Subway Girl (8 page)

“I haven’t taken a woman there since you. I haven’t had a woman since you. I’ve been going crazy trying to find you. I couldn’t remember where your apartment was. I didn’t hear you give the address to the cab driver and it was dark when we got there. Shit.” He jammed his fingers through his hair and then cupped my face in his hand. “I rode that subway every day for three weeks hoping you would be there.”

I gave him a shaky smile. “I took a cab to work for a month because I couldn’t stand to get on the subway. It reminded me of you.”

Rivers ran his thumb over my bottom lip. “Christ, Julia, I don’t know what you did to me that night, but I can’t stop thinking about you. And it’s not just the sex. Although, that was mind blowing.” He grinned and I laughed. “It’s you. I know it was only one night and it sounds crazy, but I want you. All of you.”

I kissed his thumb and rose up on my tiptoes and placed a soft kiss on the corner of his mouth. “I’ve missed you, too,” I murmured.

I felt him let out a breath, like he’d been holding it waiting for my reaction.

“Do you want to get out of here?” Rivers asked.

“Yes.”

“I promise. I’ll behave tonight. No sex. Just a normal night of getting to know each other. Maybe a kiss or twenty before I leave.”

I laughed. “A kiss or twenty?”

“Yeah, well, I can’t seem to stop at just one.”

“I’ve got news for you. There will be sex tonight. I haven’t had good sex since that night with you. And my vibrator just isn’t getting the job done anymore.”

Rivers stopped walking. I’d taken three steps before I realized he wasn’t beside me. I turned around and went back to where he stood. “What’s wrong?”

“Nothing.”

“Then why’d you stop?”

“A vibrator?”

“Yeah, so?”

“Kinky. I love that.” He gave me a big grin and winked.

I rolled my eyes. “I hardly think you can call a vibrator kinky.”

“No, but it’s a start. We can work up from there.”

“Huh. Yeah. That sounds fun.”

Rivers leaned close to my ear. “And the thought of you with a vibrator is sexy as hell.”

I laughed. “Okay, well, maybe I’ll let you watch.”

He groaned and cursed under his breath. “You’re a tease.” He kissed my temple. His lips were warm and his breath tickled my skin.

We passed our table and I made the introductions quickly. “This is Rivers. Rivers, that’s Jenny, Frank, and Jeff. We’re leaving now. You guys enjoy the rest of the party. Bye.”

I turned and started walking pulling Rivers behind me. I knew if we hung around Jenny would bombard us with a million questions I didn’t want to take the time answering.

Rivers hailed a cab while I claimed my wrap from the coat check. We were on our way to my place in less than five minutes. We talked during the cab ride, idle chatter to pass time, mostly about what we did for the holidays and how crazy our families were. It made the ride seem shorter than it should and when we pulled in front of my building butterflies started growing in my stomach.

“Do you want something to drink? I have the hard stuff you like.” I asked once inside my apartment.

“Yeah. Thanks.”

I grabbed us both Cokes and sat next to him on the couch. “So, how come you were at the party tonight?”

“Oh, um, I’m looking into acquiring the company.” He set his Coke on the coffee table.

“I remember. You work in finance, mostly acquisitions.”

He smiled. “Good memory.”

“So your company is looking into merging with that company?”

“Something like that, yes. And you? How did you end up there?”

“Just went with some friends.” I shrugged a shoulder.

He nodded. “You look really beautiful. Can I do something?”

Butterflies went crazy in my stomach and a shiver ran up my spine. I could almost feel the adrenaline pouring into my blood stream. “What?”

He chuckled. “Don’t worry. It’s nothing weird or kinky.” He winked at me. “I just want to take your hair down. It’s beautiful up like that, but I love it down so I can run my hands through it.”

I nodded and scooted closer to him. My hair was in an intricate twist made of several sections of small braids. He gently removed each hair pin and the braids fell free. Then he ran his fingers through the braids until my hair hung loose and wavy down my back.

“So beautiful.” He cupped my face with both hands and touched his lips to mine. It was a chaste kiss. Over almost before it began, but it sent waves of desire through my body. The smell of him was intoxicating and made me slightly dizzy and his touch heightened my sensitivity.

“Rivers.”

“Yes?”

“Kiss me.”

That was the only invitation he needed. His mouth came down on mine and he kissed me like he was starving and I was the last morsel of food on earth. His tongue probed my lips and I parted them for him. It dipped into my mouth and I moaned. He tasted sweet and a little spicy. My body reacted to it immediately, like it remembered his taste. My nipples hardened and my breasts felt heavy. A tingling sensation began between my legs.

I slipped my tongue into his mouth and he groaned deep in his chest. He closed his lips around it and sucked on it. When he let go he nipped at my bottom lip before taking it in his mouth and sucking gently on it. I fisted my hands in his shirt front.

Rivers kissed along my jaw and down my neck. I ran a hand up his back to his hair. I threaded my fingers through the inky black strands, holding his head to me as he kissed his way down my neck and across my bare shoulder.
A shiver ran through me and goose bumps coated my skin.

I took his hand in mine and threaded our fingers together. Standing, I led him to my bedroom. We didn’t speak. I unbuttoned his dress shirt while he ran his fingers through my hair. When his shirt was open, he undid the button of his pants and pulled his shirt free. He tossed it behind him on the floor.

I ran my hands up the muscular planes of his chest. I remember him being fit, muscular, but my memories didn’t do him justice. He was just plain sex on a stick.

“I can’t find how to get this dress off you. It’s beautiful, but I think it’ll look better on the floor,” Rivers whispered in my ear.

I gave a small laugh. “I’ll show you how in a minute. First take these off.” I tugged on his pants. “You still have more clothes on than me.”

Rivers arched an eyebrow at me. “Really?”

“Mm-hmm.” My Grecian style dress only had one shoulder, leaving the other side bare and the back very low. None of my bras would adjust to fit it…so the girls went naked.

He shucked his pants and socks off and stood in front of me in just his boxer briefs. My mouth went dry, but my panties got wet. He was gorgeous and very turned on. His erection was barely contained in his boxers.

“There. Now how do I unwrap you?”

I lifted the shoulder and showed him the clasps holding it together and then the hidden side zipper.

“Ah.” Slowly, his gaze locked on mine, he unzipped the zipper. He reached a hand inside and lightly skimmed it over my butt check. “You’re so soft.” He buried his head in the curve of my neck and kissed me, his hand still caressing my rear.

Pulling back enough he could see me, Rivers began undoing the clasps on the shoulder of the dress. One by one he opened them. When he got to the last one, he kissed me gently, deeply, and then lifted his head and locked his gaze with mine. The last clasp gave way and the dress pooled around my feet. I stood in front of him in just my white lace thong.

“Holy fuck.”

“Can we try not to rip this one?” I grinned at him and he laughed.

“I’m not promising. Shit you’re so beautiful, Julia.”

The way my name rolled of his tongue was like he was making love to me with words. I could listen to him say it all day.

“I better take if off then.” I hooked my thumbs in the straps and shimmied my hips until it dropped to the floor. I kicked it and the dress out of the way.

Rivers ran a hand up the back of his head. It stopped on the top of his head. He reached for me with his other arm. I shook my head and he raised an eyebrow.

“You have too many clothes on.” I looked down at his boxers.

He yanked them off and I slammed into him. His arms wrapped around me like steel bars holding me and his mouth claimed mine in a kiss so hard and so deep it was like he was marking his territory. And I loved every second of it.

He backed me up to the bed. With a tenderness that almost brought tears to my eyes, he lifted me up and laid me on the bed, bunching a pillow under my head. Then he lay beside me. For a long while we just kissed. Rivers’ mouth didn’t move any further down than my collarbone. But our hands skimmed over each other’s body and it wasn’t long before Rivers’ got closer and closer to my mound.

He kissed across my collarbone and caressed the inside of my leg. His hand was on my upper thigh. I was so wet I could feel my juices running down my skin. I wanted to grab his hand and shove it to my pussy. But I let him take the lead, set the pace.

“Are you cold?” His lips moved against my skin when he spoke. His voice was husky.

“No,” I whispered.

“Are you sure? You’re shaking and you have goose bumps.”

“I’m sure.”

His hand moved closer to where I wanted it. His lips moved lower. My breathing quickened. He noticed, too, because he turned his head slightly and looked at me. He inched his hand closer.

“You’re not cold?” His hand inched a tiny bit closer and his head moved down and he placed opened mouthed kisses on the top of my breasts.

I shook my head slowly. The fingers of one hand curled in his hair. The other gripped the comforter of the bed. “No.”

“Then it must be this then.” I held his gaze. He moved down until his head was lying just below my breasts. He looked at me for a few beats before he took
ahold of my breast and just as his mouth latched onto my hardened nipple his finger connected with my clit.

I arched my back and gasped his name. He rubbed and massaged the bundle of nerves until I was writhing beneath him.

“Do you like that, baby?” he murmured when he switched breasts.

“Yes,” I panted. A fine sheen of sweat covered me and I was rushing toward my orgasm. “I want you inside me.” He slipped two fingers inside
my slit and my head rolled back and forth on the pillow. “No,” I moaned and grabbed at his arms “I want you in me. All of you.”

He pulled away and I heard the crinkle of the condom wrapper and then he was back. He supported himself on his forearms, one on each side of my head. He was close enough to kiss. And that’s what he did. He gave me the most luscious, deep kiss when he rocked into me. Our moans were muffled by our kisses.

It was the most erotic lovemaking I’d ever experienced. He slid in and out of me slowly, sending raw pleasure through my body, while he kissed me so gently, lovingly. It made butterflies swarm in my chest and desire coil between my legs. I’d never felt that way before. It was like he reached in and touched every part of me, igniting me, setting aflame a need I didn’t know I had.

I gripped his arm with one hand and ran my fingernails down his spine with the other. When I felt my release building, I buried
my face in his neck and wrapped my legs around his waist, pulling him deeper into me.

“Fuck,” he groaned. “Julia, look at me.” I let my head fall back to the pillows and locked onto his gaze. “I want to see you come. Keep looking at me, baby. God, you feel so good.”

I moaned and tightened my legs around him. “Rivers,” I whispered.

“What, baby? Are you gonna come for me?”

I nodded, still looking in his eyes. My orgasm slammed into me. It exploded within me so hard it felt as though it shifted the bed. My body tightened and I arched toward him, pulling him deeper into me with my legs.

His lips parted while he watched me orgasm. He groaned, “Oh, yeah. God, I can feel you squeezing around me. Shit.”

His body started to shake. Two hard thrusts and he enjoyed his own release. When his body relaxed he let his head fall forward and buried his face in the crook of my neck. His breathing was quick and I could feel his heart race, keeping time with mine.

I ran my fingernails lightly up and down his back until both our breathing and heart rates returned to normal. Rivers rolled off me. “I’ll be right back.”

I smiled at him.

I heard him in the hall bath. I went into the master bath to clean up. I was back in bed before he came back into the room.

Rivers lay sideways on the bed, his head on my chest, looking up at me. Silent, he held my gaze for a few seconds before he reached up and pushed a wisp of hair out of my face. He gave me a small grin.

“You are so beautiful. I want you to know that. I can see your inner beauty when I look at you. This thing between us, it’s more than just sex for me.”

“Me, too.”  I smiled, but a tear slipped from my eye. Rivers caught it on his fingertip.

He
leaned forward and barely touched his lips to mine, just a whisper. His tongue ever so softly ran across my bottom lip and I shivered and the pure exquisiteness of it all. Rivers pulled back just far enough I could see his soft green eyes. He grinned and said, “Happy New Year, Julia.”