Chapter 20
Chapter Twenty
Krew
I dragged Regina off her chair and placed her on my lap. With my arms wrapped tight around her, I whispered into her hair, “I have you, sweetheart.”
“I’m normally not a blubbering mess—hell, I don’t usually cry—you know that,” she confessed in a hiccup. “Lately, though, since I’ve been around you two, that’s all I’ve been doing and I’m tired of it.”
“Look at me.” I tried to tip her chin up, but she burrowed deeper into my chest.
“I can’t,” she uttered, her voice strained.
Her confession gave me pause, yet I let it go. “Alright. Then listen.” I squeezed her tighter to me. “You have every right to be upset. Maya was your best friend and she betrayed you.”
“This whole time, I thought she had my back—we were best friends since first grade,” Regina said. She was shaking in my hold. “And why does Decker piss me off so much?”
“You know how he used to be. He liked pissing people off—especially if he got any satisfaction out of it.”
“He’s never done that to me, or you?—”
“Hella ya, he did. You just never took his bait,” I admitted, brushing her bangs out of her eyes. “Eventually, he stopped goading you.”
“I don’t remember… I’m sorry for putting all this on you.” She wiped her eyes.
“ I’m sorry that we didn’t tell you sooner about Maya, but Decker and I thought we had it handled,” I admitted regretfully.
“I’ve been such a bitch. This whole thing is just a mess. Still, Decker doesn’t need to be a dick,” she added.
“I get it. We’re all under a lot of stress. This isn’t a normal situation that we’re in,” I said with regret. “It’s been years since the three of us have been together. Maybe we should do a restart.”
She snorted. “I think that’s a good idea, but I’m not so sure about Decker.”
“You said it yourself—we have changed. We’re not the people we once were.
And on top of it, we’ve been thrown into something we have no control over— Decker has no control, and it’s killing him.
He hasn’t been sleeping, and he barely eats.
While you’re in that bedroom, he’s constantly doing perimeter checks, cleaning his gun, contacting Sabrina and running down new leads, just to make sure we are safe. ”
Regina finally looked at me. “When did you become so philosophical?”
I carefully wiped the tears from her cheeks. “I don’t know. When I was in jail?”
“You were in jail,” she whispered, more tears trailing from her eyes. “I should have looked for you—called—something.”
I tightened my hold around her. “I don’t know what drove you away from Elida, but it had to be big, in order for you to leave your parents—leave us, with no word.
Whatever you’re holding back, I’m patient and willing to wait until you are ready to tell us.
Anyway, I’m kind of glad you didn’t see me in there,” I said, cupping her face.
Looking into her beautiful brown eyes, her dilated pupils swallowed up the gold flecks in her irises. “I truly missed my Regi.”
“Krew.” She leaned in, closed her eyes, and kissed me.
The touch was so gentle—not like the one we had shared in the hallway upstairs or back at the motel in Chicago.
This was innocent, like she was testing her boundaries for the first time.
I remained still, giving Regina the time she needed to explore me with her lips.
Her hands skimmed up my chest, and in that moment, I cursed at the t-shirt I had on. She smoothed her hands over my hard nipples, up my throat, and along my jawline until her arms wrapped around my neck.
Regina deepened the kiss, her tongue probing the seam of my lips and I opened for her. She swept her tongue inside, and I was a goner.
I took over the kiss, delving my tongue deeper into her mouth like I was possessed. Because tasting Regina was a welcome refuge from the loneliness that had been my constant companion. My dad and my asshole brother were alive, but I was still very much alone.
Now, after having Decker and Regina back in my life—as fucked up as this week had been, I wasn’t going to give them up. She could fight me all she wanted, but Regina was mine, and Decker’s. We had claimed her the day we found her at the park, while she had waited for Maya to go to the pool.
“Krew,” she uttered against my lips. “Please.”
I quickly pulled away, but kept an arm around her body. “I’m sorry.”
“No, I’m sorry. It’s just that… I can’t explain it.”
“I understand,” I lied, my heart aching for an explanation.
“No, you don’t. I don’t want to do anything down here.” Regina got off my lap and took my hand. “Come with me.”
She led me upstairs to her room and closed the door. When Regina turned around and faced me, her eyes trailed down my chest to the bulge at my crotch.
My dick was straining against the zipper, aching to be touched, stroked—anyway Regina wanted to handle me. I remained still and waited for her cue as she stood still and took in every inch of my body.
It was torture, but at the same moment, the anticipation only heightened my need to be with the girl I had fallen in love with back in school. I’d waited for so long to be with her, I wasn’t going to do anything to mess it up.
“You are so beautiful, Krew,” she confessed to me, and it felt like a stroke against my cock. I was so hard that it was nearing painful.
“You’re the one who’s beautiful,” I gruffly said, as I reached out and caressed a finger along her jawline. “I want to kiss you so bad.”
She smiled tentatively, before uttering, “Then kiss me.”
I didn’t hesitate, just scooped Regina up and kissed her. She wrapped her legs around my waist, as I took her mouth with a hot and hungry desperation. We were all mouth and dueling tongues before I gently laid her on the bed.
“I need to taste you,” I admitted, kissing down her jaw, along her neckline until I reached the apex of her full breasts. I tugged up her shirt, and without further prompting, Regina sat up and quickly removed her shirt, along with her black lacy bra.
I relished the sight of Regina laying on the bed, spread and exposed for me.
Her breasts full—enough to fill my hands.
Her dusky nipples were taut and begging for my mouth.
I gently glided my hand between them before cupping her right breast and pinching her tight bud.
She arched her back and moaned, “Krew—yes.”
Her reaction didn’t disappoint. I trailed my hand down her torso, enamored with her silky skin. I began pulling down the snug pants she had on. “Take them off.”
She lifted her hips up and ordered, “You do it.”
So, I did. Along with the underwear that matched her bra. And when she spread her legs open for me, her glistening cunt turned my want into a desperate needy monster. I quickly removed my jeans and tank to be skin to skin with her.
A gasp fell out of Regina’s mouth as she studied my body—my large cock that jutted skyward—which only reacted for her and Decker.
“Don’t be afraid,” I said as I climbed onto the bed.
“I’m not.” The trembling of her voice said otherwise.
“We don’t have to do anything you don’t want to, Regi.” I hoped to ease the tension in her body, but she was lying there so still that I was afraid to move.
“I know. I trust you,” she conceded, biting her lower lip as her eyes remained on my cock.
“If all we end up doing is snuggling, I’m fine with that. Just tell me what you want,” I assured her, hiding the fear that she would turn me away again.
“Let’s take it slow… And see.” She finally met my eyes and a shadow of worry was still visible in them, even if her dark pupils were blown wide with lust.
“Slow,” I repeated and took her mouth again. Our kiss was languorous and gentle, until Regina tugged on the back of my neck and drew my body on top of hers.
That skin-to-skin connection had my heart hammering in my chest, and the way she ground against my hard shaft, I almost came right then.
I pulled slightly away and dipped my head down, taking a taut nipple into my mouth. Fair game and all. I sucked hard, then laved the sensitive bud while cupping her other breast and pinching the nipple.
Another moan left her parted lips, which gave me a hint of satisfaction.
But I needed more—more of what I’d tasted on Decker’s fingers when he had shoved his digits into Regina’s wet heat and then pushed those same fingers—coated in her juices, into my mouth.
“Krew.” Regina arched her back, and it took every bit of restraint in me not to shove my dick inside her wet heat, and claim her as mine.
Even though being with Regina felt right, I was coming to realize that loving her with my cock without Decker being here with us… It didn’t sit well with me. Not for our first time, anyway.
“Regi,” I began to say, hoping she wouldn’t be upset that I didn’t want to love her without Decker.
She touched my cheek. “I know. I want him here too. But…” A tear slipped out of the corner of her eye and I understood what she hadn’t said.
Regina was afraid of Decker. His belligerent behavior around her made it hard to trust him.
Still, I silently celebrated. She, too, felt the missing piece of us—that we were more than just childhood friends.
That we had reconnected to what we three had all those years ago.
My Regi was finally seeing us as a whole.
I relaxed and focused on loving her in my own way.
I slid down her body, until my knees were bent and on the bedroom floor. I spread her legs wider and smiled, inhaling her sweet heady scent. Without a doubt, despite her previous lies, Regina wanted me.
I didn’t hesitate to dive into her slick folds. I licked from her clit down past the slit, lapping up her liquid heat. Then I clamped down on her bud and drew it in gently at first, then I sucked harder.
“Oh—Jesus—yes,” she groaned. If I had hair, Regina would have yanked at it.
Releasing her clit, I trailed the tip of my tongue around the bundle of nerves while I coated my fingers with her nectar. “I’m going to eat you until I get my fill, Regi,” I declared.
“Krew!”
I clamped my mouth around her clit again and with one finger, I slid into her slowly and then withdrew, repeating the movement until a loud wanton moan left her lips.
“More.” She dug the heels of her feet into my back and drove herself upwards.
At her insistence, I glided a second finger inside her, then three. Pumping in and out while I sucked and laved her until she needed to come.
Regina began to tremble and I knew she was close. “I want you to come on my tongue. I want to taste you—lap you up—and get off, knowing I’m the one that sent you over the edge, Regi.”
My teeth clamped onto her clit while I reached up and pinched both her nipples, hard.
“Krew,” Regina screamed, and a familiar sizzle at the base of my spine went straight to my balls. I came right along with her, while my fingers kept plunging into her slick pussy. Not once did I pull my mouth off her cunt as I drank up her essence.
I slowly stood, went to the tiny bathroom and cleaned myself up. After wetting a washcloth, I gently cleaned her, then the side of the mattress where I’d spilled my seed, and then tossed the cloth into the laundry basket.
When I returned, I found Regina languid, her eyes fluttered closed and her breathing slow and even. Damn, she’d fallen asleep on me. A smile crested my lips as I watched her.
Carefully, I eased in beside Regina, about to pull her close, when a soft ping came from my phone—in the back pocket of my jeans lying the floor.
Thank Christ Regina fell asleep. If she knew I still had my phone, she’d be pissed. Decker took her phone away for safety—so it couldn’t be tracked. The real reason was she threatened to call Maya to find out if she was involved with Jess’s dealings with Kane.
The phone pinged again, then rang. Damn it, I knew that ring tone. It was Teke’s. I debated for a moment if I should ignore it, except knowing my asshole brother, he’d either keep on texting or calling until I answered the phone.
I got up from the bed, covered Regina with the blanket and grabbed my jeans. I stepped out into the hallway, closed the door and retrieved my phone from my back pocket. As I slid my finger across the screen, I got another text message.
Teke: Where are you motherfucker?
Teke: You better answer me!
Teke: Dad’s sick. I had to bring him to the hospital.
I wasn’t sure if I should believe him. Teke had used that excuse before to get me to respond. Was he telling the truth this time?
Me: What happened?
Teke: Where are you?
Me: Don’t worry about it. What’s going on with Dad?
Teke: He fell trying to get off the sofa , and I had to call an ambulance .
Jesus. I rubbed my hand over my face in frustration. My father had always been a large man, and his mobility had long been limited due to his weight. Over the past few years, he had gained several more pounds, which worsened his immobility.
However, the notion of him falling off the sofa while trying to get up proved that my brother was a scheming dumbass.
My father had lived on that sofa for the past ten years.
He slept on it, ate on it, and every once in a while, he peed on it when he couldn’t get his dick into the piss bottle.
But get off the sofa? Teke was lying. Why?
Me: You’re lying . Now tell me what you really want .
I waited a good two minutes before texting him again.
Me: Teke. Answer me.
Teke never answered me back. My only conclusion; the bastard was probably drunk. I shook my head, shoved my phone back in my pocket and went back into the room. As I glanced down at Regina, peacefully sleeping, my heart hitched up and I was a happy man.
For the first time since we got caught and I took the blame for Teke’s stolen car, my life was finally coming together. And once Regina and Decker worked through their issues, we could finally be the family we were meant to be.