Love, Lies, and Deception Page 7

  Emily grabbed her phone and opened it. “Oh, Justin called me and told me. He must’ve heard it from Kristian.” Wow, that was fast. I guess I could’ve gone straight to Alec’s.

  Emily closed her phone and began speaking again. “You know, I miss playing the piano. Once we get out of this small apartment, I’m gonna get my piano from my parent’s house and play it every damn day to make up for lost time.”

  Excited, I smiled. “I look forward to it. Hey, did you know that Kristian is moving to Wilmington, too?”

  “Really?” Emily cried in disbelief. “I didn’t know that. I keep waiting for Justin to tell me where he’s going after we graduate, but he won’t tell me. It’s infuriating. Be lucky you don’t have to worry about that.”

  In a way I was glad I didn’t have to think about leaving someone serious behind, but what if things did turn out that way with Alec? What was I going to do then? I was in lust with the guy, but was that all it was. I knew one thing for sure; I looked forward to figuring it out.

  Emily flopped down on the couch where the rest of the laundry sat, waiting to be folded. Lowering myself onto the cushion beside her, I began to help. I didn’t know if I should tell her what Kristian told me, but looking at my friend’s forlorn gaze I had to tell her something.

  Hoping I was doing the right thing, I sighed and began, “Okay, since we’re best friends and we never keep things from each other, I thought I’d share some information I found out today.”

  Perking up, Emily asked, “Ooh, what is it?”

  Smiling, I took hold of her hands, making the pair of thongs in her grasp fall to the floor. “I don’t know if this is a definite yes on the matter, but Kristian told me today that Justin was thinking about moving to Wilmington with us.”

  I waited for her to scream, but she sat there frozen with her mouth wide open in shock. Slowly enunciating each word, I asked, “Um … do you understand what I just said?”

  After a few moments, once the shock wore off, she squealed and tackled me to the floor, hugging me tight. “Holy crap, this is the best news ever! Thank you so much for telling me. I can’t believe that dumb ass hasn’t told me yet.”

  “You have to keep this a secret,” I choked out, trying to breathe with her weight pinning me to the floor. “Promise me.”

  Delighted, she reassured me, “I will. I will. Oh, Rissa, thank you so much for telling me. Maybe he hasn’t told me because he wanted to surprise me with the news.”

  She let me go and stood, holding out her hand to give me a help up. “That’s what I was thinking, but you looked so sad over it I thought I’d tell you.”

  “Thank you, I needed it. How did everything go with hottie from downstairs last night?”

  “Oh great,” I admitted wryly. “At least until someone tried to murder our wall outside.”

  Gasping, her eyes went wide. “So that’s what that’s from. I meant to ask you about it. Do you know who did it?”

  I shook my head. “No, I don’t, but Alec stayed here with me all night just to make sure I was safe even though I had my trusty Smith and Wesson beside my bed.”

  Emily’s eyes had a gleam to them when she asked, “Did you two have sex last night? Please tell me you let your prudish self go and have fun.”

  I rolled my eyes. “I’m not even going to answer that. Speaking of which, I’m going to go downstairs and see if Alec wants to join us tonight. I’ll be right back.”

  I was about to leave, but Emily’s smirk stopped me. “Take your time. We’re not leaving for another four hours. I’d say that’s plenty of time to get a little afternoon delight in, wouldn’t you?” She waggled her eyebrows and shooed me out the door before I could make a comeback. “Now go and have fun.”

  “You’re unbelievable,” I muttered, ambling out the door.

  Or was she?

  I knocked on Alec’s door and waited for a few minutes for him to answer. I was about to turn around and leave when the door finally opened, revealing a dripping wet Alec, clad in only a blue towel wrapped around his waist. I stood there gaping, unable to take my eyes off the slick planes of his body.

  Alec placed his hand on the door frame and smiled. “Would you like to come in? I’m sure you’d have much more fun ogling me inside.”

  “Ha ha, very funny,” I said. “But yes, I’d like to come inside.”

  He stood back and let me enter. His apartment was the same, all neat and tidy, and I could feel the steam emanating from the bathroom where Alec had taken his shower. The room smelled of bodywash and aftershave, and I took a deep breath, letting it linger and fill my lungs with its heady scent.

  “Do you want anything? Something to drink?” he asked politely.

  You, I thought. I want you.

  “No, thank you. What did you do at your aunt’s house today?”

  He smiled. “Let’s see … I worked in her garden and cut fire wood. Even in the spring and summer, my aunt still likes to keep a stove burning at night. I guess being old and frail makes you cold all the time. Then I strolled around campus in hopes of seeing you, which I did, and went back to fix her light fixtures. Is that all you came by to ask me?”

  “No.” I chuckled. “I actually came by because I forgot to ask you if you wanted to go out tonight.”

  His eyes sparkled and he prowled toward me. “Are you blowing off your study group to be with me?”

  I bit my lip. “Not exactly. I’m kind of blowing off my study group tonight. A group of my friends are going to go out and I thought it would be fun if you came with me.”

  The heat from his body as he sidled up to me was enticing and the smell of his fresh, clean skin was intoxicating. I wanted to run my tongue all over every crevice and protruding part of his body.

  “And where are you and your friends going?” he purred, tucking a strand of hair behind my ear. My eyes fluttered shut as I leaned into his touch.

  “We’re going to the dance club and bar over off of King Street. Would you like to come?”

  His hand stilled on my face and he sighed. “I would love to go just to be with you, but I don’t go to bars … not anymore. Me and bars just don’t mix.”

  My face fell. “Well that sucks, I hate to hear that. Kristian needed some cheering up, so he thought it’d be fun to go out and party.”

  Alec narrowed his eyes. “You know he’s hard up for you, don’t you?”

  “Who? Kristian?” I asked in disbelief, shaking my head. “No, he has a girlfriend, and never once since I’ve known him has he ever tried to put the moves on me.”

  Alec shrugged. “I just call ’em like I see ’em.”

  He used the same words I used on him the first day I met him. Rolling my eyes, I took a seat on his couch and he joined me, still only in his towel. It was distracting.

  He sat so that he faced me, and I was tempted to drop my phone so I could peek under the gap in the towel. How lame was that? I chastised myself. Although, I was pretty sure he’d lose the towel if I asked him to.

  “What makes you think Kristian has a thing for me?” I asked curiously. Kristian had made some suggestive comments to me over the years, but I knew he was joking; he’d never tried to touch me inappropriately and had plenty of chances to try.

  Leaning forward, Alec rested one hand on my thigh and tilted my chin up with his other. He was so close I could see tiny gold flecks in his blue gaze. It was mesmerizing, and I found myself falling, relaxing into the mold of his body.

  “I can see it in his eyes, Marissa. He may not have put the moves on you … yet, but he’s sure imagining it. It’s not possible for a guy and girl to be just friends, especially with someone like you.”

  Furrowing my brow, I asked, “So … if you’re saying you couldn’t be friends with a girl, what am I to you exactly?”

  He tilted his head to the side and grinned. “Hmm … let me see. You’re definitely not a friend, you’re something more, but I’m sure we’ll come up with something.”

  My eyes lit with humor. �
�How about fuck buddies? Friends with benefits?” I suggested sarcastically, secretly hoping he didn’t really want to refer to me as those.

  Alec furrowed his brows in concentration before shaking his head. “No, I don’t like those. How about we just go with the flow and see where this leads us? No pressure, no commitments … just us.”

  It was all so casual, not something I’d ever done before, but it made perfect sense. Did I want another commitment so soon? No, I didn’t, but what if that changed. What if I got attached to Alec and he didn’t want me that way? All I knew was that I wanted him, and he wanted me. For the moment that had to be good enough.

  “Does that sound good?” Alec asked softly, moving his hand higher up my thigh.

  My breath hitched as his touch made me instantly wet between my legs. Closing the distance, I pressed my lips to his and lightly bit his lower lip, pulling on it gently with my teeth. He groaned and grabbed my hips, guiding me closer.

  Letting go of his lip, I whispered, “It sounds perfect to me.”

  “How long do you have before you need to leave?” He kissed my cheek and caressed his lips down my jaw to my neck. I know where this is going to lead, I thought, letting my inner Marissa jump up and down in excitement.

  “Four hours. Why?” I asked teasingly.

  Growling, he swiftly picked me up off the couch and carried me to his bedroom. “That’s all I needed to know,” he muttered, kicking open the bedroom door. In three easy strides he made it to the edge of his bed and lowered me down before he went back and shut the door. I gazed around his room with open curiosity.

  I ran my hands over his bed; it was soft and colored in blues and gold’s, reminding me of the sunset on a beach horizon. A surfboard was propped up against the wall in the corner, and there were framed pictures of surfers riding the waves just like he had on the walls in the living room. Other than that it was kind of bare, but neat with two dressers on both sides of his bed, and it smelled heavenly … just like him.

  “Are you done surveying my room?” Alec asked humorously.

  I giggled. “Yes, I’m done. Your room’s interesting, but I guess I thought there’d be more of you in here. A key to your mystery.”

  He laughed. “Most of my personal things are still in California. I didn’t have time to pack up all of my stuff.”

  I opened my mouth to speak, to ask him why he had to leave in such haste, but he cut me off by placing a finger to my lips. “Please don’t ask right now. I promise to tell you soon, but right now I want to enjoy being with you; to finish what we started this morning.”

  Staring into his blue orbs, he removed his finger and I lost all sense of time or reason. I gave in to him.

  After kicking off my shoes, I moved farther up the mattress and rested my head on one of his pillows. Alec crawled on the bed and laid on his side beside me, propped up on his elbow.

  He traced the hem of my shirt with his finger, lightly grazing my skin underneath. Chill bumps fanned out over my flesh, making him smile. “I love that my touch does that to you.”

  I bit my lip. “Trust me, it does a lot more than that,” I admitted boldly. “A lot more.”

  Groaning, he rolled over on top of me and parted my legs with his knee. “Yes, I know what it does. I got a taste of what my touch did to you this morning.”

  His blue gaze was smoldering hot, and my core throbbed with the remembrance of his mouth exploring my body. Alec’s lips brushed mine, softly at first, but then turned demanding, as our tongues twisted together.

  “I want more,” he rasped, reluctantly breaking away from the kiss.

  “Then take it,” I breathed back. I didn’t have to repeat it because he was on me in an instant.

  My nipples were hard and ached to be touched, and I was already panting with need. My gaze bored into Alec’s with my own longing and heat, demanding that he take the ‘more’ I offered. Taking his face in my hands, I bit his bottom lip and moaned while lifting my hips against him.

  Alec tore my shirt and bra away, and once my skin was exposed his hands were all over me, massaging and kneading. He squeezed my breasts with his rough hands, and pinched my nipples making me cry out in both pleasure and pain … a sweet pain. To ease the sharpness of the sensation, he licked and sucked tenderly on my taut nipples while moving his straining cock between my legs.

  His hands fumbled with the button of my jeans, and when they were unzipped he slowly slipped his hand inside. Deftly, he entered me with his fingers and groaned against my lips. “Fuck, Marissa, you’re so damn wet. I can’t wait to be inside you.”

  “Then what are you waiting for?” I breathed, arching my back off the bed, pushing my breasts up in the air.

  He laughed a deep, husky sound. “Soon, baby. Remember, we have a few hours to spare.”

  He pulled my pants and underwear down and threw them on the floor. I was naked, aching to the point where I thought I’d go crazy, and he wanted to take things slow. I don’t think so.

  Narrowing my eyes, I scowled at him. “Evil bastard,” I mumbled jokingly.

  “That’s right. I have to take advantage of the time we have.”

  “We’ll see,” I said with a gleam in my eye. Taking Alec by the shoulders, I pushed him over and flung my bare body on top of his. His towel was still on, but that was about to change. His erection bulged against the cotton, and I stroked my hand over it as I straddled him.

  Alec’s eyes rolled in the back of his head and he hissed, “If you keep doing that there’s no way I’ll be able to hold out.”

  I smirked, fully aroused at the thought of knowing I turned him on and I had the control. “That’s the whole point,” I muttered seductively.

  His erection was incredibly large under the towel, and in a way I was nervous, but it was a good nervous. The men I’d had sex with were mostly average in size, but I could tell Alec topped them all.

  Slowly, I pulled the towel back and my eyes went wide. Holy hell, I screamed in my mind. He was freaking huge.

  He laughed while I sat there staring. He was exceptionally long and thicker than I could wrap my hand around. Shit, that was going to hurt.

  “Are you okay?” Alec asked, his smile starting to fade.

  “Yeah,” I assured him, finally able to tear my gaze away from his erection. “It’s just I’ve never had sex with anyone as large as you. It’s exciting, but also a little scary.”

  He chuckled and took my face in his hands. “I promise to go slow, at least until you get accustomed to it. After that I’m going to fuck you hard. It’s been too long, and I want you too much.”

  His words caused the ache in my core to blaze to new levels. I took his cock in my hand and glided up and down his amazing length, feeling him convulse underneath me. Alec sighed and closed his eyes. He held his breath as I bent down and flicked the head of his penis with my tongue.

  Jerking, he moaned loudly. “Fuck,” he growled. Smiling, I wrapped my lips around the tip and sucked.

  I tortured him just like he tortured me that morning, and I loved it. He tasted so good in my mouth; fresh from the shower with the hint of salt from is arousal. His balls were loose in my hands, and I rolled them around gently as I sucked the tip of his cock harder. I tried to glide my mouth as far down as I could go without gagging, but it was hard so I stayed toward the top.

  Alec was breathing hard when he grasped me by the shoulders. “Marissa, I need you to stop.”

  I teased him for a few more seconds before releasing him from my mouth. Innocently, I stared up at him with a triumphant smile and asked, “Am I wearing you down?”

  He rolled me onto my back and settled his weight onto my body, pinning me down. “You have no idea,” he muttered before biting down on one of my nipples and sucking it greedily.

  Reaching over to his bedside table, he fumbled in the drawer until I heard the crinkling sound of a wrapper. I was breathless underneath him, and my heart pounded out of control with anticipation. Alec opened the foil packet and rolle
d the condom down his impressive length.

  Caging me inside his arms, he laid against me and kissed me tenderly on the lips. My hands went to his hair and I pulled him closer, needing more of him. He settled himself between my legs, and I spread them wider to allow him more access. The tip of his cock pressed against my opening, and he circled it around, spreading my desire and getting me ready.

  Gazing into my eyes, Alec rubbed his nose against mine and slowly began kissing me again. With short, easy thrusts he started to enter me. I hissed at first with the initial pain of it, but it slowly ebbed off as my body accommodated him. The fullness of him inside of me was erotic yet sensual, and the pain of his cock stretching me made the erotic part even more tantalizing. It felt good to hurt.

  “Are you okay?” he asked, coming to a stop.

  Wrapping my legs around his waist, I thrust my hips upward and bit my lip. “Does that answer your question?” I moaned.

  Alec continued his slow rhythm for a while, but then picked up his speed, pounding his flesh into mine. I was on the brink of losing control, and I was sure he could feel it by the clenching of my muscles between my legs.

  “Let it go, baby. Give in to me,” Alec murmured in my ear. Those words were all it took to send me over the edge.

  “Alec!” I screamed, clenching my legs tighter around his waist. My nails dug into his back, and I let the wave of ecstasy crash over me. My orgasm came hot and swift, pouring over my body as I rode each delicious wave of pleasure. Alec pushed harder inside me a few more times before he was also taken over by his release.

  We were both breathing hard and sweaty from the exertion, but there was still a throbbing ache between my legs that demanded more. Alec gently pulled out of me and took off the condom, throwing it in the waste basket on the floor beside his bed. He pulled me into his arms and kissed me on the lips.

  “You were so tight and wet at the same time. It felt amazing.”

  I smiled lazily at him, fully relaxed but ready for another round. “Yes it did,” I agreed.

  A concerned look was in his eyes when he asked, “Are you sore?”