Emergence (Awakening Series Book 2) (6 page)

Chapter 9

Carson

"And then he asked me what I was doing for the rest of my life," Lou said, laughing at the stunned faces around the lunch table.

"Is she the one?" Eva asked, looking at me, incredulous.

I looked from her to Lou, who raised her eyebrows at me, wanting to know what Eva was talking about. I smiled at her and then looked back at Eva.

"I know it's a crazy turn of events, but yes, she is."

"Holy shit," Eva whispered, her eyes growing wide.

I looked around the table at Nick, Ben, Luke, and his sister Emily, but no one else seemed to have any idea what we were talking about.

"Care to enlighten us Carson?" Lou asked, looking at me and then Eva, who smirked.

Ah shit, here we go.

"Girl," Eva started. "Carson Foster has been a lady's man ever since he hit puberty, and a drinker and partier almost as long. Then one day he just stopped. Stopped partying, stopped drinking to excess, stopped fu... um..... sleeping around... I almost didn't believe it when Caroline told me, but the other day I tried to come on to him and he turned
me
down. I knew it had to be because of a woman!"

"What do you mean you tried to come on to him?" Nick said to Eva, looking pissed.

"It was nothing, really, and that was before you and I.... worked things out," Eva said, patting his arm.

He still looked pissed and I had an idea that conversation would be continued later.

"Luke!" Anne Marie said, running up to the table. "Caroline just took off. She's really upset. She overheard your mother and Emily having a conversation about her. It wasn't good."

"Sorry Luke, I didn't think she'd take it to heart. I tried to defend her, but you know how Mom can be," Emily said to him.

"Fuck!" Luke roared, standing up and storming away from the table.

"Do you need to go see if she's okay?" Lou asked me, concerned for Caroline.

"I'll check on her when I get home. When she gets like this, she just likes to be alone," I assured her. "She'll probably clean the whole house and pass out."

"Well that was intense," Eva piped up, looking around the table. Y'all wanna lighten things up and play a little game?"

"What game?" I asked, skeptical of anything Eva wanted to 'play'.

"Have you ever played
I Never
?"

I nodded, but noticed Lou shaking her dark head.

"I'll get some beers!" Anne Marie shouted as she jumped up from the table.

"So, what you do is tell us things about yourself that you've never done. Then if anyone at the table
has
done it, they have to take a sip of their drink," Eva explained to Lou.

"Sounds simple enough," Lou said and smiled.

This was going to be interesting. I wondered if Lou realized that most of the game revolved around sexual topics. It was going to be fun to learn some more about her.

Anne Marie returned just then and passed beers around the table. Nick, Ben, Anne Marie, Eva and Luke's younger sister Emily were all seated around the table with Lou and me.

"I'll start!" Eva said. "I've never fucked a member of the same sex."

I looked around the table, noticing no one took a sip of their beer, as expected.

The game continued around the table for a couple rounds with most of the statements being light and no one really drinking much.

"Your turn, baby," I said to Lou as play made its way back to her.

"I've never had anyone go down on me," she said, eyes boring into mine.

Ho-ly shit.

Hearing her say that made me want to drag her away from the table and show her what she was missing. I wanted nothing more than to bury my head between her legs and take her to heaven.

"Damn, you don't know what you're missing," Eva said to Lou, echoing my thoughts.

Everyone else at the table picked up their beer and took a sip.

"I never had a threesome," I said.

Eva picked up her beer to my surprise, and took a sip, while Nick scowled from the other end of the table.

"What? Don't judge me," Eva said to our wide eyed faces.

Everyone laughed except Nick whose jaw was twitching as he bored figurative holes into Eva's head.

"I've never done anal," Emily said, brushing her dark hair over her shoulder and looking around the table for drinkers.

Anne Marie and Eva picked up their beers, clinked their bottles together, laughing, and taking a swig.

"I've had enough of this game," Nick said, shoving back from the table and storming off.

"Fuck," Eva said, getting up to follow him.

"Okay Ben, you're up!" Anne Marie teased.

"I've never really liked this game," Ben said.

I took that moment to grab Lou by the hand and drag her into the house. I quickly pulled her up the stairs with me, searching out one of the spare rooms and closing the door behind both of us and locking it.

"Carson, what are you doing?" she asked nervously.

"Lou, I've been waiting to get you alone since I saw you last night, and after hearing your little confession during that game, I want to give you a new experience.
Right now
."

I stalked towards her and she backed away from me until the back of her knees hit the bed. When she fell onto it, I swiftly undid her shorts, pulling them down, along with her panties, tossing them aside. I was so aroused by the idea of putting my mouth on her that I was worried I wouldn't be able to go slow.

I knelt in front of her, sliding my hands up her legs and kneading the taught muscles of her thighs.

"I want to taste you," I said as I pulled her to the edge of the bed, pushing her thighs wide apart until she was completely exposed to me. Her scent radiated upward filling my nostrils until I felt dizzy.

"Yes."

That one word was all I needed to hear. No one had ever done this for her and I ached to be the one to give her that experience almost as much as I ached to be inside her again.

She twisted the comforter in her fists when I lowered my head toward her, blowing lightly over her sensitive flesh.

"You are so beautiful," I said, before flattening my tongue and dragging it through her damp folds.

"Mmm," Lou groaned, clutching at the comforter.

I slid my fingers into her as I continued to lick her slit, pausing briefly to flick her swollen clit. I was enveloped and consumed by her scent and her taste. I knew that no other woman would ever hold a candle to this one, and for a moment I couldn't believe I'd gotten through the last year and a half without her in my life.

"God, I could lick you all day. So sweet," I whispered against her sensitive skin.

Lou seemed to grow more fevered at my words. Her breaths shortened as she tried to control the trembling that had taken over her body. I grew hungrier for her as she writhed beneath my mouth, bucking against my face. I sucked her clit between my lips, alternating flicking it with my tongue. My dick felt heavy, yearning to be inside her.

She cried out my name, pulling on my hair and rocking into my hand and against my mouth as I continued to assault her with my tongue, driving her higher and higher. I felt her tighten around my fingers as she shook with the violence of her climax. I slowed my hand and drew her swollen flesh between my lips, drawing out the length of her orgasm, and bringing her slowly back to me.

"Oh. My. God. That was..." Lou swallowed as she seemingly searched for the right words. "Fucking amazing. Thank you, I've never experienced anything like that before in my life."

Her breaths slowed as she looked at me through her dark lashes, her face flushed with amazement. Slowly she sat up, reaching for her discarded clothes.

"Oh no you don't. I'm not done with you yet," I said, grabbing her around the waist and sliding her further up the bed as I crawled over her.

Chapter 10

Lou

Carson grabbed the hem of my tank, and I lifted up enough that he could drag it over my head. Then he quickly discarded all his clothes and climbed onto the bed, resting his upper body over mine.

"Please tell me you're on birth control," he said.

"Yes."

As soon as I answered he slid into me, and I groaned at the feeling of fullness. I hadn't been with anyone since Carson, and I had a baby in between. I wasn't sure if everything would feel the same this time, but I was yearning to find out.

Carson laid there with his face between my neck and shoulder, just breathing. I lifted my hips against him and the sensations that shot through me were delicious.

"Mmm... Carson." I pushed against his shoulders. "Move... please."

He popped his head up, searching my eyes. "Am I hurting you?" he asked, concerned.

I shook my head. "I just need you to move your body. I'm dying here," I said, thrusting my hips into him for effect.

He chuckled and leaned down, kissing me softly, then licked at my lips before he brought his mouth down over mine, letting me taste myself on him as he slowly and deliciously began to move.

I wrapped my legs around his hips as he thrust, and he slid one hand under my hips, angling them up towards him so he could get deeper.

"Fuck that's good," I whispered, feeling him smile against my shoulder before he began to move with more purpose.

I'd never had two orgasms during sex. I rarely even had one, but I could feel the second building in my belly, and I knew it was going to be explosive.

Carson reared up onto his knees, lifting my hips off the bed so he could continue to plunge into me, but now we both had an incredible view of his cock, coated in my arousal, as it slid into me over and over again.

"Look at that," he said through clenched teeth. "Watch how my cock fills you up, gorgeous."

I groaned at his filthy mouth as I continued watching. He sought out my clit, rubbing with his thumb as he pounded into me. The pressure inside me was threatening to bubble over, and I felt the first contraction of my orgasm as it washed over me.

"Ahh, I can feel you Lou. Let it go. Come all over me."

His words dragged me over, my eyes snapping to his as white hot heat burst through me, sending shivers down my spine and chill bumps over my skin. It was complete bliss. Carson followed me moments later, slamming home again and again until he roared his release and collapsed on top of me.

Sated for the moment he dragged me into the shower and took his time leisurely soaping my body, making sure to thoroughly clean every dip and swell of my curves. I then returned the favor, savoring the feeling of his warm taut skin under my hands.

"Can I ask you something?"

"Sure," he said.

"Eva said that you used to be a partier and sleep around a lot. Is that true?" I asked, looking up at him.

He wiped the water out of his face and put one hand on his hip, his green eyes boring into mine.

"Yes, it's true. I'm not going to lie to you. But, it's not who I am anymore," he said.

"What changed?"

"I met you."

"What?"

His eyes searched mine as he tried to come up with the right words.

"The night we met you did a number on me Lou. I knew I was never going to be the same again, even before we had sex. The next morning when you were gone, having figured out you were married, I knew that even if you weren't I had nothing to offer you. I was a college kid with no direction, a partier and womanizer... I didn't have my priorities in order, and I knew that if I was ever going to have a chance at making someone happy or supporting a family one day, that I needed to get my life on track. So that's what I did. I concentrated on finishing my degree and decided to come back to Savannah and work for the family business, make a name for myself, and do something worthwhile."

I really didn't know what to say to him after that. He'd changed his whole life around just so he'd be able to provide for someone some day, and have a family, and apparently I was the catalyst. I contemplated his admission quietly as we finished our shower and dried off.

When we finally made it back out to the party, Nick and Ben were working on setting up the fireworks on the bluff and Jack was manning the grill with Luke's dad as the sun descended over the trees.

"I'm going to go see if I can help the guys," Carson said, leaning in to kiss me on my temple. "You're fucking gorgeous, you know that?"

My insides melted at his words as  he went towards the bluff. Watching him walk away I was hard pressed to peel my eyes from his incredible backside, but somehow I managed, and went to find his mother and Luke's in the kitchen to see if I could help with anything.

After the second meal of the day and listening to Luke, Nick, and Ben harass each other about who was a better football player in high school, it was finally time for the fireworks.

I settled onto a lawn chair between Anne Marie and Eva and was just getting comfortable when I felt a warm hand on my shoulder.

"Lean up for me," Carson said, and I did as he asked.

"Aren't you supposed to be down on the bluff helping the guys?"

"They've got it handled," he said, straddling the chair behind me and sitting down, pulling my back into his chest. "Plus, I'd rather be up here with you in my arms than down there in a cloud of smoke and chaos."

I snuggled into him, enjoying the scent of his skin and the warmth of his body cradling mine. I couldn't remember a time when I'd felt more content.

As the first pop and crackle began in the sky, I tilted my head to see Carson's profile, illuminated under the silvery glow of the fireworks. His eyes met mine and he squeezed me to him, kissing my temple.

"Honesty right?" he said in my ear.

"Complete and total," I said back.

He nuzzled my ear and whispered to me between the loud claps of the display overhead. "I'm so glad you're here in my arms. I never thought I'd get a chance to see you again, much less taste your sweet body and hold you close."

I exhaled a soft sigh, completely relaxing against him as he trailed soft kisses down my neck. "There's no place I'd rather be."

"You're mine now, Lou. From here on out, it's just you and me."

I stiffened momentarily, thinking about Carly. Carson deserved to know about her before things with us went any further. She was a big part of my life, and I couldn't keep her from him much longer.

I started to sit up so I could look him in the eyes, but just as I did I heard the sound of several fireworks shooting off, followed by bright lights and what sounded like cannon fire.

I leaned back into Carson deciding that exact moment might not be the best time, but knowing I would have to tell him soon.