Jasper
I follow Brynn into The Sunrise Inn, and the scene in the lobby makes my blood run cold. The mayor isn’t just yelling at Lin, like I expected to find. No, he has her pinned to the wall, his hands on her shoulders, and his face an inch from hers. I’m infuriated and want to break his neck.
Where the hell is Kade?
I look at the girl at the front desk, and she can’t be more than eighteen or nineteen, and she’s cowering away from the situation. I can’t blame her. Taking Brynn’s hand, I pull her over there.
“Hey, call Kade,” I tell the girl at the front desk.
Okay, at least, he’s on his way. My mind races with everything. I need to make sure Brynn is safe at the same time, and getting to the mayor without killing him with my bare hands.
“I did, and the cops,” she whispers.
“Where is Dale?” I ask about Sunrise’s daytime security.
“There was a problem with a couple yelling upstairs.” She says, and I nod.
“Video,” is all I have to say to Brynn, before she has her phone up to record all this for the cops.
“I suggest you get your hands off her for your own safety.” I bellow across the lobby, getting the mayor’s attention.
He turns his head, and his eyes land on Brynn. I step in front of her, because the thought of his eyes on her makes my skin crawl. He’s always looked at her like some piece of meat, even when she was underage, and it’s never set well with me.
He doesn’t drop his hands. “Ahhh, there’s the other one.” He sneers.
The terrified look on Lin’s face says enough is enough.
I make my way across the lobby, not hiding that he’s my destination, and yet, the asshole doesn’t remove his hands from Lin. This guy really is as stupid as he looks.
“I said remove your hands, or I’ll do it,” I grit out, when I’m just a few steps away from him.
This is also, when Kade bursts through the door. I can tell the moment his eyes land on Lin, and he sees the mayor’s hands on her.
“You son of a bitch!” Kade yells. I reach them faster and shove the mayor hard enough to throw him off balance, but not hard enough to throw him against the coffee table, like I want, too.
He regains his balance quickly and tries to take a swing at me. I block it, grabbing his arm and swinging him around. Then, I put my hands around his throat and slam him hard up against the wall he had Lin pinned, too.
His eyes go wide, and I smile. “I’m not the shy kid that could be pushed around anymore. I defend what’s mine, which includes friends and family.” I tell him.
“Do you even know how much you cost me by blocking this land developer? These guys are going to be pissed. You have no idea what you did!” He yells.
“Sadly, I don’t care what they do to you.” I hiss just as Nate and his partner, Dan, come running. I went to school with both of them and heard they joined the police department.
“Jasper, back up,” Nate says, as he reaches my side.
My temper gets the best of me, and I slam his head against the wall hard, before letting go and taking a step back.
The next hour is spent explaining everything that happened, going over the video Brynn got, and talking about our meeting with the state.
According to Lin, she was at the front desk, helping the new girl learn the booking system. The same girl who called Kade and the cops. There was a couple upstairs yelling, and the sound of glass crashing, so Lin sent Dale up to deal with it, and Kade went with him.
Turns out, the husband was too handsy with a girl at the pool, and the wife threw the lamp at his head. There was lots of yelling and a few more items being thrown, before Kade and Dale got them separated enough to calm them down. Needless to say, they checked out early soon after.
During the time Dale and Kade were upstairs, is when the mayor came in. He was yelling all sorts of things about costing him money. Calling Lin a bitch and a whore, and then saying she and her friend were going to pay. Her friend being Brynn. I can tell by the rage in Kade’s eyes he’s just as pissed about hearing all this as I am.
Lin tried to back away to run upstairs, but the mayor stopped her, and that’s when he slammed her against the wall, demanding to know who she fucked up at the capital to get the state to intervene.
Apparently, Brynn and I walked in right after that. The video was enough to get harassment and assault charges filed against the mayor. They’ll also be looking into what the mayor was going on and on about with the land developers.
Once the cops leave, Kade takes Lin to their room, and I lead Brynn back to hers. Not a word is spoken on the walk there.
This is not how I thought our date would end.
Brynn
What the hell did the mayor mean about costing him money? He had to have meant the city money, right? Even then, I think the land developers would cost us more than they’d make us.
I push all that out of my head, as I let Jasper take me to my room. Instead, I focus on how he jumped right into action and defended Lin.
Once we’re back in my room, I close the door and turn to look at him.
“Thank you,” I tell him. Though, it feels so inadequate for how I’m feeling right now.
His face softens.
“You don’t have to thank me, Firefly. Lin is a friend to both of us, and I know she’s the closest thing to family you have, so that makes her important to me. There was no scenario where I didn’t step in.”
This man is the Jasper I fell in love with all those years ago, but so much better. He’s aged perfectly, grown up, and only become greater. He’s protective and sentimental. Sweet and caring, but he has a hard side for those that cross him. He still knows me, and I know, I know him, too.
He takes a step closer, and a million things are still running through my head.
“Don’t you know I’d do anything for you?” He asks, before leaning down to kiss me. “Because I would, and because I still love you. I don’t think I ever stopped.” He kisses me again.
He loves me. I know he’s shown it, but he just said it, and I don’t know, if I can say it back. He leans in and kisses me again, and my brain short circuits. When it starts running again, I realize I’m ready. For him, and for us.
“I want you, Jasper, and I’ve never been surer of anything in my life. I want you and us. I want the dream we had back then, only I want to make it bigger and better.” I tell him.
His eyes search mine, like he’s waiting for me to say ‘gotcha’ and tell him I’m just joking.
“I mean it,” I whisper.
“Thank God.” He says, before his mouth is back on mine. Only this kiss isn’t soft and sweet, it’s deep and frantic and filled with need. It’s all the I love you’s wrapped into a kiss. I kiss him back just as hard, because while I may not be able to say the words right now, I sure as hell can show him how I feel.
He walks me back towards my bed, all without taking his hands or his mouth off me. When the back of my knees hit the bed, I sit on the edge and look up at him.
He removes his shirt in that swift motion only guys can master, and his muscles bulge and twist, as he does, and my eyes are riveted on them. With his tan chest on full display, my eyes rake over him. He leans down and slowly starts lifting my top, giving me time to stop him, but I won’t. I lift my arms, and he removes my top, and it joins his shirt on the floor.
While kissing me, he pushes me onto the bed and steps between my legs. He’s careful to keep his weight off me, as he starts kissing my chest and along the cups of my bra, before reaching behind me to unhook it. He slowly pulls it away and tosses it to the floor.
“You are more beautiful than I remember. How is that possible?” He asks.
“Says the guy who grew muscles on top of his muscles.” I smile and reach up to trail my hand down his chest. His skin and muscles flex under my touch.
He makes quick work of removing the rest of my clothes, and then stands back to look at every inch of me. If it was anyone else, I’d feel embarrassed, but the hunger in his eyes, tells me he likes what he sees.
“You have on too many clothes,” I say with a smile.
He removes his clothes, before his knees hit the floor in front of me. His hands on the inside of my thighs push my legs wide, as he gets closer.
“I have been dreaming of this moment for so long, Firefly. I’m going to take my time.” He says, as he runs his hands up my thighs to my hips and pulls my ass to the edge of the bed.
His hands rest on my lower belly, and his thumb starts to circle my clit. All I can do is close my eyes and let the sensation wash over me.
“Jasper.” I can’t seem to form the words I need to say, but he knows.
“Cum for me, Firefly.” He says and starts fucking me with his tongue. There’s no easing me into it. There’s just him, taking what he wants, and it pulls my orgasm from me, faster than I thought possible. Before I know it, I’m cumming and screaming his name.
He kisses his way back up my stomach, between my breasts, and up my neck to my lips. I can still taste myself on him, and it’s more erotic than I ever thought possible.
Jasper moves me up the bed, before standing and reaching into his pants for his wallet and pulling out a condom. He makes quick work of rolling it on, before he’s back on the bed and climbing over me.
He kisses his way up my stomach again, but this time, nips at the underside of my breasts, before scraping his teeth on the sides of my rib cage, where he knows I’m ticklish. I start laughing and trying to pull away from him, as his kisses glide up my neck again.
“I love your laugh.” He smiles, and it seems to have broken some of the tension.
“You sure about this, Firefly? We can wait as long as you want.” He says.
“Never been surer of anything in my life,” I say.
Bracing himself on his forearms, he leans down to kiss me, as he lines himself up. The head of his cock at my entrance makes me gasp. As he kisses me, he starts to slide into me, slowly thrusting, until his hips are flush against my thighs. Only then, does he break the kiss and pull back to look into my eyes for just a moment, before he squeezes his eyes shut and buries his head in my neck.
“You feel so fucking good.” He groans and pulls back, thrusting in and out of me.
I can feel him drag along my walls, and the way he’s angled hits my clit with each thrust. I wrap my legs around his waist and pull him in even closer to me.
“I can feel you clenching me so tight. Firefly, you need to cum now.” He grits out and moves a hand between us to put pressure on my clit.
A few hard strokes combined with his thrusting, and my orgasm overtakes me, and I’m screaming his name and holding on for dear life, like he’s the only thing keeping me from falling off the edge of a cliff, because in that moment, he is.
Just as I come back to myself, I feel his whole body go stiff, and he groans my name. For a brief moment, I wish I could feel his release inside me. But the idea is out of my head, as soon as it entered.
He barely rolls to the side, before he collapses.
“Damn, I don’t remember it being like that between us.” He says.
“That makes two of us.” I sigh.
He gets up and heads to the bathroom to clean up, before coming back to bed and pulling me to his side. I curl up with my head on his shoulder and my naked body pressed to his, and I can’t imagine a more perfect moment. My world feels right again for the first time in a long time.
“You know, I read these books about couples who have sex on the beach, and all I can think about is how, when I walk the beach, I end up with sand everywhere. Can you imagine sex and getting sand everywhere? Then, what about sand crabs?” I say, and we both end up laughing.
He turns to his side and props himself on his elbow to look down at me. He just stares for a moment, before brushing some hair from my face. In bed with me relaxed, he’s so beautiful.
“I love that we can laugh like this.” He says.
I smile, “Me too.”