I pulled back, panting and said, “We should go back outside before someone comes looking for us.”
Cedric shook his head and pulled me back into him, sucking on my neck hungrily, his erection pressing firmly against me as he moaned over my skin. “No.”
“No?” I asked looking up at him.
“No…just a few more minutes,” he said, his eyes turning darker with the strongest sense of desire I had yet to experience from him.
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Cedric breathed heavily on my neck,
“I need to feel you…now.”
Upon hearing him say that, my knees got weak as if my legs were going to collapse and my moist underwear felt like it was going to disintegrate on my body.
I opened my mouth against his as our bodies pressed together and felt his hand move under my dress as he abruptly slipped his fingers inside me. Cedric moaned into my mouth as I moved down over his hand.
With the sound of dishes clanking getting louder in the kitchen, he pulled his fingers out of me. “I am sorry, sweetheart…I’ve just missed you so much. I got carried away.
He held me close as I put my head on his chest and could feel his rapid heart beating against my ear.
“Cedric, we have to leave this room.”
“Okay, but I need to see you tonight.
Promise me. I’ll text you and come pick you up.”
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I nodded. “Yes.”
Cedric kissed me desperately one last time. “You leave first. I have to go to the bathroom and take care of this,” he said pointing down to his bulging crotch.
“Okay.” I laughed. He was not kidding. He could not go out like that.
I started to walk out when he stopped me and grabbed both of my hands and kissed them over and over softly.
“Bye,” I whispered, slipping out the door.
CHAPTER 37
CEDRIC
It look longer than expected to get rid of the hard-on. I was so turned on and that wasn’t going to change anytime soon.
Five minutes of focusing intently on images from that Sarah McLaughlin animal abuse public service announcement finally did the trick.
Allison was talking to my mother in the kitchen filling her in on where she had been all of these weeks, when I emerged from the bathroom.
My mother didn’t look at me or let on as to whether she knew we were hiding in Callie’s room together. I passed them in the kitchen, went through the sliding door to the yard and joined Caleb and Stephanie who were thankfully still talking.
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When I sat down, Caleb got up and thanked Stephanie for her advice, sneaking me a smirk, as I knew he would.
“Where were you all that time?” Stephanie asked.
“I was in the bathroom, sorry,” I said.
“Huh…that was an awfully long time to be in the bathroom.”
I lied. “Yeah…sorry, having issues.” Technically, my hard on was an issue that needed to be dealt with.
Stephanie’s eyes lingered on me and I got the impression she knew I wasn’t exactly telling the truth, but she proceeded to change the subject.
“What are we doing tonight?” she asked.
I felt like an asshole and really hated lying. I silently vowed to never lie to another woman again once I could get out of this situation today. But now that Allison was back in my life, I needed to break it to 659/727
Stephanie that we couldn’t date anymore, but this was not the right place or time. I just prayed she didn’t try to touch me or kiss me in front of Allison again.
“I don’t think I am going to be able to do anything tonight,” I said.
Stephanie raised her eyebrow. “Oh?”
“Yeah, I have a client pitch I am way behind on and forgot about an early morning meeting, so I’m going to need to call it a night after we leave here.”
“I could just hang out at your apartment, make a late dinner and stuff while you work,” she said.
She was not going to make this easy.
Before I could come up with another excuse, Allison reentered the yard and I could see Stephanie’s eyes fixate on her. Allison didn’t make eye contact with me and went straight over to sit with Callie.
I swallowed nervously, somehow sensing that Stephanie knew something.
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When Stephanie got up to refill her wine, I looked over at Allison. To my horror, I spotted a gargantuan hickey on her beautiful neck.
Fuck.
I tried to signal for her to move her hair over it, but she wasn’t paying attention.
Callie then moved behind Allison and said, “I want piggy back.”
“Callie, you’re too big for that,” I heard Allison say.
Callie could care less and began climbing on Allison’s back.
“Ugh…you’re gonna crush me, girl,” Allison laughed and lifted up off the chair with Callie now climbing on her back.
Stephanie reappeared and sat down next to me with her legs crossed, sipping her wine, but not saying anything. We sat silently watching the show that Allison and Callie were putting on.
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Callie was laughing hysterically enjoying the ride Allison was giving her around the yard, when all of a sudden she started sniffing Allison’s neck.
“Smell…smell…smell like Cedric. Allison smell like Cedric!” I heard Callie shout as she laughed and sniffed Allison’s neck.
This stunned me for two reasons.
One: Callie had never used words that well, describing how something smelled. Two: I was fucked.
Stephanie turned to me slowly and glared at me with daggers in her eyes. “You know…I must be the dumbest fucking woman on the face of the Earth. When she walked in the door, I overlooked the fact that your jaw dropped at the sight of her. I overlooked the fact that her name was the same as the one you shouted out in your dreams last night. I overlooked the fact that you were making googly eyes at her throughout lunch and I even overlooked the fact that she 662/727
disappeared with you and magically emerged from your mother’s house with a hickey in the shape of the state of Florida. But that…that…what your sister just said over there…just about seals the deal, doesn’t it?” I was speechless. There was no way to deny it, so I decided to concede to the truth.
“Stephanie, I am sorry.”
Before I could blink, Stephanie threw her full glass of white wine on my shirt.
“Fuck you,” she said before grabbing her purse and storming off through the gate.
That was the end of Stephanie.
All eyes were on me as I sat in shock, my shirt soaked. Thankfully, my mother was still in the kitchen with Denise and hadn’t witnessed it.
Allison kneeled down slowly so that Callie could climb off her back.
Caleb had his head in his hands while he tried to contain and hide his laughter; he was doing a horrible job at that, by the way.
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Allison walked over to me. “I’m sorry, Cedric…that was bad.”
I squeezed my white Ralph Lauren polo shirt to rid it of the excess wine. “I am not
sorry
at
all…you
shouldn’t
be
either…C’mere.” I pulled Allison onto my lap, not caring who was watching and planted a kiss on her lips.
“Cedric, what are you crazy? We shouldn’t do this here in front of everybody,” she said.
“Allison, every single person in this house already knows how crazy I am about you.”
Her face turned a beautiful shade of pink as she blushed, before taking a piece of my wet shirt jokingly into her mouth.
“Mmmm…I love Chardonnay.” She laughed.
“Seriously, you should go inside and change your shirt.”
Caleb wiped his eyes from tears of laughter and walked over to where we were 664/727
sitting. “Bro, I think I have a spare shirt in my truck.”
“Gimme the keys, shithead,” I said as I got up and reached for Allison’s hand.
We walked through the gate to the driveway at front of the house, where I opened Caleb’s backseat to find a navy button down shirt.
I put my hand on Allison’s cheek. “I was gonna offer to drive you home, but I just realized we took Stephanie’s car here, so I am carless.”
“Join the club. Looks like someone’s going to have to slum it and take the train like the rest of us.” She winked.
“Let me go inside and clean up and then we can leave.”
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