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CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
NOVEMBER 10, 2012
It was hard to keep my head up. Performing at the Madder Hatter had been such an exhilarating experience that I’d been tired since the time we’d gotten into my car to head back to my house. Somehow, Ash’s presence and all the promises of what I’d had planned for us gave me enough energy to properly fuck him and then some.
Despite my heavy eyes, I was glad we didn’t go to bed.
Glorious hot water rained down from above the showerhead, drenching both of us from where we stood underneath the stream. You’d think after everything we’d done that we’d be done kissing each other.
We weren’t.
After we got in, I grabbed my loofah and soaped it up with a nice, earthy smelling body wash my mom always bought. I got down on my knees before Ash and cleaned him thoroughly from head to toe. As I scrubbed his ass, I couldn’t help but grin as his beautiful member got semi-hard for me again.
Once I was standing again, I thoroughly washed his hair, then lathered his shoulders and kneaded my fingertips into the tension that had built there. He moaned in a similar way to how he moaned my name when I’d been inside him, and that sound had my skin heating all over again. You’d think my body would have collapsed by now, but Ash had a way of riling me up by simply breathing, and there he was, getting me all hot and bothered all over again.
After I finished with him, he rinsed the loofah, added fresh soap, and took his turn with me.
“You don’t have to do that,” I said groggily, looking down to where he knelt before me. Ash ran the loofah down the back of my thighs and kissed the soft spot over my right knee. He batted his wet lashes up to me and winked in response.
When he was closer to where I stood and took his time washing my chest, I finally got the guts to ask the burning question that had been on my mind since we left my bedroom. “Was it—okay?” He seemed perfectly fine during and after our sexcapades, but I’d never forgive myself if I’d hurt him.
Ash traced my lips with his wet thumb and looked me in the eye. “Stop worrying. I know that’s a hypocritical comment, seeing as I almost puked before we went on the stage tonight.” He rolled his hazel eyes and grinned at me sheepishly. “But seriously. Stop. It was…” He chewed on the inside of his cheek. “It was otherworldly, and I can’t wait for you to experience what I got to experience.”
A blush worked its way into my cheeks as I murmured, “Ditto.”
Even when I was deep inside of him, seeing stars and rolling my head back with each thrust, I wondered how it would be if our roles were reversed. I was glad he was more than willing to switch it up in the future.
We stayed under the water, holding each other, tracing one another’s skin, and kissing long after we were squeaky clean.
When we were out of the shower, finally dry and about to collapse from our eventful day, night, and morning, I led him back to my room.
“Sleep with me tonight?” I asked once I shut the door. I didn’t bother locking it, but Ash reached around me and flipped it.
“Yes,” he said. He looked at the lock and worried his bottom lip. “I just don’t want to freak your mom out if she comes in here.”
We sluggishly moved over to the bed and curled up in the sheets that had grown cold in our absence.
“Something tells me my mom won’t be checking in on us tomorrow. At least, not until well into afternoon,”I said.
Ash ran his fingers through my damp hair from where he laid on my chest. He loved to play with my hair, and his soft caresses had my eyes fluttering closed. Emotion rushed my chest and clogged my throat. What had I done to deserve someone like him?
“Hey, Ash?” I whispered just in case he’d already fallen asleep.
“Mmm?” His fingers continued.
My heart skipped a beat. “Are you going to freak out if I tell you that I love you?”
To my surprise, he laughed and pulled me in closer. “As long as you didn’t tell me in the middle of screwing me, because if you’d done that, I’d hold it over your head for the rest of our lives.” His nose ran along my neck in a deep inhale. “I love you, Drew.”
My eyes warmed and stung. I wiped away a couple of stray tears, and felt like an idiot for getting so gushy. Then again, I guess it was an appropriate time to feel that way.
“I love you, too, Ash,” I whispered.
Within a minute or so, Ash’s breathing grew heavy, and his hand fell from my hair. His body twitched a little as he fell farther into dreamland. As I held him, I replayed the last twenty-four hours in my head. I cradled his body as close to mine as I could and tried my best to memorize the duet that was his steady heartbeat and even breaths as I slowly entered the realm of dreams.
