Playing For Keeps (28 page)

"Mmmm," she moaned softly as he
suckled and kneaded her breasts. Her hips gently rolled against his
stomach, searching for relief. She arched her back when she felt
his hands leave her breasts and move to her back. In seconds he had
her bra undone and his tongue running over her breasts, flicking
her hard nipples.

Haley licked her lips as she worked
her bra off the rest of the way. She wrapped her arms back around
his head, holding him against her as she leaned over and pressed a
kiss to the top of his head.

Jason groaned as he wrapped his arms
around her, keeping her breasts where he wanted them and pulled her
away from the wall and walked down the pitch black hallway to the
bedroom. Somehow he managed to walk them into the bedroom without
stumbling.

He laid her on the bed. Bending over
her, he ran his wet hot tongue from one hard nipple to the other as
he undid her shorts. He slid his hand beneath the waist of her
shorts and under her panties. He cupped her in his hand, making her
squirm against him.

With one last flick of his tongue
against her nipple he sat up and helped her out of her shorts and
panties, while Haley toed off her canvas sneakers. She opened her
arms to him, expecting him to come back for a kiss. In the dim
moonlight she saw him shake his head.

"Roll over onto your stomach," he
said, already helping her turn over. "On your hands and knees,"
Jason said softly.

"That's it," he crooned when she did
what he asked.

Haley gasped, gripping the comforter
tightly in her hands when she felt Jason press a wet kiss to one
cheek and then the other. Without a word she spread her legs more
and arched her back. He continued to press kisses against her back
and bottom as he slid one finger inside of her.

Haley moaned, licking her lips. The
few times they'd fooled around in this position had been so good.
He always took her hard with his fingers or mouth like this, making
her scream. Once he ran his cock between her lips. When she
realized he was pleasuring himself against her she'd come harder
than she could ever remember.

Just the thought of him teasing her
folds with his cock had her riding his finger.

"You like that?" Jason asked, adding
another finger.

"Yes," she moaned as she pulled
forward until only the tip of one finger remained in her, then
slowly slid back, loving the way he filled her. She loved the way
he felt, the way he touched her, the way he made her so crazy with
need that she could only think about having him, she just loved
him.

Over the past week she'd been stupid
and so damn scared that Jason would hurt her one day that she
almost made the dumbest mistake of her life. She wasn't letting him
go. They belonged together. On some level she'd always known that,
but she'd been so damn scared that she hadn't seen it.

For the first time she allowed herself
to imagine the future she always thought was out of their reach.
She imagined falling asleep in Jason's arm every night for the rest
of their lives, imagined little boys smiling when she made cookies
and little girls wrapping Jason around their little fingers, and
she knew she would never be happy without him.

"Then you're going to love this," he
murmured softly.

She licked her lips in anticipation
when she heard the sound of his zipper being pulled down. A second
later she felt his jean clad thighs press up against the back of
her legs and his warm stomach press down against her
back.

He licked a line up her neck to her
ear, taking her earlobe into his mouth and gently suckling it as
the tip of his erection pressed against her core.

"You remember the day we were in your
flower garden?" he whispered in her ear.

"Yes," she managed to say.

"You have no idea how badly I wanted
to take you that day, just like this," he said, sliding slowly
inside her.

"Oh god!" Haley cried out at the
sensation of being filled. Thankfully it didn't hurt like last
time. It felt so good being filled by him like this, so
right.

"I've imagined fucking you like this
at least a dozen times a day since, my little grasshopper. I think
it's only fitting that we end this the way we started it, don't
you?"

"Jason, what are you-"

He cut her words off with one long,
deep thrust. It was followed by another, and then another. His
hands covered hers, fingers entwining as he took her slowly. His
low groans in her ear and the way he rubbed against her clit every
time he slid back in her had her screaming her release. Jason
groaned in her ear minutes later as she felt his hot release inside
of her. It felt so good that it set off another orgasm. Jason
gently thrust in her until her arms gave out and she collapsed on
the bed, gasping for breath.

Somehow she managed to rollover to
make room for Jason, but he wasn't there. She looked up to find him
pulling his zipper back up.

"Jason?" She slowly sat up. The hurt
expression on his face twisted her stomach. She reached out to take
his hand, only to find him stepping back.

"Goodbye, Haley," he said
softly.

"Jason? Jason!" she cried as her
bedroom door shut with an ominous click behind him.

Chapter 25

"Jason?" Haley said, gasping for
breath.

"Haley?" the last person on earth she
expected to call said.

"Dad?" Haley said, sitting down on the
arm of her sofa and doing her best to calm her racing heart. She'd
been outside weeding her garden and trying to make it through
another day without crying when she heard the phone ring. Afraid
that it was Jason calling she ran into the house desperate to hear
his voice.

One whole week and not a word and that
wasn't from a lack of trying either. She called his phone about a
dozen times a day, sent him text messages and harassed the hell out
of his friends and family looking for him. So far no luck. Nobody
had any idea where the hell he was. Up until yesterday she'd
convinced herself that he just needed some time and that he'd be
back, but that was before the realtor, the same realtor that failed
to sell her house for her, pounded a For Sale sign in his front
yard.

Now Haley was desperate to find him.
She needed to explain some things to him and probably grovel. Jason
wasn't the one that screwed up. She needed him back here so that
she could fix this before it was too late.

"Do you have a moment?" her father
asked.

Frowning and truly confused and
shocked that he'd called, Haley nodded woodenly, then remembered
that he couldn't see her and answered. "Yes. What's going on?" she
asked, wondering why he didn't just have his secretary call to
relay whatever message he needed to give her.

"Your grandmother told me that you
took a vacation last week. How was it?" he asked casually, but
Haley couldn't help but feel there was more to it. This wasn't like
him to actually take an interest in her life.

"It was fine," she said, wanting to
kick her own butt all over again. It could have been great if she
hadn't overreacted in the first place. Yeah, Jason had screwed up,
but it hadn't deserved the level of drama she'd created. If only
she'd made him grovel for a few hours they could have had a great
time.

Man, she was such an idiot.

"I heard that Jason went with you," he
said, followed by a short expectant pause.

"Yes, Jason went with me, Dad. I told
you we were dating," Haley said, walking over to the bay window and
looking out. Her eyes narrowed to slits as she watched Barbara, her
ex-realtor, gesture for a middle age couple to follow her into
Jason's house.

"It's nothing serious I hope," he
said, drawing Haley's attention back to the
conversation.

"What?"

"You and Jason. Your grandmother said
that you were serious, but I didn't think you'd be so foolish to
waste your life on a man like that," her father said, stunning her
into silence. Although by now one would think there was very little
her family could say or do that would shock her.

"What do you mean, a man like that?"
Haley asked, insulted on Jason's behalf.

He let out a tired sigh. "Haley, do we
really need to get into this? We both know you could do so much
better, Haley."

"No, I really couldn't, Dad. I love
Jason."

"Sweetheart, I know that you think you
love him right now, but in time you'll realize that...well, he's
not good enough for you."

"And why is that, Dad?" she asked
tightly, for the first time in her life she didn't bother to hide
what she was feeling from him. "Because he works for a
living?"

"You know I don't have a problem with
someone working, Haley. I work for a living," he pointed
out.

"Then I don't understand the problem,"
she lied. She knew exactly what her family's problem was from the
first moment they laid eyes on Jason.

"He's not one of us, Haley. He'll
never fit in. Surely you realize that, sweetheart. When you stop
pretending to be someone that you're not you'll come to realize
that Jason just doesn't stand up to our expectations for you," he
said soothingly.

She laughed without humor. "Oh, now
you have expectations for me? Isn't that convenient? The one time
you show concern for me just happens to be when you're worried that
I'll sully up the bloodlines and marry someone who might embarrass
you."

"Haley, that's ridiculous and you know
it. I love you and care very deeply for you," he swore. "I'm just
watching out for your best interests, sweetheart. In a few years
you'll see that. Maybe you should give Robert another chance so
that the two of-"

"What do I do for a living?" she bit
out between clenched teeth, cutting him off.

"Excuse me?"

"I asked if you knew what I do for a
living," she repeated.

"You run a day care," he said with
such conviction that even she almost believed it.

"I teach history at Latin Scribe High
School," she informed him, trying not to cry. She had absolutely no
doubt that if she asked what committees Rose or Martha were on he
would know, mostly because they were a reflection of
him.

"Oh," he said, sounding surprised.
"Congratulations, sweetheart. Why didn't you tell me you got the
job? We would have held a dinner to celebrate."

She opened her mouth to remind him
that they did in fact celebrate her job at her grandmother's
insistence five years ago, but what was the point? He was never
going to change and was truly never going to care about her until
she started living the life that he wanted.

He'd start giving her attention and
his precious time if she decided to ask for a trust fund and live
off him and date men like Robert that fit in. It wouldn't matter
that Robert was a cheating bastard and would drop her as soon as
she slept with him. Her parents only cared about their image. It
was kind of funny that her father started out in life by sharing a
room with his two brothers in a small two bedroom cabin, or that
his parents worked their asses off so they could go to college and
never have to worry about money. He'd been spoiled and she knew
that was Grandma's biggest regret in life.

"I got the job two weeks ago when I
turned thirty," Haley lied, wondering if her father was going to
remember this time. Of course he didn't.

"Oh, um, did you get my birthday
card?" he asked, before he covered the phone with his hand from the
sounds of it. She heard him mumble to someone, probably his
secretary, to send her birthday card out right away.

Looked like she'd be getting three
grand in a few days, she thought with an inward shrug. She'd keep
it without putting up a fuss this time. She already had an idea of
what to do with the money.

"Look, sweetheart, the reason that I'm
calling is that your mother is having a dinner party next week and
we'd like you to come," he said, not surprising Haley that her
mother hadn't bothered to call her. It just wasn't worth getting
upset about.

"I'll think about it," she said, not
really sure she wanted to put Jason through that nonsense
again.

"We'd really like you there. Robert is
very excited to see you again. You know he's been trying to call
you, don't you? I really think you should give him another chance,
Haley."

Since Haley doubted that her father
knew that his precious Robert had been calling up and leaving
messages offering to take Haley away for a weekend and "have some
fun and prove that his theory that she was wild between the sheets
was correct" she hadn't bothered to call him back. Then again her
father would probably just laugh it off if he did because it was
someone he approved of.

"I'm not interested in him, Dad,"
Haley said firmly, hoping he'd just let it go. "If I can make it
I'll be bringing Jason."

"He's not good enough, sweetheart,"
his said, sounding tired.

"Then neither am I," she said, hanging
up.

She took one last look at the couple
walking into Jason's house before walking over to her stereo system
and turning it on. She found a heavy metal station, cranked it up
all the way until she could actually feel the base vibrate
throughout the house. She pulled off her shirt, threw on a very
revealing bikini top, grabbed a beer and dumped half of it out
before heading for her front door.