“Let’s just do this quick.” I unbuckle and swivel around to face him. “Before anyone realizes we’re gone.” We slipped out of my parent’s house after apple pie. I set my six-month-old daughter in my mother’s arms and left her there for a couple hours. That was harder than this will be.
I pull my glossy brown hair back into a sleek pony, snapping the band violently before I focus on Connor in the passenger seat. His brows are pinched, lines across his forehead, his enjoyment depleting with mine.
My spine is at a stiff ninety-degree angle, and I struggle to uncross my ankles. “What now?” I ask, though I’m fairly certain I know what happens next.
“You want instructions?” He gives me a pointed look like, you’ve been arguing with me for the past hour for giving them.
My eyes flame. “When it comes to your penis, I would like instructions, yes.” I’ve yet to master blowing him, and the whole ordeal gives me an anxious heat that I almost never wear.
Blowing him in a public parking lot—I never imagined I’d do something so juvenile. But when it comes to protecting the people I love, my list of don’ts decreases dramatically.
He unclips his seatbelt. “Lean against the door and spread your legs open.” My eyes grow in surprise.
“What?”
“Lean against the door—”
“I heard you the first time,” I retort. “I just…” I have to read between his words. Spread your legs open. I dazedly shake my head.
Translation: You’re not blowing me, darling.
He waits for me to accept this switch.
I hesitate, only because I like following the rules. “Connor, they told me to give you oral.” If we really wanted, I could even pretend to blow him. We just need to act like we’re doing it close to the windows.
He slides near me and reaches down, gripping my ankle. He slips off my black, five-inch heels before I can protest. And then he lifts my feet on the seat, so I’m forced to lean against the door like he previously requested. I need the support anyway, blood rushing through my veins at his strong, assured movements.
With my ankles still in his grasp, he splits my legs apart. I tug down the hem of my pleated black dress, shrouding my lacy black panties from his view—but more importantly the view of someone outside.
A determined look pulses in his blue eyes, ambition and confidence that’s harder and better than a slap on the ass.
He kneels on the seat and reaches beneath my dress, his fingers skimming my panties.
“Connor,” I warn. All I can think—if we don’t do this right, to their liking, then we’re screwing everything on day one.
“Ils jouent notre jeu. On ne joue pas le leur.” They play our game. We don’t play theirs. He adds in French, “Ensemble.” Together.
We do this together or not at all.
I’m more in love with him, conquering the world by his side, than I ever was as his competition. He was ready to be my teammate the minute I graduated prep school, but I put the brakes on that, choosing a different college than him. I wasn’t ready to be something more. We stayed rivals. He didn’t want to wait for my cap and gown, for our entrance into adulthood, and so when the opportunity arose, he asked me out.
We dated. We married.
We had a baby.
Together, we’re a force of nature to be reckoned with. That’s not my hubris speaking. It’s just the truth.
I nod once, power pouring through me. “Ensemble.” Together.
He kisses my ankle as he raises my leg, slipping off my panties. I keep yanking at my dress, the side of my ass exposed. Though I’m not sure how much someone can spot through the windows.
Connor sets my panties on the dashboard and then places his hand on mine, shielding more of my body from view. He lifts my left leg over his shoulder, his body hovering over the middle console.
He whispers, “Lean back and shut your eyes.”
I do as told, even if I’m not in the bedroom, this is a bedroom activity. And I’d rather not be in control.
I rest against the car door and close my eyes, trying not to think about anyone lurking outside.
Connor grips my hips and scoots me closer to him, so my back is at a better angle, only my shoulders braced against the door handle.
In the quiet moment, a distant car honk sounds closer, and my eyes snap open. I try to straighten and peer out the windshield.
Connor grips my face, rotating my head to him. “Focus on me. Or would you rather suck my cock?”
I glare. “Would you like to switch?” I challenge, even though I in no way want to be photographed with my head above his pants. Not if there’s an alternative.
His head in my crotch. I approve.
“You know what I find mildly irritating?” he asks, his voice calm, collected, but I hear the tightness of his words, as though annoyance, a hidden emotion, fists each syllable.
“Your voice,” I rebut.
He withholds a grin. “Answering a question with a question.” His clutch is still forceful on my jaw. My body is in his complete possession. “This is how you answer a question, Rose.”
I listen closely.
“No,” he says, “I do not want to switch places with you. They believe we’re their marionettes. We’ll show them the strings, but we will always move on our own accord.” He pauses, his eyes flitting to my mouth again. “But most importantly, you believe my tongue is expendable.” His face nears mine, which he grasps, and I breathe so heavily as he whispers, “You’re going to remember, Rose, why it’s absolutely essential.”
I feel myself clench.
“Now close your eyes,” he commands.
I have no problem listening to him now, blocking out our surroundings—or at least my imagination that is doing more harm than good.
I shut my eyes again, and as he lowers his head between my legs, his hand travels from my jaw to my neck. He’s reaching up and choking me with the right amount of force. Oh God. His tongue and mouth kiss my heat—I shudder and grip the leather, the back of my head hitting the glass window, shoulders digging into the handle.
“Please,” I cry deeply, feeling him adjust his fingers around my neck, gripping slightly harder so I can’t speak. My head lightens…God yes.
The sensitivity that his tongue plays with—it’s better than any of my toys. It shocks each nerve and flames my core, my skin flushed. I only hear my staggered breaths in the silence of the car.
I open my eyes. Just to see his head disappeared between my legs. One of his hands is up my dress, clutching the side of my ass. And his other long, outstretched arm lies against my body as he steals my oxygen.
That arm builds my arousal as much as everything else, my toes beginning to curl. Connor…
I hold onto his forearm and touch his large hand that wraps around the majority of my neck. And then his phone buzzes by the gearshift, threatening to tumble beneath the depths of my seat.
He removes his hand off my ass to grab it, but he continues pleasuring me, a second cry in my throat at the way he hits a nerve.
He passes me the phone, reminding me that we’re a team here. His fingers loosen on my neck, only a little to reorient my head. I keep the cell low and open his lock screen with his password: 0610
It was a text message.
Where the hell did you and Rose go? – Loren
I try to stifle a cringe, hating to think about Loren Hale while I’m with Connor like this. Actually, thinking about him at all is about as low on my to-do list as setting myself on fire. (Setting myself on fire ranks higher.)