Chapter 28
CHAPTER 28
“ W hat is wrong with you?” Jamie demanded once she managed to make it to the surface.
“You wouldn’t answer my question,” Nick said, shrugging off her question as he tossed his leather shoe aside before reaching for the other one.
“So that means that you had to throw me in the pool?” Jamie asked, shaking her head in disgust as she swam to the other side of the pool.
“Damn straight,” Nick said as she awkwardly climbed out of the pool and headed towards the door. She just made it past the corner of the pool when she spotted Nick, naked, hard, and looking really determined for some reason.
For a moment, Jamie was so stunned by the sight that she couldn’t move and it cost her. Before she could make a run for it, she found herself thrown back over his shoulder, but this time, he was pulling her shoes and socks off.
“What are you doing?” she couldn’t help but wonder when he put her down.
In answer, he practically ripped her pants off. When she let out a surprised squeal and went to stop him, she stumbled back and fell into the water. This time when she resurfaced, she didn’t stop to have a conversation. She began making her way to the other side of the pool, but unfortunately for her, Nick was quicker.
Just as she moved to climb out of the water, he yanked her back in and had her shirt off within seconds. Her bra quickly followed after that. When he went for her panties, Jamie somehow managed to swim away, but not before she felt her panties rip, and then, she was left naked in the pool, a public pool, where anyone could see her, she realized.
“What is wrong with you?” Jamie snapped as she swam to the deep end and moved into the corner to hide.
“I’m just helping you with your list, Jamie,” Nick calmly explained as he swam after her.
“You could have asked!”
“I could have,” Nick murmured in agreement as he joined her. “Now, tell me what’s going on.”
“Nothing,” Jamie mumbled sadly, unable to look him in the eye while she lied.
“If nothing’s wrong, then why does it feel like you’re pulling away from me, Jamie,” Nick asked softly as he gently cupped her chin between his thumb and finger and raised her face until she found herself looking into his beautiful green eyes.
“I’m not-” she started to lie, but he cut her off.
“Don’t lie to me, Jamie,” Nick said, pushing a strand of wet hair out of her face. “I know you’re pulling away from me. I just don’t know why.”
When all she could do was struggle not to cry, Nick pulled her into his arms and held her. “Baby, what’s wrong? What did I do?”
She wrapped her arms around him and held him tightly. “Look, I know Holly said something to upset you-”
“I don’t like her,” Jamie mumbled against his neck.
He chuckled softly as he pressed a kiss against her cheek. “She’s not my favorite person at the moment either. Tell me what she said to you that had you so upset that you actually passed up chocolate.”
“She said that you were just using me,” Jamie admitted softly.
Nick went completely still against her. “How exactly am I using you?” he asked as he pulled away to look at her.
“To get my cooperation on this tour,” Jamie said, hating the way that all the tenderness in his expression disappeared.
“And you believed her?” Nick bit out as he moved away from her.
“Why wouldn’t I?” Jamie mumbled pathetically.
“I don’t need to sleep with a woman to get her to do what I want, Jamie, especially a pushover like you,” Nick said, making her wince. “We both know that it wouldn’t have taken much to get you to do what I wanted, so why the hell would I have to resort to sleeping with you to get your cooperation?”
Jamie opened her mouth to argue but realized that he was right. Even when she was mad at him before he’d promised to help her with her list, she would have fallen in line quickly with a few well-placed glares.
“I’m pathetic,” Jamie muttered, not realizing just how pathetic she really was until that moment.
It was one thing to know that she was a pushover, but another to have it thrown in her face. She moved to climb out of the pool when he wrapped his arm around her and pulled her back against his chest as he reached over and placed his other hand on the edge of the pool to help keep them afloat.
“You’re not pathetic, Jamie. You just have a problem standing up for yourself,” Nick explained, pressing a kiss against the back of her neck.
“That’s the definition of pathetic,” Jamie pointed out as she found herself settling back against him, mostly because she was pathetic.
“You’re not pathetic, Jamie, and you sure as hell aren’t the same woman I found crawling on the floor of the men’s bathroom,” he promised her with another kiss.
“I thought it was the women’s room,” she mumbled, trying not to cringe at the memory.
“So, I gathered. The point is, you’ve come a long way in a very short time, Jamie.”
“So, you don’t think I’m a pushover anymore?” she asked, sounding hopeful.
“Let’s just say that you’re doing a lot better about standing up for yourself. For those times when you’re not able to, you have me,” Nick said, pressing a kiss against the back of her neck.
“But I don’t,” she mumbled sadly.
“What the hell are you talking about?” Nick asked as he turned her around and gently placed her against the wall.
“I need you to help me out and tell me what else she said to you,” Nick said when she didn’t answer him right away.
“I’m not sure how she knew-”
“Knew what?” he asked, interrupting her as she reached over and ran her fingers through his wet hair.
“That this was going to end when the tour was over.”
“And that’s why you thought I’d whore myself out to keep you under my thumb?” Nick asked hollowly.
“Is that what your mother did?” Jamie asked as she watched a muscle clench in his jaw. For a moment, he didn’t say anything as he looked away from her and she thought that maybe she went too far. She opened her mouth to apologize when he spoke.
“My mother was sixteen when she had me. She was a typical teenage runaway. She got mixed up with drugs and her parents had enough of her shit. She decided that she didn’t need them and took off for California, where she thought that she was going to be a movie star,” he said, ramming his fingers through his hair as he looked back at her.
“She got mixed up with the wrong kind of people very early on. When she discovered that she was pregnant, she rented a three-bedroom apartment with five of her friends. They set up two of the rooms to work out of and shared the third room. When she found out that she was pregnant, it was too late to do anything about it. She debated giving me up for adoption, but since it was Christmas, they thought my birth was good luck and named me Nicholas,” he said with a mocking smile.
Her heart broke for him as he continued. “They set my room up in the walk-in closet and whenever there was a John in the house, they took turns locking themselves with me in the closet until the John left. Needless to say, with six hookers in the house, I spent a lot of time in that closet. When I was around four, they decided that I was old enough to watch out for myself.”
“You don’t have to tell me about this if you don’t want to, Nick,” Jamie whispered as she traced his jaw with her fingertips.
“It’s fine, baby,” Nick said, kissing her forehead. “I didn’t think much about the women living there walking around naked or blowing some guy on the couch while I watched cartoons. It wasn’t until I started school and noticed that the other kids’ mothers didn’t offer to fuck the principal for twenty dollars.”
“As much as I hated living there,” Nick said tightly as his hands clenched into fists, “and I fucking hated it, I couldn’t leave. I always thought that my mother would wake up one day and decide to be a real mother to me, but that never happened. When I was old enough, I walked away and never looked back.”
“I’m sorry, Nick,” Jamie said, not knowing what else to say.
“Don’t be,” he said, forcing a smile, “I’m over it.”
She didn’t think that he was. In fact, she was pretty sure that the reason that he worked so hard was to put distance between himself and his past. She couldn’t blame him. She didn’t want people knowing that she was a pushover or how pathetic she used to be.
He looked so sad at that moment and she wanted to make it better for him and to let him know just how much he was loved. She leaned forward and brushed her lips against his. At first, he didn’t respond and she was afraid that he was still mad, but then, he slowly moved his lips against hers.
“I don’t want you to worry about anything, Jamie. I’m going to take care of you,” Nick promised.
As good as it sounded, she knew that he wouldn’t be able to keep his word. As soon as the tour was over, he was going to break her heart, but she refused to focus on that. Right now, she was in his arms and that was all that mattered.
Soon, the kiss turned hungry and they couldn’t stop running their hands over each other. There really was nothing better than being in Nick’s arms, Jamie thought as she ran her hands over his wide shoulders and down his back, enjoying the feel of hard muscle flexing beneath her touch.
“Up you go, baby,” Nick said as he pressed one last kiss against her lips.
When he went to raise her out of the water, she stopped him with a simple shake of her head. Frowning, Nick opened his mouth, probably to ask her what was wrong, when she gestured for him to get out of the water. With an amused smile and a quick kiss, he did just that. Once he was sitting on the edge, she realized something very important.
She was kind of short.
Nick must have realized the problem because he lowered himself off the edge until his large erection was at eye level with her, and although that was a pretty impressive sight, she couldn’t seem to take her eyes off the muscles flexing in his arms and chest as he held himself up. When she caught his amused smile, she forced herself to focus. She leaned in and pressed a kiss against his hip.
She’d only done this a few times, but it was easily one of her favorite things to do for him. She knew that she probably wasn’t very good at this yet, but she was more than willing to keep trying. As she kissed her way to the neatly trimmed patch of hair surrounding the root of the large erection that demanded her attention, she couldn’t help but wonder what it would be like to take him to completion in her mouth. Whenever she thought he was close, he always pulled away, but maybe now she’d get her chance to find out. At least, she hoped she would.
When she came to his erection, Jamie kissed her way along the side of his cock until she couldn’t resist gliding her tongue over it. His low groan encouraged her to do it again. This time, she took her time tracing her tongue over the thick vein that ran along the underside of his thick erection. She flicked her tongue over the tip, licking away the drops of excitement there before she took the tip into her mouth and suckled on it while she slowly traced the tiny slit with her tongue.
“ Aw, fuck ,” Nick groaned when she wrapped her hand around him and slowly stroked him. The movement pushed more of his erection into her mouth, but not enough. She looked up and met his hungry gaze as she took more of him in her mouth. He sucked in a breath as he moved to pull away from her, but she refused to let him go, not when she had him where she wanted him.
“I need to be inside of you,” Nick ground out between clenched teeth as he tried to pull away from her again.
Never pausing in her slow strokes, Jamie pulled her mouth away long enough to point out, “You are inside of me,” before taking him back into her mouth and doubled her efforts.
He was panting hard and she couldn’t help but love knowing that he was losing control because of her. It wasn’t long before he was slowly thrusting in and out of her mouth. When he became impossibly thicker in her mouth and let out a growl, she knew that she had him. It was confirmed seconds later when he shouted her name and he released that salty-sweet treat that she was beginning to love.
As he pulled away, she pressed one last kiss against the tip of the soft velvety head and couldn’t help but smile when he shivered. Her smile quickly disappeared when she found herself suddenly pulled out of the water.
Without a word, Nick moved back on the tiled floor until only his legs were in the water and laid back. Just as she was about to ask him what he was doing, Jamie found herself moving up his body and straddling his head. She wasn’t exactly sure what was going on until she felt the first swipe of his tongue, and then, she decided that she simply didn’t care as long as he did it again.
When he gripped her bottom and encouraged her to move, she hesitated. She wasn’t really sure what to do, but when he slid his tongue inside her, Jamie decided that she’d figure it out as she went. Her hands, as if they had a mind of their own, slid up her damp stomach and over her breasts, pretending that they were his hands.
His grip tightened on her bottom as his tongue slid inside her. She pinched her nipples the way he did and was surprised by how good it felt. She’d never really touched herself before, too shy to even try, but right now, it felt too good to stop. As she continued to gently squeeze and caress her left breast, she slid her trembling hand down her stomach.
The few times she’d attempted to touch herself had left her frustrated. But now, it felt so good, Jamie thought as her fingertips brushed against her clit, leaving her with no choice but to moan. Licking her lips, she met Nick’s hungry gaze as he slowly licked her out.
It felt so good.
She loved it when he touched her, craved it, and was afraid that she would never be able to live without it. Within minutes, she was throwing her head back as she screamed his name. She was still screaming his name when she found herself suddenly lifted off his mouth and-
“Oh, God…” Jamie moaned when she felt his thick cock pushing inside her as Nick sat up and wrapped his arms around her. He took her mouth in a hungry kiss that had her moaning softly as she wrapped her arms around him.
It wasn’t long before she was forced to break off the kiss and bury her face against his neck as he grabbed hold of her hips and moved her. It was too much. She moaned his name, barely aware that he was saying hers almost like a prayer.