He looked over to me and gripped my chin. “I’ve never tried this hard, and it’s been pretty easy.”
“I thought you would be one of those no strings attached, fun only type of guys,” I admitted.
“I absolutely was,” he said seriously.
“Oh lord, is this where the ‘you came along and changed everything’ line comes into play?”
Jayden clenched his jaw shut and I kissed it with a sigh.
“Well, let me finish it for you,” I said, moving to straddle him and placing one of the pillows behind his head. “Before I met you, I thought I’d been in love, and I had,” I said, moving his t-shirt up to cover his chest with my hands, “but not like this, Jayden. Never like this.” He looked up at me with loving eyes as I continued. “I’ve never felt for a man the way I feel for you.” I leaned in and kissed his chest where his heart lay beneath. “I still have no idea what I want to do with my life but, it’s ridiculous how clear the choice is to me as to whom I want to hang with while I figure it out.”
“Baby,” he said, pulling my shirt up and over my head, his hands trailing from my shoulders to cup my chest.
“I love you so much,” I finished my confession, my voice shaking the way it always did where my emotion and need for him was concerned. “It scares me how much I love you, Jayden, but I don’t care.”
He unfastened my bra and it fell away as he stroked my skin, his erection growing firm beneath me. He looked up to me with honest eyes. “That’s some line. I may put out.”
I chuckled as he tugged at my shorts, sliding them off and pulling me back onto him so I was straddling him in my panties. “Yes, do shut up and give me some birthday booty.”
Jayden smiled as he trailed a single finger up and down my stomach, moving it to play with the hem of my panties. “How do you want it, Hilary?” I closed my eyes as I bit my lip, and then opened them halfway, the heat coursing through me with his lust filled stare.
“Love me, Monroe,” I pleaded as I unzipped his jeans, pulling them down along with his boxers, revealing the steel beneath them. I gripped him with my hand and tugged on him as his eyes lit fire. “I don’t care how you do it.”
“Horny old bird, aren’t you?” he teased as his breath caught in his throat with the workings of my hand. He licked his fingers and pushed them beneath my panties then slid them inside me. When our eyes locked, I let out a long, loud moan.
“I’ll never tire of you,” he said appreciatively as he roamed my chest with his stare. “I’m so addicted to you. Your eyes, your mouth, the way you look when you come.”
“Jayden,” I moaned, moving with his finger. I heard the rip of my panties and looked down to see them shredded and thrown to the side. Instantly on fire, I lifted to position myself over him as he pumped himself a few times. I reached behind me to cup his sack as I caught his deep blue eyes while slowly lowering myself down onto him. Jayden hissed through his teeth, tilting his head back, his eyes hooded with lust as he looked up at me. I began to move slowly, feeling all of his hardness as he stretched himself inside. The connection becoming too intense, like it always was, heavier declarations came from us as we began to move.
“I love you, Hilary,” Jayden confessed, bucking his hips as I continued my slow ride.
“God, Jayden, I need you so much,” I proclaimed as I started moving faster. He took the cue from me, swiveling his hips and pushing up hard, keeping me connected to him with his hands on my hips. I screamed out, feeling my release coming fast. Jayden bucked again and again, thrusting his hips, filling me so full my whole body was pulsing. A strange sensation on my backside had me pausing mid-thrust. And when Jayden pushed the rest of the way in, it disappeared. Right on the verge of coming, I felt it again and turned my head.
“Oh my God!” I said, pulling off of Jayden who sat up with a quick, “What?”
“Trip was licking my ass!” I exclaimed as the dumb dog ignored my shrieking to grab a leftover piece of chicken from the bucket sitting close by. I pulled my shorts up, just as Jayden exclaimed, “He can’t have that, he’ll choke!”
I fumbled after Trip to get the chicken from him and Jayden shot out of the truck before me, bare assed and other assets flying in the wind. I was laughing hysterically until he snagged the blanket and started to take it with him. When I went to catch it to keep our picnic from trailing behind him, I lay down gripping the blanket, holding it down with my weight and saw my birthday cake come flying at my face. My attempt to shield myself failed as the plate caught me in the chin, the rest of the cake smashing into the side of my face. I screamed out and pushed it off with the swipe of my hand, nose burning, eyes tearing up with the sting, I cupped my rapidly bruising chin. I looked out to see Trip give Jayden a run for his money. Pulling my t shirt on, I raced after Jayden, his pants in hand as I tried to help him.
Naked, Jayden tackled his dog and pulled the bone away. Trip barked at him as if to give him a piece of his mind. When he looked up to me, his eyes bulged and he came running my way.
“What in the hell?” I threw his jeans at his chest as he put them on quickly and started walking back toward the truck.
Once we’d cleaned up the mess, we piled into the truck and Jay and I looked at each other. He was the first to break the silence, looking at me just as seriously as ever before he spoke. “I’ll have a long talk with Trip when we get home about licking ass that doesn’t belong to him.”
“That’s not funny,” I said, pulling my fingers through icing soaked hair. “Seriously, that’s just so wrong.”
“He was just trying to make your birthday memorable.”
“You both have done a fantastic job,” I said, giving him the same serious tone.
“And he’ll need to know the ins and outs of cock blocking 101. I take that very seriously.” On a mock disappointed sigh, he muttered, “I guess bringing live animals into the bedroom is out.” He chuckled as I sucker punched him in the arm. He started the truck then gave me one last look. “I’m sorry about your chin, and your cake.”
He leaned in and kissed my bruised skin. I turned my head and met his lips. “It was perfect.”
Five months later
“Gerri?”
“In here!” she called from her bedroom. I was headed over to Jayden’s when she had called insisting I come see her at our apartment. She had news.
“What you doing, woman?” I asked as I entered her bedroom. She turned to me, all sexy dress and new heels. “What do you think?”
“Beautiful! God, your hair has grown so long! Hot date?”
“Yep,” she boasted proudly. “And he’s my new boss.” She winced.
“Wow,” I said, giving her a wary look. “You sure do have a taste for taboo these days.”
“I can’t help it and neither can he,” she said, carefully studying my reaction.
“No judging here,” I said, pulling a bracelet from her jewelry box and wrapping it around her wrist.
“He’s taking me out to some fancy place. He’s so hot and so sweet. No matter how stupid of a move this is, I don’t feel like it’s wrong. You know what I mean?”
“Just go with it. Worst case scenario, you find a new job.”
“Right.” She looked over her appearance one more time and then turned to me. “Heading over to Jayden’s?”
“Yeah, just a night at home, I guess. He’s been working a lot lately so he comes home pretty tired.”
“I never see you anymore,” she said, putting in her earrings. “I keep expecting you to announce you’re moving in with him. Our lease is up at the end of the month, you know.”