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"No." I shook my head, getting angry. How dare she invite me over here for this? "Look, not that it's any of your business, but it's all a misunderstanding. Someone is using my personal name and picture to catfish people. I tried reporting it, but it's not violating the companies’ terms of use. So, it's out of my hands. I don't know who's doing it or why, but hopefully the complaints will get the accounts closed."
"Complaints?" she said, cocking her head to the side like a puppy.
"I'd rather not talk about it. I don't need more rumors getting around."
"Okay," she said, taking a slow sip of her wine. "Well, I spoke with Hailey today. Well, sort of. She wanted me to read her class journal entry and I don't want to go into detail and betray her confidence, but I think she's picking up on the gossip."
"Shit," I mumbled, taking a long gulp of my wine.
"Yeah," Molly agreed, and I wondered why she was so nice when I didn't deserve it. "But it's more than that. I believe she thinks you're lonely and that it's her fault."
I shook my head and set my glass on the coffee table. "That's ridiculous why would she think that?"
"It's not ridiculous," Molly fired back, color rising on her cheeks. "She wrote this very vulnerable entry about how she wishes you'd find someone and—"
"You have no idea what I've sacrificed for my daughter!" I roared cutting her off. "How dare you judge my family dynamic! You're the one who flits through life without any real responsibilities!"
"Oh, so suddenly it's a crime to be single and childless? Really? That’s the best you can come up with for dismissing me? Get over yourself. "
I didn't want to hear any more. I stood up, knee bumping the table and sloshing my unfinished wine. "You have no right to insert yourself into our life and judge my relationship with my daughter!"
Molly rose too, glaring up at me. "I'm trying to help because I care about Hailey." Her words cut me, as if I didn't care about her.
"Don't you preach about my daughter like you know better!"
Molly’s hands clenched defiantly. "I'm trying to open your eyes, if you'd get over yourself! But you can't see past your own guilt and self-pity to look out for Hailey's wellbeing!"
I stepped closer, using my height to glower menacingly down at her.
Her eyes blazed. "Right. You’d rather wallow in celibacy, arrogantly assuming that icy fortress you've built is perfectly fulfilling for her! God forbid you crawl off your martyr's cross long enough to contemplate your daughter craving an actual FAMILY!"
We stood there panting with rage, the room crackling dangerously between us.
"You know nothing about raising a child," I seethed through clenched teeth, fists balling. "Don't stand there self-righteously lecturing me about Hailey's best interests just because you misunderstood something she expressed because you got caught up in the current gossip. Don't think you and my daughter have some special connection just because you teach her. It's fleeting. She’ll forget you come next year."
Molly stepped closer, her eyes flashing emerald fire. "At least I still remember what human connection looks like. You wouldn't know it if it slapped you across the face. All you know is duty and obligation and how to affect a permanent scowl."
Her words cut deep, touching my greatest vulnerability. There were so many feelings bubbling up inside of me and I wanted nothing more than to prove her wrong. Without thinking, I grasped her waist roughly and crushed my mouth against hers. Shock jolted through me as I felt her immediately melt against my chest, lips softening into mine as her fingers grasped my hair. Her mouth was hot and hungry, and her tongue darted out and licked the seam of my lips, causing a low growl to escape my chest.
I broke the kiss. Her mouth hung open either in shock or desire for more. I couldn't be sure. "I feel things. I just have self-control." This I said, fully aware that I was feeling more out of control than I ever felt in my life. She looked at me, glint in her eye, challenging me, daring me to prove something.
I took her in my arms, feet charging us toward the wall, my knee forcing her legs apart. She groaned and rolled her hips, grinding into my hardening erection. I cupped her face, tilting her chin up, exposing the pale column of her neck and nipped at the flesh there and sucked her skin. She whimpered and arched her back, her nails digging into my scalp. My lips moved back to hers, kissing her deeply, as I lifted her leg, hiking her thigh up around my hip, then broke the kiss and trailed a path of fire across her jaw, down her neck. She moaned as I cupped her ass, squeezing the flesh hard enough to bruise.
She rocked her pelvis forward, begging me, needing me. I slid her shorts and underwear down and she kicked them off, her hands moving to my jeans, unbuttoning and pushing them down. She was beautiful and bold and confident.
She wrapped her arms around my neck, and I hoisted her up, wrapping her legs around me, my cock brushing against her slick core.
I pressed her against the wall, the weight of my body pressing her into the plaster, my mouth on her, claiming her.
"Jake," she gasped and the sound of her saying my name sent a fresh wave of heat surging through my veins. I couldn't wait another moment. I needed her. I thrust inside her, filling her completely.
"God, yes," she moaned and rocked her hips, and I moved inside her. She felt like heaven, like everything I never knew I needed. I was losing myself and it terrified me, but I couldn't stop. I moved faster, her nails raking down my back. She bit into my shoulder, and I hissed.
"You like that," she breathed in my ear.
"You have no idea," I grunted. It had been so long since I had been with a woman, I was dangerously close to blowing. I pulled out, needing to buy myself time. She whimpered, but I didn't give her time to react. I pulled her off the wall and walked her over to the sofa, laying her down.
I kneeled down and she glanced back at me, her eyes darkened with lust. I pushed her knees apart and swiped my tongue over her wet slit, her flavor exploding in my mouth. I couldn't get enough. She bucked her hips, but I pinned her in place, swirling my tongue around her clit, her legs quivering. I slid two fingers inside her and curled them up, pressing into her g-spot.
