Actually Love - Jessie & Zach (30 page)

Jessie had told him more than once that she didn’t think she would have gotten through the last few months, since being promoted, without Martin. She even used the word irreplaceable.

“From who?” Martin looked confused, and Zach couldn’t tell if he was kidding or he really didn’t know.

“From Jessie.” Zach would have thought that was obvious.

“Wait a minute. Hold the phone. She
talks
and it’s about
me
?” Martin gushed. “What does she say? I have to know everything!”

Jessie’s head fell back as she laughed and shook her head.

“Can I have your attention?” a man Zach didn’t recognize but who introduced himself as Scott Snyder, president and CEO of SPC, said over a microphone.

Jessie gave Zach a little wave as she, Martin, and Maxine headed to the small stage Scott was standing on. The man talked about the great year they’d had and then introduced the newest member of their executive team, Jessie Sloan. He called her and her department on stage.

As Zach watched her give a little speech, he was mesmerized by not just her beauty, but also her poise. He wasn’t sure how he’d gotten so lucky to have had her walk into his life, but he knew one thing: he would do whatever he had to do to make sure she didn’t walk out.

T
he elevator doors opened, and Zach made his way through the empty hallways of the SPC executive floor, following the directions that Martin had given him. The party downstairs was winding down, and when he looked to find Jessie to say goodbye to her, her assistant had informed him that Jessie had gone up to her office to check on an email she’d been waiting for from a client. According to Martin, she was only supposed to be gone “a few minutes” but had been MIA for almost an hour.

After making a left at the end of the hall as instructed, Zach easily found the large wooden double doors with a plaque beside them that read ‘Jessie Sloan VP of Public Relations.’ One of the doors was opened a crack, and he knocked as he stepped in.

“Jessie?”

For a moment, he didn’t see anyone. Turning his head to the side he saw what looked like a small bathroom, but it appeared empty. On his second scan of the room, his heart slammed in his chest when he saw blond hair splayed out across the large mahogany desk.

“Jessie!” Zach cried out as he ran across the room to her, his chest tight with panic. He heard the heavy office door slam shut behind him. He repeated her name even louder, “Jessie!”

Just as he made it to her side, she stirred. Her head moved from side to side a little. Lifting up, she looked up at him in sleepy confusion, her hair stuck to the side of her face.

“Oh thank God.” He exhaled loudly as he tried to calm his racing heart. Fear still gripped his chest as adrenaline raced through his veins.

“Are you okay?” Jessie’s voice was filled with concern although still not sounding fully awake yet. As she reached up and brushed the strands of hair off her cheek she asked, “What’s wrong?”

Her large doe-eyes were blinking up at him as she pushed off the desk to stand. Before she made it out of the chair, Zach pulled her into his arms and crushed her against him, her soft curves molded into his body.

“Zach?” She was definitely sounding more alert now and also more acutely worried.

“I thought something happened to you. I thought… I just thought…” He couldn’t continue his thought as he held her tightly in his arms.

Zach didn’t know how to tell her that when he’d seen her slumped over the desk, his mind and his emotions had gone right back to when he was fourteen and had come home to find his mom slumped over the kitchen table. He tried to wake her up. He called her name and shaken her before calling 911. Then he held her unconscious body in his arms until the paramedics came and took her away.

That was the day that his childhood ended. That was the day he knew at any second his mom could be gone. That was the day he stopped thinking about the future.

“I’m okay,” Jessie softly assured him as she rubbed her hands up and down his back. “I’m here, Zach. I’m okay. I just fell asleep. I’m fine. Everything’s okay.”

Zach nodded against the top of her head, breathing in the fresh scent of her hair. Logically, he knew she was okay. But somewhere between his brain and his chest, the message was getting lost. Zach’s heart pounded erratically as he tightened his grip around her.

Jessie wriggled her body, snuggling closer to him, burying her face in his throat. He closed his eyes so he could solely concentrate on feeling her. Her warm breath against his neck. Her hands as they rubbed up and down his back. Her soft breasts crushed against his chest.

Need, like he’d never experienced before, flooded through him like raging rapids. Holding her was not enough. He needed to touch her, skin to skin. He needed to feel her heart beating beneath his hands. He needed to feel how alive she was while he was deep inside of her.

His fingers spread out on the smooth soft skin at the base of her spine. Moving his hands up and down the sleek line of her back, fierce arousal ignited inside of him. Zach’s pulse raced, but it was no longer out of fear.

“Jessie.” He barely recognized his own voice. It sounded tortured even to his own ears.

“I’m here,” came her sweet voice as she tilted her head up.

The moment her eyes met his, her expression turned from concern to awareness. Intensity flared between them. Her lips parted, and her chest rose and fell in heavy breaths. Lifting her arms, she wrapped them around his neck. Her fingers combed through the hair at the base of his neck. Her gentle touch was almost unbearable in tenderness.

His mind knew that he shouldn’t do this. He was too raw. Too open. But his body disagreed.
Strongly.
His erection strained against the zipper of his slacks.

Jessie’s eyes stayed fixed on his as she lifted up on her tiptoes. Touching her lips to his, she whispered against his mouth, “I’m here.”

His hands moved to the sides of her hips as he rested his forehead against hers, trying to fight the desire crashing over him. Zach’s mind was swimming with so many reasons not to do this. The main one being how he’d just reacted. He already felt too much for the girl wrapped in his arms. That was exactly the reason he didn’t want this.

Jessie’s fingers continued stroking the back of his neck, and she let out a little sigh as her hips tilted into his hardened groin. That was it. His mind and emotions had just been overruled by the judge in his pants.

Without another thought in his head, his body just reacted and lifted her up onto her desk. Papers scattered across the surface and a container of pens crashed to the floor as he set her down. The moment her thighs hit the desktop, Zach’s large hands pushed her skirt up around her waist. As he did, Jessie’s nimble fingers were busy pulling at his tie and unbuttoning his shirt. They made quick work of his clothes as he shrugged off his shirt and stepped out of his pants. Reaching down, he grabbed a condom from his pocket, and when he stood, he saw that she was trying to wiggle out of her dress.

“Leave it on,” he commanded harshly.

Her hands froze, and she slowly lowered them to the desk. She attentively watched every move he made as he rolled the condom over the head of his dick and down his shaft. Stepping between her legs, his hands ran up and down her bare thighs.

“No stockings tonight?” he asked as he felt her legs quiver under his touch.

She slowly shook her head back and forth.

“Good. That’s less in my way.”

Firmly he slid his hands up her thighs and over her hips until he reached the hem of her dress and pulled it up over her head in one tug. Before her hands were even back at her sides, his mouth covered one of her full mounds as his hand enveloped the other. His tongue teased and licked the tight peak of her nipple, pulling into his suctioning open-mouthed kiss as he kneaded the full flesh of her other breast.

Jessie’s hands slammed down on the desk behind her as her back bowed, thrusting her chest up as if she was seeking deeper contact with him. Desire and need raced through him as he alternated licking, biting and sucking Jessie’s breasts making sure to show each one equal attention.

He felt like a starving man at a feast as he devoured Jessie’s heaving mounds. And maybe he was. After he’d gotten a taste of her when they’d spent the night together, his body had ached for her every second, of every minute, of every day. He felt an emptiness inside of him that only she could fill. Only touching her, kissing her, being inside of her could fill. Trying to remain in the confines of the friend zone had driven him insane with need for her.

Over the rushing sound of his roaring blood and his pounding heartbeat, he heard her moans and exclamations growing louder as she ground her covered mound against his aching bulge. Zach loved the feeling of her swollen lips covered in soft, wet fabric as she rubbed her center up and down his straining shaft. Each pass caused him to throb in need and pleasure.

“Please,” Jessie breathed sounding desperate.

At her frustrated plea he quickly moved his hand down Jessie’s body and tugged her dampened panties to the side. Zach’s could feel his entire being shaking with the need to thrust into her feminine heat. Bury himself deep inside of her. But first he needed to take care of her.

While his index finger held her panties out of his way he ran his middle finger up and down her slick folds before he slipped the tip of his finger between them. A soft, needy cry fell from her mouth as she reached up and grasped Zach’s shoulders. Pushing his finger farther into her heat, her body began pulsing around his thick digit.

“I love how wet you get for me,” he said hoarsely, a groan ripped from his chest at how responsive she was to his touch.

“Only for you,” she said through choppy breaths. “Only you make me this wet.”

Her statement caused every ounce of his possessive nature to roar inside of Zach as he pressed his finger in then pulled it out of her tight passage. Her inner walls gripped him and his dick throbbed with aching need, knowing just how good it would feel once he entered her.

“Yes, yes, Zach,” she softly moaned his name as her hips rocked against his hand.

His other hand was spread on her back, holding her up as her body began trembling uncontrollably. His finger worked in and out of her as he brushed his thumb over her clit, causing her body to clench around his finger. At the intimate contact, she cried out as her body convulsed against him.

When her body finally relaxed, and she melted against him, he removed his finger and positioned the head of his shaft at the neediest part of her. Even through the latex he could feel her moist heat on his sensitive engorged tip. As she recovered from her release, Zach held himself firmly and stroked the head of his dick up and down the slit of her opening until he felt her core begin to pulse against him.

“I want to feel you. I need you inside of me,” Jessie’s seductive voice drifted into Zach’s lust fogged brain.

Her statement broke the thin thread of control he’d been hanging on by, and he gripped her hips as he drove himself into her. Taking her. Claiming her.

*     *     *

Jessie’s head fell back, lost in ecstasy, as Zach entered her in one swift motion. Her sensitive body came alive again with sensation as he filled her completely. A moan ripped from her as his powerful body began moving in and out of her in deep thrusts. Her hands clenched as she held on to the strength of his shoulders.

The feel of his powerful muscles bunching beneath her touch sent chills down her spine. Jessie luxuriated in the erotic feel of stinging pressure as Zach’s fingertips firmly gripped the soft flesh on her hips. With him inside of her, holding her, she felt completely and totally…his.

Zach possessed her with an unwavering authority that Jessie never knew existed and now craved like an addict. Strength radiated off of him in waves, and she knew, deep in her soul, that he would take care of her. He had her. She trusted him completely with her body and her body’s needs.

Wanting to watch where their bodies were intimately joined as he drove inside of her, Jessie lifted her heavy head. When she did, she saw Zach’s emerald green eyes were trained on her chest. Intently glued to her, as he watched the motion of her full breasts jiggling each time he pounded into her. She loved the hungry look in his eye as he stared at her body.