Page 36 of North
I loved her more than a father loved a daughter. I loved her on a level so deep and ancient words were too weak to describe it. I loved her too much to fuck things up carelessly between us.
“I do,” I nodded. “That’s why I haven’t gone there with her yet. I don’t want to do anything that could take her away from me or me away from her. If I act on my urges and someone finds out…”
“You’ll go to jail.”
“Exactly. Ifyoucan already see the way we look at each other, I don’t think we’ll be able to hide it from other people.” I pushed a frustrated hand through my hair and stood straight up. “Listen, man I don’t care if you judge us. I don’t care if you think this is sick. Just please keep it to yourself.”
After a few quiet seconds, Elijah looked at me, resolution in his eyes. “Judge you for what? Being in love?” He pinched the bridge of his nose and shook his head like all the information shared in that kitchen gave him a headache. “I’m not going to pretend to relate but I will say I’ve never seen you like this over any woman. I’m not going to judge you and I’ve never been a snitch so…” He held his hand out and I slapped it before patting his back.
“Thank you, Elijah.”
“You’re seriously not fucking her, right?”
“No, asshole.”
“Just asking. Judging by the way you look at her I can’t tell.”
“It’s the hardest fucking thing I’ve ever had to do but I’m waiting.”
After Elijah and I wrapped up our conversation, North and I said our goodbyes and headed home. I couldn’t stop stealing glances at her out the corner of my eye. When we got in the truck, she pulled a cherry Dum-Dum lollipop from her purse and popped it in her mouth. It was one of the snacks I always picked up for her. She loved watermelon Sour Patch candies and Dum-Dums. I usually bought them both by the bagful.
I was starting to regret buying the lollipops because I was going to crash if I kept staring at the tight ring her pouty pink lips formed around the white stick. When we got to the house. I threw the gearshift in park and got out without a word to North.
I was barely holding on by a thread. I had to put a little distance between us before I impaled her with my dick. She was right on my heels calling my name and grabbing my arm. She shut the door behind us and I hurried to the kitchen.
“Kane, what’s wrong with you? Did I do something?”
She shed her coat and looked up at me with impossibly blue eyes. The gray around her pupils was like silver, sharp and gleaming. Her eyes would be my undoing every time.
I reached out and touched the dense freckles on the bridge of her nose, then I skimmed her high cheekbones and held her jaw in my hand.
Her tongue pushed the shiny red lollipop to one side of her mouth, poking her cheek out. “Did something happen when you talked to E?” She quizzed, knitting her ginger brows together.
“No. I mean, it did but nothing that upset me.”
Her lips sucked the lollipop and my dick jolted to life. I wet my own lips involuntarily. North made me feel like a predator. I watched her every move calculating it like an equation. I was ready to pounce.
“Then why didn’t you talk on the way home? Why did you storm in here like—”
I couldn’t take it anymore. I pulled her to me by her throat and tipped her chin to the ceiling so I could kiss her neck. So I could bite her there and leave bright red marks of passion and possession. The small frightened yip she let out made my cock fully erect.
“You and that goddamn lollipop, Shortcake.” My voice was pained because I knew I couldn’t fuck her like I wanted to. I had to take her in black and white because full-color was too vivid and too dangerous.
I lifted her onto the kitchen table and bunched her sweater dress around her slender hips. I inched it up to her waist, over her breasts then finally over her head and onto the fucking floor. I stared at North sitting there on the kitchen table in only her pale blue bra and panties and I willed time to speed up to her eighteenth birthday.
“You are so fucking beautiful,” I muttered. I pulled the lollipop from her wet mouth and put it in mine while I slipped bra straps over her freckled shoulders. I laid a framework of kisses on her warm, dewy skin until I knelt before her like a sinner praying for forgiveness. I was about to taste the sweetest sin and drink it down greedily.
“Kane,” she whispered pushing her fingers through my hair.
“Tell me what you want, Shortcake.” I pressed my lips to her pussy through the silky material of her panties.
“I want you to taste my pussy.” She was nearly breathless and her thighs trembled on either side of my face. A possessive noise steeped in grit rumbled in my chest. I sucked on her stiff clit through the wet scrap of fabric between her thighs and she moaned, gripping my hair tight in her fist. I pulled her underwear down until they circled her ankles then fell on the floor.
The smell of her was heavy in the air.
Earthy. Sweet.Mine.
I took the lollipop from my mouth and rolled it around her sensitive bundle of nerves, making her stutter and gasp. I followed the candy with my mouth and let the two favors mingle and melt on my tongue.
