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Beth excused herself from the table and collected everyone’s plates. She started rinsing the dishes off and then placed them into the dishwasher. As Bri prepared everything she needed to make flan, which caused Joel to light up with glee, I got up from the table and helped her out.
“Hey, Chase,” Beth said softly. She reached for the now-empty pots and pans.
“Hey, Beth. What have you been up to today?”
I couldn’t pretend that I didn’t like it when her gaze traveled from my eyes down to my lips. My cock hardened, and the apples her of cheeks darkened.
“I was window-shopping,” she answered calmly. “Brianna called to see what I was up to.” I loved it when she tried to act unaffected. Putting another pot into the dishwasher, I titled my head at her and went into the living room.
***
Bethany
“May I?” I canted my head toward the spot next to Chase on the couch that no one sat on yet. There were two big couches in their living room and two sofas. Everyone was enjoying their flan, but I was still stuffed. When I’d gone to sit by Pierce, he gave me the “Is it really me you wanna sit with?” look that made his dimples show without smiling. I hadn’t responded. Pierce just chuckled at me and I’d decided I’d let him enjoy his husky laugh. He understood that I yearned to be with Chase and he didn’t get weird over it. Gavin, Brianna, Rylan, and Joel didn’t hide that they wanted to know what was going on between Chase and I.
Chase’s expression was contemplative. I wondered
where he was mentally. He looked like he was miles away when he was right in front of me.
Jerking his gaze up at me, Chase pulled me down, half of my rear landing on his thigh. I’d felt like I was going to break out in a downpour of nervous perspiration if I hadn’t busied myself with moving around and making sure the dishes had been cleaned after dinner. Having a meal next to him hadn’t been enough for me. I’d felt like there was a wide, cold river between us.
Slanting a side of my body next to Chase, I felt his fingers journey into the nape of my neck, settling on the base of my head.
“No more doubts?” Chase’s whisper feathered against my ear.
“No more doubts,” I echoed, truly believing in that he was sincere. I wondered if this was how Cindy had started to weaken when it came to men.
While Chase’s expression didn’t change, there was more vibrancy in his hazel eyes. I could so easily get lost in them. Secretly loving that it was dark in the living room, save for the reflection of the television, I propped my chin on his shoulder and pressed my lips to his neck.
***
Chase
After I opened my car door for Beth, I brought my hand to her shoulders and positioned her back against the side of my car. The breeze from the water blew through her hair, giving her that sexy bedhead look. She wasn’t worried about fixing her face or her hair or making sure that her skirt was perfectly aligned with those beautiful hips of hers. It’d been gratifying when she’d came to sit next to me. I knew that it took a lot of courage for her to show that part of herself in front of others, especially with Pierce present. Luckily, no one had offered to take Beth home, because I wasn’t done spending time with her.
Cradling her face in my hands, her breathing grew deeper. “No more of this trying to be friends business,” I told her, and tasted her mouth. My hands went for her waist and fixed on the curve of her back, where I’d seen those two beautiful dimples that led me to her ass. Nodding her head, Beth pressed soft kisses to corner of my mouth, to the flesh at the center of lips, and when she went on her tiptoes, pulling my head farther down to give my cupid’s bow a little squeeze with her firm lips, I canted my hips. My swollen cock nudged her stomach. As much as I desired to hike up her skirt, pull down my jeans, and sink into her wet pussy, I fought it.
Without her lip balm, she still tasted so unbelievably sweet. Beth dug her hands into the back pockets of my jeans, making my dick jerk into her more, and she moaned into my mouth. The erotic sound was like nothing I’d ever heard before. This slow, sensuous exploration of her mouth was unrestrained . Having her in my arms was nice, but taking ownership of those lips and her tantalizing tongue gave me a great sense of power over her. She dipped her tongue into my mouth, multiplying the sensations she triggered in me. She was giving me every bit as much as I was giving her. From the tortured look on her face, I knew she was throbbing between her legs. Her entire body turned soft in my hold. My hands returned to framing her face and she tried to look away, but I shook my head at her until she looked me directly again.
“You’re so fucking beautiful,” I told her. “Have you any idea?”
She laughed my comment off and reached to kiss me, but I pulled back a little.
“You’re beautiful, Chase.”
I rolled my eyes at her and she tittered a laugh. “You love hard. You don’t go half-assed into anything you do. And your face and your body surpass any of those tits and ass magazines I used to have. They’ve been gone since I saw you the day I brought you here. They’re trash. None of those girls compare to what I’ve got in front of me right now. I have you. You’re fucking beautiful, Bethany Pruitt. And you don’t have to be shy about knowing it.”
I gave her one last peck on her pert nose. If we kept at it, we wouldn’t have any clothes on. As great as I knew it’d be to have her, I didn’t want us to go there under the influence of lust. We’d just come back from Cassidy trying to tear us apart. Connecting with Beth on a more physical level had to be like a slice of heaven. This morning, I’d marked another day on my calendar where I hadn’t had sex. Of course I’d jacked off last night when I’d been thinking about Beth, but still—only I’d touched myself in five months and a week. She had work tomorrow and deserved to be savored all day and night with no time constraints.
I went to the trunk of my Altima to get my beach chair and beach bag. I was collecting myself, just like Beth was. She took the beach bag from me and I locked the car. It was fully dark out now.
“You talked to her?” I asked, not even wanting to say her name when we reached the official entrance of Paloma Beach.
“Yes,” Beth answered, holding onto my arm.
“Any kind of attention to her is good attention.”
“I’ll watch out for her, Chase,” she said.
