Stepbrother Bestie (A Stepbrother Romance Novel) (51 page)

The two of us stayed like that for a
moment and when we pulled away, I leaned in to kiss him.

The familiar taste of him was luscious.
After the day that I had, I wasn’t sure if I would ever get to feel his lips
against mine or drag his sweet nectar from himself unto me.

Once our lips touched, my hands came up to
grasp his face before I pulled him forward and deepened the kiss.

Our tongues entwined with one another,
while our lips locked and after a moment, his arms came to encase me once
again.

We continued to make out for a little
while, as I ran my hands up and down the length of his massive shoulders until
I could make out his magnificent form. I felt extremely pleased to have him in
my arms again and I knew that I could not risk losing him.

However, I had many questions and so,
eventually and slightly begrudgingly, I pulled away from him.

He tilted his head and stared at me with a
question on his mind, but he didn’t say anything. He just stared at me in the
darkness.

I smiled back at him and asked, “You
didn’t get kicked out or anything did you?”

He laughed. “Are you kidding? They
couldn’t fucking kick me out if they tried.”

I giggled at his confidence. “Then what
are you doing here?”

“Looking for you,” he answered in a soft
way, but had a twinge of attitude, as though the explanation was obvious and I
was an idiot for not realizing that.

I couldn’t help but beam. “That’s really
sweet, Tyler, but I’m not going back.”

He shrugged. “Fuck it. Neither am I then.”

I laughed, but when he didn’t say anything
else, I turned my head with question and answered, “Really?”

He nodded. “But if we intend to be bad
asses, we should probably go get your car; or at least get a ride back to the
house so that we can get my car. It’s not like I don’t have the money to
sustain us for a little while.”

I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. I
had never expected that he would join me. I just thought I was running away
from my father, and Tyler would have to be the sad casualty. Fortunately, that
wasn’t the case.

“Really?” I asked and I saw the shadow of
his head nod as he chuckled and before he was even finished moving, I threw my
arms around his neck and pressed my lips against his.

I felt the wetness of them and the
desperation of his kiss and I knew that he was telling me the truth. There was
no doubt in my mind that he was really going to join me in my pursuit and I
couldn’t wait.

Suddenly, this adventure got a lot more
interesting.

Chapter
44

Tyler

When we broke away, I asked her what
happened and she explained what a fucking dickhead her father was to her. I
told her what had happened when I had gotten back to the house.

Of course, I left out the part about my
mother and the fact that I suspected her father might have done something to
harm her, but we did have a conversation about what would have been a fight,
had I let it progress that far.

“Are you all right?” Ashley asked me, her
eyes widened with concern.

I laughed and swatted the air in front of
me before I answered, “I’m fucking fine.”

“Are you sure? I don’t know what got into
my father. I would have never guessed that he would have resorted to violence.
Not like that.”

I chuckled slightly. “Yeah, me neither.” I
showed her my broad grin, which I hoped was visible in the darkness. “I don’t
know. I have to say that in a really twisted way, I’m kind of proud of your old
man.”

At this, she hit my arm. “What is wrong
with you?” she demanded in a teasing voice.

“I’m just sayin’…I didn’t think the
asshole had it in him. I thought he would scurry away from a fight, but he kept
coming back. He actually chased me.” I laughed.

Now, her voice was teasing and slightly
condescending as she answered, “You were the one who ran away from him?”

“Fuck no!” I exclaimed as I felt my jaw
drop and she laughed, playfully scooping herself up out of the sand in order to
run away from me.

I returned her jovial expression before
once again, I made my way back on my feet and began to chase her.

At this point, however, I wasn’t really
sure I could actually do anything. My body was aching and seriously lacking
nutrients. I hadn’t eaten anywhere near my calorie count and all I had done
since the stupid competition was run around and fend off fights. My body was
exhausted.

But I certainly didn’t want to look weak
and so, I growled to hide the shot of pain that I felt when I pivoted to one
side and then ran after her, while she let out a shrill shriek of giggles.

I chased her around for a while, before my
body realized that I seriously could not function again until I received
something to eat. I hurried up and grasped her tightly around her petite waist.

She let out another deafening laugh and
kicked up sand as I pulled her back and up, before setting her back down. “I
got you…” I said with a grin, as I collapsed on the sand before my legs
actually gave out.

It didn’t take long for Ashley to curl up
next to me. Breathing heavily from the strain of running, I could feel her
breasts heave against my chest each time she inhaled and exhaled.

The feel of them against my skin caused me
to feel horny. Yet, my need for food superseded my mojo, which was superseded
still by my need to have my point be heard. “Seriously though…I wasn’t running
away, I was prioritizing.” I shrugged as she looked at me. “I didn’t give a
shit about him. I was looking for you. That’s all I care about.”

She looked at me strangely and I felt a
rush of emotion. I both hated this feeling and loved it at the same fucking
time.

I didn’t want to feel this way about her
at all, but because I did and I was fairly certain that I didn’t have a choice
in the matter, all I wanted was to help her with everything and anything.

Ashley had helped me more than anyone I
had ever known and I was getting used to the attention she gave to me. As much
as I would have never admitted it, I didn’t want the attention to stop. I
wanted to go with her, wherever the hell she ended up going, and I wanted to be
there for her no matter what.

It was in that moment, in the darkness,
where I was barely able to see her eyes, when I realized that she was more like
me than I had ever realized.

Even though she had at one time been able
to count on her mother, for the entirety of her adult life, she had also been
on her own. Her father hadn’t made anything easy for her especially after her
mother died. And now she was trying to start her life, completely separate from
her family and from the excitement I heard in her voice when I told her that I
would go with her, wherever the road may take her. I was convinced that she was
now searching for some kind of anchor; someone she could count on and rely on,
no matter what.

Despite what I would have admitted to
anyone, even at the time, I wanted to be that anchor

So, while I was staring into her eyes, I
pulled my hands up and rested them solidly on her shoulders before I made
myself perfectly clear. “Ashley, you are the only person in this world that I
fucking care about and I am going to do whatever I can to help you.”

I saw her smile at this and after a few
more seconds, she said in an earnest tone, “Thank you, Tyler. That means more
to me than you know.”

I snickered at this and carefully drew my
hand down her cheek. “I wouldn’t count on that,” then I grasped her chin
between my finger and my thumb, brought her face toward me and kissed her.

She moved her head a little to the right
in order to receive the kiss more fully and once our lips connected, I brought
my other hand up and grasped her face, willing her toward me with the slight
pressure I applied.

Her lips were swollen and juicy against my
own and her tongue was curious. She parted her mouth and I could feel the
excitement and desperation as she pressed in closer to me.

Ashley’s tongue lovingly swiped itself
against the roof of my mouth, which caused a chill to run down my back. I
shuddered just before I smiled behind her lips. I wasn’t quite sure why I was
quite so intoxicated by her love, but I knew that I just couldn’t get enough.

I grasped her tighter and pulled her
closer. After everything that had gone on between us today and the relief I
felt prolonged by the knowledge she still wanted me, when everyone else I had
ever known would have thrown me away, I couldn’t hide the passion and intense
desire I had for her.

Through receiving the taste of her on my
lips, I was able to block everything else out. I no longer cared about
anything, unless it had to do with Ashley.

I no longer felt hungry or fatigued; all I
wanted was to feel her fucking sexy body up against mine as I showed her
exactly how much she meant to me.

Chapter
45

Ashley

After a few moments of intense, excited
lapping of our lips and twisting of our tongues as they searched wildly inside
of our mouths, I felt Tyler pull me down onto the sand and immediately begin to
unbutton my blouse.

I could feel his strong, powerful hands
kneading against the fabric of my clothing, pressing slightly against my skin,
as he hurried to remove my shirt.

I giggled and tugged at his chin,
deepening the kiss that we were immersed in, as my legs writhed under him and
wound around his massive form.

Even fully clothed, I could feel his
mighty, virile body flexing and thumping with excitement, as he finally,
blindly was able to fling open my shirt.

In a matter of a second, his hands
attacked my bosom as though starving for the feel of them. He pressed his
massive hands into the cups of my breasts with a solid grip, before he massaged
them knowingly.

The tingling feeling that began to course
throughout my body, which was only made more prevalent by the sifting sand
underneath me, caused my back to arch and the depths of my pleasure to let out
a satisfied moan.

The sound of it was swallowed by his kiss,
which still attached itself to my lips with fervor. The taste of him completely
primed and intoxicated my body with a sense of euphoria that only Tyler could
provide, while the familiar and needed sensation of his hand on my breasts
continued to stoke the fire that was beginning to roar inside of my
womanliness.

I felt my pelvis thrust up toward him as
each of our hands continued to explore the other’s body, while a warm moisture
excreted from the apex of my legs.

 
After a few moments, Tyler moved his hands off
of my breasts, before he easily slid my legs down so he could slink his mouth
further down my body.

While his hands kneaded my side and
stomach in a way that caused the warmth I was already feeling to build to a
level where I forgot the entire world, his lips sealed my sexual fate by easing
their way against my soft skin in slow, wet bursts of erotic energy.

His lips moved off of my mouth slowly and
carefully eased its way down toward my neck, and then sprinkled themselves
against my chest.

The slightly lightheaded feeling that he
provided to me ran throughout the entirety of my body and made me want to laugh
out loud, just to release some of the pulsing energy that I felt.

Instead though, I focused on rubbing my
hands against his shoulders and his arms, taking great joy in feeling the right
ropes of muscles that spread throughout his entire body. Every inch of him
rippled fluidly, while his broad chest heaved with excitement and anticipation.

Tyler seemed tense, but that was only
because he was focusing on making this yet another exceedingly magnificent
experience.

It hadn’t quite occurred to me when Tyler
had taken off his shirt, but as my fingers got their fill of his luscious,
perfect body, I was so glad that he had. I needed this kind of access to him,
in order to feel the true sensation of the beauty that the two of us were
creating.

Simply feeling his taut body, seizing over
me and making me feel almost powerless to resist his charm, laid the foundation
for the essence of our lovemaking.

After all, I would have never agreed to
have sex, right here in the open on the beach, no matter what time of night it
was. But right now, with the calming sound of the waves crashing against the
shore and the cool sand easing its way around the very form of our bodies, I
wouldn’t want to be doing anything else in the world.

As long as I was with Tyler, I was happy.

When his wandering, protruding lips
finally made their way to the outskirts of my nipple, I did squeal out with a
sense of excitement, before I smiled at him and showed him the glimmer in my
eye when he looked up to see if I was all right.

He shot me a seductive simper before he
moved back, grasped a good hold on my side so that I could not wriggle out of
his grasp and carefully began to suckle on the swollen pink tip of my nipple,
making me once again writhe with excitement.