Jensen:: A Military Bad Boy Romance (The Bradford Brothers Book 1) (21 page)

Mom and Dad look at each other, completely perplexed. I can just see them saying to each other telepathically: “This is
not
the Riley we are used to!”

But I’m sick of bending over backwards to please them, going along with everything they want and basing my life decisions off of their demands. I’m on a new path, and they can either come with me or stay where they are, stomping their feet at me for not going exactly the way they want me to go.

“How about some pie?” Mom asks.

“What?” Amy says, quickly turning to face Mom.

“Well, why not?” I say, and stand up to retrieve everyone’s plate.

“I’ll get it,” says Jensen, getting up with me, and so I go to get the pie.

I can practically
see
Amy fuming and storming inside. She is used to our parents lecturing me and even belittling me like she does. She’s the pretty one and as spoiled as can be. But I’m the smart one and the family expectations ride on my shoulders.

“We’re only so tough on you because we care so much, and know you’re capable of so much,” they’ve told me many times before. But this time they don’t know what to say. They had no idea I’m capable of being myself. And neither did I, before I met Jensen.

Later, after they’ve finally left, Jensen and I are laying in my bed, cuddling.

“That wasn’t so bad,” he says, and then laughs.

“Stop it!” I laugh too, so hard that I snort.

“I totally get what you mean now, about your crazy family. They’re as bonkers as mine. Or maybe more so.”

“I’m just glad they didn’t completely flip out at me,” I admit.

My biggest fear was that they would disown me, but now that I think about it, that wouldn’t be so bad, as long as I still have Jensen.

“It’s because you stood up for yourself,” he says, “and I was so proud of you. It was plain as day that they aren’t used to it and weren’t expecting it. You took them by surprise, and you had the upper hand. Even over that bratty sister of yours.”

“Isn’t she awful?”

I laugh harder.

“I think you deserve a treat for having to put up with them,” he says, as he kisses my stomach and then my pelvis.

“You’re the one who had to endure meeting them for the first time, and who likely will have to put up with more visits in the future,” I remind him. “But, hey, I could never turn down your offer for such a treat.”

He’s already pushing up my negligée, and kissing my inner thighs. A satisfied shudder runs through my body.

His mouth lightly touches me on the outside and then he runs his tongue up and down my eager bud.

“That feels so good, Jensen.”

“You deserve to relax,” he says, reaching up to play with my nipple. “You really are amazing.”

He licks and teases me and then inserts a finger while he nibbles on my clitoris. Soon I’m unable to hold back. I grab his hair as he moves his head all over me while I come.

“Oh my God, Jensen, this is the best feeling in the world.”

I let go and feel my orgasm erupt and seem to split into many tiny ones as he rubs and chews on my stimulated nerve endings.

Then he takes his boxer briefs off and slips a condom on.

Lying on top of me, he enters me while holding my head in his hands. He kisses my mouth, my neck, and my mouth again, and I’m reminded of the very first time he kissed me and sealed our fate, even though I just didn’t know it yet.

“I’m so glad I met you, Jensen Bradford,” I say, as he thrusts inside me, up and down, and grunts his agreement. “I don’t know where I’d be if it weren’t for you.”

He sucks on my nipples while continuing to move in and out of me, causing my breathing to increase once again. I easily come again, and then I feel him pulse and grip my shoulders tightly as he himself comes.

Lying back down beside me in bed, he says, “If it weren’t for me, you’d probably be hooked back up with that Brian loser, working at that awful firm again.”

“And if it weren’t for me, you’d probably be in jail,” I say.

We laugh as we hold each other tight.

“Good thing Mr. Holt made me volunteer to help veterans,” I say.

“Good thing my mom made me have to punch a guy out.”

We lie together in the darkness for a while longer, a comfortable silence between us.

“Jensen?” I ask.

There’s no response, and then I hear his deep sleep breathing.

Oh well. I was just going to tell him I love him. But I can wait to tell him tomorrow. And every day after that.

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