Page 102 of Before You
“Is that a challenge?”
A familiar blush crawls up his neck, turning his cheeks a rosy color. “We’ll be late.”
“Do you care if we are?” I ask, and JJ looks torn.
His family left earlier while JJ was attempting to give me a surfing lesson, but I was hopeless. Any athletic ability I had vanished when I quit dancing years ago.
“Marley,” he says, and I stand up, walking closer to JJ, hyperaware of the distance between us I fully intend on closing.
“JJ,”I reply, reaching out to wipe away a drop of water trailing down his chest, before deciding to let it linger. “Tell me to stop.”
He swallows and I press my hand directly over where JJ’s heart lies in his chest, feeling the strong heartbeat. “I’m powerless when it comes to saying no to you,” he says, and I lower my hand until it reaches his, holding the towel in place.
“Are you saying no?” I ask, giving him an opportunity.
“I’m saying pleasedon’tstop.”
I beam at JJ as I pull his hand away, looking down to watch his towel fall to the floor, his thick erection jutting out towardme. Before JJ, I would have said I didn’t care about sucking a guy’s dick, and it always felt like more of a chore than anything. With him, it’s different.
I want JJ to enjoy this, and I’ll take him any way he’ll let me have him.
My gaze lifts to watch JJ’s face when I wrap my hand around him, thrilled when he pulls his bottom lip between his teeth to bite back a groan as his head tips back.
I lower to my knees, and when I close my lips around the tip, JJ releases a breathy moan. Electricity shoots through my veins as I take more of his cock in my mouth, using the lubrication of my saliva to help my hand move easier as I stroke him.
“Pillow,” he says, his eyes struggling to stay open and I’m confused.
“Did you say pillow?”
“It’s more comfortable for you.” JJ strains to get the words out as I tighten my grip, jerking him off firmly the way he showed me he liked, taking him in my mouth again, my hand bumping against my lips as I moan around him.Only JJ would think of a pillow right now.“Let me grab one,please,” he begs, his hips bucking forward, surprising me by forcing more of him into my mouth than I’m ready for, and I gag, my eyes watering.
“Fuck, I didn’t mean t—”
“I’m fine, really,” I interrupt, smiling at JJ so he believes me.
“Pillow, nonnegotiable or I say stop.”
Is JJ serious?“You realize you’re stopping me in the middle of a blowjob because I’m not kneeling on a pillow?” I ask, and JJ’s jaw tightens before he nods.
“I think you seriously underestimate how much I care about you being comfortable,” he says, cupping my cheek in his hand. “I’m actually disappointed I didn’t think of it sooner.”
I can’t help smiling when JJ steps away before retrieving a pillow from the mountain of them on his bed, bringing it backwith a pleased smile on his face, but I do my best to make him smile for a completely different reason a minute later.
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JJ and I are the last ones to arrive at the stadium, and I didn’t think it would be obvious until we stepped into the box and every single person in the room turned to stare. This time, the box doesn’t only consist of JJ’s family—I was prepared to be surrounded by people, but notthismany people.
“JJ, who are all these people, and why is everyone staring at us? We made it before the game started,” I whisper through my smile, willing it to stay in place instead of shrinking under the weight of everyone’s stares.
“Because everyone thought you were a blow-up doll I was toting around in public.”
My head snaps quickly to look at him. “I’m sorry,what?”
JJ laughs, his smile bright as he looks down at me. “I’m kidding, sweetheart.”
“Damn, I thought you wouldn’t show until after the game started,” a tall man says, walking up to us. I recognize him from some of the pictures around JJ’s parents’ house, but I can’t put a name to the face.
“It’s good to see you too,” JJ jokes, removing his hand resting on my lower back to hug him. “Marley, this is my uncle. Uncle Owen, meet my girlfriend, Marley.”
