Haven of Nightmares (Littlemoon Investigations Book 5) (31 page)

“Yeah, I’m just thinking about her.”

“What was she like? I never hung around with Rylee. She seemed to be quiet.”

“She was, but she had some spunk. She believed she was going to find the cure for cancer. God, that would suck if she was meant to and this asshole killed her.”

“Yeah, it would.”

“This room doesn’t make me happy. Instead, it makes me think I failed as a brother.”

“You didn’t. I know failure. Have you met my sister? She stole my man, shagged the principal, and was a blackmailer. That’s failure. You were being a teenage boy. There’s a big difference there.”

He started laughing. “You are definitely my sunshine. When I feel all down, you brighten everything up.”

She winked at him, right before picking up a picture.

“What did you find?” he asked, approaching from behind her. The second he picked up her scent, he wanted her.

It was so wrong to want to jump her in his sister’s room, but Roman couldn’t help it.

“Look.”

She handed him the photograph. In it were a handful of girls.

“Who are they?”

Roman had to take it out of the frame to get a really good look.

As he studied it, he started naming them. “This is Rylee. It had to be taken when she was younger.” He studied the two girls flanking her. “That was her best friend, Tara Burns. They were inseparable. I think Tara started at Remington in fifth or sixth grade. From that day on, they were a pair.”

“That’s good. Everyone needs a best friend.”

“Do you have one?” he asked.

“I thought it was my sister for a while there, but we know how that ended.”

“No one after her?”

She shook her head. “I haven’t been big into socializing, thus the no sex with anyone. I’ve dated, but nothing more.”

He dug through the bookshelf. “I’m glad you waited. It made it more special.”

She thought so too.

“Who else is in that photo?” she asked.

“I can’t see this girl’s face, but this one is Felicity. Wait, they knew each other?”

Mattie checked it out. “It looks like some club. What ones did she belong to?”

“Anything math or science related was her thing. She was a geek too.”

Roman went back to digging through his sister’s things with Mattie by his side. “All her notebooks are here. Let’s go through them.”

They began searching, pulling everything down. Finally, Mattie found the first clue.

It caught her off guard.

Roman was in for a really big surprise. All she could hope was he wouldn’t get too upset.

“Wow, she really was BFF’s with your sister.”

“What do you mean?”

Yeah, here it came.

Mattie handed him the science folder she’d found. Inside, on a page that had nothing school related on it, he found the beginning stages of a letter.

‘Dear Tara,

I have to get this off my chest. What we’re doing doesn’t feel right to me. You’re an amazing person so this is going to suck. We have to stop seeing each other in a sexual way.

I like you, and experimenting with kissing and sex is great, but I know I’m not into women. I do love you, just not in that way. I appreciate that you have feelings for me, but I can’t reciprocate them. I really hope you understand. I wanted to tell you face to face, but I’m afraid to hurt you.

Maybe I’ll tell you later….

Crap.

I can’t do this.’

“It looked like she gave up with writing the letter,” stated Mattie. “She was having a sexual relationship with her friend. I wonder if she told her the truth.”

He didn’t know.

“I can’t believe I didn’t know my sister was bi-curious. What else didn’t I know about this family? It’s like weird things happened, and I was too busy getting laid.”

Shit!

He did it again.

“Mattie, I’m so sorry.”

“I once gave my one date this really hot blowjob. There. We both had sex or oral sex. Stop stressing it.”

He stared at her.

“Uh, wait. You didn’t have sex with him, but you blew him? That’s going to make me ask a shitload of questions,” he said grinning.

“Gee, will it?” she said, happy that he was now distracted.

He was so damn glad that Mattie was easy going. Roman was horrible at thinking before he spoke. It was one of the characteristics that made him a really good reporter.

Questions would pop into his head, and he would ask them. It was how he rolled.

Mattie started laughing at the silly look on his face. “The point is, Roman, you had sex with my sister. I get it. You don’t have to cringe every time you talk about it. It’s the past, and it can’t be erased. We need to adjust and move on.”

He was grateful she got him.

“Now about this blowjob,” he said wiggling his eyebrows. “Want to tell me more about it?”

Mattie was amused by him.

“I can show you.”

His mouth dropped open. “What? That’s not something you put out there and then take away.”

She snorted. “Good to know.”

“I was being serious.”

Two could play this game. “Well, if you really want to know.”

“Oh, I really do.” There was something sexy about hearing his sweet, innocent Mattie tell him dirty things.

Yep.

He was a pervert too.

It must have run in the family.

“He really enjoyed it. He wanted to have sex, but I couldn’t do it. I told you. I shut my heart off to anyone but you. My mother would slap me stupid for having oral sex and trying to pass it off as not sex, but I was curious. I’m only human.”

“Technically, it’s not really sex. Intercourse is defined as...”

She grinned. “I know what it is, Roman. You don’t have to tell me.”

He blushed.

“Anyway, how about showing me?”

Mattie moved closer. When she was against his body, she ran her hand down his chest, to his belt, and across his erection. He was hard, and that turned her on.

“If you want to practice on me, I’m all yours. I wouldn’t want to stand in the way of you enhancing your skills. They might come in handy one day.”

Mattie could hear the lust in his voice.

She was getting wet thinking about it. Roman turned her right on, and she wanted to do the same for him.

“Well, Roman, that’s sweet. The least I can do is practice before I try it out on anyone else.”

He stared at her. “Hey! There’s not going to be anyone else, sunshine, so you’ll have to practice on me.”

Mattie began laughing. At the same time, her hand flicked open the button on his pants.

“Are we going to do this in here?” he asked.

“Our other option is the family room, which is wrecked, or the bed your mother tried to kill me in. That might be a mood killer. I think we’re running out of rooms.”

When she roughly rubbed him through the material of his pants, his breath caught in his chest.

Holy shit.

She was licking her lips, stroking him, and getting ready. Everything else fell away.

Then she shoved him backward and onto the bed.

Roman dropped onto the mattress to find Mattie was on her knees, sitting between his legs.

“Let me know how I do.”

With that, she unzipped him, set him free, and stroked him with her bare hand.

“God! So far, I have no complaints.”

Mattie wanted to make him wild. She was feeling so uninhibited with him. Roman had unlocked that in her, and she wanted to share it with him and only him.

When she blew across his erection, he moaned again. She loved hearing him lost in pleasure.

As she heated him up, Mattie watched how he reacted to the simplest touches. He was breathing heavy as she stroked him, but when her mouth moved toward his erection, his eyes went big.

Mattie wanted to taste him.

With the tip of her tongue, she ran it down, and back up again. When she reached the tip, she teased him by running it across the head.

“Please! You’re killing me.”

She took the tip of him in her mouth and sucked. When Roman moaned, his hands going into the pink bed linens, Mattie wanted to shout in joy.

It felt good to have this power.

This was what love felt like, and she was lost in it too. Being able to share it with Roman was so important.

“More, I want more,” he begged.

She gave him what he wanted. As he rested on the bed, body filled with tension, Mattie made him struggle to hold on to his control. While her mouth worked him hard, her hand was just as brutal. The stroking was pushing him closer and closer to the edge.

“So good! God, Mattie, I’m so close. I’m going to cum soon.”

That was her sign.

She stopped.

He looked down his body. “Did I say something wrong?” he asked, going up on his elbows.

“Maybe I simply wanted to join in.”

Roman watched her move from her knees. As she stood in front of him, she tugged her t-shirt over her head.

He stared at her sexy breasts in the racy red bra. It was very different from the one she had been wearing earlier.

He liked it.

A lot.

“You’re joining me?” he asked, staring down at his slick, wet erection. It twitched with the prospect of what was coming.

Blowjobs were great, but sex…

It was the icing on the cake.

“I planned on it, if you don’t mind.”

When she was stripped out of her shirt and jeans, she stood before him in the matching set. He wanted to run his fingers over her just to make sure she was real.

Mind?

Yeah, never.

He couldn’t believe he’d ever get this lucky in life.

Mattie moved toward him. “It feels really naughty being in here like this.”

He laughed. “I can do naughty. In fact, naughty is my favorite word next to easy. I’m that too, in case you were wondering.”

Mattie was happy to hear that.

As she reached his lap, he grabbed her by the hips. As he went to pull her down, she stopped him. “No, Roman.”

He froze.

“I want to give you something. You gave me that picture, and this is my present to you.”

He simply stared. When a beautiful woman wanted to bounce in your lap, and she was the love of your life, you didn’t need more of a present than that.

He was a lucky man.

As she straddled him, he stared at the vee of her legs. “Uh, panties.”

Mattie tugged them aside.

“This is so dirty and better than all my high school fantasies. Please do your worst.”

She slipped him into her body.

Roman moaned.

Mattie loved the feeling of him filling her.

“God! I’ve been a bad boy. Teach me a lesson, sexy librarian.”

She was amused.

His wish was her command.

As she sat across his groin, she set her hair free, only to regather it in a bun at the back of her neck. If he wanted to play that game, she was up for it. Wait until she attacked him in some librarian attire.

Roman watched, licking his lips.

“This is the best day ever. I have to be dead. I’m being jumped by a hot librarian. This is better than anything I’ve ever used before to get off.”

She undid her bra, setting her breasts free. Then she tossed the discarded lace at him. He caught it and looked to be on the edge.

She was glad.

“Nope, now I’m the happiest man on the planet.”

Mattie placed her hands on his chest and began the ride. She loved watching him beneath her. A pink flush was creeping up his body as the pleasure began taking over.

When his hands found her hips, he wanted nothing more than to drive himself into her body.

Only, she needed this.

Mattie was exploring the world of sex, and he was just lucky enough to be her plaything.

For the rest of their lives.

He was a smart man. There was no way he was letting this slip away.

As Mattie rode him, his heart felt like it was ready to explode from his chest.

He never wanted to lose this.

She was flushed, her breasts were bouncing, and she was the most beautiful woman he’d ever seen.

As she slammed down on him, he barely managed to hold on. The only way he survived was because he was thinking about his old librarian.

That wasn’t hot.