Page 16 of Everything Is Yours
Lily began giggling, and I knew she was remembering us watching porn one night, and there was a couple performing. The woman kept squirting when she came, and the guy was getting off on it. It’s something I found gross, as did Lily, and we were talking for hours about how perverse some people seemed to stretch their sexual boundaries after we’d seen it.
My joke had backfired badly, and I felt terrible that Lily felt pressured by my past into thinking I’d be less into her if she didn’t experiment that way. I knew it was difficult for her to know that I’d been there in the past. I had known it was something she worried about, but she had insisted on us being honest with each other, so when she asked me whether or not I’d had anal before I’d told her the truth. From that point on, she had difficulty accepting it wasn’t something I needed to do again.
When we were getting to know each other, Lily asked me questions about my sex life that had me cringing before I’d answered. But I always answered. Lily was relatively inexperienced when I’d first met her, hence her insecurity about being enough for me.
“Lily, a man can spend a lifetime inside thousands of different women. There may even be a few he connects with for longer. And don’t forget all the dynamic hurdles in those numbers. It may be that the connection is one-sided on his part as well. Each may satisfy the other temporarily through one thing they find in common. However, it’s the connection that runs so deep it seeps into your soul that binds two people for infinity, and that creates the magic. I believe we’re limited by our own insecure thoughts when we love someone with our whole hearts. If I could take my heart and lay it on the table, you’d see the truth that’s in there. Every chamber, artery and vein is filled with my love for you. You don’t even have to look for my soul because you stole that the first time I kissed you.”
Lily took my hand and laid a soft kiss in the center of my palm, then held it next to her heart.
“You’re my world, Alfie. I can’t help feeling how I sometimes do, but thank you for reminding me why I love you.”
Eventually calm returned between us. I could feel her slow even breaths. Her chest expanded and released with her settled mind. It became a soft, steady rhythm, and I knew she had dozed off. I lay awake because the thought of losing Lily scared me to death. Hell, I’d go as far as to say I’d even thought that if someone had to die I’d hoped it was me because I already knew I couldn’t live without her. Thinking about it used the last of my energy, and I don’t remember falling asleep.
Chapter 9 Drinking Games
I woke to the sound of Rick’s voice in the hallway and a small warm spot in the bed where Lily had obviously only recently left. I slung my legs over the edge and forced myself to get up in the waiting darkness. Taking a few seconds to come to my senses, I finally shuffled into the connected bathroom. I washed my face and brushed my teeth. Feeling more alert, I headed for the sitting room.
Wandering down the hall to the sound of voices coming from the sitting room made me happy. However, what I saw when I got there ripped that mood right out of me. Jack was sitting in a pair of boxer briefs and a t-shirt, and it was obvious that he and Mya had made the most of their quiet time as well. His neck was marked, and there were fresh nail marks at the side of his thigh.
Mya was still asleep, and Lily was close to Jack on the sofa, but they weren’t actively touching each other. More like completely relaxed in each other’s company and Lily hadn’t seemed fazed by the fact that Jack was half undressed.
Lily glanced up at me when I entered the room. An affectionate smile instantaneously spread across her face when her eyes met mine.
“Hello, honey, did you have a good nap?”
I nodded and looked over at Rick, who was sitting with his leg crossed with his ankle resting on his other knee. His arm reached along the back of the sectional sofa where he was sitting, opposite of where Lily and Jack were sitting. Rick glanced up at me with a raised eyebrow indicating he expected me to make an issue out of the cozy scene between Lily and Jack. Or he may have been wondering himself what the deal was because Jack was married to his niece.
I learned long ago that the caveman technique of claiming my woman where Jack was concerned was futile. A more subtle approach was necessary. Remaining calm, I walked across the room and sat down next to Lily, then lifted her across my knee. Lily squeaked in surprise and gave me a sexy smile, her face reflected complete trust regarding what I was doing. I planted a soft kiss on her lips and tongued at the seam of her closed mouth. Lily giggled and pulled her head back to look at me. I dragged my mouth away and leaned back to look at her fully aware that both men’s eyes were on us.
“I did. I was out of it for a while, did you sleep okay?” I traced her face with my finger and ran it down her nose before trailing it along her lips while I listened to her reply.
“I did. I was flat out until Rick knocked on the door. He woke Jack up as well. We were all down for the count.”
I was relieved when she explained how long she’d been up because if I’d had too long to think about it I would have begun to imagine her and Jack alone in his underwear and why he was in that state of undress with her.
Before I could think more about it, there was another knock at the door. Rick sat staring at me, and I looked down at Lily. Jack commented he wasn’t going to the door in his underwear in case Mr. Frost pecked his balls off then Rick chipped in.
“I don’t do doors. Never know what crazy fucker is on the other side. It might be a fan.”
Jack started laughing loudly then had a coughing fit before finally challenging Rick on that, “Seriously? A fan? We’re in the middle of fucking nowhere, Rick.”
Jack had no real idea other than the stories we’d shared with him, but I’d had fans who have hidden in the box of a bed, and been delivered to my room in suitcases. I’d even found one knocking on my hotel room window seven floors up, and that was long before we were at the status we’re at now.
Lily stood up and pulled down the hem of her red sweater. She bit her plump bottom lip, her eyebrows bunching together and stared at Rick as if he’d grown a unicorn horn.
“I’ll take my chances,” she smirked before she began heading down the hallway.
Rick’s eyebrows disappeared into his hairline, and he stared at me shaking his head with a disappointed expression on his face.
“You call yourself a man, and yet you’ll let that sweet girl answer the door in the woods? It could be a fucking bear out there you moron.”
Jack and I belly laughed at Rick because we knew he was trying to get a rise out of me, and I wasn’t in the mood to bite.
“Well, the only reason you didn’t answer was because you know it wouldn’t be pussy, Rick,” I replied, turning to smirk at Jack.
Jack chuckled and gave me a high five. “Good one, Alfie.”
Rick shook his head and smirked knowingly. “Already had that at my door. Dita had to leave to do her job. That’s why I’m sitting here.”
