Chapter 19
CHAPTER 19
CARTER AND KAI
C arter
“Where are we going?” Kai asks, touching the blindfold over his eyes lightly.
I slap his hand away, making him scowl in the direction he thinks I’m in. “Don’t worry about it. Leave the blindfold alone or you’ll ruin the surprise.”
He grumbles under his breath but lowers his hand.
I’ve been working on this surprise for a few weeks now. We probably won’t get time in the coming weeks to get away, as this war heats up.
No matter where we look, we can’t find any of the Fensters. It’s like everyone went underground. Our families have been searching the streets, looking for even a glimpse of Anthony Fenster and his son, Sam and daughter Gabbi, but nothing. Word is, both Sam and Gabbi have a thing for rocket launchers and the chaos they bring. It’s safe to assume that one or both of them was involved in killing my guys, blowing up my money and almost killing me. When I see those two fuckers, they’re mine.
Tonight, though, I won’t think about the war. My mind is firmly on what I plan to do tonight with my husband.
I picked Kai up from work, grabbing us a quick meal since we had to drive two hours out of town to get to where I set up his surprise.
When we got about twenty minutes out, I tied a blindfold around his eyes, not wanting him to see before I pulled him out of the car.
Ten of our men are already there waiting and the car in front of us and behind us are full of men with guns and bad attitudes. I splurged on bulletproof SUVs with blacked out windows to give us some added protection while we waited for the Fensters to be dispatched.
When I see the lights up ahead, I smile. I slide closer to Kai and take his chin gently in my hands. “Do you trust me?”
“Yeah,” he answers without hesitation. “I wouldn’t have let you blindfold me if I didn’t.”
I plant a quick kiss on his lips, smiling into the kiss when Kai threads his fingers at my nape.
With a chuckle, I pull away and untangle his hands from my hair. “We have plenty of time for that.” The car stops and I undo his seatbelt. “Take my hands and I’ll help you out.”
He grabs my hands in a firm grip and allows me to help him out of the car. Confusion crosses his face when he feels rocks under his feet.
This is one of the first times I’ve seen him dressed down. Both of us have on a pair of jeans, a plain t-shirt—mine black and Kai’s blue—and sneakers. He looks really good like this. Relaxed. Younger. Carefree.
Smiling, I pull him away from the car and stand behind him, my chin on his shoulder. “Ready?”
“Yes.” I hear the trepidation in his tone, but he’s bouncing on his heels, so I know he’s excited. He tilts his head when he hears the music playing in front of us, and I know he can’t place it.
My heart knocking in my chest, I pull the blindfold off and step to the side so I can see his expression.
Kai’s eyes show confusion, then they light up, a wide smile spreading across his face.
The light from the concession stands, the games, and most importantly, the Ferris wheel brighten up the night. The music from the carousel breaks the silence of the evening. The smell of fair food fills the air with the scent of popcorn, funnel cake and deep fried everything.
It’s way too much for just the two of us, but Kai deserves to have this experience. My chest lights up with happiness when I see his face. It was well worth it to keep this secret from him.
After we watched the movie together and he rode me like a fucking bucking bronco, I made a call to figure out how to get a fair for Kai. It wasn’t cheap, but it was worth every penny.
“Carter,” he breathes as he continues to look at the fair set up. “When did you…how?”
With a grin on my face, I put my arm around him and kiss his temple. “I have my ways. Come on, let’s go have some fun.”
Matching his smile, I lead Kai through the gates of the fair. Our guards are walking around, but they stay out of our way.
It’s not a full fair set up since that would have required me finding a full staff. We have some of the fair games like knock down, balloon pop, ring toss and duck shoot. Along with those, we have bumper cars, the carousel, that giant danger slide, and the Ferris wheel. For food, we have funnel cakes, hot dogs, cotton candy, candied apples, and caramel popcorn.
All in all, we have everything we need to give Kai a piece of his missing childhood.
He threads our fingers together and pulls me towards the bumper cars. “Get in, Whitlock.” He looks over his shoulder at me with an excited grin. “Let me show you how it’s done.” He claims one of the cars further from the entrance.
“Oh, you’re talking big shit,” I say, sliding into my bumper car. My legs are a little too long for this to be really comfortable, but I’ll squish into the tiny car for him.
Kai looks like he’s going to spill over the side with his bulk, but his legs fit fine.
After the ride operator makes sure we’re inside, she starts the ride up. Immediately, Kai guns it towards me, bumping my car hard. His loud laughter sends that unfamiliar feeling down my spine. A feeling I’ve had for weeks but can’t manage to pinpoint. Whatever it is, I like it. A lot.
“You’re going to regret that,” I threaten, then take off behind him.
We stay on the bumper cars for many long minutes, ramming each other and laughing like children.
Once he’s had his fill of that, we take the giant slide of death down about a hundred times. Every time, Kai gets up with a bright smile, then goes back to the top for another round. I hate this fucking slide, but if it makes him this happy, I’ll suck it up for him and slide down over and over.
He opts to skip the carousel and go straight to the games. We start out at ring toss. Neither of us win, but we have a great time tossing the rings around the jars. We don’t even get one seated properly. I’m sure if we weren’t here for fun, Kai would have stabbed the guy for running a rigged game.
“I got this,” I tell him when we get to duck shoot. Kai is great with his gun, but I’m a fucking marksman. “I’ll win you a bear. Which one?”
Giving me a deadpan look, he points to a large purple dragon. I blow him a kiss and shoot down the three ducks I have to so I can earn my prize.
The attendant congratulates me and hands me the dragon. I give it to Kai with a kiss to his forehead. He stuffs it under his arm, raising his mouth to mine.
“Let me win you one,” he says against my lips.
He drags me over to balloon pop, where they have larger stuffed animals. I point to the biggest one they have. “How many do I have to pop to get that one?” Kai asks the attendant.
“All ten,” she says, handing him ten darts. “Good luck, sir.”
“Don’t need luck when you have skill.”
I scoff. The balloons aren’t blown up big enough for Kai to hit all ten.
My mouth is hanging open when he throws the last dart, popping the tenth balloon. The attendant looks impressed as well, smiling at the board where all the darts are stuck. “Great job, sir. Here you go.” She hands him the oversized teddy bear and he presents it to me with a flourish.
Chuckling, I take it and wrap one arm around it and throw the other arm around his shoulder. “Want some funnel cake? Candied apple? Cotton candy?”
“All three. I’ve never had any of it.”
Grabbing his hand, I pull him to the concession stand and he orders everything he wants. After we get our food, we sit at the table set up by the stand.
Kai looks around, his eyes shining with an emotion I think I can identify, but don’t want to call him out on. “This is…Carter, this is amazing. No one has ever done something like this for me.”
I take one of his hands and bring it to my lips. “I’ll give you anything you want, Kaison.”
“Yeah?” he asks with a crooked smile.
I roll my eyes. “Within reason.”
The groan that he releases when he bites into his funnel cake goes straight to my dick. “This is so good. Fuck, I’ve been missing out.”
His hand still in mine, I give it a squeeze. “I’ll make sure you never miss out again.”
Kai
After I tear into my funnel cake and drink some of the best lemonade I’ve ever had, we walk around the grounds, making slow loops to let our food settle before we get on the Ferris wheel.
I bite into the candied apple, loving the contrast of sweet and tangy. Apple juice dribbles down my chin and Carter takes a napkin from his pocket and wipes it before leaning in and licking the rest away. An unbidden laugh bubbles up my throat.
“Tastes good,” he murmurs, dropping a kiss on my lips.
He’s been doing that a lot lately, kissing me randomly. Doesn’t seem to matter where we are and who’s around. When he feels like it, Carter kisses me and smiles every time I lean in for more when he pulls away. He knows he has me strung out on his lips.
I polish off the candied apple and get started on the cotton candy. The sweet treat melts on my tongue and I hum. Plucking a piece into my mouth, I stop Carter and stand on my tiptoes. He grins before sliding his tongue into my mouth, collecting the sugar before it dissolves completely.
He doesn’t stop immediately, kissing me slowly and thoroughly. I get lightheaded from how he kisses me, but I don’t stop him. I simply hold on to his shoulders and allow him to plunder my mouth as he likes.
I’m breathless when he releases my lips, and my cock is straining in my pants.
Stepping away, I continue to walk around the small fair, taking it all in. When Carter said he had a surprise for me, I didn’t think it was something like this. The fact that he paid enough attention to me when I told him I never rode a Ferris wheel or went to a fair means more than I could say.
If I wasn’t sure before, I’m sure now. I’m in love with Carter. I fell for him gradually. Every little act, every touch, every kiss brought me closer and closer to the precipice. I had no choice but to tip over the edge.
My eyes find the Ferris wheel again. “I want my kids to experience this. I don’t want them to have the life I did. No fun, barred from everything that is deemed soft. I want them to know what it’s like to see the world from the top of a Ferris wheel.”
“You want kids?”
I look up into Carter’s blue-green eyes and nod. I’ve never told anyone I wanted kids. And the way Pop tells it, no one will give a kid to a gay man. But I’ve wanted to be a father since I can remember. I know I’d do a better job than Pop. I would actually love my kids, like Dominic loves Carter and Declan.
I watch his face as I say, “Yeah. Two. A boy and a girl. Or two boys. Or two girls. Don’t really matter. Do you?”
He shrugs. “Never thought about it. Kids are…a lot.” I laugh and bump him with my dragon. “What? They are.”
“You have enough money to afford a nanny,” I tell him dryly.
Carter chuckles and walks behind me, wrapping an arm around my waist. He plants a kiss on the back of my neck. With his lips pressed to my skin, he says, “If you want kids, I’ll give you kids.”
“I’m a guy,” I say sarcastically. “I can’t get pregnant.”
“Shut it, Kai.”
I chuckle, feeling so carefree tonight. I feel like I’m not Kaison St. Clair, head of the St. Clair family. Tonight, I feel like Kai. Just Kai. A random man in the world that’s on a date with his husband. His obviously rich husband that fucking buys out fairs so I can ride a Ferris wheel.
We make one more loop and stop in front of the Ferris wheel. “Let’s get on,” he murmurs against my skin.
Eagerly, I drag him up the few stairs and we climb into the empty pod. The attendant closes the door and Carter gives him a thumbs up. He returns it and turns the Ferris wheel on. It slowly climbs into the sky, the ground getting further and further away.
I can’t peel my eyes off the horizon. Everything looks so peaceful as we climb higher in the sky.
When we get to the top, the Ferris wheel stops. I look at Carter with wide eyes, but he simply smiles at me.
“It always stops at the top,” he explains softly. “And I asked them to let us have some time up here. So you could see.”
A slow smile stretches across my face. “Thank you, Carter.” I look back out at the world. “This is wild, being up this high.” The air feels cooler up here, the breeze of the night blowing the stray hairs that escaped my ponytail. “What did you do when you came up here? Fucked off with your friends and did dumb shit like rock the pod?”
His dark chuckle has me looking over at him sharply. His eyes have taken on that half-lidded quality I’m starting to become intimately familiar with. He slides off the seat he’s on and goes for my pants, undoing the button and sliding down the zipper.
“What are you doing?” I breathe, even though what he’s doing is really fucking obvious.
Carter looks up at me with dark eyes, that sexy fucking smirk on his face. “I’m going to show you what I used to do when I was in the Ferris wheel.”
“You sucked someone off up here?”
He shakes his head as he pulls my cock from my pants. The cool breeze blows over my cockhead and I fight to hold in a moan. “I got some head up here before. Let me show you how fucking good it felt.”
With that, he swallows my cock in one go. A loud moan escapes my lips before I can hold it in. God, Carter’s mouth is fucking dangerous. He bobs up and down on my cock, the flat of his tongue dragging against the underside of my dick.
I grip him under the chin, rolling my hips into his mouth. Carter makes those sexy fucking gagging noises, and his mouth gets wetter, his throat spasming more. But he doesn’t release the strangle hold he has on my shaft.
“Fuck, babe,” I groan, dragging my other hand into his hair. I toss my head back, fucking up into his mouth slowly.
Carter pops off my dick, licking his lips. “Wanna bet I can make you come before we get to the bottom?”
Huffing a laugh, I nod. “I’ll take that bet.”
Just then, the ride starts up again, moving unhurriedly to the bottom. “I’d better get to work,” he murmurs, then sucks me back in.
I hold still, letting Carter draw moans from me. He’s so fucking good, using his hand to jerk me as he picks up speed on with his hot throat.
“Hurry, Carter,” I taunt, but it’s cut off with a moan when he flicks his tongue against the spot under my cockhead.
I grab handfuls of his hair and grip it tight, trying to keep my moans softer since we’re closer to the bottom.
The closer we get to the ground, the more my pleasure heightens. Just when I think he won’t win the bet, he reaches up and tugs on my balls. I see fucking stars as pleasure licks up my spine and my cock shoots off, coming hard in Carter’s mouth.
He swallows quickly, not leaving a mess behind.
Letting my dick slide from his mouth, he quickly tucks me back in my pants and helps me make myself presentable. When he sits beside me, I see some of my cum on the side of his mouth. Using my tongue, I lap it up and shove it into his mouth, exchanging my salty taste with him.
I don’t release his mouth until the attendant opens the door of the pod to let us out. Judging from the sly smile he’s giving us, I know he’s not fooled that we were only making out. Fuck it. I don’t care if he knows. That was the best head I’ve ever gotten in my life.
“Thanks,” Carter says with a satisfied smile on his face.
“No problem,” he attendant says. “Enjoy your night.”
“We plan to,” I shoot over my shoulder, and he cracks up.
We collect our stuffed animals, and I wrap my arm around Carter. “This is the best night I’ve had in …probably ever. Thank you Carter. It means the world to me.”
He stops us and turns me to face him. “I’ll do anything for you, Kai. This is only the beginning.”
Then he kisses me sweetly, setting my soul on fire.