Breaking Through the Wall (Guarded Hearts Book 2) (15 page)

“Hey, girl!” She ran over and gave me a hug, and I laughed at how perfect she looked in this role. She had her hair in a neat little pony tail with an apron and oven mitts on. “So, how is everything?”

I was so glad I had someone to talk to, because I really didn’t know what
to do. “I feel like he hates me, Mads. I mean, he can barely stand to look at me, it’s like I repulse him.”

“Carter told me last night about how Jason’s dad cou
ld be. I know it has to be hard. Has he said anything about it?”

“He has been great
, better than he has ever been! I think, in some strange way, this is helping him to see that he doesn’t want to end up like his dad. I just wish that things were different and he wasn’t so against me from the start.”

She gave me a hug that I really needed right
now, things had been so tense last night. Thank God Jason had a TV in his room, because at least that provided us with an escape.

“Hey
, listen, you are only going to be there tonight and tomorrow night. Then Saturday, we are all staying in Myrtle Beach together!”

“I know
, I can’t wait. I hope it is nice enough to go on the beach.”

Dinner was amazing, or
, at least, the food was. Jason’s dad mumbled and grumbled through the whole thing, while Carter’s dad was great. He talked to me about school and my family, and seemed like he was really interested to get to know me. Maddy got really lucky with him, while I got Scrooge’s evil twin.

By the time we got back to Jason’s house
, it was after ten and I was completely exhausted. I went into the room and J told me he would be there in a minute. I got changed in pajamas and opened the door to go brush my teeth.

“No, Dad
, you need to lay off. She doesn’t deserve the way you are treating her!”

I knew I shouldn’t be listening
, but I couldn’t help myself.

“Son, you need to understand
, I am only trying to protect you.”

“Protect me from what? Being happy? Not spending every day alone and miserable like you are? Whether you want to believe it
or not, not every girl out there is like Mom. It took me a long time to learn that, mainly because you have been filling my head with all of this bullshit since she left. Nicole makes me happy, and if you can’t appreciate that, the least you could do is respect it.”

I heard his footsteps and scrambled back to my bag to pretend I was getting my toothbrush out. When he came in and closed the door
, I looked up at him and could tell he was fuming. “You okay?”

“Yea
h, did you, uh…did you hear any of that?”

I should probably tell him I did, but the look in his eyes
is begging me to say I didn’t.
“Hear what?”

He walked over and wrapped his arms around me, bending down to pl
ace a kiss on my neck. “Nothing. I’ll get changed and see you in a minute, okay?”

I nodded my head and went to the bathroom. What he said to his dad really meant a lot to me. It was validating every fear I had that his dad could influence him to leave me. I wished he was ready for me to tell him I loved him, because I wanted to say it so bad.

Jason

As soon as Nicole had gone off to the bedroom, my dad had started in on me. Warning me she was going to break my heart, and asking me over and over again why I changed the plan. It pissed me off so bad, because he hadn’t even given her the chance she deserved. Granted, it took me about nine months to give her a real chance, but I expected more from him.

Coming home and seeing how my dad was when I was actually happy, was an eye opener. I didn’t want to end up like him
, sad, alone, and mad at the world. Nic came back in and crawled under the covers with me. For the first time ever, I was content with just being able to hold her, without having sex. This is the type of shit that Carter would talk about and I would tell him he was gay for.

Everything is so different when it means something
, though. My dad was so convinced that this was just something built on sex, and I was determined to prove him wrong.

I had every intention of keeping Nicole out of the house as much as I could today. We were leaving tomorrow for Myrtle Beach
, and the less time we spent with my dad, the better. Carter had asked me if I wanted to hang out with him and Maddy, but I told them no.

Nicole and I spent the day walking the trails at the park, seeing a movie, and going out to dinner. My dad had poker night with his friends tonight
, so I figured he would be gone by the time we got home.

When we walked in
, all five of them were sitting at the poker table in the living room. “Hey, Dad, I thought you were going out for poker.”

“We were
, but Johnny got sick and cancelled on us, so I said I would do it here. You want to join? There is room for one more.”

I knew what he was trying to do
, divide and conquer. He would get me to play with them and they could all talk to me about how nice it was not having a woman around. “No, I’m kind of tired. Nic, do you want to play?”

Her head snapped up and she shot me a look. “No
, I’m—”

“
Oh, come on, honey! I haven’t won in a few weeks. You will help me out,” Sam, one of my dad’s friends, yelled from inside.

“No
, sorry guys, I don’t have any cash on me, anyway.”

“I can cover you
, babe.”

She shot me the death glare before turning back to my dad and his friends. “Ok
ay, I guess so.”

They all made room for her at the table, and I was holding out hope that maybe this would help my dad get more comfortable with her.

I explained all of the basics of Texas Hold ‘Em to her and told her to let me know if she had any questions. She folded the first couple of hands, but after that she actually started to win.

By the end of the game
, it was just Nicole and my dad left. The last card had just flipped and Nicole bet a ten dollar chip. My dad looked up at her, pushed his whole pile of chips in, and said, “I’m all in.”

I couldn’t see her cards
, so I had no idea what she had in her hand or what she was going to do. She looked back at me, smiled, and pushed her whole pile in too. My dad laid his cards down and looked up at her. “Four aces, sweetheart.” He went to reach for the pile, but she stopped him.

“If I’m not mistaken…” She put
her cards down on the table face up. “…a royal flush beats four of a kind.”

Holy shit, she actually won? The shock on my dad’s face was priceless
. Nicole collected her winnings, then we headed off to my room. Once we got in the door, I backed her against the door and kissed her.

“How the hell did you do that?”

“It wasn’t my first time playing.”

“So
, then why the hell did you have me explain all the rules?”

“So that everyone else thought I was a beginner and underestimated me. Besides
, even if they did know, I have a really good poker face.”

I kissed her again
, this time lifting her up by her ass. She instinctively wrapped her legs around me and I carried her over to the bed. We had each other undressed and were back on the bed at lightning speed.

“J,
your dad is right down the hall.”

I flipped her over onto her stomach, grabbed my pillow and handed it to her. “Bite down on that if you
need to, babe.” I thrust myself into her and started pumping, so fast and hard that she was screaming into the pillow. I had never had a girl affect me the way she did. It’s like I can’t wait another minute to have her or I will explode.

I grabbed her hair and pulled it back
, making her back arch, and hearing her moan deeper into the pillow. I knew she liked it when I did that, even though the feminist inside her told her she shouldn’t.

I knew I was getting close
, so I reached my hand down and found her clit. I started rubbing it in fast frenzied circles and soon felt her pussy squeezing my dick. Once that happened, I was gone. I emptied myself inside of her and lay down next to her. I have to say that it made me happy and proud in a way that I was the only man she’d ever been with. I knew she was mine in every way.

Nicole

We didn’t even get a chance to say goodbye to Jason’s dad before we left today. He was already gone when we left the house and hadn’t been back since. I asked J if it had been a bad idea that I beat his dad last night and he said not to worry about it. I was happy to finally be leaving, and so excited for our mini vacation.

When we got to the hotel
, I was surprised at how nice it was. I started laughing hysterically when Carter was talking to the lady at the front desk and telling them that we didn’t want rooms next to each other. Jason had whispered to me that Carter knew about the wedding and didn’t want us overshadowing him.

In Maddy’s eyes
, though, I don’t think that would have ever been possible. We all went upstairs and made plans to go to the hotel’s pool for the day, because it was too cold to go on the beach and enjoy it. I slipped on my bikini and was finishing tying it up as I was walking out of the bathroom. Jason was sitting on the bed waiting for me, but when he saw me I couldn’t tell if he was happy or mad.

“What the heck is that thing?”

“It’s a bikini, J. What the hell? You even said you wanted to get me in one.”

“Yea
h, I wanted to see you in one, not have every guy there going home and whack off to the image of you in it. You need to change into something more than four little triangles.”

I slipped on my flip flops and pretended I was going toward my suitcase. Then I sprinted for the door
and ran down the hallway to the elevator. I heard him yell my name, but I just kept going. As the elevator door was closing I saw him running and just missing me.

I got down to the pool, grabbed a towel
, and laid it out on one of the lounge chairs. The pool area was really nice, it had lots of palm trees everywhere and like five different hot tubs. I heard Jason stomping up to me before I noticed him.

“That was not funny, Nic.”

“I wasn’t trying to be funny. I just wanted to go to the pool. Unfortunately, my boyfriend, Tarzan, thought he could club me over the head and tell me what I was allowed to wear, so I had to make a run for it.”

He sat down on the chair beside me
, but I knew by his expression that this wasn’t over yet. When Mads and Carter came down, we all decided to go in the pool together. It was nice, because it was really empty in there. We did chicken fights and other stupid things you do in pools, before we decided to warm up in the hot tubs.

Since there were so many a
nd most of them were empty, each couple went to their own. Once I sunk into the water, it felt like heaven. I laid my head back against the side and closed my eyes. Then I felt Jason’s arms wrap around me and pull me over to him. He sat me on top of him so I was facing him, and that was when I noticed he had freed a certain part of himself from the bathing suit.

My head snapped up to look at him and he smiled. Running his finger down my back
, he brought it around and hooked it under my bathing suit bottom, moving it to the side. He put one finger inside of me and looked me in the eye. “This is mine, Nicole, and it drives me crazy that these perverts have been looking at you. So now I want to remind you why it is mine and only mine.”

He picked me up a little and brought me down on top of him. I let out a moan and then remembered where we were.

“Let’s see how good your poker face is now.”

He grabbed my hips and started grinding me on top of him. He had also positioned us right by a jet
, so every time I slid back the stream seemed to hit me in just the right spot. I had to bite my lip to keep from making all of the sounds begging to come out. I was so close, that when he leaned down to kiss my chest I lost it, burying my head in his neck to help mask the sounds of my orgasm. He finished inside of me and I couldn’t bring myself to move off of him.

When I did move and I looked over at him
, and he seemed so pleased with himself. Jason always did these kinds of things to me in the craziest places, and I couldn’t get enough of it. I loved that he had these moments where he couldn’t wait and had to have me now.

We went to the board walk after that and Carter pulled Jason into some store with him and we told
the boys we would meet up with them in a little bit. I started to tell Mads about this afternoon, when we passed this store that caught my eye.

It was called Ridemakerz and you were able to build and design you
r own custom car. Jason and I had talked once about things we had wanted, and of course with him being a guy, he talked about his dream car. I made Maddy come in with me to look around and told her my idea.