Page 9 of The Long Game

Lexi’s pussy starts to tighten around me as she digs her nails into my back and goes off. The feeling sets my own climax barreling through me as I come right after her.

I smile to myself as I know I’ll be checking out where she marked me in the bathroom mirror after this. They’ll be battle scars I’m proud to wear.

I take a second to catch my breath and then I kiss her forehead as I lay beside her. She’s spent after back-to-back orgasms, and I need her to rest so she’s ready to go again.

If tonight is all I have, I don’t plan on sleeping a single second.

Chapter Three

Lexi

I can still feel the lasting effects of Tucker between my legs after spending all night with him, doing things I’ll be blushing about on the plane ride home today, as I relive each spine-tingling moment. I know I’ll be walking like a duck to the terminal, but I don’t regret a second of it.

Still wrapped up in Tucker’s arms, he runs a trail of kisses over my shoulder.

"Don’t leave. Stay just one more day," he says.

"I’m sure you have a packed-full day of media. Everyone’s going to want a piece of you but I won't apologize for getting my piece first." I smile as I twist around in his arms to face him and kiss his lips. He pulls my naked body on top of him.

"I have media but no one’s getting a piece of me except you," he says as he grips my ass with both hands. "Stay at the spa or go sightseeing today and when I get done, we’ll spend the evening together." He pulls me in for another kiss.

"I'd like to, but I can't. The owner of the resort is flying out to the Grand Caymans to meet with me personally. I can't keep her waiting. I already delayed my trip a day to be here and watch you win a Superbowl."

"You should have told me you were here. I would have wanted you on the field with me when the cannons went off." he says.

My heart squeezes. "You would have kissed me?" I ask, surprised by his admission.

It's been years since we've seen each other, with the last time being at my family's beach house when he asked me to give up my dreams to be with him and I turned him down. I wasn't expecting him to leave his Super Bowl celebration to come find me.

"You were one of the first things I thought of when we won. I would have kissed you under the confetti."

I pull myself tighter to him. "Then kiss me now."

He does, moving closer to press his lips to mine, and then lets out a groan. "You're sure you can't stay one more night?" he asks.

I nod.

"Then we have a lot to talk about before your flight. I'll order breakfast," he says.

Tucker

I order breakfast in bed, trying to keep her naked under the covers for as long as possible as we catch up on the last six years. Most of which I knew since Luca, her older brother and my best friend since first grade, had patched things up from me leaving him high and dry in high school – opting to go to Ole' Miss instead of Alabama, like we had planned since elementary school. Once he realized that Alabama already had solid running backs and that Ole' Miss was in need of a standout RB, he understood that our best shot at playing in the NFL together, our real goal, was for me to play for a college where I'd get to showmy skill. I still regret that he ended up hearing it around the school campus instead of from me. I didn’t handle that right and he had every right to be pissed. We didn't talk for a year. That was the longest year of my life. The Bensons are like a second family to me.

Tom and Shiela Benson are still my biggest supporters, though it's never been the same between Luca and me ever since I changed colleges. I still talk to Tom regularly, and the ice between Luca and I is finally thawing. I talk to Luca and Tom regularly now, and whenever they drop morsels of information about Lexi, I soak up every word.

Lexi knew a lot already too about my last six years. I guess that’s what happens when you’re in the public eye. My life was on full display, and I cringed at some of the headlines Lexi had probably seen.

Tucker Evans, Ladies’ Man!

Tucker Evans Spotted with {fill in the model or actress I was with at the time}.

Worst of all, were the headlines I was starting to get.

Tucker Evans; Commitment-phobe Playboy.

Will Tucker Evans Ever Settle Down?

Personally, it didn’t bother me, even though it wasn’t true. I could do commitment…but not with just anyone. I had a successful long-term commitment to my friends, my family, and to the football franchise. And for the last six years, making it to the top of my profession, hoping Lexi was watching.

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