Give Me Fever (9 page)

Jade didn’t feel the chill. She was hot. She was ready. She couldn’t stop her steady fall into desire if she wanted to. Nothing in the world mattered more to her than feeling Kaeden slip every delicious thick inch deep inside her walls—after that, she was more than ready to take over the ride. She leaned back to look down at his handsome face framed by the moonlight. “Condom?” she asked before she bent down to lick hotly at his mouth.

“My wallet,” he answered shakily.
We’re doing this. We’re
doing
this! Calm down. Don’t blow this. Don’t you blow this.

Jade inched forward, leaning down to reach beyond Kaeden’s head for his pants in the darkness.

Her globes stroked his face and Kaeden snuggled his face in her warm, sweetly scented cleavage, inhaling deeply of her scent before he licked a trail to her nipple to circle it as he slid her panties to the side and stroked his thumb across her clit.

Jade gasped hotly and her body went weak atop him.

He stroked again.

Her hips jerked.

He stroked again…before he slipped his index finger deep inside her to massage against her walls. “Ah,” he gasped. Wet. Hot. Tight. Perfect. Just perfect.

Jade pulled his wallet from his wet pants and blindly searched for the foil packet as Kaeden sucked her nipples like he was starved and stroked his fingers against her slickly wet bud. She shivered as heat coursed over her body. Jade was surprised and pleasured by his skillful tongue as he stoked a fire deep within her that was aching to be quenched.

Sitting up, she regretfully freed her breasts from his mouth to tear the foil with her teeth before she scooted down his legs. She licked her lips at the impressive sight of him: long and curved, thick and hard, straining against the seams of his boxers like it was ready to rip through.

What am I doing?
she thought, shifting her eyes up to his.

Panting heavily, with her heart pounding and her pulse racing, Jade had never felt more alive. Never felt more desired. Never felt such an intense craving to be sexually fulfilled.

What if I never feel this way again?

Jade licked her lips as she grasped his dick tightly and held it upright as she sheathed as much of him as she could with the latex. It fit him snugly—almost as snugly as she planned to fit him with her walls. “I can’t explain this, Kaeden,” she said huskily to him with raw honesty and emotion in her voice. “But I
can’t
stop this. I can’t. I won’t. I need this.”

Something clutched at Kaeden’s heart as he looked up at her. He reached up to cup the back of her neck and pulled her down to press her plush breasts against his hard chest as he kissed her with all the passion she evoked in him.

Their eyes stayed open and locked as their tongues did a wicked slow drag.

Nothing mattered but their passion. Their chemistry. Their heat.

Jade broke the kiss to bite his bottom lip lightly before she licked a trail to his chin. The hollow of his neck. From one hard nipple to the other. The long ridge running down the deep jagged valley of his abdomen. She enjoyed how each touch of her tongue to his flesh caused him to shiver, moan, and groan.

“You ready?” she asked seductively before she slipped her panties to the side to ease her core down onto him. Inch by inch.

“Are you?” he returned cockily as he jerked his hips upward in one fluid motion and filled her. She gasped and dropped her head to his chest as her fingers clawed the earth.

The breadth of him pressed against her walls and she waited, panting heavily as she tried to adjust to his size as his hand massaged her back and buttocks.

Kaeden bit his bottom lip to keep from hollering out as he felt her throbbing against the full length of him. Taking the lead, he dug his fingers into her fleshy bottom as he began to work his hips clockwise and then counterclockwise.

Jade flicked her tongue out to taste his nipple.

“Ah!” Kaeden gasped loudly.

Jade locked her ankles around his and then rose up to press her hands into his chest. She panted like she was thirsty as she stared down into his face, then she took over and led the ride with small circular motions of her hips. She let out a little moan in the back of her throat with each circle as the strong trunk of his hardness slipped against her throbbing bud.

“Damn, Jade,” Kaeden cried out as he felt hot spasms radiate across his abdomen as his climax came on quickly. “Don’t make me cum, Jade. Don’t make me cum.”

Jade ignored him, completely lost to everything but the electricity twirling around them. She bent down, guiding his open mouth to her breasts, and she quickened the pace of her hips. “Cum in me,” she demanded.

Kaeden wasn’t trying to let this experience end. Not now. He used his hands on her hips to lift her up off his rod with a little pop.

The chill surrounded his inches like a cold glove.

“Get on your knees,” he demanded roughly.

Jade eyed him. “Say please,” she demanded in return.

Kaeden smiled wolfishly. “Pretty please,” he countered in that deep voice of his as he brought his hand up to twist lightly in her short hair. He jerked her head back gently to lick a hot trail up and down her throat.

Jade loved it. She grabbed his chin with one hand and roughly jerked his face up to plunge her tongue deep into his mouth.

“Hmmmmm,” Kaeden moaned in pleasure.

Tomorrow she would wonder if the full moon made her crazy to sex a man in the middle of the woods, but tonight she had found her sexual equal in the most unexpected of men.

Jade finally did as he bid, freeing herself from his grasp to get on all fours on the blanket. Kaeden quickly moved to kneel behind her, the tip of his sheathed hardness slapping lightly against her upturned buttocks. Grabbing the side of her lacy panties, he pulled them with his fist and easily tore them from her body to fling them away.

Jade felt a rush at his aggressiveness. “Slap it,” she told him, not even caring that a twig pressed into her knee through the thin blanket.

Kaeden licked the tips of his fingers before he soundly slapped one of her chocolate cheeks, then used his hips to guide his shaft into her swiftly from behind. He released a broken moan.

Jade bit her bottom lip as she quivered. “Kaeden,” she cried out, pounding her fist against the grass and dirt.

Kaeden reached up to grab her hair, his arm outstretched, and slid the other hand around her plush frame to cup one pendulous breast. Pulling her head back slightly by her hair, he worked his hips to send his dick sliding in and out of her wetness like a piston. Back and forth. Swift and strong. He broke a heavy sweat that sent droplets down onto her back and buttocks like a slow drizzle.

Jade worked her hips in unison with him. One. United. She’d never felt so complete. So whole. As she felt the crescendo of her own white-hot release, tears welled up in her eyes. “Yes. Yes. Yes,” she whimpered softly, anxiously awaiting the passionate onslaught.

“Ooh,” Kaeden cried out, bending over to rest his forehead against her smooth back as he fought for control. He enjoyed the feel of her fleshy buttocks cupped against him as he brought his hand to her quivering body to slide the length of his middle finger between her moist, thick lips. They cupped his finger as she jerked her hips slowly, sending her bud coursing up and down his finger.

Jade rose to her knees, reaching back to wrap both her arms around Kaeden’s neck as she spread her knees wider in front of his. “Kaeden!” she cried out in erotic pleasure as he brought his hand down from her hair to deeply massage her throbbing nipples while he used his other hand to finger her in deep circular motions that sent her spiraling over the edge until she was free-falling into a black abyss of an electrifying climax. “I’m cumming! Don’t stop, Kaeden. Don’t.”

Kaeden buried his face into her neck and deeply bit her neck as she flung her head back on his shoulder and filled the night with her hoarse cries. He continued working his hips, driving his dick up into her as she delivered small, tight clasping pumps that sent him free-falling behind her. He let his own head fall back and opened his mouth to let out a roar that shook the very trees that surrounded them.

Long after, they lay clutching each other as they still trembled in the aftermath of it all, both shaken and moved beyond words.

Never had both felt so sated.

Jade was the first to stir awake. She was lying atop Kaeden, her head on his shoulder with his arms wrapped snugly around her beneath the blanket they shared. She kept her eyes closed and allowed herself to relish the moment as she inhaled deeply of his scent. It was bittersweet.

She knew once she awakened him and they dressed for their return to civilization, what they shared would officially end. She bit her bottom lip as she finally opened her eyes to the faint orange glow of the sun rising. Last night nothing had mattered. Nothing at all.

In the light of day everything was different. So completely different.

“Morning, Jade.”

She allowed herself another few seconds of his warmth before she raised her head to look up at him. “Morning.”

His hands shifted from the small of her back to cup her butt. Her skin felt alive and hot where his hand lay. The electricity she would never forget instantly shimmied over her body, along with tiny goose bumps. She felt the length of him stir to life against her stomach.

Not everything is so different.

“How’s your head?” she asked, her eyes on the bandage on his forehead as she shifted up from his chest.

Kaeden eased his arms up to lock her into place. “Fine time to ask,” he drawled dryly.

That made Jade smile, but she still eased from his embrace to rise to her feet. He placed his arms behind his head as he watched her. Jade tried to cover her breasts and her clean-shaven mound with her hands.

She failed miserably.

“It’s a little late for modesty,” he mused with the hint of a smile at his lips.

“Kaeden! Jade!”

At the sound of their names being hollered in the distance, Jade quickly gathered up her clothes, ignoring the tenderness of her core. She found her torn panties several feet away. She snatched them up. “We really need to get dressed before the cavalry finds us,” she told him, trying to keep things light.

Kaeden sat up and then climbed to his feet atop the blanket.

Jade couldn’t help but take a gander at him. She swallowed past a sudden lump in her throat as she eyed the almost literal third leg hanging between his legs. She flushed and fanned herself as she remembered the pleasure that exquisite tool had brought her last night. Turning her back to him, she rushed into her bra and clothes, shoving her torn panties deeply into the front pocket of her jeans.

She felt Kaeden’s eyes on her as she quickly rolled up the blanket to shove back in her backpack. “We really need to get you to a doctor to check you out,” she said.

Kaeden slipped on his jeans, leaving them unzipped as he reached out and lightly grabbed Jade. “I didn’t prove to you last night that I’m physically fit?” he asked low in his throat.

Jade glanced up at him and then at his bare chest before she shifted her eyes back up to his. “I’m concerned about your head that’s above the waist.”

Kaeden slid his arms down to stroke the back of her hand. “Last night was good, wasn’t it?” he asked her boldly.

Jade ignored the fluttering of her heart. “Last night was last night and this…this is today.”

Kaeden frowned deeply as he looked down at her. “And that means what, Jade?”

“Kaeden! Jade!” someone hollered from above them.

Jade shifted away from his grasp as she pulled her backpack up onto her shoulders. “We’re here,” she hollered back.

Kaeden leveled his eyes on her for a long time before he turned and finished dressing. “Why do I feel like I gave you a tune-up?” he snapped.

“Don’t act like that, Kaeden, we’re both adults.”

He snorted as he stepped into his boots. “Act like what? A person who was used for a good fuck?”

“I see them,” the voice hollered from above.

Kaeden and Jade both looked up to find Kade looking down at them from the top of the incline.

“You two okay?” he asked.

They both nodded.

“I’m fine. It’s just a bump,” he said, knowing his older brother’s watchful eyes were on his bandaged head.

“Jade, baby, are you all right?”

She stiffened at the sound of Darren’s concerned voice. She held her hand over her eyes to block the light from the rising sun as she looked at Darren and Kahron now standing beside Kade.

“Baby?” Kaeden drawled sarcastically.

Jade winced as guilt plagued her. In the midst of the passion, Jade had completely forgotten about Darren or their burgeoning relationship. She never thought she would be one of “those” women, and now two men might be hurt for her actions. “I’m fine, Darren,” she said with obvious hesitance.

Kaeden leveled cold eyes on her. “Don’t worry, everything is crystal clear for me now,” he told her in a hard voice.

Jade started to call out to him but just bit her mouth instead.

Kaeden was definitely in a bad mood. What other man in his position wouldn’t be? He frowned as he eyed Jade and Darren at the head of their group, leading them down the trail back to the ranger station at the front of the state park.

The camping trip was over.

And he was clear that he and Jade were over before they even really began.

She had a boyfriend?

Must not be tapping all that right since I had to play the cleanup man last night.

“What’s going on with you today?” Kade asked, lagging behind to walk with Kaeden, who was intentionally staying at the back of the pack.

“Nothing,” Kaeden answered him shortly.

“Okay, so what happened between you two last night?”

The best sex I ever had while I was used as a dang on maintenance man.
“Nothing,” Kaeden answered him shortly again.

“Your problems get heavier on your chest when they become your secrets,” was all that Kade said before he sped up and left Kaeden alone with his thoughts.

Darren placed his hand on the small of Jade’s back and Kaeden’s gut clenched in pure jealousy.

Jade eased up from Darren’s touch, well aware that Kaeden’s eyes were on her. The men had decided to skip the canoeing to get back home and get Kaeden checked out by a doctor. Jade had to admit that she felt waves of relief at that news.

It was completely awkward being in both Kaeden’s and Darren’s company after last night. After what she and Kaeden shared. That chemistry between them was way bigger than them and it hadn’t been about quenching a horny thirst, otherwise Darren would have been blessed with her goodness weeks ago. The way she felt being with Kaeden had been the ultimate.

The ultimate connection.

The ultimate sex high.

The ultimate emotions.

The ultimate everything.

And she hadn’t had the strength to fight it.

But she knew what she did last night was wrong. No matter how right it felt.

She glanced over her shoulder and the shoulders of the men to lock eyes with Kaeden as he lagged behind. Sans his glasses, it was clearer to see his fine features and remember the taste of his lips. Her bud double-pumped between her still-sore feminine lips.

He gestured at Darren angrily and then signaled for her to turn around.

Jade did as requested but she knew she had to at least explain that she definitely was not double dipping in the sexual pool.

“Negro, please,” Kaeden muttered for the umpteenth time since they’d left the state park two hours ago. He was glad his vision was blurry because he was tired of watching Darren constantly touching Jade during the drive back to civilization.

Several times he caught Jade looking at the rearview mirror. Kaeden knew she was glancing back at him.
Probably scared I’ll tell her boyfriend she gave it up last night
, he thought, knowing he was being snide and not really giving a damn.

“I’m sorry you guys didn’t get to canoe,” Darren said suddenly, turning in the front passenger seat to look back at them.

“Jade said she would reschedule a day trip to make up for it,” Kael told him from his seat in the second row of the passenger van.

“Well, I really want my little baby doll here to rest up after that scare she gave me last night,” Darren said, looking over at her before he placed his hand snugly on her thigh.

“Trust me, your baby doll got all her rest last night,” Kaeden told him.
After that good dicking down I gave her.

Jade slammed hard on the brakes, sending everyone forward a bit on their seats.

Darren made an odd face as he leveled his eyes on Kaeden briefly.

“Sorry about that, everybody,” Jade said with a nervous laugh, her voice skittish.

“You want me to drive?” Darren asked, squeezing her thigh.

Kaeden turned to Kade, who was sitting beside him in the rear of the van. “Who
called
him?” he asked sarcastically, low in his throat.

Kade smiled, flashing his bright white teeth. “Dad thought we should let him know Jade went missing too. Seems like he’s cool.”

“Humph.” Kaeden turned back to look out the window, glad when they pulled into Holtsville’s town limits. He was ready to get the hell away from Jade Prince and her business partner/boyfriend.

Before she had even pulled the van to a stop in front of his parents’ house, Kaeden had gathered his things and was just waiting for his father and brothers to get out of his way so that he could be free of the van.

As soon as he stepped down onto the ground, Kaeden felt a rush of activity.

“Kaeden, are you okay?”

“What happened to your head?”

“You had us worried sick.”

“Thank God you’re okay.”

The rest of the Strong men stood there with shocked expressions as the women breezed past them to surround Kaeden.

Kael dropped the arms he had open and waiting for his wife to run into. “What the…”

“Ain’t this a trip?” Kade asked, just shaking his head as he smiled.

Kahron pushed his aviator shades atop his silver head. “We’re fine too,” he drawled dryly.

Kaleb just laughed as he crossed his strong arms over the wide breadth of his chest.

Kaeden felt bombarded as his mother, sister, and two sisters-in-law each took a turn hugging him close. “I’m okay. I promise,” he told them. “Jade took real good care of me. Right, Jade?”

He looked over his shoulder at her still sitting in the driver’s seat while Darren helped his family unload their backpacks from the rear of the van.

She locked her eyes with his and some emotion flittered in the mocha depths. “That’s right,” was all that she softly said.

“That’s my Jade,” Darren said, walking up to them.

She wasn’t
your
Jade last night.

“Be sure to see a doctor and get that head injury checked out, Kaeden,” Darren told him before easing past them all to open the passenger door of the van. “Y’all have a good day.”

Kaeden just stood there watching the van pull away as everyone else waved.
Maybe it was better just having her in my dreams
, he thought, hating that the reality of having her had turned so sour.

“I’m glad that you weren’t hurt, Jade. I was so worried about you, baby,” Darren said, sliding his hand onto her thigh to squeeze lightly.

Jade started to shift his hand away, but she didn’t. Instead she waited, assessing whether his touch could evoke the same electric and immediate response as Kaeden’s.

It didn’t.

Jade sighed as she steered the van down the long, winding road leading from the Strong ranch. “Where am I dropping you?” she asked.

Darren twisted in his seat to look at her. “Actually, I thought we could go back to your place—or mine—cook dinner, and just chill out,” he suggested with a bright smile.

“Oh, Darren, I really am very tired.” Jade hoped that would be the end of it. She really wanted to be alone. She had a lot on her mind.

He massaged her thigh again. “I’ve been up half the night hunting for you, worried that you were hurt.”

“Darren—”

“Jade, listen, I’m a patient man, but if you keep putting me off and don’t show me you have any real interest in something happening between us, what do you expect me to do?” he asked.

“Darren—”

“Jade, I’m not going to lie. I want you.”

Jade pulled to a stop at a stop sign. She gasped slightly when Darren lightly grabbed her face and turned her so that she was looking at him.

“I want to make love to you,” he told her fiercely before leaning in to press his mouth to hers.

Again Jade waited for the sparks. The fire. The electricity.

Nothing. It was nice and sweet. She wasn’t at all repulsed. But she wasn’t at all feeling the fireworks.

Darren pressed one last quick kiss to her plush mouth and Jade gave him a small smile before she faced forward and drove the van toward Walterboro.

Kaeden hated that thoughts of Darren making love to Jade plagued him for the rest of the day, making him grouchy and irritable. It was good lounging with the entire family and wolfing down some of his mother’s home-cooked food, but Kaeden was glad to finally be in his car headed to his town house.

He turned on his XM Satellite Radio to clear his thoughts of those little moans she’d made in the back of her throat when he was sexing her last night.

“I need you to wrap them chocolate legs ’round me…”

Vision of Jade’s chocolate thighs straddling his hips as she rode him flashed and Kaeden reached out to power off the radio, quickly bringing Eric Benét’s song “Chocolate Legs” to an end.

Kaeden released a heavy breath as he turned his BMW into the subdivision. He was just turning the curve into the cul-de-sac when he spotted Felecia’s blue Honda parked in front of his house.

Now what?
he wondered as he turned onto the asphalt-paved drive.

He climbed out, deciding to leave his backpack in the trunk. He had barely reached the rear of his car when Felecia came rushing toward him.

“What happened to your head, and what’s the scratches on your cheek?” she asked in concern, her eyes searching his face. “I knew you shouldn’t have went camping.”

“I’m okay, Felecia,” he told her as she lightly touched his face with her hand. “Did my mom call to tell you I got hurt?”

“No, no. I actually just came by to welcome you home,” she said with concern in her eyes. “Oh, Kaeden, do you need anything? Is there anything I can do for you? Just say it.”