“I planned to last longer than that,” I said.
“I like that you couldn’t,” she said, rolling on her side to rest her head on my shoulder. Her breasts pressed against my arm, and I could already feel my cock hardening again. This woman made me some sort of sex crazed lunatic. “It means you were enjoying yourself.”
“Does that mean the act doesn’t count as an apology?”
She smirked. “No. I think it’s really hot when I can tell you’re enjoying it. I think that’s actually more fun for me than the way it feels. I like seeing you… get lost in me.”
Damn. I touched her chin, running my fingertip down her jawline and then up to her full lips. I pressed my thumb there and grinned when she playfully took me by the wrist and sucked my thumb a few times.
“See?” she said. “The look on your face just then probably could’ve made me have another orgasm if I went much longer.”
“I like watching you, too,” I said. “And when you talk dirty for me, it might just be the hottest fucking thing I’ve ever experienced.”
She smiled shyly. “You like when I beg for that big cock of yours?” She reached between us and gripped me. I was already hard again, but her touch made me twitch against her.
“Be careful. Any more of that and I’m going to have to fuck you again.”
“Hmm, you’re sure you shouldn’t get cleaned up first?”
“I’ll take you in the shower. Fuck, I’ll take you outside in the rain if I have to. I just–”
Harper cut me off when she got up and straddled me. She inched backwards, kissing down my body and pausing when my erect cock was against her sex. She looked up, eyes full of knowing as she did the most amazing little wiggle of her hips, sliding me against her until I could feel myself completely wet with her arousal again.
Then she climbed even lower and took the base of my length in her fist and met my eyes. “I was thinking of cleaning you off myself. I want to make sure the job is done right.”
Goddamn. This woman was going to undo me, one step at a time.
She took me in her mouth, and true to her word, cleaned every last inch of me with meticulous precision. When she was done, she climbed on top of me and rode me.
And just like that, I felt my thoughts going to desperate places. I didn’t want to give this up, but the cost of keeping her was too high. There was no way to have both my family and this woman, and that reality was going to tear me in fucking two.
28
HARPER
My mom had a huge order and asked me to come help her at the bakery. I’d texted Greyson to let him know where I’d be all morning. Of course, I’d felt silly as soon as I’d fired off the text. I halfway expected him to ignore it or respond that he didn’t need to know.
It had been nearly two hours and he hadn’t responded, so I was currently pouting a little as I pulled bagels from the oven. My mom missed nothing, so she came and gave my arm a squeeze.
“What’s got you blue, Harper?”
I smirked. That was how she always asked what was wrong, ever since I was in pigtails. Even now, it made me feel like a kid again–a completely open book when my mom was the one trying to figure me out.
“I got into something complicated with Greyson Ashford,” I said. I knew everyone in town was probably putting together the truth, little by little, but I hadn’t admitted it openly to anyone except Lin and Farrah yet. Even they didn’t know all the recent details because I couldn’t bring myself to tell the story. The truth was, I felt more than a little like a silly kid for the way things had played out, and I didn’t want my friends seeing that side of me. But I could tell my mom.
“Okay,” she said. Her eyes were kind and patient. She didn’t pressure me to continue, but she waited. I knew she would simply walk away if that was all I said, but I also knew she was ready to listen if I wanted to say more.
I took a steadying breath. “He said it needed to be casual and simple. Just…” I groaned a little. I couldn’t say just sex to my mom. So I left it hanging, and her small nod told me she knew and wasn’t judging me. “But I’ve never done anything like that, and I guess I thought I was going to be able to do it and I wasn’t. I wanted it to be more like a relationship, and I think it scared him off. Then I heard him say something really cold about me to his brother and old Mr. Ashford, and…” I sighed, shaking my head. “This all sounds really dumb when I say it out loud.”