“Chamber of Commerce?” he asks, and I nod.
“Yeah, the chamber thingy.” I smile, he shoots one right back at me and it’s beyond stunning. Fuck, he’s the best looking guy I’ve ever known in real life. And he’s my boyfriend. That revelation calms my agitation a little. “But I get it if you can’t go since you’re friends with Lacey.”
“Lacey isn’t my boyfriend,” Chase replies and steps into my space, the fabric of his loose shorts brushing against my thighs and he wraps his arms around my neck. “I may not be able to say that in public but I can still support you. It’ll look like I’m just fulfilling my duty as a Chamber of Commerce member but really, I’m there for you. And also your brother has my vote, even if I also can’t say that out loud.”
“I want to kiss you, but I haven’t brushed my teeth,” I confess and he brushes my lips across his lightly anyway.
“I left a new toothbrush on the counter.” He breaks our embrace. “I have to go teach aquafit at the community center so brush them quick so I can kiss you good-bye.”
I head into the bathroom, he leans on the door frame and watches me. “You know you can stay as long as you want. Use the hot tub or just take a shower. Play around with my guitars if you want.”
I meet his eye in the mirror as I spit out the toothpaste and grin. “I’d love to play with something but it’s not your guitars.”
He grins. I rinse the toothbrush, and he walks up behind me, takes it, and puts it in the holder next to his. I keep my eyes on him in the mirror and bend a little at the waist, pushing my ass into his groin ever so slightly. He doesn’t startle or move away. “Tell me more about this aquafit thing?”
“I used to be a lifeguard as a teenager,” he explains and picks up a comb from the counter next to my right hip. Chase starts gently brushing my hair. And he also starts gently pushing his erection against my ass. I’m not sure which action is getting me hot. Maybe it’s both. “Then in college I took an online certification for this, on a lark, and started teaching. Wanted extra spending money I didn’t have to ask my parents for. I kept teaching for free to help the community.”
“I feel like I’m dating a Saint,” I reply and tilt my hips to rock into him a little harder as he rubs his cock against me again. “Which is weird because you fuck like a demon.”
“We haven’t fucked,” he reminds me. He stops combing my hair and grips my hip.
Our eyes meet in the mirror again and he holds my hip tighter and rocks into me, his cock pressing against my crack.
“Close enough,” I whisper, arching my back a little, showing him how easy it could be. How perfect. He leans forward, kissing the back of my neck and pumping himself against me. Oh, how I wish we were naked, but I know he needs it slow. So if he wants to hump like teenagers in front of the bathroom mirror for now, I am not about to stop him.
“One day,” he murmurs, his hips growing still but his hard length still pressed to my ass. I straighten a little and twist my head and kiss him so long, hard, and deep that we’re both sporting wood by the time it ends. He steps back and palms his cock through his sweats. “How the fuck am I supposed to face the aqua ladies with this?”
“Do I have time to fix the problem for you?” I ask, and he pulls his phone from his pocket.
“Probably not. I have to leave in five minutes,” he replies, and I grin and slip down to my knees.
“You underestimate me,” I say, pulling down the waistband of his shorts.
Four and a half minutes later, Chase is groaning so loudly the walls are probably rattling as he comes into my mouth. His hands are splayed on the counter above me and his knees are bent, on the verge of buckling as he gasps for air. I slowly slide my mouth off him and look up, grinning in victory. “Better?”
He laughs. “But I have no time to return the favor.”
“Lucky for you I take rain checks.” I stand up as he pulls his hands off the counter and yanks up his sweats. “Hope the ladies enjoy the class as much as I enjoyed that.”
“You should come,” Chase suggests. “Find out for yourself.”
I laugh but he doesn’t. “Seriously?”
“I’ve got an extra suit,” Chase offers. “It’s a decent workout.”
“How would we explain me at an aquafit class full of seniors?”
He shrugs. “I don’t know but at least it would give them something to fawn over besides me. It’s like having forty grandmothers. They’re constantly asking me if I’m eating enough vegetables and if a lady has caught my eye yet.”
I laugh. “I should go just to watch that. But I have to get back to the farm. Autumn is annoyed enough as it is, if I don’t help with this event, she’ll be unbearable.”
“Okay.” He kisses me and then I finish getting dressed and we head downstairs.
As we wait for the elevator my mind goes back to Bennie finding us in the hallway. “You going to do anything about the Bennie thing?”
Chase frowns slightly. “I guess I should. But how do I handle someone who has feelings I explicitly told him I couldn’t, and didn’t, have?”
“Well, having been the Bennie in a relationship,” I say carefully, because for Trevor that’s exactly what I was. I didn’t see it at the time, but I had feelings he did not. “I don’t think you can fix this. He probably thought that after you two hooked up you’d see things differently.”
