Forever's Embrace (Forever In Luck Series Book 2) (18 page)

His
head snapped up, and she could feel him looking at her. “Precious, what’s this,
hmmm?” he asked, with a smile in his voice. “First sexy lingerie, and now
this…You sure are full of surprises, sweetheart. I want to see, I
need
to see this.”

CHAPTER 10

As
Jake reached for the lamp on the nightstand, Jules quickly pulled her bottoms
up to cover her middle. This is all Linnie’s fault, she thought, I never
should’ve listened to her.

“Man,
you’re blushing. Well hell, look at that. When you blush, you blush all over!
Damn woman, that’s hot. Can I see? Please…let me see.”

She
covered her face with her arm. “You already know what it is. If you’ve seen
one, you’ve seen them all.”

He
crawled up her body quick, nudging her arm out of the way, then kissed her long
and deep, leaving her breathless. Looming large over her, he nibbled and sucked
his way up her neck to her ear, making her moan. “Please,” he begged.

She
looked at him from heavy lidded eyes, and he gave her a quick peck on the lips.
Then pulling back, he looked at her with the most hope filled face, as he
nodded in encouragement.

“Pretty
please,” he begged some more.

“I’m
embarrassed.”

He
looked at her as if she’d lost her mind. “Why? I find it intriguing, and I want
to see it. I want to see it,
and
you.”

“Oh,
fine! Look.” She growled and scowled in frustration.

He
was up on his hands and down to her waist in a flash. Hooking her waistband, he
tugged her bottoms down to her hip bones and whistled through his teeth. “Damn,
that’s sexy! I love the way it settles into your belly button. What is it?”

“Amber,”
she responded, covering her face again as she blushed.

“Damn!
I don’t even need to see your face to know you’re blushing, I can see it all
the way down here!”

She
groaned. “Would you stop?”

“No
way! You’re so frickin beautiful.” He tugged her arm from her face. “Look at
me. Amber’s the color, but what kind of stone is it?”

She
let out a sigh. “It’s Baltic Amber.”

“Really?
I’ve never heard of it.”

“It’s
a fossil, and comes from the Baltic Sea region off Sweden’s coast. It’s
supposed to have healing properties, and some say it dances with energy when
they touch it. When I was little, Nana used to tell me stories about
Jūratė and Kastytis and the Castle of Amber.”

“Honestly?
That’s sweet! Man, I can’t see you going in and getting pierced though. What
gives? How’d you get it?”

“Oh,
that would be Linnie’s fault.”

“Linnie?
She did it?” he asked, looking surprised.

Jules
shook her head. “No. One of the nurses from the hospital where she worked was having
a tattoo and piercing party. Linnie wanted a belly button ring, and wanted me
to get one with her, an act of sisterhood kind of thing. So, we agreed to do it
together. I went first, and while I was having it done, the woman next to me
was hollering and carrying on so much, that Linnie chickened out and wouldn’t
do it. By then, mine was in. That’s where that little saying ‘I’m going to quit
listening to you, it just gets me into trouble every time,’ comes from.”

He
laughed. “I like it, a lot,” he said, studying her. “It’s a nice sized gem and
fits your belly button perfectly, and I love the color. Tell me the Castle of
Amber story.”

“Jūratė
was a beautiful goddess, who lived far removed from others at the bottom of the
Baltic Sea in Amber Castle. Kastytis was a fisherman, who loved to sing as he
fished the waters around Amber Castle making a living. Jūratė loved
listening to him sing while he fished. Once he cast his nets far and wide,
landing them over Amber Castle. Jūratė sent warning for him not to fish
there, but he didn’t listen.

So,
she went to him herself, and ended up falling in love with his courage, his
beauty, and his voice. She took him to Amber Castle, and when it became known
that she’d broken the rules by falling in love with a mortal, her Amber Castle
was destroyed by a bolt of lightning, and she was ordered chained within its
ruins. Kastytis was rocked asleep by the waves and taken from her. She cries
for him to this day, and her tears wash ashore in the form of small pieces of
amber.”

“Wow,
that’s cool, I never heard that one before,” he responded. “It seems awfully
sad though, don’t you think?”

She
smiled, watching him as he moved the piece of amber around, studying the back
of it. “You think so? It’s the ultimate love story, they could ruin the castle
and separate the two of them, but they couldn’t stop the love. It’s epic.”

He
laughed and pushed on her hips, trying to move her. “Stand up, let me see it
that way.”

“What?”
she asked, feeling uncertain, thinking he’d lost his mind.

He
grabbed her arm and pulled her up. “Stand up, so I can see it when you’re
standing.”

Getting
up, she mumbled in embarrassment, “This is crazy.”

He
shook his head as he sat on the edge of the bed. “No it’s not, it’s sexy.
You’re sexy, and…” He whistled. “Nice! Come here, stand in front of me. Mmmm…”
He started kissing her tummy as he tugged on her bottoms.

She
started laughing. “What are you doing? That tickles.” She pushed him back,
pulled her pajama bottoms up, then crawled back into bed, laying on her side. “You’re
being silly.”

Rolling
her onto her back, he said, “No I’m not. I want to look at you. I like looking
at you. You’re just one surprise after another.” Then he kissed her
passionately. Pulling back, he looked at her with the most charming smile.
“Please. I’m being good you know. I deserve a reward for good behavior. I took
those cold, slimy, flapping fishies off your hook, remember? And don’t forget,
I stuck my arm into that ice cold, freezing water for you, when I could’ve
easily been bit by some unknown creature, and I gutted them too, don’t forget
that.”

She
laughed. “Guilt? You’re resorting to guilt. Your reward was that I shared them
with you at supper, remember.”

“But
you’re my dessert, and I like this dessert. Please, can we lose the bottoms?”

She
blushed a deep red. “Jake, I’m…shy. I can’t believe I’m lying here without a
top on right now. The only thing that’s making it okay, is that I’ve convinced
myself it’s no different than wearing a bikini.”

He
kissed her again. “I get it, but it’s just us, and all I’m going to do is look
at you, and touch you some. We can leave your bra and cheekie things on, if
that’d make you feel better, and we won’t do anything you don’t want to do.”

Rolling
onto her stomach, she pushed herself up onto her forearms and looked at him
over her shoulder. “Promise?” she asked. “Bra and cheekini’s stay on, and just
touching?”

Hopping
up on all fours, he moved over her and kissed her in earnest, as he tugged down
her bottoms. Then pulling back, he looked into her eyes, and said, “I promise,
bra and cheekies on, and lots, and lots of touching. Come here, Precious, let
me love you. I want to love you.” Then he wrapped his arms around her, pulling
her up and onto his lap, as he kneeled behind her, resting on his heels.

One
of his hands went to her breast and teased, while the other went down, stopping
to pull her hips in tight on a thrust, before continuing on down, slipping her
beyond total sanity. He was hard, and she could feel the length of him tucked
safely along the seam of her cheekini’s.

“God,
you’re beautiful,” he said, as he stroked and teased.

She
moaned, her head having fallen back on his shoulder, as she straddled him.
Taking a deep cleansing breath as she absorbed the sensual feelings and
sensations, she responded to him, “You can’t see me, you’re behind me.”
Reaching up a hand, she grabbed the bulk of her hair, pulling it out from
between them, then tossed it over his shoulder as she lie her head back on him.

Now
he moaned, then whispered in her ear as he kissed her neck, “Yes I can, and
you’re beautiful. Open your eyes, sweetheart, and see.”

Doing
what he’d told her to do, she saw the two of them mutedly reflected in the
large dresser mirror. She was held tight within the strength of his powerful
arms, and he was kissing her neck as he teased. Then, while she watched, he
slid his fingers into a cup of her bra and took her in hand.

“Ohhh,
Jake,” she murmured, turning her face into his neck, as she fell back into him
completely on contact, her muscles having lost all resistance. She writhed in
pleasure, her pliant, nubile body shaping and conforming to his expert hands.

Feeling
her tension rising, the pitch and tempo of her need increasing, she asked him
for more. Like a répétiteur, he played her, stroking, teasing, tweaking, and
when his hand went lower, and his fingers farther, he tantalized her with a
lover’s serenade as he held her high. Captivated, she encouraged him with the
sounds he brought forth from within her, and the fingers she wove through his
hair. Taking heed, his style a sliding, gliding glissando, he moved the two of
them along with finesse, ascending the scale and score with orchestrated
allegretto.

“Jake,”
she crooned with urgency, as she panted and plied, moving in concert with him.
“Jake…”

Mouth
to her ear, his tone a commanding sotto voce, he grabbed her attention with
alacrity. “Come for me, come now as I hold you in my hand.”

She
snapped, hitting the highest note imaginable, a veritable symphonic epiphany
vibrating and rolling through her, as the clashing crescendo of feeling and
thought took her over the top. He joined her in paired harmony. Wave after
beautiful wave flowed through her, carrying her along a blissful journey of
mercurial delight as she relaxed and wafted within the safety of his strong
embrace.

“Jake?”
she gulped breathlessly.

“Hmmm?”
he answered, breathing heavy, as he placed teeny kisses along her neck and
shoulder.

“I…I…want
to do that again.”

He
burst out laughing, then squeezed her tight. “Def-ly, ma sherry, that’d be
parfett.”

*****

The
next day, Jules became nervous when presented with a release and risk
assumption form to sign before being allowed to go tubing. “Ah guys, this
sounds dangerous. Are you sure we should go tubing?” she asked, looking over at
Nate, Linnie, and Jake.

“We’ve
gone tubing lots of times with no problems.” Nate answered.

Jake
nodded and added, “Yeah, we’ll start on the easier hills, check out the snow
and go from there.”

“I
don’t know,” she answered, feeling skeptical. “Linnie, what do you think?”

Linnie
responded, “I’m going. It should be fun.”

Reading
over the form again, Jules ignored the queasy feeling in the pit of her stomach
and signed on the dotted line. “Alright,” she said. “I guess I’m ready.”

Straightening
her hat and giving her a kiss on the lips, Jake took her hand and pulled her
along. “Come on, I’ll help you. It’ll be fun.”

After
several runs down the kiddie hills, they all decided they’d graduate to the
bigger, steeper runs and headed that way.

“You’re
smiling, I think you’re having fun,” Jake said, as he put his arm around her
and held her while they walked.

“I
am,” she answered, giving him a smile. “I’m glad I tried it. How much faster
will these bigger runs be?”

Jake
thought a moment. “You can get going pretty fast. Usually a bigger drop to
start that gets you going, than a long gradual run to mellow the ride to the
end. We’ll hold our tubes together and go as a group.”

Jules
wasn’t so sure that was such a good idea. “But isn’t it the more tubes, the
faster you’ll go? As the momentum and kinetic energy combined, will outdo the
drag and resistance from friction and the gravitational pull? Gosh, I haven’t
done physics in a while, but that seems right. It means we’ll go even faster.”

Jake
looked at her and blinked a few times, clearly at a loss for what to say, then
simply took a deep breath and replied, “Ahhh, yeah, sure, we’ll go fast, like I
said.”

Jules
laughed, knowing better. “Maybe we should go down one or two at a time, until
we know how fast things are moving, given the wind speed and snow conditions,
and all. That should help us accommodate for potential energy as we accelerate
as a group.”

Jake
reached up and rubbed his bearded stubble. “Ahhh, yeah, or we could just go and
have fun,” he answered, while giving her an encouraging nod, trying to hold a
straight face.

“Quit
laughing at me,” she demanded with a growl.

Jake
smiled from ear to ear, his eyes bright with humor. “Me, I’m not laughing. I’m
smiling, that’s what I’m doing.”

“You’re
laughing at me, and this is what got you into trouble yesterday,” Jules said,
as she gave him a little shove. “I can’t help it. My brain just works like
that.”

Now
Jake did laugh as he pulled her in tighter. “I know, I love your mind,
remember?” Leaning over, he put a kiss on her head.

Jules
scowled. “Now you’re just trying to be charming.”

“Is
it working? I think its working. You’re fond of me, remember?”