Chapter 22
CHAPTER 22
FORD
Having agreed to Emmy’s insistence that I shower while she tidied up the breakfast dishes, I sigh with pleasure as I duck beneath the rain shower spray.
My emotions have been roiling just beneath the surface since Emmy’s disclosure last night, and I let my head hang forward as I try to get a handle on the enormity of the guilt churning inside me now.
Leaving her the way I did has never sat well with me, though I know there was no other way I could have gone. She’d never have stepped back and accepted me leaving.
She’d have sacrificed her dream for me, which would have eventually come between us…
Or could you have had it all?
Self-doubt creeps in, and I slam my palm against the shower tiles as anguish makes my chest tighten painfully. While I desperately try to make sense of everything, the water streams down my back until the sound of the shower door opening behind me makes me stiffen.
I glance over my shoulder to find Emmy standing on the tiled bathroom floor with the door handle in her grasp. Her long blonde hair flows over her shoulders, and her eyes are filled with a compassion that lessens the almost unbearable ache I can feel down to my fucking soul.
We stare at one another unblinkingly, and I clench my jaw, trying my hardest to control my emotions. But whatever she sees on my face makes her step inside the space, closing the door behind her before her feet erase the distance between us.
I turn to her as she wraps her arms around my waist, pressing her cheek to my water-slick chest. My arms encircle her slender shoulders, and I rest my head atop hers. Swallowing past the emotion rising in my throat, my low whisper comes from the deepest recesses of despair. “I’m so sorry. I never should have— I mean, I should have tried to…oh fuck …”
My voice breaks on the expletive, and Emmy pulls back just enough to look up into my eyes. There’s no hint of blame to be found anywhere on her heart-achingly beautiful face as the water rains over both of us before she palms my cheek with her right hand.
There’s a resolution—a determination that I’m intensely familiar with—in her gaze as she declares. “The past happened. And it happened the way it did so that maybe…”
She swallows hesitantly as her eyes flicker between mine before brushing her thumb over my cheekbone. Her cheeks pinken when she whispers, “Maybe now we could have a future.”
The vulnerability in her eyes makes my heart quiver as a desperate hope rises inside me.
“Because one thing is undeniable, Ford Holloway…if I could have anyone in this world, it would still be you?—”
My fingers tangle in Emmy’s long, wet locks, holding her in place as I cover her lips with mine, cutting off the most beautiful words that have ever graced my ears. I simply can’t not kiss her any longer.
She whimpers into my mouth when I thrust my tongue past her lips, filled with an urgency to reclaim her as mine, hungry to make up for all the years of not kissing her.
The addictively sweet taste that’s entirely Emmy combusts on my tongue, igniting my senses while setting my blood on fire. Our mouths move in perfect synchronicity as our tongues undulate against one another, each sweeping pass more heavenly than the last.
Needing to feel her nakedness pressed against mine, my hands drop to the hem of the soaking t-shirt covering her body, and I break our kiss to pull the material over her head. My eyes are instantly drawn to her naked pussy, and I quirk an eyebrow that makes her blush deliciously.
“Have you been commando this entire time?”
She tugs her bottom lip between her teeth, eyes widening as she nods. “Your underwear was way too big?—”
With a feral growl, I reclaim her lips, reaching around to cup the smooth globes of her ass cheeks in both palms. She whimpers as I grind my rock-hard cock against her stomach, tugging her closer, seeking friction, needing so badly to be inside her once again.
Suddenly, she slips from my grasp and drops to her knees, the water from the shower head raining down on her chest as she grips my cock in her hand. Her fingers close around my shaft, slowly pumping once, then twice, and the simple action makes precum bead the tip while her eyes remain riveted on mine.
I scarcely dare to breathe when she leans closer, her pointed pink tongue darting out to lick the pearl of precum from the slit of my hard-on. She closes her lips over me, swirling her tongue around and around before taking more of me into the heat of her mouth.
“ Mmm! ”
My groan of pleasure makes Emmy hum her approval as she takes me deeper, reaching between us to cup my tingling balls in her free hand while pumping the base of my shaft with the other.
I can’t stop myself from gripping her hair as I thrust my hips forward. My head falls back against the tiled wall, and a moan of encouragement leaves my lips.
“Fuck yes , Tink. Suck harder, baby.”
She does as instructed, hollowing her cheeks to increase the suction as she bobs faster, increasing the pace of her hand on my base. “Mmm , that’s it, baby.”
I look down on her supplicant form, her eyes shining with desire as my cock moves in and out of her mouth. She moans on my dick when I pump deeper, and I can feel more precum pulsing into her hot mouth as a telltale shiver ripples down my spine.
But her mouth is too fucking perfect, but I’m half a heartbeat too late when I realize I’m about to finish.
Without warning, I tug my cock out of her mouth, groaning gutturally when rope after rope of hot cum spills from my tip, splashing all over Emmy’s tits as she watches with wide eyes.
She’s panting almost as heavily as I am when she stands up straight, drawing her index finger through my cum to gather it on the tip before sucking it inside her mouth. Her eyes close in pleasure as she moans around her digit, sucking it clean before releasing it with a pop .
EMERSON
Ford’s eyes fill with a desire that can only be described as animalistic when I meet his gaze as I swallow down the salty cum he painted across my breasts.
With a growl from deep within, he quickly angles the shower head over my chest, washing away the evidence of his climax. Then he cups my ass in his large palms and scoops me into his arms.
He leans closer, his tongue teasing the seam of my lips, and I gladly open for him. The kiss is softer than before, edged with a longing that I answer with a whimper.
My arms wind around his neck, holding him as close as possible as he continues to kiss me like I’m the very air he needs to breathe. Holding me to him with a barely restrained need makes my heart swell with sheer adoration for the man in my embrace.
And then suddenly, we’re moving, Ford’s lips never leaving mine as I feel him exit the shower and cross the ensuite, not stopping until his knees hit the mattress of his bed. I squeal as he tosses me on the mussed-up sheets, my ass bouncing as the shower water splashes all over the bed.
I raise my eyes to his, my shock dissipating to be replaced by carnal yearning at the hunger in his deep blue gaze.
He grabs my ankle, tugging me to the edge of the bed before shaking his wet head, sending water droplets sprinkling all over us both. His eyes darken as they move from mine, raking down along my body until his pupils flare when they reach my dripping core.
“These past five years, I’ve fucked my fist God knows how many times, remembering how damn perfect your body was…” he trails off, his eyes finding mine with an intent that steals the breath from my lungs. His palm moves up my leg, passing my knee, leaving goosebumps along the way, and I gasp as his thumb reaches the apex of my thighs when he uses it to part my embarrassingly soaked pussy lips. “But Christ , my memories don’t hold a candle to the real thing.”
Then he achingly slowly lowers himself to his knees, and my hands fist the bedsheets as a shiver of excited nervousness licks at the base of my spine.
“Now let’s see if this pretty pussy tastes even sweeter than I remember, Tink.”
Without forewarning, he darts closer, flattening his tongue to lick me from slit to clit with a growl that makes me cry out as I grasp his wet hair in one hand. “Holy shit !”
He wastes no time plunging two thick fingers into my throbbing sex, and I almost jackknife off the bed as he sucks my clit into the heat of his mouth, all while increasing the speed of his fingers within me.
I raise my head, watching him as he eats me like a starving man, his eyes fluttering closed as he moans against me before spearing his tongue inside my pussy.
“Oh my God …yes ! ” I’m panting, my orgasm rising quickly, and when his eyes open, watching me with an almost wanton desire, I arch my back and come hard. So hard that stars assail my vision, my body in a state of sheer bliss, lost somewhere between heaven and earth.
But he doesn’t let up. Instead, he settles more firmly between my legs with one large palm pressed to my abdomen, holding me in place as he laps up my climax before beginning to edge me toward another.
“Oh! Oh, I can’t, Cowboy.” I pant even as I arch my hips against his face, his lust-laden eyes watching me with laughter dancing in their stormy depths.
He sucks my clit into his mouth, flicking his tongue back and forth over the engorged nub as I gasp in sheer euphoria. My head thrashes on the sheets as my hands move to my breasts, tweaking the stiff peaks of my nipples and sending a flood of arousal pooling in my core.
Flattening his tongue, he licks me hard and slow, moving from my center and up before nipping my clit between his teeth just enough to make me cry out. Two fingers plunge into my pussy, and the sound of my wetness fills the room alongside my pleas for more.
“Yes, keep going, I’m gonna come again… Ford! Shit !”
Ford’s mouth on me, blending with his own moans, drives me higher before he growls against my core, “I’m so fuckin’ hungry for more, Tink. Starvin’ , baby. Feed me that sweetness. Come all over my tongue.”
Those filthy words fall from lips that close around my clit, sucking almost violently as he thrusts a third finger inside me. My pussy tightens around his digits as wave after wave of pleasure rips through me, leaving me panting in the aftermath of another toe-curling orgasm.
My heart thunders, veins filling with molten lava when my eyes find Ford’s passion-filled gaze as he rises from his knees. He looks the length and breadth of my body, fisting his throbbing cock with one hand while wiping my climax from his face with the other before a shit-eating grin lifts his lips.
“Ain’t no fruit as sweet as a southern peach. And I could eat you all day, baby…” I draw my bottom lip between my teeth, squirming underneath his perusal. “But I can’t hold back any longer.”
I watch enraptured as he leans over me, his eyes darkening with intent before he rests his mouth by my ear. “The need to make you mine again is like a fire in my blood, burning me from the inside out…”
His breath ghosts over my skin, and my eyes flutter closed in delightful readiness as I feel his broad chest pressed against mine. “So I’m gonna worship you, baby. Fast, slow, and everything in between. I’m gonna bring you to your peak over and over and over again until you think you can’t come anymore…”
Both of us tremble at his promise before he rasps, “But right now, I need to feel your pussy rippling around me as you come all over my cock. As she remembers who owns her…”