Smolder (4 page)

In
addition to the pool being sparkly clean and inviting, there was a tan silk
tent with two lounge chairs, a little table in between them, and a small bar
that looked pretty stocked with all the drink mixes and alcohol to make pretty
much any drink I wanted. I saw another little table that had different bowls of
fruit, including my favorite…chocolate covered strawberries. Jude had literally
created an oasis in our backyard.

I
looked over and saw him walking toward me and smiling as he carried a daiquiri
in one hand and his favorite beer in the other.

“So,
what do you think, Sadie?” Jude asked me as he handed me the daiquiri. “Pretty
nice, right?”

As
I took the daiquiri from him, I answered, “This is freaking awesome! I can’t
believe you did all this.”

“Hey,
you needed a relaxing day so I made sure you would have one,” he said, taking a
drink of his beer.

“Well,
the pool was enough. You didn’t need to go this far.”

“Yes
I did, princess,” he said, putting his arm around me and leading me toward the
tent. “You’ve worked your ass off taking care of business for the label and you
deserve a day to just relax, drink, stuff your face, and chill by the pool.
You’ve earned this.”

“Aw
Jude,” I said, hugging him and being careful not to touch my cold daiquiri to
his back, “thank you so much. This is so awesome.”

“Anything
for you, beautiful,” he replied, kissing my hair before releasing me and taking
my drink from me. “Oh yeah, and one more thing…”

Before
I could ask what he was talking about, he put our drinks down on a little table
and I didn’t have time to react before he pushed me into the pool. I shrieked
before I hit the warm, inviting water and sunk down below. As soon as I popped
back up from under the water, Jude was already in the pool swimming next to me.

“You
son of a bitch,” I laughed as I splashed him. “I’m going to kick your ass for
that.”

“Come
and get it, baby,” he dared playfully, smiling at me and swimming to the other
side of the pool. I swam after him and lunged at him, dunking his head in the
water in the process. As he lifted me up out of the water and tossed me back
in, I screamed and laughed and tried to remember a time lately where I’d felt
this happy and I was coming up empty. Even though we’d just begun our relaxing
day, Jude had already made it awesome.

“This
is fucking unbelievable,” Jude grumbled to himself as I waited impatiently
outside our front door, the hot sun beating down on my skin.

I
nudged him and shivered slightly from the feel of his hot, tanned skin on my
arm. I wiggled my arms to try and hide the goose bumps I felt beginning to form.
“Only you would lock us out of the house while we were in the pool. Dumbass,” I
teased.

“Shut
up, brat,” he said, nudging me back. “I am wearing swim trunks without pockets,
cut me a break.” He crouched down and moved a few of the potted plants I’d
placed until we both heard the clanging of metal hitting the pavement.

“Aha!
There it is,” he answered, picking up the little golden key off the ground. He
stood up and winked at me and I almost had an orgasm as I watched him unlock
the door. His hands were so meticulous as they slid the key into the lock carefully.
Those hands…I bet he could get me off in two minutes with just one of those
fingers. God if I wasn’t horny before I
totally
was now.

He
opened the door and waved his hand.

“Hello?
You there, Sadie?”

I
jumped at the sound of his deep voice.

“Huh?”

“Door’s
open,” he said, ruffling my hair. “Where the hell
were
you just now?”

I
blinked a few times and stuck my tongue out at him, trying to hide my
embarrassment as I walked into the house.

“I
was thinking about how my shithead roommate locked me out and I need to wash
the chlorine out of my hair before it turns green.” I shivered from the blast
of cool air from the air conditioning. “Ah, God, it feels good in here.”

Jude
rolled his eyes at me and said, “Whatever. We’re inside now so go take your
little girly shower.”

I
giggled and kissed him on the cheek. “Thanks for hanging with me today, big
guy. It really helped me relax and I appreciate it.”

Before
I could walk away, Jude surprised me and pulled me into a hug, picking me up,
and swinging me around. I stifled my gasp of surprise as the skin that wasn’t
covered by my bikini top touched his hard, chiseled chest.

“Anything
for you, princess,” he said before setting me back down on my unsteady feet.
“I’m thinking of ordering a pizza. You want anything?”

I
shook my head and said, “Uh, um, no thanks.”

Jude
huffed out a laugh and said, “What? Sadie Cavanaugh isn’t hungry? Alert the
media!” he said in mock surprise. “You might want to order something because
you know me. I’m not sharing.”

I
smiled and answered, “All right, fine, order me a large pan pizza with
everything on it. I’m just going to wash this pool water off of me. I’ll be out
in a bit,” I said, quickly turning and going to my bedroom.

As
I walked into my bathroom and stripped out of my wet bikini I caught a peek at
my face in the mirror. My cheeks were all flushed and I had a few beads of
sweat on my nose. I was hot and sweaty but it wasn’t from the heat…it was from
feeling Jude’s body against mine.

I
needed to learn to keep my emotions better in check around him, but the more
time I spent with him the harder it was becoming to act like I was just his
friend. Jude was the only thing I’ve ever wanted for myself and the one thing I
knew I couldn’t have. No matter how much I loved him I knew that Beau would
never understand.

I
turned on the shower and didn’t wait for it to get hot before getting inside
and letting the cool water pour over me. It was close to one hundred degrees
outside and the cold water felt good on my hot skin.

I
quickly shampooed my hair and then poured soap onto my loofah. As I started to
wash my body I closed my eyes and Jude’s face flashed in my mind, his
ever-changing hazel eyes burning with desire. My body was aching for him so
badly that I let my pent up sexual frustration take over and I roamed one hand
down between my legs. I rested against the wall as my fingers explored
everywhere I wish Jude’s hands (and other things) would touch me. I thought
back to a few weeks ago when I’d seen him in his shower and bit my lip to
stifle my moan. I imagined being the one to take his beautiful cock into my
hand and make him pant and shake with need before he stripped me down and I was
naked underneath his hard muscular body, his mouth on mine, his hard dick
driving into me at a rapid pace with that damn magic cross hitting every spot
inside of me to make me crazy.

I
was breathing heavily and was
very
close to an orgasm when I heard a
faint knock at my door and Jude calling my name. My heart started racing as I
saw a golden opportunity presenting itself. I was wet, naked, and Jude and I
both hadn’t had sex with anyone in over two years. I silently thanked myself
for leaving the bathroom door open as I pretended not to hear him, knowing he
would probably open my door and come in.
This is it, Sadie,
I thought to
myself.
You are about to let Jude see you naked for the first time and this
is the moment of truth. It’s now or never.

Jude

“Hey,
Sadie?” I asked, knocking lightly on her door. “You decent?”

I
waited for a reply but I didn’t hear one so I assumed she must still be in the
shower. I don’t know why I did it but I went ahead and walked into her room,
hoping to just let her know the pizza was on its way and walk out before I saw
anything.

I
knew I shouldn’t have walked into her room. Something in the back of my mind
told me that I wasn’t ready for what awaited me behind that door but I shook it
off. I turned the knob and quietly entered her room and what I saw almost took
the breath out of me and changed my life forever.

As
soon as I stepped into her bedroom my eyes immediately landed on a completely
naked and wet Sadie just stepping out of the shower onto her rug. She’d left
the bathroom door open and was obviously not expecting me to walk into her room
uninvited. As she reached for her towel to cover herself, her long blonde hair
clung to her creamy skin, which was glowing from the colors of the setting sun
that was filtering through her window. She looked radiant.

Even
though it felt all kinds of wrong to look at her naked body, my eyes didn’t
stop from roaming down to her full, gorgeous breasts and my dick quivered in
response. They were the most beautiful, round pair of breasts I’d ever seen.
Her nipples were hard from the coldness of the water, making the tiny jewels
that adorned them twinkle in the light. They were soaking wet from the water
that was dripping down from the ends of her hair and I suddenly had an image of
sucking one of those perfect pink jeweled peaks into my hungry mouth.

I
stood there staring at her with my mouth hanging open like I’d lost my mind. I
couldn’t look away…she was
incredible
. Her body was absolutely perfect.
I suddenly felt my mouth start to water and I thought I was going to start
drooling as she leaned down and dried her legs with the towel, exposing her
perfect ass to me. Jesus, it really had been a long time since I’d gotten laid
if the sight of Sadie’s naked body, no matter how achingly perfect it was, was
making me extremely hard.

She
stood up suddenly, her wet tresses still clinging to her shoulders, and wrapped
the towel around her chest to cover herself. I felt a stab of disappointment
that my voyeuristic peek at her sexy body was over. God…Sadie was
beautiful
,
truly beautiful and now even though all the best parts of her were covered I
couldn’t stop thinking about her naked. I didn’t know if I ever would be able
to now.

Sadie
ran her fingers through her wet hair and when she turned around and made eye
contact with me, I expected her to scream or yell at me for watching her.
Instead, her eyes widened and a small smile barely flashed across her face.

Confidently,
she asked, “Um, did you see something you liked?”

Shit
…she
didn’t know the half of it. I swallowed hard.

“Uh,
I-I-I was going to tell you that the pizza’s on its way.”

Sadie
smiled sexily at me and laughed.

“Then
why is your dick so hard it looks like it’s about to rip your pants open?”

Fuck.
She could see my hard on through my jeans and it was impossible to hide it. I
scratched my head and laughed nervously.

“Uh,
yeah, sorry about that,” I tried to joke. “I guess ‘little Jude’ has a mind of
his own. It’s been a while for me, that’s all.”

Sadie
walked slowly to me and even though my mind was screaming at me to back away
from her, my body stayed still. She stopped only inches from me and stood up on
the tips of her toes. “I think it’s more than that,” she whispered softly into
my ear.

I
rolled my eyes and forced a laugh. Being this close to her was scaring me…I
shouldn’t be feeling like this about Sadie. My body shouldn’t be responding
like this to her. It was taking all of my self control not to reach up and
touch her silky skin.

“It’s
not, Sadie, relax. I just need to go to the bathroom and get rid of this tent
pole in my pants. I haven’t had sex in a long time and I caught a peek of you
not meaning to. I can’t help how my body reacted.”

Sadie
lowered herself back down and bit her bottom lip, looking sinfully sexy.

“No,
you can’t.”

She
paused for a moment, seeming to be thinking about something. I was about to
back away because feeling her body this close to mine was excruciating but
before I could she said, “I saw you a few weeks ago.”

“What
are you talking about?”

“In
your shower. I didn’t mean to but I caught a glimpse of you because you left
the door open,” she confessed and my heart skipped a beat. Wonderful…she’d seen
me jacking it in the shower. For the first time that I could remember, I felt a
little embarrassed.

“The
curtain slipped and I saw you with your dick in your hand and…” she trailed
off.

“See
something you liked?” I tried to joke, throwing her words back at her.

She
blushed slightly and her eyelashes fluttered against her cheeks as she blinked
a few times before answering. Christ…my dick was starting to hurt from being
pressed up against my zipper.

She
licked her lips and replied, “Actually, I did. Seeing you touching yourself
like that was
really
hot.”

I
felt tingles shoot through me in that moment. Not only had she watched me
masturbate but she’d been turned on by it. I groaned and shuffled my feet.

How
the hell did this happen? Three minutes ago I was just plain old Jude and Sadie
was my adorable, spunky, and
very
off-limits roommate. Now, standing in
her bedroom with nothing between us but my tee shirt, my pants that were
getting tighter by the second, and her damp bath towel that barely covered her
sensational body everything was completely fucked up.

I
swallowed hard again and took a step back.

“Sadie,
we can’t do this.”

“Can’t
do what? Be two consenting adults and give into the inevitable?” she asked
innocently. “We are both here, we’re both horny as hell, and we both have gone
without for a while. It doesn’t have to be a big deal, Jude.”

“Listen
to me. I’m not having sex with you. This can’t happen,” I said, shaking my
head.

I
saw fire flash in her eyes and the innocent and playfully seductive Sadie was
gone.

“And
why not?” she snapped, her eyes turning to a molten chocolate color.

Sighing
I said, “Sadie, I have known you since you were born. You’ve been like my
little sister for years and I care about you. If I am being honest you are the
most important girl in my life and I don’t want to fuck up our friendship. You
mean too much.”

“Well
I think the fact that your dick is rock hard after seeing me naked that you
look like you are in pain and I just admitted to being horny as hell after
seeing you jack off has pretty much ruined our friendship anyway,” she said,
irritated. “I’m not that little girl you grew up with all those years ago,
Jude. I am all grown up now and I am not afraid to go after what I want.”

“And
what’s that?” I asked condescendingly. Sadie was only twenty-three. What could she
possibly know about what she actually wanted?

In
one swift movement, she dropped her towel and stood before me completely naked.
She took my hand and placed it on her breast before I could fight it and in
that moment all my defenses dropped down.

“I
want you, Jude,” she said, reaching her other hand up and snaking it around my
neck. She played with the ends of my Mohawk and she said, “and I know you want
me too. Stop fighting this.”

My
conscience was the one thing that was stopping me from leading her over to her
bed and giving her exactly what she wanted from me.

“Sadie…I
c-we can’t-I don’t want to ruin what we have.” Sadie was one of my best friends
in the world and if I gave in and slept with her it would ruin everything. I’d
lose her and that thought crushed me. “I’m not good for you and you know that.
I am all kinds of fucked up. You are beautiful and perfect and I won’t let you
be one of many. I can’t do that to you.”

Leaning
up so her lips were barely a millimeter from mine, she whispered, “Don’t worry,
I won’t let you,” and she pressed her petal soft lips to mine.

My
fingers instinctively flexed on her breast, tweaking the piercing in her
nipple, and I opened my mouth in a gasp…oh fuck, I was in deep shit.

She
took advantage and slid her tongue into my mouth and I groaned at my first
taste of Sadie Cavanaugh. The moment our tongues met I completely forgot who I
was and why I didn’t want this. She tasted like the mint from her toothpaste
and a little hint of the strawberry daiquiri she drank earlier; she was
delicious.
She tilted her head to the side and I let go of her breast and gripped her bare
ass with my hands, pulling her as close to me as I could. Our bodies rubbed
against each other for a moment before she slipped her hand between us and
began unzipping my pants. She barely got it started before my rock hard
erection forced the zipper down all the way.

Sadie
took my length into her hand and I growled loudly as she started to stroke me
up and down just like a champ. It was like she knew exactly how I liked to be teased
and touched.

“Mmm,
your cock feels just like I thought it would. So fucking big and that cross is
sexy as hell,” she murmured into my mouth.

I
groaned and said, “God damn, Sadie.”

Unable
to stop myself, I spun her around and lifted her tiny body up with ease and
pressed her against her bedroom door. Her legs parted and she wrapped them
around my waist as her hand was still stroking my hard cock. My eyes rolled
back as she stroked my dick and rolled her thumb around the head, toying with
my piercing. Suddenly the only thing on my mind was getting Sadie onto the bed
and sinking myself into her hot little pussy.

I
moved us away from the door and over to her bed, our mouths never stopping our
kiss. I laid her down on the bed and broke away from her mouth just long enough
to slip out of my tee shirt. As I let my pants fall the rest of the way down
around my ankles I stepped out of them and looked at Sadie. She was leaning up
on her elbows with her killer legs parted, silently begging for me to take her.

She
had a wicked look on her face as she looked quickly from my dick to my eyes and
cocked her finger at me, sucking her bottom lip between her teeth. It was like
there was an invisible string tied to her finger and it was connected to me in
some way because that simple act had me grabbing her knees in my large hands,
parting her legs farther apart and climbing on top of her.

I
shivered at the feel of my bare skin against hers. She pulled my mouth back to
hers and our tongues danced together roughly. Her fingernails scraped the rough
stubble on my scalp on the sides of my Mohawk and I moaned at the feel of it.
While I kissed her harder and deeper, her tongue pushed hard against mine and I
suddenly felt her teeth nip at my bottom lip sharply. I growled into her mouth
and I roughly gripped her ass again. It didn’t take much to know that Sadie was
a girl that liked rough sex. My head was spinning at how fast I was seeing that
I’d met my match with this beautiful girl…Sadie and I were perfect for each
other.

As
soon as that thought crept into my mind, I froze. The thought that my best
friend, the one girl in the world that I cared for more than anyone, was the
perfect girl for me suddenly scared the shit out of me. Sadie wasn’t just some
girl that I could fuck and toss aside like all of the others…she was different.
She was special.

Despite
what she said about this being casual sex, it wouldn’t be, no matter how either
of us tried to spin it. If I slept with Sadie right now it would not only
destroy my relationship with her but it would ruin my friendship with Beau as
well. No matter how badly my body wanted her, my mind knew that I had to put
the brakes on this thing now.

I
pulled away from her and took several deep breaths.

“Jude,
what’s wrong?” Sadie asked, cocking one eyebrow and panting.

I
shook myself out of her embrace and I stood up, leaving her on the bed looking
disappointed and sexually frustrated.
That made two of us.

“I’m
sorry, Sadie, I just can’t do this.”

“Why
not?” she asked, sitting up and pushing her damp hair out of her face. “Jude, I
can already tell you are over thinking this. It’s just sex. It’s no big deal.”

I
shook my head and pulled my pants back up, painfully forcing my hard on into my
pants and zipping them up.

“It
is
a big deal. I told you before that you mean a lot to me and even
though you are hot as fuck and I will probably kick my ass later for walking
away, I just have to. I shouldn’t have let it get this far. You’re just a kid,
Sadie. You don’t know what you are getting yourself into.”