Chapter 17
17
I take her empty mug and set it on the table. Then I lift her and carry her into the shower, which I designed for this exact purpose. It’s huge, with four detachable shower heads and a cedar bench that runs the length of it. I’ve put two towels along it so it’s comfortable for her.
The shower’s full of steam now, like a tropical mist, to make sure she’s warm and relaxed. I set her down on the bench and lay her back on it, resting her head on my lap. Taking some shampoo, I carefully wash her hair as she watches me.
“I thought of you every day, you know,” she whispers.
“I thought of you every day too, darlin’.”
I detach one of the shower heads and rinse her hair. The perfection of her face makes my chest ache. Her blue eyes, with long lashes spiked from the water, are blinking at me. Roxie’s eyes are like rare sapphires in the sun, always catching shards of light. Her lips are pink and plump. Her long, thick, shiny hair is wavy and lush, lightly coiled at the ends.
I’m so fucking in love with her I feel almost insane with it. I wasn’t prepared for this. I missed her, I knew that much. I knew I loved her from afar but I guess a part of me had come to terms with the fact that it wasn’t meant to be. But the second I saw her again, she hit me like a fucking wrecking ball. I wasn’t prepared for the intensity of it. My body is on fire for her. My soul feels bloody and hot with obsession.
And rage. She was out there this whole time and I didn’t fucking chase after her.
Usually, I’m the peacekeeper. The guy who keeps everyone steady and everything afloat.
But I’ve just found my limit.
Let them try to keep us apart.
She’s mine. I’ll fucking kill to keep her. I’ll fight for her with everything I’ve got.
I can take any one of the Tucker boys. Maybe not all three at the same time, but then again, I’ve got eight years of regrets fueling me. Anything’s possible at this point.
I get their doubts about me. We all ran wild together when we were young. We were sowing our wild oats and discovering how easy it was to get women to fall in love with us—or at least in serious lust. It’s something Luke and Leo are still doing and, as far as I know, so were Travis and Vaughn until not too long ago.
I’m not proud of any of it. I used women to slake my rage—which I was too hot-headed to realize was all about the fact that I couldn’t have the one girl I truly wanted.
That’s the version of me the Tucker boys know best and it’s the reason they wouldn’t want me going near their little sister. Not like it’s a thought that’s probably ever entered their head—that I might want to. They considered me a brother.
They still can. But times have changed. I’m not the punk I used to be. And Roxie isn’t fifteen anymore.
They’re just going to have to get used to the idea. Because I’m done worrying about them.
I run my hands over her body. Rivulets cascade from her breasts like she’s some kind of otherworldly nymph who, on Friday night, just happened to step out of my wildest fantasies. “You and me are going to make the absolute most of each day from now on. The past doesn’t matter. What matters is that we’re together now. We’re going to figure out how to make things happen exactly the way we want them to.”
“Okay, Nate,” she gasps as I tease her nipples. “So far today’s the best day of my life, just saying. And yesterday.”
“Mine too, Tuck.”
I slowly make my way down her luscious body. Her thighs are streaked with my cum and I swirl it over her glistening pussy. She’s heaven on earth is what she is. Using my fingers, I push some of the dripping moisture gently back inside her.
“At some point we’re going to need to talk about what we’re going to do,” she breathes.
“About what?” I tease her, letting my fingers slide slowly in and out.
“About that.”
Once I’m satisfied that none of my cum is being wasted, I hold the shower head close to her pussy, centering on her clit. “I think we already know what we’re going to do about it.”
“We do?”
“I have a fully paid-for house that’s yours. I have more money at this point than I know how to spend. I’ll take care of you.” And I can’t resist. I lick her, sucking her clit.
This has gone beyond passion into something else altogether. Lust doesn’t even scratch the surface. Obsession, deep love and blazing addiction make one hell of a cocktail.
I’m already hard but her little moans get me agonizingly harder.
I eat into her until she’s moaning my name. The sweetest sound I’ve ever heard. I curl my fingers inside her, carefully, because I know she’s sore. I’ve been rough and demanding. I use the cascading water and my tongue to soothe her. And feast on her. She’s as sweet as honey. I milk her clit and she comes for me, crying out. I slide my tongue inside the rippling spasms, drinking her pleasure like a drug.
I wait for the waves to slowly calm. Then I use the shower head to bring her to another dreamy rise as I soap up her breasts and slowly wash her body.
“ Nate .”
“Right here, baby girl.”
“How can anything feel so good?”
“You just needed me, Tuck. To show you.”
Roxie sits up, reaching up to kiss me. Her color is high and her eyes are a bright, vivid blue. “My turn,” she smiles sweetly.
She takes the shampoo and pours some into my hair.
I kiss her as she washes my hair. “You’re distracting me, Boone. Let me rinse you. Lay back.”
I obey her, letting her do whatever she wants to me. Her hands are soft, slippery miracles.
She washes my chest. My stomach.
Then she soaps up my cock, sliding her fists up and down the length of me. I’m so fucking engorged it’s painful. “Rox… fuck . Unless you want to get dirty all over again…”
“I’m not going to get dirty.” She rinses me. Then she takes my hot, heavy hard-on in her hands.
Her mouth eases over the head of my cock, licking lightly. Taking more. Sucking on me sort of awkwardly, like she’s not entirely sure what to do, as her fingers explore.
“ Roxie . I can’t hold on to this, baby.”
“I don’t want you to hold on to it, Boone. I want you to come in my mouth so I can drink you.”
I groan as a freight train of pleasure erupts and I’m spurting hot cum into her mouth in bursting, milky jolts. I come hard . I close my eyes and grit my teeth just to handle the overload.
She swallows as much as she can, but it’s dripping down her chin. She drinks more, licking my cock to clean me.
She’s like nothing in this world.
I sit up and take her in my arms, gazing into her eyes, kissing her plush mouth. “I love you, Tuck. Move in with me. Don’t you dare leave me, darlin’, or I’ll hunt you down and make sweet love to you until you agree to come home.”