“I’m busy, Ada.”

  “It’s Saturday night, Joe.” I grinned at the way he looked even crankier. “Come on, Joe. Please? You deserve time with your family, just like they deserve time with you.”

  His eyes darkened and he turned in his chair so I was framed by his legs. “I didn’t know you could say please.”

  I knew that my face and chest had gone blood red. I pretended to rub my cheeks like that was the real reason they were red. “I can say please. Is that what you need? You need me to say please?”

  His teeth sank into his bottom lip as he studied me. I felt like we were on the verge of something that shouldn’t happen but I still stood there, waiting for it. As if it never happened, though, Joe turned back to his desk and dismissed me. “I’ll try to make it.”

  I let out the breath I’d been holding. “It’s going to start in a few minutes, Joe. Okay?”

  He didn’t look back at me. “You have your answer, Ada.”

  I gently touched his shoulder. “It would mean a lot to Kendall if you showed up.”

  Before he could rip my hand off I fled the room and got the kids together. We entered the theater room all together and my heart soared at seeing Jud and Collin sitting down, waiting. Joe wasn’t there, yet, but I crossed my fingers and hoped he’d show up.

  The kids settled with their dads and I patted the seat next to me for Kendall. I’d move as soon as Joe came. The movie started, thanks to Collin knowing how to work the system, and minutes ticked by. I kept one eye on the doorway, hoping and praying Joe didn’t blow us off completely. The more time that passed, the more agitated I grew. How could he blow off his daughter like that?

  Kendall leaned over and whispered to me. “He’s not coming, Ada. I don’t know why you’re still looking.”

  25

  ***Joe***

  I had a feeling Ada would come and find me. When my bedroom door flew open and hit the door stop behind it, I didn’t flinch. If anything, I’d been waiting for her and was disappointed she’d taken so long to find me. I was sitting in the leather wingback chair in the corner of my room, holding my phone. I’d finished up a few things that could’ve waited.

  Ada slammed my door shut and just stood across the room from me, her hands on her hips and her eyes blazing mad. “What is wrong with you?”

  That was a very good question. I’d found myself heading towards the theater room and then I’d stopped. I felt an overwhelming sense of not belonging and I couldn’t face it. It was my fault, I knew, but I didn’t know what to do about it. It didn’t help that some perky nanny had come along and pointed out my flaws.

  “You chose not to come. You could’ve come in late, but no. You chose not to come at all. I want to know why. Why did you make the choice to hurt your daughter?” She took a step closer and I could see her hands were shaking when she waved them at me.

  “Why are you in my room, Ada? You have to be the least professional nanny I’ve ever seen.” I couldn’t help poking back.

  “Are you okay with not knowing your daughter, at all?” She raised her voice, her anger getting the best of her. “She’s fifteen! In a few years she’s going to walk out and you’ll never get the chance to know her again. You’re choosing to hurt her, Joe. Make me understand why you’re okay with that.”

  “I’m not choosing to hurt her! I’m busy making sure this family continues to grow and survive. How do you think all this shit got here? It’s because I work, Ada! Would you rather I quit and we lose everything?”

  She laughed, calling my bullshit immediately. “I’m not sure who you’re lying to, yourself or me. You could quit working and probably live comfortably for a hundred lifetimes. Why can’t you spend time with your daughter?”

  It occurred to me that I didn’t have to talk to the nanny about my personal life. I stood up and walked past her towards my closet. “I don’t need to explain myself to the help.”

  I saw Ada rear back like I’d slapped her. Forcing myself to ignore her, I stood in the middle of my closet and yanked my shirt off. Anger coursed through my veins. It was mostly at myself but there was a hefty amount towards Ada, too. She was fucking with things, shaking up a life I’d worked hard to have. I’d taken care of my family since I was sixteen. I’d supported us before Collin or Jud made any money. I’d broken a marriage and lost everything else other than my family. Ada didn’t know anything. She was in her mid-twenties and a pain in the ass.

  I felt something hit me in the back of the head and turned around to see Ada standing in my closet doorway with one of my pillows in her hands. “Did you just hit me?”

  Her chest heaved up and down and somehow her hair looked even bigger than normal, like she was attracting energy into it. “You deserve to be hit with a lot more than a pillow, you jerk.”

  I took a step towards her. “Is this because I called you the help or because you can’t snap your fingers and make me come to whatever you’ve planned?”

  “I’m glad to see you know both were wrong.” She bared her teeth at me as I moved closer. “You’re a fool. I hoped you’d be more than a cold asshole who didn’t care for his family, but I can see I was wrong. At least there’s hope for your brothers.”

  I grabbed the pillow from her and threw it down. “If you think I’m just that, a cold asshole who doesn’t care, why are you still here? Why don’t you go back to my brothers?”

  Something flashed in her eyes and she closed the small gap between us. We were toe to toe but she was over half a foot shorter than me. “What’s that supposed to mean?”

  I ground my jaw and shook my head. “Nothing. Just get out of here, Ada.”

  “No. Tell me what you meant.” Her eyes flicked back and forth between mine. “Say it.”

  “I guess I’m just curious as to why you’re in my room, bothering the shit out of me, when you seem to prefer the company of Collin.” I watched her eyes flare and told myself to shut the fuck up and back off but she pushed all of my buttons. “Cameras, Ada.”

  “Did you watch it?”

  I scowled. “No. I had no desire to see you with my brother. I deleted the footage.”

  “I’m not going to thank you right now. Not when you’ve been so pig-headed and rude.” She licked her lips. “I’m not… What you saw… It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t change anything. You still need to do better for your daughter.”

  I sighed and watched her curls move under the force of my breath. “Why are you still here, Ada?”

  “I don’t know.” She shook her head and took a step back. “Clearly you’re a lost cause.”

  The moment she turned to leave, I reached out and grabbed her hand. I hadn’t planned on it and I didn’t know what to do once I had it, but Ada stood there, looking at me with her big eyes and I could smell her everywhere and it was too much. I dragged her into my chest and gripped her head in my hands before slamming my mouth over hers. I expected to be slapped and shoved away but Ada went up in flames in my arms.

  She gripped my hair and tugged at it as she bit my lip and sucked it into her mouth. She wrapped her thigh over my hip and I grabbed her ass and lifted her so she was locked around me. She tasted like chocolate and her moan when I slipped my tongue over hers was pure sin.

  I walked her backwards until she was pinned against the wall and the feeling of her barely covered core cradling my erection was enough to drive me insane. I ground into her and she dug her nails into my scalp. It was too fast, too rough, but I couldn’t stop trying to devour her. I’d never felt like I’d die if I stopped touching someone before.

  Ada stiffened against me, though, and I knew it was over. I eased my hips away from hers and lifted my mouth. My dick wept but I eased her to the floor and backed away.

  “I’m sorry. I… I shouldn’t…” Ada sounded torn. She swallowed audibly and looked up at me like she wanted to run. “I slept with your brother. I was just screaming at you. This is crazy.”

  I rubbed my hands down my face and moved to the far side of the closet. I didn’t trust myself. “It’s fine.”

  She groaned and took a step closer. “It’s not fine. Did you hear me? I slept with your brother.”

  I growled. “Stay over there, Ada.”

  “Don’t you care?” She took another step closer. “I don’t like you.”

  My back dug into the shelf behind me. “Ada.”

  “I mean it. I don’t like you and I want to punch you most of the time.” She was halfway to me. “I was so mad at you when I came in here that I considered quitting.”

  My stomach lurched. She couldn’t leave. I closed the gap between us and glared down at her. “You’re not leaving.”

  She bit her lip and ran her eyes up my bare chest. “No. No, I’m not.”

  26

  ***Ada***

  I leaned forward and ran my tongue over Joe’s flat nipple. The sound he made went straight to my sex and I gave up trying to use my brain for the night. His hands locked in my hair and I could feel him just touching it as I moved to his other nipple and tasted his skin.

  “Soft.” Joe tightened his hands into fists and pulled my head back. “If you don’t want this, you need to leave right now, Ada. No arguing, no comment, no nothing. Do you understand me?”

  I shifted out of his arms and watched his face fall and shutter before going carefully blank. I smiled as I grabbed the hem of my shirt and slowly tugged it up. “You slipped. It almost looked like you wanted me for a second there.”

  He stalked across the closet and yanked me into his chest. “You’re a pain in the ass.”

  “But it feels a little like you like it.” I glanced down at where his erection dug into my stomach. “Or maybe a lot like you like it.”

  He grabbed my shirt and pulled it over my head, leaving me in just my bra and shorts. His eyes drank me in and then he dropped to his knees in front of me. His knuckles bit into my stomach as he unbuttoned my shorts and dragged them down my hips. “You talk too much.”

  I gripped his hair and held my breath as he looked up at me. He radiated power, his muscles flexed with every move he made, but he was on his knees for me. I bent over and pressed my mouth to his, hungry for more of his all-consuming kisses.

  He wrapped his hands around the back of my knees and pulled me down so I was straddling him. His hand slid down my back and into my underwear, gripping my ass as he stroked his tongue deeper into my mouth. I gasped into his kiss as he brushed his fingers over the line between my cheeks, the tip of one finger teasing my ass before moving on.

  He laid me back on the floor and lingered over me, kissing down my throat and chest. He reached under me and unhooked my bra, pulling it off and then leaning back to look at me. Cupping one of my breasts, he raked his thumb over my nipple and groaned. “I’d tell you that you have perfect tits but you’d probably never let it go.”

  I snuck my hand between us and cupped his hard length. His teeth clicked as his jaw snapped shut. “Tell me anyway.”

  He pressed his hips into my hand and growled. “You have tits that I want to fuck, Ada. I want to slide my dick between them and watch your face as I come all over you. They’re fucking perfect.”

  I flushed with need and gripped his cock harder. “Do it.”

  He smirked and lowered his mouth to suck on my nipples. I writhed and moaned under him, desperate for more. Just when I thought I was going to die, he lifted his mouth and sat up. He hooked his thumbs into the sides of my underwear and painstakingly pulled them down my thighs. “I’m coming inside you, Ada. If I only get one time with you, I’m not stopping until my come is leaking out of this pretty pussy. Are you on birth control?”

  I nodded roughly and reached for him. “Please, Joe.”

  He settled his big shoulders between my thighs and grinned up at me. “I love the sound of you begging.”

  I couldn’t even snap at him for that comment before his mouth was on my sex and I was seeing stars. He held my thighs open and ate me like I’d never experienced. He licked me from top to bottom and then stiffened his tongue to fuck me. I pressed my arm over my mouth and muffled my moans as best as I could but Joe was good. Too good. When he moved up to my clit and teased it with short little licks, I groaned and glanced down to see that he was watching me.

  Lifting his mouth, he smirked. “You want to come, Ada?”

  I nodded hard.

  “Say please.” He was the devil. He went back to tender little licks that just drove me crazy. “Beg me to let you come.”

  I sat up on my elbows and glared at him. “Joe.”

  He pushed two thick fingers into me and laughed when I fell back. “Ada.”

  I wasn’t going to make it. My legs shook as he fucked me with his fingers faster and kept his tongue away from my clit completely. “Joe!”

  “Scream my name all you want, Ada. That’s not what I want.”

  I let out a frustrated cry and met his heated gaze. “Please make me come, Joe! Please!”

  His grin was downright feral before he dipped his head and sucked at my clit. His tongue moved over it faster and faster until I stiffened and let out a broken cry as I came. Pleasure rolled over me in waves that just kept coming as Joe softened his licks and brought me back down gently. When he lifted his mouth I went limp under him and my arms fell out to either side.

  “Wow.” I didn’t care if it gave him a big head.

  Kissing his way up my stomach and chest, he kissed my chin before he stood up and stripped out of his pants. I sat up in a daze and cupped his long cock. I went up onto my knees and looked up at him. His jaw was tight and his hands were balled next to his hips.

  “What if I made you beg?” I stuck my tongue out and dragged his tip over it. The sound he made was guttural and I shivered.

  Joe gripped my chin in his hand and licked more of my wetness from his mouth. “As much as I’d love to stuff your mouth, Ada, I need to be inside you.”

  I pulled him down on top of me and wrapped my arms around his neck. “Please, Joe, hurry.”

  He groaned as he lined up our bodies and slowly sank his full length inside me. He swore as I gasped and clung to him. He didn’t stop until he was completely buried inside me and then he looked at me and I could see the vein in his neck pulse. “You shouldn’t be allowed to feel this fucking good.”

  I stretched up to kiss his throat and shuddered. “You feel so big in me, Joe.”

  He ran his hand down my side and gripped my thigh. “I want to fuck you, Ada, but I don’t want to leave your perfect pussy.”

  I pressed my head back into the carpeted floor and tightened my core around him. I watched the way his face pinched and saw fire in his eyes when he opened them again. “Fuck me, Joe.”

  He wrapped his arms under me and gripped my shoulders. Lowering his mouth over mine, he swallowed my cries as he pulled out and then thrust back in. Swearing against my lips, he pulled out and thrust deep again. I wrapped my thighs around his hips and opened myself up for him.

  We held each other tight and kissed as he took his time fucking me. He moved like he had all the time in the world, thrusting into me hard but doing it on his own time. I didn’t even realize I’d started begging him to fuck me. I just was suddenly. Raking my nails over his back, nipping at his lips, I begged.

  Joe slowly lifted his head and pressed his forehead into mine. Staring into my eyes, his lips lifted in a smirk. “Can you keep quiet or do I need to cover your mouth?”

  My feelings towards him didn’t fully allow me to stroke his ego so I forced a laugh. “Isn’t that a little bit coc-”

  Joe moved then, and it was clear he was moving to drive us both to our orgasms. His thrusts were faster and somehow deeper. He hit a different angle even. He watched me, daring me to make a sound. The first loud moan ripped from my mouth made me smile and that smile just made me moan louder. God, he was stunning when he smiled.

  He snapped his hand over my mouth and watched me as I climbed higher and higher. My body tightened around his and my skin flushed as my orgasm loomed. He lowered his mouth to the side of my face and his whispered words shoved me over the edge into oblivion. “I should let Collin see the way you come for me. You may hate me, Ada, but your body fucking loves me. This pussy is mine. Now show me.”

  I screamed into his palm and sank my teeth into his hand when nothing else helped me ease the wildness I felt. My orgasm slammed through me, crashing around my very being and leaving wreckage in its wake. I felt Joe coming inside me as he growled out my name and I felt his seed filling me and eventually spilling out on his carpet. I sucked in deep, shuddering breaths through my nose and tears filled my eyes from the intensity.

  Joe rested his weight on top of me, pinning me to the floor, and I held his big body, stroking my hands up and down his back. Comforting him? Soothing myself? Memorizing the way his muscles moved with each inhale and exhale? I didn’t know but while my brain was still offline I didn’t want to stop touching him.

  Joe finally rolled off of me but he dragged me with him and we switched positions, with him stroking from my shoulders to my ass and back. He kissed the top of my head and sighed. “Goddamn you.”

  I knew exactly what he meant. “I still hate you. Don’t worry.”

  He laughed and I felt his cock jump under me. When I shot him an incredulous look, he shrugged. “He has a mind of his own.”

  I frowned. “I should probably go.”

  He frowned back at me. “I should kick you out. Or fire you.”

  “Do it tonight and you’re going to have to wheel me out.” I swallowed as I felt his fingers teasing the inner crease of my ass. “Joe?”

  He trailed his finger through my wetness and went back to my ass. Pressing the tip of his finger deeper, just until I bit my lip and looked at him with wide eyes, he groaned. “Stay for tonight.”

  I swallowed. “I shouldn’t.”

  His lips slowly curled into a smile and I realized I was gently rocking against his touch. “Do I need to beg?”

 

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