16. Holly
16
HOLLY
I giggled as Asher ducked his head beneath the blanket and ran his lips over my stomach, kissing me everywhere. I was so ticklish and he knew it after the hours he spent exploring my body last night. The morning light was just peeking in through the windows and we’d yet to go to sleep, not that I was anxious to stop staring at this man’s body anytime soon.
“Asher, stop!”
“Nope. Still haven’t gotten to your legs.”
I crossed them, knowing exactly where he was headed. “I have to pee!”
He flipped the blanket up and waggled his eyebrows at me. “Now, that’s something I haven’t tried before.”
“That’s so disgusting!” I laughed, pushing him away from me. I got up, wrapping a blanket around myself as I hurried to the bathroom. Thankfully, the power hadn’t gone out, so I was nice and toasty warm. I was kind of hoping the roads were impassible so I could stay in this cocoon with Asher for another day. It would be nicer if we were at my house or his, but at least we were alone.
Besides, I couldn’t leave Mr. Fluffington here by himself.
“Did you drown in there?” Asher called from the other side when I took too long for his liking.
I finished up and opened the door, quirking an eyebrow at him. “Are you timing me?”
“Every damn minute you’re away from me.”
I bent over, shoving my finger in my mouth. “That’s even too mushy for me. Hallmark will never take you with that kind of line.”
“I thought you liked my cheesy lines?”
“I do, but too many in one day will make my head explode. Where were you with these on Valentine’s Day?”
“As I recall, I was eating with you at Whataburger.”
I glanced past him, wondering if he was going to make me stand in the bathroom all day. “Am I allowed to pass?”
“Not sure. I was thinking about testing out the bathroom.”
“Ew. No.”
I slipped under his arm that was resting against the doorframe and hurried into the front to peer out the front windows. Pulling the blanket tighter around me, I shivered as the cold seeped through the windows.
“Looks pretty bad out there,” Asher murmured behind me.
“You can’t see much of anything yet.”
“You can see the drifts.”
That was true. “Looks like you might be stuck here with me for another day.”
“I’ll call my boss and see what it’s like by him and let him know where I am.”
“I’ll do the same.”
A grin tugged at his lips. “You’re gonna call your boss?”
I snorted. “You heard Noelle in the grocery store. If you think for one second that she doesn’t have the ability to order me around, you would be wrong.”
With a tug on my blanket, he had me pulled against him and wrapped up in his arms. “Just remember who’s in charge in this relationship.”
“Me.”
“Exactly,” he chuckled, pressing a kiss to my lips.
I skipped away, feeling way too light on my feet as I went into the kitchen and started the coffee. I was definitely going to need a pick-me-up, and since there was no hot cocoa in sight, coffee would have to do. While it was brewing, I called Noelle, hoping it wasn’t too early for her.
It rang and rang and just when I was about to hang up, she answered.
“You know, most people don’t call when the sun comes up.”
“Most people aren’t your boss.”
“Eh, that’s a terrible excuse.”
“Maybe. What’s it look like out there?”
“I just told you I wasn’t awake. Now you want me to look outside? Geez, you really expect a lot of me at…whatever the hell time it is. Why are you so chipper, anyway?”
“No reason,” I answered with just a little too much cheer in my voice. I really shouldn’t be this happy. I hadn’t even gone to sleep yet, and not even eight hours ago, I was nearly in tears because my eyes were gritty from staring at a screen for so long.
“Ugh, it’s…snowy.”
“And?”
“And…there’s a lot of it.”
I rolled my eyes at her less-than-descriptive description. “Wow, thank you for that. Are you able to leave?”
“Are you asking if I’m coming in to work today?”
“Yep.”
“Then no.”
“Okay!”
She was silent for a minute. “Why are you so happy to close the shop? Wait…are you with Asher?”
“Maaaybe.”
“That’s a yes. Did you finally have sex?”
“Possibly.”
“Ugh, I’m telling you, vomit is on the way up my throat.”
Mr. Fluffington jumped up on the counter, reminding me he wanted his Greenies, meowing as he rubbed against me.
“Wait, why do I hear a cat in the background? Where are you?”
“That was Mr. Fluffington.”
“You’re—Ew! You did it at work? That’s so gross! I’ll never be able to go back there again!”
“Relax, we did it on the floor,” I said as I walked over to the pantry and grabbed the Greenies.
“That’s even worse. What if there are stains? What if I step where you were? I’ll be tormented for the rest of my life by being where you were screwing. It’ll be like watching the replay or something.”
“I’m not even sure that makes sense.”
“It doesn’t have to make sense to you. I told you, Holly. I told you not to bring this into my life. I told you!”
“Well, it’s my shop,” I said, giving Mr. Fluffington a rubdown. “Besides, everything will look like new. You’ll never know where we were.”
“Oh, I’ll know. It’ll be like that ghost radar shit. I’ll be able to detect it.”
“I highly doubt that.”
“That’s what you think. Ugh, I can’t believe this is my life.”
“Well, you should thank me. I sent you home early last night. If I hadn’t, you’d be stuck here with me, and then you’d witness me with Asher.”
“You would have done it in front of me?” she gasped.
“No, I meant the mushy gushy stuff you hate,” I chuckled.
I grabbed two mugs and poured the coffee, then grabbed some creamer and sugar. I was going to need it to stay awake this morning.
“Whatever. I’m definitely not coming in today, and I won’t step foot in that place until it’s been fumigated.”
“That’s for bugs.”
“Whatever. Have it professionally unsexified.”
“Right. I’ll look in the Yellow Pages.”
“I’d appreciate that. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go pour bleach in my ears and drown myself in the sink.”
“Why not the tub?”
“It hasn’t been cleaned in a while. I can’t die in a dirty tub, and I’m too lazy to clean it first.”
“That makes sense. Happy death day.”
“Sure. Whatever.”
I laughed as she hung up, then carried the coffee into the other room where Asher was waiting on the couch. He was wrapped in a blanket, but I wasn’t sure we could sell the couch now that we were sitting on it like this, smelling like sweat and sex. I’d think about that tomorrow.
“Here you go.”
“Thanks. So,” he said, taking the cup from me. “How’s Noelle?”
“Completely terrified to come back to work.” I took the seat next to him and snuggled in beside him.
“Because we had sex here?”
“Yep.”
“Well, at least she wasn’t here to witness the Hallmark moments.”
I laughed as I smacked his arm. “That’s what I said! Of course, she thought I meant the sex part.”
“Ah, well, I’m glad she wasn’t here for that part either. I’m not really into people watching me.”
“I can’t say I am either, though I’ve never tried it.”
Sighing, I rested my head on his shoulder, wondering how long this blissful moment would last. It would be nice if we could look out the window at least and see the snow.
“Asher?”
“Huh?”
“Can I ask a favor?”
“You know you can.”
“Would you move the couch so I can look at the snow?”
“Right this minute?”
I grinned, but didn’t answer. Not that I had to. He just knew what I was thinking.
He shoved to his feet with a sigh. “Alright.” His blanket dropped, giving me a fine view of his muscular ass. It was one thing to see it at night, but in the daylight…wow. And then he turned around. I slowly ran my tongue along my lip, remembering what it was like to have his cock inside me, thrusting hard and deep.
“Is there something else you need help with, baby?”
“Hmm?” I asked, still staring at his cock. It was growing larger. And longer. And thicker. Understanding dawned and I slowly drew my eyes away from his length, dragging them up his chiseled body to meet his eyes.
His brow was cocked and a sexy smirk pulled at his lips, but that was nothing compared to the way those locks of hair fell over his eyes and brushed his cheekbones. I sighed happily. I was the luckiest girl in the world.
“Was there anything else you needed?”
There was plenty I needed. Or wanted. At this point, everything was blurring together in a big mixture of lust, love, and sex. Were those all the same things? I wasn’t sure. I was thriving on very little sleep. All I knew was that my man was standing across the room from me with his very large, very thick cock bobbing in front of my face.
“Still want that couch moved?”
I nodded, still staring at his cock.
He chuckled, striding over to the couch with his cock standing at attention. That had to be uncomfortable. “Just stay where you are.”
Oh, I had no plans on moving. I was too busy watching him to think about anything else. I took a sip of my coffee and watched his biceps flex as he lifted one end of the couch with me on it and started pivoting us around the room. After moving me as far as he could, he walked behind the couch, brushing his hand along the back of my neck as he went, then lifted the other end and spun the couch in the other direction. I was now facing the window, but that wasn’t the view I was looking at.
“Baby, I thought you wanted to look at the snow.”
“I am looking.”
“And what do you see?”
“It’s white.”
“And?”
I licked my lips, not at all paying attention to the view outside. And he knew it. He was just teasing me. “And what?”
His cock bobbed up and down as he walked right up in front of me. I barely noticed his hand reach for my coffee mug and take it from my grip. Slowly, he peeled the blanket from my body and spread it wide on the couch.
“Baby, when you stare at me like that, there’s only one thing I want to do.” His fingers tilted my chin up until I was looking into his heated eyes. “If you’re gonna stare at me like that and make me hard, you’d better do something about it.”
His meaning wasn’t lost on me, and while I wasn’t the most experienced at taking a man in my hand and pleasing him, I found the idea of making Asher fall to his knees the sexiest thing in the world. If I could do that, I could do anything.
I didn’t think as I gripped his length in my hand. My eyes stayed on his steel blue gaze and I followed every signal he gave me. How his eyes widened when he liked something. The flare of his nostrils when I picked up speed and pushed him to a new level. But what really drove him crazy was when I brought my lips near his thick cock.
The moment my lips wrapped around his length, my eyes slid closed and I got lost in the feel of him in my mouth as he thrust deep into the back of my throat. I moaned around him, gripping his tight ass as he cursed under his breath, holding back what I knew he really wanted to do.
I could feel the tension in his body, the way he gripped my hair as he attempted to control himself. But all I wanted was to set him free. Only then would I get all of him. I slid my hand from his muscular backside and cupped his balls, twirling them in my hand as I sucked him harder.
“Goddamn, Holly,” he muttered, gripping my hair to slow me down.
I worked him faster, pushing him to the edge. He was right there, about to come in my mouth. I could feel it in the way his body tensed.
He tried to step away, but I refused to let him, sucking him hard until he cried out, coming hard in the back of my throat, his cock jerking in my mouth as he bent over and rested his hand on the couch behind me. When I finally released him, he fell backward, flopping on the ground like a fish.
“Asher?”
“He’s not here,” he mumbled. “I think you broke my dick.”
“That’s just silly. If I broke it, you’d be crying.”
He raised his head, eyeing me warily. “Woman, where did you learn to do that? Wait—don’t answer that. I don’t want to have to kill anyone.”
I burst out laughing at his silliness. “That was all you.”
“Me? I did not teach you that.”
“Yes, you did. With your eyes and your nostrils.”
“My nostrils taught you to suck my cock?”
I bit my lip, nodding at him.
“I never knew my nostrils held that kind of power. I’ve been using them wrong for years.”
“Well, now you know,” I said, crawling over to him. I draped the blanket across us and snuggled into his chest, yawning wide.
“I hope you don’t think you’re going to bed anytime soon.”
“I’m so tired. That was a lot of work.”
“Work? Did you just call giving me the best head of my life work?”
I giggled, burying my face in his chest. “Sleep,” I mumbled.
“Maybe five minutes. Then I’m gonna see what your nostrils tell me.”
“My nostrils don’t speak. I’m afraid I don’t have your superpowers.”
“That’s a shame,” he sighed, pulling the blanket up around my shoulders. “What about your earlobes? What will they tell me?”
“Not sure. Why don’t you suck them and find out?”
He rolled over me and shoved one leg between my thighs. “Maybe I will.”
I woke up in his arms, tucked into the couch and facing the window. It had to be afternoon, but it was hard to tell since it was snowing again. I slowly blinked, not really wanting to wake up yet and face whatever might happen now. Were the roads clear? Would we go home and back to normal life? I liked not being able to go anywhere with him. It was nice. And once this bubble popped, would everything change?
“What are you thinking?” Asher grumbled, his fingers stroking lazily up and down my arm.
“Just wondering how the roads are.”
“It’s been snowing pretty hard for about an hour now.”
I sighed heavily, snuggling in deeper and letting my eyes drift closed again. However long I slept, it really wasn’t enough. His warm breath caressed my cheek before he pressed a soft kiss to my temple.
“You know, it’s a good thing I like this couch.”
“Why’s that?” I mumbled.
“Because I’m pretty sure you can’t sell it now that we’ve had sex on it.”
I laughed under my breath and rolled over, burying my face into his warmth. “It’s not as nice as a bed, but it sure beats the floor.”
My stomach chose that moment to growl loudly, letting both of us know how hungry I was. Coffee was not a substitute for food.
“I guess that’s my signal to get up and find us something to eat.”
“No,” I whined, tugging on him to keep him on the couch with me. “Stay here. Who needs food?”
“Pretty much everyone on earth who wants to live. Besides, I want to check the reports.”
I groaned, pissed that he was leaving me.
“Just stay here all nice and toasty warm. I’ll be back soon enough.”
I would have ignored him and got up, but I was warm and I had no desire to leave the coziness of this couch. I drifted in and out for what felt like fifteen minutes, but when I woke next, it was dark outside. I sat up, stretching as I yawned. The scent of food made my stomach growl and I wrapped the blanket around me and meandered through the house until I found Asher spreading out the food on the kitchen counter, batting at Mr. Fluffington to keep him from eating what he laid out.
“You have to give him Greenies first.”
“What the hell are Greenies?” He picked up my little fur ball and tossed him on the floor, then jumped as Mr. Fluffington batted his paw at Asher’s feet.
Chuckling, I opened the pantry door and shook his treats, drawing him away from my sexy hunk of a man. After pouring a few on the ground for him, he was satisfied and left us alone.
“See?”
“It would have been nice to know that’s all I had to do.”
I put them back and closed the door. “Where did all this come from?”
“Down the road. I figured I’d venture out and see how the roads were.”
“And?”
“And I got as far as down the road as the restaurant without killing myself,” he grinned. “I hope you like Chinese because that’s all there is.”
“As it happens, I love it.”
“Good, because that’s all we’re having for dinner and breakfast and lunch until they clear us out.”
I was about to sit down, but I couldn’t stand the thought of eating in a blanket. “I’d better put some clothes on.”
He shot me a sexy smirk. “But you look so cute in nothing but a blanket.”
“You can admire me after we eat.”
I twirled out of there and went in search of my clothes that had last been seen tossed around the room. I didn’t have to look very far. Asher had neatly folded them and set them on a chair. It occurred to me as I was getting dressed that maybe I needed to be a little more cautious about what we were doing since I had no curtains or blinds in this place. And while there was really no one on the roads, that didn’t mean no one might see inside if they were passing us. We might be on a frontage road, but that didn’t mean there was no traffic.
“It’s sad to see you fully clothed,” Asher said as I walked back into the kitchen.
“Get used to it. I can’t be naked all the time.”
“Well, according to the forecast, the system should be moving out by morning and that should be the end of it.”
“And we’ll go back to our lives,” I sighed.
“What? Sad that it’ll all be over?”
“I kind of liked our bubble.”
“Even though we don’t have food or a bed to sleep in?”
“Even then.”
“So, what should we do with the rest of our time here?” he asked, snatching an egg roll from the tray.
I eyed him warily. If he thought he was going to eat all of those, he was sorely mistaken. I loved egg rolls. I made sure to grab two just in case he had plans in mind. “Well, there’s always the couch. And other places we haven’t explored yet.” I waggled my eyebrows at him for good measure.
He laughed, grabbing the orange chicken next. “How about we stay away from other things I might have to buy after we make them unfit for consumer sales.”
“That does narrow down quite a few of my ideas,” I said thoughtfully. “I guess you could help me with my inventory. I have spring items to put into the system and set up. It’s rather boring and time-consuming.”
“I could definitely help you with that.”
“But you have to wear clothes while you do it,” I said, shooting him a pointed look. “There can be no distractions. I can’t afford any mistakes in my system.”
“I wasn’t the one who couldn’t stop staring at my cock.”
“Well, obviously, you wouldn’t stare at your own cock. That would just be weird. I bet if I stood in front of you naked, you’d have a hard time concentrating, too.”
“Wanna bet?”
I knew by the challenge in his eyes that he wasn’t backing down. The only question was, just how bad was my inventory going to be screwed up by the time we were done?