68. The Shift
“Come on, Rowan, you can’t tell me that you’re not thinking that she’s the one?” Edith challenged him. After Erika called her last night and filled her in about her brother’s last visit to their mom, Edith decided to kidnap Rowan for a quick lunch, slashed intervention.NôvelDrama.Org: owner of this content.
Between them, Edith knew that he’d listen to her. They were always close, and she understands him better than their other sisters. Rowan worries, the man knew how to run his business, he had instincts. But relationship-wise, he was a disaster waiting to happen.
Edith wanted nothing more but to slap him in the head for not seeing what was right in front of him.
“But she’s so young, and I’m her first. You can’t seriously suggest that I get down on my knee and propose just because mom told me to?”
“You love her?”
“Yes,”
“And she loves you?”
“Yes,”
“So? What’s the problem?”
“Edith,”
They paused when the waiter arrived at their table with their food.
“Ro… you’re not getting younger,”
“Geez, thanks for the reminder,”
“And she’s an old soul, she loves her brothers they’re a handful but she loves them and the boys adore their sister. Tell me if you prefer women like your Gold digging ex?” Edith asked before she started poking at her chicken salad.
“Damn, you know I hated Heather, I’m still trying to get rid of her.”
“Wait, what do you mean by that?”
Rowan chewed his steak and washed it down with water before he told her about Heather coming to the house demanding more.
“Bitch.”
“Uh-huh, but I called my lawyer and threaten her with a restraining order if she came unannounced again.”
“Good… good, we never did like her.”
“I know,”
They carried on with the conversation where she was back to grilling him about Cassidy, then they shifted to talk about their mom. Edith reminded him about the next family dinner before they ended their lunch and Rowan promised her that he would give more thought about marriage with Cassidy.
On the other side of the town, Cassidy was having an early coffee date with Dee and Bree where she talked about the lake vacation and then about her accompanying Rowan to visit his mom.
“Oh God, Cassidy, I really wish he asked already,” Bree stated dreamily while Dee almost choked on her ice latte.
“You know he’s her first, right? I think it’s too soon, I think you need to consider all the facts, hell, consider making a pro and con list. This is your future we’re talking about, and you still have school. What if you get pregnant, he’s older he would want babies? I mean his mom told him so.”
Cassidy did think about it, she had spent the day yesterday thinking nothing but her future. She knew she wanted him and she didn’t want to lose him. But Dee was also right, Cassidy didn’t know if she was ready to be a mom and she blurted exactly that and Bree sighed happily.
“She didn’t say no to marrying him.” Bree pointed out smugly and Dee shook her head but smiled at her bestie.
“Girls, please, I’m so way over my head. What if he didn’t want to marry me? Did you girls ever think that? I know that he loves me, he sure does love his mom, but does he love me enough to marry me?”
“I vote yes,” Bree confidently pointed out, while Dee laughed at her.
“God, can we please talk about anything else? How’s the club?” Cassidy was feeling frustrated and thought a change of subject will be better, at least for a short while.
“Ugh… here it goes, the plot is thickening…” Bree rolled her eyes and Cassidy leaned in closer wanting to hear whatever juicy gossip that was not her own. Obviously, the gossip line was hot and ridiculous when it had Bree rolling her eyes.
“Shush! you know my bartender boyfriend hears everything. With Rocco behind the bar and me in the locker room, we make a very good team.”
Cassidy snickered knowing it to be true, she had never found a couple as gossipy as them. If that was even a word.
“Come on spill already,” Cassidy said with less patience now that she was amped to hear what Rocco and Dee had been gossiping about.
“I told you about Sindy, the striper ballerina.” Dee started, her eyes darted back at Cassidy with a twitch as if telling her the gossip was like spilling the state secret to a rival country.
“Yeah, so get this… Rocco saw her and Rockford making out. Not that we’d judge them, but she had people watching her. Then a couple of days after their intense make-out session Rockford was back at Babes with a broken nose and a broken wrist.”
“Woah,”
“Right? That was exactly what I said to Rocco. But my man didn’t want to push when Rockford offered nothing when he poured the man a drink.” Dee shrugged, telling me that it was the end of the story.
“What? that’s it?”
Bree laughed telling Cassidy those lovebirds are sealing their lips. But, knowing Rockford, Cassidy realized that it was exactly the kind of thing he’d do. He was always freakishly quiet and very secretive.
They talked about other girls at the club for another hour then said their goodbyes with a promise for a lunch date one week later.
Cassidy arrived at Rowan’s just as Mrs. Dawson was leaving, she thanked her before heading up to her studio. After talking with her girls about the latest gossip at Babes, Cassidy wanted to dance. And that was how Rowan found her after he got back from work.
His impromptu lunch with Edith had screwed with his brain, he struggled to focus on his work but managed to finish up and went home on time. Now, watching silently as Cassidy wrapped her legs around the pole and slid down sexily, Rowan was back to thinking how he was going to take her youth and marry her, tying her down to him, having babies, and the whole housewife-themed future. Will she regret the future? will she despise him for settling down earlier? having babies…
“Rowan?”
“Hey,” Rowan was lost in his thoughts, his eyes roamed her body as she walked closer to the sofa where he sits waiting for her to finish.
Cassidy straddled him, sitting on his lap. Her hands draped on his shoulder, asking, “What are you thinking about?”
“Stuff,” he retorted lazily, “How’s your coffee date with your friends?”
“Well,” she grinned and kiss his lips. Cassidy missed him, but she wants to shower first before doing anything sexual with him. “Why don’t I tell you about it in the shower?” She abruptly got up and took his hand, smiling seductively while leading him to the master bedroom and straight into the shower.
Rowan stayed still, watching her strip naked before getting under the shower. He watched as she teased him with her drenched naked body. He snapped out of his daze and followed her, getting naked then joined her in the shower.
Her moans were what it takes for him to get hard, and she puts her head on his shoulder and then wrapped her arms around his back. She sighed delightfully when he poured body wash and cleans her. Rowan turned her around and started cleaning her back then pulled her to rest her back against his chest.
“Rowan,” his name passed through her lips in the sexiest way and he guided her to press her back against the shower wall then he kneels under her, spread her legs apart, and dipped his tongue into her pussy. She was warm and inviting and he groaned when her fingers threads his hair and keep him close.
He sucked and licked, and hold her steady until she falls apart. Rowan kneads her ass cheeks and slowly gets up trailing his kisses higher to her belly and then her nipples. She squirmed when he gave them too much attention and his fingers dipped between her legs wanting to drawl out another orgasm.
“Let’s move this to the bedroom,” he whispered huskily and helped her out of the shower and towel both of them dry.
The lovers fell into bed and he quickly aligned himself above her while she wrapped her legs around his waist, opening herself, letting him push his hard dick deep inside her. He grunted when she bucked her hips asking more, then whimpered when he took her wrists and hold them above her head. His kiss was scorching hot and she let him mold her to his liking, pounding hard and fast, folding her in half, holding her bent knees flat to his chest.
“Rowan…” another desperate moan left her lips and he flipped her and then pushed her to kneel. His chest was to her back as he positioned himself behind her, wrapping an arm around her body while another arm slid and teased her clit.
“Rowan,”
“Ssh… you’ll get there baby,” he held her wrists tighter and sucked her neck while he parted her stance wider and pushed into her pussy with one hard thrust. Cassidy bucked forward but he hold her still, he grunted and slowly pulled out only to push harder inside her. This time she stayed, she moaned louder and he kept giving what she needed, what she didn’t realize she needs.
“I’m too close,”
“Give me, my love, come for me,” he pinched her nipple and rubbed her clit all while he thrust deep and hard. Her knees trembled when she screamed out her climax. Rowan swiftly let go of her nipple and held her throat, then he swat her throbbing pussy taking her to another high until he finally let go and filled the condom with his cum.
Cassidy felt like jelly when he lay her on the bed and she raised her eyebrow looking at the condom. During her sexual frenzy, she didn’t even notice that he was wearing one. They had stopped wearing a condom when she told him that she was on the pills.
Cassidy should’ve felt relieved that he was looking out for her, but instead, she felt that something between them had shifted and she was not sure if she liked it.