For You (The Shore Book 2) (26 page)

“I’m glad you’re here.”

“Thanks for bringing me here. And for showing up tonight.”

He leaned forward to kiss her and just as his lips touched hers, he felt her shove his shoulder back. In the next moment, she was sitting on top of him, straddling his legs.

“And seriously, a plane?”

“What?” he laughed, caught by surprise. “The plane isn’t a secret. Cody knew about it.”

“That
so
does not count!” She leaned down to tickle his ribs. “Are there any other secrets you’re hiding?”

He grabbed her hands and interlaced their fingers so she couldn’t tickle him again. “No. I promise, no more surprises.”

“No huge houses or sports cars or motorcycles or planes or yachts … ?”

“I do have a set of kayaks I keep at a buddy’s house that lives on the Sound and a car in Columbia, but that’s it.”

The kayaks made perfect sense. Hitting the water sounded like a great way to begin a morning. So instead, she focused on the car. “It’s not a Ferrari, is it?”

Declan laughed. “No, it’s not a Ferrari.”

“Lamborghini?”

He laughed again. “No. It’s the Camaro I drove while I was in college. Is that okay?”

She looked at him as she thought about it. “A Challenger and a Camaro? Where’s the Mustang?”

“No Mustang, but um …” he said with a sly grin.

“Declan?” There was a growl in her tone.

“You haven’t seen what’s in the other garage downstairs.”

“And what would that be?”

“A Wrangler.”

“OHMYGOD. You boys and your toys!”

“What? It’s Luke’s fault. He got me hooked. Besides, I can’t drive the Harley around here every day. It gets cold and it does rain, you know. And there’s a lot of sand. Just ask Ryan.”

“You are impossible!”

He pulled her down so her face was just above his and cradled her cheeks in his hands. “No I’m not,” he teased.

She wrapped her arms around his neck and gave him a long, slow kiss as his hands went to her waist. The kiss grew into more and Madison could feel his fingers slide beneath her shirt to caress her skin. She loved the feel of him touching her, but she had another idea.

Moving her lips from his, she started to kiss down his chin to his neck, taking a moment to lightly suck on his ear before trailing her tongue down his neck to his shirt.

She scooted back on his legs, giving her the room she needed to lift his shirt and place soft kisses along his abs and chest.
 

As her kisses started back in a southerly direction, he entwined his fingers in her hair and pulled gently for her to move back to his lips.

“Whatcha doing?” he asked, seeking out her lips with his. He lightly ran his tongue along her bottom lip and she covered his mouth with hers in return.

“Nothin’,” she answered with a sly grin when she released his lip.

She slowly kissed back down his chest, finding the fine line of hair leading directly into the V of his hips. She followed it, quickly unbuttoning and unzipping his jeans.
 

She placed her lips over his covered, hardening cock and sucked lightly.
 

“Lift up,” she directed, taking his jeans and underwear in her hands and pulling them down to his ankles. She got off the bed and went to his feet to take off the boots he had on. She removed them, then his socks, and slid his jeans off so they landed on the deck.

Crawling back up his body, she placed light kisses along his legs and ran her hands up his stomach. She paused, her breath covering his bare cock.
 

Looking up, she locked eyes with him as her lips opened and sucked the tip of him into her mouth.
 

“Shit, Madison,” he groaned, running his fingers through her hair. He held her head gently as she sucked on him, swirling her tongue around the ridge of the head.

Dropping her eyes, she released the head from her mouth and cradled his cock in one hand, licking from the base to the tip.
 

Declan wasn’t sure how much of this he could take - her mouth felt like silk against him. Although they had sex that morning, he had spent the hours at Ryan and Cody’s distracted by thoughts of what it would be like to have her in his home, in his bed, to be inside her.

Madison ran her tongue up his length and then slid him past her lips, taking in all of him. She loved how he filled her mouth.

“Fuck, baby,” he groaned. “I want to taste you. Take off your pants and come up here.”

She released him from her mouth and held him in one hand, meeting his eyes, as she again sucked on his tip but shook her head. She could taste the salty fluids on her tongue.

“No?” he asked, but her only response was to slide him past her lips and take all of him again. He could feel her nose against his stomach.

She raised her head, wrapped her hand around his length and slid it up and down. “No.” She lazily ran her tongue across the head, licking the pre-cum that had appeared as his head dropped back.

As she continued to lick and suck him, she felt his hips begin to move, his hands holding her in place as he pumped into her mouth.
 

“That’s it, suck me.”

Using just her mouth, she ran her hands up his stomach and dragged her nails back to his hips.
 

“Fuuuck.” He loved that the only thing he could feel was her lips around him. Sucking him. Licking him.
 

“Shit, babe, I’m going to come,” he announced, reaching for her hands and lacing their fingers.

Madison held her mouth over him, her eyes locked on his, sucking as he pumped into her. His hips moved faster as his orgasm approached.

He squeezed her hands as he grunted and Madison felt his cock twitch just before she felt him shoot into her mouth.
 

Letting go of one of his hands, she wrapped her fingers around him and lightly licked his head as he came down from his orgasm. When he had calmed, she placed a soft kiss on him then crawled up his body.
 

He looked into her eyes with a mix of “holy shit, do that again” and wanting to lay her back and do the same to her.

She placed a quick kiss on his lips but he pulled her back for more.

“Holy shit, Mad.” He looked into her eyes, wondering how he could have lived this long without her in his life, and feeling certain he never wanted to let her go.

“I like that,” she smiled.

“Like what?”

“You calling me ‘Mad.’”

She kissed him again and laid her head on his chest, listening to his heart beat. She wasn’t really sure what the hell was going on, but she was done. Declan Healy had worked his way into her heart.

“Come on,” he said quietly, rubbing her back. “Let’s go to bed.”

Chapter 23

Declan woke with a smile as he remembered the activities from the night before and wrapped his arms around Madison’s sleeping body. He was getting used to waking up like this, with her beside him. She was pressed up next to his side with a leg over his and her hand on his chest.
 

He was thinking about repaying her for the previous night when he heard a buzz. Looking over to the table he saw the light on his phone was illuminated. The clock next to it read just after five-thirty. There was only one person who would call this early, and if she was calling, it was almost certainly not good news.

He reached for the phone and quietly answered. “Hey Erin.”

“Hi. I’m sorry to wake you.” There was worry in her voice.

“It’s alright. What’s wrong?” He shifted his body to a sitting position causing Madison to wake.

“The alarm went off again.”

“Shit, really?”

Madison mouthed, “Who is it?”

“Erin,” he said quietly.

“Declan, the police found Ty there.”

“Damn it,” he sighed, running his hand over his face.

“What do you want to do?” Erin asked.

“I can head to the gym but it’s going to take me a couple hours to get there.”

“A couple hours? Where are you?”

“Madison and I are at the shore. I have the plane, but I need to drop her back at Cody’s to get her car.”

“That’s right! You failed to fill in some of those details last night.”

“You’ll have to wait until later.”

Madison raised an eyebrow hearing only Declan’s side of the conversation.

“Are you going to press charges?”

“I need to talk to him first. I want to understand what the hell happened before I make any decisions. Are they still at the gym?”

“Yeh, I’m on my way there now. But if you want to talk to him, my guess is they’ll make him wait at the police station.”

“I really don’t want that to happen, but maybe it’ll scare him a little. Show him he can’t do this shit.”

“Chris is here so he can stay with Ike. I’ll head to the gym until you get there, okay?”

“Yeh. Text me if they keep him at the gym otherwise I’ll head straight to the station.”

“Okay.”

“Alright, let me get outta here. Text me if there’s anything else.”

“Okay. Fly safe.”

Declan disconnected the call and looked to Madison.

“What’s going on?” she asked.

“The alarm went off again.”

“Sounds like it wasn’t a false alarm this time.”

“No.” Declan paused for a second then pressed a quick kiss to Madison’s lips before he got out of bed. He dressed as he explained. “There’s this kid, Ty. He’s one of those kids that had a really shitty childhood with a dad that was killed when he was young and a mom strung out on drugs. He’s been trying to do the right things, trying to live the right way. Erin, Aidan and I have been helping him the best we could, figuring out a place for him to stay, giving him money when he needed it, and he basically had carte blanche at the gym to train.

“When the cops went to the gym this morning, Ty was there. I’m not sure what he was doing, but I’m going to find out.”

“Do you think he set it off?”

Declan sighed, “I don’t know.” He walked into the bathroom and closed the door.
 

Madison got up from the bed and put on her clothes. By the time she was done, Declan opened the door again.

“Do you want to stay here and sleep? The sun isn’t even up yet. Ryan could come get you later and bring you to your car.”

“No,” she said, wrapping her arms around his neck. “I need to head back and deal with work anyway. Getting an early start wouldn’t be a bad thing.”

“I’m sorry.” He leaned down and placed a kiss on her lips.
 

“Why are you sorry?”

“I had other ideas for how to wake you up. This wasn’t exactly what I had in mind.”

She grinned as she tightened her arms around him. “Don’t worry. There will be other opportunities.”

“Promise?”

Madison nodded. “Thank you for coming here last night.”

“Thank you for what you did last night,” he grinned. “I owe you one.”

With a smile on her lips, Madison shook her head. “Let’s not start keeping score, okay?”

“Deal,” he winked.

“Come on, we’d better get going.”

Declan led them back to the garage and instead of sliding on his leather, he grabbed the keys to the Wrangler and opened the garage door.

Madison laughed as she remembered the conversation about his toys from the night before.

“I guess I’ve seen them all now, right?” she asked, pointing to the Wrangler.

“Well, except for the Camaro. And the plane,” he winked.

“Right,” she chuckled, shaking her head.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Declan called the FBO where he kept his plane and requested they get it ready for flight. He had let them know he’d likely be there only a handful of hours, but hadn’t expected to leave quite so early.

The drive to Ryan and Cody’s house seemed to take less time than it had the night before as he absently ran his thumb over Madison’s knuckles and thought about Ty.
 

Why was he at the gym this early in the morning?

He knew the kid was worried about his mom being released, but he also knew, without a doubt, the last place Ty wanted to end up was in jail. He’d seen too many of his buddies with the wrong people doing the wrong things. Declan and Erin had made it clear they would do what they could to help him stay away from all of that. Ty had seemed relieved.

Then why was he there?
 

Was he sleeping there?

The thought made Declan’s stomach drop. It made sense. The first false alarm, not being able to find anyone entering the gym on the video tapes, seeing Ty at the gym so early in the morning.

“Will you call me when you land?” Madison broke his train of thought as they pulled into Ryan’s driveway.

Declan nodded with a soft smile. “It should take me about two hours to get there, depending on where they are with the prep.”

“How long have you had your license anyway?”

“A couple years. It’s just easier to fly between the gyms than drive,” he shrugged.

Declan put the car in park and got out. He grabbed Madison’s few items from the back seat and met her at the rear of the Wrangler.

She wrapped her arms around his waist. “I think Ryan was right.”
 

Declan cocked his head in question.
 

“You are
definitely
an onion.” She grinned and leaned in to kiss him. “Fly safely, okay?”

“I will. You drive carefully.”

“I will.” Madison smiled and leaned in for another kiss.

Declan waited as Madison got into her car and drove away. He would have rather flown her back with him, but knew she needed to have her car in the city.
 

Maybe I can take her away for a weekend in the mountains.

He smiled at the thought and got into his car. He definitely wanted to spend as much time with her as he could. Erin would be coming back to the gym soon which meant he wouldn’t be managing for her anymore.
 

The question was, would he be going back to the shore?

Shaking the thought from his mind, he turned out of the driveway and dialed Aidan’s number.

“This better be important,” Aidan answered in a quiet, gruff tone.