Chapter 18 Piper
PIPER
The second I opened my eyes I knew I’d slept too long.
My twelve-hour shift had turned into a fourteen-hour one, and by the time I got home it was almost eleven o’clock in the morning.
No one was in the house and Rock’s bike had replaced the beat-up car in my garage, so my only assumption was that he had taken it to take Gavin to the park and to get some lunch.
And while I was hoping they would be home so I could check on the well-being of my son, I was too exhausted to think about anything besides going upstairs and falling asleep.
So that was exactly what I did.
When I opened my eyes and saw it was dark outside, I quickly shot up out of bed. I grabbed my cell phone and watched it light up, praying that it wasn’t as late as I thought it was. I sucked in a long breath when I saw it was almost eight o’clock in the evening.
I had slept my entire day away.
I pulled myself out of bed and reached for my robe.
I had to go figure out where my son was.
I slipped into my slippers and tied the robe around myself, then ventured quickly down the stairs.
I needed coffee. I needed food. Hell, I could’ve used another nine hours of fucking sleep.
I rounded the banister of the stairs and furrowed my brow at the sounds of soft snores coming from the living room.
“Rock?” I asked. “You here?”
I heard shifting coming from the couch, but I didn’t see anyone. Nothing except a massive leg thrown over the arm of the piece of furniture. I walked over and peeked around the top, trying to see what was going on. And the sight I found caused my heart to stop in my chest.
Rock, with his massive form and his tight black shirt and his painted-on jeans, laid there with my son on his chest while the two of them slept.
All I could see were long limbs tangled up in one another as Gavin slept soundly on Rock’s chest. I smiled down at the scene, taking in the beautiful moment.
My son rested against his father, comfortable and safe, while not even knowing who Rock was to him.
It was as if the two of them were tethered together by an invisible force that naturally existed between a father and a son.
Rock’s hand splayed along his son’s back, protecting him in his most vulnerable state.
I reached down to smooth some hair out of Gavin’s face before Rock’s free hand came up and wrapped around my wrist.
He moved at lightning speed, and when I whipped my eyes over to his face I found him staring at me. Wide awake with the soul of an animal in his eyes.
“It’s just me,” I said. “Rock. It’s Piper.”
He drew in a deep breath before his eyes focused and his hand unraveled from my skin.
“Wasn’t sure who you were,” he said. “Sorry.”
“Never be sorry for something like that,” I said.
Even in the dead of sleep, he was in protection mode. I saw him in yet another type of light I’d never looked at him with before.
“What time is it?” Rock asked.
“Time to put Gavin to bed,” I said.
“I got it.”
“I’ll get it. Then maybe I can make us some coffee,” I said.
I walked around the couch as Rock sat up, his massive form creaking the pathetic wood of my couch.
I gathered Gavin in my arms and put his head onto my shoulder, feeling Rock’s hands help his body to mine.
I nuzzled my cheek into the top of my boy’s head, taking in his scent and holding him just for a second.
I’d missed him so much at work. I hated when I had to be called in on a weekend.
I loved those unadulterated moments with him where the hospital didn’t need me and errands didn’t have to be run.
I took my time walking him up the stairs and tucking him into bed.
“He was good today.”
I walked out of Gavin’s room and closed the door as Rock finished walking up the steps.
“I think he made a new friend at the park. Her name’s Abigail.”
“Of course, it would be a girl,” I said with a snicker. “More like his father every single day. Where’d you guys go for lunch.”
“He talked me into pizza.”
“I’m sure that didn’t take a lot of convincing.”
“Nope,” he said with a grin.
“So, he didn’t give you much trouble last night?”
“None at all. I helped him wash up, I told him a bedtime story, then I tucked him in. He didn’t make a peep all through the night.”
“Where did you sleep?” I asked.
“On the couch.”
“You could’ve bunked in my bed.”
“Didn’t want to make things weird,” he said with a shrug.
“I’m pretty sure we blew past that line twenty miles ago,” I said with a smile.
“But yeah, things were good,” Rock said. “He’s a good kid, Piper. You’ve done a great job with him.”
“It’s been hard, but worth it. Thanks.”
I leaned against the wall and took in the heat of his body. He filled the small space of my upstairs hallway. Any quarters with a man like Rock felt like close quarters. I closed my eyes and pinched the bridge of my nose, trying to not let the words on the tip of my tongue slip off.
But I couldn’t hold them back any longer.
“If you want to spend more time with Gavin, I could use the help,” I said.
I looked up into Rock’s gray eyes and found nothing but a stoic stare I couldn't read.
“He really likes you. And it’s obvious he’s safe with you, what with that little reaction you had downstairs. I’m still not… fully comfortable with this idea. I think everything’s moving really, really fast. And we could have to talk with Gavin eventually. I won’t do that alone.”
“You won’t do anything alone anymore. Not if you don’t want to,” he said.
His words filled me with a warmth I couldn't deny.
“Don’t say things like that if you don’t mean them. My heart can’t take it, Rock.”
He stepped in front of me, blocking the small burst of moonlight pouring in through the one window in my hallway.
“Look at me, Piper.”
I rose my gaze up his body, taking in his throbbing muscles and his chiseled form before gazing up into his stern eyes.
“I don’t ever say shit I don’t mean,” he said. “You know this.”
I lost control of my faculties then and there.
My hand reached up to his shirt and fisted the fabric, pulling him down to my lips.
Tears filled my eyes as they fluttered closed, and my lips immediately swelled against his.
I felt Rock’s hands drop to the wall, pinning me between the surface and his granite-carved chest. I slid my hands around his neck, encompassing the whole of him as I pressed my body closer.
Then I jumped and wrapped my legs around him as he stood upright.
He walked me into my bedroom and kicked the door closed behind him, cloaking us in darkness.
My lips were everywhere. His cheek. His neck.
His forehead. His nose. He dropped me to my bed and my body bounced as the sounds of clothing hitting the floor filled my room.
I scrambled to my knees and ripped everything off, tossing it off the edges of my bed.
He rushed to me, crashing his naked body to mine as the two of us went falling to my bed.
And I opened every part of myself to him.
He licked and he sucked. He nipped and he caressed.
He fisted the excess of my thighs and my hips while marking the peaks of my breasts.
Sounds of panting and gasping and groaning filled my room.
Echoed off the corners and sent electricity shivering through my veins.
His face dipped between my thighs and brought me to heights only he could.
His tongue raked across my clit until my back bowed and my toes curled.
I poured my juices onto his lips as he pinned my body to the bed, muting my thrashing and trembling as his tongue buried itself into me.
But it wasn’t until he picked me up and bent me over the edge of my bed that my own body unleashed.
“Oh shit,” I said with a whisper. “Get inside me, Rock. Please.”
He eased his thickened girth into my dripping pussy and I shook.
I stood to my toes to meet his hips, pushing back into him as his balls connected with my clit.
His hands massaged my ass cheeks after every smack he delivered.
The pop echoed along the corridors of my home as he marked me in every way he could think of.
His dick dove in and out of my body, his hips snapping against mine as my body jiggled for him.
“Holy shit, Piper. I’ve missed this. Fuck. So perfect for me. That tight little pussy. Mmm.”
His hand reached down and fisted my blonde locks.
He wrenched my face from the bed as my muffled groans soon filled the room.
My hands curled into the sheets of my bed as I pushed back into him, meeting Rock thrust for thrust as fire shot down my legs.
My knees grew weak and my soul took flight.
My heart fluttered heatedly in my chest as his cock pulsed against my walls.
I climbed onto the bed, feeling him follow me as he knelt onto the side of the bed.
My mattress rocked and my headboard slammed against the wall, beating out a rhythm Rock was intent on keeping up with.
“Please don’t stop. Please don’t stop. I’m so close. So close, Rock. Oh shit. Oh, yes. Yes, Rock. Right there. Right there! Yes! Rock!”
My back tightened and my head fell to the mattress.
My entire body collapsed underneath his assault as his hands held my hips up.
His fingertips gripped me so tightly his prints would be readable from my skin the next morning.
His cock rubbed against my rippling walls as my vision dimmed.
I gasped for air, feeling him stumble in his movements as his cock pulsed with a need for release.
“Piper. Piper. Fuck me. Oh… shit… yes…”
He spilled into me, coating my walls with his cum as goosebumps fled along my skin.
He filled me until his juices were dripping onto the sheets of my bed.
I collapsed, feeling him fall on top of my body and press his strong divots into my back.
I loved how I filled him the way he could fill me.
How my excess pressed into his body and coated all those spaces with the sweat of my body.
His hands slid up my arms, his fingers finding mine as they laced together.
His cock stayed sheathed within my warmth, resting there.
As if he had always been meant for that one special space.
His lips pressed kisses into my back. Kisses that made me giggle and jump and whimper with the need for him. He nuzzled his nose at the nape of my neck, sending a quake down my spine I couldn't control.
Then he pulled his cock from between my legs, rolled off my body, and pulled me into his arms.