Hold (Gentry Boys, #5)(28)

Creed drove away and I jogged back to my car for the short drive back home. As soon as I parked in front of my building I heard music blaring. That wasn’t unusual, considering this area was almost exclusively populated with college students who did things like blast music and vomit in the pool.

As I drew closer to my door though I was startled to realized that the noise was coming from my place. Of course Steph would have been home hours ago but it wasn’t really her style to blast nineties grunge music into the atmosphere if she was just sitting in there by herself.

“You’re hanging out with your brothers tomorrow night, right?”

No.

Absurd thought.

Unworthy.

Steph had never given me a single reason to doubt that she was faithful to me. It was a disgraceful thing to even cross my mind.

Still, as I pushed the key into the lock I sensed that something was off. Something that could alter the comfortable order of my personal universe.

“Hey you,” I said, happy to find Stephanie sitting on the couch and wearing a white t-shirt that wasn’t quite long enough to cover her pink lace panties. It didn’t seem like an invitation though. She looked at me strangely, like I was the last person she expected to see.

I motioned that I was going to turn down the volume on the old stereo that was wedged in the corner entertainment unit. She nodded.

“Didn’t know you’d be waiting on me,” I said as I sat down and touched her knee. “Turned out to be a crazy night. We ended up driving down to Emblem to bail out a couple of long lost cousins.” I started giving out details but after a few sentences I realized she wasn’t listening at all.

She sat there staring at my hand on her knee. I noticed she had something clutched in her right fist.

“What’s that?”

Steph opened her palm and stared at the ball of paper inside. “Nothing. LSAT test results.”

“The law school entrance exam?”

“That’s the one.”

I leaned back into the couch and processed the news. “When did that happen? I didn’t know you’d taken the test.”

She sighed and pressed her knees together. “Yup. I do that. I take tests.”

“Well?” I prodded. “How’d you do?”

She smiled at me. “I did awesome.”

I clapped my hands together. “Babe, that’s great. So is this happening? You going to law school?”

She lost her smile. “No.”

“What?”

“I’m not going.”

“Steph, you’re gonna have to help me out here. What do you mean?”

“I mean I need a job more than I need three more years of school to fulfill a fanciful childhood idea.”

“Honey,” I soothed, pulling her close to my chest. “Let’s talk about this. I’ll be teaching full time and even though it’s not a luxury salary it’s better than what I’ve been making. We can figure out how to make this happen for you.” She tilted her face toward me and I kissed her soft lips.

“Chase,” she said, pulling away a little.

“Shhh.” I hauled her into my lap, letting my hand creep under her shirt and explore her smooth skin. “Let me make you feel good right now.”

“Chase,” she whispered and ran her hand over my cheek. “I love you so much.” She pressed her forehead against mine and widened her knees so that they were on either side of me. Hell, I knew we were talking about important life issues but my dick was suddenly hard as steel. I needed something, even if it was just a taste. She needed it too. I could tell by the way she’d started breathing hard and pushing herself against me.

Wordlessly I pushed her arms up and then lifted her shirt over her head. Her eyes were closed and her head rolled back as she started grinding her hips against me. I deftly reached down and got my pants open, impatiently sliding all that shit down far enough to release my dick.

Steph still had her panties on but she was getting plenty hot just from grinding so I kept at it. When I shoved my hand down there to tease a little she let out a moan and sank against my chest. She was getting closer every second. Fuck, I loved watching her come. I was in the mood to watch it right now. I slid a finger into her to get her to the brink while she bore down hard. I knew exactly how she worked. Another few seconds and she’d clench up before the explosion shook her. I wanted to be closer to that. I wanted to be surrounded by it. I wanted to f*cking explode with her, inside her. I gripped the flimsy fabric of her panties in a fist, knowing all it would take was a flick of my wrist to make that business history.

“Let me,” I hissed, tugging hard to let her know what I wanted.

She hesitated, even stopped moving.

I tugged harder. “Let me.”

“Yes,” she panted, rolling her hips in a search for my dick. “Do it.”

One second later that pink lace was in shreds and I was in there deep with no plans to stop. She wasn’t on the pill and although we weren’t regularly careless it happened now and then.

“Chase!” she gasped and there she was, coming so hard she shook everywhere, clutching me and even whimpering as she felt me follow her.

“Baby,” I whispered a minute later as I pushed her sweaty hair out of her face and searched for her mouth. I wanted to kiss her, hold her, tell her I worshiped the f*cking ground she walked on and that I’d do anything on earth to her, and for her, forever.