Unbreakable Forever: A New Adult Romance Novel (8 page)

“Yeah
. Yeah, man,” Jarrett said through a painful gasp.

Matt pressed the bat into him again with his powerful arm. “You sure this time?”

“Yeah, yeah, man, I’m done. I promise. It’s not worth it.” Jarrett locked his eyes on Matt in a plea.

Matt flipped the fat end of the bat into his hand
. His eyes narrowed on Jarrett one last time before walking toward Devon.

“You okay, man?”

Devon was still shaken up from the thought of Erin getting hurt. It was almost too much for him to take. “Yeah, man. I’m good.”

“Dude, you’re like Superman when you’re pissed. Don’t let me get on your bad side.” Matt snorted.

“Don’t worry, I won’t
,” he said, palming his friend on the back.

Devon jogged toward Erin and picked her up off the ground, spinning her around. “You okay
?”

“Yes, I’m fine.” Devon buried his
face into her shoulder, her soft curls massaging him while his body lightened from her sweet embrace.  All of his pain washed away in one moment with her.

I prepared
my documentary for submission and pressed “Send.” The thought of being separated from Devon for four years made my chest ache and my body feel cold. I knew that if I could get in, we would stay together forever. He always told me that he just wanted to be with me. But I knew in my heart I could not let him throw this opportunity away. I couldn’t think about what would happen over four years of separation. The pain was too much.

Over the next several weeks, I opened the mailbox
in eagerness, hoping for the same thick letter that Devon had received that brought him the unexpected news. Weeks passed, and nothing came. I watched the summer days pass by, wondering if they would be the last wonderful moments that I would spend with the man I had fallen so deeply in love with before life showed me a cruel hand and separated us from each other forever.

Devon always encouraged me, telling me that the documentary was nothing less than brilliant, and that S
tanford would see my potential—that they would be crazy not to see my talent. But I knew he only told me these things because he loved me.
Can I really compete with the best and brightest applying to one of the best colleges in the nation?
My breath hitched at the intimidating thought.

Devon took me out to get my mind off my documentary. He dressed up like he was going to an exclusive engagement.

“What’s the occasion?” I chuckled at him.

“Do you have to ask? I’m going out with the most beau
tiful girl in the world.”

Devon lifted my hand
to his lips and planted a gentle kiss on my hand. “You get more stunning every day, Erin. I swear I could eat you up right here.”

“There’s no one here
,” I said, biting my lip with a shy smile. He’d met me at my house before dinner. My mom had been taking frequent trips. Devon was right again. Once they gave her a raise, they were going to take it in more hours and more work. He had his protective eye on her now, which tickled my mom and made her love him even more.

But no
one saw this side of Devon except for me. The generous, kind, strong man was not a gentleman in the bedroom. His look was savage, filled with dark desire and longing for me. My body lit up when his eyes stroked over every inch of me.

“Don’t tempt me like that.
” Devon’s eyes burned into me as he moved closer to me. He placed his large hands over the curves of my hips. He slid his fingers over me and pulled me close to him. “I love being around you every day, baby. But I can’t stand not being able to touch you. Pretending that I don’t want to rip that bathing suit off you and have you right there. You drive me crazy every day. I want you to know that. You torture me every day. Now I’m going to make you pay for it,” he said as a mischievous smile curved his mouth.

“There’s nothing stopping you
right now.” My heart was pounding as waves of heat washed over my body.

“You’re right. That’s why I’m going to have you right now.”
Devon moved his hand through my hair and over my cheek to angle my mouth to his. He took me with the possessive sweetness I had grown accustomed to, melting me with a hot kiss and moving his tongue over my lips as if to enjoy the taste. “You’re all mine, baby. You always will be.”

My body fluttered with happiness at the thought, even as heat rushed
from his kiss down to my stomach. I spent the whole day with Devon, watching his long lean body every day, pretending I did not want to run my hands down the throbbing muscles of his arms, over his strong pectoral muscles and over the flat slabs of muscle of his stomach. I saw the way other girls looked at him, and I also knew that he belonged to me. But to spend every day so close to him without doing what I wanted to do was as tormenting for me as he said it was for him.

It only added to the sexual tension in our relationship, where we could ravage each other even more passionately later.
Devon was looking at me like I was the main course tonight. I was wearing a bright blue surf dress that tightly hugged the curves of my body. I wanted him to want me the way I wanted him.

Now that he was in my arms, now that I could have him, I wanted all of him. Devon
moved his hands over my body and up to my breasts, rubbing his thumbs over my nipples through the fabric of my dress. My nipples hardened immediately from his touch, and my center filled with need. “You’re so sexy like this, baby. So sweet and sexy.” Devon played with my nipples and watched me squirm from his touch. His face was dark with lust for me. I felt so sexual and appreciated.

“Are you there yet
? Can I make you come this way?” My breathing turned to hitched pants as he kept massaging my nipples mercilessly. Throbbing want turned to anguish as he unzipped my dress and moved his large hands over my body while he kissed my neck. Devon’s eyes grew darker with desire as he continued his erotic assault. He slid my dress down to expose my bra, and moved his hands over my breasts through the fabric, massaging and cupping them while letting out a deep, bearish groan. “You’re so sweet. Come for me, baby. Can you come for me this way?”

His deep voice asking me to come made me wet
inside from his command, and his thumbs moved over my nipples to make my body squirm in his arms. “Not yet?” His playing made me thrust up against his arousal, but Devon was not finished with me. He unfastened my bra strap, his eyes growing wide at the sight of my swelling breasts. “So goddamn beautiful,” he moaned as my bra fell to the floor.

His lips came down
over my hardened nipple while his hand cupped the other. His lips and tongue suctioned my nipple into maddening, tortured desire, and I leaned my head back and arched my back to give him free rein over my body, now burning up inside. He suckled on my breasts, moving from one to the other while his fingers pinched and teased the other. His stubble brushed against my nipple before his hot mouth began another carnal assault.

He rubbed
his thumb over my peaks again while he nibbled on my other nipple. My body was on the edge of anguish and orgasm, and there he would keep me. All I could do was move and squirm between the ecstasy and the torment that he had been inflicting on me. He showed no mercy, not bringing me to full orgasm until he had his fill of me. I rocked my pelvis toward him to feel his arousal against me, but his assault was unrelenting, refusing the climax that was so close and had me begging for sweet release. I loved him and hated him at the same time for doing this to me.

Devon tugged at
my panties from under my dress, and planted a kiss on my mouth that muffled a moan that escaped from me. But instead of pulling my panties down and giving me sweet relief, he rocked my pelvis toward his hardness and tortured me some more with hot, open-mouthed kisses over my mouth and neck, scrambling my brain with desire. Finally he moved his strong fingers over my panties, now wet from the ongoing assault. He pulled them down and moved his fingers inside me, creating a tidal wave of desire that washed over me in sweet release. I held on to him for dear life. My clenched fists opened against his chest, and I grabbed onto his shoulders as the explosive climax ripped through me and electrified every cell of my body. I shrieked before I collapsed in his arms.

Devon held me close
, and I felt his strong jaw rest on my head. After I caught my breath, I reached for his jacket and pulled it over his shoulders, feeling the bunched muscles of his shoulders before tossing it onto the floor. Devon looked down at me and smiled with anticipation. I worked the buttons on his shirt, my eyes wide with delight. “My turn,” I growled as I peeled his shirt off him and dropped it onto the floor.

My hands traveled
over his chest and toward the bottom of his T-shirt. I pulled his T-shirt over him and tossed it next to his jacket and shirt, now crumpled by our feet. My small hands molded over the powerful muscles of his chest before meandering down the silky, warm muscles of his stomach, and down to his waist. I unfastened his belt and wrapped it around him, pulling him close to me.

“You are trapped now.” My mouth turned up in a coy smile.

“Uh-oh. No escape,” he breathed.

I planted
warm kisses across his chest and shoulder. Devon’s arms wound over my back, and over the curves of my hips. He leaned back as I peppered his chest with hot kisses, and trailed and sucked and kissed my way down to the center of his stomach and toward his waist, leaving a trail of heat in its wake.

I reached for his
crotch, which strained against his bulge. I unbuttoned the top button and zipped him down, and his erection sprang forward against the cotton fabric of his briefs. I pulled the fabric down and felt his hardness with my small hand, not even able to grip half of his length.

Erin’s scent and sweet taste had pushed him to the brink. Devon grabbed a condom from his pants pocket, and took her upstairs and into her bedroom. He pulled her panties all the way down, and breathed deep with an erection hard as marble. Erin marveled at his power as she flicked her eyes down and back up at him. She bit her finger and gazed up at him with excited anticipation. Her innocent look had Devon reeling now, and he had to have her. Devon pulled her onto the bed and dragged the condom over his full length. Erin sat on top of him, supported by his powerful arms as he sat her down, and with one thrust, he pushed into her. Erin gasped and held onto to him.

Erin shifted her pelvis
to take him even deeper. Erin’s full lips parted and her eyes fluttered as he thrust into her, their bodies moist and gleaming from the heat detonating inside them. Her sweet sounds made him even harder, and sent him to the brink. But when Erin lifted her hands from him to cup her breasts, Devon nearly lost it right there. Her fingers plucked at her nipples while she rode on top of him. Erin let herself go in the pleasure of the moment as Devon ravaged her over and over. The sight of her biting her lip and pinching her nipples in sensual ecstasy made Devon even more excited for her, appreciating her sensual beauty, which he felt all the way to his core.

They were both caught up in the pleasure of the moment, and nothing else mattered in the world. Erin’s face shone with erotic joy that
pushed Devon into unbelievable pleasure at having her. He burst into her, and she moaned and whimpered before the muscles of her channel clenched around him. Throwing her head back, she exploded with him. Erin collapsed next to him.

“
That was incredible. You look so damn beautiful, I can hardly take any more,” he huffed in exhaustion. Erin smiled happily and stretched her arms around him, and rested her head on his broad chest.

About four weeks later, Devon came in the office with a bouquet of red spray roses and white daisies, chrysanthemums, and lemon leaves, and his other hand ceremoniously behind his back. The scent was heavenly. “What’s the occasion?” I said, smelling the wonderful scent that permeated through me.

“Red and white, Cardinal col
ors,” he said with a knowing smile.

“I haven’t heard anything.”
My eyes grew big at the realization of what was happening.

Devon placed the flowers on the desk
and turned toward me. He placed his arms around me and looked at me with his wide green eyes.

“What?”
My heart began to race, and a thousand thoughts rushed through my mind.
Does he know something? He wouldn’t mess with me like this, would he?

Devon moved his arms around me
from behind, and kissed the top of my head. His warm, firm lips caressed my head, and he moved down and pressed his lips to my ear. “You haven’t heard anything?”

“No.”

“You haven’t heard anything?”

“No!” I insisted. My face flushed when he plopped a large envelope from Stanford on the desk.

“I stopped by y
our house to get the mail. I couldn’t wait. I hope you don’t mind.”

We both looked at the envelope on the desk. I
stood up, and jumped up and down in his arms and closed my eyes.
Am I dreaming? Is this real? Did I get in? Will our futures be sealed together forever?