13. Jay

CHAPTER 13

JAY

Ash hadn't been playing around about helping me clean. He'd said we'd move all the boxes in one night, and we had. With two cars at our disposal, there was just enough room to fit everything in one trip. Then began the laborious task of carrying everything up the stairs to my apartment.

Another hour later, I lay panting on my living room floor, cursing about the fact that I'd moved into an apartment without any elevators and the fact that I'd been unlucky to have not gotten one on the first floor.

Ash came out from the kitchen and placed an ice cool glass of water against my cheek. I groaned at how good it felt chasing away the sweaty heat I'd built up from the workout. I took the glass and shot him a glare. "Why do you look perfectly fine?"

He took a sip of his own water, eyes filled with amusement as he looked to where I'd been sprawled on the floor. "You wouldn't last a day on the field. "

I shuddered at that thought. I didn't know if NFL training was any different, but having watched almost every one of Ash and Howie's high school football practices, I knew for a fact that I would have perished within the first ten minutes of training.

Ash laughed at my reaction. I placed my glass on the coffee table and turned to hug his legs. "You're gonna have to drag me to bed," I complained.

"Is that a challenge?"

I glanced up to see the pure glee in his eyes, then quickly released him before he really did just that. I should have known that Ash was hard-headed enough to never back down from anything that sounded like a challenge. Before I could scurry away, though, I felt a large shadow hovering over me. Then, I was being lifted like I weighed nothing and maneuvered so that my limbs wrapped around the man who was currently manhandling me.

All I could do was hold on tight so that I didn't cry out and shot him my most exasperated glare. "Ever heard of a joke, dude?"

He seemed unfazed by my jab and only grinned in reply. His hands moved down my back and landed to give me a hard squeeze on my ass. He held me like this as he started walking. "I believe I promised you a nice, hard "—he spread my ass cheeks and slid me down his body just a smidge so that I could feel his very hard cock poking my hole—"reward."

"Now this is the type of workout I'm one hundred percent behind," I said with a grin, then sealed our lips together before he could shoot a smartass response back at me. I was a tiny bit worried we'd bump into something or, horribly, crash and fall over, but Ash had everything under control.

Moments later, I was gently placed on my soft bed. Ash quickly followed me down, chasing my lips for more kisses. It wasn't long before we started clawing at each other's clothes. Once naked, Ash's lust-filled eyes roamed down my body. His eyes landed on my bottom as he reached out and gripped my butt.

"How are you with your splits?" he asked suddenly.

His words came out breathy and so fucking seductive that I was having a hard time connecting the random question to the current situation, so I told the truth. "Fine," I muttered as I reached out for what I wanted.

His cock was hot and velvety in my hand. Ash hummed in pleasure as I stroked him. He let me stroke me while he bent over to get to my ass. It didn't take long for him to get his tongue inside of me, stretching me open as I tried to focus on moving my hand.

When I was a squirming mess under his attack, all opened and needy for him, his tongue slipped out of my ass. My groan of protest turned to one of need when he fisted my cock and squeezed my base so tightly my lids shut from the pleasure.

"I want you to do a split on my dick in reverse cowgirl. "

That had me popping my eyes open again to gape at him. "Say what now?"

I caught a glimpse of his cocky smirk as he leaned in to whisper in my ear. "You in reverse cowgirl, legs spread in a split so that I can see your sweet ass on full display as I slide in and out of your tight hole."

"Fuck," I muttered, my eyes fluttering closed again just from how hot that sounded. "I see you've completely embraced the yoga life."

He chuckled and let me push him flat on his back. I turned around to straddle him backward, and his hands were on me instantly, squeezing and spreading my cheeks. Ash sucked in a breath, and I looked over my shoulder to see him licking his lips as he stared greedily at my hole.

"Like what you see?" I teased. His eyes flicked up to match mine, and the lust inside of them shot another wave of need straight into my lower belly.

"Need inside you. Spread your legs, darlin'."

I didn't know if it was the term of endearment or the sexy order that had my blood rushing south and my body automatically moving to his command. I positioned my hands in between his legs to lift myself up slightly and into position. My legs were split on either side of him and while it probably wasn't a perfect side split, I was too turned on to care much about form right now. But by the delicious sounds coming from the man behind me, I assumed he was enjoying the view all the same.

"Fuck, look at you," he breathed. His hands never left my butt as he split my cheeks wider. "You're going to look beautiful on my dick."

I cursed too, my hole squeezing, wanting to be filled. The sounds in the room intensified from our combined moans as I slowly slid down his lubed cock. Ash's hands helped guide me down, tortuously slow, but I knew it was for the best, considering this was a position I'd never used before during sex. And when my ass sat flush on his lap, I knew I was going to be sore tomorrow.

Perhaps this hadn't been a good idea without properly stretching first. My thighs were sore. My back was sore. But those were the least of my worries. My hole twinged from the stretch of him, and this was a soreness that I craved most of all.

Ash only gave me a second to enjoy the feeling of being full—the initial feeling was always the best—before he was slamming hard up into me. My body leaned forward automatically as I held my position and supported myself with my hands. I could only go along for the ride that worked me up with each thrust.

It didn't help all the perfectly nasty things Ash was sprouting with every buck of his hips.

" Your ass cheeks look so beautiful spread wide like that, giving me the full view. Look at your hole taking in my cock so greedily. This is exactly where you're supposed to be. Right here with me."

My dick exploded at his last words. The restlessness that had always existed inside of me calmed at that moment. For what seemed like the first time ever, it felt okay to stay here with him. It took a different kind of braveness to stay , and that was something Ash was teaching me.

Afterward, Ash cuddled me from behind. We were both sticky with sweat and our combined cum—condoms had never been a part of our relationship and neither of us seemed to want to use them, anyway.

I muttered a complaint about my sore thighs and ass. He chuckled and turned me on my stomach and massaged me. His hands felt so good I couldn't help but let out soft moans.

"If you keep making sounds like that, you're gonna be bound to this bed all day tomorrow."

I looked over my shoulder to see the lust shining in his eyes and his dick already half erect again. Smirking, I flipped my body over and lifted a leg to my stomach to reveal my hole. Another low moan escaped me when warm liquid slipped out. I was getting addicted to the feeling of him coming inside of me.

Ash's gaze lowered, and he growled— freaking growled !

"Is this the moment you tell me you're secretly a wolf shifter? Though with your build, you'll more likely be a bear," I said in a joking tone.

Ash's voice was completely serious as he replied, "I might as well be with how feral with lust you make me."

I smiled and hooked my raised leg around his waist and pulled him closer. "Then make good on your promise. I expect to stay in bed all day tomorrow."

"Fuck." He pressed me down and plopped a loud kiss to my lips before continuing, "As tempting as that sounds, that's going to ruin my plans."

My arms wrapped around his neck, pulling him closer as I glared at him. "Don't tell me you were serious about unpacking tomorrow."

He stole another kiss, then pulled back just enough to see the twinkle in his eyes. "I never joke about cleaning."

I groaned, flopped my head on my pillow, and squeezed my eyes shut. I wasn't a messy dude, but cleaning was definitely not my favorite activity. Unpacking was even lower on the list of things I wanted to do on my one day off.

"But cleaning wasn't what I was talking about." A tender kiss landed on the side of my throat. I wondered if he could feel the way my heartbeat stopped for a second as he mouthed my vein.

"Let me take you out."

"Mmhmm," I hummed in agreement and stretched my neck open more, anything to get him to continue the trail of sweet kisses. To my disappointment, he pulled away.

"I'm being serious here. I want to take you out on a proper date."

That had me popping my eyes wide open to gape at him. "You mean outside? Where everyone can see us? In the wild, wild west?"

"You make it sound like people are going to come after us like wanted criminals." Ash didn't roll his eyes, but I could see how much he wanted to.

"Well, we might as well be. Who knows what your crazy fans will do if they see us!"

"I don't have crazy fans," he muttered, then narrowed his eyes. "Are you saying you don't want to be seen outside with me?"

I stroked his short hair. His eyes fluttered half-closed as he leaned into my touch. I'd decided to give this relationship a real shot, and that meant I wasn't going to hide us from anybody, but there were no consequences for me. The same couldn't be said for Ash.

"You know that's not true. I hate to sound like a broken record, but what about your team? I'm sure they're going to have some words about you on a date with a man…"

"I love that you worry about me. I really do. But let's get one thing straight." His hard stare gave me no choice but to listen intently to his next words. "Being with you could never be a scandal. It's a truth that I could only be proud of. And if anyone wants to deny that truth, I'll deal with it."

Then he had to follow it up by taking my hand and kissing the back of it. There was no way I could do anything but nod after that. Either he'd taken prince lessons on how to melt hearts or I'd already fallen way too damn hard for this man.