Taking Shots (Assassins, #1)(148)
“Oh, hush,” she giggled as she undid his pants, lowering them down to the ground, her face passing by his growing erection.
“No really, Elli, I want you all the time, so f*cking bad.” Elli looked up at him from her knees and smiled.
“So f*cking bad, huh?”
“You have no idea.”
Her eyes lowered a little, becoming half lidded before she pulled his boxers down, releasing his engorged flesh. “I think I do, cause I feel the same way.” That was the last thing said before she took him whole in her mouth. He leaned back against the wall, thanking God for giving Elli her hot little mouth, and the things she could do with it.
Pure bliss, he thought as he tangled his fingers into her hair, pure damn bliss.
Elli was having the best time with Shea and his family. Christmas was amazing. Of course, she had missed her family something crazy and called them all Christmas morning, but being with Shea and the rest of the Adler clan made it okay. Everyone loved the gifts Elli had gotten them and Elli loved the gifts they had gotten her. She felt so much a part of the family it was mind blowing. When she opened her gift from Shea, she smiled big as she held the diamond incrusted six in her hand. When she pulled the charm necklace he had given her so long ago out of her shirt, he smiled.
“What? I always wear it,” she said with a grin as she slid the charm beside the hockey stick.
Elli had to admit, though, the best part of Christmas morning was when Mark brought out her wolf fish, stuffed and mounted on a cherry finished board, with her name and the date underneath the fish. It almost brought Elli to tears, because she would forever have that moment on her wall, the moment she fell in love with his family.
And realized she loved Shea.
It was crazy how she came up there not loving anyone, or so she thought, and when she would go home in the next couple days, she would not only love Shea with all her heart, but she loved his family. She loved Jenna and her quirky sense of humor and how she babied everyone. She loved how Mark would laugh so hard he would cry when he would tell a story. How James would pick on Shea and Grace, calling them dorks and weirdoes when they would go into Shea and Grace mode. She loved Grace because she was so strong and loved everyone so much, Elli knew in her heart that Grace might be a tad bit jealous of her but she loved her. Ryan and Amelia were doll babies, Elli loved them at first glance, and she knew that a long time ago. Then there was Shea, her hunky hockey player who rocked her world. How could she not love all these people with everything inside of her? If anything, God forbid, ever happened between her and Shea, Elli would be forever broken. These people were part of her heart now and probably would be for forever.
After cleaning up after Christmas dinner, Elli sat with Grace and Jenna, looking through the Adler family album while James and Mark sat in the living room with the kids, and Shea was laying down cause his arm was hurting. When Jenna turned the page of the Shea’s book, Elli stopped her. The pictures that filled the page were of Shea and some red head.
“Alyson Jacobs,” Grace said with a shake of her head, “Shea was obsessed with her, it was sad really.”
Elli giggled as she took in the beauty of the red head, with light blue eyes and freckles covering her cheeks, while Shea looked gorgeous in all of his eighteen year old glory.
“Oh, Elli, he really was, and damn that girl but she broke my baby’s heart in a thousand different pieces.” Jenna said with a shake of her head, “I heard, though, that she married a stock broker that cheats on her every chance he gets, so she got what was coming to her.”
Elli and Grace laughed as Jenna just smiled, “Shea met up with her back in Philly, used her like the trash she was, and then dumped her. I was surprised with the way handled her the second time, though, I was for sure we would have another episode like the time before,” Grace said, looking closer at the picture as Jenna just shook her head.
“Little hussy.”
Elli looked over at Grace, “Episode?”
“Oh yeah, it was bad. I was in love with the Backstreet Boys, hell I still am, but anyways,” she took a sip of her coke, or as she called it pop, and continued with her story, “I listened to their music nonstop and well when Alyson broke up with Shea, I went into the room to check on him and he was laying on the floor, bawling his eyes out, singing all the sad love songs by them. I didn’t know what to do so I ran for my mom and she went in there doing her mom thing, it was crazy.”
Elli wanted to laugh so hard. Shea? Crying over some female? Please. Elli contained her laughter since Jenna and Grace were just shaking their heads. Jenna looked across the table at Elli, a small smile on her face.
“The thing is Elli, Shea is emotion, extremely. All these different women he has been through was because the first and only time he ever loved someone, he was found in a ball on the floor crying his eyes out. So it didn’t surprise me the line of women that I have seen him go through,” she paused for a moment, taking a sip of her coffee, “With Grace it was totally different, she never loved guys or had that puppy love. When she came up pregnant, I was totally shocked, not that I didn’t think she was having sex, but to be so careless with a man, she must have cared for him.”
“Yeah, I knew James was different, but even so, I didn’t tell him I loved him until after I had Ryan. I swear I have never seen a man leave so quickly to get a ring, it was crazy.” Grace said with a grin.