Chapter 9
Chapter Nine
JONES
It was a wonder how one’s favorite things could change. Like how my top three favorite things had these past couple weeks.
Now my list, in no particular order, went like this: watching Karla and Lily play on the front lawn as the sun set behind them, Ryan’s Concord grape pie, and kissing Ryan.
Oh, who was I kidding?
Kissing Ryan was definitely at the top of that list. He was literally the boy of my teenage dreams, and now the man was mine. Well, not mine -mine because we didn’t talk about labels and all that, but he was mine enough to kiss, and that was enough for now.
They’d been coming around my place most days after work, but my favorite were the Saturdays they stayed the night.
I knew it was because Karla needed extra comfort on those days after starting up therapy again last weekend. Ryan had found a local therapist, who specialized in children’s trauma, an hour outside of town.
Ryan took her this morning as well, and when they arrived at my place this afternoon, Karla was a bit more reserved than usual.
I wished I could whisk away everything bad that had happened to the sweet girl, but I knew that wasn’t how real life worked.
Instead, I could only be a place of comfort for her.
By nightfall, after an afternoon of playing with Lily, her daddy, and me, she was all smiles again, ready for her bath, and then for her daddy to read her a bedtime story.
Lily always followed after them into the guest room. The little traitor happily slept in my bed on the nights they weren’t over, but easily abandoned me to sleep with Karla any chance she could.
I couldn’t blame the dog. The precious girl had literally everyone wrapped around her little finger, me included. I’d painted the guest room a pretty pale yellow when she’d shown me what her bedroom at her nana’s looked like, and Ryan confirmed it was her favorite color.
I told myself I was planning on repainting the room anyway, so it wasn’t like I was doing it for her, but when she came over and saw the room and yelled “Yellow!” louder than I’d ever heard her before, I couldn’t continue lying.
If it made her that happy, I was willing to do anything she wanted.
And the sweet kisses Ryan rewarded me with later that night were a perk I definitely wanted more of.
I went onto the back porch and started the hot tub. It was a beautiful, clear night with stars twinkling brightly in the sky. It was the perfect time to try out the tub since I hadn’t been able to yet.
I couldn’t help the groan that escaped me when I slipped under the warm water, nor the second groan when the jets hit the perfect spot on my lower back.
“Sounds like you’re having fun out here,” Ryan said, leaning against the sliding back door with a smirk on his handsome face.
“I’d have a lot more fun if you joined me,” I answered.
“I didn’t bring my swimming trunks.”
“So? It wouldn’t be the first time I’ve seen you naked,” I teased, though it would be the first time I’d seen a full-grown, adult version of Ryan in the nude. I both anticipated and worried I’d be too stimulated by the sight.
“Just kidding. I pulled out one of mine for you. It’s over there,” I quickly said, chickening out. Maybe being naked with Ryan in a hot tub wasn’t the best idea right now.
Ryan glanced at the trunks I’d placed at the patio table, but didn’t move to grab them. Instead, he pulled his shirt over his head, and my breath stuck in my throat.
For someone who worked a desk job, he kept himself in good shape, though, as a kid, he’d always been on the slimmer side.
Now, his lean body had changed into one with a wide chest and toned muscles.
He had a light dusting of dark hair on his chest, and a more sensual patch at the base of his stomach that probably led down to…
Ryan dropped both his pants and underwear in one smooth action, and there was no question where the treasure trail led to.
“Fuck,” I muttered, eyes peeled on Ryan as he sauntered my way and slid into the tub beside me. “I didn’t think this through, did I?”
“What? Are you regretting your plan of getting me naked with you?” he teased.
“I’m not naked,” I muttered weakly in protest. I was learning that while young Ryan had been more reserved and happy to let me take the lead, adult Ryan was a lot bolder.
“Mmhmm, good thing that’s an easy fix,” he said and reached over. I used both my hands to block him because right now was a really inconvenient time.
He frowned, and I explained, “Seeing you like that, the blood was either going to come out my nose or shoot straight to my groin, and as you can see, I don’t have a nosebleed right now.”
Ryan stared wide-eyed at me for a second, then burst out laughing.
“What, are you telling me you’re hard right now, Jones Denn? How scandalous,” he said through his fits of laughter .
I groaned, and not in the pleasurable way, either.
“What did you expect when you got naked in front of me? I’ve been dreaming about this since I was like thirteen,” I muttered.
His laughter stopped.
I probably should have kept that secret to myself.
“You’ve liked me since you were thirteen? That long?” he asked in wonder. I didn’t miss the way he moved a smidge closer to me.
I gulped and nodded. “Probably longer if I’m being honest,” I admitted. “I just hadn’t realized what my feelings for you meant yet.”
Ryan went quiet again, and I wondered if I’d fucked up by telling him that. “Sorry, was that too much? We don’t have to talk about this. Let’s, um, look at the stars! It’s what I had planned for us in the first place. Look, it’s a beautiful night to?—”
“Jones, stop rambling.”
“Okay!” I squeaked out, then pressed my lips closed to wait for Ryan’s next order.
He chuckled and gently tugged at the end of my beard before sliding his finger down my neck and resting his hand on my shoulder. Just the light touch had me shuddering.
Ryan noticed, too, if the curl of his lips was anything to go by.
He licked them, his heated gaze flicking to my mouth. “You’re going to get naked, and then I’m going to sit on your lap and kiss the hell out of you. ”
“But my erec?—”
“I wasn’t asking for permission, Jones,” he said in a tone that made me really want to do whatever he wanted. I made quick work of sliding my trunks off and throwing them out of the tub.
Ryan smirked and climbed over me. I whimpered when he flashed his half-hard dick in front of my face as he climbed onto my lap and made himself comfortable.
I was most definitely not prepared for the heavenly slide of his cock against my already-hard one. The heat of the water couldn’t compare to the delicious burn of his balls pressing mine down.
He looked down at me, eyes shining brighter than the stars above him.
“Ryan…” I murmured, wishing he’d hurry up and do what he’d promised already.
He hummed, and his hand cupped my cheek. His thumb rubbed my bottom lip, and I poked out my tongue to wrap around it, wishing he would hurry the fuck up and kiss me already.
Ryan shot me another mischievous smile and stuck his thumb into my mouth to tease my tongue. If he wanted me to worship his fingers, I would gladly do so. But before I could even kiss the rest of his digits, he’d used his hand to grab my neck and pulled himself down to smash our lips together.
The first taste was a shock to my system. I pulled him tight, and my hand ran down his spine, landing on his hip to pull him closer until our cocks were sandwiched together between our bodies, rubbing against our abs.
I moaned into his mouth when I realized he was fully hard now, too, and the sensual way he gently ground his hips to create friction drove me crazy with need.
“Ryan,” I breathed his name when our kiss broke. He hummed and kissed his way down my chin to my collarbone. He released his hand from the back of my neck, and it roamed down our chests to grab hold of our erections.
“Oh, fuck,” I cursed at his first stroke. His hand felt so good around both of us.
Ryan pressed a kiss on the pulse at my nape, then licked a stripe up my neck to nibble on my ear. “We need to hurry. The little one might wake up,” he whispered.
I didn’t need a better excuse to stop holding myself back.
Having him fully naked on top of me was already enough to bring me to the edge, but now?
With the way our cocks rubbed against each other in his tight grip and his balls bouncing on top of mine with every grind of his hips, I had the willpower of a saint for already lasting this long.
I pulled his head toward mine, crashing our lips together, and a second later, I was shooting into his fist. Ryan moaned, and I could feel another rush of hot liquid joining mine.
When my breathing had calmed and my brain was working again, I pressed him in another kiss. I pulled back and realized his bottom lip was now completely swollen. I hadn’t realized I’d sucked that hard.
“Fuck, I’m sorry,” I said, rubbing his lip.
“I’m not,” he replied and nuzzled my hand. “That was the hottest thing I’ve experienced.”
“Yeah?”
“By far. But the few people I’ve been with, we were always pretty vanilla and always in bed,” he commented, and I frowned.
I was far from a virgin, so I had no right to be jealous. But I most definitely didn’t like hearing about his past exploits, especially when the proof of them was currently sleeping in my guest room.
Ryan chuckled and used his thumb to smooth out my wrinkled brow.
“What are you thinking about?” he asked.
“You and Karla’s mom,” I admitted honestly.
He gave me the mostincredulous eyebrow raise. “Is this really the time to be thinking about me and her?”
“You’re the one who brought her up,” I muttered and gave his nipple an angry nibble. He hissed and tugged back my hair to look at me.
“When did I do that?” he asked, looking genuinely confused.
“You mentioned your past bed partners, so how could I not think about the person who had your daughter?” I grumbled, feeling even more irrationally jealous now .
Karla was the sweetest kid I knew, and it was hard not to fall in love with her. The world was so much brighter with her in it, but that didn’t mean I couldn’t selfishly feel jealous that Ryan had shared a special bond with someone other than me.
Instead of taking this seriously, Ryan laughed louder than he had before, so loud that I wasn’t too afraid to admit that it kinda hurt my feelings.
He sobered when he saw the sad puppy-dog eyes I was sure to be shooting at him, and he rubbed my cheek again.
“Kassy and I were never together,” he said softly.
“So she’s just your baby mama?” I asked dumbly, which had him laughing again. Apparently, I was the clown of the party tonight.
“Technically, that’s not wrong, but the truth probably isn’t what you’re thinking,” he started but paused again.
I gripped his hips. “Can you just spit it out already? You know I hate secrets.”
“Which is why living in Kither Springs is perfect for you. There’s no such thing as secrets here,” he said with a laugh.
“Are you hedging on purpose?” I grumbled.
He smiled mysteriously, then finally told me, “Karla is my goddaughter. We’re not related by blood.”
“But she has your eyes.”
He nodded. “Kassy and I always joked about how we were long-lost cousins or something. She was my best friend,” he said, and his eyelashes fluttered just a bit.
“Tell me about her?”
“Sure, but how about we get out of this cum-water first?”
I frowned. “Did you have to put it that way?”
He laughed and stood, his flaccid cock swaying in my face as he got out of the hot tub. I watched as his beautiful ass swayed with each step. Teenage me never dreamed that one day I’d be taking in Ryan’s naked form to my heart’s desire.
Grabbing the towels I’d prepared earlier, Ryan looked over his shoulder at me.
“Are you just going to sit there, or are you going to join me in the shower?”
“I was enjoying the show you’re giving me, but—” I rubbed my chin like I was considering my options. “You’ve made a very tempting proposal.”
I jumped out of the hot tub so fast, Ryan yelped as the water splashed his way. He angrily chided me, but his displeasure was quickly soothed with a kiss.
We stood there, completely naked, and kissing under the stars. It was everything I wanted, cum-water still dripping down our skin and all.