YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE ALONE

Early Arrival

Brianne had been rushing around all day. She had spent part of the morning packing for herself and Big. For the four-day stay in Chicago, Big needed the food and water he was accustomed to, so he didn’t get sick. Good thing the large animal loved riding in the car. He had always been a good traveler. She had been going back and forth from her father’s house, making sure dinner would be ready when Josh arrived.

If her pharmacist hadn’t called to remind her, she would have forgotten her prescription. She had just gotten home when Big barked at an unfamiliar car in the drive. A large SUV pulled up next to her reliable old car and a man stepped out.

“Josh!” she gasped. She glanced in the mirror. She’d been rushing about and she looked as harassed as she felt! She pushed her hair out of her eyes, then she spotted her prescription – her birth control pills! She swept them into the desk drawer as the doorbell rang.

Big barked once.

“Like him, okay? He’s gonna be buying your dog food soon – maybe.”

Brianne opened the door.

Oh, God, she looked so good, Josh thought. Her cheeks were flushed and she had a shy smile on her face. “I’m a little early. I couldn’t wait.”

“Come on in,” she said breathlessly.

As she closed the door, Big approached Josh. Correctly, he stood still and let Big sniff until the dog was convinced he was an okay person.

“He likes his ears rubbed,” Brianne murmured to Josh.

Josh did so until the big dog leaned into his legs.

“You’ve got a friend,” Brianne chuckled.

“I’m glad.” Josh extended a hand to Brianne. “Can I kiss you now, baby?”

“Please.” She came into his arms. As he increased the pressure to part her lips, she opened eagerly for him.

“I’ve missed you so bad, Bree,” he groaned against her neck. He nipped at her sweet spot, then sucked hungrily at it. “Baby? —“

“Oh, yes!” Brianne took his hand and led him to her bedroom. She pushed at the bottom of his shirt up his chest. Her mouth moved over his warm flesh.

Josh moaned with pleasure. He’d been afraid he’d was losing her love, but here she was just as enthusiastic as ever to love him. “Baby, let me.”” He began unbuttoning her flannel shirt and shoved it off her shoulders. Instead of a bra she was wearing a tee shirt. He could see her nipples already peaking beneath the thin fabric.

Brianne moved away.

“Baby?” His eyes followed her as she moved to the open door. Watching her close it, he heard the ‘click’ of the lock.

“I’ve never made love with Big around. I don’t know what he’d do and he can turn door knobs,” she explained as she came towards him once more.

Josh could only imagine the size of bite the huge canine could take out of his rear end!

Brianne whipped off her tee shirt and kicked off her shoes.

Josh followed suit, discarding his shirt and footwear. “Come here, Bree. I’ve got to feel your skin against mine.”

Lifting her to the bed, he moved above her, raining kisses over her face, neck and shoulders. “I don’t ever want to be without you this long again. I can’t do it. I need you, Bree. I really do need you.”

She brought his mouth back to hers, luring his tongue between her lips, sucking and mating. He felt so wonderful, so hard, so hot. Her hands moved over his torso, hungrily relearning the contours of his body. “I have to have you – now!” she told him breathlessly. “I want you inside me, Josh! Please.”

Making fast work of the remainder of their clothes, Josh moved between her thighs. “Bree, look at me,” he commanded. When she raised her eyes to his, their gaze locked. “Know it’s me, baby. Every inch of me loving you.” Slowly, he eased into her. Brianne gasped at the purely sexual demand in his face. “Feel me. This is something you don’t want to live without, baby girl.” He increased his thrusts.

“Josh…”

“What, Bree?”

She shook her head and met his mouth for another hot kiss. “You feel so wonderful.” She lifted her legs around him, to draw him deeper.

“Damn!” he grunted as he sank even deeper into her. Josh lowered his mouth over hers, drinking in her little cries and whimpers. He’d been starved for this – the feel of Brianne’s body joined with his. Lately, this was the only time he was sure of her, when he made her helpless with pleasure. Feeling her body tense, he drove in harder. Her fingernails dug into his back, but he didn’t care; it was a sweet pain. When she tore her mouth away from his, crying his name, they took their stunning release together.

Josh leaned heavily against her for a moment, panting from the exertion. Rolling to his back, he carried her along to rest on his chest.

“God! Baby, it just keeps getting better!” he exclaimed when he could breathe again.

Brianne often believed she had built the pleasure up in her mind, that it couldn’t possibly be as breath-taking and devastating as she remembered – then when they were together, reality proved more exciting than memory! Taking a shaky breath, she pushed the hair out of her eyes. “You’re early.”

“I couldn’t wait any longer, knowing you were only hours away. I got up this morning, ready to head out. Mom reminded me you wouldn’t appreciate me showing up for lunch.” He nipped lightly at her lips. “By ten, I was champing at the bit. I had to be with you.”

“I didn’t expect you until dinner at six. I haven’t even had time for lunch.”

“Then I’ll go make your lunch,” he offered. He began to leave the bed when a soft hand on his back halted him.

“I hurt you.” Brianne moved to her knees behind him. She bathed the half-moon nail marks with kisses. “I’m sorry, baby.”

“I’m okay, Bree. I love it when you lose it like that.”

“Come back to bed, Josh,” she commanded huskily.

“But lunch—“

She tugged him backwards until he lay flat on the mattress, straddling him. “I don’t have time for lunch.”

“You don’t?” he asked innocently.

“Are you complaining?”

She was sitting on his thighs, stroking him into hardness again. What was there to complain about? “No, ma’am” She lightly ran her fingernails along the underside of his erection, making him moan softly. “I see the one-eyed crotch monster wasn’t satisfied.”

“He is a rather demanding fellow.”

“One of these days, I’m going to find out what it takes to satiate it.”

Josh gave her a tender smile. “You can try, baby. Maybe a hundred years of your love.” He flipped her to her back. “How do you want it this time, Bree? I’ll make love to you anyway you want.”

She teased his lips with her finger, receiving a playful nip. “I really should kill two birds with one stone. We could make love in the shower…”

“If that’s what you’re needing from me—“

“No.” Brianne lifted her head, licking his lower lip, drawing it into her mouth to suck lightly. Hearing him nearly whimper with pleasure made her smile.

“Baby, I am so hard already.”

“Want me to take care of that?” she asked. Despite of all she had heard before meeting him about the unpleasantness, she actually enjoyed loving him with her mouth.

What a generous offer! He shook his head. “No, baby, I want to pleasure you.”

She arched up against him, luxuriating in the feel of his body on hers. “Then slow and sweet, until we dissolve with bliss.

“Then that’s how it’ll be, angel.”

Josh started by making love to her mouth. The slow slide of his tongue against hers was just the beginning.

“Half-pint, where in the hell are you?” came her brother’s voice.

“At home, obviously, or you wouldn’t be talking to me,” she mused.

Josh, who had been awakened by the phone, began trailing open-mouthed kisses along her shoulder.

“It’s four and I turned the bird like you said—“

“Four! Oh, my God!” She looked at her bedside clock and groaned.

“I take it your boyfriend got there a little early,” Jeff taunted.

“I hate you, you know,” she quipped.

“Only, ‘cuz I’m right. You’ll get over it.”

“Jeff—“

“Tell lover boy to get off you, take a shower and get dressed. I’ll cover for you a while longer.”

“Thanks. But you’re still a bully.”

“Yeah, but you still love me.”

“I do. Heaven knows why. Thanks, Jeff.”

Ringing off, Brianne rolled to her back as Josh came over her. “Oh, no, you don’t! You’re getting here early has made me late enough!” she protested laughingly.

He grinned. “Sorry, baby.”

“That’s doesn’t exactly sound sincere.”

More serious, he smoothed her hair. “What can I do to help?”

“I’m all packed. The pile is in the living room.”

“The pile?”

“We’re taking a large dog, with large requirements.”

“Okay. I can load the car. What else?”

Brianne rose from the bed. “I have to get over to Dad’s and finish dinner. You can bring Big over at six. He likes car rides.”

“Anything else?”

“Come take a shower with me?” she asked, arching an eyebrow.

Josh smiled slowly. He and Brianne and a shower were sort of like them and a bed – the inevitable happened. “Need a shampoo boy?”

She nodded. “And a lover man.”

“That’s a role I was born to play.”