Page 39 of My Ex-Best Men (Ex Marks the Spot #4)

***Anthony***

I was already on the porch waiting for Claire’s vanishing act the next morning.

After another night of insane sex, I figured she’d be too confused and conflicted to stay and chat.

I was ready for her, though. She stepped out on the porch with a pair of heels in her hands and silently closed the door with her face pinched in concentration.

Just as she shut it and stepped back, she looked over and saw me.

“Shit!” She dropped her heels and grabbed her chest. “What are you doing?! You scared the hell out of me!”

I stood up and flexed when her eyes drank in my bare chest. “I figured you’d try sneaking away again so I left a note for Zane and Will to let them know that I stole you away for the morning.”

“But you didn’t…”

I took her hand and pulled her with me towards the beach. “But I did.”

I expected her to argue a bit but she didn’t. She laced her fingers through mine and smiled up at me. “You knew I’d sneak away, huh?”

“I had no intention of waking up in bed with just Zane and Will again. Neither of them are very pretty first thing in the morning. And Will’s morning breath is fucking nightmare fuel.” It earned the laugh I’d hoped for. “Want to explain why you’re sneaking away?”

She quietly contemplated my question as we walked down the beach, just out of the water. The early morning sun brought out the gold in her eyes when she finally looked up at me again. “I’m scared.”

I waited for her to elaborate and when she didn’t, I raised my eyebrows and sighed. “Of?”

“You used to be more patient, you know?” She hugged my arm to her chest. “I’m scared of waking up and it being off. I don’t know what I’m doing here. I don’t know the rules. I guess I’m scared that in the morning light, it’ll have just been good sex between old acquaintances.”

“It isn’t just good sex between old acquaintances, Claire.”

She pulled away and walked into the water.

The morning waves lapped gently at her ankles as she turned to face me.

“How? How is it not just good sex? I don’t understand what’s happening.

How is this happening? I’m not someone who’s ever believed that I can have my cake and eat it, too.

This is that. This is having my cake, eating it, and then getting a fucking reward for it.

Is it just this week? Will we all go our separate ways after the wedding?

I know the things we say in the heat of the moment but…

it’s the morning that scares me, Anthony.

It’s the morning when I expect reality to dawn. ”

I walked into the water after her and wrapped my arms around her waist. “I’m not going my separate way.

I’m willing to bet my fortune that Will and Zane aren’t either.

It seems we all need to sit down with our clothes on and have a talk about what this is.

I can tell you, for me, this is real. You try to walk away and I’m coming after you.

I won’t make the same mistake of letting you go twice. ”

“And you’re okay sharing me?” She winced. “I feel so greedy and awful even saying that. I shouldn’t want all three of you. I should want one of you. Right? I should feel stronger about one of you and do the right thing. I just…”

“You can’t decide, can you?” I smiled and smoothed out the worry lines creasing her forehead.

“I don’t need you to. I see the way you look at them.

I also see the way you look at me. I’m willing to share you with the two idiots still knocked out in my bed because it means I get you.

Throw all the things you think you’re supposed to do out the window and just be ours.

It’s enough for me. Especially when I can steal you away for moments like this. ”

“I would never want to cheat you out of something complete, Anthony.”

“You don’t think this feels complete? I don’t feel cheated.

I feel like I have you back in my life finally and that’s what’s been missing for me.

” I cupped her face and made her look at me.

“I’ve changed since we were together. I’m not the same man I was then.

I don’t take no for an answer now and you should know that if I wanted things to happen a different way, I’d make them happen a different way.

I like whatever this is. I like seeing you so fucking happy.

I also really like watching you get fucked by Zane and Will.

This whole thing has shown me a different part of myself that I’m eager to explore more of.

With you. And, to a lesser extent, those idiots. ”

Her eyes were wide as she looked up at me, her glasses slightly askew from my grip. Her voice dropped to a whisper. “What changed?”

I stroked my thumb over her lips. “I let you walk away. I never wanted to be that man again, the man who doesn’t fight tooth and nail for what he wants. I won’t be that man again, sweetheart. I’ll be waiting on the porch every morning for the rest of my life if I need to.”

She knocked my hands away and jumped into me, locking her limbs around my body when I caught her.

She kissed me like I’d just come home from war.

Her hands tugged at my hair as she came up for air long enough to show me that I wasn’t the only one who could give orders.

“Take me somewhere and fuck me, Anthony.”

I gripped her ass and took off at a jog down the beach, farther from the house. There were dunes up ahead that would provide us enough privacy, especially so early in the morning. The way her body bounced against mine had my cock already leaking precum by the time I had us hidden away in the dunes.

“I just need you in me, Anthony. I need to feel you.” She kissed across my jaw and over my throat, raking her teeth over my skin as she went.

It was sensation overload as I fell into the sand and wasted no time in yanking my pants down and her panties to the side so I could impale her with my cock the way we both needed.

She shuddered and raked her nails over my shoulders while I yanked the top of her dress down so I could bury my face in her tits and suck her nipples the way that made her back arch.

Tasting her made me hungry for more, though, and I pulled out so I could sit back on my knees and yank her hips in the air.

I feasted on her pussy, using all the tricks I knew to force her into an orgasm fast and hard.

When I sucked her clit a little harder than might’ve been pleasurable, she screamed into her arm and came like a freight train.

I wanted to feel her pussy clamping down on me as she came so I flipped us over and let her sink down on my length.

Sitting astride me with her tits free from her dress and her body flushed with her orgasm, she was fucking perfect.

I could’ve come just from the way her cunt milked my cock but I wanted more.

“Play with your nipples and ride me, baby.” I stroked her thighs and squeezed her hips. “Put on a show for me. Let me watch you fuck me this time, Claire.”

She moaned my name and did as I said. She pinched and twisted her nipples while working herself up and down my cock. Her head bent back and she gasped, creating a truly stunning display.

“One hand on your clit. Give me something to replay in my head a million times while I’m stuck in meetings, baby. Let me watch.” I slapped her ass and grunted when she rode me harder. “That’s it. Ride me hard. I want to see these tits bounce.”

Claire was a work of art as she teased her clit and slammed her body down on me with each stroke. The way her body undulated made me see stars.

“Oh, Anthony! I’m close! God, I’m so close!”

I took over. I held her hips off me and fucked her hard and faster from below.

The new angle hit the perfect spot for her and I watched her face and neck turn a deep red shade as her mouth fell open in a silent scream.

“Stroke your fucking clit, Claire. Don’t you dare stop.

Not until you come all over me like the good girl you are. ”

She was lost in her pleasure and so close to losing her mind that I took over.

I flipped her onto her back and drove into her even harder while reaching between our bodies to rub her clit.

I took her mouth in a messy kiss and swallowed her screams as she erupted, coming hard and wet.

Her body squeezed mine so hard that I lost my rhythm and drove into her a few more times as I spilled everything I had in her.

After we were both spent, lying in the sand in a disheveled heap, it was a few minutes before our breathing returned to normal. I finally realized I was probably crushing her and went to roll off of her but she stopped me.

“No. Just a few more minutes.” She was half asleep.

I lifted my head and smiled when I saw her eyes were closed and she had a satisfied look on her face. I gently stroked her cheek as her sleepy smile confirmed what I pretty much already knew. I loved her. I wasn’t letting her go again. I didn’t care what I had to do.