“Yes,” she said, pulling off my cock.
I shoved it back in her mouth, and she gagged a little at the shock of it. I fucked her face fast and hard, torturing her nipples with my fingers. I wanted her good and wet when I spread her legs.
“Can I fuck you on the sofa, or is that an antique?”
Laney answered me by crawling forward on all fours and lifting up her dress. In the near-dark room, I could see the pale globes of her ass and the thin line of dark lace down the middle of her ass crack.
I didn’t waste any time crawling to where she was and massaging her ass cheeks. Her panties didn’t last another second as I tore them to her knees. I shoved my own pants down and rubbed my erection front to back, spreading her arousal all over her slit. When I finally shoved inside her, Laney went tense, her body adjusting to mine.
“Cherry, you’ve got me under some sort of spell, because all I can think about anymore is this. Being inside you.”
She moaned in response and backed up onto my dick, meeting my thrust. I hadn’t known Laney Mills long, but I wanted it all with this girl. I wanted to pledge my faithfulness to her and let her know we couldn’t be with anyone else. I wanted to tell her how this felt real, more profound than anything I’d ever felt before. I needed her to know that I wouldn’t do anything to hurt her, that I wanted to protect her from the world.
“Oh my God, I’m coming,” she mewled.
I couldn’t believe how we affected each other. It was as if our bodies were made for one another. A loud crack startled both of us as we looked up toward the tall window just as white sparks exploded in the sky, followed by red and then smaller explosions of blue. The fireworks whistled and crashed, tattooing color and fire onto a black sky, until the stars disappeared under layers of smoke. I let myself go with the explosions, allowing my own primal noises to fill the room until I came in a burst of color too. I didn’t know if there was any coming down from this high that we were sharing.
I lay next to Laney on the floor as we watched the finale of exploding rainbows, how they fanned and spread, eventually dimming into nothing.
When the final sparks fizzled and the air was laced with the sulfur, smoke, and fire, I stroked her hair back and kissed her right underneath her ear.
“I burned the plans for the new open in Springfield, Cherry. I can close the other store if that would make you happy.”
She turned in my arms and hugged me, kissing me on the lips.
“Eddie, this, right here, right now, is the happiest I’ve ever been.”
14
Laney
Edison drove me home, and I already didn’t want to say goodbye. Being wrapped up in his arms felt like wearing a superhero cape I never wanted to take off. For one of the first times in my life, I could stand up to my parents, and not only that, but I didn’t worry whether or not I fit in. I was with Eddie, and that was all I needed.
Leading up to tonight, I thought I was going to play games with him, but I was dead wrong. I couldn’t mess with the heart of someone I cared about so much. And I’d finally figured out that Edison Roads was a much bigger threat to my heart than he was to my business.
“You’re not going to eat that whole cake alone, are you?” he asked me.
“Not if you help me eat it.”
We couldn’t make it into the house without our hands and mouths on each other. I fumbled for the keys and dropped them on the landing. Eddie lifted me onto the railing and devoured my mouth like he had the cake.
“Cherry, I can’t stop. I don’t ever want to stop kissing you.” The whine and crack of bottle rockets interrupted our kiss. We both squatted for the keys and nearly bumped heads. Edison opened the door, and we stumbled into my cottage. It smelled of baked goods, even though the oven had been off for hours. I kicked my heels into a corner, and Edison helped me wrangle the gorgeous dress over my head.
“I have to hang it up or else I’ll hate myself in the morning.”
Edison scooped both me and the dress up in his arms. “Where’s the bedroom?”
I gestured with my head.
While I hung up the dress, Edison shucked his clothes. I turned around to come face-to-face with the most eligible bachelor looking at me with bedroom eyes. A look that made him seem not so eligible anymore.
“Cherry, let’s do what your dad suggested.”