Noah (The Mitchell/Healy Family #1)(75)
Author: Jennifer Foor

“Well, yes. Sort of.”

He let out an air-filled laugh. “Do you have any idea how hard it’s been gettin’ over you?”

“Noah, I-.”

“You what? After six months you thought you could just walk back into my life and I’d be alright with that?”

My eyes felt hot as the tears began to fall. “I’m so sorry, but yes. I was so stupid.”

I turned around to run away, so embarrassed that I’d made a fool out of myself.

“No you’re not.” He grabbed my arm and swung me back around. “It took you long enough.”

I thought I misheard him. “What?”

He laughed. “I said, it took you long enough.”

Noah pulled me closer and our lips met, finally after so long. He lifted me up into his arms mid kiss, ignoring the fact that we had an audience. Nothing mattered except what we were both feeling. Just like he’d always done, I felt complete, and I knew it was right.

Noah’s parents and Bella decided to stay for the rest of the concert, while we left immediately after that. The cab fair to his house was nothing to either of us, for a chance to be alone. We never let go of each other the whole ride, even to catch our breath after long amounts of intense kisses.

Noah paid the cab driver and as soon as he was on his way, he picked me up and carried me inside of his house. We made it to the bed before he let me down. “Tell me again.”

I giggled. I’d said it already on our walk to catch the cab, and several times while in the car. “I love you.”

“Damn, that has a nice ring to it.”

“It better. It’s taking me months to practice it.”

Noah and I sat up, slowly brushing our mouths together again. I couldn’t get enough of him, and how just little things made me feel. He tugged on my dress and finally got it over my head. Within seconds his shirt was gone and I ran my hands over his hard, bare chest. “Tell me how this is goin’ to work, again.”

I continued to place pecks over his lips as I spoke and unhooked my bra. “The tours run four days a week for the next three months. Most of the cities are on the east coast, so I can catch a flight same day if I need to.”

“And on weekends I can come with you,” He added as he kissed the inside of my shoulder.

“Exactly,” I closed my eyes and savored the way his lips felt as they slid over my skin toward my breast. “Then once the tour’s done I’ll be off for a while to work on new material.”

He licked my already hardened nipple. “We’ll make it work.”

My head fell back when his touch became overwhelming. “Yes,” I purred.

Noah stopped what he was doing and looked up into my eyes. I felt scared seeing him like that. “You’re sure you want to live here?”

“I’m very sure.”

“And you’re not goin’ to wake up one day and tell me to take you to the airport?” He was still struggling with the idea of having me back. It only reminded me how important I was to him.

“Not unless you really piss me off,” I teased.

“I love it when you threaten me. It makes my dick hard.”

“I think we can do something about that.” I reached down his pants and took a hold of his warm, hard erection. I’d thought about him when I was alone in my bed at night. I’d imagined him being inside of me, bringing me both pain and pleasure at the same time. I’d longed for this reconnect, in hopes that it would happen.

I’d forgiven his wrongdoings, and gotten past my own. We had a fresh start, a clean slate, to rewrite what had gone wrong. I wasn’t going to ruin it, and I knew Noah wouldn’t either.

Noah didn’t take his time ripping off my panties, nor did he hesitate when I unfastened the belt that I’d bought for him. Though I did smile when I noticed he was wearing it. Once we were naked in his bed, he hovered over me, taking me in like it was our first time together. He ran his hand between my br**sts and watched himself doing it. I spread my legs when he made his way past my belly button. One finger slid in between my lips, rubbing over my sensitive clit. I jumped, having gone so long without being touched by another. I started moving my hand over his shaft again, working him with the same pace his fingers were going. Noah stopped what he was doing and scrunched up his face. “You’re goin’ to have to stop that. It’s been too long for me, darlin’. I need to be inside of you.”

“Darlin’,” I mocked.

“I forgot you hate that.”

“I’ve never missed being called a name so much in my life.”

“Good, because I didn’t plan on stoppin’.” We kissed tenderly with so much feeling. “I love you, darlin’.”

When I heard that I started to giggle. I’d sang those words so many times practicing. Hearing them from the man who’d been the inspiration to that song seemed so unreal. I couldn’t get over the fact that I was in his bed again, planning our future, as if no time had passed. We had a ton to sort through, but we could do it together. If things didn’t work out for us it wouldn’t be because we didn’t try. I was going to give Noah my all, and if my career got in the way, I’d give it up in a heartbeat to make it right. He might not have known it, but he was my dream come true, and I knew my mother had given him to me. She was out there, watching me, and leading me in the right direction.

Noah

Six months later

I could hear the roosters sounding, but I couldn’t get out of bed. There was a naked body on top of me that I refused to wake up. She’d been on the road for the past week, and after her travels home, and making love all night long, she was exhausted.

Then my cousin came barging into the room without knocking. “Guys, geesh, do you ever wear clothes?”

“This is our room, you know?” I said as I pulled the covers over Shalan.

“I just checked the charts. Guess what?”

I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes while I spoke, and felt Shalan moving over to the side. “What?”

“Broken Love Darlin’ is number one.”

The room filled with screams and suddenly my already filled bed had another body in it. Bella jumped on and wrapped her arms around Shalan as they both began to wail in excitement. “Oh.My.God.Number.One.”

They rocked back and forth repeating it over and over again.

Not paying my cousin any mind, I climbed out of the bed, naked, and walked to the bathroom. She could only see my ass for a second, but that didn’t stop her from making a comment. “Eww. You need to shave. The next time I see that hairy ass I’m callin’ the zoo to come groom you.”