The Beginning of Us (73 page)

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Talon

I had to call Luke to find out where Eaven’s apartment is. He hesitated before giving me the address. He seems to be very protective of his cousin. I can’t blame him. I feel the same way about Lilly and she isn’t even a cousin by blood
.  I want to take Eaven out on the lake.  Our parents park their boat in the marina and we take it out when we want to.  I find peace out on the water watching the sunset and then looking up at the stars after the sun disappears. 

My brothers have kept my mind busy so far today and I'm
looking forward to spending time with Eaven the rest of the day.  I don’t want to think about my past and she will be a refreshing distraction to it.

Ivy answers the door when I arrive.  “Hey come in!  She will be out in a couple of minutes!”  I hear a blow dryer.  I guess I should have told her we were going to the lake. 

“Is she dressed?” 

“Yea she should be.  Go on back there if you want.” 

I stop in the doorway to her room.  I can see her through the bathroom door in nothing but a towel.  Is Ivy trying to kill me?  A gentleman would turn around and pretend he never saw anything.  I never claimed to be gentle.  I take a few steps and I can see that
she's
frantically drying her hair.  She keeps flipping it from side to side and over her face.  Her hair is gorgeous.  I want to run my hands through it soon.  I freeze as she turns off the dryer.  I figure I should say something before she sees me and has a heart attack.

“Hey! Are you about ready?” I look around her room so that she doesn’t realize I can’t keep my eyes off of her.

“Oh my God! You scared the crap out of me!” She grabs her towel and starts breathing heavy. To my surprise she quickly calms down and starts styling her hair again. “I’m sorry. I should have told you on the phone that I needed a little time to get ready.”

“Don’t worry.  I can wait.”  I tell her as I sit on the edge of her bed.  She doesn’t seem to mind me in here, and I love the view of her focused on herself in the mirror and shaking her little ass in that towel.  I watch the bottom edge hoping it will rise up just a little more so I can get a better view. 

“Where are we going? I wasn’t sure what to wear.” Eaven interrupts my inappropriate thoughts as I struggle with my sudden lack of motor skills.

“Uh...to the lake. My parents have a boat and I thought we could take it out.”

“I’m glad I asked then, because I was going to wear a sundress.”  She says as
she's
putting on lip gloss.  I can’t take my eyes off of her lips. 
She's
rubbing them together.  I imagine how her lips will taste.  Wait, did she say sundress?

“You can wear the sundress until the sun goes down.” 

She looks over at me and smiles.  “Ok, I’ll just bring warmer clothes to slip on when the sun sets.”  It really doesn’t matter what she wears, I know
I'll
appreciate her.  She walks toward me and I imagine her dropping the towel, then shoving me back on the bed to climb over me.  Damn, she doesn’t though.  She grabs a little dress that was on the bed next to me and begins to rummage through a box on the desk. 

I can’t stand it any longer. I walk up behind her and put my arms around her. Her back is against my chest and I lean down to inhale her scent. I whisper in her ear,
“God, you smell so damn good.”  I hear her breath hitch and she leans back into me. 

“I want to rip this towel off of you and lick Every. Single. Inch. Of. You.” I say softly as I lick and kiss the crook of her neck between my words. She wraps her arms up over mine and hugs them to her chest. I feel my self-control slipping even more. I kiss down her shoulder as she stretches her head the opposite way to give me more access. A tiny little moan escapes her lips and I about lose it in my pants like a fifteen year old boy.

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Eaven

What is he doing to me?  My skin tingles everywhere that he has touched.  The heat coming from his body is mixing with the tingling throughout mine and it’s causing me to have goose bumps all over my body.  His touch has made my nipples pucker and my breasts seem to be tightening with every breath I take.  It’s probably because
I'm panting and breathing heavy with all of the sensations that are
overwhelming me. 

When his tongue and lips begin to smooth down my shoulder I realize I'm
beginning to have sensory overload.  If I don’t stop this, there will be no stopping me.  We haven’t even kissed yet.  I turn my head toward his and run my right arm up his neck and into his hair to guide his lips to mine.  He pauses just in front of my face and opens his eyes.  His breath is heating my lips as we just look right into each other.  I can feel any walls that I may have ever built crumbling down.  I can see the same in his eyes. 

He runs his right hand over my chest and down my side all the way down to my hip, practically bringing me to my knees. His fingers pull my hips toward
him as he presses himself into my backside. 
He's
definitely aroused and turned on.  We start moving against each other, his front rubbing against my backside.  My towel begins to creep up and I feel denim against my ass.

“I
better let you get dressed.”  He says
,
looking straight into my eyes. 
I'm disappointed and relieved that he's
stopping this.  I knew I needed to stop it, but wasn’t able to fight it. 
I'm
actually kind of hurt that he hasn’t kissed me yet.  What is with that?  He can practically have dry sex with me, but kissing my mouth is off limits?         

“Why won’t you kiss me?”  I ask him deciding that
I'm
not going to hold anything back with this guy.  If it isn’t going to work out, I need it to end soon.  I can tell he will be impossible for me to resist and
I'll fall hard for him.

He smiles with a cocky grin across his face.  “It’s all about the anticipation that makes some of the best times of your life even better.  I want to kiss you for the first time in a way that you will never forget.”  Doesn’t he know that
I'll
never forget him in my room with me in a skimpy towel? 

It doesn’t matter, because I'll
follow him anywhere to get that kiss.  My body reacts to him like it has never reacted to anyone else.  This will be interesting!

~Chapter Five~

Talon

I drag myself from her bedroom and tell her that I need to move stuff around in my truck.  The truth is, I need fresh air.  The pull that I feel
near
Eaven is very intense and I have a hard time composing myself.  The energy in the air when we are together is very thick
,
and I know she feels it too.  We are like two magnets drawn to each other.

When she finally walks outside, I
notice her bright blue bathing suit straps tied behind her neck. 
She's
wearing the sundress over it and I wish she wasn’t. 
Her hair is pulled up and she has on silver mirrored sunglasses that hide her eyes from me completely.

I open the driver door and wait for her to walk up. “You look sexy in that dress.”

She looks down and asks quietly “Where should I put my bag?”  Why is she looking down when I compliment her?  Does she not know
she's
gorgeous? 

“Hand it to me.  You slide in right here.  I want your gorgeous body right next to me until I bring you back tonight.”  She slides in and I love the feeling I get that
she's
sitting so close to me.  Her sitting in the middle of the front seat next to me gives off the impression that
she's
mine.  I notice how that makes me happy.  We head out of town to the lake.

“So are you ready for classes tomorrow?” I ask her, hoping to start some conversation to get my mind off of pulling over to the side of the road right here and taking advantage of her.

“As ready as I'll
ever be.  I wonder if we
will have any classes together.” She asks.

“Not sure you'll have to send me your schedule so I can compare them tonight.” I say, hoping we have at least one together.

“How far away is the lake?”

“Not far. About thirty miles
.”  We finish the drive talking about our families.  I tell her about my parents who are extremely supportive of all three of us boys.  I tell her how mom misses her boys and will show up
at the house with food out of the blue.
  I t
alk to her about the fact that my dad owns an investment company and makes great money, but
always managed to be there for all of us.  We are a close family.

She tells me about her little sister, Avery.  She sounds really cute.  You can tell she holds a special place in Eaven’s heart. 
I'm
shocked to hear that her parents took in Ivy as if she was one of their own.  Her parents sound like mine and I hope to meet them one day.

We pull up to the marina and I unload the ice chest and the other stuff I brought.  She follows me down the dock and
I'm
taken back by how right all of this feels.  We are just really comfortable with each other.  I lower the boat into the water and load the goods into it.  I climb in and she does the same.

My parent’s boat is a luxury speed cruiser.  We have the privilege to just idle along and enjoy the water or speed across it and enjoy the rush.  I prefer the speed.  There is a lot of space on the boat for passengers and we tend to fill it up when all the guys come out for a lake day.  I can tell
she's
impressed by the size of the boat by her facial expression.   

She doesn’t hesitate to help pull in the buoys when I pull out into the cove.  It’s like we have done this a million times together.  I tell her to hang on as I speed across the lake.  The boat will catch some waves every once in a while and bounce over them.  That makes for a nice view of her chest. 
I'll be catching some waves when she's out of that dress for sure.

I find a spot on the lake that has a great view of the western sky.  I
kill the engine and a
nchor us down to this location. 
It's time for a swim, so I yank off my shirt and dive into the lake. I look back into the boat expecting her to resist getting in the lake with me
just in time to see her blue string bikini before she lands in the water. 

I have never felt so in sync with a girl before.  I can’t think of any of my friend’s girlfriends or my own from the past who would have jumped in without worrying about their hair or makeup.  She swims over to me and catches me off guard by jumping up out of the water and puts both hands on top of my head shoving me under.  I grab onto her waist and drag her down with me.  We both surface in an all-out dunking war. 

We finally ease up and I
put my arms around her.  I find myself just holding her while we tread water.  Her face is filled with a huge smile and
, if it’s possible,
her eyes are even smiling.  I can see happiness in her entire face.  Her smile takes my breath away.  It has been so long since I can remember happiness like that.

She has her hands around my neck and she glances at the tattoos on my arms.  Both of my arms have a few
angel feathers tattooed on them as if they're
floating back to the surface from a fight.  There are a few more beneath the angel on my back as well.  I got this tattoo after losing my battle with Nicole.  I felt the
angels in heaven were as devastated as I was at the loss of the innocent life that was taken entirely too early.

“I really like your tattoos. What do they mean?”

“They represent a time in my past.” 
I'm
not ready to have this conversation.  I hope that she will understand this and give me the space I need until I can share this with her.

“Are you hungry?” I ask her,
knowing that this is going to be a true test of her easygoing personality.  My brothers and I always bring cold hot dogs with buns and beer out on the lake.  The girls usually tur
n up their noses at the cold weenies.

“Yes.”  We swim back to the boat and I let her get out first. 

“Mom hates leaving lake water on herself, so my dad rigged her up a little hose if you want to use it.”  I show her and enjoy watching as the water runs down her body. 
She's a very sexy woman and I decide it's
time for that first kiss. 

“You know, you didn’t really do the body shot right last night.” I say trying to figure out how to ease into this.

“Really? There is a wrong way to do a body shot?” She asks as she puts her hands on her hips in protest.

“Well let’s just say there are better ways to do body shots.” I ask hoping she will encourage me to show her.