“I know, Dad.” She gave him a squeeze before stepping away. “If Mom was even a smidge understanding of my relationship with Corby, then maybe this would’ve turned out differently. But probably not since she’s the reason all my college applications went out to schools that aren’t anywhere near Black Mountain.”
“Dammit.” Mr. Cushing’s chin went to his chest, and his shoulders slumped. He seemed devastated by Emme’s admission.
Emme gave him another hug and whispered, “I’m sorry, Daddy.”
“You’re not the one who needs to apologize here, sweetheart. I am.” He brushed a kiss against the top of her head and met my gaze. “Please take better care of her than I did.”
I didn’t want to kick him while he was down, so I was careful with my response. “She’ll always be safe with me.”
He gave me a curt nod and helped us bring the rest of Emme’s stuff out to the vehicles. Once we had everything loaded, they had a tearful goodbye. With her dad looking on from the doorway to his house, I leaned into Emme’s car to say, “Drive carefully.”
“We’re only going a mile down the street,” she reminded me.
“One mile or one hundred, it doesn’t matter. When you’re in the car, there’s precious cargo.” She sniffled and nodded, giving me a wobbly smile as I shut the door. I hopped into the Jeep to follow her down the street and hauled ass to get her shit in the pool house. I’d moved my stuff over earlier this morning, and I wanted to get her settled in quickly so we could enjoy a few hours of downtime before I had to be at the rink for practice. Our timing had been great because the team didn’t have any games this weekend.
“Start unpacking while I get the rest,” I suggested when Emme went to follow me out.
“Why am I not surprised?” Emme mumbled with a roll of her eyes.
I dropped a quick kiss on her mouth. “Because you know there’s no reason for you to carry heavy shit when I’m around to do it.”
It didn’t take me long to carry her stuff inside. I found Emme unpacking her clothes in the closet. Her tight ass was in the air while she grabbed some shirts from the bottom of her bag. After giving one of her cheeks a light slap, I picked her up and headed for the bed. “Hey, I’m not done yet.”
“We celebrate everything now, remember?” I asked as I dropped her on the mattress and started pulling her pants off her legs. “You can finish after.”
“When you put it like that, I guess I can’t resist.” She tugged my shirt over my head before removing her own.
In no time at all, we were both naked, and I was pressing her curvy body into the mattress while devouring her mouth with mine. I went from a half chub to fully hard when her legs wrapped around my hips. “Fuck, baby. You’re already wet for me.”
“That’s what happens when you kiss me like you never want to stop.” She dragged her nails up my back. “And it drives me wild to feel how hard you get for me.”
Hearing her admit how much she wanted me snapped what little control I had. Moving to my knees, I settled between her thighs and lowered my head to swipe my tongue through her wetness. Her hips jerked off the mattress, and I gripped her waist to hold her in place while I feasted on her. I licked and sucked until she was writhing in need beneath me, and only then did I pinch her clit between my finger and thumb to send her soaring over the edge. I hummed in appreciation and held her legs wide while I licked her through the orgasm, waiting until the pleasure ebbed before I stretched my arm out to grab a condom from the box I’d tossed into the bedside table drawer this morning.
Emme wrapped her hand around my bicep. “You don’t need one anymore. I got on the pill, and it’s been long enough that we’re safe now.”
My head whipped around, and I stared at her while what she was offering me registered in my thick skull. “Are you saying I can take you bare?”
“Only if you want,” she whispered.
“Of course, I fucking want it,” I rasped, coming down on top of her and claiming her lips for a deep kiss. While my tongue tangled with hers, I stroked a hand down the length of her body to anchor it beneath her knee and lift her leg. Notching the tip of my dick in her entrance, I punched my hips forward to go balls deep with one powerful thrust. The pleasure was nearly overwhelming. I’d never felt anything like her wet heat wrapped tight around my dick without anything between us. “Holy fucking hell, you feel amazing.”
“Oh, wow,” she breathed, her hands clutching at my shoulders. “How can it feel so much better like this?”
“No fucking clue, baby,” I grunted as I slowly dragged my dick out of her tight clench, only to push right back in again. “But thank fuck you went on the pill because taking you bare is the best thing I’ve ever felt.”
“Best idea ever,” she panted, meeting me thrust for thrust.
I wasn’t sure how we’d ever make it to school anymore now that she was living with me and we’d discovered how fan-fucking-tastic sex without condoms was, but that was a worry for another day. All I could focus on at the moment was holding out long enough for her to come again. I tangled her hair in my fist and pulled her head back. “You’re mine, Emme. Only ever mine.”
“Yours.”
I started hammering into her with hard, driving strokes. My balls slapped against her ass, and I felt as though I’d never get deep enough. Over and over again until her pussy finally clamped around me as she screamed my name. I felt a tingle at the base of my spine a second before the sensation surged up my back and made me stiffen. My head arched back as my come felt as though it was boiling in my balls before it spurted into her tight heat. My orgasm felt as though it lasted forever as I filled her pussy up with my release.
“So good.” Emme’s eyes drifted shut as I collapsed on the mattress next to her. Pulling her limp form against my chest, I felt the odd combination of being drowsy while also energized. With Emme under the same roof and in my bed, I was more than ready for whatever came next.
17
Emmeline
“I think you’ll like the seats I obtained for you girls.” William handed me three tickets with a smile. I hadn’t seen him much while I’d been living in his pool house with Corby, which had made the three-hour ride to the rink where the state championship was being played today a little awkward. Luckily, Emily and Sarah had come with me, so it hadn’t just been the two of us in the back of the limousine.
We would’ve been fine on our own, but Corby liked the idea of us hitching a ride with William since it was a longer drive. Keeping his focus on the game ahead was more important than how I got there, so it had been easy to accept William’s offer to travel with him—especially once my best friends found out he’d hired a limo for the trip. “Thanks for getting these. I’m used to just showing up at the rink and sitting wherever I want. I didn’t think to ask Corby if we needed tickets for this game since it’s special.”
“You’re quite welcome.” William pointed toward the area high in the stands behind one of the nets. “I’ll be in the private box with a few recruiters who came in large part to get a last look at Corby before the draft. If you need anything, send me a text or come find me.”