10. Chapter Ten

Chapter Ten

West

I went about the business of closing up the coffee shop for the day, a Friday evening after a long day, which was after a long week. No contact from Cole until the lunchtime rush, and he’d told me he missed me—well, not in so many words, but close enough. I’d spent the week missing him, too, aching to see him again. It was no use, though. Our lives were too different. I had the shop, he had his marketing job, and that was that.

The bell above the shop door jingled, signaling the entrance of a patron. Dammit, I must’ve forgotten to lock the door. “Sorry,” I called, without looking up as I scrubbed under the coffee machines. “We’re closed.”

There was no response, just the shuffling of feet on the linoleum floor briefly, before that fell silent too.

I straightened, my back aching with the way I’d been hunched over to get my sponge under the machines. “We’re—” My words fell away quickly. Standing in front of me, a knit hat in his hands, was Cole. “You’re—”

He gave me a shy smile and nodded. “I am.”

“What are you doing here?”

“I talked to my boss. I told him I needed some more time to recover. Convinced him to let me work remotely for as long as I need.”

“So you’re staying?” My stomach fluttered at the thought.

With a nod, his smile widened. “I’m staying with my mom for the time being. Until I can find my own place.”

“You’re staying-staying?”

Another nod.

I could hardly believe what I was hearing. “Why?”

Cole took another step forward. “I really like you, West, and it felt like you really liked me, too. I didn’t want to give up the chance to get to know you better, give this thing between us a real chance.”

“Really?”

He laughed a little and stepped even closer, until he was right in front of the sales counter. “Really. If you want me to, I mean.”

I rushed around the counter and threw my arms around him, pulling him tight against me. “Now what?”

He hugged me back, warm and strong, and we held each other close. When I pulled back, his eyes were sparkling with mischief.

“I’ve already been to Mom’s and she knows I’m here. I’m yours for the night.”

My stomach swooped, heat building in my core. I tipped my head to the side slightly. “Yeah?”

Cole put one hand on my jaw and kissed me gently. “Yeah. Now, I was thinking—”

I put a finger to his lips. “No more talking.” I took him by the hand and led him upstairs to my apartment, pulling him along with me in a hurry.

The moment the door was closed behind us, I turned and unceremoniously shoved him against the door, kissing him fiercely. As we kissed, we stumbled to my bedroom, kicking off shoes, tugging at clothes, and tossing them to the floor. By the time we’d gotten to the bed, we were both stripped bare, breathing hard, hands roaming everywhere. I pulled Cole onto the bed and he shoved me to the mattress, climbed on top of me, and planted kisses along my jaw and throat.

After a few heated moments, he lifted his head and looked at me. “Top or bottom?”

I groaned, rocking my hips up into the press of his body. “Bottom.”

He grinned and nodded before dropping more kisses along my collarbone and chest, working his way down until he was between my legs, spreading them and gripping he muscles of my ass. The next thing I knew, he was stroking my hole with one finger, before leaning in and dragging his tongue over the tight muscle there. I gasped and writhed as he ate my ass, slowly pushing one finger into me.

He continued to work me open, licking around his finger, letting out soft moans as he worked, eventually sliding a second finger into me, which caused me to let out a loud groan and grip my leaking cock.

Cole chuckled darkly and pulled back. “Ready?”

“Fuck me.”

“Do you have…?”

Desperate, I groped around for my nightstand. When I realized I’d never get to it, I looked back at Cole. “Top drawer.”

It only took him a few seconds to find the lube and condoms and the next thing I knew, he was ripping a condom open and sliding it on. I watched, eager anticipation quivering through me, as he poured lube into his hand and stroked himself before letting his hand drop to my ass and lube up my entrance.

“Come on ,” I murmured, eager and ready.

At that, Cole smirked, lined his cock up with my hole, and pushed inside me. I let my eyes flutter closed briefly and let the sensations wash over me as Cole took me apart. He thrust in slowly at first, letting me adjust to him, to the stretching and aching pleasure of the burn as he filled me. Soon, he was pressed in to the hilt, his pelvis against the muscles of my ass. He lowered himself until he was resting on his forearms, kissing me hungrily before he withdrew and thrust in again.

I arched my back and rocked back down onto his thick cock, fucking myself just as much as he was fucking me. The room filled with the sounds of our bodies coming together, our harsh breathing and soft groans. My cock throbbed and ached, the friction of our bodies too much to handle. I knew I couldn’t hold off long.

His breathing became tighter and Cole broke the kiss, our gazes meeting, locking on one another. Cole’s thrusts intensified and he groaned deeply after each one. Between our bodies, my cock leaked furiously. All at once, I came, moaning and bucking my hips into his, spurting thick strands between our stomachs. My ass clenched around his cock over and over, and a few seconds later, Cole cried out and came, filling the condom inside of me.

Once he’d fucked through his aftershocks, he slowly withdrew, gripping the condom as he did. I whimpered, missing the fullness already, and watched as Cole wordlessly discarded the condom in my bedside trash can and collapsed into bed next to me. We lay there for a long while, just catching our breaths.

When I felt like my breathing was back to normal, he let out a deep, contented sigh. “Well…”

I turned to face him. “Well what?”

“I was just thinking, you never did fulfill your promise.”

My brows furrowed. “What promise?”

“You said you’d teach me how to make those cookies.”

With a startled laugh, I nodded in concession. “You’re right. Do you still want to learn?”

He grinned and kissed me quickly. “Let’s get cleaned up first and then see how we feel.” He put his arm around my shoulders and pulled me close. “We have all the time in the world now, don’t we?”

“That we do,” I murmured. “That we do.”