That's my girl, I thought with pride. "I like that kind of response."
I slid into the water to the side of her, trusting everyone up top to have a proper hold on the rope; I grabbed her around the waist and wrapped her up in my arms. She cried out and wrapped her arms around my neck, holding on real tight.
"I love you, Phoenix, so much."
"Marry me," I blurted out. "I love you. I'd planned on asking you later. I didn't mean to blurt it out while you're freezing to death."
"Yes. Yes I'll marry you. Now will you get me out of here."
With a quick kiss on her lips I felt a tug on the rope. "Wrap your legs around me."
"I can't. My dress."
I'd forgotten she was wearing a bridesmaid dress. "Okay babe. Hold on, while I lift your dress." I chuckled in her ear.
"You can lift my dress anytime, just hurry up."
With her holding on tight, I grabbed her ass and quickly tried to raise her soaked dress enough to enable her legs to go around me. "It'd be easier if we ditched the dress."
She groaned into my neck.
"What the fuck is going on down there?" Ryder shouted.
"I need her to hold on, but her dress is weighing us down."
"Then take it off and get up here."
"I can't. I'm only wearing a thong," she cried.
Fuck. "Ryder." I shouted up to him. "Hold tight. I'm taking my shirt off."
I wrapped Thalia's arms around a root, then with great difficulty removed my shirt and left it on a higher root. I grabbed hold of Thalia again, and when she was in my arms I unzipped her dress, and managed to pull the bodice free, pushing it down past her hips. As soon as her legs were free of the confines, she wrapped her legs around me. I put my hands on her butt. Fuck. Very naked butt and hoisted her up.
"I've got you, but you need to grab the shirt and get it on."
Once she had the shirt on, the guys pulled us up the bank. Donovan tried to pry her away from me, but I was having none of it.
"Jack. Let her go and unfasten the rope for fuck's sake," Donovan shouted.
"It's okay Phoenix. Let me go. I'm not going anywhere without you. I promise." Thalia gave me a quick kiss.
I reluctantly let Donovan take her from me, and glared at him while he held her in his arms with a large grin on his face. "Just remember whose girl she is."
"How could I forget?"
I growled and quickly removed the rope, then grabbed my girl back into my arms.
Chapter 66.
Thalia I was freezing in Phoenix's arms, and my teeth wouldn't stop chattering, but before I could tell him to get a move on, my legs and feet were covered with jackets the guys had obviously been wearing.
"I'm going back to the house; we both need a warm shower. I need to warm her up," Phoenix told everyone so seriously.
The guys snickered and Callie grinned. "So we won't be seeing you again today?" Ryder asked.
"No."
If I hadn't been so cold, I'd die of embarrassment.
"Let's go."
Phoenix squeezed me against him and held me close while he walked back to the house. He must be cold as well, because he'd been in the water with me. Not as long, but his pants would be clinging to him.
"Can you head over and let everyone know she's all right, but we both need to get warm...and I don't give a shit what Mom has to say about it, you keep her away for now."
I heard mumbling, but I kept my face buried in Phoenix's neck. As we approached the house I felt a spark of warmth flood through me. I sighed, relieved that I could feel this heat again and licked his neck up to his ear. I nibbled his ear lobe and felt a shudder work its way through him.
"Two minutes, babe," he groaned out.
"Mmm. Were you hard when you had your hands on my ass in the river?"
"Fuck. Thalia. What kind of asshole do you think I am?" He climbed up the steps to the front porch.
"Not a tiny bit hard," I whispered. "You had me naked, apart from my thong, in your arms. Are you sure? Because I imagined your cock, hard and pulsing, wanting inside me."
I was getting to him. His breathing was uneven, and his hands shook slightly. I reached out and opened the front door for us. He took me straight to the stairs and started up them. At the top, I nibbled his lobe again.
"I remembered how hot it was to lie on the desk at Kix, watching you jerk off, and have you come all over my pussy. Mmm. I want your cock inside me right now Phoenix."
He pushed his way into my room, kicked the door shut then slammed his lips to mine. He released my legs, letting them hit the floor, and then slid his hands underneath the shirt, ripped my thong, yanked his zipper down, peeled his soaked pants off, hoisted me up, and thrust inside me in one long groan.
God that was hot.
He paused, breathing heavily into my neck. "You needed taking care of. Not my cock buried deep inside you." He groaned.
"You are taking care of me." I squeezed the muscles of my sex, and held him tight.
"Christ."
"Move. Fast."
He lifted his head out of my neck and met my gaze before sealing his lips to mine. I opened my mouth and gave him access, our tongues slipping and sliding against the other as he started to rock his hips. I could feel every inch of him; long, thick and pierced.
He moved me further up the door and locked his mouth to my nipples, lavishing some attention on them. I felt my orgasm approach as he sucked my nipple into his mouth; it burst forth and went on and on, while I couldn't stop grinding against him, with my sex contracting along his cock. He shuddered then I felt his cum splash against my walls while we both moaned into each other's mouths, his being sealed to mine again.
"Are you all right?"
"I love you. Did you mean what you said in the river?" I asked.
His eyes lit up. "If you hadn't ravished me at the door, I'd have been able to get a ring on your finger."
"You already have a ring?"
He moved his hands to my ass, and grabbing hold, kept me attached to him while he walked to sit on the edge of the bed.
Phoenix smoothed my hair away from my face in a light caress. "I love you. I want to spend the rest of my life with you. Will you marry me?"
"Yes." I burst into tears. "I love you, so much."
"Thank God," he said, collapsing back on the bed.
I could feel his cock on the rise again inside me so I wiggled around on top of him.
He put his hands on my hips. "Stop," he groaned, "we need to shower."
"After. I want you to fuck me from behind."
I took advantage of his shock and climbed off the top of him, then crawled into the middle of the bed on all fours.
He watched me from beneath hooded eyes while I shook my butt at him.
When he realized what I wanted him to do, he turned on to his stomach and knelt up on the bed. I could now see his magnificent cock standing to attention. He stroked himself, back and forth, back and forth. He leaked at the tip while I licked my lips.
He had me so turned on, I honestly felt like I was about to explode.
Phoenix then moved in closer and still holding his cock in his hand, rubbed the tip over my clit and the entrance to my sex.
My thighs quivered, as he slowly entered me; every succulent inch at a time. When he was balls deep inside me, he wrapped himself over me, with his hands moving around to cradle my breasts.
I couldn't control the little spasms going on inside me, and started grinding my pussy against his balls. Then Phoenix started to move, slowly in and out of me, every time he went deep, his balls hit my clit. The friction was delicious and I desperately needed more.
He took hold of my hips to keep me steady and really started pistoning his cock, in and out of me. He moved one hand to my clit and rubbed. I buried my face in the quilt to muffle my scream as my orgasm ripped through me. I was on fire. My whole body convulsed.
Phoenix roared in release, as his cum filled me. It went on and on until he collapsed on top of me, pushing my whole body into the quilt. He pulled out of me and rolled on to his back while I just lay in a limp lump next to him.
"You're going to kill me."
"Well, at least I'm warm."
He started to laugh, pulling me into his arms.
"I know I really hurt you before, Thalia. You have no idea how sorry I am that I went off like I did without telling you what had been said and talking to you about it. I'll spend the rest of my life apologizing if you want me to...just promise me, you won't ever leave me again. No matter how much of a dick I am."
I kissed his chest. "I love you too much to be away from you so I can promise that...can we do that again in a minute?"
Without a word he climbed from the bed and walked over to the door, flicked the lock to my horror. He grinned and walked into his room, locked his door and retrieved his jacket from the floor.
We made love, twice, with the door unlocked.
Phoenix retrieved something from his jacket pocket and walked back over to me with a growing cock. He knelt to the side of the bed as I sat up to face him. He took hold of my left hand and slid the ring onto my finger. "This was my grandmother's. I hope you like it," he said, nervously.
"I love it." I pulled him onto the bed and lay snuggled in his arms; the place that I never wanted to leave.
Epilogue.
September.
Phoenix.
Before summer break when I returned home I never expected to fall for the sexiest girl I'd ever seen, and I meant fall hard. Thalia meant the world to me, and I seriously didn't know what I'd do without her.
After what happened to her on my brother's wedding day, and the night we'd spent locked in our rooms, we'd joined everyone for breakfast, which made me smile in remembrance. Thalia had blushed a lovely shade of red and come close to matching the red t-shirt she'd been wearing. My mom had looked at us for a few minutes, noticed my grandmother's ring on Thalia's finger and went crazy, running around the kitchen hugging and talking weddings.
I'd had to step in and inform my folks that the wedding wouldn't be happening until the following summer, after we'd both graduated college, but we would be living together between our two colleges.
A couple of weeks into our engagement Thalia had spoken, unbeknown to me, to my folks about Deception, which until then had still been a sore point with them. So, one Saturday night when I'd been on stage singing a slower song, I'd looked out into the crowd for my girl and spotted her standing with my mom and Mia, while Dad had been drinking a beer with Liam.
Afterwards they'd admitted they hadn't realized just how good we were, and apologized for all the grief they'd caused over the years about me wanting to be a 'rock star'.
Thalia, Callie, and me had moved in to our new apartment about a week ago, which was equal distance between our two colleges. We, of course, had the larger of the two rooms, with a huge king-sized bed taking up center stage.
Turning on my side, Thalia was facing me with little purring noises coming from between her lips. I pushed the quilt from us and looked at her naked form. I gently pushed her onto her back, removing my numb arm from underneath her head, where she'd been snuggled against me. She was beautiful, with her long tanned legs, dragon tattoo on her hip, bare pussy, which had me swallowing and hard as I moved up to her belly button with the strawberry tattoo, but my eyes had a will of their own and kept moving back to her pussy. I sucked air into my lungs and moved up to her perky breasts, which were already drawn into tight beads of arousal. I licked my lips again wanting to taste her so badly.
"I want your mouth on me."
Our eyes clashed. "I thought you were still asleep."
She smiled putting her arms over her head and stretching like a feline.
My cock was hard as hell after my perusal of her delectable body, so without further ado, I leaned in and took one breast into my mouth, and felt her shudder against me. I caressed down her torso with my hand and kept rubbing her mound.
She pulled my head away and brought me up to meet her eyes.
"You have me so wet; I want your cock inside me, now."
Not one for being told twice, I rolled on top of her and entered her in one, hard thrust. She moaned and arched under me, tightening around my cock, which brought me out in a sweat as I gritted my teeth to hold my orgasm back. She always had me so fucking excited and wanting to go off the minute I entered her warm, wet cunt, which felt like a tight glove.