CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE

Danielle

He surged forward a few more times and then shuddered as he collapsed on top of me. I wrapped my arms around his shoulders and kissed his temple. “I forgot the glasses.”

He dropped his forehead to mine. “Huh?”

“I still have my contacts in.”

Austin laughed. “That’s okay. We’ll do it again and you can take them out.”

“So, this works for you, then?”

“Yeah, babe. It fuckin’ works.”

“I can’t wait to show you what else I have, then.”

He met my eyes. “You have more?”

“I do. But you’ll just have to wait for those. Can’t show you all my secrets at once.”

“Yeah, babe, you can.”

I giggled. “You need to learn patience. Consider me your teacher.”

“As long as you’re sexy dirty teacher, you got it.”

“Whatever you want, honey.”

He kissed my neck, then my lips and smiled. “Love you, babe.”

“Love you too.” I stroked his cheek. “So… can you go get naked now? I’d like to do that again with the glasses.”

Austin laughed and did as I requested.

***

ANOTHER SATURDAY ROLLED around again, and I was at Austin’s for the weekend. It had been almost two weeks since my weekend of death, eight days since my start of the pill and his clear blood test, and our first night with no condoms. I’m pretty sure I was currently dead or in some sex-induced coma. I would never have guessed sex could be any better than it had been.

Tonight was another club get-together, but it would be a strictly family party. No one who wasn’t attached to someone was invited. I still had Cassidy bugging me to invite her sometime, so I promised to let her know when the next pig roast was.

For the moment, I was sprawled across Austin, naked and sated, our lovemaking on and off throughout the night. His hand ran absently up and down my back, but when his phone rang, it settled on my bottom with a satisfying gentle smack.

“Yo.” Austin’s voice went from happy and relaxed to irritated in a matter of seconds. “What the fuck?” He frowned, before unwinding himself from me and leaving the bed.

I watched him leave the room, the sight of his perfect ass almost as satisfying as his front, and took a moment to freshen up. I was standing at the mirror brushing out my hair when Austin slid his hands to my breasts from behind and caught my eye with a grin. “I’ve figured out what my dream job would be.”

“You have?”

He nodded and kissed my shoulder.

“And what would that be?” I asked, setting my brush on the counter.

“Your bra.”

I giggled. “It’s a heavy job.”

He gave my breasts a gentle squeeze. “Seriously, babe. You have the best tits. If I could find a way to preserve them forever, I would.”

I dropped my head back onto his shoulder as he worked my nipples with his fingers. “They’re at your disposal whenever you need them.”

He splayed his palm across my belly as he slid his other hand between my legs. “So fuckin’ ready.”

I licked my lips and moaned as he fingered my wetness and then slid two fingers inside of me. Keeping his fingers inside of me, he pressed gently on my back. “Brace on the counter, baby.”

I leaned forward and did as he directed, smiling as he slid into me from behind. “Lower.”

I shivered. “The granite’s cold.”

“It’ll add to the sensation, baby. Trust me.”

I touched my breasts to the stone and my breath left my body. He was right. It felt amazing.

“Eyes, Dani.”

I met his in the mirror and I was suddenly transported into another world as he never took his gaze from me and still managed to give me an orgasm while I was standing there. God, he was the master.

He gripped my hips and pulled out slightly, surging back into me, and braced again as he continued to thrust faster and faster. I dropped my head, my body having a difficult time staying upright.

“Eyes,” Austin demanded, and I met his again.

His hand slid to my clit again and I cried out as my orgasm hit me. He wasn’t far behind and covered my back with his body as he pulsed inside of me.

“Can’t breathe,” I rasped.

He stood immediately and slid out of me. “Sorry, baby.”

I stayed braced on the counter, my shaky arms the only thing keeping me upright, as he wrapped his arms around me again. “Bed.”

“I can’t move.”

He grinned. “I’ll help you.”

I giggled as we climbed back into the bed and faced each other, heads on our own pillows. “Who was on the phone?”

Austin frowned. “Annie.”

“Bad news?”

“She’s having trouble with her old man.”

I slid my hand under my cheek. “What kind of trouble?”

“He can be a dick.”

I studied him. He was holding back and I was debating on how far I’d push him. I decided, pretty damn far. “What aren’t you telling me?”

He flopped onto his back and dragged his hands down his face. “She fuckin’ called Hawk.”

“What do you mean?”

“To help. She called him before me.”

“What is your deal with Hawk?” I asked.

“He was our brother… sort of.”

“Another foster kid?”

Austin shook his head. “No, he’s the real son of our foster parents.”

I scooted closer to him, his arm coming automatically around me as I slipped mine across his waist. “What happened?”

“He put Annie in danger, is what happened.”

I leaned up on his chest and gripped his chin. “I swear to God, Austin, if you don’t start giving me detailed information, I’m going to hurt you.”

He sighed. “Sorry. I just hate revisiting this shit.”

“Well, you either tell me what’s going on with you, or you shut up about it,” I said, leaning down to kiss him quickly. “I’m a woman, Austin. You can’t throw out partial information without my mind running rampant and making up all manner of stories, probably way worse than you could ever imagine. Either you put me out of my misery or you…,” I met his eyes and shook my head, “…actually, no. At this point, you just need to fill me in.

Austin laid his hand on my bottom and gave it a gentle squeeze. “Bottom line, he knocked Annie up and then forced her to get an abortion, which was done by a hack, so she started to bleed uncontrollably. She nearly died.”

I gasped. “What? Seriously? Why are you in a club with him, then?”

“We were already in when it all went down,” he said. “Then, when she admitted his father had been messin’ with her, he said nothing. Did nothing. Didn’t defend her, didn’t testify against his father, nothin’. Fuckin’ bastard.”

“Weren’t you all just kids though, honey? Maybe he didn’t have a whole lot of choice.”

“We were nineteen, Dani. He was a little older, but not much.”

Because I knew this was a hot-button issue for Austin, I chose not to point out that being nineteen didn’t really mean much when it came to the difference between being an adult or a child. “What does Annie say about all of this? She obviously doesn’t have the animosity toward Hawk that you do.”

“She doesn’t say anything. She refuses to talk to me about it,” he spat out. “Says I’m a loose cannon and can’t be trusted not to go off on anyone ‘I deem a threat to those I love.’” His body locked and he scowled. “She didn’t trust me, but she had no fuckin’ problem trusting the bastard who nearly killed her.”

I kissed his neck. His sister wasn’t wrong when it came to his need to protect. “Sorry, honey.”

“Just give him a wide berth tonight, yeah?”

“If that’s what you want, yes. But does that fall to Lily too? Because I kind of adore that little girl.”

He rolled me onto my back and raised an eyebrow. “I’d be a total dick if I said to keep away from her, huh?”

I nodded. “Total.”

“So, what if I said that you should only talk to her if she seeks you out?”

“Then you’d only be half a dick.”

“Hmm.”

“What?”

“I’m trying to figure out if I can live with that,” he retorted.

“You can’t.” I slid my hand down to grip his cock. “Believe me. I require all of it to stay right where it is.”

“Just stick close to me, baby. Avoid him, yeah?”

“I’m a big girl, Austin. Hawk doesn’t scare me.” I kissed his chin. “Neither do you.”

“Really?”

“Really.”

He grinned and slid down my body, kneeling between my legs. “What does scare you, babe?”

“Oh, I don’t know… heights, spiders, the zombie apocalypse…”

He spread my legs and kissed my inner knee. “What about…?” He kissed my thigh, then gave a gentle suck on my clit. “This.”