Forbidden Paths (6 page)

Chapter Seven

Logan

One month earlier…

My house was full of sexual tension. Joey, Leif and myself wait impatiently for our women of the hour to arrive. I have to say it was arousing to think of having one hundred percent complete anonymous sex. Joey, as he told Leif, was in some serious need of relief.

Leif makes a phone call to his friend – though I think it’s more than friendship – Lia, who then calls her friend from a service and now we all wait eagerly for their arrival. No names are given to any of them. We have letters. A is Joey. B is Leif. C is me.

Our women of the night were pre-chosen for us. Their letters are double our own. I can’t wait to see what CC looks like. Or rather feels like. I’ll fill in the blanks with the only body that has ever turned me on.

Soon my doorbell was ringing. Joey jumps to his feet.

“Calm down buddy,” I tease.

“You have no idea how bad I fucking need this,” he hisses at me.

“Man I feel bad for your girl,” Leif teases, shaking his head laughing.

“Shut the fuck up! Remember I’m older than all of you,” he growls.

“Oh we know,” laughs Leif.

I shake my head at them and head to the door. When I open the door, my eyes are immediately drawn to the woman on the right. Her eyes… A tingle runs through my body and envelops me in a warmth I hadn’t expected.

Shaking my head and she seems to do the same, I step back and motion for them to enter.

“I’m C.” I hold out my hand to the woman that I’m inexplicitly drawn to.

Her delectable mouth twitches up into a sexy smirk as she takes my hand. “CC, nice to meet you.”

My heart races and a rush of air leaves my lungs at knowing she’s mine for the night. She places her hand in mine and my cock springs to life, instantly. My eyes widen at the electrical pulse that seems to be shooting through my body from such a small touch.

When my eyes meet hers, they are wide as well.
She feels it too.
This thought makes me very happy.

“If you would like to follow me.”

Without releasing CC’s hand, I hurry them around the corner to the eagerly awaiting guys.

“I’d like to introduce you to A and B. You guys get acquainted. Have fun. I’m taking CC to my room now.”

Hurrying quickly, I pull CC up the stairs and into my room. Closing the door and locking it. There was no way I’m taking the chance of getting interrupted with her.

“You’re the first girl I’ve had in my room. In my house, come to think about it.”

“Well, I’m honored Mr. C. I will do my best to make sure I’m the best you ever have in here again.”

“Of that I have no doubt,” I murmur huskily.

I watch in fascination as she reaches to her right side and unwraps her dress, revealing her gorgeously sexy body. Carefully, I pull my T-shirt over my head, careful not to pull my mask off.

Dropping her dress to the floor, she moves over to me. “Allow me please.”

She kneels down in front of me and opens the button and bites teasingly on my erection through my jeans.

“Ah, fuck!” My hands push into her hair.

Tugging, she removes my jeans and boxers in one pull. Her hand wraps around my shaft and the surge that runs through my body knocks the breath right out of my lungs. I’ve never, in all these years, felt like this about another woman. It was a thought I don’t dwell on long.

Her warm mouth wraps around the tip of my cock as her tongue slowly, tantalizingly, circles it. Delicious shivers run through my body as she lowers down sucking hard. My hands tighten in her hair, I moan.

After a while, I pull out of her addicting mouth and pull her to stand in front of me. Staring back at me are the intense blue/grey eyes of my woman of night. Crushing my lips down on hers, she immediately wraps her arms around my neck and kisses me back just as feverishly.

Slowly, I move her toward my bed, kicking my clothes off as we walked. Breaking the kiss, that feels all too familiar, I look at her.

“Damn you are sexy as sin. Hands and knees on the bed,” I whisper huskily.

She turns around and climbs on the bed. Tossing her hair to one side, she looks back at me, biting her lip. All the ways I was going to prolong this fled my head. I find my way behind her, slamming into her without a second thought of lasting all night.

Twisting her hair around my hand, I pull her head back as I begin to thrust into her slowly and deep. With each one, I hear her answering moan.

“Yes, harder.” She says after a while of my slow, deep, thrusts.

Releasing her hair, she drops to the bed with her chest, keeping her ass in the air. I grip her hips tightly in my hands as I really start to pound into her.

“Oh yes! Fuck me! Fuck me! Harder!” She moans louder.

I moan as I pick up my speed again. Soon, I feel her clamping around my cock. It sends me over the edge as I slam into her one more time, finding my release. This one sent fireworks behind my eye lids and seems to last forever.

As I collapse on her back, I swear I hear her breathe my name. Collapsing to the side, I pull her into my arms against me. For whatever reason, I didn’t want to let her go.

“Little nap, then we’re doing that again.”

She moans and I bury my nose in her hair taking a deep breath. Her smell familiar somehow. Soon I was asleep.

# # #

“What’s wrong?” I ask as I walk into the kitchen and see my Dad holding my sobbing Mom.

“Logan, when did you come in?” Mom asks as she spins around to face me.

“Just now.”

My mom has been sick for a few years now, but last year we were told that she was in remission. Which they tell me that means it’s gone for now. They were so happy. We all were. Something in my stomach, deep, deep in my stomach told me that this was related to that.

“Why don’t you call your brothers in for dinner and go get washed up yourself. Okay?” Mom sniffles.

Turning, I open the door and yell out for my brothers and head back inside to wash my hands. Will they tell us over supper what’s going on? My chest hurt because I just knew it was bad.

Leif and Levi fought through supper like normal. But for the first time, I was grateful for them being buttheads. It distracted me from whatever news they had to tell us. If they’ll ever tell us.

“May I have seconds please?” Leif asks.

“You haven’t finished your first, dummy,” Levi teases.

“I’m not a dummy, jerk,” Leif shot back.

Having all my twelve year brain could handle, I scream. Mom and Dad look at me, shocked by my outburst.

“Can you guys knock it off for five minutes?” I yell at Levi and Leif. “You two fight constantly. One day you’re going to need each other and realize the way you treated each other now was stupid and pointless. Grow up!”

Dad put his hand on my arm. “Lo, what’s wrong?”

Facing Dad and Mom, “I know that there’s something bad going on. You aren’t saying what it is, but I know. You don’t cry for just anything, Dad.”

Mom gasps. “Lo, it’s…”

“No, please Mom, don’t lie to me. Please,” I start to cry. “Is your cancer back? Is that why you were both crying? I’m not a little kid. I’ve not been since you were sick the first time. Don’t start treating me like I am now.”

Mom starts crying and moves to kneel next to me. “Baby, I know you aren’t a little kid anymore. You’re my big boy and I love you dearly.”

“Then tell me the truth,” I plead, tears falling helplessly down my cheeks.

“My cancer came back,” Mom whispers.

“More treatment?”

“No, baby. Not this time.”

Jerking awake in my bed, I look around my room. My heart was hammering in my chest. Losing my parents only three years apart both killed all of us, but it also brought us closer together. From that day forward, I lived for my family. I helped my Mom and Dad wherever I could and kept the boys in line so they didn’t have them to worry about.

Mom had passed away three months after that day. I found out later that the cancer was in her brain and well pretty much everywhere. I’d listen at my parents’ door as my dad would tell her how much he loved her and always would.

Watching my parents together, that’s the kind of love I want. The kind of love I thought I had, but then it was all ripped from me. Faith was never far from my mind. Just thinking about her brought me peace.

Since she walked away from me, I have focused on my brothers and nothing else. But now they’re all out of the house and it leaves me with far too much time to think about what I lost.

“Logan!”

Faith runs and throws her arms around my neck. Wrapping my arms around her waist, I spin her in a circle.

Setting her down on the ground, I cup her face in my hands. Leaning down slowly, I kiss her like I’ve thought about doing all day long. Her lips soft and gentle against mine, I deepen the kiss. Our tongues dancing their seductive dance, enticing and tantalizing every nerve in my body.

“I’ve missed you,” I breathe after breaking the kiss.

“I’ve missed you more. Did you have a good day?”

“Nothing compared to the night I’m having right now,” I smile at her. “I love you, you know that right?”

“I love you too. What’s going on?”

She looks up at me with her big beautiful blue/grey eyes. They pierce my very soul. There was never a way of hiding anything from her.

“I want you to leave with me.”

She sighs and walks away. “Logan, why do we have to keep having this conversation?”

“Because I want to see you more than just a few hours a night. Because I want to hold you after we make love. I want to fall asleep with you in my arms. Is that so wrong of me? To want to hold the woman I love with everything I am, to share more than a few stolen moments?”

She turns and faces me. “It’s not too much to ask, but it can’t happen until I’m eighteen. My family would be quick to throw you in jail.”

“Fay…”

“Please Logan, wait until I’m eighteen. Please,” she pleads with me.

“Sure,” I sigh.

Wrapping her in my arms, I rest my head on the top of hers.

“Please, Logan. I can’t lose you. It’d break me,” she sobs into my chest.

“I’ll never let you go,” I whisper vehemently, kissing the top of her head repeatedly.

God, I miss her.  It was impossible to forget her. Even after all these years but here I was missing her like she had just walked away yesterday. I thought I’d moved past this feeling, but then last month happened.

Climbing out of the bed, I shower and dress before heading downstairs and cleaning up. The mundane task brought back the reason I think my thoughts of Faith have come back full force.

Last month was completely out of my normal and it’s spurred my memories of the woman who still, all these years later, claims my heart. The way this woman made me feel last month… I haven’t felt that way since Faith.

I’ve been with plenty of woman since her… Not something I’m totally proud of, but I have. Now don’t get me wrong, the women I’ve been with were good and it suited to fit my needs, but that was it and they knew it.

But this girl last month, she stirred something in me and I don’t know why, but my heart tells me I need to try and contact Faith again.

“Lo! You here?”

“In the kitchen,” I holler at Leif.

“Yo! Tonight you’re mine and I won’t take no for an answer.”

My brother being home meant something was either wrong or up. My brothers are usually only back here during the holidays. Which is sad and lonely for me at times, but they’ve really got their lives together and for that, I can’t complain.

I can still remember all the shit they gave me growing up and how much I longed for my parents to be around to help. But now, I miss those times some days. They were now impeccable men. I’m very proud of them and all their achievements. Mom and Dad would be so proud of the men they’ve become.

Leif now runs his own business. Levi has been signed to a record company. Landon is in college studying to be a doctor. Lucas is in college on a basketball scholarship and has scouts eating him up. Like I said, I’m so proud of them.

“Dude, are you listening to me?”

“Yeah, I’m listening,” I put the last dish in the cupboard before turning around. “What’s up?”

“It’s a surprise, but me and the guys got together, decided it was high time we thank you for all you’ve sacrificed for us over the years when you didn’t have to. So you can’t say no. We need food so let’s shop. Let’s go.”

“Lee, I thank you guys for thinking of me, but I’ve got to work tomorrow and…” I start to protest.

“Already took care of that. You are on vacation as of tomorrow.”

“What the hell!”