20- Alex
Guiding Joey through the crowd of family and friends and onto the dance floor had raised a few eyebrows.
Pulling her into my arms, holding her close to me, while we danced, started the whispers.
Not even my father’s parents, my sofubo would speak to me, when they had arrived at the come to the wedding. My grandmother had just glared at me, muttered to herself about me being a disappointment to the family and then had walked away to mingle with other family and no doubt spread falsities.
Yeah, well this disappointment was what kept her and my grandfather comfortable and out of a damned nursing home.
If it wasn’t for me, otousan and okaasan would have lost the family business years ago and then who would have been the disappointments?
I honestly didn’t care
Didn’t care about the people whispering behind their hands and drinks, about how I had abandoned the family when I was young and now it was Jake who was keeping everything going with the family; that I was the black sheep of the family.
If only they knew the truth.
“What are you thinking about?”
Joey’s voice brought me back to the present and I looked down at her, as she stared up at me. She had washed away the caked–on makeup that Phoebe had made her wear, and she was now the stunning, natural beauty I’d met outside the club on Thursday night.
I smiled, pulling her a little closer, earning a flush to her already pink cheeks. I didn’t want to bog her down with what was racing through my mind, so 1 did the one thing I was good at, when it came to her.
Compliment
“About how much you’ve grown up and how beautiful you’ve become.”
Her face flushed again, and she turned her head away, a smirk to her pretty mouth. “Flirt.”
I chuckled as we moved, swaying our bodies not to the music being played, but to something different altogether. A rhythm only we knew. There seemed to be a current that was running through us, which I couldn’t help but think wouldn’t be able to be severed in a hurry. “Hey, if you can, why not do it? Plus, I expressly remember you didn’t mind my flirting on Thursday night.”
Joey’s gaze turned back to me, wide–eyed and she glanced around the room, before she hissed at me. “That was before I realized who the fuck you were.”
I sucked my tongue over my teeth and raised an eyebrow. Why was she so against what had happened? We’d both had fun, and no one else knew what had happened. It was between us and would stay that way. I wasn’t about to go skipping off to my brother and tell him I fucked his best friend. That would go down about as well as a fart in church. “So? Changes nothing” “It changes everything, Alex.” Joey replied, shaking her head, keeping her voice low. She glanced around the room again, as if every single person in it could hear what we were saying. She looked back at me again, pursing her lips and whispered, “You’re my best friend’s brother, the brother he doesn’t like. Imagine what he would say, if he found out we..”
Her voice trailed off, her cheeks flushing again, and I smirked, leaning in closer, my body flooding with need. How the fuck could I still be so hot for her, even after finding out who she was? She was nine years younger than me, my little brother’s best friend and right now, the only woman I wanted. I would happily take her out to the carpark and bend her over one of the cars… “Found out what? That we fucked. That you took every single inch of my cock and-
“Stop” She hissed, glaring at me and I chuckled, spinning her across the dance floor, very aware of my brother’s gaze on us. It’d been a constant thing, since Joey had agreed to dance with me
Fuck him.
I was sick of playing the nice older brother. That ship had sailed.
He didn’t deserve to have someone as loyal as Joey, anywhere near him and Joey deserved someone who would treat her
like the goddess she was. I knew that wasn’t my brother. Look what he’d done to her already. He’d broken her into a million pieces and was happy enough to let his new wife dance on what was left of her heart.
“What if I don’t want to stop?” I asked, one of my hands lowered from her waist, cupping the side of her hip and I heard her inhale sharply. The heat of her skin, only a thin layer of fabric away from my hand, was driving me insane, but I wouldn’t act on what I wanted. Not right here, with everyone to see. I had to be a bit more tactical than that. “What if I want more of Thursday?
Joey stopped mid–dance and stared at me, her mouth popping open. “What?”
I smirked, still holding her and leaned in closer. Her breath hitched as my lips brushed against her ear and I whispered. “I
want more.
Standing straighter, I smiled as she stared at me, as if I had lost my mind. But I could see the flush to her checks again and the heaving of her chest. My words had done their job, thrown her off and taken her mind off Jake, even if it was for a few moments. I hoped it would lead to when I wanted it to lead to
Her
1 just wanted her again. But this time, instead of a quick fuck on the sofa, l’would take my time and taste every single little
morsel of her
“Thank you for the dance. It was quite… entertaining, I winked and let go of her. “You know where I’m staying
Stepping back, I turned, throwing a bored glance at my brother and his new wife, which was met with thinly veiled anger. and I snorted a half laugh at his attempt at intimidation and turned, walking out of the reception
I needed air, before I went back to Joey, kissed her in front of everyone and broke my promise to Oliver- that I would behave myself at the wedding.
