Riding and Regrets (7 page)

Noel stopped Jody from looking away by cradling his cheek with one soft hand. “No, but you are a sexy mystery.”

Jody had never been anything other than the short redheaded kid with freckles. To be considered sexy and a mystery was a double win he’d never expected. “Th-thanks.”

Noel winked at him then released him. “Come on, Prissy’s down to two kids to play with, and I bet she’s ready to see her daddy.”

Chapter Five

The cowboy was deeper than he appeared to be. Noel was intrigued. He’d known the instant he’d kissed Jody that Jody wasn’t used to kisses. That didn’t make it a bad kiss—in fact, it was the best one Noel could recall in ages. There was something about Jody’s innocence that called out to Noel.

But how innocent could Jody be? He had a kid, so he’d obviously had sex at least once, even if it had been with a girl. And he’d said he’d messed around with some guy. Noel wanted to find out just what messing around entailed.

He was patient, partly because he really did find himself enjoying Jody’s company. Prissy’s, too, much to Noel’s surprise. The little girl was a handful, but she was sweet as could be. Jody seemed to be trying really hard to be a good dad.

“I have to get better at all of this,” Jody said once they’d paid for their meals. He stopped to grab a toothpick from the dispenser on the counter, then turned to look at the corkboard with flyers and cards tacked all over it. Noel wasn’t sure Jody was reading any of them or just staring sightlessly at them. “It’s almost eight and Prissy should have been bathed and in bed already. Jesus, where does the time go?” He barked out a short laugh. “Aw, man, my parents always said stuff like that. I’m twenty and ancient now.”

“What’s aintshent?” Prissy asked. “Daddy, what’s aintshent?”

Jody quit staring at the board and instead looked at Prissy as he chuckled. Noel got goose bumps from the warm sound of it. “Means your daddy is old.”

Prissy nodded. “Daddy’s old.”

“You’re all of twenty,” Noel pointed out, feeling ancient himself since he had a few years on Jody. “What do they call young people? Spring chickens?”

“I don’t wanna be any kind of a chicken,” Jody sniffed. “Nasty birds.”

“They taste good, from what I remember, if they’re fried up right.” Noel winked. “Could be I’m remembering wrong.”

“Vegetarian,” Jody said. “I don’t know how you can give up bacon. Or steaks.”

“I just never really liked meat a lot,” Noel admitted. “Maybe if I had, it would’ve been more difficult for me to give it up. Now, if it were chocolate or blueberry pie, I’d be so out of luck. I can’t quit either of those. Or coffee. Have to have coffee.”

“Do you take all that sweet stuff in it?”

“Ick, no. Come on, we don’t want to block traffic if someone else pays their bill and wants to leave.” Noel walked over then held the door open for Jody and Prissy. “I don’t eat sweets other than chocolate a couple times a month, and blueberry pie—that doesn’t happen often. I’m kind of picky about the pie. I don’t like it too sweet, and the crust—” Noel laughed. “Aw, see, I’m a dork.”

Jody slowly shook his head, those pretty blue eyes intense as he stared at Noel. “No, you’ve got passion. That’s what floored me at the daycare. I’ve never experienced passion like that.” Jody quickly averted his gaze and strode to the truck.

Noel was well past flattered, and even more intrigued. How could Jody not have ever experienced passion? And what the hell kind of lover had he had before Prissy had come along? Noel had thought that the other man was a first-rate jerk for cutting Jody off when he most needed someone. Now Noel thought even less of the man.

Since Noel had ridden over with Jody, he got to spend a few extra minutes with him in the truck. They didn’t speak, but it didn’t feel awkward. Prissy babbled then tapered off by the time Jody pulled up beside Noel’s car. Noel looked back at her. “She’s out.”

Jody sighed and turned to look, too. “She needs a bath still, and to brush her teeth. If I wake her up for that, she’ll be up half the night. I’m so freakin’ tired.” Jody rubbed his eyes, and Noel wanted to comfort him. Needed to, because Jody sounded beyond tired.

“Get out for a second.” Noel nodded at Jody when Jody looked at him. He saw the question in Jody’s eyes even in the dim lighting. “Yeah, I want to touch you.”

“But there’s—”

“No one around,” Noel said. “We’re the last city block of buildings, the daycare is closed and I’m not planning on bending you over right out here.” Though the idea did have some merit. No one would see them if they moved to the side of the building. They could see the truck— Noel shut up that dirty voice in his head. He wanted something more for Jody than a rough and hurried fuck.

Which didn’t mean that he wasn’t going to get the man off. Jody was wound tight and he was hurting. The one lousy lover he’d had had ditched him, and he seemed to be struggling.

Noel understood struggling. How many nights had he woken up in a cold sweat, nightmares chasing him out of sleep?

“Get out of the truck,” he urged softly. At the same time, he unbuckled with one hand and opened his door with the other.

Jody inhaled swiftly, then he was doing the same. Noel made sure he was extra quiet shutting his door while Jody did a check on Prissy, then Jody was getting out, leaving his door pulled to but not shut. Noel moved around to Jody’s side of the truck, the side cast in shadows and facing away from the tiny town centre.

Noel reached for Jody, unable to resist. Jody set his hat on the top of the truck then pressed himself up against Noel.

Noel liked the way Jody fit to him, liked his shorter height and stringy body. There was great strength in that slender form, and a big damned dick poking at Noel’s upper thigh. Noel cupped Jody at the nape and waist. He ran his lower hand down to cup Jody’s butt.

Jody shivered and pressed closer to him. Noel grinned then he kissed the man’s parted lips, sucking on his tongue as soon as he could. Jody tasted like coffee with sugar, and chocolate pie. Noel might not be a big sweet eater, but he liked it when it came to Jody.

Noel turned them and pressed Jody up to the side of the truck. He wedged a knee between Jody’s thighs and nipped Jody’s bottom lip just to hear a gasp slip from him.

Noel hadn’t taken charge in a sexual situation in far too long. He hadn’t realised how much he craved that kind of control until he’d got his hands on Jody. Now he wanted to devour the man, to bury himself so deep in Jody that they’d both forget every bad thing in their lives.

He was able to refrain, the facts that they were out in public, sort of, and that there was a child asleep in the truck, both reasons to keep himself under control.

There were things he could do, however. Noel buried his face against Jody’s neck and breathed in the odour of his working man. Jody was his, at least for that moment, and maybe at least sexually. Noel licked a strip of skin and Jody whimpered, clutching at him with desperate, strong hands. There might even be bruises left behind, a possibility that made Noel’s dick even harder than it’d already been.

Noel kneaded Jody’s ass then moved that hand around to wedge it between them and cup Jody’s cock through his jeans.

“Oh, oh,” Jody panted shakily. “I can’t—I’ll come.”

“No one is around,” Noel reminded him. “There’s not another car out this way. Town’s shut down for the night. No one will see if you lose it for me.”

Jody curled those fingers harder against Noel’s shoulders. If that wasn’t a hint, Noel didn’t know what was. He tugged on Jody’s ass, on his neck, got him moved down a few more feet where they were still leaning on the truck but totally out of view. Noel went to work opening Jody’s belt and jeans. While he did that, he also nipped and sucked on the strong column of Jody’s neck.

The sounds Jody made went right to Noel’s cock. He even made a few needy sounds himself then he had Jody’s pants open. He shoved his hand under the waistband of Jody’s underwear and got himself a handful of hot, fat dick.

“Noel, aw, God,” Jody said in a husky voice.

Noel sucked on his Adam’s apple then leant back to look down at what he was holding. Dark as it was, he decided he needed a closer look.

“Noel!” Jody squeaked as Noel smoothly went to his knees. “We’re outside!”

Noel nosed right up against the base of Jody’s cock. That thing was thicker than any other dick Noel had ever touched, and a damned fine length.

Noel looked up at him. “Yeah, so you might want to hurry up and fuck my face.”

Jody’s entire body jerked, but he was already rutting, hips moving, cock wet-tipped. Noel opened up and when Jody still hesitated, he added, “I can take it, Jody. Anything you gotta give me. Grab my head, push in, use me.”

“Frankie didn’t like me holding on or thrusting,” Jody whispered.

“Fuck Frankie,” Noel snapped. “Better yet, don’t. He doesn’t deserve this beautiful dick.” Noel sucked the crown right in and Jody loosed a muffled sound.

Then he did it, placed his shaking hands on Noel, framing his jaws. Jody pushed in slowly. Noel kept his gaze up on Jody’s and moaned while flicking his tongue over that heavy shaft. He sealed his lips tight and sucked as hard as he ever had, wanting to drive Jody wild.

Which he did. Jody’s lips parted and he grunted as he thrust in deep. Noel hadn’t ever had a dick that size before, not in his mouth, breaching his throat, and never in his ass. He wanted it, everywhere. Stubbornness and need kept him from gagging.

“Jesus, Noel, how can you do that?” Jody mumbled.

Noel swallowed and Jody swayed. Then Jody fucked him, pushing into his throat in a rhythmless manner, his body demanding what Noel was offering. Noel got his hands on the man’s taut ass and pressed his fingertips into Jody’s crack. Jody cried out, the sound a bare breath of noise. Jody’s eyelids slid closed and Noel sucked harder, moved his tongue faster. He moved his fingers down until he touched Jody’s asshole.

Jody’s hold tightened and he bucked. Noel had his face in Jody’s pubes when the first jet of cum spurted from Jody’s slit. He pulled back against Jody’s hold so he could catch the rest on his tongue and get a true taste of Jody.

Another few shallow thrusts, and Jody sagged against the truck. He was still holding onto Noel, but just barely. Noel’s hands were pinned under Jody’s butt, his knuckles pressed against the metal of the truck. He suckled until Jody squirmed, then Noel pulled off and rested his head on Jody’s hip.

Jody stroked his hair and that meant more to Noel than anything else could have. It was a tender touch, a sign that he was aware of Noel, and wanted to offer him something, or perhaps found solace in touching him. Whatever the case, it reached a part of Noel that he’d tried to stomp out. That romantic, ‘someday I’ll find true love’ part of him that should have died already.

But it hadn’t. Noel would panic over that later. Right then, he was content to rest with Jody. Slowly he became aware of things like his knees aching and Jody’s sticky cock against his neck.

And it hit him, how stupid and careless he’d been to push Jody. Going at it like they had, in the situation they were in, was just plain foolish. As the older, more experienced person in the duo, Noel blamed himself for it. He’d gone after Jody like they were both club trash.

Noel sighed and stood up. “Sorry. I—I shouldn’t have pushed. I really did just want to kiss you and maybe hold you for a few minutes, and I let it get out of control. I hope you won’t decide not to have anything to do with me after this.”

Jody watched him for a long moment and Noel tried not to fidget. He failed, twining his fingers together then cracking his knuckles.

“We were both idiots,” Jody finally said. “I can’t be doing shit like this. I have to be responsible.”

“You mean outside, right, not, not at all?” Noel asked.

Jody laughed shakily. “Can’t imagine not ever feeling that mouth on me again, so no, I don’t mean not at all.”

“Oh, good.” Noel’s own erection had long since gone soft as he’d started actually thinking. “I am sorry. I should have had more restraint.”

“This won’t happen again unless we’re somewhere inside, alone.” Jody nodded. “Maybe if you ever come out to the ranch on my day off, we could ride out— No, I won’t want to be leaving Prissy. We’ll figure something out.”

“Thanks,” Noel murmured, wondering why he felt so grateful, as if he’d have been hurt had Jody decided to call off their friends with benefits agreement. Stupid, because he wasn’t attached to Jody. They hardly knew each other.

It bothered Noel on the drive back to Aunt Gertie’s. No matter how he considered it, it didn’t make sense to have felt a surge of panic at the idea of Jody ditching him. No more than it did for him to have been awash with relief that Jody wasn’t going to do that.

Gertie wasn’t in the living room when he came in, and Noel was thankful. He hurried to his bedroom and locked the door behind him. In the shower, he relaxed and let himself think over every second of the outdoor encounter with Jody. Jody’s cum had a slightly sweeter taste to it than Noel was used to. His last ex had tasted so vile that swallowing hadn’t been possible. Noel had been a spitter for that relationship.

He shuddered and pushed away thoughts about Clive. That was such a scary place to sink into, so Noel turned his mind back towards the good—Jody, his slender body, freckled face, those pretty eyes and that fat cock.

Noel’s erection wasn’t anything to be ashamed of. He slicked it with conditioner then reached for the Fleshlight. He hadn’t played with it yet, had not experienced much in the way of sexual urges until yesterday, really.

And tonight, he kept hearing Jody’s husky moans, kept tasting his cum and feeling that thickness pushing into his throat.

Noel tried to keep his own voice muffled, but it felt good to fuck something. A part of him felt a little ridiculous, but he told himself to stop being a prude. The Fleshlight was a tight, slick grip around his dick, and that was pretty damned awesome.

Noel hitched one leg up and reached behind him. He pushed the tips of two fingers into his hole and everything inside him lit up with happy horniness. Ecstasy began bubbling along his nerve endings, and he fucked that tube faster and faster while trying to get another finger into his pucker.