Chapter 31
ALEXIS
I didn’t know how we got to the ground, sprawled over his picnic rug, but that’s where we ended up, an assortment of stroking limbs and moaned promises as we explored each other again.
Owen tried to keep it PG as he kept his hands firmly on my face or back, never venturing into dangerous territory while he kissed the shit out of me.
That’s not what I wanted. I had waited long enough— four years was long enough. Which is why I did what I did next.
We were lying side by side when I retracted from his embrace. His eyes sparked with panic, which quickly transitioned into pure lust as he watched me. My fingers trailed up my thighs, beneath my skirt, to methodically slip my thong down my legs.
Owen examined my actions with single-minded rapture, licking his lips at my wanton display. He didn’t move an inch, frozen into an inanimate state. Oh, no, that won’t do.
Feeling bold, I chucked my panties to the side and reached for his waistband. Then, I pushed his pants and boxers out of the way until I found what I was searching for. His beautiful shaft throbbed in my palm, all hard and rigid, begging for my caress.
Owen’s rib cage collapsed beneath his shuddering breaths as his eyes lapsed shut. “This isn’t very romantic, Lex. I want to take you out. Wine and dine you. Spoil you. You’re perfect. And I want our first time back together to be perfect .”
“Is this not perfect?” I replied. Owen hissed as my hand massaged his balls. “I don’t care if we’re out in the open, or that we’re on top of your picnic rug. We’re at our spot, Owen. Where we had all our firsts. This is perfect. Touch me, baby… Please .”
That was it. After my panting speech, there was no way he could hold back. And he didn’t. Before I finished my last plea, his hands and lips were back where they always should have been.
The way he held me, the very impression of his fingerprints took me back to another time. The very last time we had made love.
Over the years, I had repeated that scene in my mind, letting it play out to push me through the days where I really felt alone, where I truly missed him.
And now that it was all real, I couldn’t help but give those words life again, connecting us back together in a sense of belonging and healing.
I disengaged from his lips until he opened his eyes to meet mine. They sparkled in front of me, the only light in the night sky—the only light I’d ever need.
That’s when I gave them to him, those same words that I had whispered so very long ago.
“ Owen? I feel like I haven’t seen you in forever. Come here, baby. I need you. ”
He immediately understood, accepting them with a quick kiss as raw emotion took us over. And just like before, he slid on top of me as I welcomed him into my embrace.
We were pressed so close as if our bodies would collide at any moment to form one single entity. And based on his rigid length and my dripping centre, we couldn’t wait any longer.
I tilted my hips and dug my nails into his shoulders, silently begging him to enter. To take me as his.
Owen stalled at my entrance, his critical gaze roaming my features, analysing for any resistance or regret. He wouldn’t find any.
Shifting my pelvis, I accepted the head of his cock inside me, the intrusion tight and oh, so welcome.
We both sighed as Owen ever so slowly pushed deep and true, my inner walls contracting and stretching to accommodate his size.
Once he had entered to the very hilt, he paused, relinquishing his weight until I was crushed beneath.
I whimpered with need, unable to resist any part of him. I proceeded to scatter kisses over his face, throat and jawline—wherever I could reach.
We continued the same dance as before. “I’ve missed you, Owen.”
“You never have to, babe, I’m yours. Will always be yours,” he barely choked out. Owen said each word exactly , telling me he remembered the same scene just as I had.
He continued his slow torture, pushing in and out of me as he accepted my rain of kisses.
“I love you, Alexis. So fucking much it hurts.” I could hear the desperation in his voice, the honesty in his tone. He genuinely loved me.
I smiled up at him, tears gathering in my eyes to mirror his. “ As I love you .”
Then, he rewarded me with that private signature smile… Created only for me.
OWEN
Alexis was glued to my side, her head on my chest as I ran my fingers through the strands of her hair, the ritualistic movement so familiar yet so refreshingly new.
We had just made love.
At Mercy Lake.
The same place that had taken so many of our firsts. Alexis was right; everything was perfect.
The way she played back our last act of intimacy so many years before made me go crazy as so many emotions ran through me that I thought I’d explode.
And when she accepted me into her body once more— fuck— I knew I’d never do anything to jeopardise that connection again.
She was everything . And I’d sacrifice anything to have her stay.
“I never want to lose you again,” I said, breaking the contented silence. “The last five years have been torture, baby. And now you’ve come back into my life, I’ll never let you down again. Never. ”
“I know you will keep your promise, Owen.”
I then asked about Austin, and implored that I wanted him as much as I did her. Against all odds, I had grown to love him as well.
I didn’t care that he wasn’t biologically mine. He was an amazing, intelligent boy who had all the best traits of Alexis. How could I not love him?
I thought it was way too early to declare that I wanted to be his daddy, so I didn’t lay that on her right then, but that was definitely something I wanted to strive towards. She’d probably run screaming if she knew how ingrained I saw myself in her life after the sliver of herself she had so freely given already.
I will earn her. I will earn him. I will earn my family. I’ll earn it all.
We continued to talk into the night, the calming water lapsing in the background. Until we came to her chance encounter with Everly and after. How she failed to reach me on my phone, which was turned off.
“I thought you had blocked me,” she said with a sexy pout that had my dick twitching back to life.
“I turned my phone off because I knew it would be glued to my hand the whole time you were away.”
“I was offended when you didn’t respond to my nudes.”
My hand immediately reached around for my phone when Alexis giggled.
Great, now my dick is rock-solid.
“It was actually Alicia who kicked me in the ass and enlightened me to take the next step in owning what I want. Without apologies.”
I grinned. “Trust Alicia to give it to you straight. And what is it you want, Alexis?”
“You, Owen. I want you. ”