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All Mine: The Complete Series Box Set by Lauren Wood (134)



Chris

 

I woke up to a knock at the door. The bed was empty, though there was still a warm spot where Stacy had been. My mind played over the night before and my cock was instantly hard. I was never going to forget the way she called out to me and the dirty words that had poured out of her mouth as I had drove into her deeper than ever. Fuck, I wanted more and even though I knew she was going to be sore, I was already trying to figure out a way to talk her into it. It didn’t help that there was someone at the door, but I hoped that it was just Stacy at the door. Maybe she forgot her key or something.

When I unlocked it and opened the wooden door, the last thing I was thinking I would see was my old friend Keenan. He looked just about as surprised to see me as I was to see him.

“Um, hey Chris. What are you doing here?”

I was about to ask him the same question, but he beat me to the punch. How was I going to explain this away?

“Well, um I was here to see Stacy.”

He looked at me and I realized that I didn’t have any pants on. It was going to be hard to make him think that this was anything but sexual. I might as well have been caught red handed.

“You don’t have any clothes on Chris.”

I felt my face getting red. Why was I so nervous about being caught with Stacy?

“Yeah, I guess I don’t.”

“You two…?”

I just kind of shook my head and moved to let Keenan in. It was awkward for a few moments as neither one of us had nothing to say.

“I didn’t see that coming.”

“Why?”

“I didn’t think that she would give you the time of day.”

“Ouch, you have no faith in me old friend. You seem to forget that I am always in a woman’s pants.”

“Yeah, but not like her.”

I didn’t like what it was that he knew. How did he know that she was so special? Did he know that she was a virgin and that she had given herself to me? It felt like that was what he was referring to but I didn’t ask because frankly I didn’t want to know. All I wanted to know was that she was mine now.

“What does that mean?”

“I don’t know exactly, but Ashlyn is really protective of her. Says she is innocent and I better not corrupt her.”

I smiled, I couldn’t help myself. I felt like I had corrupted her enough last night, but I still wanted to do it some more.

“You didn’t corrupt her Keenan, I did.”

Keenan just shook his head and looked at me like I had lost my mind. “You are a mess. You better not hurt her Chris. She is a sweet girl.”

Why did every one think that I was bad news? I know that I had a reputation in the past, but people change. I had changed and I wasn’t in it to hurt her. I didn’t know what I was in it for yet, but it had nothing to do with me hurting her. I only wanted to give her pleasure and hear my name screamed out between her lips. That was all that I wanted, no matter how sad or silly it may have been.

“I am not going to hurt her Keenan. I don’t even know what this is, but I do know that I am not going to let her go. Stacy made me realize that there was more to life and relationships. I am not going back any time soon. She changed me Keenan.”

Keenan’s smile grew on his face and he started to tell me that it was just like what happened with him and his wife, but he didn’t have much time to reminisce because Stacy was coming out of the shower. She had a towel wrapped around her and I was thankful for that. Stacy was known to like to run around without one and even though I would have loved to have seen it, I didn’t want anyone else to ever see her like that, just me.

“Keenan, is it already time?”

“Yeah, I was closer than I thought when I called. I don’t mind waiting though, catching up with Chris.”

Stacy looked from me to her boss and I could tell that she was not happy about the situation. Maybe it was too real for her, I am really not sure. All I knew was that I didn’t want to make it any worse. She had that look on her face that told me that she wasn’t ready for this to be in the open.

“I think I am going jump in the shower. I have meetings to get to myself.”

I walked out of the room and the silence that I left behind. Stacy made her way into the bedroom and I heard the door shut quickly. She was embarrassed, that much as clear, but she didn’t need to be. She was perfect and I wished that Stacy knew that. This wasn’t near done with us and I knew that by the end of it she would understand.

Turning the shower on, I waited for a time to let the room get hot and steamy before I got undressed. I only had boxers on, and I got in. I looked down and saw a slight tinge of red on my cock and it reminded me once again of what it had felt like to be inside of her. The memories from last night came flooding in and I cursed the guy that had ruined my morning. What did Keenan need Stacy to do that was so important that he was calling her in on her day off?

I wanted to just give Stacy a salary and then she wouldn’t have to work. Then we would have more time together and I wouldn’t have to wait for her to have some time off to see her. Money wasn’t an object, so why was it pulling her out of my bed, never to be seen again?

When I got out, everyone was gone and I was left with a small note on the table.

“I had a great night Chris, thanks. Please lock up before you go.”

There was a signature that I knew was Stacy’s, even though I couldn’t really read it. She had given me the boot, in a nice way of course, but no less the boot. I had never had a woman do that to me before. It made sense that it would be Stacy that would do it. What was I supposed to do now? I had all kinds of thoughts of what should happen, but that was not to be. I was going to have to give her time, even though the idea alone was killing me.

***

“Ashlyn, what are you doing here?”

I hadn’t seen her in a while and by the expression on her face, I wasn’t going to like the conversation most likely.

“I am wondering what you were doing in my niece’s apartment this morning.”

I was a bit surprised that Keenan told on me and I almost couldn’t believe it. “How do you know?”

“Because I am friends with her doorman. Who do you think got her into that place and subsidizes the rent for her?”

So she knew and I was left wondering what I was supposed to say or do about it. Why was she here? It wasn’t like Stacy was under age. She could make her own decisions and that meant that I could be one of them.

“What do you want Ashlyn?” I wasn’t used to having people talk to me like this, but Ashlyn never had cared about etiquette or where someone was on the food chain. She was a shark in her own right and I wanted to tread softly. I didn’t want her as my enemy. She was in most of the city’s ear.

“I want to know what you were doing at Stacy’s apartment last night Chris and why you didn’t leave till she was long gone the next morning.”

That was a lot to answer and flashes went by that made me wish I didn’t have her aunt breathing down my neck right now.

“I don’t think it is anyone’s business Ashlyn, not even yours.”

“That’s where you are wrong. She is my responsibility. I told her mother that I would watch over her when she was in the city. I mean to and keeping her away from men like you is first on my agenda.”

I was shocked at how angry she was. I don’t know why, but it felt like she hated me in those moments. What had I done so wrong to warrant this? It was a beautiful night. It wasn’t ugly and it certainly was not a reason for her to fly off the hook.

“I think you are taking this too far Ashlyn. You don’t understand. I really care about your niece, a lot.”

She didn’t want to hear it though. I tried to think of what I had done to her to make her so upset with me, but I don’t think I was really going to get an answer. I knew that I had a reputation and the old me would have agreed with her, but this was different. Everything that was going on with me and Stacy was between me and her. It was different than anything I had experienced before. There had been this thought in the back of my head that if I was able to get inside of her once, I would get over this mind consuming need I ad for her. Now I realized that it was only worse. Now I wanted her even more than I had before. Nothing had changed at all.

“I don’t care what you think you feel Chris. You need to leave her alone and not see her anymore. I am not leaving until I get you to agree.”

It would have been easier to just tell her that I agreed and do whatever the hell I wanted to do anyways. It was that kind of thing that got me in trouble though. I didn’t want to lie to her, not when in the back of my mind, I knew that we may be family one day.

“I think that your niece is old enough to make decisions for herself Ashlyn. There is something good between us and I am not going to agree to anything like that.”

Ashlyn didn’t look happy. It was the first time that she had really been that upset with me before. I had never seen her angry and I had to notice the same flash in her eyes when she as mad, as I saw in Stacy’s eyes. It was hard to not see the resemblance between them in moments like this.

“I am warning you Chris. I don’t care how much money you have, if you hurt Stacy, I am going to make sure you wish that you had never met either one of us.”

I was starting to have that feeling about her right now. I knew that she wanted to throttle me at that very moment, but she didn’t. Instead she huffed out of my office and I was left to contemplate it all. What had just happened?

Pushing the conversation out of my mind, I tried to call Stacy. I wanted to make sure that I was still able to talk to her, that it was still real. It didn’t help my thoughts that she didn’t answer her phone. I left a message and waited a few minutes before I was looking at my phone again.

Why did I want to talk to her so badly now? Was it because she was even more forbidden than before?