Replace Me (12 page)

I walked in his bedroom in shock from my plea to him. I didn’t know if he’d listen, but I was tired of the back and forth. Joey made me crazy, albeit I wanted him more every second. I’d lied when I said I just wanted him to forget about my problems. I wanted him because I knew he was going to be fantastic. I wanted him because when he looked into my eyes, no other woman existed and I’d never felt that type of connection with any man, ever before.

Chapter 12

Shayne

Peyton tried to call my phone six times before I finally answered. I was so pissed at her, but knew I only had myself to blame.

“It’s not a good time.”

“Shayne, I’m so sorry. She said you told her everything. I’m so stupid.”

“I shouldn’t have lied about it.”

“You must think I’m the worst sister in the world. Do you want me to talk to her? I’ll do anything to make things better.”

I thought about the possibility of Lacey listening to Peyton. As much as she liked my sister, I was pretty sure she was done with my bullshit. “Don’t worry about it. I’m just goin’ to move forward and let it go. Even if she forgave me, how long do you think she’s goin’ to stick around through everything else?”

“But you love her.”

“I care deeply for Lacey. As much as I feel like it could be love, I just don’t know. She deserves more than that.”

“Are you okay? Where are you going to crash?”

“I’m goin’ to drive to the beach and stay with some friends for a few days until Dad chills the fuck out.”

“Call me if you need anything. I won’t tell him where you went.”

“Thanks, sis. Talk to you later.”

I had a good drive to think about everything that had landed me in the situation I was in. The only person to blame was myself. I had a great girl and I let her slip through my fingertips. Like them all before her, I’d move on, because it was what I did best. My time with Lacey would be something I wouldn’t soon forget. She was special, more than any other before her. Knowing that nothing lasts forever, I had to move on.

My priority would be Parker and the baby. I’d get him through this mess and everything was going to work out.

It had to.

Lacey

I climbed in his bed expecting him to continue to be hardheaded. Instead, there he was standing shirtless in the doorway. His brows were creased as he watched me positioning myself.

I was petrified about being with him, not because I knew he was going to be amazing. Somehow that didn’t even matter. I was scared because as much as I should have been a miserable desperate mess from losing Shayne, it had all faded away. I trembled at the thought of giving myself to someone like Joey.

Sure, his body was amazing and he knew how to touch me in all the right places, but it was something else, something much deeper.

He slowly walked over to the bed and shook his head before climbing on it. “This is bad.”

I leaned up on my elbow and watched him. He mimicked me and we stared at each other. He took my hand, bringing it up to his lips, “We don’t have to do this. I can wait until you’re over him.”

I shook my head. “Shut up and kiss me.” While climbing on top of him, I felt his arms wrapping around my back. His lips met mine and that instant spark had ignited. Our tongues met and as they brushed together, my eyes closed, unable to stay open for another second as I became consumed with a burst of heat between my legs. I was so ready for this; for him. “I want you.” I opened my eyes as he pulled his lips from mine.

His thumb rubbed over my lips and I leaned into him doing it. “I want you, too.”

I kissed his fingers as they moved against my mouth and eventually ran through my hair. He held it out of the way to lean in and pleasure my neck with his lips and tongue. When he reached my ears, I leaned in the opposite direction, giving him room to do whatever he wanted.

Joey’s hand reached down and grabbed onto mine. Our fingers laced together and he kept them tight as our tongues met again. As if it were in slow motion, He pulled me up to straddle him. We were both sitting up, me naked and him in a pair of loose shorts. He was hard and ready and I needed to finally discover what had been hiding from me this whole time.

With my free hand, I slid it up his shorts, letting my fingers glide over the smooth skin on the tip of his shaft. A low sound escaped his lips as my hand grasped ahold of the thickness. That fire between my legs intensified when I realized that his girth alone would send me straight into sexual bliss. Knowing it wasn’t always about size, and more of how a man knew how to work it, I felt confident Joey hadn’t been lying to me. In fact, everything he’d said thus far had been the truth.

Considering that I’d been with a liar for so long, I had to grasp the goodness in him, even when I knew how much of an asshole he could be when he wanted to.

Joey took my hand and pulled it out from inside of his shorts. He flipped me on my back and hovered over my naked body, looking at all of my assets while biting his lip. “You’re so God damn beautiful.” I could feel my cheeks heating up in reaction to his statement. He continued to look at every inch of me, like he was planning on eating me alive. Joey licked his lips before he leaned down and kissed me full on the mouth.

I dug my hand into his hair while our tongues mingled together. Like the times before, his mouth matched my movements. After removing my hand from his hair, I slid it down to his bicep. Since he was holding himself up with it, the muscle was hard and defined. I tickled his skin with my fingernails, while he used his free hand to cup and massage one of my breasts.

Joey kissed me one more time and jumped off the bed. I felt confused until I saw him coming back in the room. He had something behind his back and I had no idea what it was. Had it not been for the giant smile he was wearing, I would have been afraid of what to expect.

He climbed back on the bed at the foot. “Close your eyes, Lacey.”

“You’re scaring me.”

“Just close your eyes. I swear I won’t hurt you.”

I listened and did as he requested. For a few seconds, I heard plastic moving, but nothing else. Even the bed didn’t move. As I began to say something, I felt something touching  my right nipple.

It was cold and completely unexpected. I opened my eyes immediately.

Something red caught my attention as it was making contact with my nipple again. Upon further observation, I realized it was a frozen strawberry. Leave it to the chef to get creative with frozen foods on the first night of us having sex. I bit down on my lip and tried to prepare myself for the reaction to the coldness. “Close your eyes.”

“It’s cold.”

He reached down and sucked on my nipple. His saliva felt hot and my body reacted, making it harden. He pulled away and blew on the sensitive area, before taking the melting fruit and rubbing it over my other nipple. I gasped, even though I knew what to expect. I could literally feel it in my toes as it soaked my breasts. Once again, his mouth sucked away the coldness.

I opened my eyes and watched Joey bringing the strawberry up to my lips. My mouth opened and I let him feed me. When I began to chew, he leaned down and kissed me there. He pulled away and smiled. “Your pussy’s next.”

My nipples tingled, and it traveled down to my pussy, that eagerly awaited the idea of being touched again by Joey. He’d already showed me how easy it was for him to pleasure a woman.

He pulled another strawberry out of the bag and showed it to me as he focused on my pussy. I knew it was going to be intense, so I clenched the sheets beneath me as it made contact with my clit. My body bucked feeling the immediate, almost sting of the frozen fruit hitting my sensitive bud.

Joey rolled it around in circular motions, and the friction from the texture of it, combined with the sting of the coldness, was incredible. My hips thrust and the butterflies came, followed by my screaming out into the bedroom. He didn’t give me any time to settle either, as I watched him going down on me, determined and eagerly.

The warm heat of his tongue made contact with my clit and I lost total control of myself. I dug my hand into his dark hair and shoved his head back down over my pussy, not willing to lose the euphoric sensations that were filling every inch of my sensitive skin.

Joey fought me, pulling away enough that he could look right at me as his tongue separated the lips of my sex. I was panting as I watched him kissing my clit and then sucking it into his mouth. The pinching pleasure traveled up to my nipples and I couldn’t help but run my fingers over them, circling my own hardened nubs and pinching them.

When I watched him eat that strawberry, I thought I was about to scream out his name. It was so erotic and in seconds, he was back at my pussy, licking up my clit, like a battery-operated machine.

I kept squeezing my nipples as my body reacted. Joey’s head bobbed, but he never stopped lapping me up, even when I began to shake. He sat up and took my hand, bringing it down to my pussy and moving my finger over my own clit. After showing me what he wanted to see, he stopped guiding me and watched me touching myself.

I almost couldn’t stand the pleasure as it jolted through my body again. Joey kissed my inner thigh, then the back of my hand, while it circled over my clit. He grabbed it and moved it out of the way to kiss my pussy again, then he smiled. “That’s two.”

I moaned and watched him making his way up to kiss me. I could taste my essence on his lips “How many do you expect to give me?”

“That’s for me to know and you to find out. Prepare yourself for a long night. I can cum twice before I need a sandwich break.”

I smiled and teased his lips with my tongue. “Prove it!”

“Are you challengin’ me? You do realize that I’ve made you cum four times now and never even fucked you?”

Of course I knew that. The anticipation was killing me, especially knowing how thick he was and how good it was going to feel when he was inside of me. “Give me what I want, Joey.”

He shook his head and started tugging down his shorts. I was too excited to look down, just knowing we were one step closer to it finally happening. The anticipation alone was making me want him more than I thought it was humanly possible.

Joey grabbed protection out of his dresser and rolled over to apply. I appreciated that even in my irrational thinking, he was responsible. At least one of us was. When he rolled back over he kissed me tenderly, like we had all the time in the world. It was so personal, the way he touched me, like I was the only woman he’d ever been with. He stared me in the eye, before looking down at my body. While holding his body up with one arm, He ran his erection over my entrance. His dick was hot and my tiny bud hadn’t recovered fully from the last orgasm, so the smallest contact made me react to him, exactly like he wanted me to.

I kept my eyes focused on him, concentrating on his olive skin and the way he had begun to sweat.

Joey leaned down and kissed me repeatedly, sucking on my bottom lip and pulling it. I reached for his mouth, but fell back on the pillow when I realized he was in position and ready to penetrate me.

We looked into each other’s eyes and I reached up and touched his face. It was right there, slowly entering me. He was purposely taking his time, allowing me to feel every single inch of him filling me. Our lips met and before he’d gotten all the way there, we were caught up in a mind-blowing connection.

Little cries escaped me the first few thrusts, but Joey never stopped kissing my skin. His hands explored while every move was geared to give me the most pleasure. I wrapped my legs around his back and clung to him as our bodies rocked together. Maybe I should have known better, but I found myself experiencing something that neither of us was ready to admit. We stared into each other’s eyes once more while I came another time; this time because he was inside of me, finally.

Moments later, our pace picked back up again. Joey’s focused face scrunched up and I knew he was fighting the inevitable.

However, he was much stronger than I’d imagined. He pulled out of me and rolled over on his back, breathing heavily. “Ride me.”

I climbed on top of him, grabbing his cock and letting it slide right inside of me. Then Joey grabbed both of my hands and held them as I began to ride him, like he wanted. He didn’t try to finish early, so he could get off and go to bed. He wasn’t trying to rush me out of his bed, or make promises to satisfy me that never were kept. He fulfilled me over and over, sending me to places that my body had never been before.

He never took his eyes off of me and that’s when I knew that he’d been right all along. Our intense connection was scary and that meant that when we came down off of the high, we’d created a mess that neither of us knew how to handle. His tough facade wasn’t in this bedroom. This man I was with was someone else completely and I wanted to know everything about him.

We’d crossed a line, acting on pure lust, and nothing was going to come out of it except heartache, because all along it was about sex and nothing else.

Joey erupted and finally let himself release nearly an hour later. Not only was I surprised about his ability to last, but also that he’d never been selfish, not even for a minute. When I felt him ejaculating, I got off again, tightening my walls and almost squeezing him out. He clung to my ass and held me still, until he could open his eyes and move around again. I fell down over his chest, sweating and out of breath. Instead of rolling me off of him, he held me and kissed the top of my head. “You weren’t lying,” I managed to announce.

“Woman, we’re just gettin’ started.”

Chapter 13

Shayne

My friends place at the beach wasn’t anything to write home about. Aside from it looking like a pig sty, it could have probably been condemned at any moment due to the structure being in such poor condition.

Chris Bono, also known as Boner, had been a friend since we both were lifeguards. We trained together and partied together.