Page 24 of Severed Rivalry
“Have you thought about what you want to do this summer?” I drop onto the sofa near my girlfriend, finding her deep in thought. “Earth to Renée.”
“What?”
“Where did you go? You were in another solar system.”
“Feels like it.”
“Explain please.”
“This—” She looks around. “Sometimes I wonder how it’s real.”
“I get that.” Fort Collins, Colorado in general, the mountains. I grew up here and the beauty still takes my breath away.
“Do you?”
I tilt her chin my way. “Why do I feel like we’re talking about two different things?”
She shrugs, her shoulders hitting her ears and staying there. “I just wonder sometimes how I got so lucky that you found me.”
I lean down and whisper against her lips, “I’m the lucky one. How someone like you choose someone like me I’ll never know… But I’m rolling with it.” I press my lips to hers.
She fiddles with my collar just below my Adam’s apple and lets out a moan that makes me hard. It doesn’t take much. Looking at her, hearing her, touching her… I’m eternally at half-mast near this girl.
We seem to never cross the line—the one that falls between ‘no’ and ‘yes.’ I want to. So, so badly, but she’s never been ready, and I won’t force the issue.
“I love you, Ci,” she says a hair’s breadth from my lips.
I freeze and pull back to hold her eyes. “Angel, you’re the best thing that’s ever happened to me. I love you too.”
She stands, taking my hand in hers, and leads me to mybedroom. She looks up at me with soft eyes, so trusting and so sweet they damn near bring me to my knees.
“Angel?” I hedge.
She looks away before locking her gaze on mine. The will of steel she has shines through. “I want to be yours, Ci.”
“You are mine.” I wrap my arms low at her waist, sliding them around her back to pull her close.
“In every way.”
Yes. Wow. Okay. “I want you in every way too.” Is this really happening? “But are you sure?”
“I’m sure.” Two words. Plain and simple.
I drop my lips to hers, pulling her tighter into my arms. No doubt she can feel my hard on between us.
I lift her shirt over her head and do the same with mine. Her bra is plain, white lace. Nothing’s ever been sexier. I reach for her shorts. “You can stop this at any time. I’ll listen. I promise.”
Her hands meet mine at her button as she drops her bottoms to the floor. When we collapse on the bed, it’s bumbling and not smooth at all. I want this to be everything for her. It can’t start off with a tangle of limbs and fumbling.
She still has her bra and panties on. I managed to get my jeans and tee off, but this is not easy like the movies make it seem. This has to be perfect for her. I can’t make any mistakes.
I move in over her and smile down at the girl below me. I kiss the beauty mark below her eye, then her lips, before making my way to her tits. I reach under her, still holding her gaze, and fight to unhook it.
Her breathy laugh makes me painfully hard as she brushes my hands aside and removes her bra. Her hands immediately cover her perfect tits.
I slide my hand down and run a finger over her sex. The lace is in the way but the sounds she makes let me know I’m on the right track.
“I need you to touch me, Angel.”
