Total pages in book: 29
Estimated words: 27166 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 136(@200wpm)___ 109(@250wpm)___ 91(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 27166 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 136(@200wpm)___ 109(@250wpm)___ 91(@300wpm)
Suddenly, there are rustling sounds, and Jack pauses ahead of me. I grow still too, my ears on alert. He raises his fingers to his mouth in a shh! gesture and then I hear it again. It’s the very distinct sound of a man grunting and my eyes pop wide open as I stare at Jack.
“This way,” he mouths silently.
I nod and follow close behind him until there’s movement in front of us. We stay completely still behind a large bush, and then the movement starts again. This time, I can make out the shapes of two people writhing around on the ground about twenty feet in front of us. Holy cow! They’re locked in an embrace, the man groaning as he pumps heavily into the woman beneath him. She lets out a breathy moan, and then when they roll over, I get the shock of my life.
“Oh my god, it’s them,” I whisper. “OMG OMG OMG!”
There is no need to say who “them” is because Jack can see the couple as well as I can, and my guess is he saw them sneaking off back here earlier. After all, surprise surprise, it’s my mother and Eddie once more. As we watch, Denise rides Eddie ecstatically, her head tossed back with pleasure as he drills her deep.
“Mmmm,” she cries out. “Put that cock in me. Put that piece of chalk in me.”
Chalk? Confused, I turn to Jack, but it’s clear he has no idea either. Maybe she’s referring to Eddie as chalk because he’s pasty white, or maybe it’s because his pecker is small. I don’t know. I’m just glad it’s not me with my ex.
Meanwhile, WTF? How can my mom and Eddie be doing this again? I’ve been trying to do the right thing with Jack, but clearly, my mom and my ex have no such compunction. They’re going at it like rabbits without a care in the world; without a care for me, to be specific.
Sensing that I’ve seen enough, Jack takes my hand once more and pulls me away from them. We march further into the wooded area, and walk for what feels like at least twenty minutes until we come upon a clearing. The moon is out now, limning the alpha male’s form in dark purple and I let out a sigh.
“That was nuts,” is my inelegant comment.
Jack laughs and cups my face between his hands before softly running his thumbs over my cheeks. “I’m sorry you had to see that, but it was necessary. Eddie and your mom aren’t thinking about you, so you don’t need to worry about them, or what they do. There should be nothing holding you back, Dakota.”
Then, he takes my hand and brings it to his mouth and kisses my palm.
“I want you, Dakota. I’ve thought about being with you for a long time now, and it wasn’t right before, so I held back. But now, circumstances have changed and seeing that I’ve already tasted the honey between your legs, I don’t plan to stop.”
I suck in a sharp breath, but before I can respond, the alpha male’s kissing me with determination now. He seizes my lips like a ravenous man, and I hope he’s for real because my body lights up in response. Every nerve ending is on fire, and I melt into his touch.
“I want you,” he rasps against my lips. “And I’m going to have you.”
My mind can’t form any words, so I do the only thing I can think of. I tangle my hands in the hair at the nape of his neck, and kiss him with everything I have, pressing my softness against his hard chest. He growls at my acquiescence, and begins ripping at my clothes, destroying them in the process. Soon, we’re a tangled mass of limbs on the ground, a rock digging into my back as he claims my body, pounding into my sweetness. But I don’t care, and merely call out with pleasure. I’ll never going to be the same again, but with Jack Straithmore as my guide, it will be well worth the journey.
7
Dakota
* * *
It’s been a week since the block party. A week since I made love with Jack for the second time, and in the forest no less. We were probably within two hundred feet of my mother and my ex doing their own thing, but hey, life takes a weird turn sometimes. Even more strange, I’m not even mad about my mom and Eddie anymore.
Because if I hadn’t discovered the truth about Denise and Eddie, I never would have wound up in Jack’s bed, enjoying his attentions. I never would have really met him, and never gotten to know the incredible man he is. And now, tonight, we’re going on our first real date and I can’t wait. I even took off early from my job at the Red Bean to survey the contents of my closet. What am I going to wear for this momentous occasion?