Page 2 of Breathing Without You

“It’s a good thing I was watching you, because if I wasn’t I wouldn’t have been here to stop that creep,” he says, leaning in closer to me and I’m hoping he’s going to kiss me, I would love to feel his warm, soft lips brush against mine again.

“Th…tha…that’s not cr…creepy at all.” I gulp, still having a hard time forming words. What the hell is this man doing to me? I’ve never had a man affect me the way Creedence has each time I’ve been around him and I would be lying if I said I didn’t like it, because honestly? I love the electric feeling that shoots through my body whenever he’s around.

“Was that sarcasm?” He raises an eyebrow at me. He has kind of a sad look on his face too and it makes me want to kiss it right off of him.

“No actually,” I say quickly because I don’t want him thinking that I think he’s a creep, because that’s definitely not the case. “I don’t think it’s creepy at all. You’re not a creep like that guy was. Plus, I'm glad you were watching me, you protected me from him when you didn’t have to. So, thank you, again.” I look away for a second to see if Chastity and Winter are still around us, but I think they went to the bar for more drinks, or possibly outside for fresh air.

He leans down next to my ear. “I want to kiss you so bad right now,” he whispers, slowly pulling his head away, as it’s tilted to the side, half his mouth curled up into a smirk.

“I wouldn’t tell you no.” And before I can say anything else his hand that was on my lower back comes up to my cheek, his thumb in front of my ear and his fingers underneath my ear, his palm resting gently on my cheek.

His lips slowly meet mine. Giving me soft, slow kisses I never want to end; I think I might be in love. Can you fall in love from a kiss? Listen to me, I sound like an idiot. Then he pulls away, going towards my ear again to whisper. “You smell like vanilla and sugar, good enough to eat. It makes me want to taste you.” He lightly licks my ear, making me shiver. “What do you think, Sugar?” He stands up straight winking at me. Shit. That nickname, goddamn, it makes my pussy throb, and I instantly tighten my thighs together.

“I love the nickname.” I smile up at him, his golden-brown eyes staring down into my eyes.

He gives me the sexiest smile ever. I don’t think this man is capable of giving me a smile that isn’t sexy.

“Well Sugar, are you tasty enough to eat? Do you taste sweet like sugar baby?” Just as I’m about to answer, we’re interrupted by Winter and Chastity.

“Hey Creedence, you know I enjoy having you around but I gotta kick you out of our girl’s night,” Winter says to him, laughing as his jaw drops, with a playful look on his face like he’s joking around about being offended that he has to leave.

“Yeah, bitch it’s girls’ night. Sorry Creedence, go back to your lover boy at the bar,” Chastity says, patting him on the back.

“Sorry Mister, looks like the ladies spoke and you gotta go.” I smirk at him, biting my lower lip. I was excited to see where this was headed and what he was going to say next, looks like I’ll have to find another way to hear how this conversation was going to end.

“Mmm, Mister I kinda like that.” His voice is deep and rough. “You ladies interrupted me asking Emerald if she tastes as goodas she smells.” Their jaws drop and my face instantly heats up as I blush. I’d love for him to taste me. Fuck, he even licked my ear and that turned me on like crazy, especially the way he was whispering to me too.

“Damn, down boy.” Chastity’s smiling but with a look of shock still on her face like she can’t believe he just said that out loud.

“Guess you’ll have to take a raincheck and find out another night. Now go keep my man company, he looks sad over there.” Winter playfully pushes him away from us.

“I’ll see you tomorrow then, Emerald,” he says with his drop-dead gorgeous smile. He is so sexy. He recently shaved his beard down so it’s not as long as it used to be but it's still noticeable, especially for being a light-brown color. His white T-shirt clings to his muscular tattooed arms to the point it looks like it could rip if he moves wrong; his tattoos, fuck, they are like the icing on the cake. His full sleeves from his hands up to his neck; I’d love to lick every single inch of them. And I mean every. Single. Inch.

“See you sometime tomorrow, Creedence.” I blow him a kiss and wink at him. It's something Winter and I have always done with guys, without even realizing the other did it until one day we did it at the same time.

He stops and catches my kiss and holds it to his heart, then looks to Winter and Chastity. “I don’t know how you ladies expect me to just walk away after that.” He starts slowly walking towards me, the look on his face, like he’s undressing me with his eyes. He comes up to me placing his fingers on my chin lifting my head up to look at him, then leans down giving me a gentle kiss. It’s like he’s trying to remember the feel of my lips against his, until he gets to kiss me again. “I’ll definitely take you up on that raincheck,” he whispers, leaving me speechless as he turns to start to walk away.

This has probably been the craziest night of my life. I’m not even dating him. I’ve talked to him more now due to Winter dating Carsten, but he’s never shown much interest, and now he’s kissing me like we’ve been dating, and I didn’t know about it. He walks away leaving me breathless and wanting more. I stand there probably looking like an idiot with my mouth open like I can’t believe that just happened. Then for him to just walk away like nothing even happened and not say a single word. Guess tomorrow when I see him, I'll be playing a little hard to get if that’s the game he’s trying to play here. At least I might play hard to get, I might turn to mush the second I see him and give in.

“Holy shit, I can’t believe he just did that to you,” Chastity says with her hand on her chest like even she’s in shock from the kiss we just shared. “I feel like I just fell in love with him, and I didn’t even get to feel that kiss.” She laughs a little looking at him with a dreamy like look in her eyes, even though she has a boyfriend.

“Right, I can’t believe he just kissed you and walked away without saying anything …like at all. Mr. Mystery man there. That was really fucking sexy,” Winter says, pushing my arm lightly with a smile on her face. We all just stand there like idiots as we watch this sexy man walk away from me.

I finally snap out of it. Long enough to say something to them finally. “Well shit, that was an intense kiss. I need to go get some air.” It’s all I say as we head outside. I’m still in a daze replaying everything that happened tonight in my head, from the minute he walked up to me to the minute he walked away. Was I dreaming? Or did that actually happen? Every time I think about the feel of his warm, soft lips against mine I get butterflies in my stomach.

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CREEDENCE

Courtlynd isyour typical town where the cops are assholes and harass you if you ever do anything wrong. Everyone in this town knows everyone and everyone knows your business even when you don't want them to. That's why I don't sleep around, and I try to date girls that aren't from around here, that way if we break up people won't be in my business; they won't know shit I don't want them to know.

I look like your normal polite gentleman, but covered in tattoos, from my neck to my hands, along with my stomach and my back. I'm pretty quiet and enjoy keeping to myself but you know what they say about the quiet ones…

It’s the quiet ones you gotta watch out for, they're usually the freaks with unexpected behaviors and I definitely am a freak, but not how you'd think and the way I behave in private is something that always catches most girls off guard.

“Fucking great,” I mumble to myself as I pull off to the side of the road from the flashing lights and police sirens behind me. This is all I needed was to get pulled over. This is also a perfect example of what I was just talking about as well. I’ve been pulled over plenty of times, arrested for stupid shit a couple times too.I’m not an asshole who gets in trouble all the time. It's just dumb shit I did when I was younger with my friends that you can pretty much say I was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

“Good evening officer,” I say politely, hoping it’ll get me out of this situation quickly if I cooperate. Killing them with kindness usually works with people, so hopefully it’ll work in my favor this time and I won’t get a ticket.

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