Chapter Two
ZACH
The third time her cell phone rings, Aubrey shuts is off and tosses it in her purse. She closes her eyes and leans her head back against the headrest. Her long auburn hair falls over her shoulders in full waves while her mouth pulls into a slight frown. Getting in the car with me and leaving her family behind wouldn’t have been easy for her. I can’t imagine telling some of the most important people in my life to fuck off because they don’t approve of the person I’m in love with, but I’m glad she did. It’s got to be the hardest thing in the world for her. I swallow hard as I think about how it’s possible she might hate me for the little stunt I pulled.
I reach over and thread my fingers through her delicate ones while I readjust my hand on the wheel. “It’s gonna be alright, babe. Give them time to adjust.”
She bites her bottom lip to try and keep it from quivering. “How can you say that after how they treated you? I hate them.”
I bring her knuckles to my mouth and kiss them gently. “No you don’t. You’re angry right now. I’m used to people treating me like that. Before I became ‘Riff’ days like today were what my life was like. People, especially ones with money, would watch me like a hawk, thinking in their head I was a thief and a low life.”
“Didn’t you hate that? Being treated like a criminal?”
I glance over at her beautiful questioning face. “It wasn’t exactly a fucking picnic, but I get that some people don’t understand rock culture and tattoos are just another outlet for us to express creativity.”
She looks down at her lap. “I’m sorry.”
I reach over and tap her chin up. “What are you sorry for, Kitten?”
Aubrey sighs. “For everything. For the shitty life you led, for the way people treated you and above all how my family treated you. I expected so much more from them. I thought they would at least have enough faith in me to trust my judgment and see you are a great person—someone I love.”
I pull into the first decent hotel I see and park the Fusion. I pivot in the seat and turn her face in my hands and force her to look at me. “No one has ever stood up for me like that before—chosen me over basically their entire world. It means a lot that you did that, but I also want you to know even if they treat me like shit, I always want you to have a relationship with your family.”
“Zach, I won’t have anything to do with them if they don’t accept you.”
I stare into her green eyes. “They don’t have to accept me, Aubrey. All that matters to me is that you do. You know my darkest secrets, and all the fucked up details that make me who I am, and you haven’t run for the hills screaming. I’ll do anything for you. Anything. I want you to be happy and I don’t want you to fight with your parents over me. I don’t want you to resent me one day.”
A tear leaks from her right eye. “I would never resent you. Ever.”
I brush away the fallen tears from her face with my thumbs and lean in to press my lips against hers. “I love you, Kitten. I’ll always treat you right.”
After I pay for a room at the front desk, we take the elevator up to the fifth floor and roll our luggage down the hall to our room. I swipe the room card and open the door, ushering my girl inside. It’s a typical king-sized bedroom, with neutral walls and white bedding.
Aubrey flops down on the bed and kicks off her shoes. Her bare legs dangle off the side, and the green dress she’s wearing rides up her thighs as she stretches her arms above her head. She’s fucking beautiful and perfect. There’s nothing about this girl that doesn’t turn me on. Instantly, the need to hold her in my arms overwhelms me and I can’t help but give in to it.
I remove the hat I’m wearing and toss it to the empty chair in the room before I crawl into bed next to her. On my side facing her, I prop my head up with my left hand and stare down at her. I trace the bare skin on her left shoulder before slipping my fingers under the spaghetti-strap holding up dress. It hooks with ease around my index finger and I slide it down, exposing the top of her left breast. A white lacey bra covers her nipple, but I pull my fingertips down the curve of her breast and feel its silky-softness. My cock jerks in my jeans from the simple contact and almost as if she knows how fucking turned on I’m getting she smiles the most perfect smile.
Aubrey opens her eyes and brings her hand up to my cheek, touching it softly, and I turn my face into it, kissing her wrist and inhaling the sweet scent of her perfume. Before her I was lost, constantly at war with myself. I didn’t believe I was worthy of a love so simple and pure. It’s something I still battle with, but with each passing day I grow a little more at ease with having something so great in my life. I fucking love this woman, and there’s nothing I wouldn’t do for her. Aubrey and my band are all that matter to me in this fucked up world.
“What are you thinking?” she whispers as she stares into my eyes.
I lean down to kiss her lips, and the necklace I’m wearing rests on her chest. “About how lucky I am to have you.”
She bites her lip. “I was just thinking the same thing.”
“Liar,” I say and then kiss the tip of her nose.
She pulls my mouth back down to hers. “Let me prove it to you.”
“You’ll get no arguments from me, babe.”
Her leg swings around and hooks on my hip as she pushes her weight against me, throwing me back against the bed. Long strands of hair frame her face as she straddles me and shoves my shirt up in order to rake her nails down my abs.
I suck in a quick breath from the amazing feeling of pleasure and pain it creates. “Fuck.”
I sit up, wrapping my arms around her before crushing my lips to hers and plunging my tongue in her mouth. A soft moan vibrates out of her mouth and I feel the sound it makes as I deepen the kiss. My hand runs up her back and then threads into her thick hair. My dick strains against my jeans, begging for entrance into my most favorite place on the planet—buried deep in her pussy.
She tosses her head back and I drag my lips down her neck to her collar bone. “God, Zach. I want you.”
It’s all the invitation I need to take her. I yank her dress and an audible tearing sound fills the air as I rip the top down exposing her breast. Kitten doesn’t seem to notice because she’s too busy pulling my shirt over my head. I love how fucking excited she gets when I touch her.
She circles her hips, rubbing her panty covered pussy against the fabric of my jeans. The pressure of her body against mine makes my cock throb and I can’t take it any longer.
I shove her dress up over her hips, rip her panties off her body, and then run my fingertip over her swollen clit.
“I actually liked those.” I don’t have to look at her face because I can tell from her sultry tone that she’s pouting.
“I’ll buy you fifty fucking new ones. They were in my way and had to go,” I say against her skin and she giggles.
Feather-light kisses caress my shoulder as I kneed her tits. Her taut nipples rub against my chest as I grab her face and kiss her hungrily. The only word that float through my sex-hazed brain is mine. How this woman will always be mine.
My index finger slips inside her. “Damn, Kitten. You’re always so ready for me.”
“It’s because I always want you,” she breathes into my ear.
I slip my hand away from her body and flip her onto her back. “That’s good to know because I always fucking want you, too.” I grab her hand and guide it to my stiff cock. “You do this to me. Just the thought of sliding into you causes this. I love being inside you.”
She bites her lip as she sits up and makes quick work of freeing my dick from my jeans and boxer-briefs. Her wet tongue darts out from behind her teeth and she licks my shaft from root to tip on both sides while she stares up at me, watching my reaction.
Her lips wrap around me and she swirls her tongue around the head before taking even more into her mouth. The warmth of her mouth causes a tingle to erupt all over my body and I shudder from the pure delight.
I sweep her hair to the side and hold it back as I watch her work. The sight alone nearly makes me come in her mouth. “Damn, baby. You’re so fucking good at that.”
I suck a quick breath in through my teeth when she looks up at me and says, “I need you inside me.”
As much as I want to make that happen for her, I shake my head. “I believe in fair play.”
Before she can say another word I grab her hips, yank her ass to the edge of the bed and kneel down. I spread her thighs open and then use my fingers to open her folds to expose her swollen clit. I circle my tongue around it and taste the sweet juices of her arousal. I fuck her with two fingers while using the trick of drawing a figure-of-eight with my tongue to work her into a frenzy. She grabs handfuls of the comforter at her sides as she cries out and screams my name. Her pussy clenches my greedily around my fingers as she rides the wave of her orgasm.
Her body goes limp as I stand and guide my cock into her. “Mmmm. I’ll never get tired of fucking you.”
I shove into her down to the base and then pull back out, loving how wet she is. I wrap one of her legs around my waist and props the other up on my chest as she leans up on he elbows. “Oh, Zach. That’s it. Right there.”
I love it when she lets me know I’m pleasing her. Mutual gratification is always the goal when I’m making love to her.
My fingers dig into her hips as I pump faster while she stares up at me with hooded eyes and her mouth hanging open. Our eyes stay locked as warmth spreads over my body. I try to fight it off and think about something else, but it’s fucking impossible with her looking up at me like that—all sexed-up and panting.
I feel myself slipping into sweet oblivion, and I know I can’t hold back much longer. Aubrey’s brow furrows and her mouth pulls into an ‘O’, and I nearly loose my mind as I know she’s about to find bliss with me with time. “That’s it, baby. Come for me.” She closes her eyes and cries out my name. “Shit,” I growl.
A whimper escapes her as she lets go at the exact time I do. Heat pulses through me as I fill her full. I love coming inside her. I never knew the difference wearing a condom made until I experienced raw sex with Aubrey that first night. Now, I’m fucking addicted to it, just like I am this amazing woman beneath me.
It takes a second for the nerves in my body to stop twitching and for me to regain my composure. Aubrey grins up at me while biting the tip of her manicured fingernail. She’s fucking adorable.
I bend down and kiss her lips. “I fucking love you, do you know that?”
She laughs. “I have a pretty good idea.”
I move my hips and slide my still semi-erect cock in and out of her. “This should give you a great fucking idea. I’m already gearing up for round two.”
Her lips crush mine. “You really are a machine.”
“Damn straight, babe. I’m ready to make you scream all night long.”
She shakes her head and grabs my shoulders pulling me down and then rolling onto of me. “It’s my turn to take control.”
With that I lay back and enjoy the show while my woman fucks me like there’s no tomorrow.
~*~*~
“Shit!” Aubrey exclaims as she turns her phone on. “Ten missed calls from my mother and three from Gabe.”
“Maybe you should call them back. They’re worried about you,” I suggest.
She shakes her head. “They should be worried about me ever speaking to them again after the way they treated you.”
I can’t argue with her much there. The Judge have might as well punched me square in the balls and placed a restraining order on me to stay away from his daughter with the way he acted towards me. When he slapped that money in my hand, it took everything in me not to shove it down his throat and tell him I wipe my ass with more. I was pretty proud that I was able to keep my temper in check and merely shove it in my pocket once he found out I was with Aubrey, and not some fucking servant.
Gabe seems pretty cool though. “Why don’t you at least call your brother and tell him the tattooed deviant didn’t steal you away and murder you. That should ease your mother’s mind and keep her from passing out again.”
Kitten sits next to me on the bed and frowns. “I don’t know what’s come over them. They’ve never been such…”
“Assholes?”
She answers with a sad smile. “Yes, assholes. I’m sure it was a lot for them to take in. They’re not used to me being with someone who looks like you.”
I nod thoughtfully and my mind drifts back to the reason we came here in the first place. “You mean they’d much rather see you with that douchebag, Isaac?”
She rolls her pretty green eyes. “Someone exactly like him.”
“You know, Kitten, meeting them really makes me understand why you were standoffish in the beginning and only wanted a fast fuck from me.”
“It does?” I hear the question in her voice.
“Of course it does, but it also shows me how much you care about me—about what you’re willing to risk to be with me.” I push a lock of hair behind her ear. “I love you, babe.”
“I love you, too.”
She turns the phone over in her hand and I can see how hard fighting with her family is for her. My heart squeezes at the thought of her pain, and I’ll do anything to bring a smile back to that pretty face.
I nudge her arm. “Call them.”
She shakes her head again.
“At least call Gabe.”
Aubrey sighs and turns the phone over to stare at the screen. “I guess it won’t hurt to call him.”
I give her another little nudge. “Go on.”
Her fingers fly over the keys and then she places the phone up to her ear, waiting for a familiar voice on the line. “Hey…I know, but…really?” She turns toward me with wide eyes. “Maybe…No…No promises, Gabe. If they act like that again, I’m done…All right. I’ll talk to you soon.”
Anxious to know about the other side of that conversation, I try and coax some information out of her. “Sooo…what’s going on?”
“They want us to come back over for dinner. Gabe says they want to apologize and start over now that the shock of the situation has worn off.”
I tilt my head to the side. “You know, I was thinking about something.”
“What’s that?”
It’s a hard subject to broach, but it’s something I need to know. “Why would you so blatantly defy them to be with someone like me?”
Aubrey stretches her hand up and glides her fingers from my cheek to my earlobe. “Being with someone like you was never in the plan, but I can’t help that I find your bad-boy ways so damn appealing. I know that wanting to make a life with you is seriously against the rules, which is why I only wanted to keep our relationship to one night. But you grew on me and I couldn’t drag you out of my heart no matter how hard I tried. The more I’m with you, the more I want you. I love you, Zach. For some crazy, messed up reason you’re my soul-mate. The man I’m supposed to be with forever.” She looks away from me. “I really can’t explain it without sounding like a total girl. It’s like fate brought you and I together.”
I lean down and brush my lips against her shoulder. “I feel the exact same way.”
She gazes into my eyes and blinks a couple times. “You do?”
“Of course I do. Now, get some clothes on and let’s go give your family the do-over they want. I promise not to hold your father’s dickhead actions against him.”
She nods. “I wouldn’t blame you if you did.”
“He’s your pops, babe. I’ll suck it up and try to reel in the asshole gene that I love to display just as long as he doesn’t fucking push me.”
Kitten’s lips pull into a lop-sided smile. “Thank you.”
Thirty minutes later, Kitten and I are parked in the same exact spot in the driveway. For some strange reason, I feel the nerves getting to me. Even being on stage in front of thousands of people doesn’t make my hands feel clammy like this.
What the fuck is wrong with me? It’s just her dad. I’ve told executives and big shots who call themselves in charge of the band off before, which could’ve flushed the bands career down the toilet, and never felt like this.
I risk a glance at Aubrey and she’s chewing on her lip. “Hey.” I touch her hand. “It’s going to be a lot better this time.”
She sighs. “I hope so.” Her eyes flit up to the house and then back to me. “Ready?”
“As I’ll ever be.” I hop out of the car, not giving her any more time to dwell on the what-if’s.
She opens her door before I have a chance to make it over to her and steps out of the car. A timid smile crosses her lips before she grabs my hand in hers and tugs me towards the front door.
The second we step onto the landing the door swings open and her brother greets us with a grin. “That was quite the show. I’m really glad I came back for this.”
Aubrey rolls her eyes. “You look for any excuse to get out of school. Tell me again how you’re managing to make it through med school?”
“Ha. Ha. You think you’re funny, don’t you?”
She pinches his cheek as she passes him, and we step through the threshold. “I’m only joking. I know if you didn’t take that year off to go back-packing through Europe with me you’d be done by now. It put us both behind in school, but it was totally worth it.”
I furrow my brow. “You never told me you did that.”
Gabe pats me on the shoulder. “How long have you two been together?”
I pause as I think about that question. Our relationship has been so crazy up to this point I can’t honestly give him an answer. “I’m not sure.”
He chuckles and shakes his head. “Sounds like there’s a lot you two don’t know about each other. Come on, everyone’s sitting down.”
He’s right. I’m sure there’s tons of shit we don’t about each other yet, but that doesn’t change the way I feel about her. She’s amazing, and that’s enough for me. The rest will come with time. I’m sure of it.