Chapter 33
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
Aaron
“I’d rather look like I’m wearing Aaron’s clothes, than like I’ve been rode hard too many times then tossed in the trash. What would you mother think if she knew about your previous night’s events?”
Kendall steps around me and I see her father smirk as he makes his way to his office. The man doesn’t question his daughter, she is who she is and he’s proud as he should be.
“I figured premarital sex was something mommy dearest would look down on. Unless mommy is a closet whore too.”
“What did you call me?” Chelsea steps around Leo and the cocky bastard leans back against the doorframe. Fucker is delusional enough to think this little catfight is about him.
“W.H.O.R.E.” Kendall spells it out very slowly and it takes everything inside of me not to laugh.
“Babe.” I reach out and she shrugs me off.
“Please let this play out.” Leo chuckles, never taking his eyes off the two of them.
“I dated him first,” Chelsea says in a rush and even I have to fight my laughter because I knew what was coming. Kendall truly has no filter.
“Sweetheart you may have gone on a date with him, but he was thinking of me the entire time. He showed up at the bar that night to see me. He was at the bar talking to me about the night he and I had shared not too long before that. I’m the reason there was never a second date.
I would say that I’m sorry for that, but I’m not. ”
Chelsea opens her mouth to say something but no words come out.
“Now Leo, if you wouldn’t mind taking out your trash, it’s really starting to stink up my dad’s shop.” She crosses her arms over her chest and stares at Chelsea.
Suddenly she huffs, throws her hands up in the air, and hurries toward the open garage door. Leo chuckles and I glare at the piece of shit.
“Babe you didn’t have to get so jealous,” he says to Kendall and it’s my turn to step in his direction. Fucking douche, never have liked the prick. Kendall places her hand out to stop me and I bump into her outstretched arm.
“That had nothing to do with you. You could bang my nosy ass neighbor, or Ms. Walters next door, and I wouldn’t give two shits. So you can stop thinking too far into what took place. It had everything to do with her acting like she is better than me. That bitch is not better than me.”
She looks back at me glaring like I did something wrong.
“Also, stop bringing your whores into the shop. Use the back exit, this isn’t your showroom for stupid choices.”
Kendall huffs and walks off, and I ignore the chuckle from Leo. Arrogant piece of shit needs to be thankful that I refuse to disrespect Kendall and get Leo’s blood on his floor.
Walking in the direction Kendall had stormed off to, I find her cranking away on a wrench beneath the hood of an old Camry.
“Maybe we should add a shot of whiskey to your coffee,” I say, leaning against the fender. I can see how her lips are pressed into a tight line. “At first I didn’t think that had anything to do with Leo, but now I’m not so sure.”
“Are you serious right now?” She looks up at me and I shrug. “If I didn’t know you were still healing from broken ribs I’d punch you right now.”
“Why? Because I’m right?”
“Because you are a complete idiot,” she says.
“That had everything to do with the fact that you went out with her and now she somehow thinks I’m the second choice.
Both her and her mother act as if you are slumming it and I’d love nothing more than to show up on her mother’s doorstep and tell her that her daughter is a whore. ”
“I think you made it very clear that you were not my second choice, babe.”
“Are you sad you missed out on what life should be like with Chelsea?”
“Not even a little.” I turn and set my coffee on the support of the car and pull Kendall closer to me.
“From the moment you kissed me that first time I knew there wouldn’t be a chance of anyone else filling the void you left when you said there could be no us.
There hasn’t been a single minute of any day since then that I haven’t wanted you. ”
“I’m a mess,” she tells me and I cup her face, ensuring she is looking at me.
“You are not a mess Kendall, you are incredible. And you’re right. Chelsea didn’t have a chance. No one has a chance, because I am one hundred percent yours. I have been since that night, and nothing is going to change that.”
“Promise?” she whispers, tears pooling in her eyes.
“I promise,” I say, giving her lips a soft kiss.
I hover above her, her back arched, her fingers digging into my hips and I move. Kendall moans softly and I keep going knowing she is close. I can feel it, feel her tightening around me, squeezing as she lifts to meet my thrusts.
I ignore the ache in my hips, needing this connection.
It’s been weeks since my accident and she’s been with me practically every night. Caring for me, ensuring I have everything I need.
But all I truly need is her.
“Aaron,” my name falls from her lips as she shivers and I know she is there.
Driving forward I lean in and kiss her lips, biting her lip and giving it a tug. She feels so good, but with Kendall each time feels like the first. She never holds back, always giving as good as she gets.
“Don’t stop,” she pants and I push inside of her deep, moving and hitting the spot that I know with throw her over the edge. She spirals, her nails digging into my shoulders.
“Oh my God, yes!” she screams and I let go, my body falling forward and we lose control together. My toes curl, she shifts her hips and my thighs tingle.
I swear I see spots.
Silence fills the room as the two of us regain our composure.
“Move in with me,” I say without thinking twice and she doesn’t respond. Laying over her, both of us breathing, she says nothing.
Bracing the weight of my body on my elbows I look down at her and she is worrying her lip.
“You are practically living here already, and I’m not going to lie, I’ve loved it. Coming home knowing you’ll be here too. I hate when you stay at your place, it feels so empty here.”
“It’s too fast,” she says and I try not to react.
“Are you saying that you don’t like waking up to me?”
“I’m saying that we’ve gone from me running in the opposite direction to spending at least five nights a week in the same bed. Moving in with one another this quick may complicate things.”
“Complicate things how?” I roll to the side and she rolls with me. Reaching she drags her hand over my hair. “It’s the buzz cut right?”
“I do prefer a little something to tug on,” she says playfully.
“It’ll grow back baby, then you can tug as hard as you want,” I tease, leaning to kiss her jaw. She turns, catching my lips with hers and I get lost in the kiss for a little bit before I remember there was a question she was dodging.
“Are you telling me no?”
“I’m telling you that I think we should wait.”
I pull back and look at her.
“Aaron, I,” she pauses taking a deep breath, “I love you.”
“And I love you too,” I say, wondering where she is going with this.
“All I am saying is that we don’t have to rush, the way things are is good.”
I nod.
“Hey.” She cups my jaw. “Don’t do that, don’t look away. This is not me telling you no, this is me saying let’s wait and revisit when my lease comes closer to an end.”
“And that’s when?”
“November.”
“Four months,” I say and she nods.
“Until then we can keep doing things the way we are. Who knows by then, you may be ready to get rid of me and go chase after Chelsea.” I am hurt, but do my best to hide it as I reach out and start to tickle her side.
“Keep this shit up and I might just get up, get dressed, and chase after her now.”
When Kendall reaches out to pinch my side I grab her hands and pin her arms above her head as I crawl over her once more. “Is this running?” I ask, feeling a familiar burn of fear in my chest and she looks at me, her eyes softening.
“No,” she says, holding my stare. “No more running, this is only me making sure we do this right. I don’t want to mess up with you, Aaron. I don’t want to regret missing out on this part of things with you.”
“What part?”
“The getting to know each other, the dating, the driving each other crazy so we can just make up.” She smiles. “I want it all Aaron and I want it with you, that part isn’t going to change. This isn’t a sprint.”
I hold her stare.
“You can’t get rid of me now, even if you want to.”