The Beginning of Us (137 page)

“You like being fucked?” He licked my lips. I grabbed him by the hair and kiss him roughly. Feeling his tongue sliding over mine gave me more chills.

With our lips still together, I opened my eyes and looked into his. Our noses were touching and all I could feel was his hot breath against my mouth. “Harder. Mmm, I want it harder.”

He slammed into me, shoving my back against the wall violently. I could feel the tingling again, more every time he slammed into me. I hated when it was removed, but I loved it when it slid right back in.

I held onto him, so tight that we almost had to continue kissing. I could feel his sweat and taste it on his skin. His fingernails dug into my ass as he slammed into me one more final time before erupting his load inside of me.

I kept my legs wrapped around him and bit down on my lip, finally letting my head fall back against the building. He buried his head into my neck and tried to catch his breath. “Willow,” was all he could say.

It took a while for both of us to be able to walk back to the car. Once our bodies separated and we were able to both stand on our own two feet, we held hands and walked slowly, enjoying the light of the moon as our guide.

I leaned my head against his arm as we walked. “Thanks for taking me to the prom tonight.”

“The dance was worth it, considering how well you put out afterwards.”

We both laughed.

“You know…I would have put out when we were in high school, too. I thought about it often and had mentally prepared myself for when the time came.”

He shook his head and started to laugh again. “Now you tell me. I think I might have beat off to your image as soon as I got home the first day of school.”

I pushed him away and began to giggle again. “Shut up! I don’t want to know that.”

I continued laughing. “You can’t even imagine the things I had you doing.”

“Stosh! Seriously!”

He came over and put his arm around me. “None of it compared to how it really feels to be with you.”

I rolled my eyes and smiled at him as we came up to the car. “You’re so lucky I like you.”

He turned me around before I could open the car door. “Will, are you sure this is what you want to do? We can think of something else. We don’t have to go through with this if you’re having doubts.”

“I’m sure. I know what I’m risking and I know what I’m giving up.” I’d sent my new boss an email, telling him thanks for the opportunity. I let him know that I had a family emergency and I needed to take, at least a month to work it out. Unfortunately, it meant I had to forfeit the job. My apartment manager wasn’t happy with my notice, but since I had paid a security deposit and first and last months rent, he had plenty of time to find a new tenant. With the plan that I had in mind, it was important that my place stay the way it was until the time was right.

We were risking so much and I was just praying that it was going to work.

Chapter 17

Didn’t see that coming.

Stosh opened my side of the car door and let me in first. I was so fixated on watching him walk around to his side of the car that I didn’t notice there was something off. Upon climbing into the driver’s seat, Stosh and I were met with a sudden startle. On the steering wheel was a post-it note.

I won’t let you take her from me.

Stosh crumpled up the piece of paper and threw it out the window. He leaned his head down on the steering wheel.

“Are you going to tell me what’s going on?” I was kind of scared.

He looked at me. “This can only be one person.”

He climbed out of the car and started pacing around, using profanities.

I jumped out and walked around to where he was flipping out. “Stosh, what are you talking about?”

“Jesus, Will, do I have to spell it out for you? Who would be following us around, trying to get revenge? Who did we run into earlier?”

“That guy Rafe?”

I couldn’t believe I hadn’t thought about it. Apparently, I was too caught up in what was happening in my own life to consider obstacles weren’t going to come into play.

“Yeah. That guy.” He shook his head. “I didn’t know they were that serious. This could ruin everything!”

I walked up to him and grabbed his arms. He was reluctant at first. “He’s just hurt. It will pass. I’m sure he feels used and betrayed.”

“You better hope that’s all this is. I hardly think that leaving someone a threatening note is harmless.” He had a point, but I wasn’t about to admit it. This plan had to work. We couldn’t risk having someone come into the picture and spoiling it all.

Stosh looked around the empty parking lot. “We need to get out of here.”

The ride home lacked any kind of romance, as Stosh continued freaking out in various ways. He was a kind man that had been done wrong too many times. It made it obvious that he didn’t want anything coming in the way of us being together. I couldn’t blame him for that.

When lies have kept you apart, there is little room to feel confidant about things working out, when conflict comes into play. I got why he was worried, I just chose to stay on task and ignore it.

When we got home, we had to check on Ivy. Feeding her was going to be a task, but I couldn’t just let her starve. We’d stopped at a fast food place and got enough food to feed all three of us.

Once we got her food all set out, Stosh brought her out into the living room, while still keeping her hands bound together. There was no way I was just going to let her sit with us any other way. I removed the gag. “So help me God, if you scream this goes back on and you don’t eat. Got it?”

She nodded.

I removed the gag and watched her move her jaw around. She looked over at Stosh, but avoided eye contact with me. “What are you planning on doing?”

I grabbed her jaw and turned her head in my direction. “You ask me the questions.”

She rolled her eyes. “Fine! What the hell are you doing, Willow? You can’t do something like this. You aren’t wired for revenge.”

I shoved fries into her mouth. “It’s amazing how much pent up anger can do for one’s soul, my dear sister. I’m not the sister you once thought I was. The new me won’t stop until you have nothing left to live for.”

“Are you going to kill me?” She seemed afraid.

“I haven’t decided.” I looked over and saw Stosh trying not to laugh. He knew I could never do something that horrible.

“Willow…Will, please. I’ll walk away. I’ll let you have him.”

I smacked her in the face. “You’ll let me? Are you fucking serious? Dear sister, he was never yours to give. He was always mine. You were just the consolation when he thought he could never have the real thing.” She looked over at Stosh and he said nothing. She knew it was the truth. I watched her begin to sob. “Awe, what’s wrong? Does that hurt your feelings?”

“Please stop!”

I’d taken enough psychology classes to know that someone like my sister couldn’t take this kind of mental torture. In fact, it had been that same kind of torment that left her the way she was. This was just a small part of my plan to destroy her. “How does it feel?”

She cried harder. “Please, Willow.”

“Don’t beg me. You will get no remorse from me. You stripped me of so much. There will never be forgiveness from me. I hate the person that you’ve become. I hate that I loved you so much, but you didn’t give a damn about me. I never did shit to you, Ivy.”

“You don’t understand.”

Her sobbing was exhausting me. I threw my trash in the bag and stood up. While looking at my sister, I leaned down and kissed Stosh. “After you put away the trash, meet me in the shower. There’s this spot on my back that I can’t reach. It feels so good when you do it.”

I headed into the bedroom with a smile on my face, but I didn’t close the door; not when I could hear her pleading with him.

“Stosh, please don’t do this. You know I love you. Can’t you see she is the evil one? All I ever wanted to do was be with you. I just wanted you to love me.”

I couldn’t see them or what they were doing.

“Ivy, you don’t know how to love.”

“That’s not true.”

“You got with me to spite your sister. You told me we were going to make her jealous so that she would want to date me. Now look at what’s happened. How can you sit there and say you loved me? Everything you do is some ploy to get what you want.” He was getting frustrated. I could hear it in his voice.

“You’re wrong. We fell in love. You know it’s true.”

“Just like the way you fell in love with Rafe?”

It got very quiet.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” Was she really going to play that card? I was about to go out there and bitch slap her.

“Spare me the act, Ivy. I ran into your boyfriend today. He approached Willow and wanted to know when they were going to run off together.”

“Maybe he’s with Willow?”

Seriously? She was going to play that game?

“I was having you followed, you lying bitch! I knew all about him.”

I wished I was in the room to see the look on her face. I knew it was priceless.

“Stosh…I-”

“Save it, Ivy! Finish eating and I’ll be back to check on you. I can’t even look at you without feeling sick to my stomach.” I was so caught up that I didn’t have time to move away from the door before he came walking in. I felt embarrassed about it, but he smiled and kissed me, making it a little less awkward.

She was yelling from the living room. “How do I eat with no hands?”

“Figure it out!” He responded as he started tugging on the bottom of my shirt. I moved my head to the side as his mouth found it’s way to the base of my neck. He whispered in my ear, “I want more.”

My body became hot and a fire had ignited between my legs. I lifted one, letting my knee rub against his inner thigh. He pushed me down on the bed and fell on top of me, smothering me with hot, wet kisses. I felt his hands pushing up my shirt and lifted my bra so that my breasts could fall out of the bottom. He licked one of my nipples, then went and did the same to the other side. His tongue flicked against it, making it wet and slippery when he tried to pinch it.

I arched my back and reached down the front of his pants. When I felt the smooth skin of his cock against my fingers, I knew I found what I was looking for. My hand wrapped around his shaft and I began stroking him. Our kisses became more aggressive with every one of my strokes.

I couldn’t believe he wanted me again, so soon, but I wasn’t going to argue. I pulled my hand out and began unbuttoning his pants so that I could get them off. He ran his hand up my shorts and slid my underwear to the side. I felt him rubbing on my lips and then separating them. I was still wet from our encounter just a short time ago. That was the whole purpose of the shower. Still, I couldn’t deny what we both wanted. I needed him inside of me and he needed to be there, too.

As soon as his pants came down, so did my shorts. In fact, all of our clothes came off and we were left naked, pretzeled together on his bed. He stood up at the end and pulled me down so that half of my ass was hanging off. My legs were placed over each of his shoulders and he rubbed the underneath of my ass as he positioned himself. I felt him sliding in and watched as he  watched himself doing it.

He bit down on his lip and began pumping himself in and out.

Stosh took one of my legs and leaned in, bringing it almost flat against my chest. “I’m close.”

With both of my legs now almost touching my chest and Stosh’s strong arms holding them there, I felt his body tightening. I opened my eyes and saw his closing as he was overwhelmed with satisfaction.

After a few moments, he finally fell beside me on the bed, allowing my legs to finally relax. My muscles were tired and aching, but I liked knowing why they felt that way.

He leaned over and kissed my lips softly. “We never made it to the shower.”

“I forgive you.”

“For the shower? I didn’t know I was in trouble.” He smiled and traced the skin on one of my breasts.

I shook my head. “Not for the shower, Stosh.”

He sat up and got real serious.

I reached up and stroked the side of his face with the back of my hand. “I just want to move forward. If something bad happens to me, I want you to know that I forgive you for your part in Ivy’s plan. I can see how she used you, but I also feel flattered that you felt like it was the only way you could ever be with me. I felt our connection. As much as I try to rationalize that forgiving you is a mistake, I can’t
not
do it. What I want is right in front of me and nothing is going to stop me from having it.”

He smiled, showing his almost perfect teeth, before letting his head fall down on my chest. He brought my hand up to his lips. “So, I have my best friend back?”

I ran a hand through his dark hair. “Yeah, I guess you do.”

He leaned up on his chin and looked at me. “There’s just one thing that bothers me.”

“What?”

“I hate that I have to call you, Ivy. I want the world to know that I’m with Willow. It’s just not very fair, after everything she’s put us through.”

Shouting started coming from the other room. “I CAN HEAR YOU!”

“WE DON’T CARE!” I yelled back.

“We should probably go put her back in her room. If she can hear us talking, I’m sure she heard us fucking. I HOPE SHE DID!”

We were being rude. Each time I started to feel sorry for being the way we were, I thought about all of the lies upon lies that she made us believe.

We dressed, in order to be able to go out and handle Ivy. We found her on the floor. She’d been trying to get into my purse with her teeth. I rushed over and started putting everything back in. When I picked up her cell phone, I saw it blinking. When I pulled up the messages, I was shocked how many were on there. We left Ivy on the floor, while Stosh and I sat down and looked through them.

What does he have on you, my love? – R

Please answer me. – R

I won’t let you do this. We are meant to be together. You, me and the baby. –R