Noah (The Mitchell/Healy Family #1)(2)
Author: Jennifer Foor

I should have closed my eyes, looking away from the prize in front of me. Unlike her sister, her golden colored hair shined against the light of the ceiling fan above us. Her light blue eyes were surrounded by redness, and the pain and fear had left her looking desperate and confused. “Don’t climb –.”

Her body was in front of me, slowly moving onto my lap. She leaned in and kissed me softly on the lips. The taste of her salty mouth only reminded me of how much pain I’d caused her, though I couldn’t bring myself to stop. The hunger inside of me increased for her, and as our tongues collided and meshed together, I felt my dick taking control of my decision.

When I pulled away it gave me a few seconds to come to terms with the mistake I was about to make. As much as I wanted to, I knew I couldn’t let it happen. I turned my head, rejecting her next attempt for a kiss. I think she knew right then that I wasn’t going to let it happen anymore. “Please. I love –.”

The mere mention of that word was enough to scare me away from any relationship that I’d had in the past. There hadn’t ever been time in my life for love. Perry had been the first woman that I’d considered getting serious with, and my actions had only personified the fact that I wasn’t ready.

With a determined look on my face, I pulled away and rested my forehead on hers. “I can’t. I’m sorry.”

She cupped my cheeks and waited for me to open my eyes and look at her. “One last time? Let me show you what you’re giving up. I don’t want to lose you.”

The constant urge between my legs was giving me the go-ahead, while my mind fought with that decision tooth and nail. I picked Perry’s petite body up and sat her back down on the couch beside me. “Jesus, Per. I told you I can’t do this. Please don’t make this harder than it already is. I care about you, but it ain’t goin’ to work out. Enough is enough. I’ve got too much goin’ on in my life right now.”

“There’s always a reason, so if it isn’t me then you need to tell me what it is. I know you aren’t happy at home, but that has nothing to do with us. You can get another job while we’re still together. Just tell me.” She waited for me to reply, but I kept quiet. Perry turned, grabbing my shirt and shaking me. “Please, just tell me. Tell me why you don’t want me anymore. Give me a reason to let you walk away, because right now it hurts too much to think about.”

I covered my face with my hands, realizing that it would have been easier to do all of this over the phone like every other pu**y my age would have done. “Would you just stop? I’m just not into this anymore. It’s old and I want out.”

I was lying through my teeth, avoiding the real truth to spare her heart for breaking even more. Why couldn’t women just let things go? Why did they have to keep digging for answers all of the time?

“You slept with someone else, didn’t you?” She sniffled and wiped her tears before continuing. “Who is she, Noah? Do I know her? Is it one of your old girlfriends? Is that why you won’t tell me? Did you f**k one of them while I was away? How could you do this to me? How could you?” she repeated.

Before I could deny anything she was saying the front door shut and we turned to see her sister standing there, looking at what was happening. She dropped a bag of groceries and looked to be in some kind of trance. She finally looked over at me and I attempted to shake my head, as a silent plea for her to stay quiet. I could see the words coming out of her mouth before I could hear them.

“Per, I’m so sorry. We didn’t mean for it to happen.”

And there it was.

She’d walked in hearing half of a sentence, seeing Perry a mess, and thought I’d told her sister that we’d slept together. Her apology was something that neither of us saw coming, and neither was the fist to my face that followed it. I clenched my jaw as I stood up and turned to see her hauling ass toward her sister, knocking her on the foyer floor.

While a cat fight could be considered sexy, this was far from being that. I’d destroyed the friendship between these two sisters, just like I ruined everything else in my life.

Once I had Perry by the back of her hair, I slowly lifted her off of her sister, giving her enough time to grab her purse and leave. When I released my hold on her, Perry fell to the floor and began to sob.

That’s probably where I should have walked out the door and changed my cell phone number. Instead, being the man I was, I crouched down and wrapped my arms around her. “I’m sorry, Per. It was an accident and I didn’t want it to turn out this way. I was tryin’ to avoid this exact thing from happenin’, darlin’.”

She turned and looked like she was possessed by the devil as she spoke. “Get out! GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HOUSE!”

I made it to the door before a remote control hit the back of my head. When I turned I noticed her arm cocked back with something else to throw at me. I pointed my finger and then walked out before she could do it.

It took me a while to leave the parking lot of her apartment building, and even longer to call her sister to let her know what a huge mistake she’d made in assuming that I’d confessed our little secret. As much as it was selfish, I was glad that it was no longer my burden to keep. I had enough on my plate to deal with, and the sooner I took care of everything, the sooner I could figure out what I wanted to do with my life, because god knows I didn’t want to work on the ranch anymore. I just needed to figure out how to tell my family, without it blowing up in my face, like this had.

After all, at the end of the day I knew family was the most important thing in life. Without them I was nothing, so I had to find a way to break free without destroying my relationship with them.

There had to be a way.

Noah

There’s nothing like falling asleep and having a dream about a sexy brunette with her legs wrapped around my waist, naked and ready for what I’m about to give her. I knew I was sleeping, because this particular woman had a knack for talking too much. This moment was too perfect to be real.

In my dream her eyes, a crazy bright blue, were gleaming at me with entice. Her lips still wet from where her own tongue had stroked over them. I could still see the hint of glitter from the gloss she’d been wearing before our kissing rubbed it off. I licked my own and tasted the flavor of strawberry. Highlighted curls hung down to where her tank top met her skin, which happened to be extremely close to her ni**les. I knew from being with her in the past that she had a set of tits worth memorizing, with matching silver dollar ni**les that I’d sucked on more times than I could count.