Trust Me

Chapter One

    
Alec Rivers had been attracted to women at
first sight before, but he had never felt the punch to his gut that his first
glimpse of her caused.
 
Nudging his
cousin, Gabe, he nodded to the woman being ushered to a seat in the wedding
prepared gardens. “Who’s that?” he asked of the leggy blond with the blue
streak in her hair.

    
Gabe glanced down the aisle then smiled.
“That’s Brooke, my editor. See something you like, bro?”

    
Born the same year forty-one years ago to
brothers, Alec and Gabe grew up together along with their friend Will and had
always been as close as siblings. “Yeah. Why haven’t I met her before?”

   
Gabe shrugged, his mind more on his wedding
to Kira than on Alec’s interest in Brooke. But, since both Alec and Will were
instrumental in making sure Gabe wasn’t dumb enough to lose the one woman who
meant everything to him, he figured he could take a minute to appease Alec’s
curiosity about Brooke. “I don’t mix business with pleasure, although, I admit
to being tempted to break that rule a time or two with her. She’s an
outstanding editor and a good friend, so I refrained. I picked her up this
morning when I picked up the folks, which is why you didn’t see her among the
other guests you and Will escorted from the resort. She’s short on time, so
she’s going back to Savannah with Kira and I this evening so she can catch an
early flight in the morning. Want me to introduce you at the reception?”

   
“I’ll let you know.” Taped music resounded
in the gardens, their cue to take their places. “Right now, let’s get you
hitched to your girl.” Alec ruthlessly shoved his lust aside as he walked up to
the gazebo with Gabe.

   
Gabe smiled as he remembered how hard he
fought against admitting that Kira was his girl. A battle he gladly forfeited
to reap the benefits of having her by his side permanently. “I’m for that.”

    
Brooke Hastings barely managed to keep her
jaw from dropping as she watched Gabe and his cousin make their way to the
gazebo to stand beside the minister. The family resemblance was blatant in
their cobalt blue eyes and similar facial features. But it was there their
resemblance ended. Where Gabe’s hair was coal black with grey highlights, his
cousin’s was dark brown and long enough to be tied back at his nape. Though
both men looked devastating in a tux, she could easily picture Alec Rivers in
jeans and a leather jacket, straddling a Harley. Maybe it was the small gold
hoop adorning his ear that had her pigeon holing him. Whatever it was, she was
attracted and Brooke had never been shy about going after something or someone
she wanted.

    
At thirty one, she had had her share of
affairs and even one night stands, all on the heels of a short, failed
marriage. She worked long, hard hours and working up a sweat with a hard body
was a great way to relieve the stress of her job. That and she loved sex. Back
in New York, she had a job she loved as an editor for one of the top publishing
companies, a great apartment, friends, and, when she desired, lovers. She had
never wanted anything else, never aspired to climb the corporate ladder, never
dreamed of settling down with one man and never craved motherhood. One look at
Alec Rivers didn’t change any of that, but it did make her contemplate ways she
could alter her plans for a hasty departure later today. She really wouldn’t
mind returning to her hectic schedule with some hot, erotic memories of burning
up the sheets with Gabe’s cousin.

    
Brooke rose as the music changed to the
Wedding March and she turned to smile at Kira as Will escorted her towards her
soon to be husband. She had had the privilege of meeting Kira several times
over the past year when Gabe brought her to New York and had been so pleased to
see the happiness she brought Gabe. She couldn’t help but laugh with the other
guests as Ralph, Gabe’s Irish Water Spaniel, trotted up the aisle alongside the
bride, a bright red bow tie knotted around his neck. The stunning gardens were
Kira’s doing, her talent as a horticulturist evident in the display of
well-groomed flowering shrubs and the well maintained lawn, but it was the
beauty of Kira’s smile as she joined Gabe that caught everyone’s eye.

    
During the short ceremony, Brooke’s
attention was snagged again when Alec happened to look her way as she was
watching him and envisioning riding his hard body, her own slick body bowed
with pleasure as he brought her to orgasm over and over. She didn’t look away
until he winked before taking his eyes off her. Squirming in her seat, she
silently cursed herself for wearing a thong which allowed little protection
against a damp pussy. She breathed a sigh of relief when Gabe and Kira were
announced man and wife and everyone was invited to join them inside for the
buffet and reception.

    
Alec’s reaction to Brooke as she neared
him in the receiving line was stronger than his initial one. In three inch
heels she stood about five nine, which made her the perfect height for his six
foot one inch with or without heels and her dark brown eyes were in direct
contrast to her sun streaked, layered shoulder length hair. A few bangs flirted
with her forehead and the blue stripe matched her blue fingernails and toe
nails, which made him smile. The bodice of the light blue halter dress hugged
her breasts then flared out around her calves. As she kissed Will on the cheek,
her hair fell back revealing a row of earrings in her left ear making him
wonder if she had any other piercings.

   
“Brooke, it’s good to see you again,
sweetie.” Will greeted her with a hug of familiarity.

    
“How come Will has met her and I haven’t?”
he grumbled to Gabe.

  
Gabe rolled his eyes, replying dryly, “Give it
a rest, will you?”

    
“Hello, I’m Brooke. And you’re Alec.”
Brooke held her hand out to Alec, secretly pleased to have overheard his
remark, confirming the attraction was mutual.

   
“Brooke, it’s nice to meet you.” Taking her
slender hand, he leaned forward and kissed her cheek before whispering in her
ear, “Save a dance for me, will you?”

    
“I already planned on it.”

    
Smiling, she moved to Gabe and Kira,
leaving Alec with a hard on and the worst case of lust he could ever remember
experiencing.

    
Gabe, Alec and Will’s close friends had
often partied together on their island off the coast of Georgia and frequently
attended private parties held in the gathering room of Gabe’s two story house.
But for today’s festivities, the bondage equipment had been stored away and the
large room had been decorated for the reception. Floor to ceiling windows and
doors covered one wall in front of which the tantalizing buffet was laid
out.
 
A mirrored bar ran the length of
another wall and the plush sofas and chairs were replaced with white cloth
draped tables.

    
Alec held his lust in check during the
meal, although he couldn’t remember what he ate, and made it through the
obligatory toasts before leaving the head table in search of Brooke. Gabe and
Kira were dancing and by the time they finished he planned to have that slender
body in a close embrace next to his. They spotted each other at the same time
when she emerged from the bathrooms and gravitated toward each other by
seemingly silent mutual consent.

 
   
Brooke’s fantasies of getting naked with Gabe’s cousin had left her
panties so wet she had slipped them off while in the restroom. The fact that
now she was wearing nothing but her dress and heels only added to her already
heightened arousal. The way Alec’s eyes lit when he spotted her then heated as
they made their way towards each other warmed her further and her pussy
clenched in damp need of being fulfilled.

    
Alec grabbed her hand and practically
dragged her onto the dance floor. As he pulled her close, she admitted, “I’ve
wanted to feel you next to me since the moment I saw you.” Brooke smiled up at
him liking how he was still several inches taller than her even in her heels.

    
Alec leaned down, bit her ear lobe, then
whispered, “I like a woman who isn’t shy about admitting what, and who, she
wants.” Her laugh was husky, sexy, and shot straight down to his already
tortured cock.

    
Brooke moved her hips against his as they
moved slowly together, the feel of his hard cock against her adding fuel to a
fire already about to burn out of control. Pulling his head down, she nipped
his lower lip and asked, “Is that for me?”

    
“Do you see me falling all over someone
else? Come home with me when this shindig is over.”

    
Brooke loved the desperate demand in his
voice and the fact that he was as eager for her as she was for him. Molding
herself closer to his body, she said, “Uh, uh. I don’t want to wait that long.
Where can we slip away to?”

    
Shit, Alec thought as he looked around the
crowded room. Even though a good number of the guests were friends he had
partied with openly and sexually, the rest of the guests were family and other,
not so open minded friends. His parents as well as Gabe’s parents would kill
him if he left so early and Kira would be very disappointed. He was quite fond
of his new cousin-in-law and wouldn’t do anything to deliberately hurt her.

    
But the longer he held Brooke’s slim body
next to his, the more she moved sensuously against him and smiled up at him
with blatant desire and that come hither look in those sexy brown eyes and a
sassy smile on those soft lips, the more he wanted her and the less he wanted
to wait. She took the decision out of his hands as their slow dancing moved
them towards the doors leading to the side patio. Grabbing his hand, she pulled
him outside.

    
“You’re thinking too hard and taking too
long. Where to?” she asked as the possibility of having sex outdoors for the
first time added to her excitement.

    
Even though it was late afternoon, summer
days on the Barrier Islands off Georgia were long and warm, and the heat and
humidity coming off the ocean air enveloped them as Alec swore and pulled her
around to the other side of the house away from prying eyes. He hoped. A large
tree helped shade them as he pushed her against the wall and brought his mouth
down on hers.

    
Brooke moaned into his mouth as she opened
to accept his exploring tongue. They dueled for control until he bit her
tongue, the slight pain shooting down to her already damp sheath. When his
hands slid up her bare thighs, raising her dress, she tightened her arms around
his neck, silently wondering why this man seemed to excite her faster and
stronger than any other. When he cupped her bare ass, she quit wondering and
simply enjoyed and when his fingers caressed the bare flesh of her pussy before
delving between her swollen folds, she came apart with swift abandonment, the
caress of the warm, outdoor air wafting over her bare skin adding to her
pleasure.

    
When Alec’s hands came into contact with
bare, soft flesh, he cursed again knowing he was damned. When his fingers felt
how damp that flesh was, he knew there was no stopping him and when he slipped
between those enticing folds and felt her hot and wet as she tightened around
him, he knew this would be fast. As she came apart, taking them both by
surprise with the swiftness of her orgasm, he prayed no one missed them enough
to leave the air conditioning to seek them out. Lifting her against him,
reluctantly releasing that lush mouth and the clutching walls of her pussy, he
demanded, “Wrap your fucking legs around me.”