He spun away from the window and stopped when he caught sight of Autumn. "Hey," she said.
"Hello. Did you hear?"
"I heard. My sister is a little loud in her demands. Louder than life, and all that."
"I'm sorry. She didn't see you. I didn't see you."
"Denny hid me."
"Right."
"Does she come around often like that?"
"No. I wouldn't have kept something like that from you."
Autumn held a large bag in her hand. "I came with lunch this time. I thought it would make a refreshing change."
"Autumn, I'd never cheat on you."
"When you were talking with Summer, you mentioned about being in a relationship with someone."
"Yeah, I am."
"Oh."
"It's with you, Autumn. I told you, I don't cheat. I don't believe in doing that shit."
"See, I told you that you weren't all a bad guy. Dirty, but not bad."
The scent of the food filled the room, and his mouth started to water.
"What do you have there?"
"I have sandwiches, sweet and savory pastries, and I bought enough for Denny as well. Do you think you could eat?"
"Yeah." His appetite had gone the moment Summer walked into his shop, but he wasn't about to turn down food by his woman.
"I hope you like everything."
"I will."
Denny loved the food, and after a few bites, Carter found his hunger, and they all devoured the food.
Autumn promised to see him that night, and after she left, he found Denny watching him.
"What?"
"You and Autumn make a good couple. I think it's something you need to consider."
"You're my therapist now?"
"Nope. Just a friend." Denny slapped him on the back, leaving him alone with his thoughts.
Chapter Nine
Five months later
"Fuck!" Carter growled the words against her skin. Autumn moaned, watching as he took her ass, filling her. He cupped her breasts, pinching the nipples as he slammed inside her, over and over again. "Your ass is so tight."
Six and a half months they'd been together, and she stood in his bedroom, surrounded by mirrors, her arms wrapped around his neck as he plunged inside her, taking her ass hard. Anal sex had become a personal favorite of hers. There was something so hot and erotic about having Carter deep inside her ass as he fucked her. He kissed her neck, biting down on her pulse.
She couldn't look away from the mirror.
In the past six months he'd broken through every single one of her inhibitions, until she gave herself completely to him. There was nothing she was afraid of anymore. He surrounded her, protected her, and filled a void she never thought was there.
The time she spent with Carter was the best of her life, and part of her was afraid of that. She was getting tired of constantly keeping him secret. She adored him, and knew her feelings were never going to diminish. Her feelings for him were actually getting stronger. There were times she truly believed she loved him.
Fortunately, her sister had stopped trying to get her to go out on an awful date. That was a good thing. She didn't want to have to deal with her sister's work colleagues, and in fact, her time with Summer had dwindled down to a few social lunches.
"Do you see my cock in your ass, baby. How big it is?"
"Yes." He released her body, and she dropped onto the bed.
Carter opened the cheeks of her ass, grunting as he started to fuck her even harder. "Touch yourself. Let me feel you come all over my cock."
Slipping a hand between her thighs, she started to finger her clit, strumming the nub until she came. Her ass tightening around his length started his own orgasm. He gripped her hips, which were covered in finger sized bruises, as he came, flooding her ass with his cum.
They collapsed on the bed together with his cock still inside her. She was panting for breath, pushing hair out of her face. "Is it me, or are we getting better at this?" she said.
"Practice makes perfect, and I think we're getting quite a bit of practice in.
She looked behind her, smiling. "I enjoy being with you. It's fun."
"Why don't you move in with me?"
Autumn froze and stared at him, unblinking. "What?"
"It's just a thought."
"Moving in together is a huge deal, Carter."
"I know."
"Have you really thought it through?"
"Yeah, I have."
"Oh."
"I like you, Autumn, and what we're doing here, it stopped being ‘just some fun' months ago."
It really had. She couldn't deny that. When she spent more time in Carter's bed than her own, it stopped being just fun, and it became more.
Even Hilary, her boss, had told her that something more was going on, especially when they started spending more and more time with each other.
"I don't know. We haven't told anyone."
"Denny knows. Hilary knows."
"Not Summer, not my parents."
"My parents are dead, so no worries there," he said.
She wriggled, and his cock fell out of her ass. Rolling over, she cupped his cheek. "I'm so sorry."
"I don't want to hide this anymore. I don't want to hide us. Summer hasn't been around in a while, and I don't want to pretend something isn't happening, when it clearly is."
She couldn't deny anything. She already knew her feelings for him were not going away.
Their relationship had changed. She even had a toothbrush in his bathroom.
Placing a hand on his chest, she nodded. "Okay. Let me see what I can do. I don't want us to hide who we are either. Moving in, that's a pretty big step. One I'll take after I've told my family."
"There is no need for us to be like this."
Autumn hadn't him about how often Summer talked about him. "I know."
"Summer and I are over. We finished a long time ago, and now she really needs to get over whatever shit she has."
"It's an unwritten rule, Carter."
"Unwritten rule?"
"You don't sleep with your sister's ex. It's against the rules."
"I thought that was about your sister's current boyfriend. I'm not current. I'm way old."
"I don't know. I just know you're not supposed to do a lot of things. I don't want to hurt her, and I don't want to hurt you." She tucked some hair behind her ear. "I'm just going to head into the shower."
Climbing off the bed, she entered his bathroom and turned on the shower. She relished the sudden spray of cold as it hit her skin. Closing her eyes, she turned her face up, trying to clear her head of her worries.
Seconds passed, and Carter stood behind her. He wrapped his arms around her waist, kissing her shoulder. "I'm sorry."
"You have nothing to be sorry for."
"I do. I shouldn't pressure you."
"Carter, none of this is your fault. I asked for us to keep it private because I was worried about how my sister would react. I'll talk to her."
"I was being serious as well. I want you to move in with me."
That was a huge step, one that meant there really was no turning back.
"I'll think about it." She hated telling him that she'd think about it. Autumn wanted to move in with him, wanted that next step.
There was no reason for her to hold back. She didn't want to hold back. Carter was who she wanted.
She had no choice. Confronting Summer was the only option.
****
"Where is the wonderful Autumn?" Denny asked. "Not that I mind the company but for a long time, you and she have been attached at the hip."
"She's at her parents' place. Hopefully talking to Summer."
"Ouch, leaving it to the sister to spill the beans?"
"I wanted to go with her, but she wanted to do it herself. It's her sister, and I don't want to cause any trouble there."
"It's best not to get in between sisters."
Carter took a sip of his beer, wondering what Autumn was doing. Did she need him? "I asked her to move in with me."
Denny spat back into his bottle. "Move in? Like one apartment between the two of you?"
"Crazy right?"
"Dude, have you thought that through?"
"I love her, Denny."
Carter stared at his friend, seeing the shock on Denny's face. "That is a major step up from just fuck buddies."
"Yeah, I knew the moment I got her to agree to that it wouldn't last. I had feelings for her that have been here a long time. I always cared about her, and now, we're both together, at the right age, and it's just right. I want to be with her, and I don't want to hide what I'm feeling either."
"Does she have any idea what you're feeling?"
"No. I don't even know if she loves me back."
"She loves you back."
"You don't know that."
"She does. There's no denying it. A woman who behaves the way she does, she loves you back, but her bond with Summer, being sisters and all that, it's clouding it. She's scared, man."
Carter wanted to believe it, more than anything he wanted to.
"To love."
"To love." He clicked his bottle against Denny's, and wondered how Autumn was getting on. He hated the thought of leaving her to handle her sister. Summer could have a temper on her, and the last thing he wanted to do was for Autumn to be all alone when she dealt with it.