Ruin Me (38 page)

She looks down. “Is it that obvious?”

“A little.” I kiss her nose. “But only because I miss it, too.”

“Yeah?”

“I want to get lost in the world with you again, Piper Lynch.”

She gives me her lips for a moment, then pulls away. “There’s just one problem…” she says.

“What?” I ask.

“I don’t think my father will be too happy about us
getting lost
in Europe again…”

I grin in the dark. “It’s been taken care of,” I say.

“It has?”

“Philip already knows all about it,” I admit. “I even printed out an itinerary just for him.”

“
You
made an itinerary?” she gasps.

“Yep,” I say. “Hours and hours of planning have already gone into this trip.”

“I refuse to believe that.”

“Refuse all you want, Pipes,” I chuckle. “It’s still true.”

“I want to read this itinerary.”

I shake my head. “Nope.”

“But you could have made a mistake,” she claims. “Having two sets of eyes on it won’t hurt.”

“If you read it,” I explain, “then you’ll ruin all the surprises I have planned for us.”

“There’s
more
surprises?!”

“Shh!” I turn around to see Mandy stirring in the dark. Luckily, she’s too deep in her sleep to wake up and quickly goes limp again. “Yes…” I whisper. “There’s more.”

Piper takes the tickets from me and sets them down on the nightstand. “Kai Casablancas…” she mutters as she leans down. Her lips graze my own as she speaks. “You are just too damn good at this.”

“Good at what?” I tease her lips with my warm breath.

“Me.” She takes a deep kiss from me. Her hands put pressure on my shoulders to lower me down to the bed. She straddles my waist and towers over me while my hands explore her skin. It feels like warm milk against my fingers. Her wet nether lips embrace my cock. I grow harder each second as she gently grinds herself against me.

“Piper…” I grunt.

She lowers herself down to kiss me into silence. “Shh… Don’t wake Mandy,” she whispers.

I can’t keep my hands off her perfect tits. I taste her skin, growing harder and harder until I’m completely stiff. She takes me into her palm and guides the tip inside of her wetness. We lock lips to contain our moans.

Piper hovers above, refusing to impale herself on me. I fight the desire to thrust her myself, knowing that the movement would wake our bedroom guest. Not that there would be any issue with that, but Piper and I love to play sexual games with each other. This is just another one for us to immerse ourselves into.

Finally, she lowers herself slowly, pushing me all the way inside of her. I bite my cheek to keep silent and I taste blood on my tongue. Her inner muscles squeeze me tight, clamping down around me with a vise-like grip. She stays steady, balanced perfectly on my hard cock, and massages me from the inside with masterful ease.

I sigh with pleasure and let her work me as I lay still on the bed. The power of Piper’s pussy takes hold of me and I know with absolute certainty that she’ll bring me to my fall without me having to perform a single thrust inside of her. My pulse races, pounding blood throughout my body, forcing me closer to my edge. She smiles down at me and digs her nails into my chest to toy with me. I delight in the pain she brings me, breathing through every second of it as if it were my last.

My body and muscles go stiff and I finish inside of her. The sensation rocks me to my core, but I hold it all inside, refusing to lose control of myself. A giggle escapes Piper’s lips, just barely audible on the air. She lets my spent cock slide out of her as she lowers herself down to lie on my chest again.

I hold her against me and we don’t say a word as sleep claims us both.

Chapter 37

Piper

“I haven’t felt this good in weeks,” Mandy says from my bed. She hangs her head off the side, letting her curly hair fall to the floor below.

I chuckle as I pull open my dresser drawer. “You certainly
look
better than I’ve seen you in weeks,” I agree.

“Don’t take this the wrong way, Piper,” she says, “but can I borrow Kai next weekend?”

“Absolutely not.”

She laughs and rolls over to inspect my suitcase at the foot of the bed. “How long will you be gone?” she asks.

“A week, I think,” I say as I pull out a few clean pairs of socks.

“You think?”

I nod. “Kai won’t tell me how long we’re going or where we’re staying or what cities we’re going to visit.”

“Oh, man…” she laughs. “I bet that’s
killing you
.”

“You are correct.” I walk over and stuff a few pairs of panties into the suitcase. “He said to prepare for everything, so that’s what I’m doing.”

“I wouldn’t worry about it,” she says.

“I’m not worried.”

“Really?” Mandy leans forward. “Because you look worried.”

“Not worried…” I turn back to the dresser but pause slightly as a bought of dizziness strikes my brain. “I’m just a little distracted, is all.”

Mandy reaches into the suitcase and pushes the clothes down to make more room. “Distracted how?”

I take a deep, slow breath. “I have a lot on my mind right now.”

“Like what?” she pushes. “School is over.”

“Yes, school is over, but life never ends.” I say it with a little much force and I see Mandy’s head twitch in my direction.

“Okay…” she mutters. “What’s going on, Piper?”

I sigh and turn around. She looks back at me with expectant eyes. The words burn on my tongue, eager to touch the air, but as I open my mouth to speak, another wave of nausea hits my core. I grip the dresser to hold myself up.

Mandy stands up from the bed, her eyes full of worry. “Sit down,” she says. I let her pull on my arm and she leads me to sit down beside her.

“I feel sick,” I say.

“Yeah, you
look
sick.”

“And I’m late.”

“Late?” She stares at me with confusion until the light finally shines behind her eyes. “
Late?
Like
late
late?”

“Like late late,” I say.

“How late?”

“Four weeks.”

Her eyes go wide.”That’s
really
late.”

“I know.”

“Have you been using protection?”

“Of course. I haven’t missed a pill since I was fourteen.”

Mandy smirks. “It seems Kai’s sperm has just as much stamina as he does.”

“It would not surprise me.”

“I always imagined Kai’s sperm with big, rippling muscles wearing a vest with like… you know, shotgun shells strapped to it or whatever.” She flexes her arms. “Real
manly
sperm.”

“I’m sorry… you
always imagined
his sperm?” I ask. “Do you sit around and imagine what people’s sperm looks like?”

“What?” she grins. “You don’t?”

A laugh blows past my lips, but it refuses to stay. “As much as I’d love to laugh about this, I’m not quite ready yet, Mandy.”

“Sorry.” She drops the smile and takes on a more comforting tone. “Does Kai know?”

“I don’t know how to tell him,” I whisper. “Something like
this
will destroy us.”

“Your relationship is
not
that fragile, Piper.”

“Isn’t it?” I pause, searching for the correct words. “We used to have so much passion for each other.”

She scoffs. “And you still do. Believe me, I could see it last night.”

“Last night was the most fun we’ve had together in
weeks
, Mandy,” I admit. “Why do you think I suggested it in the first place? He’s getting bored of the same old Piper Lynch.”

“No, he’s not,” she laughs.

“Why else would he plan this trip?” I ask. “He wants to go back to how it used to be, back to when it was just about clean, simple fun. Now, we’ve been together too long and we’ve lost that fire. We rarely even fight or bicker anymore and that was
our thing
. Do you know what we did last Friday night while you were at home visiting your mom?”

“No, what?”

“We ate cereal and fell asleep on the couch together watching the news,” I say. “That
literally
happened. To
us.
A year ago, if one of our roommates was gone for the weekend, we would have had sex on every fucking surface of the damn apartment.”

“Well, I’ll ignore that last detail,” she says, clearing her throat, “and move on to the more obvious point of
you’re comfortable with each other.
That’s what intimacy is. Most normal people dream about finding someone to eat cereal with.”

“But Kai and I aren’t like normal people, remember?” I ask, shaking my head. “No, something like this will definitely tear us apart.”

“Or… it’ll bring you closer together,” she argues. “Babies aren’t exactly a death sentence, Piper.”

I pause, reacting to the word. “Oh, wow…” I breathe.

“What?”

A black rock settles in my stomach, weighing me down. “I’m the worst person in the world.”

“Why?”

“For four weeks, I’ve thought about this and at no point did I ever think of the word
‘baby.’
It’s just been
me this
and
my body that
and
what about this
…” I stare at the white wall ahead of me. “There’s a
baby
inside of me.”

“Well, you don’t know that for sure yet, right? Have you taken a test?”

“No,” I say. “I bought one a week ago. I just can’t bring myself to take it.”

“Why not?”

“Because then it’s
real
. Then it’s a real problem that needs a real solution.”

She settles her arm around my shoulders. “You know what’s easier than coming up with a solution on your own?”

“What?”

“Coming up with a solution…
with your partner
,” she says. “You have to tell him, Piper.”

“I was going to. Then this trip came up. I don’t want to ruin it for him.”

“You have to tell him, Piper,” she repeats.

“I will after I confirm whether or not it’s real.”

“You have to tell him, Piper.”
She stares back at me with a raised brow.

I sigh. “
And I will
— when the moment is right.” I meet her eyes and she doesn’t budge from her piercing stare. “He doesn’t want this, Mandy.”

“How do you know?”

“Because he said so.”

“When?”

“At dinner, last night.” I remember the moment and a chill runs through my body. “His mother mentioned grandchildren, and Kai got the most terrified look in his eyes. He could barely even speak.”

“That doesn’t mean anything.”

“Or…” I sigh. “It means
everything
.”

“Well, Piper,” she begins, “either way, you’re going to have to toughen up. Take the test, figure out what you want, and then
tell him
.”

“You’re right.”

“Of course I am.” She straightens her posture. “This is what I do.”

Lightning strikes my brain as I stare back at her. “Come with us,” I say.

She furrows her brow. “What?”

“Yeah…” Excitement charges through me. “Come with us to Europe.”

“Umm…” She presses her lips together.
“No.”

“Please.”
I shift in her direction.

“I’m not crashing your romantic getaway adventure,” Mandy says. “Kai obviously planned this trip for two and only two.”