Undeniable You (Sapph in the City #4)

Chapter 25

Chapter Twenty-Five

Jo

Sophie had gone all out with Juniper. They’d had a whole princess night. She’d brought books and movies and even a purple sparkly dress for Juniper to wear that she’d refused to take off and was now sleeping in.

“I decided to choose my battles and I wasn’t going to fight that one,” Sophie said when we got back.

Both Larison and I were moving slow from the massages, but I had plans to get her naked and make her fuck me slowly. Let her call me a good girl and make me plead for her to let me come. Letting Larison edge me was my new favorite activity even if I hated her a little for it.

“Smart woman,” Larison said, hugging Sophie and thanking her.

“It’s still early enough so I’m heading to Sapph. Reid’s working and I think she could use a distraction.” She wiggled her eyebrows and went to the bathroom to change into a skintight dress that I knew Reid was going to love.

“Oh, she’s going to lose her mind,” I said when Sophie came out. She giggled. “I know. Have a good night, you two.”

Sophie waved and left us with a quiet apartment.

“I wish we could have brought those robes with us, not going to lie,” Larison said while we got ready for bed after checking on Juniper.

“Those robes were seriously soft. I’ll check and see if they sell them online. Or maybe we can go back and steal them.”

I’d started to unbutton my shirt, but Larison pushed my hands aside to take over.

“You look so good. I could barely keep my hands off you.” Her fingers worked slowly and I wanted to tell her to hurry, but I knew what she was doing. Larison liked to tease and I enjoyed letting her.

“Do you have any plans for our second date?” I asked

She looked up from the last button as she pushed my shirt off my shoulders and down my arms.

“Our first one isn’t over yet.”

She pushed me to sit on the bed and got on her knees to pull my pants slowly off my legs.

We had all night and she was going to make me work for it.

Larison threw my pants to the other side of the room and looked up at me. I ran my fingers through her hair and sighed.

“I love you.”

The words just slipped right out of my mouth. As if they’d been waiting for their moment and my tongue hadn’t been paying attention.

Her eyes flew wide.

“I’m sorry. I didn’t…I mean, I did mean it, but I didn’t mean to say it like this.” I’d planned to do something more dramatic. Not when we were taking our clothes of before we had sex.

But now the words were out, and I couldn’t reel them back.

“It’s too soon and I don’t expect you to say it back—” Larison put her palm against my mouth to stop me. That was usually only something she did when she was worried that I’d wake up Juniper.

“I love you too. I realized it, I guess, tonight at the table. That was why I was a little distracted. I’ve felt that way for a while, but it really hit me. So. I love you, Josephine.”

She removed her hand and gazed up at me.

“Come here,” I said, pulling her onto the bed with me.

Our mouths met fiercely and tenderly as we showed each other how we felt after saying the words. It didn’t matter if it was fast or too soon or any of those things. This was right for us.

“I love you,” I said the second our lips weren’t touching.

“I love you,” she agreed as she fumbled to get my bra and underwear off. At the same time, I wrestled with the zipper of her dress until she gave me a hand and peeled it off.

“Look at you,” she said, pressing me onto my back. She still had her bra and underwear on. Tonight they were black lace and I couldn’t take my eyes off her.

“Look at you , Larison. Holy shit.”

She bit her lip. “You like?”

“I love ,” I told her.

“You’ve got to be quiet, my girl,” Larison said a while later as she pressed her hand against my mouth and tortured my clit with one of her vibrators. She had quite a collection and they were all high end. I thanked my lucky stars.

I nodded and did my best to hold back my noises. Couldn’t wake up Juniper.

Larison had started calling me her girl and it made things so much more intense. Yes. I was hers. She had me and she could do what she wanted with me.

She removed her hand but gave me a stern look that made things even hotter. How did she do that?

“I’m going to come,” I did my best to whisper, but it sounded like I was being strangled.

“That’s right. You’re going to come because you’re my good girl and I’ve decided it’s time for you to come.” Those words and the angle and intensity of the vibrator were all I needed to get there. She put her hand on my mouth and I had to focus so I didn’t bite her hand. We didn’t need a trip to the emergency room in the middle of the night.

My orgasm shot up my spine, taking hold of my entire body and obliterating everything else. I didn’t think or breathe or control the way my body moved as the waves pulled me under.

I’d never come so hard as I did with Larison. She reached inside and pulled pleasure out of me that I didn’t know was possible.

“Fuck, I love you,” I said when she turned the vibrator off and gazed down at me with a smirk on her face.

“I love watching you fall apart knowing I’m the one responsible.”

“You definitely are. Hey, how do you feel about strap ons?” I’d been thinking about it for a few days. I’d never used one with a partner, but I was curious to try.

“Oh. I don’t know. Is it something you’re interested in?” She set the vibrator aside and lay on her side facing me, propping her head on her arm. For a moment, I forgot how to speak because she was so gorgeous and so naked.

“Uh yeah. Have you ever used one?”

She shook her head. “But I’m not opposed to it. I think it could be pretty hot. Do you want me to fuck you with a strap, Josephine?”

If I hadn’t before, I did now.

“Yeah. Hell yeah.”

She laughed softly and stroked some of my sweaty hair out of my face. “I think we can make that happen.”

“I’ve got a bunch of dildos that can work with a harness. We’d just have to get the harness.” Now that we’d started talking about it, I couldn’t think about anything else. I should have just ordered a harness so I could have pulled it out and asked her to go for it.

“Do you want me to order one? Or do you want to pick one out for me?” Oh. I liked that idea. I could search online and pick the best one.

“Yeah. I like that.”

“Me too.” She traced random patterns on my stomach. “I love you.”

“I love you, Larison.”

“So. What are your intentions with our daughter?” Allison said, keeping her face expressionless.

“Mama, stop it,” Larison said, rolling her eyes.

Allison’s face crinkled into a smile. “I had to at least try.”

“It was a solid effort, darling,” Lara said, kissing her wife on the cheek.

“Me! Me!” Juniper said, jumping up from her seat and running over to be smothered in kisses by her grandmothers until she begged them to stop through giggles.

The five of us sat outside at a table in the backyard right near the pool that Juniper was itching to dive into. To make things easier, Larison and I had been in charge of most of the food, even though Lara had protested and made a bunch of desserts anyway. Allison was still having a hard time getting around, but that didn’t stop her from volunteering to do things for us.

“I think I’d like to answer that actually,” I said, reaching for Larison’s hand.

Lara and Allison waited for me to continue as I tried to think of the right words to tell them how much their daughter and granddaughter meant to me.

“I told myself that I would officially start my life after I graduated from school. That I’d make no major decisions or get into any relationships until I had my degree. It would only distract me from my education. And then I met your daughter, and everything changed. I don’t know how to explain what happened to me when she and I met, but it was like…like I knew. I knew that everything had changed. That nothing would ever be the same.”

I met Larison’s eyes and she smiled at me, taking my breath away. She had a habit of doing that.

Lara let out a little sigh. “That was very beautifully said, Jo. I think I need to give you a hug.” I was fine with that, so she got up from her chair and hugged me. She smelled like so many baked things and I couldn’t help but breathe deeply. My own mother hadn’t really had time to do much baking when I was younger. I’d always dreamed about having a mom who baked cookies.

“You can’t say things like that, or my moms are going to like you better than they like me,” Larison said, winking and then leaning over to kiss me.

“I don’t think so,” I told her.

“How is everything with the bookstore going?” Lara asked as we ate fried chicken and potato salad and corn and fresh fruit salad.

“I wish Gram were here to see it,” Larison said. “I think I’m going to put up a framed picture of her or something.”

“She’s looking down on you and so proud. I know it,” Lara said, her eyes sparkling with a few unshed tears.

“Just as proud as we are,” Allison said.

“Mamaaaa, no grapes!” Juniper said. I’d thought that I’d removed all the offensive fruit from her plate, but one must have slipped my notice.

“Just put it on my plate, baby,” Larison said calmly.

Juniper dumped the sliver of a grape on Larison’s plate and went back to her potato salad.

“It’s going to be amazing when it opens,” I said.

“Hopefully,” Larison said. She’d shared with me her anxiety about the store doing well, and I’d done my best to soothe her worries, but only time would tell if the business would be successful. There was no way to see into the future. Very frustrating. One thing I did know was that no one would work harder or care more than Larison. She wasn’t just doing this for herself, she was doing it for Juniper, and she’d do anything for that kid.

“We’re always here to help,” Allison said. “I mean it. I’m not an invalid. I can still help out if you need.”

Larison’s lips twitched as if she wanted to argue, but I gave her a look.

“I know, Mama,” she said with a sigh.

“We go in the pool now?” Juniper said, shoving her plate away.

“Can you wait just a few minutes? We’re still eating.”

Juniper pouted.

“Princesses, wait until the other people at the table have finished,” I told her. This was a strategy I’d used several times with great success.

“Okayyyyy,” Juniper said, dragging the word out. She started whispering to Mozzarella.

I turned to find Lara and Allison watching me.

“We’re so happy you’re here with us,” Lara said.

Something big and intense clogged my throat with too many emotions at once.

“So am I.”