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And before I even start moving, I feel her hips grinding into mine. I hold her still to look at her face – her eyes. It’s all there. The want and need for this – us. The love that she has for me.
I take one of her hard, pink pearled nipples into my mouth as I begin to move. Thrust my hips, harder and faster each time. I grind my pubic bone into her clit when she begins to spasm around me again.
“Jax,” she says my name over and over like it’s the only word she knows.
When she clenches around my cock like a vice, I grit my teeth to keep moving through the force of it until I am coming right there with her.
I roll off her then pull to her my chest. I kiss the side of her head as her fingers trail absent circles over my stomach. We’re here together, totally naked on the rooftop under the stars.
I don’t think we’ve ever connected like that. I don’t think I’ve ever come that fucking hard. I’m still fucking panting.
“I love you, Zoey,” I say against her head. “I know I’ve said it before but I don’t think I can ever remember a time I didn’t love you. I loved you when you walked up in the cafeteria that day when we were kids. I loved you in sixth grade when you waited with me for two hours because Rory forgot he was supposed to get me.”
Her breath hitches at every word I say. I reach down to her hip and rub the tattoo there. “I love that you got this tattoo. You remember what I told you?”
She nods. “You said I was like a golden snitch because whoever the lucky bastard was that got me to love them won it all.”
I shift her off of me then hover over her. “I’m one lucky fucking bastard, Zoey. When I told you that night, I didn’t think I could ever have you. I was a stupid kid who thought you were off limits. I was so damn jealous of whoever would win your heart. I never thought in a million years it would be me, but fuck if I’m not glad it was.”
I lean down to my pants and pull out a small black box. She gasps when she sees it with tears forming in her eyes. I hope and pray that she accepts what I have to offer. “I’ve had this for a few years now,” I admit. “I wanted to do this at the right moment. After you finished school. After I went pro. I wanted to wait until everything was perfect for us, but I realized today that the only thing perfect in life is this love I have for you. I need you more than I need food to eat. I need you more than I need water to drink. You are the fucking air I breathe. I have never loved anyone but you, Zoey, and I never will. Will you please do me the honor of becoming my wife?”
She doesn’t say anything at all for several excruciatingly long seconds as more tears fall. Finally, giving up on being able to speak through the tears, she nods.
My face erupts in a smile that I know could light up the entire western hemisphere as I take the simple princess cut ring out of the box and place it on her finger. “I know it’s small. I bought it when we were still at Southern. We can go tomorrow and get you a better one.”
She shakes her head vehemently, tears still sliding down her cheeks. “I don’t want another one. I want this one. The one you picked for me. I love you, Jaxon Nicholas McCabe. I love you more than life itself.”
We get up and put our clothes back on. We go hand in hand back to our apartment where we continue to make love until we fall asleep in each other’s arms.
Watchingher sleep so peacefully is probably the best thing I’ve ever seen. Next to the way she shattered around me last night, anyway. It’s still early, and there is no damn way I am waking her up.
But I know Zane is on his way. He said we needed to talk. If I’m not up and dressed before he gets here, he will be banging on the door waking her up. Then I’ll be banging on his face because she needs this.
Thirty minutes later, Zane walks in the door, but he’s not alone. He has Coach Bailey and Mr. Neveah with him. Then Rory follows in behind.
I’m worried that whatever he has going on in that mind of his is going to be epically bad. Then I realize that I really don’t care. There’s only one reason he’d have them and Rory here. As far as I’m concerned, they should know. They should know there is a real possibility that we won’t sign a new contract with the Raptors and they should know why.
I lead them all to the living room and ask if they want anything like my mom raised me to do. I hate doing it, but I would hate for her to find out that I didn’t.
“I hate to sound like an impatient prick, but exactly what is so important that you thought it warranted me coming into your home at nine in the morning?” Mr. Neveah asks.
“Coach, Mr. Neveah, we wanted you to know that we may not be signing new contracts with the Raptors. We understand that it is still a few months away, and negotiations haven’t even begun. There are certain circumstances that may prevent us from resigning.” Zane just jumps right to the point as Mr. Neveah asked without any preamble.
Both of the older men’s eyes brows shoot up. They look a little irritated and very worried. “This is something that we should be discussing with the GM,” Coach Bailey says.
I nod in understanding. “That may be well and true, but unfortunately the new GM is the reason we won’t be able to sign. Or, rather, a member of his family.”
Mr. Neveah’s eyes narrow into slits as he slips into business mode. “Are you trying to blackmail me with contract negotiation over my new GM?”
“No sir. We don’t want you to do anything you don’t want to do,” I explain. “Our issues with Mr. Alden’s family member are strictly personal.”
“But we can’t, in good conscience, resign unless or until certain issues are dealt with. We didn’t want to just refuse without letting you know first.”
Coach Bailey looks at us both with those analytical eyes he has. He looks like he’s measuring up which play we’re using so he knows his next move. “Can we ask what this issue is?”
Zane looks to me in question. I don’t want to tell them anything without Zoey’s consent, but I don’t want to wake her either.
I release a sigh, dropping my head. “Coach Bailey, you know why we had to miss a practice last year to go to New York. And you also know why we had to miss a few practices and games this season. Did you let Mr. Neveah in on the details?”
