Chapter Six
Carly didn’t want to leave, but the bar would be opening within the hour, and she really needed to head home to her apartment, change, and then go to work.
“I’ll call in sick for you,” Nate said.
“You can’t do that.”
He pulled her in close, and suddenly she was pressed against the wall and his rock-hard body, which was not a bad place to be. He took hold of her hands and pressed them above her head.
“But I’m not ready to let you go,” he said.
Carly knew she had to be strong, she needed to go to work. She earned a pretty good living, and the tips were also good. The boss wasn’t a creep, and she knew she had hit the jackpot in terms of a job while also working on her writing.
“I’m never late,” Carly said.
“Which is why I could call ahead and deal with it.” His lips went to her neck.
She was fighting him, because this wasn’t right, but it was so hard. It would be so easy to just give in and let him have his way. Not only that, she wanted this as well. His lips felt so good on her neck.
Carly pulled away. “No, I can’t. If I’m going to be a parent, and we’re going to do this properly, then we have to have some ground rules.”
“You do know rules are meant to broken.”
She wrinkled her nose. “I don’t think so. They’re meant to be followed.”
“Some rules are made to be bent, though. Would you like to bend some with me?”
This time, she couldn’t help but laugh. “This is so tempting and you’re being so mean.”
Her body was on fire.
Sex was incredible. The first time, she couldn’t deny it, sucked. It was painful, uncomfortable, but it had also been fleeting, and after that, every time since had been amazing. Four times in total, once awful, three times amazing. She didn’t want this to end, and a part of her feared it would the moment she walked out the door.
Nate growled and then pulled away. She watched his nostrils flare. “You’re right, we’ve got to do this the proper way. So, I’ll bring you to your apartment, wait for you to get changed, and then I’ll take you to work. I’ll also pick you up, and don’t worry about Mitch, I’ll let him know I’m taking you home.”
Carly frowned. “How do you know about Mitch?”
“What?” he asked.
“Has Mitch told you that he takes me home every night?” Carly asked. It had never come up as important. Mitch was just being a good friend.
“Yeah.” Nate waved his hand through the air as if it was no big deal.
Shaking her head, she knew of course Mitch would mention it. This was Nate, and Mitch worked for him, and they were still close. They were all still close friends. It was crazy of her to think they didn’t talk.
It didn’t take her long to be ready, and she sat beside Nate as they drove all the way back to her apartment. There was a parking space outside of her building. He pulled into it and stayed in the car. Climbing out, she made her way to her apartment, only to find Sarah there, waiting.
“How are you?” Sarah asked the moment she walked through the front door.
Carly froze for just a second, a little taken aback by her friend’s wide smile. “I’m fine. You?”
She wanted to tell Sarah about everything, but instead she rushed toward her bedroom.
“You didn’t come home last night,” Sarah said.
“Yeah, I know, I stayed at Nate’s. It’s all fine.” She hoped her face didn’t betray how hot she felt.
“So, you and Nate, staying under the same roof, how was that?”
Carly pulled on pants and a shirt for the bar, and then turned toward her friend. “Same as usual.” She avoided looking at Sarah, as she didn’t like lying to her. This was a lot harder than she thought it was going to be.
The idea of keeping her and Nate’s agreement a secret was so it didn’t impact their friends. This felt like a massive deal right now as she looked at Sarah. Did her friend already know? No, there was no way she could know, that was impossible.
Sarah suddenly released a sigh.
Concern flooded Carly and she went to her friend. “What is it?”
“Oh, it’s nothing. Just shit from Dalton, Reese, and Mitch, the same old same old.”
“Do you want to tell me about it?” Carly asked. She had to be careful because some of the same old same old tended to get all four of her friends in trouble. Sarah didn’t always have good ideas. They always sounded like a lot of fun, but most of the time, they ended in disaster.
“I have this friend. This other friend and I have another friend. They’re close friends, and they’ve been in love with each other forever, or at least that’s what people tell me.” Sarah nibbled her lip.
“Okay,” Carly said, frowning.
“And I wanted to ask the guys for some help in bringing these two people together.”
“You wanted to matchmake?” Carly asked. “Have you talked about this couple before?”
“Yeah, totally all the time, Carrie and Nathaniel. You know, I talk about them all the time, and anyway, I was trying to think of a way to kind of help them come together, and the guys shut me down.”
Carly couldn’t remember Sarah ever talking about a Carrie and Nathaniel. She was a little confused, but she kept listening. Sarah was still talking.
“Don’t you think it’s a good idea that if two people like each other a lot and they don’t see it, it might be good to set both people up with different people?” Sarah clapped her hands together, and her eyes went wide.
“That sounds terrible,” Carly said.
Sarah huffed. “Why?”
Carly was about to give all the logical reasons Sarah’s suggestion was terrible. Instead, she took a deep breath and smiled at her friend. “Why don’t you tell me all the reasons you think it’s a good idea?” This would perhaps be easier for her to understand and maybe it wouldn’t be a bad idea.
“Okay, get this, the guy is on a date with another girl. The girl is on a date with another guy. I make sure they go to the same restaurant, and I book the tables so they are close, where nothing gets in the way of their view of one another.” Carly wasn’t liking this idea, not one bit. “And there’s intimacy, the promise of something happening later. You know, all the good stuff, and then the couple sees each other, and they realize they would rather be with each other more than anyone else. There is pining, longing, but it cuts out all the time waiting. Come on, Carly, this is a fabulous idea.”
Carly continued to frown.
Sarah’s smile slowly began to fade.
“Although by the look on your face, you’re feeling it’s anything but.”
“What about the guy and the girl?”
“What guy and girl?” Sarah asked.
“The other guy and girl who are being used on this date.”
Sarah blew a raspberry and waved her hand in the air as if it was no big deal. “No one cares about them.”
“I think you should,” Carly said. “That’s not fair to them. It’s a terrible idea. I know you want to bring your friends together, but have you ever thought of just pushing them together, or bringing them together naturally? Don’t hurt other people’s feelings in the process. Imagine that other guy or girl is you or Dalton, or Reese, or even Mitch, or me. I’d hate to be used in that way, and in truth, so would you.”
****
Nate finished his coffee and stared across at the bar. He owned the fucking bar, and he was the one who placed one of his men as a fake manager of said bar. Everything had been set up so Carly would have somewhere to work, to be safe, earn some money, so she could focus on what she was passionate about—her writing.
He wanted Carly to have everything her little heart desired. The only thing he couldn’t do for her was to write the books he knew were inside her head.
Mitch approached the car and climbed inside.
“I thought I gave you the night off,” Nate said. He was the one who asked Mitch to walk Carly home. Even though he was here every single night to see her out of work, and to follow them both, he still asked Mitch to be here.
“You did, and I decided to take a walk and see how you were doing,” Mitch said.
Nate had never been one to talk about his feelings, so he stared at his friend, waiting.
Mitch snorted. “Thought so. I just wanted to let you know Sarah is trying to come up with plans to push you and Carly together. The first one was terrible. Don’t worry, me and the guys didn’t agree to it.”
“Do I even want to know what it was?” Nate asked.
Mitch explained it to him and Nate shook his head.
“Yeah, I don’t know who Sarah was hoping to have killed for her suggestion, but either way, I put a stop to it.”
“Good.” He didn’t even want to think of Carly with anyone else.
“All of Carly’s other dates had sucked, I don’t know why Sarah thought this one would work,” Mitch said. “When are you going to tell Carly you’ve been in love with her forever, that you follow her home every night, you own the building where she sleeps? You’re the real boss of where she works, and that you’ve been keeping an eye on her for forever?”
Nate didn’t say a word. He didn’t need to.
“Ah, so you’re not going to tell her anything.”
“I’ll tell Carly what she needs to know.”
“And what about Sarah overhearing you and Carly, and pregnancy?”
Now this did draw his attention. He didn’t know why he was surprised. Sarah always butted in where she wasn’t supposed to.
Mitch chuckled. “Yeah, we all know you and Carly are technically together. I just have to wonder if Carly knows that as well.”
“She will,” Nate said.
“Do you think you’re ready to become a dad?” Mitch asked.
“Fuck, no, but if Carly wants to have kids, then I can’t let anyone else give them to her.” Nate would be the best father, but he’d be lying if he said he wasn’t a little worried.
“You’re going to be a good dad,” Mitch said.
“You don’t know that.”
“I do. Carly wouldn’t allow you to be anything but the best.” Mitch smiled. “Don’t ruin this.”
Nate glared at him. “Friends or not, I am your boss, and I can still kick your ass.”
“True, but then, you know I’m speaking from a place of love. I don’t want to see you or Carly get hurt, and trust me, I know we do stupid things when we panic.” Mitch opened the door, and left.
Nate didn’t call him back.
Minutes later, Carly walked out of the bar and Mitch was nowhere in sight. He flashed his car lights so she would see him, and she ran across the road and rounded the car to get in.
“Evening,” she said.
Nate grabbed the back of her neck and pulled her in close. She let out a gasp, and then he took full advantage by slamming his lips down on hers. Carly immediately relented and began to kiss him back. He’d not kissed or breathed her in for a couple of hours and already that felt like too long of a gap.
“I’m taking you back to my place.”
Turning over the ignition, he started up his car and the beauty purred to life. He loved the sound. Nate didn’t have a lot of patience, so he pressed his foot to the gas and took off. The drive home took twenty minutes, and he might not have been going the speed limit.
Carly laughed as he chased her up to his door, and then he pressed her against the hard wood.
“I’m guessing you have something dirty on your mind,” she said.
“I might have.”
She took the key from him, and he tried to be patient but couldn’t. It had felt like a lifetime of wanting this woman, never allowed to have her, and now he could. He didn’t need to find an excuse to touch her, to explore her body. He could take and enjoy to his heart’s content.
Running his hands down her curves, he gripped her hips and drew her back against his pelvis, just as the door opened. He stepped inside, taking her along with him, and then he slammed the door closed, flicked the locks into place, and then pressed her up against the door.
He didn’t feel too patient. There was no way they were going to make it to a bed.
Taking possession of her lips, he tugged at her shirt. At the same time he was stripping her naked, Carly attacked his clothes, trying to tear them off his body. He didn’t even try to help her.
The buttons of her top sprayed across his hallway, but he didn’t care. There would be time to clean it up later. Carly got his jacket and shirt off, but he was already at her pants, unbuttoning them and dragging down the zipper.
The panties were easy to take off because all he had to do was give them a little tug. The fabric gave way, and then he had her pretty pussy.
Getting to his feet, he slid a hand between her thighs, and pressed a finger to her slit. The moment he touched her clit, she released a moan. It was so soft, and then he moved his finger down toward her cunt and pressed it inside her.
This moan turned deep, and as he pressed a second finger inside her, he watched her to see if there was any pain. She rocked against his finger and he felt her fumbling with the button and zip of his pants. Nate didn’t help her. It was up to Carly to get him naked.
She worked his pants open, and then began to push them down. He kicked off his shoes, stepped out of the pants, and now he took Carly to the floor. Keeping her legs open, he continued to work her clit.
Twisting his fingers inside her, he pressed his thumb against her clit, and started to build up her orgasm.
Her hands were clenched into fists and she whimpered, crying out his name. He felt the tightening of her cunt around his fingers and he didn’t stop until he drew out every moan and whimper of her release.
Only then did he stop, but he wrapped his fingers around his rock-hard cock and moved between her thighs. Pressing his cock to her entrance, he began to slowly slide inside, inch by tight inch. She was so wet and warm, and there was no other woman like her.
When there were several inches of his dick inside her, he took hold of her hands and pressed them to either side of her head, keeping her in place.
Staring into her brown eyes, he knew he could get lost for days. She was so beautiful. He pulled all of the way out of her, holding just the tip of his dick within her, and then he slammed inside. She let out a gasp and the sound seemed to echo around the room.
Nate started out slow, or at least he tried to, as he didn’t want to hurt her, and he wanted to see her reactions. All he saw on Carly’s face was pleasure, and then, when he was sure she wasn’t in pain, he sped up. He stopped making love to her, and instead began to fuck her, driving inside her, filling her tight hot pussy, driving harder and deeper.
She was fucking perfection and he knew he’d hit the jackpot with her.
His Carly.
All his.
He was never going to let her go. He tried to make it last, but there was no way, as she felt so good, and he’d denied himself for so long. He slammed inside her one final time, seeing stars as he flooded her womb with his hot cum.