Chapter 18 #3
“You’re fucking sexy as hell.” He kisses the side of my face, and then I feel his tongue on my lips, and he’s kissing me again.
His fingers play with my breasts as I run my fingers down his back and squeeze his ass.
He groans slightly as he rolls over on top of me.
I think he’s just going to take me—plunge into me like some sort of Viking taking his woman—but he doesn’t.
He rubs the tip of his cock against me, and I moan slightly as I feel my wetness spreading as I become more and more turned on.
He growls as he kisses back down, and I feel his hand spreading my legs.
I feel his tongue between my thighs, sucking on my clit, and soon, his tongue is inside of me, and my entire body is shaking and trembling.
I can hear myself, but the noises are involuntary as I feel myself coming.
He looks up at me, his lips glistening, but I don’t care.
He kisses back up my body until he reaches my lips, and I can taste myself on him.
He spreads my legs again, and I feel his cock there.
His eyes search mine, and I nod before he thrusts inside me.
I cry out, my breasts pushing up against his chest.
“Fuck yes,” he says. “Oh, yes.” He thrusts into me softly at first, and then he goes faster and faster until I feel like our bodies have become intertwined. He’s inside of me, and he’s hard and thrusting fast, and I grip my legs around him. I feel like I’m about to faint.
“Oooohhhhhhh,” I cry out. “Oh, Hunter. Hunter.”
“Yes, yes. Keep saying my name, Gina. Don’t stop,” he growls. Then he stills for a second, and I feel him exploding inside of me. I hold on to him, and then I feel myself coming, as well. My fingernails are digging into his shoulders, and we’re both breathing deeply.
“Oh, shit, that was amazing,” he says as he finally rolls onto his back. He looks over at me with a wicked little smile. “Now that was insanely good, right?” He looks boyishly handsome as he seeks my approval.
“I mean, what can I say?”
“I know I was a ten out of ten.” He looks over at me. “I’m a gentleman, so I will not give you a five.” I just stare at him and start laughing, then touch the side of his face. There’s an intense look in his expression as he gazes over at me.
“I hope I’m not wrong about you, Gina,” he breathes.
I frown slightly. “What do you mean?”
“You’re just really someone that I intrinsically trust. You just seem to be someone who wears her heart on her sleeve. And I never thought I’d meet someone who was quite like you.”
“But you don’t know everything about me.” My heart pounds. Why is this man about to make me cry? “You met me at probably the lowest point of my life.”
“Maybe, but the fact of the matter is, I met you knowing that you were a goof. And hey, that wasn’t so bad.
I mean, it was crazy and immature, but I can deal with that.
” He leans over and kisses me again. I feel slightly guilty because he doesn’t know everything about me, and I’m not as honest as he thinks I am.
But I don’t know what to say. I bite down on my lower lip and debate telling him the truth.
“Hey, Hunter,” I say. I need to tell him, and I need to tell him now.
“Yes, my darling?”
Did he just call my darling? Oh shit, can my heart race any faster?
“So there’s this thing that I’ve been—” My phone rings. I blink rapidly as I recognize the ringtone as my sister. “My sister,” I say. “She never calls me this late.” Why is she calling me?
“Do you want to take it?”
“I can call her tomorrow,” I say, shaking my head. “There’s something that I wanted to tell you.”
“Something like what? You give me a twenty out of ten? The sex was that good?” He pumps his fist. “I knew it.”
“Really?” I say, rolling my eyes at him.
“What? You were screaming my name like you never wanted me to stop.”
“I mean it was good, but—” I roll over and sit on top of him, moving back and forth slightly. He looks up at me, his expression sweet and open. He reaches up and plays with my breasts.
“Hunter,” I say as I lean down, my long hair grazing the side of his face.
“Yes, Gina?”
“So, you know when I got this job?” I have to tell him. Now that we’ve slept together. Now that he’s being so sweet, I need to tell him everything, and hopefully he will understand. My phone starts ringing again. It’s my sister again. “What on earth?” I frown as I stop my gyrations.
“I think you should get it. It’s late. Maybe she needs something.”
“Yeah. Okay. We’ll get back to this conversation in a second.” I roll off the bed and grab my phone. “Hey, Tina. What’s going on?” She’s crying and sniffling, and I immediately freeze. “Are you okay?”
“I’m fine. It’s just—”
“What’s wrong? Is it Mom? Is it Dad?”
“No. It’s—oh, Gina, I don’t know what to do.”
“What is it?”
“I’m just so, so hurt, and I just don’t know if I can continue like this.”
“Tina, take a couple of deep breaths. What’s going on?”
“I didn’t want to tell you this, but Garth has a problem with alcohol. I think he’s an alcoholic, and I thought I could deal with it. I’ve been telling him he should go to AA and get help, but he doesn’t think he has a problem. But tonight, it got really bad, and he—”
“Oh my gosh. Did he hit you?”
“No. No.”
“Tina, what happened?”
“He was calling me fat, and he was saying that I’m ugly, and he said that I always bring him down and that he wishes he had married someone else. And that I trapped him.” She’s crying, and I can feel myself tense. My heart goes out to my sister.
“Tina, please. This doesn’t sound healthy.”
“I don’t know what to do. He is constantly berating me, and I just can never live up to it.
When he is sober, he feels so sorry, and he apologizes and buys me things, and he says sorry, but I just don’t know what I’m going to do.
I don’t want to live like this anymore. I don’t know who he is when he’s drunk, and he scares me. ”
“Where are you right now?”
“I’m hidden in the second bathroom with the door locked. I don’t know what to do, Gina.”
“You need to leave him, Tina.”
“But I love him.”
“I know you love him.”
“I don’t want to give up on him.”
“Tina, listen to me.”
“He pushed me today.”
“What do you mean, he pushed you?”
“I mean, he didn’t hit me or anything, but he pushed me into the wall hard, and I hurt my arm.”
“I’m coming. I’m coming now. You are my sister, and I love you.”
“I knew you wouldn’t judge me. And I just… I don’t know what to do. I’m not as strong as you are.” I freeze at her words. This is the first time my sister has ever said anything even remotely complimentary to me.
“Stay there. I’m coming.”
“But it’s late.”
“I’m coming. Stay in the bathroom. I’ll be there in thirty-five minutes. Do you want me to stay on the phone with you?”
“No, it’s okay. Just drive safely.”
“Okay. I will. I love you, Tina.”
“I love you, too.” I hang up and look over at Hunter. He’s sitting there, staring at me.
“Is everything okay? What’s going on?”
“It’s my sister. Her husband, Garth, is mistreating her. I always thought they had this perfect relationship, but I guess he’s an alcoholic, and maybe he’s getting violent. I don’t know. But she was so—I’ve never heard her like that. I need to go to her. I know this is weird, and we just—”
“Hey,” he says, jumping out of bed and holding me. “Do you want me to come with you?”
“No. Of course not.”
“Are you sure? If he’s violent—”
“I got this. It’s okay. Thank you, though.”
“I don’t like this, Gina. I don’t want you to put yourself in harm’s way.”
“I promise you, if at any point I feel unsafe, I’ll call you. I just need to get my sister. And I know her. She’ll be really upset if I bring someone with me.”
“These situations, Gina, they can—”
“Please.”
“Okay,” he says, nodding. “But I’m going to keep my phone on me. And I want you to call me in an hour. And I want the address of your sister. If I don’t hear from you in an hour, I’m going to be there at the door with the police.”
“Okay. Thank you.”
“You’re welcome,” he says, kissing the top of my forehead. “I had a good time tonight.”
“Yeah,” I say, smiling slightly awkwardly, because we’re both still naked, and this is just weird—but really nice. Fuck, I think to myself. I didn’t get to tell him my secret.
“It was a really great evening.” He presses his lips against mine. “Now get dressed. Hurry to your sister and call me.” We kiss, and I hold on to him. I don’t want to leave.
“Thank you for an amazing night. And yeah, thank you for caring about my sister.”
“Hey, I try to be a decent human being when I can.”
As I grab my clothes and start getting dressed, I realize that for the first time, I’m really seeing Hunter for who he is.
He’s not just this gorgeous man. He’s not just a billionaire.
He’s not just the teasing, grumpy man in the coffee shop.
He’s not just the hot gardener. He’s not just the grandson of Preston Waverly, the eccentric elusive billionaire.
He’s Hunter.
He’s kind. He’s loving. He’s sexy as all get out. And I feel really honored to know him. I feel like I’m falling for him. And it isn’t just because of the sex. He’s become a part of my heart. He’s wormed his way into my arteries and he’s there to stay.
Fuck.
I am in even deeper now, and I do not know what I’m going to do. I know I can’t think about it now, because for the first time in my life, my sister needs me—and I will not let her down.