Breaking Through the Wall (Guarded Hearts Book 2) (14 page)

When I put her down
, she turned around and smiled at me. “I didn’t even hear you come in!” She threw her arms around my neck and leaned up to kiss me. It scared me how comfortable I was with the amount of affection she showed me, and how much I wanted to give it back to her. “When are you guys leaving?”

“In like an hour
, I think. Can we talk for a minute?” She looked up at me, and seemed scared as to what I was about to say. I took her hand and led her over to the bed to sit down. “Why didn’t you tell me you were going to be home alone all break?”

I could tell she was shocked that I knew, and wasn’t expecting me to say that. “I am fine with it
, J. It won’t be the first time.”

“I’m not fine with it
. Nic, why don’t you, um…why don’t you just come home with me?”

“No.
” She stood up and walked back over to her suitcase.

“No? Why the hell not?” It pissed me off that I had just offered this to her and she just turned me down flat.

“This is why I didn’t tell you, Jason! I didn’t want you to feel obligated to bring me home with you. I don’t need you to take care of me. I can handle it myself.”

I walked over to her and grabbed her hands
, so she would stop throwing things in the suitcase and look at me. “Why are you always so goddamn stubborn? You are not going home by yourself all weekend, Nicole. I don’t care if I need to handcuff us together and strap you into the seat myself. You are going to come home with me and you are going to drop this independent woman bullshit. I get it already, but know that you are still mine and I am not okay with you being alone at that house the rest of the week.”

I prepared myself for some snotty comeback or maybe even some physical retaliation
, but I never expected what she actually did. She wrapped her arms around my waist and rested her head against my chest.

“Okay.”

“I will text Carter. You finish packing your suitcase.”

I texted Carter to let him know Nic was coming with us
. Then I lay down on the bed while she finished packing her things. I also texted my dad to let him know I was bringing someone home with me. I think I was worried about his reaction more than anything. I knew I was in deep with Nicole, it was like this force that was always drawing me to her. I couldn’t stay away and I was fighting the urge to less and less every day.

Nicole

When Carter pulled up to pick me and Jason
up, I started to get nervous. I hadn’t told him about my dad being away, because I didn’t want to feel like he had to bring me with him. I have to say, though, I loved it when he went all demanding alpha male on me.

I
was so anxious to meet his dad, because from everything he had told me, he was not a huge fan of relationships. We had grown so much as a couple in the past couple months that I didn’t want this to set us back.

I
was glad Carter lived so close. At least we could spend some part of the break with him and Maddy.

She
turned around and smiled at me. “We were thinking of a day trip to Myrtle Beach on Saturday. You want to join?”

“Um…yea
h sure, I guess.” I turned to Jason to see his reaction to it.

Jason
leaned close to my ear and my whole body broke out in Goosebumps. “You don’t have to worry about me not wanting to go, babe. As long as you own a bikini.” Then he dragged his teeth over my earlobe, causing my heartbeat to speed up. He always had this effect on me, it was like I couldn’t even think straight when he was so close to me.

When I look
ed up, I saw Maddy smiling at me and felt the blush invading my cheeks. This was going to be a long car ride.

We had been trying to listen to music the entire drive
, but with Carter and Jason wanting rock, and Maddy and I trying to convince them to let us listen to country, we ended up shutting it off. As we got closer to Jason’s house, I was getting more and more nervous.

What if his dad didn’t like me? What if he didn’t think I was right for him? I felt Jason put his hand on my leg and when I looked up
, he shot me a reassuring smile. He could be so sweet, when he wasn’t being an ass.

We got out of the car and said our goodbyes to Carter and Mads. When we walked
into his house no one was home. At least I could fix myself up before his dad got home. I followed J into his room and waited for him to show me to wherever I was sleeping.

He looked over at me with a confused look on his face. “Aren’t you gonna put your stuff down?”

I was staying in here? With him? “I didn’t think I was staying with you.”

“Are you nuts? There is no way you are sleeping in any bed in this house that isn’t mine.”

He walked over and crushed his mouth to mine, turned me around, kicked the door shut with his foot, and backed me up toward the bed. I was not going to have sex with him here! His dad could walk in and hear us! “J, stop.”

He pulled back to look at me. “Listen
, I get that you’re trying to be respectful and shit, but there is no way we are spending this break together and not having sex. I think it’s cute, but I am not Carter, babe.”

He pushed me back onto the bed and before I could object
, he had my sundress around my waist. He started to kiss my panty line and any objection I had disappeared. I had no experience before Jason, but I have to say that he was amazing when it came to this stuff. I hated to think it was because he had done it so often, but that was probably the case.

He
started to slide my underwear down and I was already squirming. He spread my legs and made his way up my body, stopping and kissing me with so much fire that it took my breath away. He pulled me up with him, lifting my dress off of me in one quick move.

I reach
ed for the hem of his shirt and lifted it off of him. I started kissing his well-defined chest, nipping and licking the way that I knew drove him crazy. God, I loved him.

I love
d him. Shit. I was officially screwed.

Jason

I
couldn’t believe she thought I would be able to go this whole break without touching her. Half of the time, I couldn’t even go ten minutes. I laid her back down and stood up to take off my shorts and boxers. Seeing her lying in my old room like this was crazy. I never brought girls back here. My dad was always weird whenever I had tried to, so I just started going to their houses, or cars, or the locker room. Hell, any room that had a door.

I knew my dad would be home soon and I didn’t have long with her. I loved doing foreplay and things with her becau
se she was always so responsive, but today, I was going to need to get her there quick.

I bent my head down and her scent filled my
nostrils. She smelled so fucking amazing all the time. I licked my tongue up the length of her and felt her jerk beneath me. I grabbed her hips and held her steady so that she couldn’t move. I rested my one forearm across her stomach so that I could free up one of my hands.

When I moved my mouth up to her clit and
inserted two fingers into her, she let out a moan. I knew Nicole well enough now that I knew she was close. She was always so quick, which was why I usually liked to tease her. There wasn’t any time for that today. I started moving my fingers fast and sucking on her clit at the same time. She screamed my name when she came, and I have to say, it was the most beautiful fucking sound I had ever heard.

I sat up and sunk myself deep into her without giving her any
time to recover. I put my hands back on her hips and used the leverage to slam myself into her even harder.

“God
, J! That feels so good!”

She moved her hands up to her tits and started to play with her nipples. Just the sight of her doing that pushed me over the edge
, and I emptied myself into her. When I collapsed beside her onto the bed, she moved to rest her head on my chest.

“I have to tell you
, at the risk of inflating your ego, you are so good at that.”

I laughed. “At which part?”

“All of it, but especially the foreplay. It’s crazy how worked up you can get me and how fast you can get me there.”

“Thanks, babe
, that’s good to know. Unlike the sex part, I haven’t done that very much.”

She looked up at me in disbelief. “Why is that?”

I didn’t know how this was going to come out, but I had never held my tongue before. “Because half of the girls I have been with, I wouldn’t even touch with my finger much less my mouth. They are dirty and easy
.
Any girl, that let’s any dude that comes along ‘do her’, is not someone I want my mouth near.”

She started to laugh and I pulled her closer to me.
It was in moments like this that my running instinct kicked in. It was personal and emotional and everything I had thought I never wanted. I heard the front door shut and sat up. “That would be my dad. We need to get dressed.”

Watching Nicole jump up and try to put herself together that fast was hysterical. She was so frantic
, and at one point, she tried to put her bra on backward. I laughed and got up to get dressed. I doubted my dad even knew we were here yet, it was not like my car was in the driveway.

“How do I look?”

I looked up at her and she looked gorgeous. I could tell she was nervous and I was too. “You look perfect, babe. Come on.”

When we walked into the kitchen
, my dad looked up and the shock on his face was obvious. I had texted him that I was bringing a girl home, but knowing him, he probably thought I was joking.

“Dad
, this is Nicole. Nicole, this is my dad, Paul.”

After he was done staring at her like an idiot
, he closed the couple steps between us. “It’s nice to meet you, Nicole.”

“You too, Mr. Smith.”

“Don’t call me Mr. Smith, just Paul is fine.”

He walked into the living room and I heard the TV turn on. That actually went better than I had expected. When I looked down at Nic
, I could see that she thought something was wrong. “Hey, you did fine. He is really antisocial, so don’t expect too much. This is kind of why I never thought to invite you here.”

“It’s fine
, J. Are you sure it isn’t me, though?”

“No
, it isn’t. Now come on, let’s go sit down.

We went into the living room and sat on the couch. “Dad, Carter invited us over for dinner tomorrow. What do you say?”

He turned to look at me like I had five heads. “Mike knows less about cooking than I do. Why would we go there for dinner?”

This should be fun. “Carter’s fiancée
, Madison, is going to be cooking a big dinner for them.”

His eyes got huge and I could tell he was shocked. “His fiancée?”

“Yeah, they just got engaged about three months ago. She is great.”

“You kids have all lost your damn minds. If you want to go there
, I guess we will.”

With that
, he turned back to the TV. I glanced at Nicole and I could tell she was uncomfortable. I didn’t know what to do at this point, this was what I was afraid would happen.

“Hey
, do you want to go for a walk?”

She looked up at me and smiled, silently thanking me for saving her. “Yea
h, sure.”

Once we were out of the house
, I was finally able to relax. “Listen, before you say anything, the way my dad was had absolutely nothing to do with you, Nic. He lost it after my mom left and he never really got it back. If you want to stay at Carter’s, I really wouldn’t blame you.”

She pulled me to a stop and turned to face me. Her hands ran up my chest
, ending at my neck. “I am not going anywhere, J, so stop trying to give me an out.”

She was finally starting to break down the wall I had built years ago and I knew she was telling the truth when she said things like that. Nicole was absolutely nothing like my mother and the sooner
I accepted that, the better. I bent my head down to kiss her and enjoyed the fact that she was mine.

Nicole

I have to say that when we got to Carter’s house for Thanksgiving dinner I was really impressed. I knew Maddy could cook from all of the dinners we had together, but she really went all out. Carter introduced me to his dad and brother. I had to laugh when Jason smacked Anthony on the back of the head for staring at my boobs.

His response was even better, though. He had turned to Carter and said, “Every college brochure Dad gives me has these ugly nerdy chicks on the front. If they put the two of you on there, enrollment would double.”

That earned him smacks and things thrown at him from just about everyone. I went into the kitchen to talk to Mads and see if she needed any help.