Page 64 of Not Falling for the Forward
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Jack
I step off the bus and I am hit in the side by what feels like a missile. It almost knocks me off my feet, but I catch it.
No, not it.
Her.
Emily.
She wraps her arms around tightly my neck and her legs follow around my hips. I drop my head into her shoulder and breathe her in: lavender, honey, home. I grin as I raise my head and lift a hand to stop Dex in his tracks behind her. The security guard is obviously furious that he has been bested by the five foot seven, brunette in my arms. Once he has got the message that she’s not just some random stalker that has decided to attack, he backs off and I can use my surrendered hand to pull Emily tighter into my chest.
“Bro, the rest of us wanna get off and go home, too,” a voice behind me says. I turn and see Kieran, along with half of the team, standing on the steps of the coach watching us with varying degrees of amusement on their faces. I realise I have stopped right at the foot of the steps to the coach, blocking the exit. “Not that we’ve all got quite as warm a welcome waiting for us…” Kieran quips.
Emily looks up and takes in the players behind me, her cheeks blaze bright red. “Oops. I’m sorry,” she says to Kieran as she shifts her weight as if to dismount. I squeeze her tighter, letting her know that’s the lastthing I want her to do, and step to the side so the rest of the team can depart from the coach.
She finally looks at me then, her forest green eyes blazing as they meet mine. Her smile is small and shy, the total opposite to the wide grin I know I sport. She’s here, in my arms. I feel whole again. “I missed you,” I whisper and run my nose over hers, nuzzling. Her shy smile becomes a full grin just before I meet her lips with mine.
It’s just a small kiss, a light pressure and she breaks it too soon. I assume it’s because we are surrounded by people and she’s not ready for that kind of PDA, but she surprises me by lifting my cap from my head and placing it backwards on her own. “That’s in the way,” she says as she leans down and devours my mouth with hers.
From her position in my arms, she is higher up than me, so she controls this kiss. She is not holding back. When her tongue hits mine, a growl rumbles low in my throat. I meet every stoke of her tongue with mine, straining my neck up to keep up with her. The kiss recalibrates my brain with the taste of her, reminding me of how her lips fit perfectly against mine.
There is only her and me. Us. Right now, in the whole world, all that matters is her, in my arms, kissing me.
I feel my cock hardening in my pants and from where she sits on my hips, I know she can feel it too. Emily pulls back mocking me with a teasing grin, “So easy to rile up, Mr Cartwright.” She whispers as she wiggles where she is sat rubbing her centre against my hardening length. I grit my teeth at the friction, she knows exactly what she’s doing to me.
I stare right into her eyes as I grab her chin with one of my hands. Keeping my voice low so only she can hear it I say, “When I’m around you, just know I’m always riled up. I’m constantly riding the edge of being indecently hard in public. Now, if you don’t stop your wiggling,I’m going to take you back on to that team coach and fuck you until the only name you can remember is mine because you will have been screaming it for so long. I don’t give a fuck who hears or sees us, but I think you might.”
Emily’s eyes widen, her mouth popping open as if to argue but she quickly catches herself as she remembers where we are. She turns her head left and right taking in all the team members that are thankfully, mostly concerned with their own business.
She shifts her weight to jump off me again and this time I let her. I keep one hand on her hip as she stands facing me, I’m not willing to stop touching her yet, even if she needs a little distance whilst around these people. Lifting her arms she takes my hat off her head and leans up on her tiptoes to place it back on mine. She slowly lowers back down and I feel her breath on my neck before she speaks, “Maybe not on the team bus, but I like the sound of the end of that plan.”
I chuckle looking down at her, “Perfect, what you up to tonight?” I wink.
“You two done? It was getting to the awkward stage where I was waiting to say bye so I wasn’t rude, but then I was just watching you kiss so I was kind of a pervert,” Kieran says as he walks over to us.
“Nothing new for you to be called,” William says from his side.
I’m grinning when they reach us. William glances down noting where I have joined my hand with Emily’s as she stands at my side, but he doesn’t say anything. I turn to Emily and explain who they are, “Em, this is William, our captain, and Kieran, the keeper.” She smiles at them and says a polite hello. “Guys.” I turn to the two people I am closest to on the team, “This is Emily. My girlfriend.”
I feel Emily flinch at my side at the title, we haven’t spoken about putting a name on things, but what else is she? The woman I’m seeingis not enough. The woman who I want to spend the rest of my life with, although true, probably way too much.
“Nice to meet you, Emily,” William says with a smile as he shakes her free hand.
Kieran is next, he leans in and stage whispers, “Make sure he buys you a Porsche.”
“I’m more of a Ferrari kind of girl,” she quips back, and it has both of the men chuckling.
“Shit, I knew you were rich, buttwoFerrari's rich!” Kieran steps back clutching his chest. “Why don’t you date me instead?” This makes Emily bark out a laugh as I roll my eyes at Kieran.
“I don’t drive a Ferrari, so there is no first one for there to be two,” I gripe. “But if you want one, I could get you one.” I direct the last at Emily, who blanches and shakes her head.
“And besides, you can’t date him,” William joins in. “It would be awkward considering you have a thing for his sister.” My head snaps up from admiring Emily to Kieran who quickly drops his gaze to his new trainers.
I open my mouth to ask what the actual fuck, but Emily steps in and places a hand on my chest sensing my displeasure in finding out that piece of disturbing information. “And, as we’ve just established, he’s taken and has some car shopping to do, so we best get going.” I feel her pull me towards the car park by the hand she’s still holding and I let her.
Kieran has a thing for Aimee? Since when? Does she know? Over my shoulder I hear Kieran ask William why he would say that in front of me and William tells him he never would have the balls to do it himself.Damn fucking right. I turn to walk back to the boys, but Emily’s gip tightens on my hand and pulls me back to keep walking with her.
