We both kept our eyes open when his lips first brushed against mine. His lips were warm and soft and it took every ounce of control for me not to press harder against him and deepen the kiss, so eager to have his tongue in my mouth again. After several soft kisses, Xavier angled his head and licked a path across my lips and I couldn’t keep my eyes open any longer.
“Open for me,” Xavier whispered and I happily obliged him.
His tongue slid over mine, so that the smaller ball on the bottom of his tongue raked across the top of mine. I wrapped my lips around his tongue and sucked it deeper into my mouth. Xavier slid his hands into my hair where his blunt nails scored my scalp, giving me a full-on body shiver.
I released his tongue with a sexy pop and let him proceed to kiss me however he wanted. He swirled his tongue around mine seductively slow, his piercing ramping up my lust tenfold. I kept my hands on the console between our bodies, not trusting them anywhere on his body.
“Touch me, Ben.” Xavier didn’t have to tell me twice.
I slid my hands up his torso, slowing to tug his nipples on my journey upward. I stopped when my hands reached his neck and lightly traced his pulse points with my thumbs. I angled my body closer to his, seeking out his body heat. I wanted to feel his body pressed so tight against mine until not even air could fit between us. Never had a kiss affected me so damn much and I never wanted it to end.
BAM. BAM. BAM.
Xavier and I jerked apart when someone pounded on my driver side window. I clutched my chest in fear of a heart attack while my jackass brother laughed so hard he couldn’t catch his breath. The finger pointing and knee-slapping went on for a few minutes, which allowed my heart to return to a normal rhythm.
“Who the fuck is that?” Xavier leaned around me to get a better look at the idiot jackal.
“My asshole brother,” I answered dryly. “What the fuck is he doing here?”
Bevan gathered himself and walked to door behind mine and knocked on the window for me to unlock it and let him in. I shrugged at Xavier and clicked the unlock button. Xavier looked back and forth between Bevan and myself, probably noticing just how much we looked alike. We could pass for twins if not for the slight gray around Van’s temples and the hint of crow’s feet around his eyes.
“What are you doing, dickhead?” I asked as soon as he shut the door behind him.
“I knew you were going to be doing some sleuthing and wanted to make sure you didn’t jump the guy and go to jail because of your pregnant friend.” Xavier tensed beside me.
“Meet my pregnant friend’s brother,” I said sarcastically to Bevan. “Xavier, this is my older brother, Bevan, who usually shows more tact.”
Bevan at least had the decency to look chagrined when he leaned forward and offered Xavier a hand. “I didn’t mean any offense, Xavier.”
“None taken.” Xavier didn’t sound convincing.
“It’s a damn good thing I showed up, because you two amateurs missed the fair-haired prince picking up his nightly piece of side action.” Van nodded his head over to the black SUV a few rows up and over to the right. Van snickered when the vehicle began to rock with the rhythm of a frantic fuck. “Lucky lady, huh?”
“Van,” I warned. I couldn’t be sure, but Xavier might have been watching this scene in horror, picturing his sister being treated in a similar fashion. The thought was enough to make my stomach pitch and roll and I wasn’t a blood relative.
“What? I’m not putting his sister down,” Van said defensively. “I know nothing about her circumstances, but I’ve seen hundreds of douches just like Drake Anderson during my time as a private investigator. After he puts it to this woman, he’ll stop and get his wife a little gift, and then go home to her smelling like another woman. Fucking disgusting. What’s the point? I say we just keep playing the field, lil’ bro, that way no one can make us feel as shitty as his wife surely will be feeling later tonight.”
I glanced over at Xavier and found him watching me closely. I can’t say how I knew it at that moment, but I just knew that my answer would make or break this fledgling littlething– for lack of a better word – that we had going. I needed to answer honestly, but be certain not to paint myself in a bad light.
“That’s a pretty cold existence though, Bevan.” I kept my eyes trained on Xavier while I continued. “I used to be pretty happy going from one dude to the next, but not anymore.”
“Unh,” Van grunted. “That’s a pretty swift change of opinion, bro.”
“Not really. I’ve spent the last year watching two wonderful men fall head-over-heels in love with each other. It’s been the most enlightening experience, Van. I mean, it’s like they need each other to breathe. It’s like nothing we’ve ever seen,” I said shaking my head. “I realized that I want that for myself. Someday.” Xavier said nothing, but he kept those liquor-colored eyes on mine, searching for any signs that I wasn’t being sincere. I imagined he was mulling over every single word I spoke.
“Well, it sounds all romantic and nice, but I don’t believe that love lasts. I think too many times people confuse lust and hormones with love. People toss that L word out there so casually these days that it carries no weight with me. But, I hope your friends are the rare couple who make it work.” Van leaned up and slapped me on the shoulder. “I hope you find that kind of relationship too, Ben, if that is what you really want.” He sat back in his seat and then chuckled. “In the meantime, let’s follow this loser and see if I was right.”
We watched as Drake Anderson barely helped the lady out of the backseat of his SUV and didn’t even wait for her to safely get in her car before he peeled out of the parking lot.What a dick!I pulled out behind him, but didn’t follow too closely, of course. Van was the definition of a backseat driver as he instructed me on the proper way to tail a suspect.
“Stay two cars back.”
“I am, Van.”
“He’s turning, Ben.”
“I can clearly see the turn signal.”
“Don’t pull into the same parking lot as him, dip shit. You want to make it obvious? Go down to the sandwich shop next door and we’ll watch him discreetly from there.”
