CHAPTER SIXTEEN - HUNTER
I’d let her go. I’d kicked myself for it all night, too and I was on my fourth attempt at calling her this morning and stopping myself. Then, her car pulled up outside. I could see it through the window in the kitchen where I stood at the stove cooking breakfast. I cracked another egg and added it to the pan, but I didn’t go to the door. She’d left on her own without my help so she could come back the same way.
I heard her key in the lock and then the door opened slowly and she came in and put her handbag on the table. The room was quiet all but for the sound of eggs frying.
“I’ve been up all night.”
Me too, I wanted to say. I wanted to turn around and chew her up and spit her out and tell her to get out of my life. But I didn’t, because I wanted even more to pull her close and kiss her and never let her go.
“This is hard for me, Hunter. It’s hard to trust again.”
“I thought we got past that already.” Though I’d spoken, I was determined not to face her.
“It’s easy to declare things when we’re naked and horny, Hunter. But I’m scared that’s all this is to you. I’m scared when things settle down and you don’t need my help, I’ll be out the door.”
“So better you walk out now before it gets too rough for you, right?” I pulled the eggs from the pan and plated them but kept my back to her.
“Would you look at me? Hunter, I’m trying to work this out.”
I spun around so fast she flinched. “And then what? We’ll fuck and then you’ll take the rest of your shit and go?”
“That’s not fair.”
“Bullshit. What is not fair is me declaring my love to you and you freaking out like I’m trying trick you.” I closed the distance and backed her against the counter. “If you’re just here to fuck let’s get it done so you can be gone by the time Tani comes home. I don’t want to confuse her even more.” I pressed my hips into her and she glared at me her chest heaving. “It’s what you said right? Business with benefits?” I tugged at the front of her pants and she looked away as tears glistening in her eyes.
“That wasn’t you declaring your love. That was you posturing and putting me in my place.” She took a deep breath and wiped a tear that threatened to betray her.
“That was me trying to convince you that you feel the same damned way about me, Sarah. You’re so fucking hung up on getting hurt you’re hurting yourself. I’m not going anywhere. When I’m with you it’s not some perk from our agreement, it means something to me. But I guess that’s what I get. I fooled myself into thinking a woman who turned me down twice for a date would actually start to like me.”
“Are you done?” She pushed me away and then took a few steps around the kitchen to put some space between us. “As I was saying I was up all night. I did a lot of thinking and if you’re really serious about wanting more, then I want to try.” She glanced up at me with those big blue eyes filled with worry. “If you still want me.”
My head fell back and I let out a sigh. “Of course, I do. I’m falling in love with you, Sarah.”
She smiled and her lip quivered. “That’s how I feel too. I think I’m just terrified it won’t work out because I want it to so much.”
“No more worries. But I want you moved in. I need to know you’ve got nowhere to run. And I want you to promise you won’t leave like that again.”
“Promise if I try that you’ll stop me.”
I pulled her closer, kissing her soft lips and cupping her face with my hands. I wanted to make tender love to her and show her how much I missed her. I worked my way from her lips down to her breasts and she melted against me, pulling me close and slipping her hand along my hips to my ass.
“I’m sorry I didn’t.” I lifted her up on the counter and she raked her hands through my hair.
“If I hadn’t come back what would you have done?”
I looked away a moment as my cheeks burned. I felt like a pansy admitting how much I loved her. “I wouldn’t have made it another twenty minutes without calling you. I’ve fought it all night and morning taking it twenty minutes at a time. I gave you time at first, but I was running out of patience.”
I let my eyes linger on her as she sat perched up on that counter. I was reminded of something I’d wanted to try back in her own kitchen, so I slipped my hand down between her legs and rubbed her through her jeans.
“Mm, your eggs are getting cold.” She placed her hand on mine.
“I’ve got something better I’d like to warm up and eat.” I pushed harder against her and she bucked her hips forward grinding against my fingers.
She kissed me as I undid her jeans and tugged them down around her perfect ass until she was left in nothing but a pair of black lace panties. I licked my lips and went down on her, licking around the edge of her panties, slipping my finger inside to rub and tickle. As usual, she was ready for me and I lapped at her wet channel and closed my mouth full on her, darting my tongue and pressing against her swollen bud until she let out a soft moan.
I worked my fingers, pumping them in a steady rhythm. “Come for me,” I whispered against her mound, kissing it with my warm breath and then she quaked around my fingers, and squealed as she came apart.
“That’s a good girl.” I lapped my tongue back into her folds to taste my reward.
She let out a soft giggle. “It’s much more fun in your kitchen.”
I turned my eyes up toward her still tending her through the quakes and then she nudged me to pause. I stood straight and she went right for my shorts, dropping them around my ass as she stroked my thick shaft. I nudged against her dripping core and she inched forward guiding me in. I eased slowly into her channel and she cried out with pleasure and closed her arms around my shoulders. I tugged up her shirt and she held her arms up so I could pull it off. I dropped it to our feet as I pumped my hips slow and steady working her through her next orgasm.
“I want to taste you,” she whispered in my ear and I pulled out of her and she fell to her knees and took my head into her mouth.
She teased around it and I moaned as she bobbed up and down on my cock and tongued my shaft. Then she relaxed her throat and forced her head down, and I readied my release.
“Here it comes, baby.” I felt her backing off, but she didn’t pull all the way and my release shot into her warm mouth, splashing her throat and coating her tongue. I felt her pulling against it as she swallowed, gulping down my seed as it fed her. She was fucking amazing. I brushed her hair away from her face as she gave a hard pull on my cock and tongued my sensitive slit to assure I was done.
I backed away and helped her to her feet. We shared a kiss each tasting the other as well as ourselves. I stroked her cheek and kissed down her neck and back.
“I always want this with you, Hunter.” Her hand touched my face.
“We’ll have everything you want. But first, I want to get you moved in before our daughter comes home.”
She sighed softly as if remembering something she’d forgotten. “I need to tell my family about us.”
“You still haven’t told your sister?”
“They left on a cruise Friday and I didn’t want her to worry about me. I’ll tell her when they get back. But I was wondering if we could talk to the lawyer about Tani yet? I know you wanted to wait a minute before we did, but I don’t want her to go to her mother’s again. I’ve missed her.”
I pulled her close. I was never going to let her get away again.