Just Between Friends (Prequel to the Forbidden Series)

9

Chase closed the door behind her and leaned against it. Her mind still filled with thoughts of Mike. He had felt so inviting, so tempting his hard body pressed against hers. Had she spent even one more minute in his company Chase knew she would have fall prey to his seductive skills.

He was devastatingly handsome with his raven hair, tanned skin, and his dark eyes. She smiled, those dark bedside eyes, they were hypnotizing turning her to putty when he smiled. It should be a sin to look that good. Her head fell back against the door, and she closed her eyes, chastising herself for wanting him so badly. The thought of Mike shamelessly aroused her, and she wondered what it would be like to feel him kiss her again. She would wager it was nothing like the timid unskilled adolescent kiss she had received when they were younger.

A knock on the door startled Chase, and she jumped away, staring at the wood like it was talking to her. A second knock prompted her to look at the clock on the wall. 12:48 AM. Who would be at her door at this hour? Locking the chain lock, she cautiously cracked the door open and peered into the hall. Her heart jumped into her throat, Mike! How had he found her? What did he want? “Go away.”

“Pam told me where I could find you. May I come in? I want to talk.” Chase would have to have a talk with Pam in the morning, but for the meantime, she decided to let him in rather than have him camp out in the hall. “I would crawl through your window, but I think your neighbours would call the cops.” He smiled.

Closing the door, she removed the chain and opened it again to allow him access. Hesitating on the threshold for a moment, Mike strolled in a few feet and closed the door behind him. The apartment was still dark because she had not been home long.

Chase distanced herself from him resisting the throbbing between her legs that persisted when he was near. “I missed you, Chase,” Mike confessed, his tone soft and sincere. “I thought of you so often it hurt. I got back into drugs for three years after I moved back home, trying to forget you. I spent a lot of time in rehab trying to get my life back. Leaving you behind almost destroyed me.”

“Than why didn’t you ever come back?” She snapped.

“I lost track of you.” He barked. “You stopped taking my calls.”

“You never called sober.”

“Then you moved and got an unlisted number. I got the feeling you didn’t want to talk to me, so I moved on.” Mike growled, tired of defending himself.

“You were right I didn’t, and I should have never let you talk me into seeing you again.” Chase snarled at him. “Besides you were the one that went all the way across Canada to avoid seeing me, so I think you pretty much destroyed the bond we had, not me.”

“I was young and stupid. I promised that things wouldn’t change between us that night, but they did, and I didn’t know what to do. I’m sorry, I can’t change the past but I’m here now, and I want to make amends.”

“And I should just smile and pretend like the last eight years never happened like you weren’t some pig that took advantage of me then ran off like a coward.” Chase shot back at him taking a few steps forward wanting to throw him out. Wishing she was bigger so she could. Her blood was raging, and her gaze was heated.

Mike advanced on her quickly, and she backed up instantly in response to his intimidating size. Her back pressed up against a wall trying to retreat. His expression was harsh. “You have become a bitch.” He snapped.

“And you’re a selfish prick.” She retaliated, flinching when his hands flew up on either side of her head. He trapped her between him and the wall. He was so close she could smell the rum on his breath, his masculine scent flooding her senses. Her treacherous body shuddered with pleasure from his proximity. His breathing had changed, becoming shallow and quick. Then his lips brushing hers and her chest began rising and falling as she tried to catch her breath.

“I have never been more turned on than I am right now.” His voice was thick with lust. Mike leaned against her rocking his erection against her belly. Dipping his head, he seized her mouth with his. Wrapping his arms around her small frame he pulled her close, moulding her body to his.

Chase felt as if her body was ablaze. A fire spread from her lips to the rest of her body and coming to rest at her very core. A wet pulsing urgency throbbed between her thighs. The last thread of her resistance broke under his kiss. Finally giving in to her desire her lips parted and Mike’s kiss deepened. Searching the moist sweetness of her mouth with his tongue, tasting her, possessing her. Returning his passion Chase twined her arms around his neck and leaned into him; his hands searched her body.

Gliding over her shapely hips, and up her back, his fingers gripped the zipper of her dress. Slowly pulling the zipper down Mike slid the dress off her shoulders. His kisses moved down the pale column of her neck; he skillfully peeled away her dress and the garment pooled around her feet. Mike took a step back and studied her lush body. Her fingers slid under the hem of his shirt and began lifting it. Smiling seductively, Mike raised his muscular arms and allowed her to undress him. “Do you work tomorrow?” He inquired placing his hands on her hips and pulling her against him.

His hand tugged her white lace panties aside, and she gasped as his long finger slipped inside her throbbing wetness. Chase shook her head at that moment she didn’t remember when she worked, and at that moment she didn’t care.

“Good.” He moaned nibbling at her ear. “I intend to f**k you until the sun rises.” His promise brought the corners of her sexy mouth up in a smile. Her hips rocked against his hand. “I’ve learned a few new things since I was eighteen.” He thrust a second finger inside her and picked up the pace. She groaned with pleasure, and he felt the dewy beads of desire drip down his hand. “Would you like me to show them to you?” His lips travelled down over her shoulders kissing the soft flesh of her breast. He reached into her bra and lifted one swollen breast free from its confines. He took the erect bud of her breast between his teeth and gently tugged, flicking his tongue over it as she moaned. A wave of pleasure rippled through her at his words.

***

Feeling her quake, Mike removed the last of her clothes and swept Chase up in his powerful arms, groaning when her hot mouth travelled down his neck as he strolled down the hall. He was feverish with an urgent need, a desire and longing he had denied for years. Her naked skin against his ignited a fire in his belly, a heat that surged down through his loans. He pushed open the first door, then the next, and finding the bedroom he crossed the room to the bed in three strides and lay her down.

Sitting at the foot of her double bed, Mike pulled off his boots and socks. Chase kneeled behind him, her hands sliding around his waist. Her silky fingers traced the firm muscles of his abdomen. Shivers of ecstasy rolled down his spine when her luscious lips placed butterfly kisses down the back of his neck. Slipping out of his leather pants and boxers, Mike kicked them aside eager to possess her. Taking her hands in his Mike turned around and crawled between Chase’s legs, lowering her back against the mattress. Her gaze arrested by the sight of his rigid length. Chase blushed when she looked up to meet Mike’s self-assured gaze. “You’re… bigger than I remember.”

Smiling he kissed her forehead, “I won’t hurt you, I promise.” She gasped when the crown of swollen p***s pressed into her pulsing body. Slowly he inched himself down into her. So warm and inviting, the tight friction testing the limits of his restraint. Her palms flat across his back, her fingers digging into the powerful muscles of his shoulders. The feel of her was so intoxicating he was almost mindless.

Chase arched up to meet his descent. His mind swirling with pleasure at every tiny sensation. Her feminine scent invaded his senses rippling lustful urgency down through his body, making him crazed with need. Slowly Mike began to move, in and out, withdrawing slightly and plunging into her again. His face nuzzled her neck like a doting lover. She chuckled when his rough whiskers rubbed against her throat. The stubble tickled her soft skin, her giggles drew his playful smile, and he lifted his head to look at her. “I guess that means I should shave?”

Chase laughed, running her fingers down the strong line of his jaw. The dark shadow gave him a rugged s*x appeal. Taking his face in her hands, she drew Mike’s mouth down to hers. It was a slow sensuous kiss, so tender and captivating it stilled Mike completely. Motionless, arrested by the sheer intoxication of her sweet mouth, their lips lingered suspended in the moment. The world melted away. There was nothing outside each other. Nothing besides the two of them, and for the first time in Mike’s life the stillness was more erotic, and he fought the increasing climax that threatened to end the evening.

He released the breath held in his lungs for a moment. His fingers twinned in Chase’s hair to pull her face closer to his. He was eighteen again and taken completely under her spell. Suddenly he saw what looked like fear in her eyes as she remembered how he had abandoned her. How she had given herself to him, and he had run like a coward crushing her, leaving her to pick up the pieces and put them back together, and now she was giving him the opportunity to do it again, and Mike felt the same old feelings co-mingle and confuse him once more.

The tears in Chase’s eyes alarmed Mike, she was holding it back, but he could see her feelings. “I’ll be here in the morning. I won’t go anywhere.” Mike assured her stroking her hair, hoping to relieve her distrust. He could never make amends for what he had done; he realized that now, but he would damn well try. He had missed her too much to let her go now.