Takin' the Reins (The Sterling Brothers #2) (8 page)

Chapter Thirteen

The bonfire was roaring brightly, and the sound of laughter filled the space. Lexi had never been happier than she was right now, and it was all because she finally felt like she was right where she was supposed to be. She sat on Jace’s lap, with his big, strong arms around her, holding her close to him. The nights were starting to get warmer, but it still had a chill in the air. She lifted her head, her focus now on Travis and Pearl, with Travis holding Pearl in the same fashion Jace held her. Over the last few months she and Pearl had become closer. Maybe it was because they’d each tamed a Sterling brother? That had her smiling. The Sterlings couldn’t be tamed, but they were faithful and honest.

She snuggled in closer to Jace and looked over at Colton. He sat by himself on the opposite end of where they were, a beer bottle in his hand, his body relaxed, slouched down in the chair, and his focus on the fire. She couldn’t help but feel this pang for him at the fact he was alone while his brothers had someone.

“He’ll be okay,” Jace said close to her ear.

She looked over at him, realizing she’d obviously reflected what she’d been thinking on her expression. “Doesn’t it make you sad?”

“Sad?” He smoothed a hand over her arm.

She nodded. “Yeah, that he’s by himself while you two have someone?”

Jace looked at Colton, who was now getting up from his seat and saying goodnight. She watched him walk over to his truck, get in, and finally drive off toward his place. The houses were situated a good distance from each other, and although the bonfire and picnic area they’d constructed was in a central location on the farm to the three homes, it still gave them privacy.

“I think we’re going to head back, too,” Travis said, and Lexi didn’t miss the glimmer of wicked intent on his face when he looked at Pearl.

After they said their goodbyes and Travis and Pearl left they sat there for a second, just enjoying the quiet, the fire, and the fact they had each other.

“Baby, as much as I love sitting here with you, I know you can feel the stiffie I’m sporting.” Jace’s voice was low, deep, and filled with sexual heat.

She squired in his lap, grinning. Yeah, she’d felt his erection all right, but teasing him, prolonging what they’d clearly be doing at the end of the night, was so fun. She turned around to tell him that, to tease him more, but before any words came out Jace was standing with her in his arms. He kissed her senseless for several seconds before pulling away, putting the fire out, and grabbing her again, all seemingly in a few minutes.

“I’d like to be a gentleman when I’m with you, but you drive me to the point of losing my control.”

She giggled. “I didn’t even do anything.” Well, not aside from squirming on his lap, but other than that she’d been good.

“Baby, you just have to breathe and I feel like I’m about to lose it.” He had her back in his arms, strode to the truck, and set her in the passenger side within a few moments. Then they were driving to his place.

Her heart was thundering, her palms were sweaty, and although they’d had sex plenty of times, every time felt like the first. Once they were back at his place with the door shut, the look Jace gave her had her shivering and taking a step back. She kept moving backward, down the hall, her hand on the wall, stabilizing her, but her focus on Jace. Once in the bedroom and the door shut she shivered again. Yeah, this was about them, and God, did Jace know how to make all common sense leave her with just a look.

****

“Take off the clothes,” he ordered.

She did what he said instantly, and when she was naked he looked his fill. He got undressed, this animalistic side rising up. There was no time for him to be sweet and gentle. No, he needed to be raw with her.

“Get on the bed, baby,” Jace said the command, knowing he was being pushy, but also knowing she liked that. Lexi moved over to the bed, and when she was laid out like an offering, all he could do was stare at her. She was so fucking hot, lush and plump, and her creamy caramel skin, like a delicious crème brûlée, made him hard and hungry all at the same time.

The sight of every inch of her body on display was a visual orgasm. The idea of teasing her to the brink of orgasm and denying her that pleasure was tempting, but he couldn’t last that long. He wanted inside of her too fucking badly.

“Spread your legs. Let me see that sweet pussy of yours.”

She did as he said, her legs lifting up, her feet planted on the bed, and her pretty cunt on display. The outer lips of her pussy were a shade darker than the rest of her body, and he groaned at the sight. She was gorgeous, in every shape, way, and form, and he’d never get enough.

He moved closer to her, stopped at the edge of the bed, and just took a second to look at her pussy and the little hole he’d soon have stretched because of his cock.

Placing his hands on her inner thighs, he pushed them open even wider, needing to see all of her flesh parted for him. He loved she had a trimmed thatch of hair covering her mound, but that her labia were smooth, glistening with her cream. She was primed for him, and that’s just the way he wanted her.

“Fuck, baby. Your pussy is so damn wet for me.”

Her chest rose and fell with her rapid breathing. He moved one of his hands from her thigh and ran his finger down the center of her cunt, seeing her visibly shake. It made him harder that just a small touch from him could cause such intense reaction within her.

Placing his thumb on her clit, he gently applied pressure while he slid his index finger over her slickness and circled it around the opening of her pussy, wanting desperately to push the digit inside of her, but holding off for a second. He wanted to tease her like she teased him.

“Please, Jace.”

Well, fuck.
It seemed like he had no self-control when it came to her. He slipped his finger into the wet, hot depths of her body, and grunted when her pussy sucked the digit inside. He finger-fucked her in long strokes while he rubbed gentle, slow circles around the swollen little bud of her clit. The breathy cries that came from her had his cock throbbing and pre-cum slipping from the tip.

He used his other hand to grip his shaft, tightening his fingers around the length, and started stroking himself. Jace watched his finger move in and out of her tight pussy, a deep groan leaving him at the sight.

“Yes,” she moaned. “God, Jace, it feels so good.” The way his name fell from her lips, all breathy and full of need, had him gripping his shaft harder. Damn, he wanted inside of her so bad, wanted to feel her pussy walls contract around him as she got off. She squirmed on the bed, her breasts thrust out and her hips rising to meet his thrusting finger.

He continued to push the digit into her as he leaned forward. “Your pussy is so fucking wet, so snug around me.” Jace breathed out those words. He added another finger, stretching her tight little hole, and loving that she cried out, a soft, mewling noise. Pressing a kiss to the side of her mouth, he slid his tongue along her bottom lip, hearing her moan louder, feeling her breath coast along his mouth.

Jace knew she was about to get off. The feeling of her inner muscles tightening around his finger and the breathy little sounds coming from her told him as much. He knew it would only take a little pressure on her clit and a little twist along the bundle of tissue and she would get off. He removed his fingers from her body, and she groaned.

“Fuck me already, Jace.”

Her nipples were hard and tight, the air making them poke up as if begging for his mouth. And her words, damn, her words had his balls drawing up tight. He stared at her nipples for a prolonged second, and finally suctioned his lips over the turgid peak.

“Jace,” she gasped his name. “Yes.”

He ran his tongue over her nipple, groaning at the sweet flavor of her skin. Her flesh was smooth, and she smelled incredible, that lemony scent invading his senses and making him drunk. While he sucked and licked, he moved his hand down her rounded stomach and to the engorged little knot of nerves at the top of her pussy once more. A cry left her when he rubbed it, and she begged him for more.

“I’ll give you so much you can’t even handle it,” he murmured against her skin.

He lifted his head, her nipple coming free from the suction of his mouth with a pop. He circled her clit again with his thumb, harder, faster, drawing out her pleasure and then removing his finger right before she went over the edge.

“Fuck me already,” she begged.

He didn’t know if he could have held out much longer anyway, but he liked teasing her, liked having her so on edge she was pleading with him. Pressing his mouth onto hers, he felt her shake. He swallowed her cry of pleasure, feeling his own need to be buried inside of her mounting. Jace found himself pressing his hips against her.

When her body stopped shaking, he moved into position between her splayed thighs. He wasn’t going to be gentle, not when he was so wound up.

He placed a hand on each of her legs, feeling the delicate flesh of her inner thighs slightly damp from her need for him. He was harder than any other time before. Placing the very tip of his cock at the entrance of her cunt, he lifted his eyes to her face. He pushed into her, filling every succulent inch of her pussy with his cock. Her mouth opened, and her back arched. It was the most erotic thing he had ever seen.

Fuck. Yes.

Jace pushed his dick into her, looked down between their bodies and watched as he moved in and out of her pussy. He smoothed his hand up her belly and over her arms, and back down to her waist. He fucked her for several more seconds before he pulled out and flipped them over so she was the one on top of him now.

“Ride me, baby.” Her wetness coated his shaft and her inner thighs, and he was riveted to the sight, loving that he could see his cock disappearing into her body then reemerging.

Jace was about to come, and as much as he’d like to keep this going all night, there was no fucking way he could hold off any longer. The fact she was so damn wet, and also the view of her riding him, had him using all of his strength to keep his control.

“Fucking hell, Lexi.” He tightened his hold on her outer thighs, squeezed her flesh as his orgasm started to rise, and wasn’t going to stop himself from getting off. He couldn’t, not when it came to Lexi. She was his weakness in every sense of the word. He started really fucking her, thrusting his hips in and out, pounding himself into her, and needing to reach that peak. And then like a volcano starting to erupt, he finally reached that climax. He started to come, watched as her tits shook, and lifted his hands to take hold of them.

“Fuck,” he groaned and tilted his head back as pleasure slammed into him so forcefully it took his breath away. He roared out his release. “Oh shit, baby. That’s it.” Once their highs receded, Lexi collapsed on top of him, and they both breathed out, neither speaking.

She rolled off of him, now on her back, naked, sweaty, and so fucking hot he could have popped another boner. Jace reached out and smoothed a hand over her belly, wanting this woman to be his always. He wanted her as his wife, wanted her to be the mother of his children. She was it for him, and even if it had been such a short time since they’d gotten together, he’d never felt this way about a woman. This was the real deal.

“How do you think Travis will handle the baby?” Lexi asked and rolled onto her side, facing him. She smiled, the happiness on her face over that clear.

“I think he’ll have his hands full if it’s a girl.”

She chuckled. “Yeah, but I think they’ll make incredible parents. I may not know them extremely well, but from what I do know and have seen, they will shower that little baby with love.” She lifted her hand and covered his cheek.

“I think we’d make incredible parents one day.” Yeah, he’d said that, and he wasn’t going to take it back.

She didn’t speak for several seconds, and for a moment he felt like he might have jumped the gun and fucked up, but she leaned in and kissed him, having his heart rate calm a bit.

“I think we would, too, Jace.”

He pulled her in close, held her, and told himself he would not screw this up.

“I love you, Lexi baby.” He pulled back and kissed her on the forehead.

“I love you, too.”

He was not going to let her go, not when, for the first time in his life, he realized he was exactly where he was meant to be.

****

Lexi had slipped out of bed a few minutes ago to get something to drink, but now she found herself standing in the living room. The blanket she’d wrapped around her kept the chill in the air away, and she pulled it tighter around her body. She stared out at the property, could see the mountains on one side, and rolling hills on the other. The other two brothers’ houses were in the distance.

This place was beautiful, and although she’d known Jace since she was a girl, she had only recently really gotten to know him personally.

“I think we’d make incredible parents one day.”

What he’d said played back in her head, and she looked down, pushing the blanket away so she could look at her belly. She placed a hand on her stomach, knowing she should have told him then that she was pregnant. But she’d just found out earlier today, had taken three tests just to be sure, and her fear over it all had her keeping it to herself, at least right now. But she loved Jace, and she knew he loved her, too. They’d only really been couple for the last few months, she had her newer place, and she worried that this was so fast.