Chapter Four

 

“Same time, piece for piece?” Gray asked.

 

Alaina nodded and stood. He pushed to his feet then turned so they faced one another.

 

She released the button on her skirt as Gray pulled his T-shirt over his head. It hit the stone patio at the same time she stepped out of the skirt and kicked it aside. When Alaina whipped her shirt off and dropped it on top of the skirt, Gray toed off his dock shoes.

 

“Ready?” Gray asked as he slipped the button on his shorts and slid the zipper down. Alaina hooked her thumbs under the elastic of her thong.

 

“Ready.”

 

At the same moment he released the zipper and allowed his shorts to drop, Alaina pushed the elastic waistband down to her thighs then released it.

 

“Wow,” she breathed when Gray straightened and stepped out of his shorts.

 

It had been a long time since she had seen a naked man in the flesh, especially one as impressive without clothes as he had been with them. Gray’s skin glowed a golden honey tone all over, though his hips and thighs were several shades lighter than his face and arms. As she had wished, his cock was longer and broader than the green imitation she had been playing with.

 

Very impressive.

 

“I know this is crazy, but I need to taste you. Right here, right now.”

 

Alaina sank to her knees, putting Gray’s cock within tasting distance. Before she could open her mouth and take the head of his cock in, he stepped back out of reach.

 

When she frowned up at him, he shook his head with a smile. “It’s your birthday.”

 

Alaina nodded. Though she had nothing concrete to base her knowledge on, she somehow knew this man could be trusted in all things. Taking his hand, she allowed him to help her stand. She then returned to the chair she had occupied earlier. Their clothes lay in a pile at her feet.

 

Gray knelt on the pile and smiled up at her. Laying a hand on each of her knees, he slowly pushed her legs apart while sliding his palms up the inside of her thighs. Then he shifted forward so his body kept her legs spread as his fingertips brushed against her slick, pouting lips.

 

“Oooo,” she breathed as his fingers brushed over her sex. His touch reawakened the hunger that had been simmering since his arrival.

 

“Mmmm,” he responded as his tongue replaced his fingers at the open coral pink entrance to her cunt.

 

His lips were hot, his tongue rough against her sensitive flesh as an orgasmic tidal wave prepared to roll over her. Gray seemed to sense it and pulled back. Reaching up, he easily lifted her from the chair, settling her on his lap with her thighs straddling his hips. “Still trust me?”

 

Alaina nodded. Wrapping her arms around his shoulders, she shimmied so her nipples dragged across his chest.

 

“Hang on, sweetheart, I think we’re in for a helluva ride.” With that warning, he lifted her until his hard cock traced down her centerline from clit to the opening of her cunt. He then lowered her until she sheathed him with a tight, slick fit. It was as if they had been made for one another.

 

“Oh my,” Alaina shifted her hips once he fully seated in her.

 

“I agree.” He kissed her deep and hard as his hands slid under her ass. Then he began to lift and lower her, setting a slow rocking rhythm.

 

The slow pace did not last long as their need and hunger quickly spiraled out of control. Alaina moved faster and faster, sliding up and down his cock as she arched her body. Gray kept her from falling back as he pushed up to meet her every down stroke. Taking a peaked nipple into his mouth, he suckled and nibbled, sending them both closer and closer to the cliff. An endless moment later, they fell over the edge of the known world together. Their mingled cries of completion startled a pair of ducks who flew away, squawking their displeasure.

 

Alaina melted into Gray’s embrace and drifted for a few minutes. When her thoughts finally cleared, she felt Gray below her, wrapped around her and still planted deep inside her body. For the first time in as long as she could remember, Alaina felt a soul deep peace and contentment.

 

* * * * *

 

“How soon do you think you’ll have a suite available?” Gray asked once he could think again.

 

“Well, my grandmother’s suite just needs to be cleaned out and painted. The others will take months to build bathrooms and closets and connecting doors between rooms, and that’s only after getting the historical society’s approval. Why?”

 

“I have an idea that would involve less work, less time, and more money in your pocket. That is, if you’re interested.”

 

“What is it?”

 

“To start, if your grandmother’s suite looks out over the river, I’ll rent it.”

 

“It does, but I thought you had a house in Bridgeton.”

 

“I’m house sitting for my parents. They’re on an extended cruise and I needed a place to stay until I could find an apartment of my own. As to doing the other renovations, you wouldn’t have to do them if you don’t want to.”

 

“What do you mean?”

 

“I know some guys who would line up to rent those rooms to use for climate controlled storage while they are deployed. All you’d have to do is put secure locking knobs on the doors. You could charge almost as much for a single room as you could for the suite without the hassles of feeding and keeping people happy. And you could make even more money because you could rent each of those other four rooms as individual storage units. You would be making more money and have more time for other pursuits.” Gray brushed her hair back from her face. “That would also allow you to run around naked anytime you wanted.”

 

Alaina stared at his nose as she turned over his suggestion. Rent out rooms for storage. It would be a perfect solution and she wouldn’t need to get the historical society’s approval to do it, either.

 

“Are you sure you want to rent the suite? You haven’t even seen it yet.”

 

“Yes, I want it, but only if I can redo your public wardrobe.”

 

Alaina smiled. “You won’t dress me in stripper clothes, will you?”

 

“No, though that might be an interesting idea for your private wardrobe.”

 

“Only if you’ll dress like one, too.”

 

Gray frowned at her suggestion even as his lips turned up in a smile. He had definitely found the woman meant to be his. The woman who would give him a run for his money. The only thing he had to figure out was how to erect some sort of screen along the water to keep river traffic from seeing too much while they played naked games in the yard.

 

“Only when we’re behind closed doors. The Marines wouldn’t approve of me walking the streets nearly naked.”

 

Alaina brushed a kiss on one cheek, then the other before tracing his lips with her tongue. “Thanks, Gray.”

 

“For what?”

 

“For making this a birthday I will never forget.”