“I don’t know,” I said as I tilted my head. My back was to Jake’s chest, and I ran my foot up his bare leg. “I bet I could handle another round or three.”
“Is that a challenge, Baby Girl?” I swore his voice dropped an octave, and I didn’t miss Coop licking his lips.
“No,” I murmured, biting back a smile as Coop’s whole expression fell. “A challenge would suggest I didn’t think you could handle it.”
“Wow,” Coop said as Jake started laughing. “I didn’t know you had such a cruel streak in you.”
“Yes you did,” I retorted. “Now, stop trying to focus on sex. Tell me how the move is going. You guys have all been cagey when we’ve talked to you.”
“You want me to talk about moving? Furniture? And real estate in a hot as hell city when the most perfect breasts in the world are staring at me?”
Jake cupped my breasts, covering them with his hands, and I swore my nipples peaked at both the contact and the way Coop’s mouth dropped open.
“Problem solved,” Jake offered as he began to massage them. “Tell Baby Girl what she wants to know.”
Okay, there was something seriously hot about Jake tracing the rough calluses of his thumbs against my nipples as though taking turns torturing me and Coop. He caught my foot and trapped it between his legs so it spread mine, and the sheet drifted lower while he played.
“Um…it’s a place, got rooms. Lots of new furniture… A little harder there, Jake, her nipples aren’t quite red enough.”
“It’s a place?” That was what he came up with? Jake dipped his head down to nuzzle the shell of my ear, even as he slid his hand down and bared one of my breasts. Fortunately for me, his fingers dipped right between my legs. Unfortunately for Coop, he dragged the sheet up with his other hand to hide everything from view. “Oh, I like this.”
“Traitor,” Coop mumbled, but Jake just laughed at him as he began to play with his own cum and used it to tease around my clit. Considering how hard I’d come just a few minutes ago, I was still sensitive as fuck and it was hard not to shift against the bed. Particularly when the pressure was just enough to make me squirm but not quite enough to give me the friction I craved.
“Answer her questions,” Jake said. “She’s been a rock star for me and deserves everything.”
Coop made a face. “She’s a rock star for all of us. You’re just the lucky asshole who has her to himself.”
“Hey,” Jake said slowly. “You know what? I do.” He reached over and waved at the screen. “Night, Coop.” Then shut it off as Coop complained.
I burst out laughing and twisted to roll over on him as Jake set the laptop aside and pulled me to him. “That was mean.”
“Him and his blue balls are going to record you a video tour of the brownstone Archie purchased. It’s a really nice place on the upper West Side, and we’re not that far from Central and Riverside Parks.”
I stared at Jake and then sat up abruptly, straddling his hips. But he pulled me back down before I could grab my phone. “Jake…”
“Nope, no freaking out, Baby Girl. Archie’s surprise is excellent, and I am dying for you to see it. And until you walk inside that place, you do not get to freak out.”
I gaped at him. “Do you have any idea how much real estate there has to cost?” I’d done some searching when we’d first looked at NYU to apply. Apartments there were a nightmare cost.
“Mmm-hmm, I have some ideas,” he murmured, then rolled us so I was on bottom and he could pin me more easily. He rained kisses down along my jaw. “And I also know that we can afford a bigger place, a more secure one where you and Bubba can practice, and we have space to work, to study, and to even set up a workshop if we want.”
I groaned as he nuzzled kisses against my lips. “He bought some mansion, didn’t he?”
“You’ll see,” he teased, working his way to my throat, and the brush of his beard just added to the sea of sensations he seemed intent on drowning me in. His cock rubbed along my slit, and it grew stiffer with each slow grind. “Let Coop impress you. Archie’s nervous enough about it.”
“Archie likes to pretend he isn’t nervous.” That wasn’t a betrayal if Jake had seen it too. He tugged at my earlobe, his teeth scraping gently.
“He does,” he murmured. “But he also over plans when he’s nervous, and he has a pair of backup spaces if you hate the one he found.”
Another shudder went through me, and I dug my fingers into Jake’s ass. The bite of my nails actually had him lifting his head. “Jake, how many places did he buy?”
“I didn’t ask and he didn’t offer,” Jake told me firmly. “He said New York real estate was always a good investment and that some of those places were already in the family. My only request is we were nowhere near the place his mother is living.”
I made a face. Yeah, I could live without seeing Muriel. I sighed and then met Jake’s gaze. “Am I making too much out of this? I know Archie will say he can afford it and that I can too, now.” Not that I would ever be quite as easy at spending as Archie was. At least not on myself. Spoiling the rest of them? I was down for that.
“No, Baby Girl.” Jake’s expression softened. “You have never loved Archie for his money. You have never noticed his money, not like so many others did. Honestly, half the time, I forget about it until he does something violently generous. We are never going to be those people where we take it for granted. That said…”
He raised his
