“Yeah, she was still asleep. Jacks broke in through the back door.” His eyes widen.
“He wanted to stay and make breakfast for her, so our compromise was that she would come over now, have breakfast, and then we could take her back home in a few hours on the way to work? That cool with you two?” I know Gabe can hear me, because I get a grunt in response.
“She’s fine sleeping here, then? None of us are exactly great for entertaining at the moment you know?” Leo is drying his hair as we talk, waiting at the bottom of the stairs for Gabe.
“Yeah, apparently she didn’t sleep well either. She almost fell asleep in the car just on the ride over here.” Gabe joins us and we head towards the kitchen, where Jacks has just put a large pan in the oven to cook.
“I set the timer on that for about 30 minutes, don’t open the oven, yeah? We’ll be back”. He grabs Candice’s hand and practically drags her from the room.
Candice
“Ok, I got a surprise…and you don’t have to use it…but if you want to you can…but no pressure.” Jacks babbles along while pulling me up the stairs and down a long hallway. We reach a closed door at the end of the hall, and he tells me to close my eyes while he takes both hands, and I am totally having a Beauty and the Beast moment.
Somehow I doubt I am getting a library.
Still, the room is dark enough, even with the full sun outside, that everything is still black behind my closed lids. We stop, and he lets me go and I just stand there while I hear him circling behind me, the door shuts, and a switch flips.
“Ok, open up!”
I let out a scream; his face is directly in mine when I open my eyes.
“Oh, shit, my bad…ok…sorry,” He mumbles, but steps to the side and I see the most amazing nest. It is bigger than mine back home, with plush rugs all around the room, and a low pack size platform bed, piled high with blue and gray blankets, and stacks of more in green and purple sitting in the corner. Thereare dozens of pillows–I am not actually sure how anyone could sleep here with so many pillows–but I just want to burrow into them and hide.
Jacks shuffles sideways and grabs a dark purple pillow from the bed to give me. The fabric is incredibly soft, and it has the perfect amount of stuffing, and it smells like him. No one has ever done anything like this for me, and I can’t help the tears that start running down my face at what this sweet alpha has done.
He wraps one arm around me and tries to take the pillow out of my shaking hands, “Oh, no…what is it? Whatever’s wrong I can fix it. I mean..I can get rid of anything you don’t want…is it the pillow? I tried getting their smells off." He is speaking faster and faster with each word, trying to pry my fingers off the pillow without hurting me, until I let it drop to the floor and wrap my arms around his neck instead. His breath is coming out in a harsh pants and his heart beats frantically against my own.
“The pillow is wonderful, it smells just like you,” I say into his neck. “No one has ever done anything this nice for me, sorry. I didn’t mean to make you worry.” I tighten my arms around him, so he has to either stay bent over or stand up with me dangling off him. He wraps his other arm around me and lifts me up to walk towards the bed. When I am standing on the edge of the mattress we are just about the same height.
I slide my hand up to cup his face and kiss him, a soft peck on the lips, but his tongue comes out and licks across my bottom lip before nibbling it gently. I open my mouth in a shockedgasp and his tongue is suddenly in my mouth, sliding against my own.
Pleasure blooms down my body, it feels like electric current is running from my lips straight to my core. He lets out a low moan and tips me back until I start to lose my footing. Then he lowers me down ‘til I’m sitting on the mattress and he’s kneeling in front of me. His hands unwind from my waist, pushing under my pajama top and across the skin of my stomach. I can already feel how wet I’m getting just from his kisses and his scent.
He lets loose another ragged moan and pulls back. “Please Little Lion, I need…”
I don’t know what he needs, but sign me the fuck up.
I feel like I’m about to combust as he leans in farther, lightly biting at my lips. One hand running up to cup my breast while the other slides down, gripping my ass and pulling me against him so I am straddling his hips. Then he is grinding his hard length against my needy center.
I hear little whimpering and whining noises and realize they are coming from me as he plunders my mouth, and all I want is to tear him out of his clothes so I can feel more of his skin against mine. His hips rock out a stuttering rhythm against my core, and I am about to come just from that amount of friction, and the sounds of his moans muffled against my mouth.
He pulls back to look at me, his eyes bouncing between mine, but I don’t know what he’s looking for. I feel barely coherent at this point, as I wrap my legs around his lean hips and try topull him back against me. Reassured by whatever he sees, he closes the distance between us again, one hand sliding up my back and wrapping in my hair. I feel his fingers from the other hand brush over my center as he tries to undo his own pants with one hand–while not looking.
A quiet knock draws our attention to the door, where Xan stands smirking. “Wow, smells like someone is enjoying her new nest…now I have a craving for a peppermint mocha. Also, your timer went off on the oven.” He looks pointedly at Jacks.
“Shit!” Jacks stumbles back, tripping over his own feet when he tries to stand. His erection is painfully outlined against his jeans as he stumbles from the room, and I hear the loud thump of him running down the stairs towards the kitchen.
“Sorry to interrupt, Pretty Lady, but he gets kind of upset if his cooking doesn’t come out right. Also, as much as I would love to watch the two of you break in your new nest, I really think we all need to get some food and rest.” I know I’m still practically dripping from my kiss with Jacks, and I can feel my face getting red as my mind clears from the fog of lust.
And again, I want to just burrow into this wonderful nest he made me, but this time to hide until they all go to work so I can sneak out.
Xan stands there with a grin, “Don’t be embarrassed. He is sexy as fuck. Hell, I have a hard time resisting him even when we're this exhausted. But don’t worry, there’s plenty of time, we’ve barely started courting, and this is technically our first date.” Great, now I feel even more like a slut. I bring my handsup to cover my face and groan, when Jacks pops back through the door.
“Breakfast is ready, well, the sweet part is, so we can get you started. Oh, and I got you candles.” The abrupt change in topic snaps my head up, and he is pointing at four covered jars on the table in the corner. I didn’t notice that, or the other two doors in the room before, as I was so mesmerized by this beautiful nest. But now is not the time to explore, so I stand up, straighten my clothes, and follow Xan and Jacks out of the room.
There is German Pancake to eat, and from the smells wafting up the stairs it’s going to be delicious.
Chapter 17
