“Dammit, Kay. Where the hell are you?” Yeah, sure, I’d put the ball in her court, but I didn’t like it there. That wasn’t how I worked. And now, it pissed me off as I paced between my foyer and living room, looking out the window of my house for her car to pull up. My cell phone was tightly clutched in my right hand.
Something had been off about her since she’d come back. I felt it, and what had transpired between us that morning had confirmed it. Now it was getting dark, raining heavily and a thunderstorm was on the horizon and she wasn’t home.
“Fuck this.”Since she wouldn’t come to me, I would go to her.Just this once.
I hopped in my BMW and backed out of the garage and was on the road within five minutes, rain be damned. I decided to first drive past her office to see if she was still there. I already knew the answer but it was confirmed once I saw the empty parking lot. She wasn’t at work. I even considered stopping at her parents but thought better of it. Besides, although I had apologized a few years later to Mr. Reyes, I still got the impression he was no fan of mine.
The more I drove, the angrier I grew. Kayla was doing it again. Running. And avoiding me. I pounded on the steering wheel with my fist. I wondered if I’d come on too strongly, but I’d exercised incredible restraint, in spite of my base self wanting to take what felt like belonged to me. Kayla’s hesitance forced me to go slower than I wanted to, but I did it. But that would only last for so long. I had enough adrenaline running through my veins that night, that I knew once I found Kayla, I wouldn’t be able to keep my hands off of her.
I understood her reluctance where Chelsea was concerned. The same pangs of guilt had plagued me too when I first recognized what was happening between us. But the pull between Kay and I was too strong to ignore. I learned to make peace with this budding … whatever it was that was happening here.
Instead of heading over to her parents, on a whim I found myself pointing my car in the opposite direction. Driving to a place I hadn’t been to in years. It was the last place I wanted to go but deep down I knew I’d find her there.
Sure enough, as I pulled my BMW up next to Kayla’s parked car, I sighed, when I saw her empty vehicle. A need to see her drove me to push the driver’s side door open and climb out against the pelting rain and the backdrop of loud, clapping thunder. As soon as I shut my car door the night sky was illuminated by a flash of lightning, only to go dark again a few seconds later. I growled angrily as I began walking down the hiking trail that would lead to the waterfall where we’d released Chelsea’s ashes.
My heart grew heavier and heavier with each step I took. I didn’t know if it was because of thoughts of Chelsea, or if it was because I could feel Kayla’s agony, or it might’ve been a mixture of both. But as I cleared the pathway and the rushing sounds of the waterfall came in clearer, my eyes darted around the dimly lit space until they finally landed on her soaked body.
My Adam’s apple bobbed up and down in my throat as I swallowed. It was dark but I could make out how the button-up top she wore clung to her body, drenched by the rain. Her head was down as she stared at the water below, but it popped up when a branch snapped underneath the weight of my foot. My pace increased, propelling me closer to the large rock she sat on. She simply stared at me when I reached her, glaring down on her.
“It’s time to stop running.” The anger was thick in my voice. I wanted to throttle her and pull her to me at the same time.
Her lips parted. “There’re things you don’t know about me.”
“Is that supposed to be a deterrent? Scare me?”
She turned her head to look away from me.
Nope. Not this time.I moved closer, turning her by the chin to face me again. “There’s nothing you could tell me that would stop what’s about to happen. You might as well give up fighting it.”
“Josh, we shoul—” One last weak protest that I didn’t bother heeding.
I crushed our mouths together, breaking off any further protests, and dipped my tongue inside to receive the sweetness of her taste. I pulled Kayla to stand by her arms, closing out any distance between our bodies. I felt her hesitation initially, but even she couldn’t deny the inevitable. Her body acquiesced and lips surrendered to mine. When she moaned into my mouth, I needed more. I reached down and cupped the ass that I’d watch jiggle as she worked out each morning, despite my hatred of early mornings. Squeezing it, I pressed her hips against my burgeoning hard-on. Kayla gasped, breaking off our kiss. I dipped my head to lower to her neck, itching to get my first taste of the soft skin that rested there. Kayla shivered in my arms when my teeth slightly clenched at the skin just below her earlobe.
“You’ve been avoiding the inevitable for too long,” I growled in her ear. I took a step, and then another, pressing our bodies back up to the nearest tree. The rain and passing thunderstorm be damned.
“Josh,” Kayla panted, breathlessly. “I-if we do this …”
“There is noif,Kayla. We’re doing this.” I crushed her lips with mine. My hands frantically began unbuttoning her shirt, peeling it away from her body, exposing cinnamon flesh my mouth watered to taste.
Kayla’s hands weren’t idol either. She rubbed her hands along my chest, finding the buttons to my own shirt, undoing them. Her hands on my chest had me growling with need.
“I should wait until I get you into my bed to take you but I can’t.”
“I don’t want to wait.” Kayla stared at me, biting her bottom lip, awaiting my reaction to her words.
The only reaction I had was to rejoin our lips and pull and tug at her clothing. I undid the button of her pants, pulling them down, exposing her lower half. My hands went to the globes of her ass, squeezing and kneading them. I used one hand to undo the button of the jeans I wore. I was so hard it was almost painful to pull myself free.
“Give me your hand,” I ordered.
Kayla didn’t hesitate placing her hand in mine. I guided her hand to my stiff member, wrapping it around me. “You’re going to put me inside of you for the first time.” I leaned in, licking her plump bottom lip and wrapping her left leg around my waist.
“Shit!” I grunted when Kayla’s hand squeezed around my cock. “Do it, Kayla. Now!” I urged, licking her earlobe just before suckling it. My eyes squeezed shut when I felt her maneuver my cock to her wet entrance. I groaned in her ear as she began sliding me inside of her. She was so fucking tight I felt like my eyes were going to pop out of my damn skull. And I wouldn’t mind one damn bit.
I brushed her hand aside and slid all of the way in until I couldn’t go any deeper. I pressed my body against hers and leaned in. “You know why I had you put me inside of you?”
She shook her head, eyelids drooping as she looked at me.
“So you know we’re in this together. You and me. You’re just as much in this as I am, Kay.” With that declaration, I took both of her wrists in my one hand, raising them above her head and covering her lips with mine. With my free hand, I gripped her waist and began pumping my hips into her.
