The thought occurred to Jalen that he was looking for any discomfort in her eyes. Something that would give away what she wouldn’t say.
Slowly, he leaned down, and at the first swipe of his tongue, Jalen expelled the breath she hadn’t known she’d been holding, and he groaned. The vibration of it went straight to the center of her pussy. His tongue dove between her lips, and he gave herlong, slow licks. It was as if he were trying to savor her taste. Get every bit that he could on his tongue.
She didn’t know how long this had gone on. She felt as if it had been an hour when, in actuality, it had only been a couple of minutes. He took her clit into his mouth, sucking on it, and she thought she would cum instantly from the contact.
All of his actions were deliberate, slowly building her to where she needed to be. Without thinking, her hands went down to lace into his hair, and she pulled softly. He didn’t seem to mind it, only sucked harder.
Jalen’s hips moved of their own accord as Rohan used the tip of his tongue to push on her clit as he sucked, adding more pressure.
She felt it building within her, and she knew this one would be more intense than the one she had on her couch with him.
“Fuck, I’m cumming!”
She’d barely gotten the words out when her orgasm was overtaking her body. Her legs shook, and he released her clit. For that, she was thankful. Had he continued, she was sure she wouldn’t be able to handle it, and that thought made her realize that everything she experienced with him would be just as intense.
He licked up her slit, causing her to jump before coming from between her legs and pecking her on the lips.
“Next time, I get to take my time,” he told her before getting off the bed.
He returned a couple of minutes later, cleaning her up, and Jalen pulled the boxers back on while he was taking the towel back to the bathroom. She was just about to get off the bed when he returned.
“My wanting to put you to sleep meant right there in that spot,” he told her with a raised brow, and Jalen nodded, slipping under the comforter.
Rohan slid in on the other side and picked up a remote, turning the lights off. “I’ll stay on my side. I promise,” he informed, and Jalen could tell he was smirking in the dark.
Moving over until she was against his arm, she waited for him to wrap it around her before laying her head on his chest. She didn’t know if this really counted because she would only be there for a few hours, but it had been a very long while since she had stayed over at someone else's place, and this was nice.
17
“Leave me alone.” Jalen heard Landon almost yell, and it wasn’t even thirty seconds later when Kodi came into her bedroom.
“I swear you need to whoop her ass.”
Jalen sighed. “What’s wrong now?”
“She’s just being a brat. I told her that when we left in a little bit to go to Rohan’s, she didn’t need to act out.”
A part of Jalen considered telling Kodi that she didn’t need to do that because that was her job. However, Kodi was just as much a parent to their sisters as Jalen was, unfortunately, so she refrained from saying so.
“She’s just…going through a phase,” Jalen told her, though even as the words left her mouth, she found them hard to believe and knew it was a bullshit excuse for her little sister. “She’s being a typical teenager.”
Kodi scoffed. “There is nothing typical about how she’s acting. You and I did not act like that.”
Jalen smiled slightly because she honestly believed that sometimes Kodi forgot she was still a teenager. Yes, her little sister was mature for her age. She would even hazard to say she was more mature than a lot of the adults she encountered daily.
“You’re right. We didn’t act that way, but you and I couldn’t afford to because four other people were depending on us. So, we had to suck up and suppress whatever we may have been going through for them. She doesn’t have to do that.”
That, in the oddest way, made Jalen happy. When she and Kodi were younger, they were already parenting and taking care of their younger siblings. They couldn’t afford to let their emotions get the best of them, couldn’t afford to go through typical teenager phases and rebellion, because they couldn’t be teenagers. It wouldn’t have been healthy for the others. So, subconsciously, they’d decided not to allow those things to happen, or the household would have fallen apart.
Had Jalen given way to those whims, she more than likely would not have been able to keep her and her sisters together. Just because she was glad that Landon was being afforded the option to go through things and not suppress them, it did not mean that she was by any means happy with the attitude she was developing.
Her still being grounded was a testament to the energy she was putting off. Jalen had initially intended to ground her for a week, but here they were two weeks later.
“Look, I know you don’t want to implement corporal punishment, because of what Landon said, and because of the way our egg donor punished us,” Kodi told her, sitting down on the bed. “But, Jalen, you know that physically disciplining her doesn’t make you like that monster.”
Jalen knew Kodi was right. She did, but she had told herself that she could parent them, discipline them, without putting her hands on them. However, it seemed her gentle parenting approach was not working with Landon. It was venturing into permissive, and she would have to take a different approach.
“I get it if you can’t. If it brings up terrible memories for you,” Kodi continued when Jalen said nothing. “But if you don’t, she’salwaysgoing to use that as a weapon against you because she’ll think you’re afraid to.”
