Checking It Twice (23 page)

Jana gave him a curious look. “What’s that for?”

“Dessert.” He eyed Kev. “Do you mind if that table gets messy, or should I grab a towel?”

Despite the tic in his jaw, there was some definite tenting in the groin area of Kev’s sweatpants. “Don’t worry about it.”

“You sure? Because things are gonna get wet.” He grinned when Kev’s Adam’s apple bobbed.

“It’s fine.” Kev kept his gaze riveted on the flat-screen television on the opposite wall, his piss-poor attempt at feigning a sudden interest in
It’s a Wonderful Life
making Nick give a silent, evil laugh.

Yeah, we’ll see how much you can pretend to be into that, you stubborn bastard.

Kneeling on the carpet, he clicked open his case, fetched the jar of Frosty BodyScape paint and placed it on the edge of the coffee table before straightening and beckoning Jana with a crook of his finger. She abandoned her perch on the couch cushion and approached him, her eyes sparkling. “What are you going to do? Finger-paint me? Paint by number? Dot to dot?”

He spanked her on the ass, provoking a squealed laugh from her and a covert, darting look in their direction from Kev. Kneading the heated flesh of her ass with one hand, he lowered his head and slid his mouth over Jana’s, his tongue teasing at the edges of her teeth, seeking an invite for deeper exploration. Her lips parted in sweet submission, offering him more. Offering him everything.

He tangled his fingers in her hair, the tactile sensation of sifting through the silkiness of the strands making him ache to touch her everywhere. Breaking their kiss, he motioned for her to stretch out on her back on the coffee table. From the corner of his eye, he noticed that Kev was still staring at the television screen, but the balled fist at his side hinted that he was far from being oblivious to the scene commencing in front of him.

Nick grabbed the jar of BodyScape paint and unscrewed the lid before dipping his finger inside and coating it with the liquid chocolate. Grinning, he smoothed the substance along the bow of Jana’s bottom lip. “The sample I promised.”

“That’s all? Talk about stingy.”

“No, I’m planning on giving you an even bigger taste in a bit, sweetness.”

“Mmm.” She rubbed her lips together before licking them. “Candy cane?”

“Appropriate for this time of the year, yes?”

“You’re a marketing genius, Naughty Nick.”

“Well, Christmas only comes once a year. I’d better make the most of it.”

“I’d make the best of it too, if I only came once a year.” Her teeth flashed white—an almost identical match to the Frosty BodyScape paint still lightly glossing her lips.

“Don’t think you’ll have to worry about that sad fate.” He gathered more of the paint, and using his fingertips as his personal applicator brush, began designing his creation. Starting at her collarbone, he drew a long curlicue, sweeping it downward over her breast, circling her nipple before filling the pebbled tip in and continuing beneath the curved underside of her breast.

He collected more paint, his gaze flicking toward Kev. The stubborn jackass was still staring unblinkingly at the flat-screen, the hard ridge of his knuckles practically bursting through the skin as he locked the rolled seam of the couch cushion in a death grip. His jaw looked like it could give that Nutcracker dude from the other night a run for his money.

The wicked tormenter in him cackling with glee, Nick traced a snaking path down Jana’s quivering stomach, rimming her bellybutton before trailing with slow deliberation to her mons and drawing the outline of a heart. Her strip of blonde fuzz bisected it in the middle. One half for him, the other for Kev. As it should be.

He stirred his finger in the jar of BodyScape one last time before applying a good dollop of the paint on her glistening clit. Sitting back on his haunches, he admired his handiwork. “Picasso has nothing on me.”

Goose bumps dotting her skin, and the shallowness of her breathing indicators of her excitement and arousal, Jana fidgeted on the table.

He stroked the inside of her thigh, teasingly close to her pussy. “Now for the fun phase—licking the canvas clean.” He grazed his fingernails along the delicate ridges of her rib cage, making her shiver. Stroking his chin, he contemplated his masterpiece. “Hmm, where to start?”

Her legs inching farther apart, she lifted her hips in invitation. He lowered his head toward her collarbone instead, and she growled in frustration, earning his chuckle. Moving with unhurried ease, he retraced his path, slowly dissolving the curlicue with his tongue. He flicked lazy laps around her areola next, the candy-cane-flavored body paint an additional sweetness to Jana’s addictive flavor. Curling his tongue around her nipple, he sucked the turgid flesh, working it into a stiffened peak. Jana squirmed on the table, her back arching. Lifting his head, he caught Kev’s heated stare on them. Finally the stubborn jackass had given up the pretense of watching the damn movie.

Satisfaction burning inside him, Nick flattened his tongue and swabbed the underside of Jana’s breast, making his way toward her abdomen. Two ravenous swirls around her bellybutton, then a slow cruise to her mound. He lapped his side of the heart clean before looking at Kev. “This dessert is even better when shared.”

It took no more coaxing than that. Kev shoved up from the couch, his legs unsteady as he rounded the corner of the coffee table. An instant later, his knees hit the carpet and he gripped Jana’s hips, raising them as he buried his mouth in her pussy with a starved moan. Unlike Nick, he didn’t make a leisurely feast of her, instead gorging on her like she was his last meal.

Jana gasped and writhed, her hand seeking Nick’s. Lacing their fingers, he kissed her before returning his focus to Kev’s ravenous devouring. The oral feast was incredible to watch. When Kev finally let himself go and gave in to his need for Jana, he poured every ounce of his desire and passion into it. He didn’t just eat her pussy, he made love to it with his mouth and tongue.

His own lust and love a fierce heartbeat inside him, Nick stretched forward. Catching his eye, Kev scooted back as Nick leaned in for a taste. He plowed his tongue through Jana’s wetness, her sugary sweetness the most potent flavor of all. Plunging his tongue deep, he ate her with a hungry gusto, angling his head to the side as Kev thumbed her swollen little clit. A cry ripped from Jana seconds before her pussy spasmed around his tongue in rhythmic pulses.

Once she’d relaxed in a contented slump, he slipped his tongue free. Kev continued to bring Jana down from her climax with gentle caresses while Nick grabbed one of the condoms he’d stashed in his case. He started to rip the packet open, but Jana surprised him by wiggling off the coffee table and snatching it from him.

“No way, Naughty Nick. You promised me a
bigger
taste, remember?” She smacked her lips in a way that was both lascivious and funny as shit. Not waiting around for his reply, she hunched over his presentation case and rifled through its contents before settling on the raspberry mint Bodylicious lube. Stowing the condom foil on the edge of the table, she squeezed a healthy portion of the lube into her palm before sliding her fingers around his cock and stroking his entire length in a slick, sensuous glide that threatened to make him blow in zero seconds flat. But that proved to be only the beginning of her torment when the wet warmth of her mouth replaced her hand. Her tongue performed sweeping swirls around the head of his dick before delicately fluttering in the sensitive juncture where the main vein intersected the cap.

The real test of his strength came when she puffed a hot breath along his shaft, activating the menthol. “Ah
Jesus
.” Gritting his teeth, he groped blindly for the edge of the table before his knees buckled.

Smiling like a cat with a big ole bowl of cream, she crawled between his legs and engulfed him in her mouth again. Her eyes glimmering up at him, she lightly massaged his testicles. The breath bellowed from his lungs when she reached behind her and cupped Kev’s erection, rubbing him through the cotton of his sweats. A groan tumbling from him, Kev rocked into her, his hands tracing the soft swells of her hips.

Releasing Nick with a gasp, she sent them both a pleading look. “Make love to me. Both of you. Please. I—I need…”

Kev hiked his sweats down and snatched the extra condom Nick flipped his way. Once his cock was sheathed, Kev positioned it at Jana’s slit, but she caught him off-guard by coaxing him toward her ass. His expression equal parts lusty and worried, Kev hesitated at her puckered rosebud. “Jana, are you sure?”

She responded by biting her lip and passing him the lube. “I’ve never done it with the real thing. But I want to. With you.”

Looking like he’d been handed the rarest gift of all, Kev uncapped the lube with shaky fingers, two of which he greased up before easing them inside Jana’s ass. Stroking his dick, Nick watched the heightened arousal flushing Kev’s face. “How does she feel?”

“Hot. Smooth.” Kev swallowed with obvious difficulty. “So fucking tight.” He leaned forward and kissed Jana’s neck, tenderness softening his strained expression. “I don’t want to hurt you.” The tremble in his voice hinted that he wasn’t only referring to taking her ass.

Jana squeezed Kev’s hand before repositioning it on her hip and once again guiding his shaft to her nether region. Her blissful sigh as she slowly impaled herself on Kev’s cock was enough to make Nick come, but there was no way in hell he was depriving himself the pleasure of her pussy.

Unable to resist, he pushed away from the coffee table and hunkered beside Jana and Kev. Kissing her neck, he scored his fingertips over her breasts. “Watching you take Kev’s cock in your ass is the fucking sexiest thing I’ve ever seen. Tell me how he feels, sweetness.”

Her throat worked with a hard swallow. “H-huge. But good.” She rocked her hips slightly and shuddered. “Oh God.
Really
good.” Her hand slid backward and clutched at Kev’s flexing glute as he pumped deeper. “Don’t stop.
Please
don’t stop.”

Nick grabbed the pair of throw pillows from the couch and kicked them behind Kev. His thin, labored breaths hinting at the tightrope of control he was balancing on, Kev stretched onto his back, taking Jana with him. Nick followed them down, sliding a hot, open-mouthed kiss along Jana’s belly. He settled between their outstretched legs and glided his tongue over her clit, sucking the slick nubbin softly while Kev’s cock tunneled into her ass. He didn’t know which was the headier turn on—the close-up view of their sexy joining, or Jana’s delirious moans and whimpers.

He slowly retraced his path upward along her torso, lingering for a moment to properly worship her pebbled nipples before he claimed her mouth in a drugging kiss. Inching back slightly, he caressed her cheek. “Are you ready for both of us, baby?”

Moisture glimmered in her eyes. “More than you could ever know.”

He did know. And he was right there with her in the wanting of it—a forever that extended far beyond tonight. He guided his cock inside her, the velvety, snug fit of her pussy sending liquid pleasure scalding through every nerve receptor. He stroked deeper, the hard ridge of Kev’s cock buried in Jana’s ass creating a sizzling friction that tore twin hissing breaths from him and Kev.

Locking his elbows, Nick arched his back and retreated in a lazy glide, relishing the rippling embrace of her wet, silken channel. Holding her gaze steady, he slid home again, throwing in a half twist at the tail end of his stroke that rubbed his pubic bone along her clit. She broke apart with a keening cry, her inner muscles spasming around him and Kev.

She was made for this. Made for
them
.

Her eyes glistening with unshed tears, Jana caressed his jaw and the hand that Kev had cupped around her breast. On her next thready exhalation, she shared the three words echoing in his heart. “I love you.”

He knew the declaration was intended just as much for Kev as for him, and judging from the brief flash of joy and panic skating across Kev’s features, so did he. Nick pumped, hard and deep, the move effectively distracting Kev and hopefully silencing the persistent whispers of his demons. Nuzzling her neck, Nick offered her the reassurance she needed and the words that he damn well knew Kev shared but was too terrified to let go of. “I love you too, baby.”

Chapter Eighteen

Separating himself from the tangle of limbs in his bed, Kevin padded toward his bathroom. He hesitated in the doorway and sent a look toward Jana and Nick’s sleeping forms. A dull ache cramped in his chest. He’d fucking known it was a mistake to allow this to happen. Jana was so open and giving with her heart. He felt like a monster for the hurt he would bring her, and there wasn’t a damn thing he could do to change that. She wanted forever. She
needed
a relationship that would last and fulfill her. At least she would have that with Nick. If nothing else, that had been something good that came of Kevin’s reckless handling of Jana’s heart.

Despite the acknowledgment, his gut remained a hollow pit of tension as he stepped into the shower and cranked the water on. Without warning, Jana’s sweet declaration spun through his mind.
I love you.

The compressed ball of anxiety expanded in his stomach. He loved her too. He’d be a damned liar if he didn’t admit that to himself. But to love someone…to allow them in long enough to rip your soul out…

“You were only a fun, diversionary fuck, Kevvy. Why would you
ever
assume I love you?”