Forever Mine (Providence Series Book 1) (20 page)

Using my middle finger, I rubbed her gently and slowly.
 
Somehow, I knew instinctively what would work on Maya and what would push her to the peak, and through the night I’d developed the fine art of slow peak and fast peak; right now it was time for the slow peak.

Her pelvis had started to move slightly, and I reared back onto my knees so that I could use my free hand to take her shorts and panties off. Once they were gone, I moved my finger down into her slowly and circled her core with the tip of my finger while watching her as she lay moaning with her head tipped back. She was always beautiful, but I wanted to catalog every single one of these moments because knowing that I was the only one to see her like this, to make her feel like this, made me feel like a fucking king. I felt the zipper of my jeans biting into my cock and had to reach down to undo them, which wasn’t as easy as it seems with one hand; but eventually, I got it done.
 

I could feel Maya reaching her peak, so I rubbed the rough spot inside of her that I’d found the other night that had her crashing over immediately.
 

Getting up off the bed while she lay there panting, I quickly stripped my clothes off and slowly kissed my way back up; I couldn’t deny myself the smaller things like kissing her body as I made my way back up towards her mouth. As soon we were face to face again, she gently licked into my mouth in the way that only Maya can do driving me towards madness. Balancing on one hand, I used my other one to line myself up with her entrance I slowly pressed into her. Each time we’d done this, I’d marveled at how her body stretched to fit me. She was so tight that the first time it had felt almost impossible, but we worked. After a couple of withdrawals and thrusts, I bottomed out at the end of her and groaned; nothing had ever felt this good, not one thing, and I would never give it up.

This time, I wanted to see her, so I held onto her and moved onto my back taking her with me. She was looking a bit nervous, but with my hands on her hips, I gently moved her up and down until she established a rhythm of her own; her eyes were looking down into mine. Soon we both needed it a little harder, so I braced my feet on the bed and started to thrust each time she came down.
 

I moved my thumb onto her and rubbed around her clit. She had already started to pulse around me, so I increased the pressure of my thumb, and thankfully seconds later she threw her head back and screamed; taking me over the edge with her.
 

It wasn’t until I was lying over her and panting that I remembered that she had been sore and that I’d wanted to be gentle with her so, pulling back, I looked down at her flushed face and moved the strand of hair that was stuck to her cheek.
 

“Shit baby I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to be so rough. Did I hurt you?”

Seeing her looking up at me with shiny eyes and a smile on her face eased my conscience a bit, but it wasn’t until she laughed, making me groan as she tightened around me, that I relaxed completely.

“It was perfect,” Maya said drawing my attention back to her. Then a look of horror passed her face as her eyes darted around my room and she frantically whispered, “Oh my God, do you think anyone heard us?”

She looked so mortified that I tried to reassure her without laughing.
 

“Baby, we all live in different areas of the ranch, and unless Cole was being a dirty perve, there’s no way anyone would have heard us. I also have triple-paned windows because things can get quite noisy on the ranch, so it keeps it quiet.” I leaned down and gave her a kiss and the tension quickly left her body as she kissed me back, but I had plans, and picked her up and walked towards the bathroom so she could try out my shower.

17

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May
a

Three weeks later…..

Since our first night together, Ren and I
hadn’t spent a night apart. Even when one of us had to work late, we would always end up in the same bed with him wrapped around my back holding me in place to stop my nighttime ninja moves. I’d contacted my cell provider the Monday after our first weekend together and had blocked Andy’s number, his work number, and his home number from my phone and hadn’t heard from him since. On Sunday, Ren had apologized for not giving me the surprise he’d mentioned that Friday and gave me a box which had the name of the jewelry line carried in Scarlett’s shop on it. I’d opened it up and found the most beautiful almost Native Indian inspired silver bracelet with a big Turquoise stone in it, and I loved it and hadn’t taken it off since. He’d also enjoyed my gratitude that day and said that he’d buy me jewelry daily if I promised to keep doing that each time.

Tony called me last week, and we’d caught up on each others news. His boss was an asshole who treated Tony like shit after he’d told him to ‘blow his way to promotion’, and when Tony said hell no he’d threatened him with keeping his gay mouth shut and had made his life a living hell since. I had asked him to move to Piersville to work as my PA as I was still using LeAnne and felt guilty as hell for it, but Tony wasn’t sure about life in the country. I’d filled him in on Ren and work and since then he’d left three voicemails with the song ‘Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy’ playing in them. After it, I’d FaceTimed wth my sister and Amy and had got to introduce them to Ren. We hadn’t had a chance to talk again since as Amy’s boss was a beast and Lucy was doing shifts as part of her qualification. My workload was out of control too, but I could see in their faces that they’d not only enjoyed the view but had approved of him. Next time maybe I’d introduce them to Cole, man would I love to see their faces when he laughed at normal words that he found dirty.

We’d started on Ren’s house and so far the renovations on the ground floor were half way to completion and the redecorating of the lounge and whatever could be done elsewhere was almost done and the furniture was waiting to be moved in until after all the painting and building work had been completed. Being there as often as I was made the project easier;
 
I could get a feel for each room and add more details to it to turn it into a home for Ren. We’d discussed the bedroom at the end of the second floor, and he’d asked for it just to have carpeting put in and the walls painted, so we’d decided on this fabulous thick mushroom colored carpet, and the paint for the walls was a latte color. Adding in the white trim, ceilings and drawer units that I’d found, it was going to look beautiful.
 

Luke and Isla were getting on better, and air hooker Kendal hadn’t been back. There had been a couple of times when Luke had to go away or leave early, but that was to be expected because we were almost suffocating under the amount of work that the firm had going on.
 

I’d had a bit of an emergency last week when I’d needed the plans for a new build, so I could look at a design concept for it, and had walked into Luke’s office without knocking, and looked up to see Isla sitting on his lap looking flushed. I’d done a quick about turn, slammed the door behind me and shouted to LeAnne that I was going for lunch. I ended up sitting in the garage for the rest of the afternoon with my laptop looking at other projects and drawing and listing ideas on the paper from Ren’s printer. I’d accomplished a lot that day, but I could live a happy life never walking in on anything like that again.
 

Unfortunately, there had been some more Francheska mishaps, but she’d only spewed her twisted crap and venom. After that night at the restaurant when Ren had looked me in the eye and promised that he'd never been involved in the shit that she’d said he had, I didn’t feel as threatened by her, so it was getting easier to ignore her altogether.
 

We’d been in Jilly’s last Friday having a drink with my cousins, Mace, Cole and the girls when she’d walked up to the table and started flirting with all the guys. Each time one of them went up to the bar, either she or one of her witches would go up with their tops pulled down to just above their nipples and flirt with them. They’d been ignored each and every time, but they got an A for perseverance that's for sure.
 

At one point, Scarlett and I had gone to the bathroom together, as girls do, and on the way back we’d bumped into this relatively good looking guy who’d introduced himself as Rich. I’d got a bad feeling from him immediately, and I could see that Scarlett didn’t like him either as she was ramrod straight beside me, but he’d been focused on me and had asked a lot of questions about my job while standing way too close to me. With people I didn’t know, I had a huge thing about personal space; add onto it that this guy had alarm bells ringing for me, I kept edging away from him. Thankfully Ren and Luke had come up quickly and had sent us back to the table while they had a word with ‘Dick’ as Luke had called him, and we hadn’t seen him after that.
 

I’d spent a lot of time with Ren’s family, and now it wasn’t unusual for his Mom and Gram, or both together, to come into the office with coffee or to ask me out to lunch. My Aunt Christie had even joined us on a couple of occasions, which I’d loved because I hadn’t spent as much time with her as I had with the others since I got here. That was going to be remedied on Thursday afternoon, though because I was taking off early to do a bit of shopping and hit the hair and beauty spot on Main Street. I was a girly girl who enjoyed buying shit and getting beautified, so this was like heaven for me. I was also going to take her into Scarlett Temptations because she said she’d only ever gone in for a couple of minutes at a time; she needed to appreciate the entirety of Scarlett’s shop.

Just as I was finishing up a design, my Uncle came in with a stack of papers in his hand and my stomach fell. I had six design requests awaiting approval by clients, and three in progress and had already had to use five of my Uncle’s workmen and hire another five so far. Thankfully he only had two construction contracts on the go at the moment as they had just won five huge contracts in Italy, and a couple of their other locations, so they were focused on those. Luke been away a lot on business to do with them and my Uncle had been away to the locations too. Even Isla had attended a couple of meetings and was due in Italy next week to look over documents and meet with the lawyers working on them. Her Dad had been sent to Paris that week by George, so she wasn’t dreading it as much.

“Hey darlin, you free?” George asked standing in front of my desk smiling at me. My Uncle was a handsome man still, and there had been a couple of occasions when we’d attended a meeting, and the women involved had flirted with him. Some of them had even been as brazen as to suggest “a business dinner”, and yes they even used air quotes. He was still head over heels in love with my Aunt twenty-nine years later though and was totally devoted to her.

“Sure, s’up?”

“Do you remember a contract you did in Palm Beach for the Mackay’s?”
 

I’d worked for a lovely family company about five months ago. They had pretty much adopted me taking me away for weekends on their yacht and inviting me to their home for dinner at least once a week before I left. I’d tried my hardest to maintain a professional relationship with them, but they were so easy to love and before I left I’d cried for over an hour while saying goodbye to them.

“Of course, I do,” I said looking at my email and thinking it had been a week since I’d last spoken to them and that I should really get on that.

“They’re opening an office and have bought a home roughly an hour away from here in Long Run, and they want you on the team sweetheart,” George placed the stack of papers in front of me. “Have a look and let me know your thoughts when you have them ready.”

As he was walking out of the office, his words sank in and, spinning around in my chair in excitement, I let out a high-pitched whoop and yelled, “Hell yes!”

I could hear heavy footsteps moving quickly in the hall. Just as George opened his mouth, Ren came flying through the door knocking him to the side with a scowl on his face before looking around my office and then back at me with his eyes narrowed.

“Helllllooooooooo,” I squealed still spinning until my stomach turned and I had to stop the excitable chair spinning so that I didn’t lose my breakfast. Closing my eyes and breathing deeply, my head thudded onto my desk while the room continued to spin.

“What the hell Maya?” Ren growled from somewhere over in the direction of my door.

“A company that she worked with and had a close relationship with, from what I can gather from the clients, is opening up offices in Long Run and she’s needed in Florida in three weeks to discuss the details with them,” George explained. My head snapped up; he’d obviously forgotten that fine detail when he told me the news.

“I have to go to Palm Beach?”
 

I had blocked Andy’s calls, but he was sending emails and his behavior was worrying me. In one of them, he’d attached a couple of pictures of him fucking different girls, and then the next day I’d received a rambling email apologizing and promising me that they were old photos. I knew that was bullshit because he had a tattoo on his arm that he hadn’t had there when we were together, so they had to be relatively recent; not that I gave a shit. I didn’t want to be anywhere near where he was. I must have looked worried because Ren was quickly on his knees in front of me with his hands on my thighs.
 

“I don’t want to be anywhere that he is,” I whispered to Ren.

“Why don’t we go for some lunch and talk it through baby? Cole will be there so we can be mean to him and make you feel better okay?”