somehow missed it, every morning, I struggled with my jeans to keep my cock from standing at attention around her.
Even the smell of her shampoo as it wafted through the house seemed to make me hard. I hadn’t gone so long without sex since I was a virgin. We’d talked a little about our pasts. After one night of conversation and learning that she’d been alone and without sex for years, I’d almost begged her to take me to her room that night.
“Ready?” Hailey asked.
I looked around. I’d spent the entire meal thinking about Hailey while they sat and ate. I nodded, wanting desperately to be alone with her. We said our goodbyes and made our way back to my waiting truck. When we reached the passenger side, she stood in front of the door so I couldn’t open it. There was a playful glint in her eye that made my heart race.
“Kiss me,” she whispered. “Make it good and hot and passionate too. Like you really mean it.”
“What?” I was shocked.
“Your whole family is up there watching us right now from the porch. We are supposed to be madly in love. So kiss me and make it look good already!”
She didn’t have to ask me a second time. I wrapped my arm around her waist, lifting her off her feet as I pressed her against the truck. My hungry mouth sought out hers as the soft moans of approval slipped past her lips into me. With a hungry desire, my tongue darted around hers, playfully dancing as my shaft became hard.
Hailey’s fingers traveled to the back of my head, pulling at my short hair as her hips pressed forward. I could almost feel the heat from her core on my length where it strained against my jeans between us. If I didn’t pull away soon, I’d take her right there in front of my whole family. When the desire became overwhelming, I broke away. My eyes sought out hers for approval or desire—I couldn’t be sure which.
“W–wow,” she stammered.
I set her down on the ground. “Yeah. Sorry about that. I guess I got a little carried away.”
Hailey said nothing as she climbed into the truck, and I shut the door behind her. I took a second to adjust my rock-hard cock before climbing into the truck next to her. To my delight, she slid over until my arm was draped across her shoulder again. When her hand moved to rest on my thigh, I shuddered with joy. If we’d been pretending before, there was no denying the attraction now.
As her fingers made figure-eights on my knee, I let the sensations wash over me. I didn’t know how long she would keep up the ruse of being a loving couple, and I wasn’t about to ask. We rode in silence back to our house. It wasn’t until she scampered off to her room that I finally took a deep breath. She did something to me that I couldn’t deny. If I didn’t tell her how wild she drove me soon, I’d end up jerking myself into blindness before the end of our year together.
14
Chapter Thirteen (Hailey)
As the days passed, I found myself falling into a comfortable routine with Jackson, though he never made an advance. It was infuriating. After we’d kissed at his parents’ house, I was sure of what I felt and knew the attraction between us was mutual. Yet he never touched me except for the gentle kiss on the cheek or holding my hand.
I’d been single for years without having sex. Even then, my experience was limited to one ex-boyfriend in college. It hadn’t been an issue until recently when I found the idea popping into my mind more and more. There was nowhere in the house that I could go except my bedroom and not see Jackson, though that was the one place that I wanted him.
It wasn’t like we were avoiding each other. Each morning I would make our coffee, and by one, Jackson would be back inside for a simple lunch. Otherwise, our work took us in different directions while I settled my mother and worked on classes. Determined to make the year count, I would be up until late at night, still typing away.
Most nights, I would hear him slip into his room late into the evening and wonder if there was a woman on the side. By the following morning, my fears would abate as he watched me in the kitchen, his