Keeping You Forever (A Harbor Love Series) (9 page)

 He started on a slow, steady pace, pushing her closer with ever thrust.

 He could feel his body start to tense and his release approaching at the sound of her moans. His hands roamed up her body, over her breast and gripped her wrist, pulling her arms up over her head.

 Pinning her with his hands, their fingers twined together, he started pushing faster as he nibbled on the soft skin below her ear.

 “Grace, you feel so good, I don’t want to stop.”

 “Don’t stop, fuck me harder,” she said, her lips brushing against his neck.

 He tightened his grip on her fingers as a growl vibrated deep from his chest and he pushed himself in deeper, slamming into her, hard, just the way she wanted it.

 “Say it again, tell me to fuck you.”

 “Fuck me Tyler, fuck me,” she said, moaning as he pushed harder.

 He bit down on her shoulder, groaning as she clenched down around him and her legs began to quiver. He knew she was close and he pulled out, only to thrust right back into her, hitting her G-spot. Her back arched, pushing her hips up to meet his thrust, pushing him in deeper. Her body crashed, falling, flying into bliss. With his last thrust the pleasure took over her body, her hips writhing and her moans in his ear, he pulled out again and held his position, watching her fall apart underneath him before he slid into her one last time and found his release.

 They both lay still, trying to regain the strength to move. His head resting on her shoulder, and his hands rubbing down her arms he thought to himself, “What the fuck just happened?” One minute he was telling himself he wanted to be alone and the next minute he found himself in bed with the woman who had been driving him crazy for the past two weeks.  He could feel her heart beating, quick, strong steady beats as he kissed the base of her neck where it was pulsating. The room was quiet. It was dark outside and a storm had rolled in. The only noise was that of the buoy in the harbor, the rain falling on the roof and Graces heart beat in Tyler’s ear. He knew every sound and creak of the house since he spent most nights awake, lying in bed thinking of his life and what went wrong. But for once his mind wasn’t running a mile a minute, the only thing on his mind right now was how much he was enjoying this moment and the feeling of Grace in his arms. It had been a long time since he let himself feel anything. The last few months he walked around feeling numb, lost and walking around in a fog, until now.

“Are you alright,” he said as he pulled his shirt over his head and searched the room for the rest of his clothes. Grace was the most beautiful thing he ever laid eyes on and was completely mesmerized by her body and watched her as she got dressed, never taking his eyes off of her.

 “Yeah, you’re sweet Tyler. I really had a good time with you tonight. I want you to know that I don’t normally do this. It’s been a long time since I’ve been with anyone or even been on a date. Denny was my last…”

 He walked across the room to where she was standing and took her hand in his. “Grace you don’t have to explain anything to me. You are an amazing, beautiful woman and Denny is an ass for letting you go. I have to tell you, I was not looking for this when I came to Bar Harbor, but that night I saw you at Geddys you had me wanting to know more about you. I wanted you Grace, hell I still do and I just had you not even half an hour ago,” he said and pulled her in and kissed her. A slow kiss with his tongue and lips taking another taste of what he couldn’t get enough of and what he wanted more of.

      
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t has been two days since Grace had seen Tyler. He made a permanent mark in her heart and it scared her. She found herself thinking about him during the day and at night when she was in bed. She could feel something inside of her changing, the walls around her heart coming down piece by piece every time she thought of him and she found herself smiling a little more than usual. For the first time in a long time she felt like she was ready to forget about Denny and move on.

“Grace, come on we are going to be late and happy hour is almost over at Geddys,” Paige yelled into the hallway.

“I am going and happy hour is not over for another two hours, you really have been gone to long if you have forgotten what time happy hour ends at Geddys.”

“I know it’s not over for another two hours but that’s two hours of half priced drinks and I could use a few good half priced drinks this has been a rough year and as an artist I don’t make the kind of money to be buying drinks at full price so get your ass in the car Autumn is waiting for us.”

     It had been a long time since all three Carter sisters spent a night out together and it was exactly what all three of them needed.

   “You guys are finally here what took so long, did Grace hog up the bathroom again?” Autumn said, as she came around the bar holding three beers.

“Give me that. No I did not hog the bathroom, you hog the bathroom all the time and you know that,” Grace said as she found a seat at the bar and sat down taking a sip of her beer.

“Hand it over sister, I need these coming all night so if you see it’s getting close to empty have another one ready. This is going to be a get shit faced kind of night.” Paige said, slipping onto the bar stool next to Grace as Autumn went back to working behind the bar.

“This place hasn’t changed at all. It’s the same way I remember it when I was younger. Do you remember the night you brought me and Autumn here for dinner when I graduated from high school. This was the last place we had dinner together before I left for New York,” Paige said as she looked around. It was like she never left, everything was the same. The house, the town and Geddys all of the places she loved spending time at nothing had changed, only her. Every minute the she was back home she felt herself missing her life in Bar Harbor and started to wonder why she even left in the first place. Something caught her eye in the back of the bar in the corner. A man, sitting alone and drinking what looked like whisky. Something about him pulled her in, her eyes took in his face, the stubble that ran across his jaw and his deep green eyes. He looked up and saw her starting and nodded before throwing back the last of his drink. Something in his eyes trapped her in that moment. It was like a magnet pulling her in as he his gaze met hers. She could sense the turmoil in his eyes, he looked like he was trying to get over a long day. It was a look she had never seen in a man before and it was enough to have her wanting to know who he was. She turned to Grace and looked back at him one more time, watching him as he got up and paid for his drink.

   “Who is that?” she asked.

 Grace looked over to the end of the bar and back at Paige. Everyone knew who he was. He grew up in Bar Harbor and was running his dads hardware store for the past four years. The women loved him, as did the entire town. After his father was diagnosed with cancer he took over the family business without any questions and was running it ever since.

 “You don’t remember who that is?” Grace said.

 “No. Who is that?”

 “That is Grayson Wilder.”

 Paige watched him as he pulled his keys out of his pocket and gave her one last look and waved before he turned and walked out of the door. She knew who Grayson Wilder was. She remembered him from when they were kids. They had most of their classes together all through middle school and high school and he was her lab partner in high school. They were never really friends but would talk only when necessary in school. She knew he kept to himself a lot and when she left Bar Harbor she heard that he got accepted to some college in Maine and that was the last time she ever heard about Grayson Wilder, until now. He wasn’t the same kid from high school anymore. He was a man. A man who could melt you with the gaze of his deep green eyes and make you get lost in them forever. She took another sip of her beer still thinking about the way he looked sitting at the end of the bar. His blonde hair a tousled spikey mess, the stubble on his face that looked like he hadn’t shaved in three days but made him look sexy and his blazing emerald green eyes that cut straight into her.

 “Ready for another one or are you still good with that one?” Autumn asked Paige, holding another beer out for her.

“Yes thank you I am going to need another one after seeing Grayson Wilder tonight.”

“I thought your thing was hot Italian men what happened to that guy?” Autumn asked.

 Paige told Grace about Dominic but never got around to tell Autumn that he left her. She took a long drink of her beer and set it down on the bar, looking straight at her sister and told her everything.

“Everything will be fine Paige. You know that you have a home here with us and it’s nice to have you back home again me and Grace have missed you.”

“I know and it’s nice to be home, it really is…. I am just not sure what I want to do with my life right now I just want to take it one day at a time right now. Speaking of one day at a time Grace, how is your hot neighbor boyfriend. It’s been a couple of days since you have seen him right?”

 Grace shifted in her chair and her mind starting racing with thoughts of the night she spent with Tyler. A smile crossed her lips as she thought about him and she felt something in her chest squeeze. It had been a long time since she found herself smiling at the thought of another man and she was starting to like the feeling.

 “He is busy, we have both been very busy and there just hasn’t been enough time,” she said.

  “Oh really? If you guys are so busy why have I seen him three times in the last two days looking out of his bedroom window at the house? That doesn’t look like a man who is busy to me, actually that looks like a man who is into my sister but my sister is in complete scared to open up to someone else mode,” Paige said, looking right at her sister.

 Her sister was right she was scared to open up to someone else, she was scared to let someone in and even more afraid of giving her heart to someone else.

“Well it looks like he had a spot open on his calendar because he just walked in,” Autum said as the other two sisters turned in their chairs watching him walk through the door.

 His eyes found Grace in an instant and never left hers as he made his way through the crowd of people and over to where she was. His dark whisky brown eyes were warm and heating her as he got closer and she felt a tingle deep in her belly. It was the same tingle he gave her the night in his bed when his lips touched her body.

“Hi Grace,” he said smiling. “I knew I would find you here. I went to your house first but no one was home.” The smile on his turned to a sexy grin when his eyes took in the site of her body and the way she looked tonight.

 “Hi,” she said. Words failed her at seeing him standing in front of her. It was like she was seeing him for the first time every time she saw him. It was more than a physical attraction pulling her towards him, something about the way he looked at her and the way he made her feel had her losing all self-control to stay away from him.

 “We were just talking about you two,” Paige said with a grin. “What are the chances of you walking in at that very moment? It’s like fate worked its artistic magic and brought you here.”

Autumn laughed as she wiped down the bar and handed Tyler a beer. “This is from that divine artistic magic that brought you here. It’s on the house.”

“Thank you, but I don’t think it was artistic magic that brought me here as much as it was the need to see your beautiful sister here,” he said and took a drink of his beer, watching her watch him.

The look in her eyes almost stopped his heart. The last two days had been torture for him. He found himself thinking about her all day and all night. She consumed his every thought and now seeing her again took his breath away. One night with her wasn’t going to be enough and he knew it.

 “Do you mind if I steal her away for a minute. I promise to return her in five minutes I just wanted to talk to her outside, if that’s ok with you Grace.”

 “Actually me and Autumn were thinking of hitting up the music bar down the street. She gets off in a few minutes and I know that is really not Graces thing so this is perfect you can keep her company while me and Autumn go grab some drinks at the music bar,” Paige said.

 Everyone turned and looked at Grace, waiting for her answer. She knew what her sisters were up to and was going to kill them….or thank them in the morning if the night went well.

“So what do you say Grace, let me walk you home again? I think I know the way this time without you leading the way.”

“But you just got here and you have only had one drink and you’re ready to leave just like that.”

“I came here looking for you. I found you and now I want to walk you home, unless you would like to stay here and have another drink?” He hoped like hell another drink wasn’t on her mind because he really wanted to get her back home show her how he was feeling.

Grace looked at her sisters and back at Tyler. “Are you two going to be alright without me?” she asked.

“We are going to be more than fine. And by the looks of it so are you. Go have fun me and Autumn will be fine. I can take care of my baby sister.”