Vegas, Baby: Las Vegas Nights, #2

Acknowledgements

I have the best family in the world! They put up with my crap and are super supportive. Especially, my mom and sister. They are the best!

The best Goodreads group ever! Particularly authors Annie Arcane and Jane Blythe. You ladies have helped me so much in the last few months! Thank youuuu!! Mwah!

All of the amazing Indie Authors and bloggers I have met over the last year! I freaking FLOVE you! You have made the last year one of the best and I can’t wait for the next!

Last, but not least my editor, Randie Creamer. editorrjc@gmail.com I couldn’t do this without you! Thank you so much!

Dedication

To all my author friends who picked me back up when I was down. I love you all.

Eric

As we walked back to her hotel room after dinner with our friends Rissa and Cole, I couldn’t help but notice how beautiful she looked. She was still a little green from getting drugged the night before, though. Someone from the bar had slipped a mickey in the champagne she and her best friend Rissa were drinking. Fortunately we realized it in time and while she was passed out for a while, the lingering effects were minimal.

Are you all right? I asked looking at her. She looked tired and I was assuming it was from the crazy day we had all had. Rissa was a big time Hollywood actress in the middle of a scandal, and we had to ditch a bunch of reporters and fans at a local boutique earlier in the day.

Yeah. I’m just tired. She yawned, then looked over at me and smiled. Do you want to come in?

I recognized the look in her eyes as she said it. It had been the same coy glances she had been shooting my way since I had met her. The look had me hardening in my pants and my throat clogged up. Sure, I choked out as she put the card into the door and flung it open. I wasn’t in the door a second before we attacked each other. I grabbed her around her tiny waste and backed her against the wall, kicking out with my foot to get the door closed.

She groaned into my mouth and melded her body to mine, hiking her leg up around the backs of my thighs. I ground my growing erection into her and she bucked her hips, clearly letting me know what she wanted. And, God did I want her.

I’d wanted her since the moment I met her. I wanted all her tanned skin bared to me so I could do all sorts of things that would have her screaming my name. An image of her passed out the night before stuck in my brain and I froze. Are you sure this is all right? I can tell you’re not one hundred percent. We can stop, I said hoping to God she didn’t tell me to stop.

Don’t you dare stop, she growled, and that was all the encouragement I needed. I picked her up and she wrapped her legs around me, grounding her pussy down on my aching cock. It was almost too much as I walked down the hall to her room in the suite. I trailed my lips down her neck to her collarbone loving the black strapless dress she was wearing. It made it so easy to nip at the tops of her breasts.

We finally made it to the room and I bent over the bed laying her down. Turn over so I can get this thing off, I whispered seductively in her ear. She bit her lip and did what she was told. Slowly, I unzipped the tiny dress licking a path down her back. Every inch of exposed flesh I laved with my tongue. The material of the dress finally gave way and exposed her perfect ass. God what I wouldn’t give to spank that ass right now.

God Eric, I need you. Quit teasing and fuck me already. She cried out as I sunk my teeth into her luscious backside. Her hips bucked and I felt for her opening with my fingers and growled, God, you’re fucking soaked. Did I do that to you? Did I make you wet and writhing and ready for my cock?

Yes, she screamed and tilted her hips up in an attempt to get me to move. I chuckled when she whined and bent down lower.

You smell so fucking good, like vanilla and lilacs and sex, I groaned low, spreading her legs open before me. I wanna taste you, kitten.

Please, she moaned but it turned into a cry as I licked up and down her seam. Sucking her clit between my teeth and nipping at it.

Flipping her over, I grinned down at her heat-filled gaze. Fuck me, now, she bit out, but I cut her off with a searing kiss. I wasn’t fucking her until I was damn well ready. She would just have to get over that. I was a damn marine; I had perfected discipline and self-control. She wouldn’t get me to cave. I wanted her squirming and writhing with so much passion and lust that she couldn’t contain herself anymore, like a powder keg ready to explode.

Sliding up her body, I took one left nipple into my mouth. I loved that the dress she had been wearing couldn’t be worn with underwear. It made stripping her completely naked that much easier. Her back arched and she dug her fingers into my hair and yanked on it, hard.

Eric, I swear to God if you don’t fuck me now I’m gonna cut your dick off, she growled. The fire in her eyes had me chuckling and reaching into my back pocket to pull a condom out of my wallet. I threw it on the bed next to her and made quick work of my clothes. She watched me as I removed my pants and got up on her knees on the bed.

I wanna play, she said seductively and squeezed the bulge in my black boxer briefs. My eyes nearly rolled back in my head as she rubbed it up and down through the stretchy cotton material.

I thought you wanted me to fuck you, kitten?

Mm. She bit down on her bottom lip again and I nearly came from the sight alone.

Cassie pulled me down on the bed and got to work removing the last barrier between us. Her eyes bulged and a wicked smile crossed her face before she bent over and licked me from base to tip. I couldn’t help but buck my hips and arch my back. That sassy little mouth all over my cock was the only thing I dreamed since first seeing her. I grabbed her hair and urged her to suck me down to the back of her throat. I knew she couldn’t take it all. There was no way my giant fucking cock would fit all the way in that tiny mouth of hers. But Goddamn if she didn’t try. I could feel myself starting to lose control as she opened the back of her throat and took me in almost completely.

Pulling her up by her hair, I fumbled on the bed for the condom and quickly sheathed myself before spreading those silky thighs and driving into her. She howled my name like a fucking wolf and bucked against me matching me thrust for thrust. Her nails bit into my arms before moving to my back and clawing it. I had a feeling I was going to have some brutal marks in the morning, but I couldn’t bring myself to care. Her body was soft and pliant beneath mine, and I bent down to pull her pink nipple into my mouth. Her head thrashed back and forth as her walls milked my cock and she came screaming my name. I roared as I came harder than I had ever come in my life. I flopped to her side so as not to crush her as I attempted to catch my breath. She was completely sated and I watched the sweet smile appear as her eyes started to close.

After getting rid of the condom in the bathroom trash, I dropped next her glistening body and pulled her to me before promptly falling asleep.

I woke up the next morning and barely had my eyes open before I noticed Cassie picking up all of our clothes and throwing mine at me.

What the hell? I asked as my shirt narrowly missed hitting me in the face.

You gotta go. I don’t do this. The sleep over thing? I don’t know what I was thinking, but you gotta get the fuck out of here. She was rambling and looking around the room like a caged animal. It would have been funny if the girl I had just spent the most erotic night of my life with wasn’t kicking me out like yesterday’s garbage.

What’s the matter, kitten?

Don’t. No pet names or nicknames. Nothing. We had one night, it was great, and now it’s over. Goodbye.

You’re really doing this? I asked in shock. I had never been kicked out of a woman’s bed before. I tried to be gone before that ever happened, but all those girls meant nothing to me. Cassie, I could just tell there was something different about her. Something special. I wanted to get to know her. Her scathing glare burned into my flesh and I flinched knowing she was about to blow a gasket.

Fine, you want me gone? I’m gone. But, just so you know, we could have had something amazing. I think you know that, too. I can see the fucking indecision in your eyes, I huffed angrily. "I can see the fear, too. What’re you afraid of, kitten?"

She growled and threw one of my steel-toed boots at me. I reached out and caught it just before it hit me in the face.

Ahhh just go! She screamed and stalked to the bathroom slamming the door behind her. I could have sworn I had seen a tear slide down her cheek just before she shut me out. The anger tore through me, but the worst part about it was I wasn’t angry with her.

I was angry with myself.

Cassie

I’m never drinking again.

That was thought that was running on an endless loop as I woke up in my Italian villa and nearly didn’t make it to the bathroom before puking everywhere. Once my sleep addled brain released from its fog, I knew it wasn’t alcohol induced, because the thought of drinking anything made me sicker than shit.

Brushing my teeth and using mouthwash, I went over all the possible scenarios for why this could be happening to me. A pair of bright green eyes flashed across my mind’s eye and I melted. Eric. He really was a great guy. Riss had told me how he was doing a couple times. He was in LA at the moment, helping train the new security personnel at the new hotel, her soon-to-be husband, Cole, just opened.

Is it possible to miss someone you only spent one night with? I thought about that one night and the following morning every day for the last six weeks.

Shit. Fuck. Shit. Six weeks? Oh fuck…. No, no! That douche nugget did not get me pregnant! I tried to remember when my last period had been and came up blank. There was no possible way I could be pregnant. We used protection. I would know. I lived every second of that night when I was alone in my bed.

Rushing through my morning routine, I drove to the local drugstore and grabbed a test, thanking God my rock-star dad had dragged me around on the European leg of his tours when I was growing up. I learned Italian, French, and German just by talking to people in different countries. Shocking the amount of curse words you can learn as well. 

I got home and started to dial my best friend Rissa, but decided against it. Her man Cole was Eric’s best friend, and even though I loved my bestie and would do anything for her, I didn’t think she would be able to keep the secret. So I dialed the next best thing.

Ah, if it isn’t my favorite runner, he cackled like the Wicked Witch of the West.

Cliff, I’m about to pee on a damn stick. Can you stop being a bitch for five seconds, please? I yelled in near hysterics.

You’re about to do what? he asked in a high-pitched voice. If I hadn’t been losing my damn mind the increase in octaves would have been really fucking funny.

Look, I’m almost never serious about anything, just like you. That’s why we get along so well, but I need you to talk me through this, please? Begging Cliff wasn’t something I typically did.

Okay, chickadee. He sobered. You go pee on your stick thingy and I’ll be right here to cheer you on.

I walked into the bathroom with the phone tucked between my shoulder and ear and opened the test. Taking a cleansing breath, I read the instructions out loud, Pisci sul bastone e aspetta cinque minuti.

Sorry babes, I don’t speak Italian.

It basically says I have to wait five minutes for the result. I blew out a breath.

Well what are you waiting for? Let’s see if my favorite chicken is gonna have a chick.

Grr, I growled at him, but I did what he said and set the test on the counter while I waited for the result. Are you timing this?

Of course, sugar. Now why don’t you tell me who the big green-eyed daddy is. He cackled again.

You know who it is. I haven’t been with anyone in months before him and no one since.

I figured as much. His voice sounded sad as he asked, Are you gonna tell him?

I wasn’t planning on it, I said, sullen. The way I treated him because of my own baggage was reprehensible. I doubted we would ever be able to come back from that.

I heard a beeping through the phone and I blew out a breath, wishing I didn’t have to look. Wishing Cliff was there to look at it for me.

Stop it, twatwaffle! You will pull up your big girl panties and look at the damn stick.

Yes, I even used Urban dictionary words in my own head. It was a sickness really. I steeled myself and grabbed the little white stick off the counter. This is it, the moment of truth, I said to myself.

You got this, honey, Cliff whispered into the phone just as I looked down at the two pink lines.

Shit, I’m so screwed.

Eric

The last six weeks had been an adventure. Cole had asked me to come with him to help train the new security staff at his brand new LA hotel. I was staying in a suite near the top floor and it was heaven, except when I went to sleep. Smooth tan skin and bright blue eyes haunted my dreams. One fucking fantastic night played on a loop inside my head.

Hey, Eric. Rissa, the owner’s and my best friend, Cole’s fiancé smiled at me. Where’s the boss man?

He’s in his office. Watch out, he’s kinda cranky today.

That’s okay, I know just what to do to cheer him up. She winked at me and walked away.

I full-on laughed wondering what the senile old assistant would say when she heard just how Riss planned to cheer him up.

Hey Buddy, I answered my phone.

I’m in town for a couple days. I think you need to get out on the town, Jake answered. I knew where this was going and I needed to shut it down fast. Jake, brother to Cole, was quickly becoming a much better guy than either Cole or I had ever given him credit for. But for some reason, he’d now turned his sites on me as his new problem case. Hell if I was going