Chapter 19
CHAPTER NINETEEN
C ade
It’s game night. The game doesn’t start until seven. I text Annie.
Me: Can we meet up?
I have about three hours to get to the arena. I have plenty of time to give her the present I just bought.
Annie: Is something going on? I thought I’d see you at the game tonight.
She’s been busy all week with the start of the new semester. I was busy too so we didn’t connect. I’m missing her.
Me: I have something to give you.
Annie: I thought the tickets were electronic.
Me: They are. I have something else
Annie: I’m not on campus. I’m home
Why does it feel like she is avoiding me? My guess is she is just as freaked out as I am by how good our make-out session was.
Me: I can come over if that’s okay.
Annie: Sure
I leave the campus store after buying Annie my jersey. This is the first time I am buying a girl my jersey. Scarlett wore my jersey to games, but she bought it for herself. Annie is special. I have the need to claim her. Having my jersey covering her sexy body is going to be a real privilege.
I get in the car and head over to her house. I text I’m here before going to the door because I don’t want to deal with her roommates.
Annie: Door is unlocked. Come in
I enter the house. The delicious smell of a home-cooked meal wafts through the air. I ate a light lunch and my stomach grumbles.
“I’m in the kitchen, Cade. My roomies aren’t here,” she calls out.
I walk into the kitchen to see Annie cooking by the stove. She has her hair in a loose bun on her head. She’s wearing a tank top and shorts. My mouth waters at the sight of her.
“Hey.” I walk up to her and kiss her cheek.
Her eyelashes fan over her cheeks as she gives me a bashful look. “Hi.”
“I got you something.” I pass her the reusable bag from the campus store.
“A present?” she asks, looking excited.
“Kind of.”
She stops cooking and takes the bag. She looks inside and pulls out my jersey.
“Thanks, Cade.”
“You’re welcome. Will you wear it to the game tonight?” I ask.
“If you want me to I will,” she replies. “Charlie and Ruby told me you might want me to wear your jersey. She said the guys like girls they are dating to wear it and since we are putting up appearances. . .”
“Annie, I’ve never bought my jersey for a girl before. If they were wearing my jersey it’s because they bought it themselves,” I clarify. I’m scared to add I want to claim her as mine and having her wear my jersey would just solidify the feeling.
“You want to stay for an early dinner? It’s nothing special, just some spaghetti Bolognese.” I feel like she is avoiding what is happening between us, and I understand. From the start this was supposed to be fake. But there is nothing fake about the way I feel. I know better than to push.
“Thanks, I’d love to stay.” I grin and take off my varsity jacket.
“It’s just about ready,” she says, stirring the sauce.
When she is done, we sit to eat. Everything always feels comfortable around Annie.
“I skipped lunch today. I was starving,” she says, swirling noodles on a fork.
“I was going to pick up takeout tonight since no one wanted to cook in the house because of game night,” I explain. “This is so much better.”
“Thanks.” She smiles. “So, explain to me how hockey works. I need to understand what’s going on.”
I start with the basics and move on from there. I explain my role as a defenseman. “I’d like to be a winger, but I secured my spot on the team as an enforcer, and it stuck. I had the same position in high school. It was the reason I was recruited.”
“I’ve seen you on skates, Cade. You’d be good in any role. Not that I know much about hockey but someone with your skill will succeed, no matter what. Why don’t you ask the coaches to change your position?”
“I’m graduating Riverside in the spring and entering the draft in June, unless a team makes an offer I can’t refuse. Problem is, I’m known for the role of enforcer. It’s hard to change things up at this point of the game.” I’ve gotten to the point I’m playing hockey because it’s all I know, but I’m not happy.
“Why?” Annie asks.
I lower my fork. “My whole childhood has been spent prepping me to be something I’m not. Now I feel stuck. I hate it,” I confess.
Annie reaches her hand across the table and gives mine a squeeze. “I’ve been feeling that way too. Daddy always figured I’d take over the farm one day. I’m an only child and we want to keep it in the family. I love the farm and animals so much. It’s why I took agricultural science so I could learn how to manage things properly,” she says.
“I hear a but in your tone.” I smirk.
“It’s not really a but. I want to live on the farm and raise my children there with the animals, but I also maybe want to go to veterinary school. I want to take care of the cows and horses. All the animals. I’d just rather be on the caring side than running the show.”
“I can see that about you,” I tell her. “I saw the connection you had with the cows. Especially Sally,” I joke.
My comment buys me a laugh. Seeing Annie smile because of me does something to my insides. The sound of her laughter is so warm.
“Look at us. It’s like we can’t sit down for a simple meal without getting deep.”
“You’re the only one I’ve had deep conversations with. It’s been feeling good to get things off my chest that I’ve been holding on to for too long.”
She swallows, our gazes lock but it doesn’t hold. She clears her throat and goes back to eating the pasta. I do too.
When we are done, I take our plates.
“I got them, Cade.”
“You cook, I clean,” I assert.
“Okay,” she concedes.
After washing the dishes, I turn to look at Annie. She is sitting on the counter with her feet dangling off. She’s so damn sexy.
“I say we take this jersey to your room and have you try it on,” I suggest, placing my hand on her thigh.
“Yeah,” she answers all throaty. I stand between her legs and watch her turn breathless from my touch.
“Yeah,” I repeat, my voice hoarse and filled with need.
She takes the bag with the jersey and we head up to her room.
“Take off your clothes and put the jersey on,” I say, my tone demanding.
“Oh, Cade, I didn’t realize you have an assertive side.” She giggles.
“Annie, I’ve been fantasizing seeing you in my jersey since I bought it at the campus store an hour ago.”
“Hmm, I like the sound of that. What else is involved in this fantasy of yours?” she asks. Her sultry tone makes me rock-hard.
“It involves me on my knees tasting your sweet pussy,” I tell her.
She licks her lips and removes her tank top. “I’m definitely game for that.”
“The bra too,” I say.
I hold her eye contact as she reaches to her back and unclasps the bra.
“You’re so beautiful. I don’t know what I did to deserve this, but I’ll take it.” I bite into my lower lip as her breasts spill free. I take a step toward her, needing to touch her nipples.
“Ah ah, you have to wait until I have the jersey on,” she says, getting into her role as seductress.
I take a step back and watch her slip on my jersey. She makes a show of swaying her hips as she pulls her shorts down, along with her panties.
“Take a seat on the bed, baby,” I urge. I’ve never been this turned on in my life, the hunger and need to taste her has my body burning with need.
She takes a seat and I kneel before her. “Spread your legs for me.”
She does as I say, and I dip my head between her thighs. Her fingers run through my hair as I taste her. “You taste so good.”
“Hmm,” she moans.
The angle is a bit off. “Let’s change this up,” I suggest. I lie on my back at the top of her bed. “Come here.”
“How?” she asks, looking confused and maybe out of her element.
“Spread your thighs on my face,” I say.
“Are you effing crazy, Cade?” she asks.
“I’m crazy about eating your pussy,” I answer. I’m crazy about her too, but this isn’t the time to freak her out more. I just need to show her how good we can be together. “I need you to trust me with this. I think you’ll enjoy it.”
She bites her lip for a moment, looking like she is contemplating. Then she shifts and straddles my face and holds on to her headboard.
“That’s it, baby.” I hold on to the globes of her ass, urging her to settle on my mouth. With the first stroke of my tongue, she moans, so I pick up the pace.
“OMG, Cade. This feels so good.”
I want to say I told you so but I don’t want to lose momentum.
I press her pussy into my tongue and go to town eating her. Her moans get louder. I smack her ass.
“Ride my face, baby. Take yourself over the edge,” I urge, pressing her pussy on my tongue as I lick her from clit to seam.
“Yes, Cade. OMG, so good. Too much.” She’s panting and moaning and it’s the sexiest thing in the world. She falls over the edge, head tipping back, as the sweetest sounds leave her. I lick up all her juices, continuing to lick her swollen pussy.
“It’s too much. It won’t stop,” she pants, riding me hard. Knowing I have her first experiences makes me rock-hard. When she slows down, I urge her beside me and she curls into my side. Her cheeks are flushed and she looks thoroughly fucked.
She reaches down and touches my cock over my jeans. “You’re rock-hard. Let me take care of you.”
“You better be careful, I’m so turned on that I may come like a teenager,” I warn and I’m not kidding.
“Tell me what to do, Cade.”
I love how willing she is to learn what I like.
I lift her shirt and go to town sucking on her nipples, which doesn’t help my situation because she is squirming and moaning again. All I can think about is pounding into her heat, which isn’t an option because even though she trusts me, she is still thinking of us as temporary.
“Cade, I want you to fuck my tongue like I just did yours,” she says.
I almost come in my pants.
I shift and stand to remove my jeans and boxers. I sit by the edge of the bed, while she gets on her knees and takes my cock in her mouth.
“Annie,” I groan as I release her hair from her bun. I throw her elastic somewhere and run my fingers through her hair. With one hand she takes hold of my ass and pulls me closer so she can deep throat my cock.
My hips thrust into her mouth as my head tips back. “So fucking good, Annie, you give the best head. Cup my balls, baby,” I urge.
She cups my balls but then she dips her head and takes one of my balls in her mouth and sucks on it. I jerk forward and take a deep breath so I don’t come. She uses her hand to pump my cock as she moves to my other ball.
Then she is back to sucking my cock like a champ, wrapping her hand around the part she can’t take down her throat.
“Annie, I’m going to come,” I warn. If she wants to move her mouth, now is the time, but instead she deep throats me. I come so hard colors spring through my vision as I grunt my release into her mouth. She takes everything I’m giving.
She wipes her mouth with the back of her hand. My body feels completely sated.
I lean against the headboard and take a breath, smiling like a fool.
“Now we both have I just got fucked looks on our face,” she says.
“Come here.” I wrap my arm around her waist and pull her toward me. She settles beside me. “I was all tense and you completely relaxed me. I hope I’ll play well tonight.”
“What would happen if you didn’t play rough tonight? Like you block other players like you are supposed to but you help the wingers taking shots to the net?” she asks.
“Ah, you’re a fast learner,” I reply. “My coaches will be pissed.”
“But would it make you happy?” she asks.
“I don’t know,” I tell her. “I’d like to find my own style without having my father’s voice in my head.”
On cue my cell rings. Dad’s name lights up the screen.
“Speaking of the devil,” Annie says with a sheepish grin.
I laugh and shake my head.
“Hello,” I answer the call because if I don’t, he’ll keep trying because it’s game night. “You ready for tonight?”
“Yes, Dad, and how are you?” I ask sarcastically, since this is the first time I’m hearing from him since the breakfast that went wrong before Christmas.
“You know how I am, Cade. Your mom wants to leave me,” he says like it’s my fault.
“Yes, well, maybe if you hadn’t ditched her in Mexico that wouldn’t have happened,” I say coldly.
“Our relationship is complicated. You wouldn’t understand,” he says.
“Try me,” I challenge. After being so relaxed, I’m all tense again. My dad seems to have that effect on me.
“We don’t love each other anymore,” he explains.
“Which is why you need to divorce her. You can’t expect to have your side pieces while she is waiting at home for you with a warm meal. I get why that would be convenient for you, but it isn’t fair.”
“You’re not holding back.” He has the audacity to chuckle.
“Because I’m sick and tired of sweeping things under the rug and acting as if everything is okay.”
“Like you did with Scarlett,” he jabs.
“You know nothing of my relationship with Scarlett, and the way you’ve treated Mom and me has ensured you aren’t close with either of us, so it’s not like I would call you for advice.”
I hear him sigh. “I’m sorry, Cade. I know I’ve let you down.”
“That’s the thing. I don’t think you’re sorry. Every vacation we took we spent apart. You were barely ever home. You act as if we’re ghosts when you do come out with us, and that breakfast in Riverside was exhibit number one.”
“Okay, I deserve that. Use that anger on the ice tonight,” he says.
I hiss. He is never going to change.
“How is the girl you were with?” he asks.
“Her name is Annie. She is just fine,” I snap. “I got to go, Dad.”
“Have a good game, Son.”
“Thanks.” I hang up the phone and look over at Annie. “Sorry you had to witness that.”
“It’s not like you didn’t witness my mom’s ugly,” she replies. “It must be so frustrating for you.”
“It is, but being with you makes it all better.” I lean in and capture her lips. Her fingers tug on the strands of my hair as I hover above her. I want nothing more than to sink into her heat and forget that whole conversation, but Annie deserves better from me. Instead, I play with her pussy, rubbing her clit then fingering her. Her hips move greedily against my fingers.
“This can’t be right, Cade. I’m going to come again,” she moans. She is so wet. Her hand wraps around my cock and she strokes me. I didn’t know a handy could be so sexy, but touching Annie has my body burning up again. I slip another finger inside her and use my thumb to rub her clit. She goes off like a firecracker, but she takes me with her when her strokes grow faster, and she squeezes the base of my cock with her fist. I come all over myself like a teenager as I watch her orgasm.
Annie watches me like I am some alien. “What is going on in that pretty head?”
“This is crazy, Cade. This thing between us.”
“I just came like a teenager. Look at me.”
“I’ll get you a towel,” she offers. She brings me a hand towel and I get cleaned up.
“Well, we did a good job of breaking in the jersey. Tell me you’ll wear it tonight. Although, seeing you in it might make me hard when I’m playing.” I am not kidding.
“Don’t give in to your dad’s pressure, Cade,” she says going from playful to serious. “You should be able to play how you want.”
“He’ll be watching the game. I’ll never hear the end of it,” I say to her.
“Over break I stood up to my mom and told her how I felt for the first time in my life. It was liberating.”
“I don’t doubt that. We’ll see. I’m sorry to run, but I have to head home and shower and get to the arena.”
“Okay. I’ll see you later. I’m going with Charlie and Ruby.”
“I got you the seat beside theirs. You can also invite Briar. The seat beside you is saved. I’ll email you the info,” I say to her.
“Thanks for thinking of her too,” she says, leaning in to kiss my mouth.
I get up and get myself dressed, and Annie walks me to the door. I head to my car. Before Dad called, I was on cloud nine. I can’t let him bring down or affect me anymore. It’s easier said than done. I choose to focus on Annie and a smile spreads my cheeks. I turn on some music and tap my thumb on my steering wheel as I make it back to the house. Maybe I will play on my own terms tonight and if anyone has a problem with it, then screw them.