Sound Proof (Save Me #5) (13 page)

“Because you’re getting attached to him?” I pull my lips between my teeth and nod. “It’s OK to move on, Payton. You’ve been separated from Max for months. It’s OK to be happy again.”

I don’t know how to respond to that so I don’t. She stands up, smiles, and leaves me to think about everything she just told me.

I leave Abby at her office door and jump on the elevator to get to the floor Payton’s office is on. Her door is slightly open and she’s messing with her hair, trying to cover the scars from her surgery a little better as she replies to the question that is asked from the speaker of her phone. I slip in, lock the door, and drop into the chair across from her before she even notices I’m there.

“Damn it,” she cries when she turns around, slapping the mute button. “You scared me.”

It doesn’t take her long to pull herself together. She apologizes to the person on the other end of the line, answers their next question and hits mute again. I miss everything she says because I can’t take my eyes off her neck. The need to kiss her overwhelms me so I push out of the chair and round the desk.

“What are you doing?” she asks with a curious smile.

Payton shakes her head as I lean down, tip her head out of the way, and press my lips to the skin below her ear. She sighs, moaning a little as I kiss down her neck to her collar bone.

“I need to touch you,” I admit. I’ve always needed to touch her and it’s been hell trying to sneak around and keep myself in check. If she’s within reach, I have to force myself to act normal.

“I’m on a conference call.” She says it like it should make a difference in what I’m doing. It doesn’t.

Reaching around, I turn up the volume on the phone and grin at her. “Guess you should pay better attention to what they’re saying then.”

Payton’s eyes widen as I drop to my knees in front of her. She reaches up and responds as my hands fall to her hips, pulling them forward to position her where I want her.

“AJ, you can’t,” she argues, not even attempting to stop me from sliding my hands under the sides of her skirt. The fabric slides up her thighs more when I push her legs apart and lick my lips.

“I can, and I’m going to. We’ve been sneaking around for weeks and all I’ve gotten to do is kiss you because we keep getting interrupted. If this is what it takes to make you mine, I’m going to do it.” I wrap my hand around the back of her neck and kiss her hard. “All I want is for you to come on my tongue and then I’ll leave you alone. For now.”

“Shit,” she mutters but still doesn’t push me away.

I run my fingers down the front of her shirt, making sure to drag them over her nipples as I go. I grip the edge of her panties and she lifts her hips so I can pull them off. Stuffing them in the back pocket of my pants, I slip my hands under her and grip her ass. I look up at her and smirk as I lift her hips to my mouth and run my tongue slowly up her pussy.

Payton’s breath hitches and a low moan passes through her lips. “Pay attention to the phone, lawyer lady. I wouldn’t want you to miss an important question.”

“You’re so mean.” Her eyes glint as she teases me, but she pushes my head back down. I take the hint and get back to what I came here for. I tease and taste her while she tries her hardest to continue her conversation. I toss her leg over my shoulder and push two fingers into her. She gasps, her hands flexing around the arms on her chair. Leaning forward, she slaps the phone. “John, I’m going to have to call you back a little later. We have an emergency over here.”

Without waiting for him to say anything back, she picks up the receiver and slams it back down.

I pull back and laugh. “Problem?”

Payton grabs the front of my shirt, dragging me off my knees as she stands up. “Yes, I have a damn problem, AJ.” She presses herself against me and looks up from under her lashes. “My problem is that I want more than your tongue.”

Groaning, I shake my head. “Don’t start something you can’t finish.”

“I always finish what I start.” She smirks.

I cut her off from whatever she opens her mouth to say by slamming my lips against hers. I tug her hair roughly and her head falls back, exposing her long neck to me again. I trace my lips from her ear, down her throat and across the exposed part of her chest. The humming sound she makes vibrates against my lips. I dig my fingers into her thighs and pull her up around my waist. The movement sends the chair crashing into the wall behind us but I pay no attention to it as I carry her across the office and slam her back against the window.

Holding her against the glass, I let Payton’s legs slide down until her feet hit the ground. I kiss her, letting our tongues tangle as I pull her skirt up around her waist again. She sucks in a quick breath when her bare ass cheeks press against the cold glass, and gasps when my fingers slide back into her already wet pussy.

Payton digs her fingernails into my shoulders as she rises up onto her toes. She pushes her hips into my hand and drops her head back against the window while I pump my fingers in and out, grinding my palm against her clit until she’s shaking. I feel her tense up, her pussy clamping down on my fingers and I pull her head back up, kissing her to swallow her cries.

“If you want more than my tongue and fingers you’re going to have to take it.”

My heart speeds up when I start to trail my hands down AJ’s body. I shouldn’t be nervous. Why the hell am I nervous? My hands shake as I slip it down the front of his pants and along the length of his cock, making him groan.

“I hope that’s a good noise,” I whisper, slowing my movement.

“Fucking hell, baby. That’s one of the best fucking noises.” He drops his forehead against mine. AJ slides his pants out of the way before wrapping his hand around mine and speeding me back up to what I was doing. “Fuck I’ve wanted to feel you touch me for so long. I can’t wait to slide into your pussy.”

I wrap my other hand around the back of AJ’s neck, pulling his lips against mine. I run my tongue along his before pulling back and slide down the walls to my knees. AJ’s eyes widen and heat.

I flick my tongue tentatively across the head of his cock, making him groan. Any hesitation that I had when I started sliding down the wall is gone the second the sound slips past his lips. AJ’s fingers drift over my cheek as I draw him into my mouth. My hands grip his hips as I take him deeper, hollowing my cheeks around his cock.

I listen closely, loving every sound that he makes until he can’t take it any longer. Grabbing me by the hair, AJ pulls my head back. Leaning down he plunges his tongue into my mouth while sliding his arms underneath mine, lifting me off the floor.

“What are you doing?” I whisper with a smile.

Walking backwards, he spins us, bending me over my desk. He runs his hand over my spine before pressing his body down against mine. With a handful of hair he turns my head to the side and his hot breath hits my ear.

“What do you think I’m doing?”

I giggle. “I don’t know, I’ve never used my desk like this.”

He kicks my feet apart, sliding my skirt up over my ass. “I’m finally going to feel your pussy wrapped around my cock.”

“Oh god,” I moan, dropping my head against the desk.

His fingers slip back inside of me and I feel him smile against my shoulder. “Is that what you want, baby? You want to feel my cock fill you?”

AJ’s thumb grazes over my clit and I have to bite my lip to keep from crying out. “Yes,” I whisper when I can finally speak.

Grabbing my hips, he lifts them and I feel the head of his cock press against my entrance. Before I even have a chance to take a breath he thrusts into me, stealing my breath completely. As he picks up the pace of his movement, I find it harder and harder to stay quiet like I know I need to be.

AJ reaches around and pulls my face around enough that he can kiss me, swallowing every noise that I make.

Feeling him inside me right now is better than I ever could have imagined. It’s been so long since I’ve had any type of physical connection with someone that I didn’t realize how much I missed it.

I feel my muscles start to tighten and AJ swears against my lips. His fingers flex against my hips as his moves become erratic and I come with his cock buried deep inside me.

Pulling me up, he straightens my skirt before turning me around and kissing me.

“Holy shit,” he pants. “That was…”

I press my lips against his again, cutting him off while I try to catch my breath before finishing the thought for him.

“Better than I ever could have imagined.”

My lips press quickly against Payton’s before I’m out the door and I mentally remind myself to talk to her about a kid-free night. As much as I love Willow and Sage, I need a night of just Payton where I can touch her whenever I want and not have to cover her mouth when she wants to make noise. Slipping into my seat, I haul my seat belt over my body. It’s something I never used to do until the girls’ accident, and now it feels weird not to have it on.

“Ready?” I ask.

Willow rolls her eyes, obviously super excited for this trip, and mutters under her breath. “Whatever.”

I crank the volume on the radio, pressing play on some stuff we recorded over the past few weeks. Mainly because I know she isn’t going to talk to me the entire ride, but also because I like the group I’ve been working with and think Willow will as well.

About an hour later, I pull behind the chain-link fence surrounding a building that’s in the process of being put up. Reaching behind me, I pull out two hard hats out from behind the seats and hand one over to Willow.

“Put that on, you’re going to need it.”

She looks at the thing like it’s going to bite her hand off if she reaches out to touch it. So instead of waiting for her to pick it up, I put it on her head for her.

“Are you for real right now?” she asks, glaring at me out of the corner of her eye. “Don’t you know that child labor is against the law?”

Opening the door, I slide out and jog around to Willow’s side of the truck. Pulling back her door, I grab her hand and help her out. “It’s only illegal if you get caught.”

I walk through the site slowly, keeping pace with Willow as she hobbles along. “What are we even doing here?” she growls.

I shush her and continue looking for my brother. What she said the other day about how I don’t know what it’s like, well she was right. I do, however, know someone who does know. Someone who thought his life—his dream—was over when his accident happened.

“Dan!” I shout when I finally see him. Dan holds up a finger at me and tells me to wait. After he’s done telling the guys in front of him what he needs to, he spins his wheelchair around and rolls down the ramp to where I’m standing with Willow. He grabs my hand, pulls me down, and pats me on the back as he hugs me.

He lets go and when I stand back up he turns his attention to Willow. “He thinks just because his legs work and mine don’t, that his six-foot-three ass gets to tower over me.”

“I told you I’d buy you black market farmed legs for Christmas, but you said no. Not my fault.” He chuckles at the joke but we both know that if it were possible for me to change his life, I would have done it years ago.

“Dan, this is Payton’s oldest daughter Willow. Willow, this is my brother Dan.”

Neither one of them move or say anything. Willow just stands there staring at the wheel on Dan’s wheelchair and Dan’s eyes flick from Willow’s face, to the crutch under her arm. Finally, Dan breaks the silence. He lifts his chin toward Willow’s leg.

“What happened to you?”

“Nothing…”

“Huh.” Dan chuckles, running his hands over his legs. “I’ll be damned, same here. I just ride around in this bad boy because it gets me all the chicks.”

Willow rolls her eyes at me and stuffs her free hand into the pocket of her jeans. “If you think this is going to work, you’re wrong.”

“Willow…” I sigh. “I’m not trying to make
anything
work. I’m just trying to show you that just because something bad happens, doesn’t mean it’s going to wreck your life goals.”

“And like I said before,” she sasses back. “What would you know about it?”