Page 49 of Fight
“With everyone else I know, I’m easy-going, good-time Jake. But with you, I can turn into this…guy. This jerk. I don’t know why I get so emotional about you,” he admitted, shaking his head. “I’m sorry I overreacted. I’m not perfect either.”
“No, you’re not perfect,” she confirmed in a firm voice as she inched closer so that she could reach over and wipe the water from his face with her hand. He closed his eyes before veering his face back with a short, boyish laugh.
“But that’s what I like about you,” she admitted looking into his face with her hand cupping his unshaved cheek. “And I am glad when we disagree, we can talk about it now. Last-summer Jake and Lena have come so far.”
He narrowed his eyes at her, studying her features questioningly for a few beats. “Yeah, they have,” he finally agreed with her.
His face was close to hers. Under the veil of water droplets, his eyelashes clung together in little spikes, and his too-long hair stuck to his forehead.
Lena felt like she was in a trance of anticipation as they both seemed to be moving closer and closer to each other in slow motion, a millimeter at a time. They both stopped for half a second before he leaned forward and captured her lips in a swift, rough kiss. Lena didn’t move at first as she let him take long draws of her lips. Her hand slipped from his cheek down to the strong tendons of his neck as she returned the kiss.
Something knocked into her legs and she slipped and faltered a few inches. She looked down to see that they’d been treading water so closely that his legs kicked hers from underneath her. He jerked away quickly and looked her up and down, breathing heavily.
“Put your arms and legs around me,” he commanded gruffly, water coating his face again. “I’ll take us to the shore.”
“Okay,” she said softly as she gave him a compliant nod and inched forward, cautious and unsure how to proceed. Her earlier bra-throwing swagger had left her when she was hit with that kiss, and she suddenly felt very shy. She laid her arms limply on his shoulders and he responded by grabbing her by the ass and pulling her flush against his big body.
She let out a shrill laugh, which faded as soon as her nipples grazed his chest and her core settled against his torso. He was so hard and warm that she couldn’t resist sliding into him a little bit, causing him to chuckle warmly before reaching around her head and nipping her on her ear.
Smiling, she looked at him again and his face was fixed in a stern, resolute look as he effortlessly swam them across the pool. She giggled nervously before turning her head around to see he was swimming her toward the flat boulder she’d been eyeing earlier.
When he reached the boulder, he pulled himself back from her, grabbed her by the waist and hoisted her up, gently placing her on top of the big boulder
She immediately skittered back a few feet over the warm, smooth surface. The sun made shapes on the boulder through the high branches of the trees and she inched backward until her skin was spattered with the shadows.
As Jake hoisted his own body up on the boulder, water flowed and dripped off him in rivulets as he leaned back on his haunches in his now-familiar black boxer briefs and ran his fingers through his hair before shaking his head. He sat like that for a few beats, surveying her in her toplessness as she leaned back on her elbows. Not moving her eyes from him, she reached down and pulled her wet underwear from her body, throwing it to the side so that she lay completely bare for him.
He sat there unmoving and she eyed him warily as self-consciousness started to seep into her awareness. She realized the position they were in: mostly naked in broad daylight at the bottom of what she could only assume was a popular stopping place for hikers. Anyone could walk up on them.
She forgot all of this though as Jake rose to his full height, and walked toward her. He was so much taller and stronger than the guys she had been with in the past. The afternoon sun shone down on him as he walked, his wet arms and chest glistening. With his longish dark blond hair pushed back from his face, and his unshaved jaw, he looked like an ancient marauding Viking warrior—she felt like some virginal sacrifice laying topless upon a stone for him.
When he reached her, he crawled over her prone form before laying flush with her body as she relaxed to lay flat, staring up at him as he hovered over her, his weight held up with his forearms.
He looked at her as if he was studying her face for doubts. Apparently finding none, he slid his body down hers and took one of her nipples in his warm mouth. She moaned, closing her eyes and arching her back at the contact. He paid special attention to both of her nipples before lifting his head to look at her again.
“Are you okay with me fucking you on a rock out in the open?” he asked crudely in a low, growly voice. “Once I get much farther, It will be harder for me to stop. I don’t have a condom. I’m clean, though,” he added as he looked down on his body on top of hers.
“Me, too,” she assured him as she lightly dug her nails into his smooth, muscular shoulder. “And I’m on birth control. Now that we’ve worked out the terms—fuck me on this rock, please.”
Chuckling, Jake tilted his head down and took her lips in his as he reached his hand up to palm her breast while they kissed. She arched into his touch as he rolled her nipple in his hand. God, it felt so wonderful to have his hands on her as the sun peaked down on them through the trees, heating their skin.
Lena weaved her hands into his hair fingering the loose strands before letting her fingers dance down his warm neck and onto his smooth back—he was wide, soft, and warm as she explored the muscles and divots.
As her fingers trailed his spinal cord down to his ass, Lena pulled her knees up to cradle him between her thighs. Jake let out a long groan as he thrust against her and reached his hand down to finger her folds lightly. She bucked a bit as he continued kissing her while gently touching her heated core. Giving her one last kiss, his lips left her mouth and began to make their way back to her breasts and down the trail of her abdomen.
She groaned in anticipation as he pushed her legs wide and looked up at her mischievously before he dipped down to settle his mouth on her core.
“Oh, Jake,” she gasped as his tongue made contact with her clit. She bucked against him while his mouth continued its dance. As she lathered up his attentions, she was distantly aware of their surroundings on the boulder—the bright sun, the low roar of the falls, and the fine spray of water that settled on them, but she quickly became overwhelmed by the warm feelings of his mouth on her. She wrapped her fingers in his drying hair and gasped sporadically. She felt like a volcano ready to burst.
“Oh god,” she said in a guttural voice that she hardly recognized. Letting out a scream when the orgasm finally hit, Lena felt like beams of light throbbed through her before shooting out her limbs and through every pore of her skin.
Kissing his way back up to her lips Jake put his fingers inside her pulsing heat while he captured her scream in his mouth, kissing her deeply while her body spasmed against his. The waves rolled over her, leaving her spent and pliant.
He moved his rough hand up and down her smooth skin and looked down into her face. The sun shone on him through the shadows of the trees and his multicolored eyes sparkled.
“You’re so beautiful,” he murmured as he looked down on her body.
“So are you,” she said as if the words were scraped out of some unknown place inside of her that she hadn’t known existed.
