34. Chapter 34
Jake
I dropped back onto her couch, legs stretched out, head tipped back for a second, letting the remnants of adrenaline from the game leave my system. It was still there, though—under my skin, in my chest, that restless energy that didn’t have anywhere to go now that the whistle had blown.
Cai was asleep in his room, but Seren hovered for a beat like she didn’t quite know what to do with me still being here.
“You should go out with the team,” she said without warning.
I turned my head, looking at her properly. “You trying to get rid of me?”
“No,” she said quickly, then huffed a little. “I just…Your team’s out celebrating.”
“They’ll celebrate without me.”
She crossed her arms, leaning back against the wall like she was bracing herself against something. “You shouldn’t miss it.”
“Maybe I have better plans.”
I pushed up slightly, reaching for her before she could overthink it, my hand closing around her wrist and tugging her forward until she landed across my lap with a soft, surprised breath.
“This,” I said simply, “is much better than drinks in a busy bar.”
She steadied herself against me, palms braced on my shoulders, but she didn’t move to get up.
“My crush is gonna be disappointed,” she murmured, voice edged with something that wasn’t entirely teasing.
“Number 15?” I asked as I dragged my thumb along her side, watching her squirm. “Think he’s doing alright.”
“He’s got potential.” She smiled and bit her lip.
“Potential,” I repeated, leaning in just enough that my mouth brushed hers without quite kissing her. “That so?” Hearing her say that made my ego inflate, I can’t lie. Was she saying that I had potential beyond a casual hookup?
Pulling her closer, I closed the gap properly this time, the kiss deep and consuming, like everything from the game, the tension, the build-up, all of it had been waiting for this exact second.
She melted into me, and I was sure she’d been holding herself back all evening and finally stopped, her fingers curling into my shirt as I shifted beneath her, adjusting her until she was properly straddling me.
My hands were possessed, kneading her muscled legs, gripping her perfect ass with a growl that tore from my very soul. I couldn’t get a full breath. Couldn’t get my hands to stay still. Everything in me was firing at once with her in my palms.
I kept trying to get a grip, to slow down, to think, but every time she shifted, every time she pulled at my shirt, it was like my brain short-circuited.
I didn’t feel suave. I didn’t feel in control. I felt wrecked. Like she’d reached straight into the center of me and yanked something I didn’t even know was loose.
My whole body felt like it was trying to outrun my brain.
And then, right in the middle of all that chaos, something cut through with urgency. This sudden, desperate need to know.
I pulled in a breath that barely made it halfway. “Wait. Hold on.”
She froze to look at me. I had to get the words out. Had to ask before I lost the nerve, before the moment swallowed us whole.
“I need to ask you something,” I managed, heart pounding like it was trying to break out of my chest. “Before we go any further.”
“Okay,” she breathed out, grinding her hips over my rock-hard dick.
I guided her face to mine, pressing against her forehead, suddenly feeling a bit too exposed with the next question. But fuck it. “I know we’ve had one date, but I guess I wanted to know if you wanted another, if this could be something you want to explore more?”
Her eyes opened slowly, irises swallowed by pupils. “I don’t want to promise things I can’t deliver on. I don’t want to unintentionally hurt you, ever.”
“I’m not asking you to promise anything,” I said quietly, brushing my thumb along her cheek. “I’m asking what you want.”
“I want you,” she admitted. My heart picked up speed, cantering inside my chest at that admission. Her body answered mine as I pulsed beneath her, and a soft moan slipped from her lips.
I’d had people want pieces of me before.
Most of the time, it was the easy parts.
The fun parts. The version that didn’t come with history or weight or anything that stuck around long enough to matter.
But I wanted more here. I wanted her to see the imperfect parts of me and stay anyway.
Logically, I knew that wouldn’t be what she was agreeing to right now, but I couldn’t dim that thought.
Yet, having her here within my reach, touching every morsel of my soul without realizing, I knew I wasn’t coming back from this unscathed.
My grip tightened at her waist, pulling her down harder against me before I could stop myself, the friction dragging a low breath from both of us at the same time. “Yeah?”
Her eyes flicked to mine, blown wide with desire and emotion, and she didn’t hesitate. “I don’t want this to end, especially since it’s hardly begun. Do you want me?”
“So fucking much.” Dragging my mouth along her jaw, feeling the way she tipped her head without thinking, gave me confidence I had no idea I lacked.
She was responsive in a way that bolstered my confidence, every shift of her hips, every quiet breath against my neck pulled me further into it.
Then she closed the gap between us, capturing my mouth with hers as I pushed my hands to her back, holding her to me.
Her tongue demanded mine, dueling for dominance, but there was one thing I knew about her, and that was that she liked to give up control.
Then, cutting through our lust-filled haze, Cai’s monitor crackled on the table.
A sharp burst of static, a tiny sigh, a sleepy shuffle. We froze like we’d been dunked in cold water, my pulse hammering in my ears.
The screen lit up, then it went dark, and we were in silence again.
“Oh god.” Her body sagged against me, head burying into my shoulder. “This is far from ideal…I’m sorry.”
“Ssh.” I bucked my hips and flipped her onto her back, laying her out on the sofa, eliciting a gasp.
“Think you can come quietly for me, baby?” The contrast from the last time when I needed her to make as much noise as possible wasn’t lost on me, but I loved getting to know her this way.
“Yes,” she whispered breathily, eyes on mine. God, she looked beautiful underneath me.
Sitting back on my heels, I pulled down her pants and panties until they came all the way off. My hand trailed over her skin, mapping it with awe.
The soft curve of her hips that made my hands itch to hold on. The faint stretch marks along her skin, pale and delicate, like someone had traced her with light. The strength in her thighs, the definition from hours of training. She was a vision.
Raising my hand, I trailed down her inner thigh, watching the way her hips rolled and her eyes closed, anticipation building with such a small promise of more.
The closer I got to her core, the harder she breathed, and when my finger slid through her slit, lightly grazing her clit, she bucked up, arching toward me, eyes wild. “Please,” she begged.
The sound was so beautiful that I couldn’t deny her. I pushed one finger inside, then two, and she collapsed back again. Her hands fisted the couch as my thumb found her sensitive bud, flicking faster and faster. “Do you think your pussy would squeeze my cock this hard, baby?” I whispered.
She groaned, legs shaking in response. Despite my own dick screaming at me, I was determined to keep my composure so I could make her feel good.
“Yeah, I think it would too. I’ve been dreaming all week about you. Tasting you, fucking you, feeling you all over me.”
I leaned farther over her, keeping my hand moving, studying every hiss and curse she muttered under her breath as she fought to keep her eyes open to watch me. Her nipples pushed through the fabric of her shirt, and I so desperately wanted to take them into my mouth.
Her pussy pulsed around me, my dick answering in my pants, leaking into my boxers already. “Fuck,” I hissed.
“Oh god,” she moaned breathlessly, her body writhing against me.
“I wanna make you mine over and over again.”
She slapped a hand over her mouth to muffle her cries of pleasure as she soaked my hand. My thumb pressed hard on her clit, letting her ride every second of her release.
“Come here,” I murmured, sliding an arm beneath her before she could argue, lifting her up against me.
She didn’t fight it, just wrapped herself around me, her face pressing into my neck as I carried her toward the bedroom, the weight of her settling into something that felt a little too right.
When I laid her down on the bed, I didn’t move straight away, I took a second and hovered there, taking her in. Flushed face, smile playing in her eyes, mouth parted as she watched me.
This didn’t feel like something I could brush off later.
And I wasn’t sure I wanted to.
“Jake,” she said, her voice shaking a little. “I need you so bad. Please don’t make me wait.”
Hearing her say that had me reaching for my shirt and ridding myself of my pants and boxers with super speed. “Are you sure, baby?” I asked, watching her eyes take in my dick as I squeezed the base, letting my head roll back between my shoulders as I imagined being inside her.
I looked at her right as her tongue dragged slowly across her bottom lip, and my dick leaked with excitement. “I’m so sure.”
“Look at me,” I commanded, waiting until her eyes locked onto mine fully. “Open these powerful legs. Let me have you.”
She obeyed without hesitation, letting me see her glistening pussy, then shuffled down to make room for me as I climbed over top of her. “I want to feel all of you.”
Positioning myself at her entrance, I made sure to keep eye contact as I held on to her headboard and pushed upward so I could slide up into her. As soon as my dick notched a few inches in, her hands slapped onto my chest. “Oh fuck,” she cried out.
Her walls clamped so hard around me, it knocked the air from my lungs. “Baby,” I managed, “I need you to breathe and relax so I can get inside you.”
“Oh, Jesus. You’re so thick,” she rasped.
My ego went wild at that comment, my dimple popping in my cheek as I held my weight over her, still as I fucking could without pushing farther. “You can and you will. You were made to take me so fucking deep, weren’t you?”
Her eyes flared as she slapped my chest playfully. “God, your ego might be bigger than your cock.”
I grunted, as she tensed around me. “Unlikely. Now take a breath so I can get all the way in. Ready?”