Double Coverage (13 page)

Every time he was with her, he felt himself starting to fall harder for her every minute. It wasn’t good, especially since she was the first real woman that he dated since the death of his wife a year ago. He knew it was time to start dating, but he didn’t think the first woman he started dating after his wife’s death was going to knock him off his feet.

He thought about his dear Kiera who passed away from a drunk driver; it tore his life apart, but now he felt like he was starting to have something to live for besides his job. Piper was a breath of fresh air and every time he was around her, he felt himself loosen the knot that had been tied around his heart for so long. He felt relief.

He silently said a prayer that he was able to last a good amount of time if Piper and he did decide to take their relationship to the next level. It had been a long time since he had been with a woman, especially one as hot and tantalizing as Piper.

He knocked on her door and shifted in place, telling himself to be cool and act nonchalant. He could do this.

Piper opened the door and gave him a huge smile. She was perfect. Jax’s heart beat rapidly as she tugged him inside her apartment.

She planted a huge kiss on his lips. “I missed you!” she said, while leading him toward the living room. “Do you want something to drink? Did you have dinner?”

“I had something at work. Hey.” He stopped her and pulled her into his chest, breathing in her intoxicating scent. “I missed you too, darlin’.”

“Mmm, my southern man.”

Her hands slid up under his shirt and caressed his abs. The feel of her fingers against his flesh felt like heaven. He didn’t know how long he would last if she kept touching him like that. She slowly moved her hands south and played with the elastic on his boxer briefs, slowly slipping her fingers in and out of the edge, causing his cock to jump to attention. Slow down buddy, he told himself. Easy does it.

He looked down at her, as a mischievous grin spread across her face.

“What are you up to, beautiful?”

“I think you know,” she said, while pulling his shirt off, exposing his bare chest. Jax counted to ten, trying to reign in the blood that was pumping south, but it was hard…no pun intended, with her wearing tiny boy shorts and a tank top that must have been two sizes too small.

“Come on.” She guided him into her bedroom while slipping off her shirt, exposing a brilliant yellow lace bra with a tiny bow in the middle. It was sweet and sexy, just like Piper.

“Hold on,” Jax said, surprisingly. “I need to talk to you for a second.

She gripped his head with both her hands. “Jax, it’s okay. I want to do this. I have been dying to do this.”

“Dying?” he asked with a grin.

She nodded and started unbuckling his pants. Leaving them open, she pulled off her shorts so she was only wearing the lingerie she talked about. She did a quick turn to give him a full view of what she had to offer and his mouth went completely dry. How did he get so lucky?

“You like what you see?” Jax could only nod. “Come here.” She pulled him toward her, but he didn’t budge. “What’s wrong?” He saw insecurity flash through her face while she looked around the room. She spotted a blanket and covered herself up. “I’m sorry. I thought we both wanted this.”

Jax felt like an ass. He instantly scooped her up in his arms and brought her to a big chair she had in the corner of her room. He sat down and sat her down on his lap.

“Darlin’, I want this more than anything, but I need to tell you something first.”

“Oh God, you have a disease or something, don’t you?”

Jax chuckled and shook his head no. “Not even close.” Alright, here it goes, he thought. “I lost my wife a year ago and I haven’t been with anyone in a while. I might be a little…rusty and quick on the draw, if you know what I mean.”

Piper looked stunned. “You were married?” she asked in a small voice, while looking down at her hands. “Why didn’t you tell me?”

Good question. “I didn’t want pity, I guess. I used to tell people and they would always give me that look. That says, ‘oh poor you.’ I didn’t want that. I wanted someone to like me, not pity me.”

“I wouldn’t have pitied you.”

“I know that now. I’m sorry I didn’t tell you sooner.”

“How did she die?”

This was not the conversation Jax wanted to be having at the moment, but if it meant he could lift this weight off his chest and move forward with his life, then he would tell her with a massive erection poking her in the bottom.

“Drunk driver. She was killed on impact.”

Piper brought her hand to his face and rubbed it. “Oh Jax…”

He pulled away and stood up. She was giving him pity. He saw it in her eyes. He couldn’t take pity, not from Piper. That was what he wanted to avoid. He walked toward her living room and grabbed his shirt, quickly throwing it on and buttoning up his pants. He heard Piper stumble after him.

“Where are you going?”

“I can’t Piper. I can’t take your pity.”

“I wasn’t pitying you, Jax.”

He turned around and took in the sight before him. Piper’s hair cascaded down her creamy delicate shoulders and her breasts were pressed up against her chest from her bra. It took everything in him not to throw his body at hers.

“I saw it in your eyes. This is why I didn’t tell you. I don’t want it to affect what we have. I can’t take pity from another person, especially you.”

“I wasn’t fucking pitying you!” Piper spat out, nearly shocking the hell out of him. “It’s called being concerned, feeling for the person you are falling for, feeling their pain.”

Falling for? Was she falling for him like he was for her?

“You’re falling for me?”

Piper threw her hands up in defeat. “That’s what you got out of that? Men!” she shouted and turned around. Jax jogged after her and spun her around.

“Pipe, you’re falling for me?” He made her look him in the eyes.

“How could I not?” Water formed at the rim of her silver pools. He did not want to be the one that made her cry. So, he took her in his arms and gently placed his lips on hers.

“You’re amazing, you know that?”

“You’re just saying that to get into my bed,” she said teasingly.

“Nah, that’s a sure thing. I’m saying that because I’m falling head over heels for you.”

She giggled into his neck and smiled up at him. He took that moment to direct her back to her bedroom. He was out of his clothes in two seconds flat once they were in her bedroom. The only clothing separating them was a pair of boxer briefs and her thin lingerie, still it felt like a stack of winter clothes.

Jax swallowed hard and reached behind her back to unlatch her bra. Before he let go, he asked, “Are you sure about this?”

“I have never been surer in my life.”

That was all Jax needed. He released her bra and watched the fabric fall to the floor. When he looked up, he was rewarded with two of the most perfect breasts he had ever seen in his life. Sweet Lord, he was a goner. This night might very well be the death of him.

He lowered her to the bed and slid her panties off as quickly as he could. She was perfect, from her painted pink toenails to her curly unruly hair. He had never seen anything more damn perfect in his life. He lowered his mouth to hers and started to take control. Most of the time, he liked to make a relationship with a woman a fifty-fifty split, but in the bedroom, he liked to take charge.

He stroked her tongue with his and lost all ability to think. As he moved his hand up her stomach to just below her breast, she moaned in his mouth, sending another bolt of desire through his body. If he was going to pleasure this woman, he needed to take it slower, so he focused on kissing rather than the end goal of their passion for each other.

“Please,” she moaned in his mouth. “I need you.”

“I’m right here darlin’.”

She reached down and grabbed his erection with her dainty little hand.

“No, I need you.” She gave him a squeeze, almost making him lose everything in his boxer briefs. Jesus, self-control.

“I can’t go that fast, I want you to enjoy yourself.”

“Damn it, Jax.” Piper flipped Jax on his back, ripped his briefs off, strapped a condom on, wherever the hell that came from, and lowered herself down onto him, shooting him to a dark oblivion.

“Motherfucker!” Jax let out. God, she felt beyond good. He didn’t think he could last two seconds as he watched her throw her head back and moan. She moved her head forward and her hair fell over her face and breasts, giving him one of the most erotic views he had ever seen. With her hands on his chest, she started rocking on him.

“Fuck. I’m not going to last long,” Jax said through gritted teeth.

“Oh Jax,” Piper said in between pants. “Fuck me, neither am I.”

Jax didn’t want her doing all the work, so he grabbed her hips and rolled them over so she was on bottom. She wrapped her legs around his hips so he could plunge deeper into her.

His toes started to tingle and a numbing feeling started to overtake his body. Hold off a couple of more minutes he thought to himself, but once Piper shouted his name at the top of her lungs and her inner walls contracted around his hard member, he lost all control and drove relentlessly into her until every last drop of passion escaped him.

They both lay still on the bed and caught their breath. Jax didn’t think he would be able to move for a week after the power Piper just took from him. She removed every last ounce of ambition from him. All he wanted to do was lie in her bed, soak up the essence of Piper and never see the light of day again. He was a goner.

She flung her arm over his chest and nuzzled into his neck. “Mmm, my pussy has never felt so good.”

Jax chuckled. “Oh, is that right?” She nodded. “Well I’m glad I could be of assistance.”

Piper looked at Jax and met his eyes. “I like you a lot.”

“I like you a lot too, darlin’.”

“I mean a lot, a lot.”

Jax smiled. “Feeling’s mutual, sugar.”

Jax pulled her in closer and got ready for round two because there was no way in hell he was going to sleep next to Piper without at least giving her six more orgasms before they closed their eyes for the night. No, he was going to pleasure his woman until she was completely sedated from his cock. He wanted to make sure the girl in his arms remembered who she belonged to. From now on, Piper was his; he had marked her and he was going to make sure it stayed that way.

***

Piper felt like she was floating on clouds. The last two nights she had spent on and off in Jax’s arms, once he was done with work. They made love, watched movies, talked and shared their most intimate details. She had never felt so enamored with a man before. Jax was a man she never thought she would be able to find and now that she had, she didn’t want to let him go; but it was time to get back to the real world and go back to work.

She was tying her apron around her waist when Hannah came up from behind her and wrapped her arms around her.

“Ooo, I missed you,” Hannah said, while squeezing Piper tightly.

“I’ve missed you too! How was the symphony?” Piper knew Todd took Hannah to the symphony, a date they had planned a while ago.

Piper turned around and saw Hannah grinning from ear to ear. “Pipe, it was glorious. I have never felt more loved and romanced in my life. I think Todd felt bad for the way he reacted the other night and really made it up to me. He told me how much he loved me, how he wanted to be married to me one day and father my children. We even talked about baby names. I feel like he was a completely different man. I feel like there is actually a future in sight. I might not have to work here much longer after all.”

“You know you don’t have to work here now.” Todd had offered to pay for Hannah a long time ago, but Hannah refused until they were at least engaged.

“You know how I feel about that.”

“I know, but you two are practically engaged, might as well take the man up on his offer. You know he has money.”

Hannah just shrugged. “But then, we wouldn’t be having these conversations.”

Hannah walked behind the bar and donned her apron while looking around the room. “Looks like the regulars are taken care of, so tell me the reason why I haven’t heard from you in two days.”

Piper couldn’t help the grin that spread across her face. “Jax and I finally sealed the deal.”

Hannah cheered and hugged Piper. “Oh that’s great. Without getting too graphic, how was it?”

Piper smiled at her prude of a friend. “It was amazing. We really connected.”

“Well, I would hope so.”

Piper waved off her friend’s horrible attempt at a joke. “I think this might be it for me.”

“Really?” Hannah said with a questionable eyebrow. “What about Mason?”

The mention of his name brought Piper’s high down a notch. She completely forgot about the man that consumed her thoughts before she and Jax slept together. Maybe he didn’t really matter to Piper after all, if she was able to forget about him so quickly.

“What about him?”

“I thought…you know, there might be something there. The way you two stare at each other could start a fire and grill up some burgers for the regulars around here.”