All Chapters of Lover: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

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WestI’ve started a routine. It’s nothing like the daily shit I had to do during hockey season. Not even close. That’s because there aren’t any trainers telling me how many pounds I have to bench or any coaches yelling at me to pick up my pace on the ice. My agent isn’t nagging me about negotiating an endorsement contract or when I have to be at a photo shoot or what restaurants are paying me to show up and eat or what kind of car I have to be seen driving. This new routine begins when the sun peeks through the windows of our bedroom. I lace up my sneakers, throw on a pair of shorts, and hit the beach for a run.Tilly always talked about the weather in Florida and how much she missed it. Now, I know why. It’s the middle of winter, and it’s so warm, I don’t even need a shirt. I let the morning sun beat down on my New England skin, that has a pretty decent tan already.There typically aren’t many people out on the beach this early. I only pass a few, all of them doing the same thing I a

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He shakes his head. “I wanted to speak to you first, seeing as you’d be the one paying for it.”If Tilly married someone who couldn’t afford a cash buyout, I wonder if this conversation would be going a little differently.“I’ll talk to Tilly,” I say. “If she’s interested, we’ll go from there.”“I appreciate it, West. And it’ll be a fair price; don’t you worry.”I’m not worried.Nor am I interested.Tilly quit her job a few months after we started dating and hasn’t worked a day since. At this point, I can’t picture her standing at the tiki hut, renting out Jet Skis for the day. But, if that’s what she wants, she can have it.“I’ll get back to you,” I tell him, taking a few steps away.“We’ll be grilling some steaks Saturday night if you’d both like to join us. Not sure if my wife has mentioned that to Tilly yet or not.”For the last week, Tilly’s been reminding me every day what she wants to have happen on Saturday night. It’s not dinner with her family. It’s when she hopes I’ll be fu

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I shouldn’t be this turned on when we’re on the verge of a serious conversation, but I can’t help it. The entire four years of our marriage, even while we’ve been struggling to connect, we’ve never gone five days without sex. Not even when Cannon was out of town for work. Those nights, we had some of the hottest phone sex. The memory alone makes me squirm.“What do you want, Piper? Tell me.”“Talk to me,” I tell him. “You promised you’d try to fix this, but I feel you slipping further away. I’ll give you anything.” Before he looks away, I see the guilt in his eyes. “That’s not what I meant, Cannon. This isn’t about the website. I haven’t been on it—the forum either.”“But you would give me whatever I wanted. I know you would. Yet I can’t do the same for you.”“What can’t you give me?” My voice is panicked. I know it is, but I feel like he’s on the verge of saying something that I need to hear. “It’s just you and me, Cannon. It’s always been us. Nothing else matters anymore.”Shaking h

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“Two queen-size beds,” the guy behind the desk says. “Are you sure you wouldn’t rather have a king?”“I prefer the queens,” Tilly says.He nods, still looking at his computer. “Your reservations show that you’ve requested adjoining rooms with the Pussleys?” He finally looks up, his expression much more serious than I expected.Tilly glances back at me and chews the corner of her mouth. She’s looking for a reaction, and she’ll get one. The second we’re alone, my hand will slap across her ass.She’ll like it.But, fuck, I will, too.“That’s correct,” she says.He places a key in front of her. “Room six-three-four. The elevators are around the corner.” He points to the right. “If you remove anything from the minibar, you will be charged whether you drink it or not.”“Got it,” she says. “Thanks.”We turn toward the elevators, and the door slides open as soon as Tilly hits the button.As we step inside, she takes out her phone and checks the screen. “The Pussleys are already here.”“Nice.

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But, when sex is what keeps you together, you just know that, at some point, it’ll wear off, regardless of how much swinging we do or how many times I watch her eat out another chick.From this angle, I can’t see the woman’s face, so I move closer to my wife and look through the opening of the doorway. “Hey, I’m West.”Those lips.Those perfect teeth.Holy fuck.It’s her.The runner.And the reason she looked familiar the first time I saw her on the beach is because of the picture my wife had shown me of her.There’s that smile again, bigger than the last one she gave me. Those lips are the ones I dream about sticking my dick between.Oh, this is going to be fun as hell.“Piper,” she says, shaking my hand. Not breaking contact, she points to the guy next to her. “And this is my husband, Cannon.”She finally releases my hand, and he grabs it. His grip isn’t as strong as I thought it would be. Not weak, just a little more touchy than I like.“It’s nice to meet you, West.”The room goes

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But I’m right.I’d recognize that smile of his anywhere. The one he reserves for me every morning as he passes me by. West hasn’t even touched me yet, and I’m so wet, it’s embarrassing.Tilly lets go of Cannon’s hand and says, “Our room or yours?”I look to Cannon for an answer, but he’s busy eyeing West.Cannon’s struggling—at least, I think he is. I hate that I can’t get a read on my own husband. But that’s just how he’s been lately. I remind myself that he wouldn’t be here if he didn’t want to be.“I thought…I mean, I guess I thought we’d talk or something first,” I tell Tilly with a voice full of nerves. “I’ve never—we’ve never done this before.”“You mean, about the rules?” Tilly questions.“That’s a good idea,” West says, agreeing with us both. His voice is as sinful as the rest of him. And then he goes and licks his lips, and I almost fall to his feet. “Come sit with us,” he says.Cannon places his hand on the small of my back and ushers me through the door. His eyes sweep acro

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Once I have her where I want, she attempts to glance over her shoulder.I say, “Eyes on me.” I clench her waist with both hands, keeping my face close to her chest.Her lips part, desire pooling in her stare. “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to look that way. I just—”“I know.” The first thing I have to do is ease the nerves she’s feeling. “It’s just me and you, Piper. There’s no one else in this room. Tonight is all about making you feel good.”Heat builds in her cheeks.“But, before I touch you, I have to ask you something.” I keep my voice low. This is between us. Tilly and Cannon don’t need to know that this isn’t the first time I’ve seen Piper. “Did you know?”She nods and takes a deep breath. “Yes.”“Why didn’t you say anything to me?”Each time she inhales, her tits rise, and they move closer to my mouth. She’s watching the peaks of her nipples, the same way I am, and I can feel the anxiety in her body.She isn’t ready for my question yet, so I say, “Kiss me.” When she doesn’t respond

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She doesn’t have to tell me. I can feel it on my lips. I can taste the thickness that’s coming out of her. I stop sucking and flick the very top of her clit as fast as my tongue will go.“I can’t hold it off.”My actions tell her to do just the opposite. I use more pressure, more power, moving quickly and deeply, and she shudders against my mouth, the walls of her cunt clenching my finger.She’s so tight.I can’t imagine what it’ll feel like once she’s doing that around my cock.I lick until she stills, and then I reach for one of the condoms Tilly placed on the nightstand between the beds. I slip off my clothes and roll it on.She watches as I move closer and tease the tip around her hole.“I’ll take it slow.”I don’t know how big Cannon is. I don’t want to know, and there’s no way I’m going to look at the bed to the right of me to find out. But I know I’m a couple of inches taller than him, I weigh a good thirty pounds if not more than him, and I have at least double his muscles.Pl

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“Mmm,” I hiss. “I can’t get enough of you.”Her eyes widen, and then I turn around. I meet my wife at the end of the bed, and we walk out of the room. She doesn’t say anything until we get into the elevator, and she presses the button for the lobby.“Do you want to do this again?”I knew she was going to ask, and I already have my answer. “Yeah, I’ll do it again. But it has to be with them.”She smiles. This time, it’s a real one but still nothing like Piper’s.“You might want to wait a few days before you reach out to her. Whatever you did to that poor guy, it’s going to take him some time to recover.”“I kinda have that feeling, too.” She laughs.Piper“Are you awake, Pipes?” Cannon asks.I hear the urgency in his voice after what happened tonight. It’s late—one o’clock in the morning—but we’re both wide-awake, staring at the walls.I knew it’d be awkward after the first time, probably even the first few times, but nothing as tense as this. I’m afraid to breathe too deeply or think

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They don’t share any of the same physical characteristics, and their personalities are like night and day. Where Cannon’s vocal, West internalizes and comes off crude. His wife is loud, but he was careful with me, respectful, even though he owed me nothing. He gained points with me when he chose to keep our conversation between the two of us. What he said was meant for me and only me.“I don’t know if I can watch you with him again,” Cannon says, “I get that swinging is a group activity, but we might need separate rooms.”“It was kind of weird, knowing you saw the whole thing. Tilly, too. I felt like I was being analyzed.”“I couldn’t stop watching, Piper. I just kept my eyes on him, making sure he wasn’t too rough with you or did something you didn’t want. If he ever forced you, Pipes, I’d rip his tongue out of his mouth and shove it down his throat.”I thought for sure Cannon was watching me, maybe even getting turned on as West rode me from behind. But I was wrong. He’s never going

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