Chapter 7

Mason

Her body was sprawled out for me in the back of her car, and something primal took over my system. Her thighs were glistening with sweat and pussy juices, and my cock was buried deep within her. The way her walls clenched around my dick made every other woman I’d been with pale in comparison. My raging cock was throbbing inside her, and her entire body trembled underneath me. I knew I could edge her to another one if I circled her clit.

Her thick tits were heaving, her chest was flushed with lust, and the way she spread her legs for me in the back of her car told me everything I needed to know about how I was doing. She was mine tonight, and I was going to make sure she never forgot the experience.

“Come for me. You can do it again. I promise.”

My words came out more demanding than I wanted, but the moan that poured from her lips told me she loved every second of it. I pounded into her hips so hard that the car rocked with our motions and sweat trickled down my back when it no longer had room to cling to the windows of the vehicle. The Hollywood sign was no longer the most beautiful thing about this view; I couldn’t help but watch Ash’s face contort as she slammed her hips up into mine, meeting me thrust for thrust.

“Yes. Jesus, Mason. Oh, god. What have you done to me?”

Her pussy was greedy for what I could give her, and I wanted her to rocket off that ledge again. I wanted her body to shake until she physically couldn’t catch her breath just so I could feel her walls massage my cock again.

She was reaching for anything she could grab, and I felt her clit swelling larger underneath the pads of my fingers. I reared back to get a better angle, and her mouth peeled open in silent ecstasy.

The way her pussy milked my dick again brought me to my knees, and I fell toward her and buried my dick deep inside her. Her body was so soft and bounced so well to the timing of my thrusts. I captured her lips in mine as her tits heaved against my chest.

“Oh, my god,” she said.

I didn’t give a shit that I hadn’t come. That hadn’t been the point of the evening. The point had been to give her something no man had ever given her before, and I wanted to make sure she never forgot what that felt like. I wanted to make sure every man she was with from this point on was compared to me and what I’d given her tonight. A part of me even hoped all the men to come would pale in comparison.

I lay there with my hands beside her head, seated in her swollen heat as I watched her slowly come down from her high. Her eyes fluttered open and a shy smile crossed her cheeks. A small part of me was wondering if she’d be up for another round. Her body molded perfectly to mine, and I wasn’t quite ready to say good-bye to her, so when I slowly slipped out from between her legs, I pulled her into my lap and held her close.

The condensation on the windows made her sedan very humid, but I honestly didn’t care. I loved how pliable her skin was underneath my fingertips, and the way she curled into me just felt right. I sat there for a while and held her while the condensation slowly dripped away from the windows. When we could finally see the Hollywood sign again, she broke the silence.

“Thank you,” she said.

“That good, huh?”

“Oh, can it.”

She elbowed me playfully in my stomach, and I feigned being hurt. The giggle that fell from her lips prompted me to capture them in a kiss. It was soft, nothing like what had just occurred, and when she awarded me entrance into her mouth, I got a taste of just how sweet she was.

“You’re a good kisser,” she murmured into my lips.

“Apparently I’m good at many things,” I quipped.

“Oh, so you have jokes?”

“I always have jokes. I’m the king of jokes.”

“Then tell me a joke, hot stuff.”

I looked into her eyes and racked my brain for a joke I thought would make her laugh. Her eyes searched mine, waiting patiently for me to fulfill the challenge I had taken on, but the only thing I could think about was how effortless this was for me. How effortless it was to hold her close and how effortless it was to talk to her. We weren’t even talking about anything important. We were just chatting mindlessly about nothing.

I’d never experienced that before with a woman.

I studied her face and took in everything about her: the slope of her curves and the way her makeup was smudged just enough to piss her off when she realized it was; her bold, fake jewelry that hung cockeyed on her body; her bold-printed fabrics that probably cost less than the socks I was currently wearing. She was different in every way than any woman I had ever been surrounded by, and it drew me in.

Everything about her drew me in.

But the truth was she’d never fit in with my family. My iron-fisted mother would take one look at the shoes she strode into the house in and toss her back out onto the street. Men like me were meant to marry women like Eva so we could have more children like ourselves who could inherit more money than they’d ever be able to spend in their lifetime. We were meant to have the perfect wedding, and Eva was meant to never rise above a size six, no matter how many children she pumped out for our nanny to raise. I needed to have money on deck for her tummy tuck after each child, and I was expected to go into the office and work late hours so Eva had something to complain about when I got home.

That was my life, and Ash had no place in it.

“Well, I’m waiting?” she said.

I guess I could hang out just a little while longer.

“Why do you think Santa is always so jolly?” I asked.

She crinkled her nose before she darted her eyes around. I could tell the question confused her, and I could see a part of her trying to work it out.

“You’re one of those people who love riddles, aren’t you?” I asked.

She nodded. “I do my crossword puzzles in pen, thank you very much.”

“I don’t do crossword puzzles at all.”

“I don’t blame you,” she said. “You could probably just pay someone to do them for you.”

“How much money do you think I have?”

“More than me, but that’s not too hard.”

It didn’t make me uncomfortable that she understood I had money. That was nothing to be ashamed of. I didn’t think she realized the extent of my wealth, but that wasn’t important. What was important was that she didn’t figure out whose apartment she had actually arrived at earlier. We wouldn’t ever work. We lived in two different worlds, governed by two very different lifestyle expectations, and there was no use getting into all the drama surrounding my mother and the type of person she had become. There was no use hashing out my father’s death, and there was no use trying to figure out if this could work.

Because it couldn’t.

But that revelation only made me want to sit here longer with her in my arms.

“You never told me,” she said.

“Told you what?”

“Why Santa’s always so jolly.”

Her big, green eyes were juxtaposed against her bright blue hair, and for the first time I could ever recall, I didn’t want to take a woman back home. I wanted to crank up her sedan and drive until we ran out of gas, and then I wanted to fill her tank to the brim in the back seat of this car before I put gas back in her tank.

Scenes that would never happen buzzed through my mind: watching the sunrise over the ocean, digging sand out of the cracks of our bodies after I took her on the beach, licking her pussy clean in the shower once she was done soaping herself down.

I really could see something with her, and that was what made this so hard.

“It’s really easy to figure out,” I said. “It’s because he knows where all the naughty girls live.”

I smirked at her and watched her eyes crinkle with her smile. Her light giggle turned into a full-fledged laugh, and pretty soon, the two of us were trying hard to catch our breath in the back seat of her rickety car.

My pants were still down around my ankles, and her tits were still spilling over the top of her dress, and it was the rawest I’d ever seen a woman: fully exposed and still lightheaded from her orgasm. This was probably the most vulnerable she’d ever been with a man, and I was about to drive us back to an apartment that wasn’t mine before waving good-bye and never seeing her again.

I swear, I used to be so much better at one-night stands than this.

She sighed. “I suppose we should be getting back.”

“I guess.”

We put ourselves back together and got out of the back seat. When we slid into the front of the car, she instinctively took my hand. I looked down at the embrace before I trailed my eyes back up to her, and when she looked over at me, I committed her eyes to memory. I didn’t want to take her back. I didn’t want to go back to the life I was living. That was when I started to realize why Winston was doing his “research.”

Things were simpler down here, in ways I had never experienced, and I didn’t want it to stop.

I brought her hand to my lips and kissed it lightly, and then I dropped her hand and cranked the car. The ride back was silent and tense, and something told me she wasn’t quite ready to go either. We slowly inched to a stop in front of Winston’s apartment, and when I got out of the car so we could switch places, I had to stop myself from climbing into the passenger seat.

“Thank you again,” she said, smiling lightly. “For everything.”

“Trust me, the pleasure was all mine.”

She sat there for a while, debating what to do, and I leaned in one last time and gave her a kiss on her cheek. I could have sworn I heard her sigh quietly, and when I felt her cheek press into my lips, I knew she was thinking exactly what I was.

“Good night,” I murmured against her skin.

I clenched my fists in my pockets as I watched her drive off. Fuck my family and their stupid fucking standards. Fuck marrying Eva and having an office job. I didn’t want to go to Barts, and I didn’t want to fucking go skiing in the winter. I began to hate the standards I was expected to live by. I began to hate Winston for this bullshit bet. Had I never done it, I would’ve never met her. Had I never done it, I would’ve never known how they lived. Fuck this nonsense and this “she wouldn’t fit in with my family.”

She fits in with me. Doesn’t that fucking matter?

I ripped my cell phone from my pocket and called the driver. I told him to come pick me up before I shot a text message to Winston, thanking him for letting me use his apartment. When the driver pulled up, I slammed myself down onto the seat.

Everything about this situation was bullshit.