Page 28 of Embrace
He shook his head adamantly. “No way.”
“Then why is she getting to you this way?”
He had told me their relationship was toxic. They would hurt each other for sport. He didn’t love her. He couldn’t love her. They were together just to make each other miserable.
We stared into each other’s eyes, letting his confession sink in. Jake refused to reply to Julia’s first and very long text message. In an act of absolute transparency, he read it aloud. Julia mentioned how much she missed him and hoped he missed her too. I closed my eyes and let my negative reactions flow out of my body.
“Are you okay?” he asked.
Barely, but I nodded anyway.
He rubbed my thigh and squeezed it before reading on. She said his brothers had not treated her kindly in his absence, but she had forgiven them. She also said they needed to have a conversation as soon as possible. They had very important matters to discuss and pleasure to catch up on.
I couldn’t stop shaking my head. How dare she be so bold with my lover? Had she believed he would sit around and wait for her forever?
Jake deleted the message, set his phone facedown on a console next to a bucket of chilled bottles of water, then wrapped his large hand around my wrist and tugged me to him.
I chose not to resist when our mouths melted. His tongue seized mine, and he lowered me down onto the long seat. I tried to focus on how delicious he tasted and his strong hands groping my breast, exposing my nipple, and then his hot mouth sucking it against his tongue. As my pussy sizzled with erotic sensations, I tried not to focus on his cell phone beeping and vibrating. But then it rang.
All of a sudden, Jake’s stimulation abandoned my body. “Fuck!” he roared as he collapsed back against the seat, rubbing his palms over his face.
The volume of his voice made me jump. “Jake,” I groused.
“Sorry, babe,” he muttered and then snatched his phone out of the cargo holder.
I watched in awe as he did what hospital surgeons rarely did and silenced all calls. But it had to be done. The woman had been relentless in her efforts.
My intense frown was giving me a headache. “Well, what do you think she wants?”
“Don’t know. Don’t care,” he said as he took hold of me and guided me over to sit on his lap.
He went back to work, chomping on the tit closest to his mouth. It felt good, but I couldn’t focus on the way his tongue circled my nipple before he sucked my perky breast into his mouth. Then he bit the tip.
“Ouch!” I yelped, recoiling.
“Fuck!” he shouted, scrubbing his face again.
Jake looked paler and wearier than usual. It bothered me that one woman could so intensely disturb his peace of mind. He could be obsessive about his object of desire. I knew that for certain because he was that way with me. Regardless of how much it seemed he wanted to keep fucking, I couldn’t help but wonder if the reappearance of Julia was making him lose interest in me.
“I just don’t get it,” I said, pulling my dress back over my breasts.
“You don’t get what?”
“It seems as though she means a lot to you.”
He blew another hard sigh as he scratched his eyebrow. “She doesn’t, Penina.”
“I don’t believe you.” I tried to slide off his lap, but he maintained a vise grip on my hips.
“Babe, come on. Don’t let Julia ruin our night.”
“She’s not ruining our night. You are.” My voice echoed through the back of the limo.
We stared at each other for several moments.
“I want to know why she still gets to you this way, that’s all.” I set my jaw, refusing to budge until he answered honestly.
“It’s not just Julia. It’s every fucking thing that happened today. Julia’s just the tip of the iceberg.”
