm him down.
It wasn’t until he snapped his head around to stare at me in shock that I realized we were no longer in public and I didn’t have to play the girlfriend game anymore. I snatched my hand away and placed it into my lap as if it had been burned. It didn’t feel right there, though; I felt much better as I comforted him.
I twisted my neck and stared out the window as I tried to stop feeling so mixed up and crazy. I needed to remind myself that this was just an acting job, nothing more. Any emotional attachment I felt was all in my head, any meaning I lay onto Adam’s words was just me searching for something that wasn’t there. This was why so many co-stars fell in love. Sometimes it was hard to forget where the script ended and real life began…
“Erm…” It wasn’t until the car stopped that I realized I wasn’t at my home. Adam had pulled up outside his town house and parked up his car. “This isn’t-”
“Oh God, sorry.” He slapped his palm against his forehead as he realized his error. “I’m so mad I did that on autopilot.” He looked down at his shaking hands, seeing that he wasn’t in the best position to drive again. Not while he was such a mess. “I’ll tell you what, did you want to come inside? Have a drink and I’ll call a driver to come and get you?”
I knew I didn’t have any choice, so I nodded. It was probably for the best, then we could talk things out and both calm down before we went our separate ways. If I left right now I would be a mess, and I’d also be very worried about Adam. I hadn’t ever seen him like that, and I didn’t know how long it would be before he calmed down.
We walked inside and went straight into his kitchen. While he poured the drinks, I watched the muscles in his shoulders flex with tension. Then I idly ran my eyes down his back towards his butt. As my eyes explored him in a way that I hadn’t let them do before, I felt a stirring inside of me.
This man – the man who brought out a fire inside of me that I hadn’t realized was there – he thought I was beautiful. I thought he was very gorgeous, too, just too arrogant for it to work… But maybe he wasn’t that way at all, maybe I’d misinterpreted him. I wasn’t sure. All I knew for certain was that looking at him now made my head hazy and my chest gooey. I felt something burning off him, something floating between us, and it was oddly like chemistry.
I couldn’t ever have thought that I would share chemistry with Adam, but that was exactly how it felt. All electric and exciting, like a drug I needed a hit from.
No, I thought to myself while fixing my eyes on the ground. This is only a job, nothing more. I cannot start thinking these thoughts. It’ll only end in heartbreak.
“Here.” As my eyes move up again I see Adam standing a little too close to me with my drink in his hand. As I took the glass from him, lightening shoots between the areas where our skin brushed together, heightening the already very confusing sensations I was experiencing.
“Thank you,” I rasped back while taking a sip. Adam didn’t move. “And, thank you for sticking up with me with your brother. You didn’t have to do that.”
I was flooded with emotions and sensations when our eyes connected. Admittedly, it had been a very long time since someone had called me beautiful, but this was so much more than that. It was almost as if those words had unleashed something that we’d been fighting against for a very long time.
My heart thundered, my mind swam, and my feet pushed me up onto my tiptoes before I could think too much about it. We remained connected with our eyes, sharing feelings as our lips pursed. My head cocked, so did his, and all rational thought abandoned me completely, leaving me completely on my own, a slave to my body…
And then our lips crashed together and the whole world stilled. It was almost as if the moment had frozen in time, leaving me with nothing but wonderful feelings creeping right through me. A warmth started in my fingertips as I laced my arms around him and it swept through my body, leaving me utterly certain that this crazy move, which really should have felt so incredibly wrong, was the right thing to be doing.
Almost as if we had reverted back to horny teenagers who could not get enough of one other, clothes flew off our bodies as we moved towards the bedroom, hardly breaking apart from our kiss even once. I couldn’t stand to have his lips away from me now that we’d kissed because his hot tongue felt incredible in my mouth. He managed to unleash a sexual dragon within me, and since it was a part of me that had been dormant for ages, it pulsed desperately with need.
We didn’t step apart from one other until my skinny jeans had been kicked off, taking my panties with them, and I’d finally manage to wrangle Adam’s shirt off of his thick, muscular torso, leaving us both naked. We created a space between us next to his bad and panted desperately as we stared at each other, drinking in our naked bodies. I bit down on my bottom lip as I saw the thick, incredible length he had waiting for me. It made my soaking core ache for him even more, but I wasn’t sure now.
We’d broken apart for a reason, and I wasn’t sure whether that was supposed to make us stop before things got too far or not.
“Well,” Adam smirked and cocked his head to one side. The cheeky look made my pulse race faster. “I think it’s safe to say that our working relationship has been effectively ruined.”
I giggled, relieved that he wasn’t about to be awkward about it, but the laughter soon stopped as he scooped me up into his arms and lay me out flat onto his bed. There was absolutely nothing funny about what was about to happen, and despite the fact that it was probably wrong, I wanted to commit every second of this to memory. It was the best that I’d felt in a very long time. I felt sexy, happy, full of desire, and desirable, too.
“Oh God,” I muttered to myself as Adam reached across me to grab a condom. I was glad that there wasn’t any messing about, I didn’t want to give us any time to think. Now that this was happening, my whole body was consumed with lust. I wanted to feel him inside of me, filling me up, giving me that pleasure I hadn’t experienced in a very long time. I could imagine it now, and I just knew that reality would be even better. “Oh, Adam.”
Once he had covered himself up, Adam crawled onto the bed and hovered over me for a moment. I could feel hip tip teasing my entrance, begging to come in, so I slid my thighs further apart. He didn’t cave right away, though; he rested his forehead against mine and stared deep into my eyes. The hooded desire I could see there only amped me up further. I felt ready to scream if I didn’t feel him soon. I needed him – I needed this.
“I meant what I said, you know,” he commented while finally sliding into me, causing my back to arch with sheer bliss. “You really are beautiful.”
I wanted to answer Adam. I didn’t know what I wanted to say, but I didn’t want to remain silent. However, his first thrust shut off my vocal chords completely, it felt so good. My entire body buzzed with pleasure as he slid in and out of me, sending my brain flying. I grabbed onto his butt and dug my nails into his skin, driving him in deeper and deeper.
My head fell backwards, my eyes slid closed, and I could barely even think anymore. Adam was all over me, he was everywhere, his mouth on my throat, his thick cock brushing in and out of me, knocking my clit with the incredible angle he’d somehow managed to obtain, leaving me breathless and helpless beneath him. I bucked back, trying to give him the same amazing sensations, but I was lost. Adam had full control of my body, and I was more than willing to let him have it if he could make me feel so good.
“Oh fuck, Lindsey,” he gasped breathlessly into my ear as he nibbled on my lobe. “You feel so fucking good.”
Again he made me feel amazing: this sexy man who’d probably been with all kinds of beautiful women thought that I felt good. I pressed my breasts into him and rolled my hips, feeling every damn inch of him. Adam picked up the pace, causing the pressure to build, I could feel a red hot orgasm creeping up from my toes, trying to claim me. I was balancing on the knife edge of desire, ready to tumble right in.
I let my hands fall away from Adam so I could fist the sheets as the hot bliss swirled. I bucked harder as the thrusts intensified, bringing me rapidly to my peak. I tensed, I gripped, I held my breath…
And then I fell. I tumbled into the abyss of pleasure, screaming and gasping as the orgasm finally took hold and swept right through me like a powerful, intense wave.