Chapter 23

Chapter Twenty-Three

Marley

“I…I thought I was going to have to let you go.”

I thought it so much that I stayed up almost all night crying my heart out. I knew there was no reason for us to stay with him and his mom anymore since the snow stopped and the electricity came back on. No more reasons to be with Tannen. No more reasons to sleep in his bed with his arms wrapped around me. No reason for him to stay.

I started to think it might be better this way. Leaving him while he’s still at his mom's. Then I could just keep pretending he was here no matter if he had left. I wouldn’t have to watch him go and if I stayed with Danni until after, it would still be like he was just sleeping at his mom’s...all the time, still close to me if not still with me. It broke my heart.

A sob jerks from me as I think about it even now. Tannen pulls me into his arms and brushes the tears off my face.

“What? Why? Why would you think that?”

“Because I didn’t…think you felt the same way I feel.”

“And how do you feel, baby?”

“I love you!” I always have. I thought you would go back to your life and next year you’d bring home a fiancée. I was dying inside. I’ve been dying since you went away.”

“Sweetheart, next year…I’ll have a wife. If you’ll have me.”

“Yes! Yes! Yes!”

He picks me up and swings me around the room in his arms. Then the knob turns and our moms are piling into the room, laughing and crying and high-fiving one another.

“We have so much to do. We need to make alterations to the dress.”

“What dress?” I ask Kate.

“Your mother’s wedding dress. She’s been keeping it for you for years.” My mom is nodding when I look over at her, “You want to wear it, right?”

“What?”

“We can get her a new one, Kate. Maybe one she…”

“No! Mom, I want to wear your…you guys have been planning this?”

Kate answers me, “For years sweetie! For years and let me tell you…it’s about damned time! When Tannen asked for his grandmother’s ring on the morning of the twenty-fourth I nearly shouted the walls down with glee.”

“Do you think you guys could get a wedding together by New Year’s Day?” I gasp and look up at Tannen. “I think me and Marley have waited long enough to be together.”

“Tannen! That’s…only seven days away.”

“Of course we can! I have a florist friend and…”

“I have a minister I used to date that will do the ceremony. It ended well so he won’t mind doing a favor for me.” My mom winks at me.

“Excellent, Ruby. Speaking of exes I have…”

They drift down the hall and down the stairs as their heads are bowed together busy making plans and scheming with one another. Tannen sticks his head out to make sure they are indeed going downstairs, before closing the door and turning the lock.

“Now, where were we?” He turns to me with a big smile on his face. “Oh, yes. I was letting you know how much I love you by making your little body sing and you were going to let me make love to you so I can do just that.”

“Was I? See, I thought I was going to tell you how much I love you by wrapping my mouth around your long, thick…”

“Don’t tease me, sweetheart! I’ve been thinking of slipping inside you since I woke the fuck up.”

He’s already yanking my top over my head and pulling my pants down.

“You’re fucking lucky I didn’t throw you over the back of the couch and started taking you right there in front of our moms.”

“You wouldn’t!”

“Oh, yes I would and you know I would. The only reason I didn’t was because I was worried about why you were so sad. I thought maybe…you might have regretted our night together and it killed me, baby. It gutted me.”

“I would never regret being with you. It was the most magical, most perfect night of my life. It was everything I could have ever dreamed of and more.”

He gives me another grin that sends butterflies fluttering through my belly.

“This time,” he lowers his mouth so he can whisper in my ear, “I want you on your belly.”

“What? How would we…?”

“You just crawl on that bed, baby, and lay down on your tummy.”

“Do you want me to take…?”

“No. Crawl up there.”

I do as he asks and lay down. Behind me, I can tell he is taking off at least some of his clothes because I hear the rustling as he takes them off. The bed dips down as he crawls on it too. I yelp when his hands move my legs apart and run up the backs of my legs.

“Do you know why I call you Peach, love?”

Oh my God! He called me love!

I have to really focus to remember what he asked me. I shake my head no. I never could figure it out unless it had something to do with my accent and how thick it can be sometimes.

He runs his hands under the edge of my panties and squeezes the globes of my ass.

“I call you Peach because of this ass.” He smacks one side but not too hard.

I gasp but not because of the smack. Because he’s been calling me Peach since I was sixteen years old.

“You bent over in front of me and all I could think of was sinking my teeth in these nice, juicy cheeks.” He yanks my panties down and off. I feel his breath on the back of my ass. “And do you know why I didn’t come home last year?”

“N…no.”

“Because you had turned eighteen and I knew if I came home I would end up making you mine and then you would have been knocked up before you graduated. I respected your mother too much to do that. I thought maybe you might have a boyfriend too. I didn’t want to kill someone…and, Marley, I would have. I would have murdered some fucking little shit who thought you were theirs.”

His cheek is lying on my cheek, only the cheek he’s lying on isn’t on my face. My sex floods with the thought of his mouth on me. And then I feel it. His teeth sink in, not hard but Tannen is biting my ass cheek.

The breath I didn’t even realize I was holding rushes out of me. His fingers sink in between my dripping lips, and he rubs the tips up and down my channel.

“I’m going to take you here too.” His thumb rubs over my furled asshole, his words causing me to gasp and moan. “There’s not going to be a spot on you that I won’t lick and kiss and make love to.”

He squeezes the globes in his hands and pulls me apart so I know he can see everything.

“You have no idea, do you? No clue how sexy this fucking body is. How I could look at this for the rest of my life and be the happiest man alive.”

His breath fans out across my skin seconds before he puts his mouth on me. It’s different from behind. He can plunge his tongue in further and faster and go deeper or lick across my very secret place. His hands grab my hips, and he pulls me to my hands and knees.

All I can do is moan and press back into him. His hand comes up and he cups one of my breasts that are hanging down in this position. He plucks and rolls my hard nipple as he mouth-fucks my entrance.

“Oh my God, Tannen! I…I’m close!”

He mumbles something but I can’t understand it as he lifts me up off my knees bringing my pussy flush against his face as the front half of me is pressed to the bed. His chin presses against my clit as his tongue fucks into me. I bury my face into the pillow and curl my hands into the covers as my body erupts and I cum for my neighbor, my lover, my Tannen.

Instead of letting me collapse onto the mattress, he holds me up by my hips and slowly slides into me before the muscles around my pussy even stop fluttering through my orgasm. There’s no pain this time but that doesn’t mean it’s easy for him to work his cock into me. He has to take his time and stretch me all over again. By the time he bottoms out, both of us are covered in sweat and trembling with need.

“I wish you could see how fucking beautiful it is seeing my dick stretch you open, seeing this tiny little pussy open wide for me. It’s fucking sexy as fuck the way you cling to me when I try to take it out like it’s not going to let me go. I’ll never get tired of this sight, never think this is anything less than gorgeous.”

He wraps himself around my body so he can grab both my breasts while he sets the pace as we both cum together. The hot liquid heat of him hits the back of my pussy and fills me up as I milk every last drop of it out of him. Only when we both fall to our sides still wrapped around one another do I start to actually think again.

“Tannen, we, um, weren’t exactly quiet that time. Do you think…?”

He interrupts me even as he keeps his eyes closed like he is settling down for a nice, long nap. “If they did they’re just going to have to get used to it because I’m not going to stop making love to my fiancée.”

That word has such a wonderful sound to it now that it’s me he’s talking about.

“Besides, knowing those two, I’m shocked they haven’t knocked and told me what I should do to help my little swimmers get to your fertile little womb faster.”

“Oh no! Oh, you don’t think they…they’ll leave us alone now that we…right?”

“The only way they’re going to leave us alone is if we give them what they want.” He rolls me so I’m back on my belly again. “Better get started.”

I giggle as the love of my life starts to make love to me all over again. And all I can think is what a truly merry Christmas it’s been already!