LOGINJACKSON
Oh, she was deliciously wet.
“Fuck, Siri,” I growled as I shifted her underwear to the side–another one to steal–and felt her wet folds. “Already dripping for me.”
The light in her room was dimmed, but I still managed to see her flushed cheeks, her parted lips, and those eyes so filled with lust.
“Jackson…” she breathed, her voice hoarse.
I ran my fingers through her folds, coating them in her juices. “Tell me, darling.”
“D-do something about it.”
I chuckled softly. “Oh, I plan to, love.”
But I was going to tease her first. I planned to draw this out, because once it was over, I would have to leave, and I didn't know when I'd get another chance like this. My fingers still teased her folds while I stared, and she stared back, her chest heaving.
“Let me see those blossoms, love,” I breathed as my finger pressed into her clit, and her body jerked, but she still managed a breathless chuckle.
“Blossoms?” she muttered, even as she raised her chest and her hands moved to unhook her bra. “What is this? The 1700s?”
“I’ll call them whatever I want,” I rasped, my eyes falling from hers and down to her free breasts. She slowly pushed her bra aside, and there, they stared at me, her nipples already hard.
I released a breath as I leaned down and licked one of them. She moaned softly, her fingers slipping into my hair, and I hummed when I felt her fingers dig into my scalp. I closed my eyes as I kept sucking on her nipples, alternating, and then my fingers got to work.
With one last tease around her folds, I pushed one finger into her.
“Oh, Jackson,” she breathed, her back arching. She wrapped her arms around my neck, pressing my face deeper into her chest. “Jackson, more…”
I raised my eyes to hers, wanting to see the look on her face as I added a second finger.
It was a look of absolute bliss.
Her eyes were hooded, and so bloody sexy.
My dick strained in my briefs, yelling to be let free, but I ignored it.
This… this right now was for my wayward angel. For that look in her eyes I saw back at the dining table. It was for the weight I saw pressing down on her shoulders, the clench in her jaw, and the tears that she didn't let fall.
This was my way of telling her I was here, and this marriage might end tomorrow, and I will still be here.
Our eyes were glued together as my fingers moved in her, working slowly. I curved my fingers upwards, and her eyes went wide, a loud moan spilling from her lips.
I released her nipples, already swollen, with a soft pop, my breath ragged as I moved my fingers faster.
“You’ll want to be quiet, darling,” I whispered as I scissored my fingers, and she bit her lip before she could moan again.
“I-it’s almost impossible,” she moaned, moving her hips to meet my fingers.
My chest puffed out with pride. “Well, I can understand.”
Even though she looked like she was about to go crazy from pleasure, she still managed to chuckle. “That damn pride of yours.”
It was hard not to be proud when I was making an angel come undone. My chest was close to exploding with that pride.
My fingers pressed into her spot, and she gasped. She drew me closer to her, burying her face into my neck so it could muffle her moans.
As I felt her moans vibrate on my skin, and her warm breath leaving its prints on me, something tight curled in my chest.
Maybe I should take her away.
Take her away from Marshall, from those fools at campus, and the café. Just… just bloody take her away from it all.
She deserves happiness, to have her eyes crossed with pleasure, to stop hiding and be her beautiful self. She deserves a day when she doesn't walk around with her guard up, tension curled around her shoulders.
“Siri,” I breathed as my fingers moved faster now, and her moans were getting higher and higher, but my neck kept the sounds muffled.
“Jackson, I’m close,” she breathed, fucking herself on my fingers.
“Siri,” I breathed again, my voice growing hoarse.
Let me take it all away, Siri. Let me shield you. Let me show you why you don't need to hide, especially from me.
“Siri.”
There were so many things I wanted to say, but all I could do was call her name and hope she could hear all the unsaid words.
“Jackson, I'm cumming!” she cried into my neck.
She bit down, and I hissed, my fingers never stopping in their brutal thrusts. She shook against me, holding onto me like I was her lifeline. Holding me harder than just fuck buddies held together.
She moaned my name over and over again.
Does she know that fuck buddies didn't moan their partners’ names with such tenderness? Does she know that they don't hold each other with such adoration?
Does she bloody know that this was already becoming more than “just sexual?”
I buried my nose into her hair and inhaled deeply as she came apart in my arms.
I have never questioned this feeling in my chest, but maybe it was time I did because I could feel it growing into something else, something that might complicate things.
When she came down from her high, she didn't let go of me. She kept her face buried in my neck, breathing heavily. Her body still shook slightly against mine. Slowly, I pulled my fingers out of her, and she shivered, pulling back, her eyes finding mine.
We said nothing, our faces so close we were sharing air. Slowly, I brought my fingers to my lips. I didn't look away from her eyes as I licked one of them. Her eyes went wide, her cheeks beet-red.
“One day, I'll taste it directly from the source," I muttered as I licked my fingers clean.
“You’re filthy,” she whispered, but she looked intrigued.
“I can be worse.”
She snorted. “Now you sound like a playboy.”
She buried her face into my neck, still holding me, and I just stayed there.
After a moment of silence, she asked, “Do you really believe you’ll mess up a game if you don't have sex?”
“Yes,” I answered softly as my thumb stroked the back of her neck.
“Have you seen what will happen if you don't?"
“Yes. A disaster.”
“Where did this belief bloom from, Jackson?”
My thumb paused as a bitter memory flashed in my mind, but I pushed it away so soon, locking it behind that metal door.
“That’ll be a tale for another day, love.”
“Hmm,” she muttered, her voice thick with sleep. “You can’t sleep here, you know?”
“I know. I’ll leave soon.”
She said nothing, and soon after, her breathing evened out, turning deep. I leaned down with her so her back was on the bed. My fingers brushed her hair back from her face as I stared down at her sleeping face.
Ah God, she was beautiful.
It wasn't just the physical beauty: it was the way she carried herself, the way she talked back. It was just everything about her. I leaned down and placed a kiss on her forehead.
“One day, Siri,” I whispered as I pulled back.
One day, I'll show you why you don't need to hide anymore or carry so much alone.
I carefully got out of her bed, about to head towards the door, but I paused when I saw her phone sitting on the small desk.
I smirked and tiptoed over to it.
I almost shouted in triumph when I saw it had no passcode. So my wayward angel had nothing to hide, huh?
But I didn't pry; I just typed in what I wanted.
When I succeeded, I dropped it and walked to the door. I turned and stared at her peaceful face. I left, closing the door with a soft click, my chest heavy, and yet warm at the same time.
I was about to head into the room reserved for me when a door opened, and my mother stepped out, her eyes landing on me.
Yeah, fuck Toria and her stupid advice. Fuck that happy ending nonsense. Sure, I do want a happy ending with him. I want a happy beginning, middle, and ending with Jackson. All of that and more! Damn it, I had even been thinking of the perfect future together with him. Yes—and fuck you—I’ve been thinking of going somewhere with him, getting a house, three dogs, and maybe one cat. We could live like that for a few years, then get married, and decide if we wanted kids. I'd already mapped out the perfect future, the perfect ending.So yeah… Use him? USE him? How on God’s green earth can I use him when I was in love with him? I was madly in love with that man, and it made me realize that I was never in love with Michael. No. No, I was just in love with the attention and the idea of love, the idea that someone finally wants me. But this painful shit with Jackson? This soul-crashing devastation? Yeah, this was love. This was love in its purest, fucked up form.So how was I going to us
“I thought you might be gone already,” Toria said as we settled into my hotel room. “Jackson already booked my flight,” I said, opening a beer. “I leave in two days.”“Hmm. So what are you going to do till then? Stay cranked up in here?”“Probably.”“I could show you around, you know.”I thought about it for a second and shook my head, sipping my drink. “Thank you, but no.”I had thought about leaving and just going to tour on my own, but every time I thought about the possibility that I might run into him out there, I shook off that thought. Maybe I would have seen him with his hand around another woman’s waist, laughing with the boys and acting like that night didn't happen. But seeing him on screen tonight, I don't think any of that might have happened. I wanted to ask Toria what happened and why he looked that way, but then I might sound like I care, which I very much do, and I wanted to stay cool and keep up this nonchalant act until I was out of here.And so I sipped my drink
SIRIHe… lost. I stared at the TV screen in my small hotel room, my eyes wide, hands squeezed together and pressed to my chest.“He lost,” I whispered it out loud like it would make sense if I did so. I told myself I wasn't going to watch the game, that I would stay away from my screen and just wait for my flight back home two days from now, but I couldn't. I couldn't let the chance of seeing him, even though it was from a screen, slip away. As soon as his team had skated onto the ice and the camera zoomed in on them, my eyes had found him immediately, and I knew something was wrong. His skin was too pale, his eyes looked too sunken, and he kept flexing his wrists over and over, to the point I was sure everyone in the arena must have noticed. And I could have sworn that he was trembling. The game started, and it was even worse. Everything about the way he moved, to the way he could no longer hide his trembling, was wrong. It filled my heart with dread and panic. I couldn't relax a
PRESENTThe smoke of that cigar, laced with a chocolate scent, burned into my nose even though he was across the street. The scent was the same: the cigar lit, resting on his lips, lifted in a smile. A small smile, soft and gentle. Not like that frightening smile he had on his face that night that still sends a chill down my spine. Elijah M’Call still looked the same even seven years later. His black hair was slicked back from his face, dotted with gray. His grey eyes were wrinkled at the corners from age. His shoulders were still broad beneath his tailored suit, and black leather gloves covered his hands.He still looked and dressed the same. Nothing had changed.After that night, I had cut every tie with this man. I made sure I never heard a word from him or received a single penny. I moved into Jacob’s house, and his mother accepted me without a single complaint, letting me stay until I could rent my own place. I didn't speak to my mother for two years after that. She came to my
CONTENT WARNING: This chapter contains references to domestic abuse and may be triggering to some readers. Reader discretion is advised. ~.~“I can think of a few things that can make you quit hockey,” my father said, his voice relaxed, but his face was filled with hell. He stood chest to chest with me, and I fought every instinct screaming at me to lower my eyes, to pull back. I fought them and stood perfectly still, not letting that dark look intimidate me.“What?” I spat. “Are you going to pay the coach to kick me out of the team? Then I'll just find another team to join.”“Jackson, please,” my mother whispered, and that just made my fists clench harder. Why was she calling me back and not her husband? He was the one threatening to take my dream away from me! My hopes for a better future, and still I was the one being called back? Did she really think I would just roll over and accept this bullshit? Bloody no. “That is way beneath me, Jackson,” he said in a low voice, acting li
SEVEN YEARS AGOThe sun had long since set, and the neighborhood was dark by the time I strolled in through the back door, my shoes tied together by their laces and hanging around my neck, my hands shoved into my pockets. Hopefully my parents were asleep by now, and I wouldn't have to deal with either of them. It was exhausting to look into their eyes these days and act like everything was fine when I harbored a little bit of hatred for my father. Okay, maybe it was more than a little bit, but I won’t tell if you don’t. I spent time at Jacob’s house long after practice, then came home and lied through my teeth, saying the coach sucked us dry with practice, which is why I was so late.You can’t blame me. The atmosphere in this house was depressing, and hearing my father whistle while he smoked his cigar, acting like all was right and fair in the world, was pissing me off when I could see my mother was losing weight, when I could clearly see she was losing her shine. She just needed







