With Me (27 page)

Once Josephina is safely in the room, I pull Kasey’s face towards mine, giving her one final deep kiss. When I pull away, her eyes are still closed with her mouth half hanging open. Slowly she opens her eyes while I wait for her to look at me. “I’m going to prove to you, Kasey Wilson, that you were the perfect reason to breakup up with Elizabeth,” I tell her before standing up, leaving her sitting on the couch gawking at me.

I hear a grumble behind me, making me smile. I meant the words and I planned on making sure to prove to her, she was worth keeping. Maybe then she’ll have a reason to stay.

WHAT DID HE mean? Trying to catch my breath as I sit here, alone on the couch dumbfounded by his words, I slowly bring my fingers up to my lips. They’re still tingling. He has that effect on me; always leaving them feeling like they’re on fire. The tingling doesn’t immediately disappear. Not that I want it too. I like the reminder of knowing his lips were on mine.

Every time he kisses me, or touches me, my body ignites like a flame.

Seeing him come back into the living room, eyeing me with a mischievous grin, reminds me he wants to go somewhere. Finding the strength to stand up, I head to the bedroom so I can get ready. Half an hour later, with the help of Joseph nagging every five minutes that I’m too slow getting ready, we’re in his truck headed to our surprise destination. Where, I still don’t know, because like yesterday, he doesn’t say. We don’t have to wait too long before we pull up to the parking lot of our destination. Taking in the location, I’m as amazed as Josephina.

It’s
Sea World.

The look on Josephina’s face is priceless. Her squeals of excitement making me smile along with Joseph. The expression on her face when she took in the beach was no comparison to knowing she was going to be able to actually see members of the sea up close.

I soon discovered the reason why Joseph was in such a rush to leave when I took in the schedule and everything there was to do. It was because he wanted to arrive early so we can get a head start on the day, taking advantage of every minute for Josephina.

Without hesitation, our first destination is the dolphin show, Josephina’s favorite mammal. The rest of the day goes fairly quickly as we take in every sight and show possible, leaving us exhausted when we return to Joseph’s apartment at the end of the evening. Done tucking Josephina into bed, I make my way to the kitchen area, seeing Joseph getting a glass of water.

“I wanted to thank you for today,” I say, as we both lean against the kitchen counter. “It really meant a lot to Josephina and I appreciate you taking us to Sea World. You didn’t have to do that.”

He shrugs his shoulder. “It’s nothing,” he casually replies.

“How can you act as if it’s no big deal, Joseph? You’ve been spending too much money on us, especially the plane tickets to fly us out here. I can’t imagine how much you spent rushing to my side. You don’t have to spend more money by taking us to these extravagant places.”

He places his glass on the counter behind him, turning to face me, grabbing onto my waist when he looks down at me. “Kasey, most of the money I have came from when I sold my parents house five years ago. It’s been growing interest in the bank since then. The rest came from me being overseas. They pay Marines very well to be in a war zone. I didn’t have anything to spend it on until I got back, so it sat in the bank growing interest,” he tells me as he gazes at me.

“You still shouldn’t be spending all this money, Joseph,” I reply, guiltily dropping my head, unable to face him.

He lifts my chin up, forcing me to look at him. “Kasey, I would give it all up in a heartbeat if it meant I can have you and Josephina with me again.”

“You don’t really mean that. You only need Josephina in your life. Not me.”

“I meant every word of what I said. The
both
of you.”

Before he gives me the chance to answer, his lips are on mine, my arms reaching up to wrap around his neck, pulling him to me, needing to have him closer. Wrapping his arms around my waist he picks me up off the ground. My legs dangling off the ground as he pulls me up tightly to his body. My body feeling as if it’s floating in the air with every step he takes.

Reaching the couch, I feel him lower our bodies down, unwrapping his arms from around my waist to grab onto my legs, his hands guiding my legs to wrap around his waist as pushes his hips between my thighs, awakening my desire.

He’s already hard as he grinds his hips up against me, teasing me, making me moan into his mouth as our tongues duel with each other. My tongue explores every inch of his mouth, wanting to taste more of him. Slowly his hands start to glide into my shirt to unhook my bra and then moving onto my breast to palm it within his hand.

He removes my shirt and bra, tossing them to the ground, reaching for the button of my jeans next, and hastily removes them. Lying underneath him, naked as he gazes down at me, his eyes looking dark and hungry, as his hands slowly glide up my legs from the bottom of my ankles all the way up to my thighs. With his eyes locked onto mine, his lips slowly turn up to one side as I feel his finger slowly tracing the lips of my sex, building my desire.

Slowly, as if enticing me, his finger enters me, deliberately teasing me as I close my eyes, letting out a soft moan. I gasp when I feel his mouth on the center of my core. The unexpected feeling of his mouth vigorously sucking on me makes me arch my body to meet his mouth. His tongue gliding up to clamp down on my clit, taking it into his mouth before he tightly suckles around it. My hands go straight to the cushions as they grip them for dear life, needing to hold onto something as he continues to move his mouth against the heart of me. With his hands he lifts my hips, sucking harder, making me bite down on my lip to keep myself from moaning too loud; this time remembering our daughter is in the next room.

Within minutes I’m coming into his mouth. My restrained moans vibrating through my throat as he sends me over the edge, sending me into a world filled with stars and fireworks exploding behind my closed eyes.

My body is limp, my breathing labored, and my heart beating uncontrollably. I could only lie there sated and unable to move as I open my eyes to see Joseph already removing his clothing. I watch him remove each piece of clothing in front of me, memorized by his body. He’s down to the last stitch of clothing, his boxers, when his phone starts to ring. At first he ignores it, grabbing for the waistband of his boxers already pushing them down, exposing his long and hard erection, but the phone immediately starts ringing again, this time with a different ring tone, making Joseph curse.

Confused, I watch as Joseph starts searching his pants looking for his phone.

Without looking at the screen he answers. “Staff Sergeant Mitchell speaking,” still gazing down at me, his eyes now growing aggravated.

He listens into the phone, his expression growing angry as his lips go flat. Without saying another word he heads to the kitchen counter, still naked, searching for something. When he finds a pen and paper he begins to quickly write, his eyes focused on the paper.

“Yeah, I’ll be there in thirty minutes. Give or take,” he clips into the phone, hanging it up soon after. Walking back over in my direction, I see him sigh as he starts getting dressed.

I’m lying on the couch. Naked. Watching him with disappointment.

“I’m sorry, Kasey. I’ve got to go. One of my Marines is drunk at a bar that we usually go to and the owner is holding him there until I pick him up.”

“Can’t he just call a cab or something?” I ask him.

“Normally I would, but he got into a fight, which is why the owner called me instead of the cops. I’m his get out of jail card,” he explains as he puts on his shirt.

Knowing there is nothing more I can say or do, I stay silent.

Joseph leans down to give me a kiss. Unable to resist, my hands make their way to his neck, pulling his body to deepen the kiss. I can taste myself in his mouth as I feel him groan against my lips, making me smile.

“He might not be going to jail, but I’ll make sure he pays for it,” he mumbles against my mouth, making me chuckle.

As he pulls himself away from me, looking restrained, he quickly leans back down to me, giving me another quick kiss on the corner of my mouth. Letting him go, knowing he needs to leave, I watch him walk out the door. Leaving me there on the couch, I listen as he locks the door, and his footsteps retreat down the steps. I stand up to head straight for the room. There is no need for me to stay on the couch. Getting dressed in my pajamas, I go to brush my teeth and wash my face for bed. I soon climb into bed next to Josephina and let my dreams take me away into the night.

Later, I feel Joseph climb into bed next to me, my body already recognizing him as he pulls my body tightly to his. I don’t fight him, or push him away. Instead, I turn so I can wrap my arms around his chest and entwine our legs to get more comfortable. Still in my sleepy state, I feel him kiss me in the hollow of my neck, his warm face nuzzled against my skin, sending me back to sleep.

THE FEELING OF waking up with Kasey in my arms will never get old. It’s been a week now since they arrived. Every night she’s protesting, telling me we were sending the wrong message to Josephina, but against her protest, I still climbed into bed with them. The minute Kasey fell asleep she’d seek out my body, grabbing onto it, and refusing to let go.

The only damper on the situation was having Josephina sleeping next to us. I loved my little girl, but because she was in the bed with us, we refused to do anything else but sleep next to her. It still didn’t stop us completely, though. There were a couple of times I’d lost my willpower and literally carried Kasey off to the couch. That couch was proving to be a much-overused piece of furniture in my apartment. I made a mental note to myself to never throw it out. Eventually we would end up back in the bed for the comfort.

Smiling to myself, I remember last night as I feel Kasey begin to stir against my body, awaking my yearning to be inside of her again. As I grab for her leg to wrap around my waist, her face nuzzles deeper into my neck, making me groan into her ear. She tightens her hold on my body as I feel her giggle. Unable to take her teasing me anymore, I pick her up as I stand up from the bed, already carrying her off to the couch. Kasey wraps her legs around my waist, holding on tight for the ride, as she continues to tease me by kissing on my neck.