10. Theo
CHAPTER 10
Theo
I rolled over and opened my eyes, blinking as I tried to place where I was. A grin crossed my face as I remembered what I spent the last many hours doing. Visions of Mallie’s body under mine, over mine, and the sounds she made as we made love over and over again flooded my memory.
Mallie shifted next to me, and I turned and wrapped my arm around her, pulling her back to me. I kissed her head and squeezed her to me, the sensation of her body molded to mine, giving me all the feelings. “Good morning, angel.”
She gripped the back of my head, turned her face and pressed her lips to mine. Mallie turned her body and we pressed together. Our kisses quickly became frantic, our mouths and tongues displaying all the passion between us.
“Good morning,” she said, those gorgeous blue eyes looking up at me. She touched my face, which she seemed to love to do.
“It is a fucking fantastic morning,” I said, and she laughed. “I woke up next to you.”
Her eyes went soft, and she buried her face into my chest. “I will never get tired of that.”
“What’s that?”
“You being so up front and honest with me,” she said.
“I’m not playing games. I’m going to tell you. I am flying high on life right now. I had zero expectations of how yesterday was going to go, but waking up here with you? I was afraid to wish for that.”
“Well, for the record, it is a fucking fantastic morning because not only did I wake up to you, but I had more orgasms in the last ten hours than I’ve had in my entire lifetime.”
My man pride swelled so big it might burst the windows. “You know just what to say to make me want to beat my chest like a caveman.”
She giggled. “Well, go right ahead.” I pretended to beat my chest, but she was cuddled up to it and I wasn’t moving her, making her laugh harder. “What time do you have to leave?”
I groaned. I wasn’t successful at pausing time, and I had to fly home today. “I need to be at the airport by three.” A quick look at the clock showed it was just after eleven.
“Shower,” she whispered against my lips. “I’m going to need you to add to my record.”
My eyes rolled back in my head at the thought of her body in the shower. “Fuck yes.” I stood and scooped her up. She immediately wrapped her legs around me, and my immediate thought was I could get used to this .
“What are you going to do this afternoon after I leave?”
It was just after one, and we sat on her cozy couch, me in the famed sweatpants she wanted to see me in and her in my huge T-shirt, eating brunch from her favorite place. She said she splurged this morning because she kept herself to a very healthy diet when she was touring to keep her immune system up and her energy level stable. I respected the hell out of that because I had similar needs. However, this afternoon, we were feasting on French toast, crepes, and an amazing quiche.
“Crying that you’re gone,” she said immediately, then grinned. “No, I’ll work out later, then do some rehearsing. I fly out on Tuesday to head to my next tour stop.”
“What’s your workout today?”
“Cardio first, then some weightlifting.” She flexed her biceps. “Gotta keep building them up.”
“I’d say you’ve got the cardio covered,” I said, waggling my eyebrows.
She laughed. “That’s true. Lots of cardio, not a lot of sleep.”
“Let’s talk about our schedules since we got kind of distracted last night. And this morning.”
“I could get distracted again right now,” she said, lifting her eyebrows up and down.
“You bet your ass I’m giving you at least another two orgasms before I leave,” I said. “I have to leave my girl satisfied.”
“Oh, I’m satisfied all right. I have never been more satisfied. I may not be able to walk this week, much less perform on a stage. How am I going to go weeks without it now?”
“I wonder the same thing. We may have to get creative over the phone.”
She lifted that sculpted eyebrow again. “No matter how ‘creative’ we get, if you aren’t here in the flesh, then it won’t be anywhere close to the same.”
She was good at inflating my ego. “You better watch it,” I said. “You keep talking about me like that and I’ll get a big head.”
Mallie slid her gaze downward and then back to my face, her meaning clear. “Is that so?”
This girl. My chest swelled with the feelings building inside it. “Anyway,” I said, forcing myself to focus on something other than the T-shirt she wore with little to nothing underneath it. “Let’s talk. You’re flying out to California?”
She nodded. “Yes. I’ll be there for about ten days. I go a little early to acclimate to the time change and do sound checks and little rehearsals with the crew. I have five shows, three in a row and then three days off, then perform for two more. I’m going home to Florida after that because my next shows are in Atlanta.”
“It’s October and I just had my bye week, so I have no time off until we know if we make the playoffs or not. Plus, we’ve got the holidays mixed up in there. It’s going to be hectic.”
“So I will come to you next,” she said. “I can do that. I have a small break around Thanksgiving and a bigger one around Christmas.”
“Like, come to a game?” I tried to keep my voice even, but even I heard the excitement in my tone. Imagining her in the stands, wearing my jersey, made me more excited than I would admit to myself.
“I would love to come to a game. Maybe Christmas?”
“That sounds perfect. So, this would be our first public event?” Breathe, Theo. In and out. Don’t freak out and scare her.
She nodded. “Is that okay?”
Was that okay ? Would it be okay if I jumped up and down right now? She was ready. It may be two months from now, but she’d offered. Which also meant she thought we’d be together two months from now. “Whatever you want to do, I’m game for. I just want to make sure you’re comfortable.”
“The whole thing will be quite an undertaking. My security has a lot of protocols ahead of me going to something like that, so it may be good that we give them additional time. Plus, I want to protect this for a little bit longer.”
“You want me to be your dirty little secret.” I winked at her.
“I don’t!” She giggled and put her plate to the side. Within moments, she settled herself on my lap, her legs bracketing my hips. My hands immediately went to her hips like they belonged there. I ran my thumbs along her hip bones, desire immediately flooding my body. “I really enjoyed this weekend. I want to do it again, at least one more time, before the craziness begins and never ends. It’s not very often I get to be a normal girl in a new relationship. Is that okay?”
“Of course it’s okay.” The words she just spoke swirled in my head. A normal girl in a new relationship. She said that. She said it with ease and not like it freaked her out. How could I deny her a chance to feel normal for a while when nothing in her life was ever normal? I couldn’t, and I wouldn’t.
“You don’t think I’m trying to hide you?”
“You just want me as your secret sex slave,” I joked, and she smacked me playfully.
“I mean, you are really good at sex,” she said. My heart was so full. I loved everything about our time together. We played and joked so well together, but also our conversations were like nothing I ever had before.
I kissed her soft lips, sliding my hands into her hair and deepening the kiss. She moved against me, and I groaned into her mouth. I could never get enough of this woman.
“I want to continue this. I do,” I said against her lips, stifling a groan as she rocked against my erection. “But if I do, we will never get to the details of when we will see each other next before the public outing, and I really need to know this so I have something to look forward to. And I also need to clarify that you just said ‘a normal girl in a new relationship.’”
She leaned back and ran her hands along the sides of my face. “I really love touching your face, you know that?”
“I have noticed. I really love you touching my face, too. Now don’t change the subject.”
Mallie smiled. “Yes. I said that. Am I assuming wrong? It just felt like we were at the beginning of something ...”
“Yes,” I interrupted her, kissing her again. “We are. You aren’t assuming wrong. I’m just on cloud nine that you said that, is all. You absolutely can enjoy being a normal girl for as long as you want. I’m enjoying our little bubble myself. Even if I cannot wait for the world to know that I’m lucky enough to be with you. If you decide you want to wait and not go to a game at Christmas, either, that is fine.” Please come to the game. Please. Please. Please.
She nodded. “Thank you. But I think Christmas will be okay. Unless something comes up that they don’t think I should come. I’ll get the team on that now. So if I come to you the week of Thanksgiving and stay with you, is that okay, or do you want me to get a hotel? What do you normally do for the holiday?”
“We have a game that weekend,” I said. “It’s hard to be a pro athlete during the holidays. I usually have a big dinner after the game at my house, so you’d get to be there for that.”
“It’s also hard to be a pop singer on tour,” she agreed. “Okay. So will we get time together if I come, or should I not bother you?”
“You will never be a bother. As long as you don’t mind that I have practice, I’d love to have you in my house for as long as you can stay. It is pretty fucking awesome for you to be there for our Thanksgiving dinner too, as far as I’m concerned.”
I did quick calculations. It was six weeks until Thanksgiving. I could do that. I could go without her after this weekend. Right? Right. I’d lived without her for thirty-two years.
“Okay. Done. I will have Zoey call Jamie and get everything set up. My security team will have to do their thing, too.” She shrugged. “I’m a whole production. Nothing spontaneous about me. Sorry.”
“Hey.” I kissed her and kept her face close as I continued. “Don’t say sorry to me. Your safety is my number one priority. I will do whatever your team says is necessary to make sure you are safe.”
“Speaking of, Juan told me you wanted information about security protocols.”
I nodded. “Is that okay?”
She smiled. “You’re going to take some getting used to.”
“Is that a good thing or a bad thing?”
She ran her hands through my hair, and I barely kept myself from groaning at her touch. I could get used to this. Like, forever. “It’s a good thing. I told them that you could be trusted and they could share with you whatever you wanted to know.”
She trusted me. That meant more to me than just about anything. “Thank you, angel. It’s just in my nature to be protective. If you’re my girl, I want to be involved. It’s my job to protect you, no matter how many people you have on payroll to do that. That being said, if I overstep, you let me know.”
She looked at me for several moments. “Thank you, Teddy. The nice part is, at least your house is only a few hours from mine in Florida, so we can drive it. That keeps people from tracking me and knowing where I am when I use my plane.”
My eyes widened. “What? That happens?”
She nodded. “Yep. Exactly why I said privacy is a challenge. It’ll be okay this way. No one will know I’m there.”
I was a protector by nature, and this information brought that to the forefront. “Mallie. I really don’t like that.”
She shrugged. “I don’t like it, either, but it’s public knowledge. Nothing I can do about it. My legal team has tried. If they get rid of one, another one starts up.” She shifted and pushed against me, the scrap of lace she had on under that T-shirt definitely not enough to keep me from feeling her heat. “Is that enough talking for right now?” She dipped her head to my neck and began kissing and sucking my skin. “I need more cardio before you have to leave me.”
I gripped her hips, tilting my head back so she could continue. I committed every movement she made and the way she felt against me to my memory so I could remember this for the next six weeks. My dick was hard as steel immediately, the sweatpants I wore not hiding how she made me feel.
“Fuck, Mal,” I groaned, pushing my dick into her. She rocked against me, her eyes rolling back in her head as I hit her clit. I wanted to do fucking everything with this woman. There was not enough time left on earth for me to touch her in the ways I wanted to.
“How about you let me suck you now,” she whispered in my ear. In the shower, she tried. But I couldn’t let her because I needed to take her from behind, lift her up and push her into the shower wall. Her hand snaked down between us and under my loose pants. When she made contact with my dick, I hissed. “I want you to come in my mouth,” she said, pumping me up and down in her silky hand. “I want to taste every drop of you.”
I could not speak. No words would form. She smirked at me and slid down. When she pulled on the waistband of my pants, I lifted slightly. Mallie pushed them down just enough to free me. She licked her lips, and the feral look in her eyes made my dick jump.
“Teddy,” she said, that low voice hitting me straight in the gut. Her eyes stayed on me as she closed her mouth over my head. I moaned loudly and lightly held the back of her head as she took me into her mouth. I wasn’t small, and she took me like a champ. I felt my head hit the back of her throat, and I tightened my hand on her hair.
“Mallie,” I said between my teeth. “You feel so fucking good sucking my cock. You’re so good at that. Take it all, angel. That’s right. Just like that.” I ran my finger along her lips, feeling my dick inside her mouth. She licked and sucked, making my eyes roll back in my head. She was fucking incredible with that mouth. I pushed my hips up and she groaned around my cock. “You like that, baby? God, I am memorizing what you look like right now with my cock in your mouth. I bet you’re wet as fuck, aren’t you?” She lifted her eyes to me and moaned in answer. “Touch yourself while I fuck your mouth.”
I felt her reach a hand down and when she made contact with her clit, she groaned. She sucked harder as she played with herself.
Shifting slightly, I lifted her T-shirt so I could see her delicious breasts. I tweaked a nipple and moved my leg so it was between hers. “Ride my leg and come,” I said. She immediately rubbed herself on my shin. I wasn’t going to last much longer. “I’m going to come down that beautiful throat of yours. Are you ready?”
She nodded and gripped my cock at the base with one hand and squeezed my balls with the other. Her movements became more frantic against my leg, and when I felt her shudder and she moaned on my cock, I erupted in her mouth. Once the stream stopped, I took myself out and lifted her up.
“Lean over the couch,” I said, and she immediately obeyed. I lined myself up behind her and ran my hands along her gorgeous ass. “I will never, not ever, tire of fucking you. This body was made for me.”
“Yes,” she said. “Fuck me, Teddy. I need you.”
I need you . I gripped her hips and thrust myself inside her. She immediately tightened on me, and I bit my lip to stave off my second impending orgasm. I needed her. Physically, yes. But it was so much more than that. I needed every single part of her, and I wasn’t sure how to tell her that without scaring the shit out of her. It was so new. So early. But I couldn’t help how I felt.
She pushed back against me and turned her face to look over her shoulder. I leaned over and captured her lips with mine, our tongues immediately meeting. My hands still gripped her hips while I continued to drive into her. We moaned together into each other’s mouths, and I took one hand from her hip to hold on to her chin as we fucked with our tongues and our bodies.
I felt her tighten just as I lost control, and I broke the kiss to focus on fucking another orgasm from her. She reached back and gripped my thigh with one hand as the sound of our sex filled the room.
I groaned and let go just as she spasmed. I leaned over and pressed kisses along her back, her chest heaving with the exertion of yet another round of the best sex of my life.
“Teddy,” she said, her voice breathless. “I don’t know how you top yourself every single time, but you do.”
I pulled out gently and turned her so I could taste her lips again. “Same,” I whispered against her mouth. “I don’t think I can leave today. I think I’ll just call Coach and quit. He will understand when I tell him why because look at you.”
Mallie giggled and wrapped her arms around my chest, pulling me closer to her. I swayed her back and forth while we processed that; all jokes aside, our time together was down to mere hours.