Page 15 of Just Between Us

“Oh, Rich. I want to come. Make me come.”

I sped up my thrusts into her, rolling my hips harder. My teeth nibbled firmly on her nipple, attempting to drive her into an intense orgasm. Her hands clutched at my shoulders, grabbing me hard as her beautiful cunt started to pulse around me.

“Fuck, Rich!” echoed around my bedroom as she came. It was matched with my own sounds. She felt amazing, and I didn’t think I was ever going to get enough of this woman.

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

LUCY

The weeks passed,and Rich and I kept texting, kept meeting up, and kept sleeping together. It was getting harder and harder not to tell him how I felt, and more and more blissful to have time alone with him, sometimes in bed, sometimes not.

Annie kept asking me who I was texting that was putting such a grin on my face and when she was going to meet my mystery man. That wasn’t something I was sure she would ever forgive me for. So instead, I said it was someone I met on a dating app.

Annie was havinganother overnight with Declan. Rich and I had been enjoying the idea of a night together instead of a stolen moment here or there when Annie was out.

When I arrived, Rich greeted me at the door with a soft kiss and a glass of wine. When I followed him into the dining room, the table was set with candles ready for the meal he had cooked for us. Rich even gave me a rose. Everything was perfect – a little too perfect and it was making me nervous.

“This almost seems too good to be true.” I laughed timidly. “It’s almost like you’re gearing up to drop bad news. Are you buttering me up before you break up with me?”

“I really hope it’s not an ending. That’s not what I want at all. But we’ll have to tell Annie soon.” He sighed.

He was right, we would have to. And while we would put our case with care, neither of us really knew how Annie would react. ‘We will. Is this a goodbye in case she doesn’t handle it very well?”

He swallowed hard. “Is that what you want it to be?”

I shook my head. “No.”

“God, I hope she’s okay with all this.”

“I hope so. I don’t want to give this up. Do you?”

“Fuck, no!” he answered immediately. “But if you’re given no option, if Annie makes you pick between her and me, you have to promise me something. You’re young and you have your whole life ahead of you, and she needs you. Pick her.”

Was that really what he thought? That he was forgettable. That this was just some folly of youth on my part?

“You want me to forget you?”

He winced at my words.

“Is that what you want, Rich? I thought you wanted me.”

“I do,” he admitted, and then he realised what he’d said. “But Annie needs to come first, and you are young. You will recover.”

“Is that really want you want for me? To fuck off and end up with someone else because there’s an age gap between us?”

His mouth opened, but no words came.

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

RICH

How could I tell her?Lucy thinking I didn’t want her was killing me. Of course I fucking wanted her. I was in love with her, but I never for one second dared to hope she would feel the same way about me.

But I had to think about Annie. If she needed Lucy, then it was up to me to be her father and let my relationship with her best friend go.

“Do you want me to fuck off and be with someone else, is that it?” Her words were harsh and angry. They bit into my heart and left it bleeding.

“Answer me, Rich. For fuck’s sake, I thought we had something here. Am I that easy to cast aside?”

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