His eyes fell closed as he held her close. When they opened again, I watched him cry for the first time since I've known him. Two solitary tears fell down his cheeks while our eyes locked.
He wiped them away so she wouldn't see, but kept his eyes on mine, squeezing my hand, before he pulled me into the hug and said, "My girls."
After a quick, lively breakfast in which Scott carried the conversation, we posed for another photo. Then we got into the car and headed for Willow's graduation.
As we took our place in the crowd of doting parents that were there to see their children graduate, Lisa finally spoke for the first time since inviting us to breakfast.
"Your father has started a manhunt for Stacy and knows where you are, because I told him after he called and told me who she is," said Lisa, immediately setting Scott off.
I took his hand in mine, squeezed
An hour ago, we had no clue what to do after hearing about the manhunt. So I did the only thing I could think of. I called Grandpa Kendrick. And here we were, on a private jet, sipping champagne. Grandpa Kendrick insisted on having us picked up when he learned about our predicament.He said he will meet us at his estate in New York, where we would be his guests while he made arrangements for us to leave the country. It was a quick, no questions asked, call. I wondered if Jenny had called ahead to prepare him."So Europe," I said, bringing up the topic of not just going on the run, but leaving the country.Scott set his glass down, turned to me and took my hands in his."I need to be perfectly clear about something," he said, looking far too serious for my liking.I knew last night meant no more giving him outs in case he thought that meant I didn't w
My heart was doing flip flops in my chest as I recalled the moment, the very first time he said it as I tried to accept being his first I love you."Never? No one else?" I insisted. "Not even just because they said it? Why not?""Because they didn't mean it. They either wanted my dick or were in love with my dick already," he said, like this was obvious."Scott, that's a relationship. In case you haven't noticed, I love your dick. I'm very much in love with it," I said, feeling very bad for all of his exes."You shouldn't say things like that when you're fucking raw down there and I can't fuck you. Especially when I'm pissed at myself for ruining that moment for you by being drunk," he said with a sigh.I
Cappuccino. Did you know it's the world's most popular coffee drink?One word and I was completely fucked over for the rest of the day. After hearing the word, anxiety crippled my senses and I struggled to get by for the rest of the day. I knew the theory of making coffee like the back of my hand, but that didn't matter. Suddenly I was getting orders wrong, mixing drinks incorrectly, the works. No matter what I did, it played out the same way every time. If I did get it under control, hearing the word cappuccino again just made everything start all over.Sometimes it came at the very beginning of a shift. Sometimes it took a few minutes. Inevitably it would come though. I don't know what the fuck I had been trying to prove all these years. Taking barista job after job, trying to break the cycle of completely losing my shit every time. Even when Grandpa Kendrick's fixer offered me an assortment of choices for jobs to blend in, I s
"Quit," Scott said, for the umpteenth time. "You could tutor or work a desk job or I don't know, work in a zoo for all I care."Scott's job as assigned to him by the fixer was working for an art gallery as an assistant. He loved it there. It reminded him of his mom. With his obsession with showing up at the coffee shop, I hadn't been there once."No," I inevitably said.It was just something I had to do. I had this feeling in the pit of my stomach that if I couldn't get past this, I would never be okay. Of course I never said that to Scott. Never told him how much beating this meant to me."Then see a therapist, Stace. Please," he would beg with puppy dog eyes while holding my hands."And get another person killed? No," I said, squeezing his hands.This was a new response for me. One I hadn't meant to give. One that took even the ever
When I turned to go back to the counter, he wrapped his fingers around my wrist and pulled me back to him, surprising me with a second kiss. This time his tongue slipped into my mouth and he held the back of my head to make sure he could control the kiss. I was breathless all over again, but this time I didn't mind one bit.His eyes dropped to my wet lips as he pulled away, then he looked up at me and said, "It's fucking sexy when you make threats because you're jealous. As long as my magic still works on you, I couldn't care less. I love you, Stacy.""I love you too, you fucking asshole," I said, beaming at him despite my irritation, watching our palms glide across each other's until it was just the tips of our middle fingers touching. Until we had let go.When was the last time he kissed me like that? True to his word, Scott said I love you every day. Before he left for work and when he got home like clock
He didn't leave the coffee shop that day. Not when I successfully completed ten orders in a row and threw myself into his arms because I was so overjoyed. Not when his lunch hour was over. Not when I made it through the day without a single mistake. He just sat there and watched me, waiting to talk to me whenever I had the chance.When he showed up the next day, I no longer feigned irritation or anger. He only stayed for the lunch hour this time, but I smiled and batted my eyelashes like every other girl that he gave half a look to. When he smiled back, it gave me butterflies like in the beginning.The stupid ring got me through the orders just fine. I still didn't believe in the pseudoscience that was anxiety rings, but it was a reminder of him and his love. In the end, that was enough to have me smiling at work. Breathing through the trigger word that was Cappuccino.Just the same, as the days passed,
The moment he left the coffee shop, I made arrangements to have the rest of my shift covered and went shopping for a new dress. Then I got my hair, nails and make up done. My excitement was palpable. I was on cloud nine, having finally gotten over the whole cappuccino mess.Being me, I even did some research ahead of time into the exhibition and the artist, so I would have some things to say to him. I wanted to be animated and conversational when he presented me with what he'd been surrounding himself with for the last few weeks. He deserved a lively back and forth instead of carrying the conversation like he had been for weeks now.Had I been leaning too hard on him? We were supposed to be in this together and I just sort of checked out. Well tonight would be different.Scott: Headed home now. See you soon?Stacy: Can't wait.Scott: Calm down, baby. Keep your legs together unt
… you fail, you'll still be my heir, but I will make you kill Scott.… you fail, you'll still be my heir, but I will make you kill Scott.My whole world became those words. Round and round they went in my head on a loop. I tried twisting the stupid anxiety ring, but I couldn't unsee Scott's blood on my hands.*Come on Stacy, calm the fuck down," I yelled, slapping myself in the face.I looked around to find something to distract myself. Nothing caught my eye.… you'll still be my heir…Stumbling my way out of my study, I made it into the bedroom. There were no photos of us in our new home. We had left them all behind in New York and Scott didn't take new ones anymore. Just in case it somehow tied back to our past, he said. Another thing I took from him.… make you kill Scott
I knew my hang up wasn't rational. She should get to do whatever she wanted to herself and yet I couldn't stop the envy. Even of her pleasuring herself. "Are you touching my pussy without permission, whore?" I asked, my jealousy getting the better of me as I thrust into her with force. Her whole body jerked forward and she yelped, immediately making me regret it and slow back down. I couldn't stop myself from pumping into her if I tried though. For fuck's sake, this wasn't my first time in someone's ass. I should have her drooling all over the sheets by now. What the fuck was wrong with me? "You're inside me too often for me to get the chance," she said, licking her lips, her lustful eyes flickering open to meet mine in the mirror. Knowing what was coming, I slipped my fingers out of her pussy and grabbed her ass, spreading her cheeks wide as I squeezed them painfully hard. My eyes flickered between the visual of my dick going in and out of he
It had been two months of us being in Europe. We were in France for about six weeks before the fixer moved us to Rome. I was bummed about giving up my job at the art gallery. It kept me sane that first month, but I didn't need it nearly as much anymore. I was so caught up in being between my girlfriend's legs that letting it go didn't matter the way it would have in the beginning. When the fixer offered us replacement jobs Stacy declined, saying she wanted some time together, just the two of us, to explore Rome. Being the pussy whipped idiot that I was, I just went with it, because that's what I did these days. Think with my dick. What she really meant was she wanted time to fuck. Since the exhibition, we went at it constantly. I knew it for the red flag that it was, but it had been weeks of not touching her and I was only a man. One desperately in love with her at that. When she walked into the room in next to nothing or one of my shirts or my personal favorite, nothing at all, m
And that's how we ended up here, with my dick up her ass. I spent weeks preparing her for this night, finger fucking her ass, starting her off with just my pinky. My little whore wasn't satisfied with this of course, so we had to get creative and explore positions that would let me fuck her pussy while I fingered her ass. I tried to do everything right to make this special for her. I took her to dinner and made sure she stuck to just one glass of wine so she could relax, but not be too wasted to follow through. I got her her favorite flowers. Booked a hotel suite fitted with wall to wall mirrors so I could watch her the whole time to make sure I wasn't hurting her. I made sure plenty of lube was involved and spoke to her constantly as I fed her ass my dick. Not even the excitement of finally being all the way inside her tight ass incident free was enough to make me less nervous. Not her though. She was all bubbly and excited, completely at ease on all fours before me. "How are you d
With a loving kiss and a doting smile, he pulled away. To test my theory, I picked up my phone, opened my notes app and started typing. The information flowed out of me freely, my mind still lingering on that last kiss. That final thrust. That first touch. In the two minutes that he was gone, I had recreated the very first entry I ever made into a Luciano ledger.When he got back to me, now fully dressed, he said, "Hurry up and spread them, just like you did forty-ish minutes ago.""So it's forty minutes now?" I said with a laugh, setting the phone down and spreading my legs to let him do his thing with the wash cloth."Hey, I checked my watch. The numbers don't lie, Stace," he said, gently going to work.As I watched him, I considered what I was about to do to him. To us. Then I thought about his complicated history with sex. At first, I thought he was full of shit about not enjoyi
"Say my name again and I'm going to fuck you senseless. Is that what you want, baby?" he whispered to me, his whole body pressed up against mine as he fucked me."Scott," I muttered seconds later, unable to help it despite pleasure shooting through my every nerve.True to his word, he sped up, grunting madly as he pounded my pussy. I didn't last much longer before I was coming for him, screaming his name into the night."I love you," he said, more to himself than me, a reminder that he cared about me and my pleasure."You're just a big softie in the end, aren't you, Scott Brady?" I said, unable to help myself as he stilled completely inside me, laying gentle kisses on my lips."Don't fuck with my head, Kendrick. You're so fucking tight tonight baby," he said, swallowing as he took deep breaths, hesitance and passion mixing in his eyes.&
My eyes fell shut as I purred, "No, I got all dolled up so you'd take me out" but when he reached for my panties I offered zero resistance and let him take them off. "I studied and everything," I complained.He chuckled and said, "Did you now? That would all be super sweet if you didn't put your pretty little self in my bed, lying in wait to get fucked like a whore, Kendrick."When he laid his mouth on my pussy, I was done protesting. A sigh of relief left my body as I fisted the sheets and he slipped a finger into me."We're going to be late," I told him, not resisting, but stating a fact."Then we'll be late. Shit you're tight," he said with a satisfactory groan as he pumped his finger in and out of me, licking and sucking on my folds and clit. "You're such a good little whore, keeping your fingers out of my pussy.""I was waiting for you to go there," I
… you fail, you'll still be my heir, but I will make you kill Scott.… you fail, you'll still be my heir, but I will make you kill Scott.My whole world became those words. Round and round they went in my head on a loop. I tried twisting the stupid anxiety ring, but I couldn't unsee Scott's blood on my hands.*Come on Stacy, calm the fuck down," I yelled, slapping myself in the face.I looked around to find something to distract myself. Nothing caught my eye.… you'll still be my heir…Stumbling my way out of my study, I made it into the bedroom. There were no photos of us in our new home. We had left them all behind in New York and Scott didn't take new ones anymore. Just in case it somehow tied back to our past, he said. Another thing I took from him.… make you kill Scott
The moment he left the coffee shop, I made arrangements to have the rest of my shift covered and went shopping for a new dress. Then I got my hair, nails and make up done. My excitement was palpable. I was on cloud nine, having finally gotten over the whole cappuccino mess.Being me, I even did some research ahead of time into the exhibition and the artist, so I would have some things to say to him. I wanted to be animated and conversational when he presented me with what he'd been surrounding himself with for the last few weeks. He deserved a lively back and forth instead of carrying the conversation like he had been for weeks now.Had I been leaning too hard on him? We were supposed to be in this together and I just sort of checked out. Well tonight would be different.Scott: Headed home now. See you soon?Stacy: Can't wait.Scott: Calm down, baby. Keep your legs together unt
He didn't leave the coffee shop that day. Not when I successfully completed ten orders in a row and threw myself into his arms because I was so overjoyed. Not when his lunch hour was over. Not when I made it through the day without a single mistake. He just sat there and watched me, waiting to talk to me whenever I had the chance.When he showed up the next day, I no longer feigned irritation or anger. He only stayed for the lunch hour this time, but I smiled and batted my eyelashes like every other girl that he gave half a look to. When he smiled back, it gave me butterflies like in the beginning.The stupid ring got me through the orders just fine. I still didn't believe in the pseudoscience that was anxiety rings, but it was a reminder of him and his love. In the end, that was enough to have me smiling at work. Breathing through the trigger word that was Cappuccino.Just the same, as the days passed,