series summary: Reader moves to Austin to start over and hires Joel Miller to renovate her grandparents' house. He learns where home is and deals with ghosts from the past that insist on knocking on his door.
Warnings: Story inspired by the Joel Miller series, no apocalypse, contains obscenities (18+ only), female reader s/n, age difference (45x30), Romance, more than one point of view, alcohol use, angst, sex, oral (m and f receiving).
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Warnings: Story inspired by the Joel Miller series, no apocalypse, contains obscenities (18+ only), female reader s/n, age difference (45x30), Romance, more than one point of view, alcohol use, angst, sex, oral (m and f receiving).
Word count: 2,2k
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It's a beautiful day, with not a cloud in the sky and a pleasant temperature, and flowers adorn the trees. From the second-floor window, you can see Tommy welcoming the guests arriving and settling into the chairs arranged in rows in the garden. Sarah had chosen spring and an outdoor venue to celebrate her wedding to Dylan.
You're in the room with the bride, helping her fasten her dress.
"You look beautiful," she compliments, looking through the mirror.
"Thank you," she pouts, you've never seen Sarah as emotional as she is today.
"Here, take the handkerchief," he said and she dried the tears that insisted on falling. You hear a knock on the door. You run to make sure it's not Ethan before you open it. He had tried to see Sarah before, but you wouldn't let him, you grew up hearing that seeing the bride before the wedding was bad luck.
"Come in," you say when you see Joel standing in the doorway. He was wearing a gray suit that shaped his arms, a shirt with black, gray and white details. On his face he wore dark brown glasses, which emphasized the features of his face; after much insistence, he gave in and went to see an ophthalmologist. His hair is combed into a slight side bun. Your eyes take a while to scan the whole building, he looked stunning.
He walks in and looks at his daughter, holding her hand to her chest. You smile at them both and leave them alone.
You walk through the garden greeting a few people, most of whom you only know from photos. You're wearing a light green half-sleeved dress with light pink flowers scattered across the fabric, a neckline that marks the shape of your breasts, your hair tied half up so it doesn't get in your face.
Mark comes running towards you, his black curls swaying, and you bend down to pick him up.
"Hi, big boy," you say, kissing his cheek several times, making him laugh in your lap.
"Stop, auntie," he asks amid the laughter, you stop and he asks for more.
"You naughty boy," you joke, giving him more kisses. You're in love with Maria and Tommy's three-year-old son, and you could swear that you're his favorite aunt. You walk away with him on your lap, looking at the flowers and birds. You stop by the lake and he gets down to throw pebbles into the water. You stand there watching him and the guests. You see Sarah's mother arriving with her husband, you had met her two years earlier at the bride and groom's engagement party and you can be absolutely sure that there was no more romance between her and Joel. He raises his hand to wave her off, she waves back and walks into the house behind her daughter, her husband settling into a chair near the altar.
You see Maria looking for you and Mark above the seated heads. When she spots you, she beckons you to look at Mark.
"Auntie, there are fish!" he exclaims excitedly. You crouch down next to him, watching the fish nibbling at the air for food. You stand there for a while, him leaning on your leg talking about what he saw, when you look back you see Joel standing a few meters away watching you with a smile on his face, you smile back and wave. Maria approaches to call Mark, he's going in with the rings. He protests a little, but after you promise to play catch during the party, he agrees to accompany his mother.
"I don't need to tell you how beautiful you look, do I?" Joel says, approaching you and kissing your cheek.
"Look who's talking, you look like a movie star" he blushes at the compliment, running his hand around your waist, bringing your bodies closer together, you take advantage and give him a quick kiss on the lips.
"As much as I think you're charming in this outfit, I can't wait to see them lying on the floor of our bedroom," you say, resting your hand on his chest with the best innocent look you can manage. His eyes wander down your face to your cleavage, lingering there for a few seconds before moving up to your mouth and then to your eyes.
"I share the same desire"
You smile and bite your lip.
"Baby, help me, it wouldn't be acceptable for the father of the bride to walk her down the aisle with a hard-on"
You laugh heartily before replying, "Too bad we don't have a private place, I'd solve your problem in five minutes," you slide your hand lightly down his pants. Joel closes his eyes and looks up at the treetops.
"Meet me in the bathroom in two," he orders before walking away from you. You stand there watching him walk towards the house, pick up an arrangement of flowers in his stride and hold it in front of his body to hide his erection, making you laugh.
#
You knock shyly on the downstairs bathroom door, he didn't specify which one you should meet him in. The door opens and a thick hand pulls you in, his mouth meeting your lips immediately. He presses you against the wall, you can feel how hard he is. You change positions with him, placing him against the wall, bending down to open the button of his pants, kissing his cock over his boxers.
"I don't think we have time for teasing," you laugh at his desperation. He pulls down his boxer shorts and his cock springs out, pre-cum on the tip. You lick the slit, feeling the salty taste spread across your tongue. He wraps around the red head and sucks a few times before delving deeper into your mouth. You hear him moan low as you slide up and down, taking it out of your mouth with a pop, running your tongue along the length before putting it back in your mouth, pumping the base with one hand, the other holding the balls while your tongue works on the tip.
Joel holds the side of your head, moving your hair out of the way as he fucks your mouth, drool collecting in the corners as he goes deep down your throat.
"Yeah, fuck yeah," you grunt.
Someone knocks on the toilet door, Joel stops the movement but keeps his mouth on it when you try to move away.
"Yes?" you stare in disbelief as he speaks in the most normal voice in the world. You flick your tongue under the member in your mouth. He gives you a stern look and you laugh in response.
"Oh, Joel, the ceremony will start in 10 minutes," Maria warns when she hears it's him on the other side. You relax your jaw and take him deeper. Joel pats your face and you swallow his cock, concentrating. He looks up at the ceiling, sighing.
"You tease," he says, fucking you hard.
With the adrenaline of almost being caught, his cock in and out of your mouth, you feel yourself dripping between your legs, moaning onto his cock. Joel suddenly pushes you away, helps you up off the floor, pulls the skirt of your dress up to your waist and pulls off your panties, stashing them in his jacket pocket. He kisses your mouth in a sloppy way, at which point you don't care about your make-up or hairstyle, he leaves your mouth and kisses down your neck to your cleavage, pulling it to the side to expose your breasts, running his tongue over them and nibbling.
"Did you think it was nice to tease me outside and in front of Maria?" he asks, holding your waist with one hand and the other massaging your breasts.
"Uh-huh" you agree.
"And what do you want?" you squeeze the cock in your hand in response. "Words" he orders.
"Your cock!" a moan escapes your lips as he runs his fingers through your folds, collecting your pre-cum to slide over his member. You tug on his hair.
"Where?"
You giggle and shake your head.
"Tell me where or I'll finish right here" you arch your eyebrow, doubting that he would finish in his own hand and not inside you.
"Where?" he challenges, pumping a few times.
"I want your cock inside my pussy," you say, leaning your leg on the toilet to give him access.
"Good girl," he compliments and fits himself into your entrance, teasing before penetrating you. You both moan softly when he hits your bottom. He puts his foot on the toilet and rests your leg on his thigh, pounding deeper and harder, setting a steady rhythm.
"We don't have much time, so help me with those pretty fingers of yours" you put your hand on your clitoris, circling it. You whimper at the sensation of Joel slamming deep into you along with the stimulation of your clitoris, making you collapse, you feel your release pouring out and you hope you don't get his clothes wet.
"That's it, good girl," he says in a growl before painting your walls with white ropes. You're both breathing heavily, his cheeks are pink and you can bet his neck and lap are red.
Joel comes out of the restroom in front of you with the flower arrangement in his hands. You leave soon after, adjusting your hairstyle after touching up your make-up with some products you've brought in your handbag. Before you leave for the lawn, you meet Maria, and she analyzes you from head to toe.
"Yeah... the flowers needed water," Joel explains, lifting the arrangement. She narrows her eyes at your reddened lap, you look down at your dress.
"That fire never goes down, does it?" she asks, but doesn't wait for an answer, heading off in the direction of Tommy and Mark. You and Joel hold back your laughter. But you have to agree with Maria, your desire for each other hasn't diminished over the years.
#
The ceremony was beautiful, Mark walked in looking very dapper carrying the rings on a little cushion, he looked like a mini man in his white shirt, brown pants and suspenders, with a bow tie. Sarah walked in with Joel on one side and her mother on the other. Joel kisses her forehead before Dylan holds out his arm for her to take. They exchanged emotional vows, causing everyone to need tissues to dry their tears.
The party stayed lively until the end of the day, you danced and had fun with your friends, your second family. And of course, as he had promised, he played a lot of catch with Mark. You could feel Joel's gaze of affection and admiration as you interacted with the little one. Sarah and Dylan said goodbye to the guests, they were going to spend the night in a hotel before leaving for their honeymoon.
#
You shut the door to the guest room behind you and Mark fell asleep the moment his head hit the pillow. As he was used to sleeping at your house, you gave Maria and Tommy a voucher for the night, committing to look after their son. You enter the master bedroom, Joel is unbuttoning his shirt.
"Did you sleep?"
"Like a rock"
He smiles and walks over to you "You know, I've been watching you with Mark"
"É?"
"Yes, and I found myself thinking about what it would be like to have proof of our love running around the house," he says calmly, pulling your dress up around your shoulders.
"How?" You're slightly wide-eyed.
"Whether he'd catch my eyes or yours, whether he'd be tall or short, whether he'd have curls like Mark's..." your dress is already on your feet and you're totally naked, your panties still in his jacket.
"Joel..." he pushes you onto the bed, you lie down and he hovers over your body, nestling between your legs.
"I could put my desk in the guest room, I don't need a whole room to work in."
"Wait a minute" you hold his face with your hands to watch his eyes and make sure he's telling the truth.
"Are you saying you've thought all this today about a hypothetical child?" You'd never talked about children, you'd deduced that he didn't want to be a father again and you were calm about the situation, but hearing him ramble on about a baby of the two of you made a smile play on your lips.
"Maybe not just today," he confesses and kisses your collarbone.
"Do you really want to have a child with me?"
"If you want to, yes." You followed his train of thought a few moments before, the thought of having a child of your own filled your chest more than you had imagined, you hadn't allowed yourself to think about it until now.
"Are you sure?"
"Why not, baby? We love each other, we have an emotionally and financially stable life and a spare room," you laugh at the simple way he puts it. It was almost time to change your IUD and you had an appointment in a few days. You look down and his head is already between your legs.
Warnings: Story inspired by the Joel Miller series, no apocalypse, contains obscenities (18+ only), female reader s/n, age difference (45x30), Romance, more than one point of view, alcohol use, angst, sex, oral (m and f receiving).
Word count: 6,6k
sorry for any translation errors
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I want to apologize for the delay in posting this chapter, my life took a 360 turn but now it's back to "normal". We're coming to the end of this story, I promise to post the epilogue soon. Thank you to everyone who's followed along, I treasure every like and comment 💜
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Your head hurts, your throat is dry. You feel a hand squeezing yours, you squeeze back by reflex.
"Baby, can you hear me?" It's Joel, you recognize. You try to open your eyes, but the left one remains closed. You try to speak but your voice won't come out, your throat hurts from the effort of grimacing, your face hurts. Damn.
"Calm down, it's okay, don't try to talk" Joel instructs you, you blink trying to focus with your right eye, he hovers above you with a weak smile.
"Hey, there you are" his voice is calm and low, he runs his hand through your hair. "I'll call the nurse, just a second," he disappears from your sight, and while you're trying to process the words, he's already back. You try to move, but you feel a twinge in the left side of your stomach.
A weak, harsh moan comes out of you. Someone is holding your left arm and caressing it, but Joel is on the right. You're confused.
Someone enters the room and starts examining you. They think it's the nurse, but Joel is at your side with his hand on your shoulder. You feel tired, you try to stay awake but your eyes close.
You open your eyes and the room is illuminated by a dim light next to the bed. Your stomach feels sore from the puncture and your left eye is still closed. Unfortunately or fortunately, you remember everything that happened, remember every punch, remember your body swaying as Richard raped you. Tears form, and you close your eyes tightly to keep them away.
You end up falling asleep again, when you wake up you see Joel asleep in the armchair with his head resting on the bed, you're sure he'll wake up with a sore neck. You remain silent, analyzing everything that has happened before reaching out and running your hand through his hair. You watch him sleeping with heavy breathing, and notice dark spots under his eyes, how long has he been here? You ask yourself. You've lost track of the days and the hours. You try to move around on the bed to make yourself more comfortable and realize that you can do so without too much pain.
He jumps up and grimaces, running his hand over his neck, a laugh escaping his lips.
"Looks like your sense of humor is intact," he jokes, moving his neck sideways.
"How are you feeling? Do you need anything?"
"A-water," you ask weakly, needing to wet your throat. He picks up the glass with the straw next to the bed and brings it to your mouth. You take a few sips, relieving the feeling of dryness.
"Hi" his voice comes out stronger.
"Hi, baby" he runs his hand through your hair with a smile on his lips.
"How many days has it been?" you ask.
"You arrived here on Saturday and today it's early Tuesday morning"
Your eyes widen a little, it's been almost three days.
Joel tells you that he underwent surgery when he arrived, but that no organs had been punctured. There was also a clot in his brain, which is why he spent so many days.
"Well... where is he?" you knew you didn't have to name him.
"We don't know yet, the police are after him," you sigh in frustration.
"And there's one more thing" he looks down, running his hand over the back of his neck.
"What?"
"Your mom's in Austin"
"That's funny," you joke, rolling your eyes, but Joel remains serious with a guilty look on his face.
"I'm sorry," he says and you can't quite process the words.
"What?"
"I called her, I'm sorry, but I thought they needed to know"
"Fuck, Joel" you put your hands to your face, all you didn't want was to have to deal with her now. You take several deep breaths before looking at him again. The look on his face cuts you to the heart. You're sure he did it for your own good.
"Okay, fine," you sigh, "where is she?"
"She's gone to the hotel to rest and she'll be back in the morning."
You agree and glance at the clock hanging on the wall, it's 3am. You settle down on the side of the bed.
"Lie down here" you pat the mattress, he frowns at you in doubt. "Come on, we don't have much time"
"I don't know if that's a good idea"
"Joel Miller, you owe me, get down here soon" you try to sound angry, but to no avail. He smiles and settles down next to you carefully. You snuggle into his neck, inhaling the best smell in the world.
"I missed that," you say softly.
"I know, me too," he says, stroking your hair. "By the way, I'm sorry for disappearing"
"What's past is past," you assure him, it seemed pointless to apologize for everything that's happened. You were both wrong, you just needed to know that he was here now.
"No, you deserve a decent apology. I was wrong to disappear those days... I never wanted to hurt your feelings, never, I just... I love you so much, I don't want to lose you. I felt so scared when I found you hurt, I can't see my future without you by my side. We're real, I'm here to make it work... if you accept" his voice is low in your hair, you could feel the emotion in his words. You pull away to look at him, running your hand over his cheek and smoothing his patchy beard. Your body is hot with feelings, you feel the same things he does, you want the same things he wants.
"I love you, Joel Miller" the words finally stop rolling off your tongue, coming to life out of your body in front of him. You hear him sigh with relief as he brushes his nose against yours.
"I accept everything you have to offer, body and soul," you confess with a smile, feeling complete for finally being at this point, opening up all your feelings without fear.
"I love you, baby"
#
You fall asleep cuddled together, only waking up when the morning nurse enters the room to check on you. She sniffles and looks at you seriously, but you notice a suppressed smile on her lips.
"My fault," you say awkwardly, Joel getting out of bed and standing next to you, scratching the back of his neck.
"Well done," she examines you flatteringly, after taking a look at your belly. "Ready for a decent shower?"
Yes, you didn't realize you needed a shower until she mentioned it. She soon returns with a towel and clean clothes.
"Let's see if you can stand up, it's normal to get a bit dizzy, you've spent several days lying down" you agree, Joel reaches out to help you, supporting your back to avoid straining your stitches. First you sit down, and she advises you to stay there for a few minutes before standing up completely. After a few minutes you stand up, it was better than you expected. The nurse has given you privacy. Joel escorts you to the bathroom, you stop at the door and stare into the mirror, you haven't seen your face yet. You analyze your condition, the left side was a greenish-purple color, the swelling in your eye had halved. Joel stands behind you and rests his head on your right shoulder, kissing your cheek.
"You're still the most beautiful woman I've ever seen," he says about your skin and a shiver runs through your body.
"Okay, Joel," you say with disbelief, smiling weakly at him, knowing that you are far from beautiful right now. You turn towards the shower.
"Is it okay with me?" Joel asks before untying his hospital clothes, you agree, you didn't remember much of what had happened during Richard's act, you were sure your mind had shut down, you were thinking you'd get out of this without too much trauma.
You feel the water lapping against your body, you close your eyes and let the water wash away any remnants of Richard from your body. Joel washes your hair so that you don't have to hold your arms up to force the stitches, the rest of your body you can wash yourself. He dries your body and hair and helps you into clean clothes.
He takes you back to your room, and you sit down in the armchair to have breakfast.
"You can go home and rest," you say over your coffee, Joel looks at you with frowning eyebrows.
"You're tired" you state the obvious.
"I'm fine," he says and you squint.
"What's with the dark circles under your eyes?"
"I'm not leaving your side," he protests.
"Joel, it's okay. You need to sleep in a real bed, and my mom should be here soon to keep me company."
"Are you sure you want to be alone with her?"
"Yes, I've lived with her most of my life, and it can't be worse than the last visit," you smile, encouraging him.
Joel makes you comfortable in the armchair, your body was tired of being horizontal, he leaves as soon as your mother enters the room. She greets you with a lingering kiss on your hair and sits down in a chair next to you.
"So, I guess I should thank Joel"
You raise an eyebrow without understanding.
"If it wasn't for him, I don't think I'd know what happened to you"
"You're right," you smile awkwardly at her, you'd never call to tell her something about your life.
"I can't judge you," she smiles back.
While she was combing her hair, because she always has everything in her handbag to make sure it's impeccable, her mother told her that her father was very grateful to her for giving him the photos and the letter.
"He'd like to thank you in person," she says calmly.
"Mom," you tell her.
"I know, I know, everything in its own time." After this attempt, she didn't bring up any more family matters. You still didn't want to see your father or Marcela again. In fact, you didn't expect to see your mother again so soon, but deep down you were grateful that she was here for you, with no ulterior motives. You stayed chatting and watching some TV program. Maria arrives to visit, she's taken a few hours off work to come and see you, you introduce the two of them and spend the rest of the morning chatting pleasantly. After lunch, Maria goes back to work and you go to bed to get some rest.
You wake up but keep your eyes closed, listening to whispers. Your mother and Joel are talking.
"I feel guilty for what she's been through"
"You did what you had to do for your daughter, Joel"
"I know, but I could have kept in touch, reminded her not to go out alone"
"I could have. But now it's over, focus on the future. I made a lot of mistakes with her, but there's no point in us crying about what happened"
The two of you remain silent for a moment and you remain still.
"I confess I misjudged you," your mother admits.
"I thought you were being taken advantage of, that you were using her"
"I would never do that, I love your daughter, ma'am"
"Oh, please, Joel, you're almost my age, you can call me Dolores" you have to press your lips together not to laugh.
"Okay, Dolores," he replies, laughing.
"I know you love her, I realized it that day over coffee, the way you treated her, it's a man like that that a mother wants for her daughter" you can almost see Joel blushing at his mother's words, you move on the bed to get him out of this situation.
#
You're discharged the next day after redoing all the tests. Even though you said you didn't need it, your mother insisted on staying a few more weeks to help you. You were just getting home when you got a call from the police station informing you that they had picked up Richard.
"He was involved in a confrontation with the police and was shot and died at the scene," the policewoman on the other end of the line informs you. You start crying immediately.
"Is everything all right?" Joel is beside you, worried.
"It's over" his cry was one of relief "He can't hurt me or Sarah or anyone else anymore" Joel hugs you, sighing with relief too. You feel bad about the feeling, after all, a life has been lost. But you're thankful that he's not here anymore, since the day he crossed your path, your life, which was starting to right itself, has been turned upside down again.
#
Joel went back to work calmer knowing that his mother would be giving you all the support you needed until you recovered 100%. You and she created a bond that never existed between you, she finally accepted you for who you really are. She even liked Cat, spending much of the day with her between her legs playing or sleeping cuddled up.
The weeks passed and you were able to do some of the housework and get around without difficulty.
Joel stayed at your house until it was time for you to go to bed, and you wondered if it was because of your mother or if he was afraid to touch you.
Your mother had cooked tonight's dinner and then went to the guest room, claiming she had a headache, but her little wink at the end of her sentence made you sure she was lying. Joel was finishing putting the dishes in the dishwasher, and you were sitting on a stool propped up on the island.
"Well, I think I'll be going," he said, approaching you.
"Can you stay tonight?" you ask, biting the inside of your cheek.
You hadn't had anything intimate since he left the hospital, you missed him sleeping with you and you also missed sex. A few nights you touched yourself, hoping for some memory of the other night, but to your surprise you managed to come without any problems.
Joel took a quick shower and joined you in bed in a T-shirt and sweatpants. You were wearing a thin pajama top and shorts. He settled down next to you, and you turned onto your back, straddling his waist. His arm pulled you closer, careful not to press your stitches, his face buried in your hair, breathing deeply.
"I missed that too," you say. You're cuddled up like this, feeling every inch of his body touching yours, your core waking up when you feel his sleeping penis in the curve of your ass. You're ready for things to go back to normal, but you don't know if Joel is either. You don't know how having another man inside you, even if it wasn't something you allowed, would have affected him.
You test it out and move your ass against him a few times. His breathing changes, holding you tighter, giving you the courage to continue. His hand rests on your waist as he moves in rhythm with you. You feel his cock hardening and moan softly. Joel slides his hand up your thigh, opening your leg a little.
"All right?" he asks unsurely.
"Keep going"
He squeezes your thigh from the inside, moving towards your panties "Tell me anything and I'll stop"
You turn over on your stomach, Joel gets on his feet and stands next to you, resting his arm on the mattress, takes your hand and places it on his core. He pulls your panties and shorts aside, sliding his middle finger through your folds.
"Jesus"
You were soaking wet, you arched your back as he circled your clitoris and you felt a twinge of pain in your stitches, he watched your face and stopped immediately.
"Everything..."
"Don't stop, just the stitches"
"Don't move any more, let me take care of you"
You pull his face away and kiss him deeply, both of you moaning at the sensation. He keeps circling his finger on your clitoris and another one plays at your entrance.
"Put them in," you whimper, desperate to feel him inside you, even if it's just his fingers. He watches you as you insert one finger, you frown and before he asks if it's okay you tell him to put two in.
"Greedy girl," he says with a low laugh, but he complies with your request. You want to arch your back to better accommodate them inside you, but you're afraid of straining your stitches. You bring your hands to your covered breasts and squeeze.
"Show them to me," he asks, and you pull up your blouse, bringing your breasts together and squeezing again. He comes closer and sucks one with his mouth and you put your hand to your mouth to stifle a moan, your mother was in the room a few meters away. Joel speeds up the movements of his fingers inside you and on your clitoris. You feel your belly getting tense, a mixture of pleasure and pain together.
"Come on, baby, cum on my fingers"
Your body reacts so quickly to him that you feel ridiculous that half a dozen words from him make you come. Your body writhes as you come, squeezing Joel's fingers. He waits for you to come down before withdrawing them. You're on wobbly legs, but you want more. You take your hand down to his pants and hold his cock tight.
"I need you inside me," you say, biting your lip. He's surprised by your request.
"Are you sure? It's not too soon?"
"Please, Joel," you whimper, sliding your hand up and down his stiff member under his pants.
He kneels between your legs, naked from the waist down, and helps you remove your shorts and panties. He watches your wet pussy and licks his lips, holding his cock.
"So perfect" you almost cry, knowing that you're not ruined for him. You bend down and lick up your cum, dipping your tongue in.
"Fuck" you curse quietly. He pulls away and spits on the head of his cock before settling on your entrance.
"Anything, anything at all, you tell me, okay?"
You nod, eager to have him inside you after so long. He rubs the tip a little teasingly, then lets just the head extend into you, he takes a deep breath and you can swear he's using all his strength to control himself and not sink into you right away.
"All right?"
"Yes," you assure him. He enters you slowly, sliding in so easily after preparing you.
But your mind betrays you, it takes you straight to the floor of the building site, you can feel the cold of the wood on your back, your body locks up and the slide between your legs becomes painful, you want to scream but no sound comes out of your throat.
"Baby, talk to me"
You blink a few times, realize you're crying, Joel is beside you with frightened eyes.
"Baby" he calls again and you feel the crying coming on strong, you put your hands to your face to hide.
"I'm sorry, I thought I could do it"
"Hey" he lies down next to you, wrapping his arms around you to pull you into a hug.
"It's okay"
"It's not! I did it on my own, I did it on your fingers."
"Baby, look at me," he asks in a calm voice.
"I'm broken, Joel"
He holds your face with his hands, forcing you to look him in the eye "You're not, you did great"
You laugh contemptuously. You bring your hand up to his cock and hold it.
"What are you doing?"
"Helping you," you pump desperately. He holds your hand tightly.
"Stop," he says firmly, and you blink at the harshness in his voice.
"You don't have to do anything"
"But it's not fair, you made me come," you say sniffling.
"No problem."
"Yes, it is, Joel. Let me at least do it"
He sighs and calmly pulls your hand up, resting it on his chest.
"You don't have to do anything, I don't make you come hoping to get something in return. I do it because I love watching you melt on my fingers, in my mouth or on my cock."
"But I want you to enjoy it too"
"Do you know how long I've wished I could touch you like that again? Ever since the fucking day I left you in front of Maria's house," he rests his forehead on yours. "I enjoy pleasuring you, baby"
You blink, a little stunned by his words.
"But I didn't make you come"
"It's okay, we'll take our time, okay? No rush"
You lift your face and see sincerity in his gaze. You take a few deep breaths and pull yourself together, starting to feel ashamed of the way you acted.
"Okay?" he asks.
You nod your head "Okay"
You settle down and fall asleep in each other's arms, smelling and breathing each other's scent.
#
After that night, Joel talked to you about therapy, he said that the doctor said you might need to be followed up, he had researched psychologists who were renowned in cases like yours.
"How are you feeling?" the therapist asked.
You considered the question carefully, you didn't know exactly how to answer, you felt fine in general.
"I know what happened, but somehow I managed to keep my mind off my body during the act. I thought I was fine, until I realized that I'm not."
"In what ways do you not feel well?"
"The only memories I have are of the pain between my legs and my body shaking, but nothing graphic, nothing visual. Does that make sense?"
"More than you might think. We'll have to see if any of these moments come up in flashbacks as we go along," you nod.
"How do you feel about these memories?"
"I can't say. I thought that because my mind shuts down it wouldn't be an experience that would affect me."
"It's normal for the mind to disconnect from reality and block out some traumas. You have a boyfriend, right? How are things between you?"
You remember the night you felt like a failure.
"I feel like Joel was cautious about touching me, until the day I asked for more. And it was good with his fingers, if you know what I mean," you say, looking down a little embarrassed.
"I understand. This is a safe, non-judgmental place, okay?"
"Right. I'd done it on my own and no memories came back. As I said, I thought I was in the clear. So I encouraged Joel, he made me come on his fingers and it was wonderful, as it always was. But my mind stopped when I felt him entering me." The therapist nodded, encouraging you. "I felt it all over again, I felt small and vulnerable."
"Do you feel angry?"
You hadn't named how you felt about Richard, but anger was certainly one of those feelings. Anger that he had crossed your path, that you had given in and kissed him in the bar. If you hadn't taken that step, perhaps none of this would have happened.
"A lot"
She reassured herself about her feelings and the way she'd handled sex with Joel. You agree to go for treatment once a week.
You left the appointment and decided to go to the construction site, you hadn't been there since the day of the attack. You were curious to know how the house would feel after everything. When you got there, you saw Joel's truck parked and mentally thanked him for being there.
"Hello," you announce at the door.
"Hey, baby! I didn't know you'd be stopping by." Joel approaches with a smile at seeing you. You're standing in the doorway with your feet on the floor where everything happened. He notices you tense up and puts his hand on your waist, leading you into the kitchen.
"The stain... the floor is clean"
"Yes, we called in a specialized team the same week"
You look over his shoulder, wanting to get a closer look, but your body doesn't move, you feel oppressed inside the room. The place where you felt the most love was now reduced to pain and sadness. The house was finally almost finished, but you weren't ready to live in it.
#
The purple on your face has completely disappeared. At your last visit to the doctor, he cleared you for all activities as normal. You returned to work to a warm welcome from your colleagues. Maria's belly was showing and Tommy had apparently come to his senses and was the support and companion she needed at this time.
It was a Saturday afternoon, you were at home with your mother and Cat sitting on the sofa. Her cell phone rings, you see that it's your father and she ignores the call.
"You can answer it if you want," you say, running your fingers through Cat's hair.
"Are you sure?"
You nod your head and your mother returns the call to your father, they start a normal conversation updating each other on the last few days. You were absent-mindedly flipping through the TV channels.
"How is she?" your father asks quietly on the other end. Your mother looks in your direction, you ponder and signal for her to say whatever she wants.
"She's fine, as far as she can"
"She still doesn't want to talk to me?" you see your mother making an angry face at him and it makes you laugh. But you shake your head in the negative when she looks at you for an answer. You had too many things to deal with right now and this wasn't on your list of priorities. Maybe one day. They say goodbye when the doorbell rings.
"Hello, Joel," says his mother as she opens the door.
"Hello, Dolores, is your daughter there?"
You get up from the sofa and walk to the door smiling. Your mood always improved when you saw him.
"Put on some comfortable clothes and come with me," he asks, standing in the doorway with one arm resting on the doorframe. You look at him suspiciously.
"Is that all right?" you were wearing sweatpants and a T-shirt.
"Yes," he smiles with satisfaction.
You're in the back seat of his car, some music is playing on the radio.
"Where are you taking me?"
"Remember you said about your therapy session that you felt angry?" you had told him about it. He nods.
"There's a place that can help you with that"
You frown, you were already in therapy, what place would that be?
"Just trust me," he smiles at you.
In all these months you've learned to trust Joel completely. He parks in front of an all-black shed with rage room written on the sign above it. You look at the place and at him.
"A safe place for you to get it all out" he says with a twinkle in his eye, leans towards you, tucking your hair behind your ear, caressing your cheek.
"You're unbelievable" you hold his face in your hands and give him a chaste kiss before getting out of the car. Joel tells you to give your name at reception and take your time.
After checking your details, the attendant takes you to a changing room. You put on an orange jumpsuit with rubber boots and gloves and a helmet with a visor. She escorts you to a metal door.
"To get out, press the red button next to the door. Have fun," she says with a smile.
You've never been in a rage room before, you just knew it was a place to break things. You enter the room, which is covered in wood and has a stone wall all around it, and you see various objects and pieces of furniture, televisions, dolls, chests of drawers, glasses, plates, bottles of all shapes and sizes, and so on.
All placed on top of tires and wooden pallets. On the wall next to the door are various tools, hammers, mallets, baseball bats and golf clubs. You look around and pick up the sledgehammer to get started. You walk around the room timidly breaking some glasses, music plays on the speaker, guns n' roses, artic monkeys, imagine dragons, olivia rodrigo..., some you've never heard before, but they're helping you to access the anger that's been trapped. Grab some plates with your hand and throw them upwards, hitting the wall hard with the sledgehammer, the sledgehammer getting lighter as your body lets go.
(I suggest putting on the song happier than ever at 2:25min to play while you read)
But it's in the middle of happier than ever that it comes out in full force, not because of the meaning of the lyrics, but because of the way Billie sings it.
You scream along with the song, breaking everything around you. You're angry at Richard and everything that's happened, at being raped, ruining your sex life, forcing you to rebuild from scratch once again, you're angry at Joel for putting you through this, for going after Sarah, angry at making you almost hate your grandparents' house, your home.
You scream, bending down.
"I HATE YOU, I HATE EVERYTHING YOU MEAN IN MY LIFE"
You raise your body, smashing a glass case with all your might. You can't even wish for him to die, because he's already dead and remembering that comforts you somehow. You feel anger boiling through your veins in a way you've never felt before, not even when you discovered Henrique's betrayal of Marcela.
You go over to the wall and change the sledgehammer for a golf club, pick out a plastic doll and hit it with all your anger, imagining it to be Richard's head, leaving a dent in his forehead.
You sit on the ground sobbing, your arms shaking from the effort. You take off your helmet and lie on the ground, running your hands over your face. At that moment you feel you've exorcised his ghost from your life, your soul is washed clean. He's dead. You're alive and you deserve to live your best life with those who love you, with Joel.
In the changing room you look in the mirror and there's something different, you smile at your reflection proudly. You put your sweaty hair up in a high bun and head towards the parking lot.
You get into the back of the car, Joel watches you cautiously, you're aware of your chaotic state, sweaty, with a dirty face, puffy eyes and wet hair. You crawl into his lap.
"Thanks for that" your knees are resting on the seat, one on either side of his thighs. You run your hands down his neck, pulling him close to your lips. His hands are on the bare skin of your waist, holding you tight, the warm touch of his big hands sending shivers through your body, pulsing your core. He pulls on the curls at the nape of your neck, making you moan into his mouth, you relaxing at the sound.
"Did you enjoy it?" he asks, pulling his mouth away from yours to examine your face.
"Very much, it was liberating"
"Good. I have something to show you"
#
Joel takes you to the construction site.
"Is it all right for you to wait here?" he asks, you're in the living room, but she doesn't overwhelm you like the first time she was here.
"All right"
He smiles and walks into the house. You stand there remembering the happy times you had, both with your grandparents and with Joel. You wouldn't allow a single event, no matter how traumatic, to spoil all the good memories you had there. You were going to turn this house into your home, this room into your cozy, comfortable living room. You look at the wall where you and Joel had sex and a tingle runs through your body as you remember.
"Hey, in the bedroom," he calls out after a moment. You follow the sound of the voice past the place you couldn't get near the other day without problems, entering the interior of the house, passing through the rooms to the master bedroom. Joel is leaning on the only piece of wooden furniture in the room.
"What's that?" you ask curiously.
"Your dresser," he announces, making room for you to take a closer look. It had turned out better than you'd imagined, the chest of drawers looked brand new, not at all like that deteriorated piece you'd found on the first day.
"Wow!" you exclaim, running your hand over the top.
"Do you like it?"
"I love it! It's very good"
"I'm glad, I did it with great care," he comments. You turn to look at him with your mouth open.
"Wait... was that you?"
"Uh-huh"
"Bullshit"
"Thanks for the confidence" he jokes, running his hands around your waist.
"No... but you didn't say anything"
"I wanted to surprise you"
"Thank you so much, Joel. Really" you kiss him gently, your hands running down his shirt that hugs his chest, eventually going down to the hem of his pants, playing with the sparse hairs there. You feel him squeeze your waist tighter. You run your fingers over his cock through the fabric of his pants.
"Can we try again?" you purr.
"Are you sure?" he asks unsurely.
"Absolutely" you pull up his t-shirt exposing his smooth, slightly muscular chest, your hands going to the belt of his pants.
"Here?" he asks, arching his eyebrows.
"We need to test the dresser," you say, making him laugh. You unbuckle the belt and slide your hand inside the boxer shorts, grabbing his cock and pulling it out. Joel pulls air through his teeth as you pump a few times, holding your ass tight.
You try unsuccessfully to remove your pants with one hand, but he ends up helping you, when they're piled up next to your feet along with your panties, Joel pushes you backwards until your body rests against the dresser, and you jump up to sit on it. He runs his hands up your thighs, squeezing, and you move closer to the edge, looking for friction.
"Eager little slut" he laughs into your mouth, kisses down your neck, you take off your shirt, giving him access to your already hard breasts.
You take Joel's cock and rub it against your slippery entrance a few times, mixing up your pre-cum. You position it at the entrance and wait for Joel to enter you.
"If you want to stop, let me know and I'll stop right away," he analyzes your face, tucking a lock of hair behind your ear.
"Fuck me, Joel Miller," you beg, grateful for his concern, but needing him to fuck you until you lose consciousness. He penetrates calmly, analyzing your expression, you feel him slide through your walls with ease, making you roll your eyes at the familiar fill. He reaches the bottom and stops, giving you time to get used to it.
"All right?"
"Yes"
"Oh, fuck, how I've missed this," he says huskily as he pulls back and slides back in. One hand rests on his back and the other squeezes one of his breasts.
"Fuck, so good," you praise, feeling him inside you. There's a haze of pleasure around your mind, you don't even remember that Richard ever existed. Joel is thrusting cautiously, his eyes never straying from yours. You try to move to help the friction. Joel pulls your ass off the dresser, resting it on his waist, one of your hands sharing the weight of your body with him. You speed up your movements, rolling your eyes. He rubs your clitoris just right and you collapse too quickly after so long, him having to hold your shaking legs as you come.
"Jesus..." Joel whispers, watching as you come down "Everything okay?"
"Everything's wonderful" you feel drunk with pleasure.
"Well, turn around then," he orders, pulling out of you and turning his back to Joel. You roll your buttocks, teasing him. You feel a slap on one of your buttocks.
"I love that," you confess.
"You like it, huh?" you agree with a moan as he slaps you again, positions himself and penetrates you. "Do you like having my cock inside that wet pussy?" he slides his fingers down your spine, pushing your torso further onto the dresser, your breasts pressing into the wooden top. You love being at his mercy like this, him dominating you and saying dirty things in your ear. He lifts one of your legs to fit deeper.
"Fuck" you whimper as he thrusts deeper into you in a steady rhythm, the noise filling your future bedroom.
"Joel," you moan, looking over your shoulder, and he responds with a grunt.
"I'm yours. My pussy is all yours," Joel growls loudly in response, increasing the speed of penetration. The wave forms in you, making you come a second time with a loud cry, your legs and body shaking under Joel's pressure.
"Fuck me, baby, it's been so long I can't hold it in," he says, painting your walls with his cum. He gives one last thrust and collapses on top of you, breathing heavily and kissing the back of your neck.
He pulls out of you, and you turn around, leaning against the dresser with Joel between your legs, brushing your nose against his before deepening the kiss.
"Are you all right? Wasn't that too much?"
"It was perfect" you felt complete again.
"You finally admitted it," he says proudly.
"I've been yours since the first time," you admit. You knew from the first time you had sex that you didn't want anyone but him.
"I knew it"
You hug him tightly, resting your face on his neck.
"Thank you for being patient with me," you say softly. You were so lucky to be someone like Joel at a time like this.
"I'd wait as long as it took," he says, running his hands through his messy hair.
#
Your mother returned to her home in Brazil a few days later, but wanting to stay until you moved out, you assured her you didn't have to. You had enjoyed having her around for those weeks, it was important for your relationship, which was now as strong as ever. But you needed your space again. She said goodbye, assuring you that she'd be back soon, and you were happy about that.
You and Joel are lying on your bed, your head resting on his chest as you cuddle his head. You were thinking about the move, about the big house that your grandparents had always lived in and now it would just be you and Cat. She thinks of the dresser, all refurbished and sturdy for the two of you.
"Thanks again for the chest of drawers," you say, lifting your head from his chest to look at him.
"You've already said thank you in every way," he winks at you, smiling. You stare at the man below you, the man who is messing with your head in a good and healthy way.
"I was thinking..."
"Huh?"
"If maybe you wanted to live with me. The house would have room for a bedroom for Sarah when she came to visit, there would be space for your office..." you start talking non-stop.
"Baby, you don't have to convince me of that." he leans in and kisses your lips "I can't wait to start life with you"
Warnings: Story inspired by the Joel Miller series, no apocalypse, contains obscenities (18+ only), female reader s/n, age difference (45x30), Romance, more than one point of view, alcohol use, angst, sex, oral (m and f receiving).
Word count: 6,6k
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I want to apologize for the delay in posting this chapter, my life took a 360 turn but now it's back to "normal". We're coming to the end of this story, I promise to post the epilogue soon. Thank you to everyone who's followed along, I treasure every like and comment 💜
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Your head hurts, your throat is dry. You feel a hand squeezing yours, you squeeze back by reflex.
"Baby, can you hear me?" It's Joel, you recognize. You try to open your eyes, but the left one remains closed. You try to speak but your voice won't come out, your throat hurts from the effort of grimacing, your face hurts. Damn.
"Calm down, it's okay, don't try to talk" Joel instructs you, you blink trying to focus with your right eye, he hovers above you with a weak smile.
"Hey, there you are" his voice is calm and low, he runs his hand through your hair. "I'll call the nurse, just a second," he disappears from your sight, and while you're trying to process the words, he's already back. You try to move, but you feel a twinge in the left side of your stomach.
A weak, harsh moan comes out of you. Someone is holding your left arm and caressing it, but Joel is on the right. You're confused.
Someone enters the room and starts examining you. They think it's the nurse, but Joel is at your side with his hand on your shoulder. You feel tired, you try to stay awake but your eyes close.
You open your eyes and the room is illuminated by a dim light next to the bed. Your stomach feels sore from the puncture and your left eye is still closed. Unfortunately or fortunately, you remember everything that happened, remember every punch, remember your body swaying as Richard raped you. Tears form, and you close your eyes tightly to keep them away.
You end up falling asleep again, when you wake up you see Joel asleep in the armchair with his head resting on the bed, you're sure he'll wake up with a sore neck. You remain silent, analyzing everything that has happened before reaching out and running your hand through his hair. You watch him sleeping with heavy breathing, and notice dark spots under his eyes, how long has he been here? You ask yourself. You've lost track of the days and the hours. You try to move around on the bed to make yourself more comfortable and realize that you can do so without too much pain.
He jumps up and grimaces, running his hand over his neck, a laugh escaping his lips.
"Looks like your sense of humor is intact," he jokes, moving his neck sideways.
"How are you feeling? Do you need anything?"
"A-water," you ask weakly, needing to wet your throat. He picks up the glass with the straw next to the bed and brings it to your mouth. You take a few sips, relieving the feeling of dryness.
"Hi" his voice comes out stronger.
"Hi, baby" he runs his hand through your hair with a smile on his lips.
"How many days has it been?" you ask.
"You arrived here on Saturday and today it's early Tuesday morning"
Your eyes widen a little, it's been almost three days.
Joel tells you that he underwent surgery when he arrived, but that no organs had been punctured. There was also a clot in his brain, which is why he spent so many days.
"Well... where is he?" you knew you didn't have to name him.
"We don't know yet, the police are after him," you sigh in frustration.
"And there's one more thing" he looks down, running his hand over the back of his neck.
"What?"
"Your mom's in Austin"
"That's funny," you joke, rolling your eyes, but Joel remains serious with a guilty look on his face.
"I'm sorry," he says and you can't quite process the words.
"What?"
"I called her, I'm sorry, but I thought they needed to know"
"Fuck, Joel" you put your hands to your face, all you didn't want was to have to deal with her now. You take several deep breaths before looking at him again. The look on his face cuts you to the heart. You're sure he did it for your own good.
"Okay, fine," you sigh, "where is she?"
"She's gone to the hotel to rest and she'll be back in the morning."
You agree and glance at the clock hanging on the wall, it's 3am. You settle down on the side of the bed.
"Lie down here" you pat the mattress, he frowns at you in doubt. "Come on, we don't have much time"
"I don't know if that's a good idea"
"Joel Miller, you owe me, get down here soon" you try to sound angry, but to no avail. He smiles and settles down next to you carefully. You snuggle into his neck, inhaling the best smell in the world.
"I missed that," you say softly.
"I know, me too," he says, stroking your hair. "By the way, I'm sorry for disappearing"
"What's past is past," you assure him, it seemed pointless to apologize for everything that's happened. You were both wrong, you just needed to know that he was here now.
"No, you deserve a decent apology. I was wrong to disappear those days... I never wanted to hurt your feelings, never, I just... I love you so much, I don't want to lose you. I felt so scared when I found you hurt, I can't see my future without you by my side. We're real, I'm here to make it work... if you accept" his voice is low in your hair, you could feel the emotion in his words. You pull away to look at him, running your hand over his cheek and smoothing his patchy beard. Your body is hot with feelings, you feel the same things he does, you want the same things he wants.
"I love you, Joel Miller" the words finally stop rolling off your tongue, coming to life out of your body in front of him. You hear him sigh with relief as he brushes his nose against yours.
"I accept everything you have to offer, body and soul," you confess with a smile, feeling complete for finally being at this point, opening up all your feelings without fear.
"I love you, baby"
#
You fall asleep cuddled together, only waking up when the morning nurse enters the room to check on you. She sniffles and looks at you seriously, but you notice a suppressed smile on her lips.
"My fault," you say awkwardly, Joel getting out of bed and standing next to you, scratching the back of his neck.
"Well done," she examines you flatteringly, after taking a look at your belly. "Ready for a decent shower?"
Yes, you didn't realize you needed a shower until she mentioned it. She soon returns with a towel and clean clothes.
"Let's see if you can stand up, it's normal to get a bit dizzy, you've spent several days lying down" you agree, Joel reaches out to help you, supporting your back to avoid straining your stitches. First you sit down, and she advises you to stay there for a few minutes before standing up completely. After a few minutes you stand up, it was better than you expected. The nurse has given you privacy. Joel escorts you to the bathroom, you stop at the door and stare into the mirror, you haven't seen your face yet. You analyze your condition, the left side was a greenish-purple color, the swelling in your eye had halved. Joel stands behind you and rests his head on your right shoulder, kissing your cheek.
"You're still the most beautiful woman I've ever seen," he says about your skin and a shiver runs through your body.
"Okay, Joel," you say with disbelief, smiling weakly at him, knowing that you are far from beautiful right now. You turn towards the shower.
"Is it okay with me?" Joel asks before untying his hospital clothes, you agree, you didn't remember much of what had happened during Richard's act, you were sure your mind had shut down, you were thinking you'd get out of this without too much trauma.
You feel the water lapping against your body, you close your eyes and let the water wash away any remnants of Richard from your body. Joel washes your hair so that you don't have to hold your arms up to force the stitches, the rest of your body you can wash yourself. He dries your body and hair and helps you into clean clothes.
He takes you back to your room, and you sit down in the armchair to have breakfast.
"You can go home and rest," you say over your coffee, Joel looks at you with frowning eyebrows.
"You're tired" you state the obvious.
"I'm fine," he says and you squint.
"What's with the dark circles under your eyes?"
"I'm not leaving your side," he protests.
"Joel, it's okay. You need to sleep in a real bed, and my mom should be here soon to keep me company."
"Are you sure you want to be alone with her?"
"Yes, I've lived with her most of my life, and it can't be worse than the last visit," you smile, encouraging him.
Joel makes you comfortable in the armchair, your body was tired of being horizontal, he leaves as soon as your mother enters the room. She greets you with a lingering kiss on your hair and sits down in a chair next to you.
"So, I guess I should thank Joel"
You raise an eyebrow without understanding.
"If it wasn't for him, I don't think I'd know what happened to you"
"You're right," you smile awkwardly at her, you'd never call to tell her something about your life.
"I can't judge you," she smiles back.
While she was combing her hair, because she always has everything in her handbag to make sure it's impeccable, her mother told her that her father was very grateful to her for giving him the photos and the letter.
"He'd like to thank you in person," she says calmly.
"Mom," you tell her.
"I know, I know, everything in its own time." After this attempt, she didn't bring up any more family matters. You still didn't want to see your father or Marcela again. In fact, you didn't expect to see your mother again so soon, but deep down you were grateful that she was here for you, with no ulterior motives. You stayed chatting and watching some TV program. Maria arrives to visit, she's taken a few hours off work to come and see you, you introduce the two of them and spend the rest of the morning chatting pleasantly. After lunch, Maria goes back to work and you go to bed to get some rest.
You wake up but keep your eyes closed, listening to whispers. Your mother and Joel are talking.
"I feel guilty for what she's been through"
"You did what you had to do for your daughter, Joel"
"I know, but I could have kept in touch, reminded her not to go out alone"
"I could have. But now it's over, focus on the future. I made a lot of mistakes with her, but there's no point in us crying about what happened"
The two of you remain silent for a moment and you remain still.
"I confess I misjudged you," your mother admits.
"I thought you were being taken advantage of, that you were using her"
"I would never do that, I love your daughter, ma'am"
"Oh, please, Joel, you're almost my age, you can call me Dolores" you have to press your lips together not to laugh.
"Okay, Dolores," he replies, laughing.
"I know you love her, I realized it that day over coffee, the way you treated her, it's a man like that that a mother wants for her daughter" you can almost see Joel blushing at his mother's words, you move on the bed to get him out of this situation.
#
You're discharged the next day after redoing all the tests. Even though you said you didn't need it, your mother insisted on staying a few more weeks to help you. You were just getting home when you got a call from the police station informing you that they had picked up Richard.
"He was involved in a confrontation with the police and was shot and died at the scene," the policewoman on the other end of the line informs you. You start crying immediately.
"Is everything all right?" Joel is beside you, worried.
"It's over" his cry was one of relief "He can't hurt me or Sarah or anyone else anymore" Joel hugs you, sighing with relief too. You feel bad about the feeling, after all, a life has been lost. But you're thankful that he's not here anymore, since the day he crossed your path, your life, which was starting to right itself, has been turned upside down again.
#
Joel went back to work calmer knowing that his mother would be giving you all the support you needed until you recovered 100%. You and she created a bond that never existed between you, she finally accepted you for who you really are. She even liked Cat, spending much of the day with her between her legs playing or sleeping cuddled up.
The weeks passed and you were able to do some of the housework and get around without difficulty.
Joel stayed at your house until it was time for you to go to bed, and you wondered if it was because of your mother or if he was afraid to touch you.
Your mother had cooked tonight's dinner and then went to the guest room, claiming she had a headache, but her little wink at the end of her sentence made you sure she was lying. Joel was finishing putting the dishes in the dishwasher, and you were sitting on a stool propped up on the island.
"Well, I think I'll be going," he said, approaching you.
"Can you stay tonight?" you ask, biting the inside of your cheek.
You hadn't had anything intimate since he left the hospital, you missed him sleeping with you and you also missed sex. A few nights you touched yourself, hoping for some memory of the other night, but to your surprise you managed to come without any problems.
Joel took a quick shower and joined you in bed in a T-shirt and sweatpants. You were wearing a thin pajama top and shorts. He settled down next to you, and you turned onto your back, straddling his waist. His arm pulled you closer, careful not to press your stitches, his face buried in your hair, breathing deeply.
"I missed that too," you say. You're cuddled up like this, feeling every inch of his body touching yours, your core waking up when you feel his sleeping penis in the curve of your ass. You're ready for things to go back to normal, but you don't know if Joel is either. You don't know how having another man inside you, even if it wasn't something you allowed, would have affected him.
You test it out and move your ass against him a few times. His breathing changes, holding you tighter, giving you the courage to continue. His hand rests on your waist as he moves in rhythm with you. You feel his cock hardening and moan softly. Joel slides his hand up your thigh, opening your leg a little.
"All right?" he asks unsurely.
"Keep going"
He squeezes your thigh from the inside, moving towards your panties "Tell me anything and I'll stop"
You turn over on your stomach, Joel gets on his feet and stands next to you, resting his arm on the mattress, takes your hand and places it on his core. He pulls your panties and shorts aside, sliding his middle finger through your folds.
"Jesus"
You were soaking wet, you arched your back as he circled your clitoris and you felt a twinge of pain in your stitches, he watched your face and stopped immediately.
"Everything..."
"Don't stop, just the stitches"
"Don't move any more, let me take care of you"
You pull his face away and kiss him deeply, both of you moaning at the sensation. He keeps circling his finger on your clitoris and another one plays at your entrance.
"Put them in," you whimper, desperate to feel him inside you, even if it's just his fingers. He watches you as you insert one finger, you frown and before he asks if it's okay you tell him to put two in.
"Greedy girl," he says with a low laugh, but he complies with your request. You want to arch your back to better accommodate them inside you, but you're afraid of straining your stitches. You bring your hands to your covered breasts and squeeze.
"Show them to me," he asks, and you pull up your blouse, bringing your breasts together and squeezing again. He comes closer and sucks one with his mouth and you put your hand to your mouth to stifle a moan, your mother was in the room a few meters away. Joel speeds up the movements of his fingers inside you and on your clitoris. You feel your belly getting tense, a mixture of pleasure and pain together.
"Come on, baby, cum on my fingers"
Your body reacts so quickly to him that you feel ridiculous that half a dozen words from him make you come. Your body writhes as you come, squeezing Joel's fingers. He waits for you to come down before withdrawing them. You're on wobbly legs, but you want more. You take your hand down to his pants and hold his cock tight.
"I need you inside me," you say, biting your lip. He's surprised by your request.
"Are you sure? It's not too soon?"
"Please, Joel," you whimper, sliding your hand up and down his stiff member under his pants.
He kneels between your legs, naked from the waist down, and helps you remove your shorts and panties. He watches your wet pussy and licks his lips, holding his cock.
"So perfect" you almost cry, knowing that you're not ruined for him. You bend down and lick up your cum, dipping your tongue in.
"Fuck" you curse quietly. He pulls away and spits on the head of his cock before settling on your entrance.
"Anything, anything at all, you tell me, okay?"
You nod, eager to have him inside you after so long. He rubs the tip a little teasingly, then lets just the head extend into you, he takes a deep breath and you can swear he's using all his strength to control himself and not sink into you right away.
"All right?"
"Yes," you assure him. He enters you slowly, sliding in so easily after preparing you.
But your mind betrays you, it takes you straight to the floor of the building site, you can feel the cold of the wood on your back, your body locks up and the slide between your legs becomes painful, you want to scream but no sound comes out of your throat.
"Baby, talk to me"
You blink a few times, realize you're crying, Joel is beside you with frightened eyes.
"Baby" he calls again and you feel the crying coming on strong, you put your hands to your face to hide.
"I'm sorry, I thought I could do it"
"Hey" he lies down next to you, wrapping his arms around you to pull you into a hug.
"It's okay"
"It's not! I did it on my own, I did it on your fingers."
"Baby, look at me," he asks in a calm voice.
"I'm broken, Joel"
He holds your face with his hands, forcing you to look him in the eye "You're not, you did great"
You laugh contemptuously. You bring your hand up to his cock and hold it.
"What are you doing?"
"Helping you," you pump desperately. He holds your hand tightly.
"Stop," he says firmly, and you blink at the harshness in his voice.
"You don't have to do anything"
"But it's not fair, you made me come," you say sniffling.
"No problem."
"Yes, it is, Joel. Let me at least do it"
He sighs and calmly pulls your hand up, resting it on his chest.
"You don't have to do anything, I don't make you come hoping to get something in return. I do it because I love watching you melt on my fingers, in my mouth or on my cock."
"But I want you to enjoy it too"
"Do you know how long I've wished I could touch you like that again? Ever since the fucking day I left you in front of Maria's house," he rests his forehead on yours. "I enjoy pleasuring you, baby"
You blink, a little stunned by his words.
"But I didn't make you come"
"It's okay, we'll take our time, okay? No rush"
You lift your face and see sincerity in his gaze. You take a few deep breaths and pull yourself together, starting to feel ashamed of the way you acted.
"Okay?" he asks.
You nod your head "Okay"
You settle down and fall asleep in each other's arms, smelling and breathing each other's scent.
#
After that night, Joel talked to you about therapy, he said that the doctor said you might need to be followed up, he had researched psychologists who were renowned in cases like yours.
"How are you feeling?" the therapist asked.
You considered the question carefully, you didn't know exactly how to answer, you felt fine in general.
"I know what happened, but somehow I managed to keep my mind off my body during the act. I thought I was fine, until I realized that I'm not."
"In what ways do you not feel well?"
"The only memories I have are of the pain between my legs and my body shaking, but nothing graphic, nothing visual. Does that make sense?"
"More than you might think. We'll have to see if any of these moments come up in flashbacks as we go along," you nod.
"How do you feel about these memories?"
"I can't say. I thought that because my mind shuts down it wouldn't be an experience that would affect me."
"It's normal for the mind to disconnect from reality and block out some traumas. You have a boyfriend, right? How are things between you?"
You remember the night you felt like a failure.
"I feel like Joel was cautious about touching me, until the day I asked for more. And it was good with his fingers, if you know what I mean," you say, looking down a little embarrassed.
"I understand. This is a safe, non-judgmental place, okay?"
"Right. I'd done it on my own and no memories came back. As I said, I thought I was in the clear. So I encouraged Joel, he made me come on his fingers and it was wonderful, as it always was. But my mind stopped when I felt him entering me." The therapist nodded, encouraging you. "I felt it all over again, I felt small and vulnerable."
"Do you feel angry?"
You hadn't named how you felt about Richard, but anger was certainly one of those feelings. Anger that he had crossed your path, that you had given in and kissed him in the bar. If you hadn't taken that step, perhaps none of this would have happened.
"A lot"
She reassured herself about her feelings and the way she'd handled sex with Joel. You agree to go for treatment once a week.
You left the appointment and decided to go to the construction site, you hadn't been there since the day of the attack. You were curious to know how the house would feel after everything. When you got there, you saw Joel's truck parked and mentally thanked him for being there.
"Hello," you announce at the door.
"Hey, baby! I didn't know you'd be stopping by." Joel approaches with a smile at seeing you. You're standing in the doorway with your feet on the floor where everything happened. He notices you tense up and puts his hand on your waist, leading you into the kitchen.
"The stain... the floor is clean"
"Yes, we called in a specialized team the same week"
You look over his shoulder, wanting to get a closer look, but your body doesn't move, you feel oppressed inside the room. The place where you felt the most love was now reduced to pain and sadness. The house was finally almost finished, but you weren't ready to live in it.
#
The purple on your face has completely disappeared. At your last visit to the doctor, he cleared you for all activities as normal. You returned to work to a warm welcome from your colleagues. Maria's belly was showing and Tommy had apparently come to his senses and was the support and companion she needed at this time.
It was a Saturday afternoon, you were at home with your mother and Cat sitting on the sofa. Her cell phone rings, you see that it's your father and she ignores the call.
"You can answer it if you want," you say, running your fingers through Cat's hair.
"Are you sure?"
You nod your head and your mother returns the call to your father, they start a normal conversation updating each other on the last few days. You were absent-mindedly flipping through the TV channels.
"How is she?" your father asks quietly on the other end. Your mother looks in your direction, you ponder and signal for her to say whatever she wants.
"She's fine, as far as she can"
"She still doesn't want to talk to me?" you see your mother making an angry face at him and it makes you laugh. But you shake your head in the negative when she looks at you for an answer. You had too many things to deal with right now and this wasn't on your list of priorities. Maybe one day. They say goodbye when the doorbell rings.
"Hello, Joel," says his mother as she opens the door.
"Hello, Dolores, is your daughter there?"
You get up from the sofa and walk to the door smiling. Your mood always improved when you saw him.
"Put on some comfortable clothes and come with me," he asks, standing in the doorway with one arm resting on the doorframe. You look at him suspiciously.
"Is that all right?" you were wearing sweatpants and a T-shirt.
"Yes," he smiles with satisfaction.
You're in the back seat of his car, some music is playing on the radio.
"Where are you taking me?"
"Remember you said about your therapy session that you felt angry?" you had told him about it. He nods.
"There's a place that can help you with that"
You frown, you were already in therapy, what place would that be?
"Just trust me," he smiles at you.
In all these months you've learned to trust Joel completely. He parks in front of an all-black shed with rage room written on the sign above it. You look at the place and at him.
"A safe place for you to get it all out" he says with a twinkle in his eye, leans towards you, tucking your hair behind your ear, caressing your cheek.
"You're unbelievable" you hold his face in your hands and give him a chaste kiss before getting out of the car. Joel tells you to give your name at reception and take your time.
After checking your details, the attendant takes you to a changing room. You put on an orange jumpsuit with rubber boots and gloves and a helmet with a visor. She escorts you to a metal door.
"To get out, press the red button next to the door. Have fun," she says with a smile.
You've never been in a rage room before, you just knew it was a place to break things. You enter the room, which is covered in wood and has a stone wall all around it, and you see various objects and pieces of furniture, televisions, dolls, chests of drawers, glasses, plates, bottles of all shapes and sizes, and so on.
All placed on top of tires and wooden pallets. On the wall next to the door are various tools, hammers, mallets, baseball bats and golf clubs. You look around and pick up the sledgehammer to get started. You walk around the room timidly breaking some glasses, music plays on the speaker, guns n' roses, artic monkeys, imagine dragons, olivia rodrigo..., some you've never heard before, but they're helping you to access the anger that's been trapped. Grab some plates with your hand and throw them upwards, hitting the wall hard with the sledgehammer, the sledgehammer getting lighter as your body lets go.
(I suggest putting on the song happier than ever at 2:25min to play while you read)
But it's in the middle of happier than ever that it comes out in full force, not because of the meaning of the lyrics, but because of the way Billie sings it.
You scream along with the song, breaking everything around you. You're angry at Richard and everything that's happened, at being raped, ruining your sex life, forcing you to rebuild from scratch once again, you're angry at Joel for putting you through this, for going after Sarah, angry at making you almost hate your grandparents' house, your home.
You scream, bending down.
"I HATE YOU, I HATE EVERYTHING YOU MEAN IN MY LIFE"
You raise your body, smashing a glass case with all your might. You can't even wish for him to die, because he's already dead and remembering that comforts you somehow. You feel anger boiling through your veins in a way you've never felt before, not even when you discovered Henrique's betrayal of Marcela.
You go over to the wall and change the sledgehammer for a golf club, pick out a plastic doll and hit it with all your anger, imagining it to be Richard's head, leaving a dent in his forehead.
You sit on the ground sobbing, your arms shaking from the effort. You take off your helmet and lie on the ground, running your hands over your face. At that moment you feel you've exorcised his ghost from your life, your soul is washed clean. He's dead. You're alive and you deserve to live your best life with those who love you, with Joel.
In the changing room you look in the mirror and there's something different, you smile at your reflection proudly. You put your sweaty hair up in a high bun and head towards the parking lot.
You get into the back of the car, Joel watches you cautiously, you're aware of your chaotic state, sweaty, with a dirty face, puffy eyes and wet hair. You crawl into his lap.
"Thanks for that" your knees are resting on the seat, one on either side of his thighs. You run your hands down his neck, pulling him close to your lips. His hands are on the bare skin of your waist, holding you tight, the warm touch of his big hands sending shivers through your body, pulsing your core. He pulls on the curls at the nape of your neck, making you moan into his mouth, you relaxing at the sound.
"Did you enjoy it?" he asks, pulling his mouth away from yours to examine your face.
"Very much, it was liberating"
"Good. I have something to show you"
#
Joel takes you to the construction site.
"Is it all right for you to wait here?" he asks, you're in the living room, but she doesn't overwhelm you like the first time she was here.
"All right"
He smiles and walks into the house. You stand there remembering the happy times you had, both with your grandparents and with Joel. You wouldn't allow a single event, no matter how traumatic, to spoil all the good memories you had there. You were going to turn this house into your home, this room into your cozy, comfortable living room. You look at the wall where you and Joel had sex and a tingle runs through your body as you remember.
"Hey, in the bedroom," he calls out after a moment. You follow the sound of the voice past the place you couldn't get near the other day without problems, entering the interior of the house, passing through the rooms to the master bedroom. Joel is leaning on the only piece of wooden furniture in the room.
"What's that?" you ask curiously.
"Your dresser," he announces, making room for you to take a closer look. It had turned out better than you'd imagined, the chest of drawers looked brand new, not at all like that deteriorated piece you'd found on the first day.
"Wow!" you exclaim, running your hand over the top.
"Do you like it?"
"I love it! It's very good"
"I'm glad, I did it with great care," he comments. You turn to look at him with your mouth open.
"Wait... was that you?"
"Uh-huh"
"Bullshit"
"Thanks for the confidence" he jokes, running his hands around your waist.
"No... but you didn't say anything"
"I wanted to surprise you"
"Thank you so much, Joel. Really" you kiss him gently, your hands running down his shirt that hugs his chest, eventually going down to the hem of his pants, playing with the sparse hairs there. You feel him squeeze your waist tighter. You run your fingers over his cock through the fabric of his pants.
"Can we try again?" you purr.
"Are you sure?" he asks unsurely.
"Absolutely" you pull up his t-shirt exposing his smooth, slightly muscular chest, your hands going to the belt of his pants.
"Here?" he asks, arching his eyebrows.
"We need to test the dresser," you say, making him laugh. You unbuckle the belt and slide your hand inside the boxer shorts, grabbing his cock and pulling it out. Joel pulls air through his teeth as you pump a few times, holding your ass tight.
You try unsuccessfully to remove your pants with one hand, but he ends up helping you, when they're piled up next to your feet along with your panties, Joel pushes you backwards until your body rests against the dresser, and you jump up to sit on it. He runs his hands up your thighs, squeezing, and you move closer to the edge, looking for friction.
"Eager little slut" he laughs into your mouth, kisses down your neck, you take off your shirt, giving him access to your already hard breasts.
You take Joel's cock and rub it against your slippery entrance a few times, mixing up your pre-cum. You position it at the entrance and wait for Joel to enter you.
"If you want to stop, let me know and I'll stop right away," he analyzes your face, tucking a lock of hair behind your ear.
"Fuck me, Joel Miller," you beg, grateful for his concern, but needing him to fuck you until you lose consciousness. He penetrates calmly, analyzing your expression, you feel him slide through your walls with ease, making you roll your eyes at the familiar fill. He reaches the bottom and stops, giving you time to get used to it.
"All right?"
"Yes"
"Oh, fuck, how I've missed this," he says huskily as he pulls back and slides back in. One hand rests on his back and the other squeezes one of his breasts.
"Fuck, so good," you praise, feeling him inside you. There's a haze of pleasure around your mind, you don't even remember that Richard ever existed. Joel is thrusting cautiously, his eyes never straying from yours. You try to move to help the friction. Joel pulls your ass off the dresser, resting it on his waist, one of your hands sharing the weight of your body with him. You speed up your movements, rolling your eyes. He rubs your clitoris just right and you collapse too quickly after so long, him having to hold your shaking legs as you come.
"Jesus..." Joel whispers, watching as you come down "Everything okay?"
"Everything's wonderful" you feel drunk with pleasure.
"Well, turn around then," he orders, pulling out of you and turning his back to Joel. You roll your buttocks, teasing him. You feel a slap on one of your buttocks.
"I love that," you confess.
"You like it, huh?" you agree with a moan as he slaps you again, positions himself and penetrates you. "Do you like having my cock inside that wet pussy?" he slides his fingers down your spine, pushing your torso further onto the dresser, your breasts pressing into the wooden top. You love being at his mercy like this, him dominating you and saying dirty things in your ear. He lifts one of your legs to fit deeper.
"Fuck" you whimper as he thrusts deeper into you in a steady rhythm, the noise filling your future bedroom.
"Joel," you moan, looking over your shoulder, and he responds with a grunt.
"I'm yours. My pussy is all yours," Joel growls loudly in response, increasing the speed of penetration. The wave forms in you, making you come a second time with a loud cry, your legs and body shaking under Joel's pressure.
"Fuck me, baby, it's been so long I can't hold it in," he says, painting your walls with his cum. He gives one last thrust and collapses on top of you, breathing heavily and kissing the back of your neck.
He pulls out of you, and you turn around, leaning against the dresser with Joel between your legs, brushing your nose against his before deepening the kiss.
"Are you all right? Wasn't that too much?"
"It was perfect" you felt complete again.
"You finally admitted it," he says proudly.
"I've been yours since the first time," you admit. You knew from the first time you had sex that you didn't want anyone but him.
"I knew it"
You hug him tightly, resting your face on his neck.
"Thank you for being patient with me," you say softly. You were so lucky to be someone like Joel at a time like this.
"I'd wait as long as it took," he says, running his hands through his messy hair.
#
Your mother returned to her home in Brazil a few days later, but wanting to stay until you moved out, you assured her you didn't have to. You had enjoyed having her around for those weeks, it was important for your relationship, which was now as strong as ever. But you needed your space again. She said goodbye, assuring you that she'd be back soon, and you were happy about that.
You and Joel are lying on your bed, your head resting on his chest as you cuddle his head. You were thinking about the move, about the big house that your grandparents had always lived in and now it would just be you and Cat. She thinks of the dresser, all refurbished and sturdy for the two of you.
"Thanks again for the chest of drawers," you say, lifting your head from his chest to look at him.
"You've already said thank you in every way," he winks at you, smiling. You stare at the man below you, the man who is messing with your head in a good and healthy way.
"I was thinking..."
"Huh?"
"If maybe you wanted to live with me. The house would have room for a bedroom for Sarah when she came to visit, there would be space for your office..." you start talking non-stop.
"Baby, you don't have to convince me of that." he leans in and kisses your lips "I can't wait to start life with you"
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Joel rushes into the house, but stops as soon as he sees you lying on the floor, your hands tied, but holding your cell phone close to your bruised face, your chest covered only by your top, your T-shirt torn in half covering part of your body. His pants are down and his stomach churns at the thought of what has happened here, but what scares him most is the amount of blood, his eyes roaming around looking for the wound, his heart racing when he sees a penknife carved into the side of his stomach. He curses as he bends down to you.
"Baby, baby," he calls, pulling off his shirt to stop the bleeding. He holds one hand and the other grabs his cell phone to call the emergency services. He gives you all the information you need and asks you to hurry, he's afraid for his life, there's too much blood. He runs his hand through the hair on his face, his breathing is weak and panting, his face is as white as paper, a piece of wet cloth is around his neck. With some difficulty, his free hand manages to free the rope from his wrists.
"Baby, talk to me", you just mumble meaningless words. Joel puts his hand on your arms and they are cold, he remembers that you complained about the cold, he looks around and sees a cloth thrown in the corner that the painters used to protect the floor during the painting.
It'll have to do, he thinks, covering you, but taking care that the dirty cloth doesn't touch your wound. He wanted to put your pants back on, to give you back some of your dignity, but he didn't want to touch your body for fear of making things worse.
He lay down behind you, not caring that your clothes were soaked by the pool of blood covering the floor, and hugged you from behind, trying to keep you warm.
"Stay with me" he kept repeating as they waited for the ambulance.
#
Joel is sitting in the hospital reception area, his head resting in his hands between his legs. His pants have dried blood making abstract designs on the fabric. A nurse has given him a hospital gown to cover the top, since he had used the T-shirt to stop the wound.
The police had already taken his statement and were at the crime scene with Tommy collecting any clues and evidence, they would go after Richard now that they knew he was in town, it would be easier to catch him, at least that's what Joel hoped.
You arrived between life and death at the hospital, he knew that the abdomen was where the vital organs were and feared that the pocket knife had punctured one. Joel felt guilty for abandoning you, if he had taken you with him or come back earlier, you wouldn't be in this situation because he wouldn't have left you alone.
"Hi, Joel," he lifts his head and Maria stands next to him, worried. "Any news yet?"
"Just that he's still in surgery," the nurse had just passed by and informed him. Joel clenches his fists as he imagines everything you've been through, your face was so bruised, the corner of your mouth cut and swollen, the cheek he loved to see blush was a deep purple.
"She'll be fine," Maria puts her hand on Joel's shoulder, trying to comfort him.
"She's come between life and death, Maria," he felt his voice choke.
"I know, I know, but she's in good hands now"
"I don't know what I'll do if she dies..." he can't finish the sentence, a sob escaping his lips.
"Don't think like that, she'll be fine" Maria pulls him into a hug and he collapses on her shoulders. His whole body shakes and he restrains himself from screaming with rage and sadness. Just imagining what that maniac did to you makes him want to hunt him to death.
Maria turns away with her eyes full of tears too, she holds Joel's hands "She'll be fine, she's strong"
They are interrupted by the doctor who approaches to give information about her condition.
"She's unstable, she's very lucky not to have hit any vital organs" they sigh a little relieved "as she lost a lot of blood, keeping her warm was important for her to get here and have a chance, but she ended up needing a transfusion. She has a blood clot in her head, I think there was some impact there, so we need to keep her sedated."
Joel and Maria nod in agreement, wide-eyed, you've only just been saved.
"The road ahead is long. We've also given her medication to eliminate any sexually transmitted diseases."
Maria stares at Joel, her mouth hanging open; he hadn't told her that part. It was something personal, he didn't want to invade her privacy like that.
"Can I see her?" Joel asked distressed, he needed to see you breathing with your own eyes.
#
He stands in the doorway of your room, taking a few deep breaths before entering. You're lying down with some wires connecting you to machines that beep from time to time, assessing your signals. Your chest goes down and up as you breathe in and out with the help of a tube in your nose sending oxygen to your lungs along with your body. Your face is serene, even though the left side is completely purple, your eye is swollen now, he doubts you'll be able to open it all the way.
Joel approaches you cautiously, as if he could wake you up. Your hands are resting next to your body, a device is on the index finger of your right hand. He carefully takes your free hand and runs his fingers over the purple marks around your wrists where the rope used to bind you. He begins to cry as he imagines your despair. He brings your wrist to his mouth and kisses it gently, as if that would heal it immediately, like a mother's kiss when you're a child. His tears wet his hand, which he lowers and dries carefully.
"Excuse me," asks a nurse at the door, she comes in to assess you. Joel steps back a little to give her room, but keeps his hand in yours.
"I know it's hard, but it would be good for you to go home and take a shower," she looks at him lovingly as she points to his dirty clothes. He nods, he can't imagine leaving you here alone.
"I guarantee she won't wake up until tomorrow, it would be good for you to rest so that you're in one piece when she needs you," she continues talking and assessing his signals. Opening his eyelids and putting on a flashlight, he sees his pupil contract with the light. Good.
"She's safe, no one will hurt her here" she puts her hand on his shoulder in encouragement. Joel ponders his words, he needed a bath, that's for sure, but he didn't want to be away from you.
The nurse leaves the room and Maria asks if she can come in, she was in the hallway giving you privacy earlier. She is shocked to see his condition and Joel is worried about her and the baby, but she reassures him that they are fine. She comes closer and strokes your good side, not wanting to cause you any extra pain.
After the initial shock she finally asks, "Did he abuse her?"
"I don't know everything that happened, but I found her naked from the waist down"
"For them to have given her drugs, they must have found some evidence on her"
Joel nods and anger resurfaces in his chest. Maria puts her hand to her mouth and closes her eyes to try to hold back the tears. The cowardice that madman did to you, giving you no chance to defend yourself. Maria calms down and tells Joel that she'll stay with you while he goes home to take a shower. He hesitates, but ends up giving in after repeatedly asking if she was well enough to stay there, he didn't want to burden her.
#
Pink water drips off his body, wiping the blood from his arms and hands. He runs his hands through his hair looking up, the warm water hitting his face helping to clear his mind. Joel has to stop himself from running after Richard right now, making him suffer twice as much as you did. He stifles a scream with his hand, I'd love to see his face disfigured with the motionless body beneath him.
But he needs to focus on you now, on your recovery, on being there to support you in whatever you need. He knows that your recovery will be difficult, both physically and emotionally. But he will have all the patience you need.
He gets out of the shower with the towel wrapped around his waist, checks his cell phone and has a message from Maria telling him to get some sleep before he returns. He sighs, even though he doesn't think he'll be able to sleep, and throws himself on the bed to try to rest. His mind wanders back to the last time he heard your voice, the effort to speak, you shivering with cold, him hearing you say that you loved him. He wanted so much to hear it from you, but he didn't want it to be the way it was, he didn't know if you were aware of what you were saying.
Joel is at the door of the construction site, you're lying on the floor with your hands tied screaming and screaming, he's trying to get to you but an invisible door stops him. He screams and throws punches trying to break down the imaginary door, to no avail. Your eyes are fixed on his, screaming his name.
He wakes up startled, sitting up in bed, his heart racing and his breath panting. He runs his hands over his face, trying to shake off the scenes of the nightmare.
#
Joel is sitting on the side of his bed, holding his hand. Maria in an armchair further away. Their signals remain the same, which was good.
"Should we call her mother?" Maria asked quietly. Joel hadn't remembered her family until now. He analyzes your serene face, which even with a purple side was still the most beautiful woman in his world, trying to imagine what you would decide about it. He knew your relationship was awful, but it was still your family and you were hurting. He thinks with his father's mind and imagines if it were Sarah in his place, he would want to know independently what his relationship with his daughter would be like. He looks at Maria again, and the two of them stare at each other for a moment before agreeing.
"Do you call or do I?"
"I think that's my job, since I'm her boyfriend"
Joel picked up his cell phone and unlocked the screen with his finger, feeling awkward about invading his privacy. This would surely be the strangest call of his life, talking to his girlfriend's mother, a woman he didn't even know by her first name. He searched for the translation of mother and prayed that he would be saved like this.
"Hello, ma'am," he says as soon as she answers. She was surprised it wasn't you on the line and immediately asked what had happened. He explained in a light-hearted way what had happened to you, but reassured her that you would soon wake up and could call her directly. But your mother said she was on her way here. He says there's no need, that he has everything under control, but she ignores him and says she'll come.
He hangs up the call and sends the address to your mother, wondering if you'll forgive him when you wake up and find her here.
The moon has taken the place of the sun in the sky, Maria has gone home promising to come back tomorrow. Joel is leaning back in his armchair, afraid of falling asleep and having another nightmare. He scrolls through his phone's browser looking for psychologists who treat women who have suffered sexual violence and writes down their contact details to pass on to you when he wakes up. He also reads some articles to find out how to help you, what he can and can't do. He wants to be the best for you, to be your support for whatever you need.
He wakes up when a nurse enters the room to check your signals. He falls asleep with his cell phone in his hand while reading an article. He groans as he gets up from the armchair, cracking his back and knees.
"After a certain age it gets harder to sleep anywhere, doesn't it?"
Joel looks at her, who is age-regulated with him, and gives a sympathetic smile in agreement. The day was dawning and he was surprised to have managed to sleep through the night.
#
The hours passed slowly until the next day. Joel made sure he rested as long as possible, leaving only to eat and go home for a quick shower while Maria and Tommy kept him company. Maria combed and tidied her hair to one side, her face was still swollen and purple, but her signs remained stable.
He returned to his bedside with his guitar in his hands. The nurses allowed him to play and sing quietly, so as not to disturb the rest of the other patients. He obeyed and hummed softly beside his bed. He searched for some ciphers of Brazilian songs that he knew he liked, lulling his forced sleep with the melody.
He stroked your hair, told you that he was with you, to be strong and that everything would be fine.
"I'll never leave your side again, if you'll forgive me," he still felt guilty about the week he'd spent away and without talking to you. So much time wasted.
He admitted that he hadn't been able to cope with the thought of Sarah being hurt, he'd entered the cocoon again and it had taken him a while to get out. Maria and Tommy were also feeling guilty for having slept a little too long on their day off, but Joel didn't blame them, because the only one to blame for the whole thing was Richard. Joel fell asleep the second night beside him, his head resting on the bed and holding his hand.
"We need to take you for another CT scan, we're going to analyze the clot to see if we can reduce the sedation," the nurse informs him.
The thought that you might soon be awake fills him with joy. The nurse takes you away.
Your stomach rumbles, and she takes advantage of the fact that you're not in your room to go to the cafeteria for breakfast.
When you come back, you haven't returned. Maria arrives and sits next to him waiting. The doctor enters the room, making them nervous.
"Everything's fine," he reassures you, pulling out a chair and sitting down in front of you, his countenance serious "The clot has reduced in size, her body is responding very well. We're going to reduce the sedation to see how she reacts, it will be important to have someone she knows present at all times, she may wake up disoriented and needs to remain calm. Her condition is better, but it's still delicate."
He gives you time to process before continuing: "She has suffered what she has suffered, we don't know how she will cope, she will need all the support and understanding of those close to her. The unit's psychologist will be monitoring her case."
Thank you for the updates and setting up schedules so you won't be alone. Now that they're going to reduce the sedation, Joel won't be going home anymore, he wants to be here when you wake up. He just needs someone to come for a few hours so he can try to sleep more soundly.
#
The day is waning, Joel is sitting next to you, holding and caressing your hand with his finger. His face rests on the bed as he watches you, the purple on his face is a little softer, the swelling is still there. He managed to get some sleep in the afternoon while Tommy looked after you, Maria was tired and stayed at home. He circles your hand, slides his fingers along the beginning of your arm, rambles on about the things he wants to do with you, he remembers that he needs to finish the dresser and wonders what your reaction will be to seeing it. He wants to cook you breakfast every morning, go to sleep every night hugging you and smelling you. He wants to tell you that he loves you until words lose their meaning. He wants the world by his side.
"You'll be fine," he whispers, "I'll take care of you and love you like you deserve. I love you, baby"
He hears someone at the bedroom door, raises his head and sees a woman a little older than him standing in the doorway looking at you in awe.
"Ma'am" he calls, saying her surname together, assuming it's her mother. She nods. He gets up from his chair awkwardly, not knowing what to say or how to greet her. He hadn't expected to meet his mother-in-law in this situation.
She comes closer and her eyes roam over his body.
"How is she?"
Joel stands at the side of the bed and explains everything to his mother.
"By the way, I'm Joel, nice to meet you," he extends his hand exhilaratingly. Only now does she take her eyes off you and look at him, extending her hand in return.
"Not the best of circumstances, but nice to meet you, Dolores," she says her first name too. Joel nods and offers her a seat. She refuses, Joel is standing on her right side, her mother walks to the left side of the bed to stroke her face.
"My poor baby," she whispers tearfully.
He looks at her body and sees her hand swaying slightly. He hurries to pick it up.
General warnings: Story inspired by the Joel Miller series, no apocalypse, contains obscenities (18+ only), female reader s/n, age difference (45x30), Romance, more than one point of view, alcohol use, angst, sex, oral (m and f receiving), physical abuse. This chapter is heavy, if you're sensitive to sexual violence, I suggest you don't read it.
Chapter inspired by the fanfic I can't wait to meet who you decide you are (https://archiveofourown.org/works/46403560/chapters/116833339?view_adult=true)
Word count: 3k
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You tried to distract yourself during the day by focusing on work, Joel had already taken up a lot of your thoughts this week, you were determined that today would be a good day. In the afternoon you had several meetings to keep your mind occupied. You left the company, grabbed some food on the way and locked yourself in your room doing what you liked best, watching some series to give Maria and Tommy some privacy.
And that's exactly what you did, you got sushi at your favorite restaurant, took a long shower listening to a comedy podcast, texted Maria that you'd be in the room, you didn't want her to worry about you not coming down for dinner. Cat was playing around the room with her toys, you settled down on the bed with your food in front of you and played Friends, choosing a season you hadn't watched with Joel, you wanted this moment to be yours alone.
But your plans didn't work out, every funny scene you wondered what Joel's reaction would be, whether he'd find it funny too or if he'd make the joke worse with some comment. You pause, sighing, and reach for your cell phone, looking for his number.
Just as you put your finger on Joel's name, your cell phone vibrates, you're startled and it falls on the bed. You pick it up quickly and see that it's a video call from Joel, your heart is pounding against your chest, you try to tidy your hair without much success before answering.
"Hi"
"Hey, baby" baby, you sigh a little relieved when you hear his nickname. He looks tired, his hair is a mess, his white T-shirt has a few dirt marks on it. "Sorry I didn't get in touch sooner" he lowers his eyes and runs his hand over the back of his neck, you don't say anything back, you'd be lying if you said it was fine, because it wasn't fine.
"I was sorting out Sarah's move, not that that's an excuse for not getting in touch," he continues when he realizes you haven't replied.
You nod, "Have you managed to sort everything out?"
"Yes, I'll be back tomorrow" you bite your lip to hold back the excitement of imagining that you could see Joel in person tomorrow.
"Good," you say quietly.
"Can we talk when I get back?"
You take a deep breath "Yes, we can"
"Good" he says with a faint smile "What are you doing?"
"Looking at friends" you grimace.
"Without me?" he pretends to be shocked.
"You've been gone for almost a week," you shrug. You were happy to finally be talking to him, but you also didn't want to miss the opportunity to show that you were hurt.
"Fair enough. Sorry about that," you fall silent again. You hear someone knocking on the door on the other end of the line "Sarah's just got out of the shower, we're going to dinner with her boyfriend" you raise your eyebrows.
"Yeah, I didn't know either," he smiled when he saw your reaction.
"Go on, father-in-law. Have a nice dinner"
"Thanks, baby. See you tomorrow"
You say goodbye and pick up his t-shirt from the bottom of your suitcase, smelling his scent. You can look at friends again now that you've spoken to Joel, you felt that things could be sorted out, that he still wanted to see you after all. A smile appears on your lips, tomorrow you'll see Joel.
#
You wake up early on Saturday, the excitement of seeing Joel taking over your body. The house is silent, except for the heavy rain outside, Maria and Tommy are still asleep.
You decide to go out on your own, you wanted to see how the work was going, even with Joel gone she continued, Tommy guiding when the workers needed some guidance. You needed some time to yourself, without feeling trapped and watched. You haven't heard from Richard all week, no strange numbers have called you, nor has the police contacted you with any news. He's probably a long way from here.
You put on some comfortable sweatpants and leave his T-shirt, your car is parked on the street, Tommy thought it would be better to leave it here than at your house alone all week. You stop at a coffee shop and pick up a coffee to go, drive to the construction site with the windows down now that the rain has stopped, the wind ruffling your hair without caring, some song plays on the radio and you sing along.
Painting has begun on the outside, almost all painted white, and you look proudly at the progress, already imagining yourself living there in a few weeks' time.
You put the key in the front door and notice that it's unlocked, making a mental note to tell Tommy about it. Inside, there are paint cans and painting materials piled up in a corner near the living room. You still need to sort out the kitchen fittings and the ceiling fixtures. You walk towards the master bedroom to take a look.
"There you are" someone says in the corner of the room, you jump in fright looking in the direction of the voice, your coffee falls out of your hand spilling the rest of the black liquid on the wooden floor when you recognize who it is. Your instinct is to run, but you only take two steps towards the door before he reaches you.
"Where do you think you're going, stranger?" there's hatred in his words, making you shudder.
"W-what do you want, Richard?" you stutter, your heart beating so hard you think it might pierce your chest and leap out of your body.
"What do I want?" he snorts, shaking his body. "I want to destroy your life, just like you destroyed mine, you bitch," he says between his teeth close to your ear. You desperately try to break free, fearing what he's going to do.
"You don't have to make things difficult," he pulls out a pocket knife from his back pocket. Your eyes widen as you stare at the shiny blade in front of you. He runs the other side of the icy blade across his throat and up into his mouth, a scream escapes, tears start to flow. I'm going to die.
"Why didn't you keep your pretty mouth shut, huh?"
"Richard, please," you beg.
"I haven't even started and you're already begging? This is going to be more fun than I thought," he snorts, hot, stinky breath hitting your nose, only now you notice him, he's thinner, his clothes are all dirty, his hair is stiff and unkempt, he probably hasn't seen water or a comb in days.
"I swear I won't tell anyone I saw you," you try again.
He looks at you with disdain, pushes you to the corner of the room, picking up a rope on the way.
"Hands forward" he orders and you hesitate, the moment you're tied up it will be the end of you. You feel a burning sensation on your face from the slap he gives you "Hands forward, I said" he shouts now.
Your hands tremble, but you obey, your face burning as you feel the red forming. Your mind screams at you.
run
run
run
Richard is putting the rope around your wrists and you push him away, he falls backwards. You run away, but get tangled in the rope and fall face down on the floor.
"Bitch!" he shouts, balancing himself and going after you. "Looks like luck isn't in your favor," he grabs your hair and presses your face into the ground.
"I could treat you like the bitch you are" he growls in your ear, you struggle under him trying to get him off your back.
He turns you over and sits on your legs, immobilizing you. He puts your hands together in front of your belly and ties them tightly. You struggle and shout for help loudly, but the rain outside has returned, drowning out your cries for help. He raises his hand and now a punch hits your face on the left side, throwing your head to the side, one more, one more. You taste iron in your mouth, blood splattering on the floor as you cough.
"Quiet, now?" he asks and you go still, your head dizzy. You're going to die because you were stupid, because you didn't listen to Joel, because you were naive once again. Another punch hits you.
"Answer me, bitch!"
"Y-yes" you say with difficulty, your face hurting.
"Well, now let's see what I'm going to do with you" the penknife runs along your arms. "I've been thinking about this for months, watching and imagining what it would be like to have you underneath me." You wanted to shout how sick he was, but you were afraid of another punch, your head hurt, you were afraid of fainting.
Richard snorts when he notices you're wearing a large T-shirt "That's his, isn't it?" he doesn't wait for you to answer and rips it open, exposing your black top.
"Richard, please," you beg, trying to hide your body with your bound hands.
"No, no" he shakes his head and raises his arms above his head. The penknife strokes across your belly and breasts.
"So beautiful" he bends down and licks the tops of your breasts.
"Help!" you scream, struggling, he holds you tighter, laughing into your skin, his tongue trailing down your neck to your jaw.
"Somebody help me" but your cries are drowned out by the thunder echoing in the sky.
Richard takes his pocketknife and rips a strip from Joel's T-shirt and ties it around his mouth.
"That should keep you quiet" there was hatred in his eyes, every minute he was sure it would be the end of him.
"I'm going to take it easy, because the closest I ever got to you was ringing your doorbell, and I was a coward to leave before you opened the door." He rests his hand on the side of your head, the other smoothing your bruised face "Sorry about that" you try to pull your hand away without success.
"Let me go, please," you mumble over the gag.
"Until you installed cameras, giving me no choice but to go after the old man's daughter" he continues as if you hadn't said a word, as if he had been preparing this speech for days and didn't want any more interference "but she wasn't at home, being luckier than you" a debauched laugh fills the room.
"What do you want?"
"First I'm going to make you scream, more than you screamed at that old man," his heart raced, anticipating what he intended.
"Please don't. Let me out, I won't tell anyone. Please, Richard," you beg between tears, drool collecting in your mouth because of the cloth, making it difficult to swallow.
"Whether it's screams of pain or pleasure is up to you," he ignored your pleas. He grasps your cheeks firmly with his fingers and holds you still, bends down to touch his lips to yours, and you twist to get away, but he presses down harder on your legs.
"It might be good for you too" you seal your lips to avoid the kiss, but he squeezes your bruised cheek, you open your mouth screaming in pain, he takes advantage of the opening and sticks his tongue in your mouth, his tongue pushing the cloth down. Your screams are muffled by his mouth on yours. He licks your mouth, making you want to vomit. He pulls away and slaps you again.
"I wanted to do this the right way," he says angrily, noticing your revulsion, "but apparently you prefer the rough way." You start to cry as he pulls down your pants, his knife hand next to your head, reminding you of what he can do if you resist.
🚨 trigger warning, if you're sensitive to sexual violence, I suggest skipping to the next warning 🚨
He turns his face the other way, trying to switch off his mind, to go somewhere good, to be alone in his body at the moment. Your mind wanders and stops on Joel, on his brown eyes, on the wrinkles in the corners of his eyes when he smiles, on his pink lips after kissing you, on his messy hair in the morning, the memory is so vivid you can almost feel it in your fingertips, in the patchy beard and the flush on his cheeks. You think of all the times he sang to you, with such passion, your mind humming broken parts of the songs, you were in the dark and he was helping you. You feel Richard tearing you in half, a loud scream coming from your throat.
"Shut up!" you hear him shout, you close your eyes tightly and turn your mind to Joel. All the hugs, the arms around your body keeping you safe, the woody smell mixed with your sweat, forcing you to remember it, wishing you could grab his t-shirt to help your mind.
You feel your body swaying up and down, you don't dare look between your legs, you don't want to have that image engraved in your memory.
Richard is saying things that you can't process. Joel. Joel. Joel. Force your mind again. On Joel saying that he loves you, and feeling sorry for not saying it back, realizing that maybe you won't get that chance again. Richard is so upset that you wonder if he'll let you get out of here alive. It would be comforting to die in the place you felt most at home, the place you were emotionally welcomed by your grandparents in childhood.
"Fuck" he grunts above you and your body stops swaying, you hear your cell phone ringing next to your pants, snapping you out of your thoughts.
"Do you have a tracker on this piece of crap?" he asks upset, stepping out of you and taking the phone in his hands, you breathe a sigh of relief without realizing you were holding your breath before. You're not processing the words he's saying properly, your head hurts from the punches and slaps.
🚨 end of trigger warning for sexual violence 🚨
"Answer, you fucking foreigner!"
"Y-yes" you didn't know what you were agreeing to. Everything is silent, your mind wanders to Joel and reality.
"You asked for it" Richard is above you again, you feel something sharp entering the left side of your stomach, you hear a loud scream and realize it's coming out of your mouth. You raise your head, the penknife stuck in you, blood dripping onto the floor. Richard throws his cell phone above his head and runs off. You're dizzy, every time you blink a black screen appears in your eyes, you feel the pressure dropping, it's colder, your body is freezing. I'm going to die.
/
Joel gets on the plane early, the first rays of the sun lighting up the sky. He feels the need to get to Austin quickly, he doesn't know if it's because he's been away from you for a week, or because you've barely spoken, or whatever, but he wants to hug you tightly as soon as possible.
He left Sarah with everything organized in the apartment, they had worked hard to put all the furniture and objects in their proper place. Dinner with Sarah and Dylan was pleasant, he appeared to be an honest, intelligent and affectionate guy with Sarah, he noticed the love and affection between them and was satisfied with the conversation overall. If Sarah was happy, that's what mattered to him.
He couldn't sleep during the flight, he was thinking about what to say to you when he saw you, he knew he had messed up, but he hoped you would forgive him.
The sky in Austin was dark, black clouds painted the sky, the rain giving up now. Joel took a cab straight to Maria's house. He pressed the doorbell and Tommy opened the door, scratching his eyes.
"Hi, Joel," he says sleepily.
"Is she upstairs?" Joel asks as he enters and heads for the guest room. He knocks on the door but he hears no answer, he knocks again and nothing. He decides to open it slowly and sees the bed filled only by Cat, looks in the bathroom and there's no sign of you.
"Tommy!" she shouts from the bedroom. Maria leaves the room in a daze.
"What happened?" she asks.
"Where is she?"
"In her room"
"She's not! Did she go out alone?" Joel asks them both.
"I don't know, we were sleeping," Tommy explains.
"Oh my God" Joel exclaims, taking Tommy's car key without asking and driving off in the direction of his house. On the way he texts you.
Hey, baby. I just got here, where are you?
The moment you press send he's already calling you. He calls until he hits voicemail. He arrives at your house, knocks on the door a few times and there's only silence on the other side. Joel senses that something isn't right. He feels that something is wrong.
"Fuck" calls again and calls until it drops. He frowns, you haven't answered the message and you're not picking up. If you're not at home, where can you be? You get in the car again and head for the building site, try again.
"J-joel" Joel hears your weak voice on the other end of the line, his heart squeezes.
"Baby, are you all right?"
"It's cold," you whisper.
"Fuck!" The morning was warm even with the rain, there was no point in you being cold. "Can you tell me where you are?"
"C-construc-tion" your voice falters.
"Talk to me, baby" Joel speeds up the car, keeping you in line. He hears you groan and tightens his grip on the steering wheel.
Warnings: Story inspired by the Joel Miller series, no apocalypse, contains obscenities (18+ only), female reader s/n, age difference (45x30), Romance, more than one point of view, alcohol use, angst, sex, oral (m and f receiving).
Word count: 2,9k
sorry for any translation errors
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You're stuck on the bench, your head spinning. This is your fault, your fault. Your mind revolves around that sentence. You never imagined this could happen, you were too innocent.
"I'm sorry" tears are already rolling down your eyes, Joel is tense next to you, his face full of worry. The call with Sarah has already been finalized and he'll be there as soon as he drops you off at home.
Bringing your knees to your chest, sinking your face into them, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry" you keep repeating over and over, Joel doesn't say anything back. You're afraid, afraid of what Richard will do, afraid that Joel will abandon everything you've experienced so far. You also feel terrible, if you had listened to everyone and denounced Richard this wouldn't be happening. Sarah was in danger because of you, you knew that and so did Joel.
"I'm going to the police station today," you say, trying to control yourself.
"It's a bit late for that" you hear Joel say, you look at him and see the look of disappointment on his face, you could swear he hates you now, you put his daughter in danger. You were weak and almost the worst happened to someone who had nothing to do with the situation.
"I'll drop you off at Maria's" he's staring at the road, driving as fast as the lane allows.
"No need, drop me off at home"
"I'm not asking!" he changes his tone and you cringe, Joel sighs and continues in a calmer voice "I'm not leaving you home alone with that maniac on the loose" you sigh and decide not to confront him.
/
You've got to be kidding him about wanting to stay home alone, he's already worried sick about Sarah, he doesn't have to worry about you too. His heart squeezes when he hears you saying over and over again that it's your fault, he knows it's partly not, but he can't say it to you, because if you hadn't been hard-headed, had listened and reported it, this madman would already be in prison and not after your daughter. Joel tries to push that thought away, tries to focus on the fact that you're a victim too, you're just as much a victim as Sarah, you were trying to deal with the situation as best you could, but then he remembers that Sarah could have been hurt or worse. What if she had been at home at the time of the break-in? What kind of things could have happened? He shakes his head at the thought.
"When I get back we'll talk," he says when he arrives in front of Maria's house, "if you need anything at home ask Tommy to accompany you." He gave her this and a few other instructions about not walking around alone. According to Sarah, no one knew where Richard was, he had managed to escape the police chase and could be in Atlanta or Austin, or anywhere else. You keep your head down listening to everything, your shoulders are slumped, Joel tries to hold your face in his hands and calm you down, but he can't and he feels terrible about it. You feel an urgency to get to Sarah as quickly as possible.
"I'll talk to you when I get back," he repeats, saying goodbye with a quick kiss on the cheek, which is all he can manage at the moment.
/
You're standing outside Maria's house when you hear Joel start the car, the door opens before you've even rung the bell. You walk in without being able to face Tommy, the guilt is overwhelming you.
Maria puts you up in the guest room and leaves you alone, as you asked. You decide to take a quick shower and go to the police station, you wanted to give them any information you had to help them catch Richard.
"I don't know how Joel is going to react to this..." you hear Tommy talking quietly to Maria as you enter the room. You felt your world falling apart and you couldn't do anything to change it. He's startled by your presence and falls silent "Oh, hi" he greets awkwardly.
"Yeah... I'm going to the police station," you say quietly.
Maria approaches you "How are you?"
"Feeling guilty," you reply and the tears threaten again.
"Hey hey, what is it?" Tommy stops next to Maria "You're not to blame for anything"
You smile awkwardly, you knew Joel was blaming you, you could feel it in his eyes.
"Give him a break" Tommy answers your thoughts "he's nervous now"
"I heard you" you say and walk to the door, not wanting to get into it with Joel's brother.
"Are you following her, Tommy?" Maria asks and before you can protest he's already reaching for the car keys.
#
At the police station you told them everything you knew, about the harassment, the copy you found in the copier and the insults Richard had hurled at you on the day of your dismissal and about the break-in at Sarah's house. Today was Sunday and you wouldn't be able to access the company's recordings from that day, but the policewoman reassured you that they would be there tomorrow to pick them up. She asked if you knew his address or places he frequented and you denied everything. You hardly knew him, in fact.
"Why didn't you come to us before?" the policewoman asked you. And you didn't know exactly why you hadn't come before. You're looking down, your shoulders slumped forward "Was it fear?" she asks.
You shake your head negatively, you were never afraid because you were too naive to think that he would do something like that, even though you had found the printed sheet. "I just didn't want to deal with it," her voice came out in a whisper.
"I understand," the policewoman comforted you, "this is more common than you think. But it's good that you've come now." You meet her eyes, feeling a little more reassured to know that it's not just you who acts like this.
"We'll get him," she assures you.
Before leaving the police station, she warns you not to walk alone, he might come after you too.
Tommy was waiting for you in reception when you came out of the witness room "How does it feel to come here and be on the other side?" you joke.
"Ha ha, funny," he replies and a faint smile leaves his lips.
You stop by his house to pick up Cat and some clothes, and you stay at Maria's until you find Richard or Joel. You didn't know how things were going to turn out after that, but you were hoping that you could make things right.
/
Joel arrives at Sarah's address and rings the doorbell incessantly.
"Calm down, Dad," she says, opening the door. Joel breathes a sigh of relief with his hand on his chest. Sarah had said she was fine, but he needed to see for himself. Joel hugs her tightly, she hugs him back and he feels her tears, Joel's chest aches at the sight of his distressed child.
"It's okay, I'm here with you"
After Joel and Sarah had calmed down, they decided to go to sleep, now that he was sure she was safe and the adrenaline had started to subside, tiredness was taking over his body. He checked his cell phone after his shower and there was no sign of you, he thought about trying to contact you, but he didn't know exactly what to say.
#
Sarah's friend left early for her day's activities, leaving the house to Joel and Sarah. Over breakfast she tells them how it all happened.
"I was in class" Joel looks suspiciously at the sudden stutter "when I got a message from a neighbor asking if I had hired any services, he saw someone enter the house and got worried. I asked him to call the police, because I wasn't expecting anyone. I was lucky I wasn't there"
Joel's fists are clenched, his nails, although short, are embedded in his skin.
"It was strange coming home and realizing that my privacy had been invaded, I felt a bit exposed" Joel didn't know what to say, he just put his hands on her shoulders trying to comfort her. He had only one certainty: if he found Richard, he had the feeling he could kill him.
Joel convinced Sarah to move into a building with a doorman, so she would be safer, at least at home.
"I'm staying until they find him," Joel commented.
"Dad, he's not crazy about coming back here. You can't stop your life because of this"
Joel looks at her with indignation, he would stop anything for her, he would die for her life.
"And I think it's time I told you something," she looked down at her coffee cup, Joel knew that expression, Sarah was embarrassed. "I've been dating for a while"
Joel's eyes widened "How long?"
"Yeah... about 6 months" he was surprised, he didn't think their relationship had any secrets, at least not 6 month secrets, she had visited during that period and he hadn't noticed anything.
"Oh, okay, fine" Joel tries to keep his voice calm, Sarah was a grown woman, but for him she would always be his child.
"That's where I was when Richard broke in" she is ashamed of having lied to him.
Joel takes her hands "You could have told me the truth"
"I know, I'm sorry. I just wanted it to be serious before I involved the family"
"And six months isn't long enough?" he smiles awkwardly at her.
"I think so," she smiles back.
Joel listens intently to Sarah telling him about her boyfriend, how she met him, that he has a degree in economics, what they like to do...
"And you, huh? You've finally let someone into your heart," she says, nudging him. Joel stiffens, he knew he'd messed things up with you, he was so worried about Sarah that he acted like an idiot. "How is she?"
"I don't know," he knew you were feeling guilty, but nothing more. You hadn't tried calling or texting and neither had he.
"What do you mean?"
"I didn't react well when I found out who your intruder was"
"Dad, it's not her fault the guy's a maniac"
"I know, I know. But I was so worried about you, I acted like an idiot"
"I'm sure you'll work things out" she assures him with a smile on her face, Joel has always liked Sarah's positivity.
#
"I could stay at Dylan's until everything is sorted out"
Joel ponders a little "I'd rather you had your own place, not that you'd have to stay there all the time" he explains so as not to sound like a grumpy dad "but it's nice to have a place to call your own" Joel didn't know this boyfriend, he didn't know if it was serious, if it would last, he wanted to make sure she had somewhere to go if things got out of hand. Sarah ended up giving in. They spent the day looking for apartments, researching which neighborhoods had easy access to work and college. By the end of the day they had a few options in mind.
Joel is sitting up in bed after his shower, exhausted after walking so much during the day. He picks up his cell phone and you haven't sent anything and he understands, the way he acted with you wasn't right. He saw the fear in your eyes and did nothing to calm you down. He sighs in frustration at himself, opens the message box, his fingers hovering over the keyboard without knowing what to write.
/
It was Tuesday night, you'd spent two days without hearing from Joel, your heart aching every time you remembered the disappointed look he gave you. You knew that he had arrived in Atlanta well and that he was looking for an apartment for Sarah through Tommy. You didn't ask, you didn't want to put him in the middle of the two of you, he realized you weren't talking and decided to reassure you.
You were lying in bed, too tired even to take a shower, you were feeling like a teenager again, where your parents took you to and from places, only now your parents were Maria and Tommy. You checked your cell phone and there was no sign of Joel, so Tommy was wrong about his assumption, even after a while he didn't want to talk to you.
On the one hand you understood, Sarah was in danger because of you, but on the other hand you were devastated, all the moments you'd had so far, all the songs full of meaning he'd played for you, him telling you he loved you, where did it all go? You missed him so much, the arms around your body, the caresses, the kisses, the smell. You took a t-shirt of Joel's when you went home, but you left it at the bottom of your suitcase, you didn't think you could bear to smell him knowing that you might never smell him in person again, so it was just a memory until it was completely erased from your memory. You caught yourself in a dream rambling through memories of the two of you.
#
Wednesday night you hear someone knocking on your bedroom door.
"Come in"
Maria enters cautiously, sitting on the edge of the bed where you are curled up with Cat wrapped around your legs, just like every night. She's been respectful of your space, waking you up close to the time you leave for work, drinking only a black coffee before you leave. You do this to disrupt the couple's routine as little as possible and because your body doesn't require food.
"Why don't you text me?" she asks quietly, staring at you. She knows you're suffering, at work you're like a robot doing what you're told.
"He was clear when he said we'd talk when we got back"
"I don't know which is more stubborn!" she exclaims. Your tongue itches to ask her what she knows, but you resist.
"How's the baby?" A smile appears on her face at the thought that soon there will be a little baby in your midst.
"Everything's fine, we'll find out the sex soon," she says, rubbing her belly.
"Have you chosen a name yet?"
"We have a few in mind, but nothing definite"
She talks to you for a while, distracting you.
"I don't want to disturb you and Tommy, I could stay at home," you say after a while. You missed your home, your things, your routine. But your routine usually had Joel and now it wouldn't.
"You're not getting in the way of anything," she assures you with kind eyes. "And I don't want you to be in any danger."
You sigh, you didn't think Richard would come back to Austin, he wouldn't be that stupid, and he didn't try to contact you either, but he agreed to stay at Maria's for a while.
#
It was Friday and still no sign of Joel. You heard Tommy talking to him on the phone, you heard him asking Joel to call you, you stood at the end of the hallway listening, you felt terrible doing it, but you had to try and find out something.
"She's clearly in a bad way about all this" there's a pause "You know best, brother. But don't be an idiot," Tommy warns before hanging up huffing. You stand there for a while, trying to imagine what Joel said back. Did he care how you were feeling? Or did he just want some distance after everything? You're lost in thought and don't realize that Tommy is coming out of the kitchen, bumping into you still standing in the hallway.
"Oh, sorry," he says, holding you by the shoulders to keep you upright.
"It's okay," you reply quietly.
"How much did you hear?" Tommy asks worriedly.
"Just you snorting" you lie. Tommy clenches his eyes in disbelief.
"He's just sorting things out and will be back soon," he tries to justify.
"It's not that hard to call or text," you shrug, turning your back and heading for the kitchen. You hear Tommy sigh, but he doesn't go after you. You were hurt by Joel. Could you have gotten in touch? I could have. But he was clear when he said he'd talk to you when he got back, and you didn't want to force the issue by calling or texting him. And as well as respecting his space, you were afraid you wouldn't hear back from him.
/
Joel is carrying the last boxes from Sarah's move, they've found an apartment that's between work and college, it's small, but she said it was great. Joel knows he probably won't sleep a night here, and he can't blame her, he'd rather spend every night with you too. His week was full, rushing to sort things out and get Sarah settled before he left, he'd come home so exhausted that he'd just take a quick shower and fall into bed. But even with his busy week, Joel thought about you a lot, how much he missed being with you every day, your laughter, your smell, your body pressed against his. Tommy talked about how you were feeling and his chest tightened, but he felt strange if he tried to call you now, because he knows he should have done it much earlier.
They finished unpacking and Sarah went to the shower, they were going to have dinner with Dylan in a few hours, Joel had made a point of getting to know him before he left.
She picked up her cell phone and couldn't resist looking for his name.
Warnings: Story inspired by the Joel Miller series, no apocalypse, contains obscenities (18+ only), female reader s/n, age difference (45x30), Romance, more than one point of view, alcohol use, angst, sex, oral (m and f receiving).
Word count: 5,6k
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After the initial shock, Maria and Tommy were happy with the pregnancy. You were surprised by Joel's reaction, you thought he would take it badly, given his brother's history, but he was giving her all the support she needed. Since finding out that the baby was on the way, Tommy had cut down considerably on alcohol, which made Maria feel relieved.
You had offered to let them stay at the cabin for some alone time, but Tommy had refused.
"That's my apology, and given recent events, you need it too," Tommy said and offered to look after Cat while he was away.
It was a Friday afternoon, you had asked for time off work and you were on your way to the cottage with a mixed playlist of songs you both liked, his hand always in contact with you, on your thigh, on your hand, on your shoulder. The way there was quiet for most of the way, but when it was 30 minutes before you got there, you took a dirt road where the cell phone signal fluctuated. You didn't mind too much, after all, everyone you knew in Austin knew you'd be at the cabin with Joel.
The place was incredible, on top of a hill with trees all around, giving you total privacy between lodgings. The cabin had a bedroom with a bathroom, a living room with an integrated kitchen, covered with large glass windows that could be closed with curtains that went from the ceiling to the floor.
"Wow, someone's apologized," you say after examining the place, dropping your bags in a corner.
"I think someone has already forgiven me for contacting him about the interruption," Joel laughs into your neck as he hugs you from behind.
"Only because no one here is going to interrupt anything" you turn around and clasp your lips together, your tongue licking the soft skin and entering the warm mouth. Joel moans into your mouth, grabbing you by the ass, and you start to push him into the bedroom without separating your mouths. He sits on the bed pulling you, but you stop and kneel down, running your hands up his thighs until you reach his belt, unbuckling it. Your eyes meet his, black with lust, you giggle, he hardly knows what you're going to do today.
He unzips his pants, running his hand down his stomach and over the waistband of his briefs, his fingers barely touching the skin, sending shivers through your body. You notice his breathing change when your hand finds his hard cock, and a twinge hits the middle of your legs. Your mouth salivates, wanting it in your mouth right now.
"Do you want it?" Joel asks, pulling it out of his underwear, thick and firm with a drooling red head, rubbing the salty tip on your lips, you lick it slowly, collecting all the pre-cum from the slit. He hisses between his teeth and you smile, taking his cock deep into your mouth.
"Fuck, baby" Joel says and puts his hand on your head guiding you up and down, you let him control it now, because later he won't be able to. You drool all over his cock, sucking and licking, Joel lets out little moans as he hits the back of your throat, making your eyes roll back at the sound. You love being the one who gives him pleasure, love that the moans are because of what you do. His core is boiling, sticky, begging to be touched. You give it a little more attention with your mouth and pull out with a pop, kissing the tip before getting up and pushing Joel down onto his back. He obeys excitedly, pulling on your waist to ride you. You nod and he furrows his eyebrows in confusion.
"Today things are going to be a little different," you say as your hands remove the belt from his pants. "Remove all your clothes," you ask and Joel starts to undress, you stand there with the belt in your hand watching. When he removes the last piece, you signal for him to lie back against the headboard, you mount him while still dressed, feeling his erection rubbing against you, damn it, you need to control yourself not to rub against him now.
You slide your hands down his lightly muscled chest "Fucking hot" you compliment, Joel smiling sideways with one hand pulling you closer by the nape of your neck, you let him because you want to kiss him now, your tongue sliding along his. You remove your hand from the back of his neck and place it above his head, sliding your fingers down his other arm until you find your hand and place it with the other. You climb further onto his lap, without putting any pressure on his belly, take the belt and tie Joel's two hands together.
"What are you doing?" he asks curiously.
"Just a little lesson," you say, smiling mischievously, and he raises an eyebrow, looking for more of an answer than that, "so you can learn who can keep up with who."
"You're going to fuck me and I won't be able to touch you?"
"That's about right," you reply, still in doubt as to how you're going to do it.
"That's torture," he complains and you shrug, checking that your hands are securely fastened. If he wanted to, he could lower his arms and pin you down with them, but you accepted his game.
You get off him and watch Joel totally naked with his cock hard and his hands tied "You'd make a great photo" you comment as you pick up your cell phone, Joel's eyes go wide "but I'm just going to keep it in my mind today" you continue reassuring him, you play i feel like i'm drowning and throw the device in a corner.
(I recommend playing the song while reading)
You're wearing a denim skirt and a black strappy blouse, and Joel looks at you curiously, keeping his hands where you left them. You bite your lip, still undecided.
"Come on, take off your clothes" he realizes that you're swayed from your plan and encourages you to continue. A laugh escapes through your teeth. Closing your eyes, you pull one strap of your blouse off your shoulder, swaying to the rhythm of the music. You unbutton your jeans and pull them down, kicking them across the room. A pair of tiny panties covers only the front of your sex; at the back, they disappear around your ass.
"Baby" Joel calls, you look and he signals with his fingers to turn around. A low whistle comes from his lips when he sees the back of your panties, or rather the lack of them. You close your eyes again, you've never done a strip tease for someone before, but you were turned on and enjoying it, and Joel's reactions were helping you to keep going.
You run your fingers over your breasts and squeeze them lightly, causing a moan to escape your mouth. You hear Joel moving around and peek through your eyelashes to see him trying to touch himself with his bound hands.
"What are you doing?"
"The game was for me not to touch you, right?"
You smile and make a negative sound with your mouth, he ignores it and continues to touch himself.
"If you carry on I'm going to have to tie your hands to the headboard," he raises his eyebrows, clearly amused by the idea.
You turn over on your back, reach down to your panties, gather your courage and look at Joel over your shoulder as you pull down, thrusting your ass exaggeratedly towards the bed.
"Jesus," he curses softly, his every reaction making you wetter. You walk over to the bed and climb on top of him, removing your hands from his hard cock and returning it above your head, tying it to the headboard with your panties. You know that if he wants to, he'll pull your panties off. She runs a hand over his head, holding tightly to the hair on top, lifting his face up.
"You're loving having me like this, aren't you?" He can see in your eyes that you're enjoying it, having him at your mercy was turning you on more than you thought possible. You nod and lower your face to kiss him, slow and sexy, your nails sliding down Joel's chest, leaving slight red marks on his skin. You separate your mouths to remove your blouse, his eyes are fixed on your chest, you lean in and brush the nipples of your breasts against his lips, but without letting your mouth sink in.
"Let me lick it," he grunts, moving his hips in an attempt to push you forward. You bite your lip smiling and move closer, letting him run his tongue over the hardened nipples, you moan when you feel the wetness wrapping around them. You let him lick them both and pull away, your mouth following trying to lick again, you push his forehead back as he groans in frustration. This is turning out to be more fun than you thought it would be.
You crawl down, a small puddle of pre-cum is accumulating on your belly below his hard cock, it constricts your pussy and you hold back so you don't slowly pick it up and go down on him right now. She stops just below his balls, running her fingers through his sticky opening, rubbing her clit and moaning with relief.
"No. You're not going to do that now," he complains as he watches you part your lips with your fingertips opening for him, your wetness dripping from the opening.
"Why not?" you ask softly, wrapped up in the pleasure you're giving yourself.
"Because I'm right here," he whines, lifting his hips to emphasize his cock.
"Don't worry, I'll be there soon," he moans, watching you rub your fingers together before sinking one into your pussy, a moan escaping his lips, his body leaning forward in search of more.
"Fuck," Joel says, low and husky, you look at the heavy cock on your belly twitching and a laugh escapes from the back of your throat. "You're going to kill me with your heart," he tries to keep it down so that you release him.
"You can take it," you reply between moans as you insert another finger. Your fingers don't do the same damage as Joel's would, you know that, and so does he.
"I could be making you scream," he comments a little arrogantly, watching you with his black eyes. You bite your lip and shake your head negatively.
"You know, my idea wasn't to come on my fingers, it was just to tease you and then do it just once on your cock, squeezing so hard it made my legs shake" you reply with your fingers still inside you, his gaze changes, his breathing becomes a little irregular "but with that teasing of yours, you leave me no choice". You have two fingers in and out, you adjust your hand so that the base of your thumb rubs your clitoris, your free hand squeezes and pulls your breasts, your body arches with the new stimuli, you roll over in your own hand.
You're so turned on by everything that it doesn't take long for the wave of pleasure to overwhelm you, your legs trembling on Joel's thighs, your pussy clenching around his slender fingers. You look up at him, moaning loudly as you come down, showing that you also know how to make yourself scream with pleasure, his eyes are blacker, his face in a mixture of admiration and pain.
"Fuck, baby. So beautiful," he compliments, still glazed over. He pulls out his fingers, dripping with cum, brings them to his mouth and tastes himself, licking his fingers and swirling his tongue.
"Jesus... can I taste it too?" he asks with a cocky look on his face, you smile and give in, moving closer, leaning over his cock, resting one hand on the side of his shoulder and the other on his folds, collecting the rest of his orgasm and putting your fingers in his mouth "mhmmm" he moans, tasting and cleaning his fingers.
You stand up straight again, looking down at his dick, you take it in one hand, rubbing the tip, taking your time with the slit, Joel pulls in air through his teeth, you place it at his entrance and stop, his eyes staring at you.
"Do you want it?" you ask debauchedly and he nods. "Words, baby" you use your nickname, making him laugh. He's already made you ask for words more times than you can remember and now that you're in this position you're going to enjoy every part of it.
"Please, fuck my cock"
"Your request is an order" a wicked smile appears on your lips, you were enjoying using his lines against him, you sink down, him opening the walls that your fingers couldn't, reaching deep inside you, where your fingers never touched.
"Fuck" you curse low. You feel Joel trying to move underneath you.
"Shush, not today," you say, lifting your hips, leaving just the tip inside you and lowering yourself again, you repeat twice more and rub back and forth, alternating between these two movements. Joel follows your body up and down, biting his lip, cursing, moaning. His reactions help you get close to your second orgasm, but you stop and calm down, wanting your next cum to be with his. You run your hands over his chest and belly, admiring every part of his body.
"Come on, baby, get wet and squeeze my cock," he says, pressing himself against you.
"Fuck," you say as you move down, lean in and kiss Joel, and he returns the kiss with gusto, moaning into your mouth as he fucks you. His cock pounding into your bottom and spongy spot, you know you won't last long if you keep this up. You realize that he's getting into the rhythm where he's going to cum too, so you get off him.
"Fuck, baby" he curses in frustration, making you laugh.
"Calm down," you say, running your hand over his face, you feel his breathing quicken, you know he's on the edge, he needs relief.
"Do you want to come?" you ask, running your fingers over his lips.
"Please," he begs with his mouth and his eyes. You smile and turn around, settling back on his chest and arching your ass in front of his face, who leans forward and licks your folds, slipping his tongue into your hole, making you moan with pleasure. He lowers his face, running his tongue from the middle of your belly to where his cock is resting. He holds it in his hand and licks the tip, spraying saliva on it. He grunts into your pussy as he spurts out more precum. You pull your ass away from his face as he moans, adjusting yourself to fit his cock into your entrance, still with your back to him, and sinking in slowly.
Joel hisses as you start to move. "Is that good?" you look over your shoulder, increasing your movements, his eyes fixed on the cock moving in and out of your pussy.
You slow down your movements "I asked you a question"
"That's fucking good," he says huskily, the veins in his neck popping. Seeing his lust-filled gaze locked on you, hearing the moans coming out of his mouth, feeling his cock moving in and out, his balls rubbing against your clitoris, all this together brings you to another orgasm very quickly.
"Fuck Joel" you scream, moving faster.
"God..." he says your name together over and over again, "F-fuck" you feel his cock swelling and spurting inside you in a deep, hoarse grunt, your orgasm pouring out along with his cum through your tight walls. You both go down moaning and whimpering meaningless words.
You get off him, the muscles in your legs complaining, you untie your hands, his eyes are tired, but a smile is on his lips. You unfasten your panties from the belt and the headboard, he lowers his arms and shrugs his shoulders.
"Sorry," you ask softly, massaging his shoulders lightly, it must have been hard for him to stay in that position for all this time.
"Are you apologizing for giving me a wonderful orgasm?" you smile, it was great for you too, the whole situation, the provocation, the interrupted orgasm, everything helped you both to have strong experiences of release.
You help him remove his belt and throw it on the side of the bed, and he pulls you to lie on his chest.
"Thanks for the lesson," he says, smiling into your hair.
#
She opens her eyes and frowns uncomprehendingly, she's lying naked on Joel's chest, the sky outside is orange with the sun almost setting. As comprehension dawns on her, a smile appears on her lips: you've fallen asleep after sex. You stretch and Joel groans awake beneath you.
"Oh, hi" he says and joins you in stretching too.
"I think we fell asleep," you comment on the obvious.
"Uh huh"
"Are you hungry?"
"Quite"
After lying in bed for a while, you get up and take a shower. In the kitchen you rummage through the cupboards looking for food; the booklet Tommy gave you said that meals were included. You open the fridge.
"I don't think we're going to starve," you comment, the fridge was full of ready meals packed separately. Each of you chooses what you want to have for dinner and kills your hunger.
You're outside laying blankets on an air mattress next to the fire that Joel has lit for you, the night is covering most of the sky, the stars emerging timidly. Joel has parked his truck behind the mattress to support your backs, he's coming towards you with glasses of wine and his guitar. You settle down with the blankets covering your legs, the night air at the top of the hill is chilly, even though it's summer. You pour the wine and Joel adjusts the guitar in his arms. The fire casts shadows over his face, making him even more beautiful. Your legs are still sore from the exertion of hours ago, but a pang hits your core when you remember him melting beneath you, so wrapped up in your proposal, accepting everything you gave. You sip your wine and look at him, analyzing every detail, his beard, his moustache, his nose, the hair on the back of his neck, his arms, everything about him was inviting. That feeling that was becoming more and more familiar fills your chest again.
"What's wrong?" he asks, and you just shake your head negatively, smiling. He sips his wine and starts playing a song. You stand there singing along for a while, he goes through a few more songs and offers you to play too, but you haven't learned any new ones.
"I just want to sit here and listen to you play," he mutters, afraid that his voice at normal volume might break the bubble you were in.
"It's okay," he said, following your lead and starting to play Say You Won't Let Go.
/
Joel didn't choose this song for nothing, there were several others that say what he feels and wants with you. He's absolutely sure that he loves you, he just doesn't know how to say it without scaring you. At the same time as he feels that you've given yourself body and soul, he also knows that your last relationship ended in a traumatic way, you don't talk much about that part of your life and he respects it without forcing it, without being sure of all the data it caused in you.
(I recommend playing the song while you read)
He starts playing, paying attention to the notes and looking at you when it's a phrase he thinks is important.
I met you in the dark, you lit me up
You made me feel as though I was enough
Joel met you at a time in his life when things were stagnating, he was tired of meeting people he had no connection with, but with you it was different.
I knew I loved you then
But you'd never know
'Cause I played it cool when I was scared of letting go
Joel stared into his, and he felt his eyes widen a little, his chest rising and falling faster.
But I wanna stay with you until we're grey and old
Just say you won't let go
Just say you won't let go
He sees her eyes fill with tears as she sings softly along with him.
I'll wake you up with some breakfast in bed
I'll bring you coffee with a kiss on your head
God, how he wishes he could wake up with you every day, spoil you and bring you coffee in bed whenever possible.
For a minute, I forget that I'm older
You made him feel young, an energy he hadn't felt run through his body for a long time.
I'm so in love with you
And I hope you know
Darling, your love is more than worth its weight in gold
A tear escapes from his eye and he almost stops playing to grab your face with his hands and dry it, but he continues, he wants you to understand everything this song means.
I'm gonna love you 'til
My lungs give out
He feels he's never loved anyone like this, not even Sarah's mother.
Just say you won't let go
Oh, just say you won't let go
He just needed you to promise that you wouldn't leave, that you were his. The song ends and you stare at each other, Joel not knowing how to react, tears streaming down his face, he wonders if the song wasn't too much for you.
/
You look at the depth of Joel's eyes, he observes your every feature, his eyebrows are furrowed.
"Is all this true?" you ask, your voice breaking at the end.
"Every sentence, every word," he assures you and a sob escapes your throat, a smile appearing at the knowledge that he feels the same way you do. Joel puts down the guitar next to him and comes closer, taking your face in his hands. "It's all true, I want to grow old with you by my side" he says with a laugh, you smile along, rolling your eyes "I want to live everything with you, give you everything you want, everything you need, because, God, I'm madly in love with you" he watches your face, your mouth opens and closes several times, you want to say it back, you feel it all, the words form on your tongue but refuse to come out.
Do you hate yourself now because you can't say it back? Joel has always been perfect with you, he makes you feel loved and wanted like never before. You feel safe with him, protected, at home. Fuck.
"You don't have to tell me back" he says to you, noticing the confusion in your eyes, you sigh.
"I feel it, I swear I do" you explain "I just, I can't..."
"I know, baby, I know," he reassures you, brushing his nose against yours. You close the space between you, kissing him eagerly, wanting him to believe that you love him too. But saying those three damn words, they're just three words, damn it, it's hard for you. The last time you said them, it was a big fall. You loved Henry with all your heart, a different love from the one you feel for Joel, but still a love, and you came out so bruised, so broken. And even though Joel was responsible for helping you pick yourself up, even though he consumed all your thoughts, saying I love you out loud scared you. You don't want to go back to Joel, you want him in your life for as long as possible, for as long as he wants to stay, but saying the words to him, to the world, makes things more real than they already are and that's scary, because it gives you room to hurt yourself again. It's not very logical, you know, because you already feel it even without saying it, you'd be just as hurt if things went wrong.
Joel leans back against the side of the truck pulling you close to him, you snuggle into his chest, the warmth of his chest and the fire keeping you warm.
#
The morning rays hit your eyes, you clench your eyes shut as you try to open them. In the treetops the birds wake up excited for another day. You and Joel slept under the starlight, you were so tired after sex that you just snuggled up to each other and fell asleep. You look over and he's lying on his stomach fast asleep. You smile looking at him, so serene and peaceful, even though the wrinkle in the middle of his eyebrows is slightly marked. Your fingers itch to run through his hair, but you don't want to wake him yet. You decide to get up and make breakfast for yourselves.
There's some chopped fruit in the fridge, coffee and some eggs in the cupboard next to it. You're thinking as you prepare the eggs in a frying pan, the aroma of coffee filling the room as the water passes through the powder in the coffee maker. You feel so loved next to him, everything you talked about yesterday, him opening up his feelings to you. You sigh loudly, sad that you haven't been able to open up as much as he has, even though you've felt the same way for a long time.
"Morning, sleepyhead," you say as you approach the mattress. Joel is sitting up and rubbing his eyes.
"Hey, baby," his voice came out hoarse as the first words passed through his throat. You reach him a cup of coffee, which he gladly accepts. You had brought a small table from inside the house to stand the eggs and fruit on.
"Have you sorted all this out?" he asks, sipping his coffee.
"Yes," you say, sitting down next to him. You drink your coffee in silence, enjoying the birdsong.
"What are the plans?" he asks.
"Stay in bed and fuck all day?" you suggest.
"Tempting" he says kissing your cheek "but we could explore the area a bit and then spend the rest of the day fucking" you pretend to think for a moment and then agree.
The booklet Tommy gave you said that there were trails around the site, so you came prepared with sneakers and light clothing. You put on shorts, a top and sneakers and Joel shorts and sneakers, exposing his tanned chest. Unlike the night before, the day is warm in this region.
You've been walking for 20 minutes on the marked trail, sweat dripping down your bodies when you hear the sound of running water. You look at Joel excitedly and pick up the pace. A few meters later you stop in a clearing, the trees opening up to show the crystal-clear running water gushing from some rocks above.
"Wow," even though you've spoken quietly, an echo rises when your voice hits the rocks around you. Joel rushes over and takes off his shorts and sneakers, stepping into the icy water with his boxer shorts, you watch his broad back as he dives in.
"Come on, you can stand," he says as he stands up, throwing his hair back with his hands, the water lapping at his stomach. You start to take off your clothes, leaving only your panties. You look around with a little smile on your face, believing that no one other than you is going to show up here, and you end up taking off the last of your clothes as well.
"I think I can get used to this," Joel comments, floating in the water.
"To what?"
"With you seductively removing your clothes in front of me"
You laugh lowly as you step into the icy water, your body shivering and your nipples hardening "Today I took them off normally"
"But just as sexy" he slips his hands around your waist, pulling you closer.
"You old pervert" you tease, wrapping your arms around his neck.
"Just for you, baby" he holds your face with one hand as he kisses you, shocks running through your body at the contrast between the cold water and his warm mouth, his other hand on your waist, you feel his erection forming against your belly. You take advantage of being in the water and wrap your legs around his waist, fitting into his broad body. He holds you by the ass, grinding against his now fully grown cock. He separates your mouths and looks around, walks behind the waterfall curtain with you hooked, sitting you under a rock.
"I thought we were only going to explore the area in the morning," you comment sarcastically.
"But we are exploring." he replies, pulling down his boxer shorts halfway down his thighs.
"Yeah?"
"Yes, exploring perfect places to fuck," a laugh bursts out of you at his reasoning, he rubs his cock against your entrance and sinks in when he feels you're wet. Your back arches, adjusting the angle, with your legs around his waist, digging your feet into his ass to push him deeper.
"So needy"
And he's right, her body always gives itself to him effortlessly. Your mind always accepts everything he offers without fear.
#
You sit on the rocks exposing your bodies to the sun to dry your skin before putting on your clothes and returning to the hut.
"I wasn't looking for a relationship when I met you, I wasn't planning on having one so soon, but then you came into my life and things started happening. I found myself wanting to spend more and more time with you, it was easy, it was simple," you ramble a little, Joel's fingers caressing your arm, showing that he's listening.
"I think we need to thank Maria for that"
"And she wasn't a fan of yours at first," you say.
"What do you mean?"
"You know, because you never stay with the same woman for long. She was trying to protect me somehow"
He snorts and smiles "No other woman was the right one. It's funny that when you're not looking, something comes along in life that changes you forever."
You raise your head to look at him, the words rolling off your tongue without coming to life outside your body again. Joel watches you carefully, running his hand over your face, supporting your chin to keep you looking at him.
"I feel that you enjoy spending time with me, I feel when you melt while I fuck you, I feel your affection in the small gestures of everyday life, and that's enough for me, don't feel pressured to say anything back, okay?"
"Okay," his voice comes out in a whisper.
They went back to the cabin and spent the rest of the day lying around dating and watching TV shows, Joel was still hooked on Friends, they were at the one where Ross announced his marriage to Emily. Joel comments on what an asshole Ross is and you have to agree with him.
#
You were relaxed and happy about your weekend together, everything had been perfect, you'd made the most of your time together without external interference from cell phones with no signal. You felt more connected as a couple. As a couple. You didn't think you'd be in that position any time soon when you split up with your ex, but you were totally surrendered and open to Joel Miller.
You're driving down the dirt road when your cell phones pick up after two days away, and messages start popping up on your devices, breaking the calm bubble you were in. You're surprised by the number of messages, pick up your cell phone and see several from Maria, then think of the baby and your chest hurts.
Hi, can you come back?
Is everything all right there?
We need to talk to you, urgently.
Damn it, I'm going to kill Tommy who sent you to a place where there's no signal.
You frown and try to call Maria, but the signal is still fluctuating.
"Is everything all right?" Joel asks, squeezing your thigh.
"I don't know, there are a lot of messages from Maria" Before you could say what you had written, Joel's cell phone rings, he picks it up and puts it on the car's speakerphone.
"Hey, babe"
"Hi, Dad" her voice is sad "everything's fine now" she begins.
"What happened?" Joel looks at you worriedly "Sarah?"
"A-someone broke into my house" a silence, your heart pounding with the information.
"Are you okay, are you safe?" you intrude on the conversation.
"Yes, yes. Luckily I wasn't home," you hear Joel exhale a little relieved. "But he got away, the cops couldn't catch him"
"Fuck," Joel curses, "where are you?"
"I'm... yeah, at a friend's house, I'm safe, Dad," she says.
"And do you have any idea who did it?" she falls silent at the question "Sarah?"
"Dad" she begins and falls silent again.
"Sarah, who did it?" you see her fingers turn white from the pressure she's putting on the steering wheel.
"We saw on the neighbor's camera that it was a blond guy" she begins after a sigh and her heart stops, Joel looks at the device that comes out Sarah's voice as if he could see her "Maria said he worked with her"
"It can't be" you whisper, Joel looks at you without understanding, you're white, your mouth is dry. What was he doing after Sarah?
Warnings: Story inspired by the Joel Miller series, no apocalypse, contains obscenities (18+ only), female reader s/n, age difference (45x30), Romance, more than one point of view, alcohol use, angst, sex, oral (m and f receiving).
Word count: 2,6k
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Saturday morning, you frown as you open your eyes, the empty sheets beside you, running your hand over them and feeling them chill. You were so tired that you didn't notice when Joel left the bed. You stretch and hear the doorbell ring, wait to see if Joel answers and it rings again, and again.
"Joel" she shouts at the bedroom door, with no reply. "Damn it" he curses quietly and puts on one of Joel's T-shirts, one that luckily covers his mid-thigh. He walks to the door, running his hand through his hair, trying futilely to comb it.
You open the door and see Ms. Anders' smile disappear, looking you up and down and raising an eyebrow. She's wearing her 1940s dress, her hair in a neat bun and a cake that looks like it's just come out of the oven in her hands. She must have gotten up early to have a freshly baked cake at this time of the morning. The smell of the cake reaches her nostrils, reminding her stomach that it's hungry.
"Is Joel there?" she asks dryly.
"Good morning" you try to be polite "I don't really know, I just woke up"
"Oh, was there a problem with your work that you had to stay here?" she was curious, as if you wearing only his T-shirt wasn't enough information.
"That's about it," you hold back a laugh, "can I help you?" you offer.
She frowns "No, I'll talk to him later" she's turning to leave when Joel parks the pick-up in the driveway. You see him squinting to see better, he definitely needs to see an ophthalmologist. He gets out of the truck, picks up some bags and walks to the door.
"Good morning, Miss Anders," he greets, passing her by "Hey, baby, are you awake yet?" He gives her a quick kiss on the cheek and goes to drop the bags inside the house, his eyes watching Joel, not wanting to meet Annie's gaze. He comes back and stops behind you, "Did something break again, Miss Anders?"
Her mouth opens and closes, searching for the words, she looks away, uncomfortable with the whole situation "No. I just came to bring you this cake, Joel" she emphasizes the you "as a thank you for your services"
"Oh, that's very kind of you" he smiles at her, who makes no move to hand over the cake, you're blocking her.
She sniffles and holds out the cake, as far away from you as possible, you step back a little, Joel takes it in one hand, the cake that was big in her hands seems strangely smaller in his. You feel uncomfortable and even a little sorry for her, who clearly has feelings for Joel. You go back into the house with some excuse. Giving Joel room to finish the conversation.
When he closes the door with the cake in his hand, a debauched smile is on his face "Warm cake, huh?" you say "I think I'm thanking you the wrong way" he rolls his eyes, smiling at you.
Joel had gone to the bakery to buy breakfast for you, since he didn't have the ingredients at home. You pour yourself a hot cup of coffee while he puts what he's bought on the table, along with Annie's cake. You reach the edge of the table and little balls catch your eye.
"Is that cheese bread?" you ask excitedly.
He nods and says he liked it so much the other day that he wanted to eat it again. You smile with satisfaction, knowing that he absorbed a little bit of your culture during the encounter.
#
You're sitting on the veranda, Joel is washing his car in the driveway. He's wearing black shorts and no shirt, the sun burning his already tanned skin. You watch the muscles in his arms tighten as he rubs the sponge in circles all over the bodywork, quite a sight. The hair you messed up the night before is slightly wet from sweat and the jets of water from the hose he uses to rinse the parts clean. Your hands itch to trace the wet muscles of his chest.
"I can feel your eyes on me," he comments a little loudly.
"What can I do if you look beautiful washing the car?"
"You can join me" he says throwing some water on you, you scream hysterically asking him not to do that. "Come on, I'd love to get your shirt wet" he lowers the hose, as you asked.
"What do you want to get my shirt wet for?" you ask teasingly.
"I think you know" he threatens to throw water again and you scream.
"Okay, just let me see if Maria and Tommy are free to join us for lunch," you ask. He smiles in agreement and goes back to his activity.
Hi, Maria! Are you free for lunch today?
Oh dear, I'm feeling unwell.
What's wrong?
I think I ate something that was bad for me, I woke up vomiting and nauseous.
You feel bad for her, wish her well and offer to help her if she needs it. You get up and join Joel. He's soaking you the second you get close, you scream and try to get away, the cold water chilling your body. You finish washing the car and go for a shower, which ends in sex. You go out for lunch and go home, I didn't want to leave Cat alone for too long. You spend the rest of the weekend making out, playing music, watching TV shows and having sex.
#
Monday Maria is still unwell and has body aches. You begin to suspect that she doesn't have food poisoning, she's very tired and asks to leave in the middle of the day.
You decide to stay in tonight, Joel had a project to finish and you didn't want to be a distraction for him. Your doorbell hasn't rung, you think the installation of the security camera has scared the children. You pack up and go to bed, determined to go to Maria's early the next morning.
#
You're at Maria's door, Tommy's car isn't parked out front, you're holding a pharmacy bag in your hands. She opens the door sleepily, with dark circles under her eyes.
"Did something happen?" she's startled when she sees you, you've never shown up like this unannounced.
"Have you had a wee yet?" you ask and she raises her eyebrows.
"No, but now that you've mentioned it, I feel like it"
"Good," you say, entering her house.
You push her into the bathroom, she looks down at her hands and sees the pharmacy logo and the realization hits her. She starts laughing.
"I'm not pregnant" she says, sitting down on the toilet and taking the cup from your hand "my period is regular".
"Pee in this cup soon," you rush. You have three open tests waiting for the cup. Maria shakes her head as if you were crazy. You had your reasons to be suspicious, Marcela had already been pregnant, unfortunately she lost it after a few weeks, and the symptoms were very similar to what Maria was feeling. You take the toothpicks out of the glass and Maria pushes you out of the bathroom.
"Let's not waste time looking at something I already know the answer to," she says, walking into the bedroom to get ready, "I've woken up better today and I'm hungry," you sit in the armchair and wait while she changes, "if I hurry, we can go to that café we like."
You keep talking while Maria gets ready, she's quick and soon she's grabbing her bag to leave. You stop at the bathroom door and give her a suggestive look. She rolls her eyes and goes in, complaining that this will only waste your time.
"What's up?" you ask after a while of her silence, you didn't want to go in and look without her calling out. She doesn't answer, "Maria?" you call.
"It's not all right" you hear fear in her voice and you enter without her asking. Maria is as white as paper, one hand over her mouth, staring at the sink.
You look at the tests and all three have two strong pink stripes.
"Maria" you say quietly, confirming your suspicion.
"That must be wrong," she says quietly, "my period isn't late."
"Maria, all three were positive" you state the obvious.
"Tommy and I take care of ourselves" she explains. You run your hands down her back, and she sobs.
"It's going to be okay," you comfort her.
"It won't, Tommy's a brat" she turns to you crying louder and sinking her face into your shoulder, you hug her tightly speaking words of comfort. You stay like that for a good few minutes, her rambling and you trying to comfort her.
"I'm screwed," she says, wiping her tears away with the palms of her hands.
"Don't talk like that, everything will be fine"
"You don't understand, Tommy will never change" she's a little angry now and you try not to take it personally. She washes her face in the sink, her eyes are red. You don't know what to do, you stand in the doorway waiting for her to decide. Maria is touching up her make-up, trying to stay calm.
"What the fuck" she curses when she gets her eyeliner wrong and starts crying again, you know that the real reason wasn't the wrong black on her eye, you go over and hug her.
"Maria, we'll manage. Joel can talk to Tommy, try to talk some sense into him." You try to calm her down by finding solutions. "Come on, with me, take a deep breath and exhale" you also breathe like this to induce her. Gradually she calms down again.
"Okay, okay. There's no point in me standing here crying" she turns away and goes back to redoing her make-up. "Let's sort this out soon," you are impressed by her change. When she finishes her make-up, her eyes are still a little red, but there's no sign of crying. "Can you wait for me to talk to Tommy before you talk to Joel?" she asks you.
"Of course, I wasn't planning on telling him anyway" I didn't want you to be the one to break the news to Joel that his irresponsible brother was going to be a father.
Maria asked you to tell the company she was taking the day off, she was going to the doctor before talking to Tommy, she wanted to see if everything was okay before opening up to him. You asked her if she wanted company, she had been upset at first, but denied it, saying she needed to do it alone. You respect her decision.
#
When you left the company, you would go to the paint store to buy the colors to start painting the building and Joel would accompany you. You wanted to keep the outside paintwork as you remembered it when your grandparents were alive, white walls and black openings. You were worried about Maria, you texted her at the beginning of the afternoon, she replied that everything was fine, you asked her to let you know when the results of the baby's tests came back.
You and Joel decide to meet directly at the store, you don't know how to act around him, you're tense because you know something so important about your brother and he doesn't.
"Are you all right?" he asks as you enter the store.
"Yes, fine," you say, but your voice falters at the end. Joel looks at you intently.
/
Something's not right. You're tense, distracted, Joel needs to get your attention more than once. You look at your cell phone screen all the time, apprehensive.
"Is Maria better?" he tries.
"A- I think so" you're startled "she's not sick-" you seem to be thinking about what to say as you check your phone again, your eyebrows furrowing and then softening as you read something before locking the screen "she's not sick anymore. That's right, Maria's not sick anymore." Joel raises his eyebrows at you, almost wondering if you've used any illicit substances.
"What do you think of this color?" you change the subject and try to focus more on the choices, you choose grey and moss green for the interior walls of the house.
As you're leaving the store with your purchases, Joel's cell phone vibrates and it's Tommy.
"Is there a problem?" His brother hardly ever calls after he's left the building site, unless there's a problem.
"Joel, I fucked up," Tommy says in a distant voice.
Joel snorts, "What jail are you in?" He can't believe that Tommy has just left work and is already in jail. Joel feels you tense up next to him.
"It's not that, Maria..."
"What did you do?"
"I need to tell you myself"
Joel closes his eyes and takes a deep breath. "I'm going to your house"
"Baby, I need to find Tommy," Joel explains, putting the paint cans in the back of the truck. "Do you know anything about this?" he starts to maybe connect the dots.
"Just go, Joel," you wave your hands at him to hurry up.
"What happened?"
"Joel, go! It's good news... depending on your point of view" he frowns, Tommy says he fucked up and you're saying it's good news? What the fuck was going on?" "Go on, I promised not to interfere"
#
Tommy is running his hands through his hair, pacing back and forth in the living room when Joel walks in.
"What the fuck happened?" Joel asks seriously.
"Maria, Joel..." he mutters.
"What about Maria? Did she break up with you again?" It wouldn't be news if that had happened, but Tommy was more nervous than the other times something more serious had happened. "Is Maria all right?" he didn't think his brother would do anything to her, but it never hurts to check.
Tommy took a deep breath, trying to hold back the tears "I'm going to be a father" he put his hand to his mouth, holding back the sobs. "Maria's pregnant"
Joel sighs with relief, bringing his hand to his heart, only realizing now how fast it was beating against his chest. "Jesus, Tommy" a smile appears on Joel's lips, he never imagined being an uncle. "That's good news" he approaches his brother and gives him an affectionate hug.
"What do you mean, good news?" Tommy asks, still in shock. "I can barely look after myself, how am I going to look after a child, a baby?" he exclaims in terror.
"Deep down nobody knows, Tommy" Joel remembers when it was just him and Sarah, how he had to learn everything from scratch. "I remember you with Sarah and it was great." His brother had a hand in raising her, often taking care of her so Joel could work.
"But it's different. Now you have all the responsibility, all the burden"
"Yes, there's all that shit with it, but I guarantee you'll get through it," Joel says.
"Do you think so?" Tommy has the eyes of a child, waiting for his brother's approval.
"I do, I really do," and Joel wasn't saying it just to console his brother, he really thought Tommy would be a great father, he always got on well with children in general. You could feel Tommy exhaling with relief.
"You just need to get a bit more sense into your head, stop going to prison..."
"Okay, okay, I get it," he rolls his eyes smiling and Joel kind of joins in.
"But seriously now, you need to stop this shit, Tommy. You need to be 100% there for Maria and the baby" Joel remembers how difficult Sarah's first year was, the sleep deprivation, the reorganization of the routine. Tommy agrees with him and promises to change.
"Come here" Joel pulls him into a hug "my brother's going to be a daddy" he was genuinely happy. They chat for a while and Joel notes that Tommy hasn't suggested a drink.
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Warnings: Story inspired by the Joel Miller series, no apocalypse, contains obscenities (18+ only), female reader s/n, age difference (45x30), Romance, more than one point of view, alcohol use, angst, sex, oral (m and f receiving).
Word count: 3,3k
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You were nervous. Definitely nervous. Not about going out with Joel, but about the fact that you were officially going on your first date. You felt that things could change after dinner and that scared you. Not that you weren't already totally taken, but making it official was making you nervous. You're in the fitting room of a shopping center trying on a dress. You wanted something new for tonight. You analyze the red dress on your body, it's tight, marking out your curves, the skirt goes to just below the knee, a modest neckline wraps around your breasts, supported by two thin straps on the shoulders.
"Can I see?" Maria asks from the other side. You brought her along on your lunch break, you needed someone else's opinion. You leave the fitting room, shoulders hunched a little, still in doubt as to whether this was the right choice.
Maria's jaw drops when she sees you "U A U" she says slowly, looking you over from head to toe "first fix this posture" she puts her hands on your shoulders, pushing you back, making you stand up straight. You both look at your reflection in the mirror.
"Isn't that something?" you ask. You like what you see, you feel sexy and beautiful.
"Not at all, you look wonderful," she compliments, "you're just running the risk of killing Joel with your heart." You laugh. You think about it some more and decide to take the dress; of the options you tried on, this was the one you liked best on your body.
You leave the dress store and go to the lingerie store, you wanted everything new for dinner. While you were choosing, Maria was absent-mindedly looking at some pieces for herself, she felt more comfortable this way, she didn't need to see this more intimate part. The dress didn't need a bra, so she chose just one pair of panties, a black lace one with straps that would hug her hips.
They left the mall and went back to work.
/
Joel left the building site in the early afternoon and went to work on your dresser, it was half finished and he couldn't wait to hand it over to you. I wanted to see your reaction when you found out that he had restored it.
He couldn't stop thinking about dinner all afternoon, he wanted it to be perfect. You chose the restaurant, according to you it was one with live music, he was eager to get to know more of your culture. He was also looking forward to handing you the envelope that would change things for you.
#
Before going home to shower and get ready, Joel went to the flower shop and bought a bouquet of lilies of the field. He was still thinking about what an idiot his ex was, he'd been lucky enough to live with you for eight years and yet he'd misplaced his flowers in an attempt to win you back. He shook his head, not wanting to think about your ex or the time you spent with him.
He trimmed his beard and moustache, took a shower and put on black jeans, a light blue dress shirt and a black blazer over it, combing his hair just the way you liked it, in a messy updo.
#
You were sitting facing each other in the Brazilian wonders restaurant, a musician was playing something in the background that he didn't understand a word of, but you were humming them all quietly.
He couldn't take his eyes off you, you looked stunning in the tight red dress he had to hold back from ripping off the minute he saw you opening the door smiling. Your hair was tucked to the side of your face, leaving one side of your neck free, and he took a deep breath every time he looked at that point. The way his eyes sparkled when she handed him the bouquet, bringing it up to his face to smell it with his eyes closed, impressed at how he remembered her favorite flowers. Of course he would, he would remember every single thing you love with ease.
You asked the waiter for two caipirinhas, saying he would like them, and the special of the evening, which included various typical Brazilian foods. Joel was letting you take charge of the evening, he wanted to enjoy everything you could present to him. His eyes widened as he took the first sip of his drink.
"How I've missed this," you say, Joel tried it and had to agree that it was really good.
The appetizers started coming, cheese bread, coxinha and tapioca dices.
"Mhnnn" Joel says as he bites into the coxinha, he was impressed by how good everything was.
"See what I mean about presenting real food?" you tease him, "and the main course hasn't even arrived yet."
"I'm going to have to hand it to you," he didn't even bother, because you really were right.
"So, apart from introducing me to your culture, did you have another reason for wanting to come here today?" You were chatting normally with him, but Joel also noticed that you were pensive during dinner.
"Yes. I think I'm homesick?" you grimace at the end of the sentence "God, how strange that word is" you smile awkwardly.
"What do you mean?"
"Home. I never felt at home in Brazil, I think I feel more at home here in Austin. As much as I used to come to visit my grandparents as I do now..." you start to explain, "but I still miss it there. Does that make me strange?"
"It makes sense, you've lived there practically all your life. Your references are based on what you've experienced in your home country." Joel understands your feelings "I think it's normal to miss what you've been used to all your life."
"Yeah, I guess it makes sense. At the height of my 30s I'm discovering where home is"
Joel notices a thread of sadness in your gaze, he was willing to make you feel at home here.
After the caipirinha, the waiter brought out shots of cachaça and the main course, which was feijoada. Joel had never heard of anything he was eating and drinking. You had dinner while you talked, and sometimes you got lost singing along to a song that was playing. He was delighted to hear you speaking Portuguese.
"What is it?" you asked him.
"Nothing" he realized that he wasn't being so discreet in watching you "just admiring the view" he put his hand on the table and you put yours on top.
"Joel Miller, a conqueror," you tease him, smiling embarrassedly. As you finish dinner, the musician starts playing a song he recognizes.
"That's..."
You shake your head in agreement, your eyes shining because he recognized the melody. He feels the envelope between your blazer and shirt, you're waiting for dessert and he decides it's time to give it to you.
"You know, I have something to give you today"
/
The evening was going perfectly well, you were happy that Joel liked the food, but you were looking forward to dessert, you were sure he would love brigadeiro. You were distracted by the singing, but Joel's phrase caught your attention.
"What?" you frown, puzzled; he had already given you a bouquet of flowers. Joel reaches inside his blazer and your heart races. He takes out an envelope and places it on the table.
"That doesn't mean we need to do anything about it," he says and his hands fly to the envelope, opening it, "but if you feel comfortable, we can now." His eyes run over the letterhead with the logo of a laboratory in his hands, a smile automatically appearing on his face.
"Do you want this?" you ask Joel.
"I think the paper in your hands answers your question," you can see his eyes darkening, roaming over your breasts and lips until they meet your eyes. You motion to the waiter, Joel raises his eyebrows at you.
"Can you pack the dessert to go, please?"
"Are you sure you don't want to finish first?" Joel asks after the waiter walks away.
"Absolutely."
#
You're sitting on the edge of Joel's bed, he's standing in front of you without his blazer, his hands sliding down your arms until they reach the straps of your dress. He hooks one side with his little finger and pulls down, then the other side, painfully slowly. The straps fall down your arms still protecting your breasts, he runs his index finger over the skin above your breasts causing goose bumps, he smiles at your body's reaction.
"Joel," you whisper. You wanted him to rip the dress off right away, but apparently he was willing to do things a little differently today. For your torture.
"Easy, baby," he slides the straps off your arms, leaving you exposed from the waist up. Your nipples hardened with excitement. You've been rubbing your legs together since the moment you read Joel's test results. "Fucking beautiful" he gropes both breasts together and a moan escapes your lips. You move your hands to his belt.
"No, no," he pulls it out, "tonight is about you," he says, motioning with his hands for you to move to the end of the bed.
"That's not fair," you complain, settling down on the bed.
"What's not fair?" he kisses your neck slowly, making it difficult for you to think.
"I want you to enjoy it too"
"You bet I will" he bites and sucks the sensitive spot near your ear. Your eyes roll back, you try to unbutton the buttons of his shirt and he lets you, you expose Joel's chest, he lifts it a little to take it off completely, you bite your lip analyzing the perfection of this man. He finishes taking off his shirt and his hands return to your body, slowly dragging up your thighs, he takes hold of the dress that's settled around your waist and pulls it down, revealing your black lace panties.
"Fuck" he says between his teeth, "all this for me?" you nod, he grabs one strap and pulls it loose over your skin, you jump with the mini pain and your pussy throbs. Joel runs his fingers over the lace "Too bad it's already ruined" he comments with a little smile, you didn't know you were so wet up to that point. He ignores your needy pussy and hovers over you again, running his hands over your body, kissing and nibbling with eyes full of lust and desire. You've never been watched like this, desired like this. He was in no hurry with his movements, wanting to enjoy everything he had the right to.
"Joel, please," you whimpered, enjoying all the attention, but needing to be fucked by him.
"Mmm" he mumbles, licking your breast.
"I-I pre..." he sucks with a little pressure.
"Need what, baby?" he was enjoying watching you melt under him.
"I need you to fuck me" he stops and looks into your eyes, his in a darkness you haven't seen before "now" you almost beg. He gets down on his knees on the bed, unbuckles his belt and pulls down his pants along with his underpants, his cock jutting out, hard with pre-cum on the tip, he strokes it and you moan at the sight.
"Do you want that?" he asks.
"Please"
"Do you want it?" he asks again.
"I do"
"What?" he would make you beg.
"I want your cock inside my pussy now, please, Miller"
"Yes, now," a devilish grin spreads across your face and you shudder. "Spread two legs for me" and you obey the second the words leave his mouth. He pushes your panties aside, running his finger along your entrance "Always ready, aren't you?" He settles in between you, strokes his cock a few times looking at your wet pussy, you couldn't wait to feel him fully, the evening had already been perfect, but this would be the icing on the cake. Joel rubs your entrance and moans between his teeth.
"May I?" he checks first.
"Please" you beg once more and he begins to penetrate you, the sensation is familiar but infinitely better, you can feel every vein that pulses with blood to keep you erect, every hot inch filling you.
"Fuck" you moan, closing your eyes as his length reaches deep inside you.
"I know." he whispers, watching his cock move in and out of you in slow strokes, your walls contracting around him, feeling more of his thickness "So good, baby" he praises, increasing the speed of his thrusts, his thighs slapping against your groin.
He puts his arm around your waist, lifting you up and you sit on his lap. Your bodies are pressed together, each piece of skin touching without barriers. One of his hands is on your back, caressing you, the other on the side of your face. You wrap your arms around his neck. You twist your hips, feeling every inch of his penis inside your vagina, your walls clinging to him as if you were afraid he might escape. A few curls of messy hair fall into his face, and you push them away with one hand, analyzing every detail. His eyes roam over you, dark but gentle at the same time. You think of the three words, you feel them with your whole body, but they roll off your tongue and you put them away.
Joel lies on the bed leaving you straddling his lap, you rest your hands on his moving thighs. He's so deep inside you that with every movement you want to scream with pleasure. You speed up on his lap, feel his rough hand on your clitoris and look up at the ceiling.
"Eyes on me," he asks, and you look up from under your eyelashes, his gaze full of lust as you seek his pleasure. He changes the movement and speeds up his fingers.
"Fuck, Joel, I'm going to..."
"That's right, baby, I want to feel everything you give me," the husky voice comes through your ears and travels all over your body. Your legs tremble and close around him, squeezing his cock inside you.
You still haven't come down and Joel sits up, turning you over on the bed. He lifts one thigh and continues penetrating you.
"Fuck, it's too much," you whimper, your body still overstimulated with cum.
"You can take it, give me one more," he asks.
You feel the nipples of your breasts tighten with the orgasm that has just passed through your body. Still trying to catch your breath, you feel Joel's cock touching you more deeply and the hand that was on your thigh going down to the lower part of your buttock, his big palm embracing a large part of it and squeezing hard, you let a few louder moans escape as Joel's mouth descends and deposits the hot air of his breath over your sensitive nipple, you only manage to tip your head back as he continues to thrust deep and hard into you.
You feel Joel's body pulling away from you and his cock slowly withdrawing.
"No, please," you whimper softly.
"Easy, baby" his low, husky voice echoes in the otherwise silent room "the next one I want to feel in my mouth"
You hold the sheet tightly in one hand while the other you bring up to your mouth so you don't scream when you feel Joel's beard lightly scratching your pussy without reaching your entrance yet, Joel punishes you by leaving kisses all over it and on your thighs, you feel him smiling as you feel your body shuddering with sensitive desire at his touch, he brushes his nose lightly across your entrance and you gasp louder, putting your hand on your head trying to humiliatingly push his face into you
"Joel" you say breathlessly "Please-please"
And once again you feel his wicked smile on the skin of your thigh.
"Okay, okay, I'll stop teasing you" he says, taking his fingers to your entrance and slowly slipping them into your wetness, making you moan low.
Joel uses two fingers to part your labia, exposing your clitoris to him. He runs the tip of his tongue along it slowly, and you let out a low cry.
"Louder" Joel says as he runs his tongue over your clitoris once more, now with all of it, from top to bottom and bottom to top and you scream holding his head "FUCK JOEL".
He used the two fingers that were opening you up now to enter your core deep inside, while his tongue worked on your clitoris, he placed his mouth right above your entrance making his tongue suck hard and he looked up at you from below, and you raised your body a little on one elbow to watch him work on your middle, you moaned louder when his tongue synchronized with his fingers, Joel raised one hand and squeezed your breast hard and you announced that you were close, begging him to continue, you felt his tongue with more pressure touching your right spot and you felt your orgasm exploding in Joel's mouth as you pulled his head to go deeper into you and your body rose, your legs closed trapping him in you, Joel lowered his tongue deep to taste you.
You felt your body go light and weak and you let yourself fall onto the bed, still shaking a little and trying to catch your breath. Your body trembled in light spasms when you felt Joel's hand slowly smoothing your legs, moving up, past your waist, just the tips of his fingers, past your nipples until he reached your face, lay down on top of you again and kissed you so that you could taste yourself too, especially when he invaded your mouth with his tongue. You slipped a leg around his waist and lowered your hand between your bodies, holding his erection as you moved up and down calmly, him moaning into your mouth.
You moved your hands down to his back, stroking lightly, Joel parted his body a little and held his cock, still looking at you.
"Can I come again, baby?" he asked quietly.
"You must," you whispered back.
Joel positioned it at your wet entrance, sliding in effortlessly, he moaned in your ear when he felt your walls sliding on his cock, he began to move his hips up and down on yours calmly and slowly, you lifted your legs to bend at his waist and felt his cock pulse deeper in you, Joel moaned hoarsely a little louder, let his weight fall on top of you, slipping his arms around your back and pulling you down by the shoulder as he moved up and down faster, you moaned in his ear, his breathing began to quicken and falter amid the moans, the only sounds in the room were these. You could perfectly feel his cock growing and pulsing inside you as Joel sank his head into your neck and groaned thickly, thrusting harder into you as you felt yourself being filled by him and his cock becoming more slippery inside you, Joel lifted his chest a little from yours, but still inside you moving a little more slowly now, you smoothed from the waist up his chest, feeling the skin wet with sweat. His head is buried in the curve of your neck, you can hear him panting, trying to get his breathing back to normal, still feeling the weight of him inside you. You feel so full of him, but in a good way, a way you want to feel forever. You feel the strong feeling in your chest, like you've never felt before, but the words can't come out. You enjoy the moment of your bodies sticky and connected without any barriers. Joel pulls his face away from your neck and you run your hand over his face, brushing the curls from his sweaty forehead.
"I loved it," you whisper, kissing him lightly.
"Me too, baby."
The two of you didn't want to break the bubble you were in, so you continued like this until you fell asleep, oblivious to the bodily fluids leaking through the bed.
Joel Miller x f!reader
Explicit, 18+
Masterlist | wattpad in pt | AO3
Warnings: Story inspired by the Joel Miller series, no apocalypse, contains obscenities (18+ only), female reader s/n, age difference, Romance, more than one point of view, alcohol use, angst, sex, oral (m and f receiving).
Word count: 3,2k
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The streets were covered in fallen leaves and the air had a touch of freshness. You put on a gray plaid skirt, tights and a black sweater with boots on your feet and headed for your parents' door with Dean by your side carrying your backpack with the camera and lenses. As well as bringing the family together, it was also tradition for you to photograph the holidays, and your father loved to keep memories of moments like this.
Ethan greets you at the door and carries Dean into the games room. You go into the kitchen to help your mother, who's wearing the classic orange apron and organizing the dishes. You come across Sarah stirring a pot and a blonde woman washing her hands at the sink. He greets his mother, goes over to Sarah, kisses her on the cheek and turns to the third person.
"Oh, you must be Bonnie," she says cheerfully, turning towards you. You recognize her instantly. A rush runs through your body as you realize that Joel is already in some corner of the house.
"Ethan talks about you a lot," she holds out her hand to you. You'd have a serious talk with Ethan about him talking more than his mouth.
"Yes, myself, nice to meet you," you shake the outstretched hand.
"Lisa" her voice was sweet, and for a moment you felt guilty for sitting on her boyfriend weeks ago.
You go over to the worktop to chop some vegetables, the women are chatting animatedly and you just nod. Your eyes end up on Lisa, a woman about your height with clothes that flatter her body, pleasant and always with a gentle smile on her face. Just the opposite of you.
"Bonnie, take this platter to the table, please"
"Of course" you walk towards the dining room looking at the platter carefully, but you bump into something solid, someone holding you by the elbows. The smell of him reaches your nostrils before you have a chance to look up and find Joel staring back.
"Mr. Miller," he greets, straightening up. He frowns, his eyes sweeping over your face.
"Joel to you, Bonnie," he says in a low, husky voice, tilting his head slightly to one side. May God give you the strength to finish the evening with a modicum of decency, Joel is wearing a green plaid shirt and his hair is combed back, slightly wet. He wonders if he and Lisa have showered together.
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Joel arrives at his parents' house with Sarah and Lisa at the agreed time, he tries not to think he'll see you, but automatically looks for you. He introduces Lisa to them and his father calls him into the games room. He's sitting on the sofa drinking whisky when Ethan walks in with a young guy behind him, the moment Joel looks he remembers where he knew him, the guy from the bar you had a "deal" with, his jaw clenches and his nostrils flare. It was innocence on his part to think that you wouldn't be accompanied, that accepting the invitation to dinner at your parents' house would be something difficult for you to digest and not for him.
He greets the guy, whom he discovers is called Dean, with an excessively firm handshake. Dean narrows his eyes at Joel, raises his eyebrows slightly and returns to a neutral expression.
"Hey, man," Dean greets and sits down in an armchair. There's a game on TV, his father and brother are playing pool while they talk.
Joel stands there with his glass of whisky, taking part in the conversation. He can feel Dean staring at him thoughtfully.
It's as if his body senses his presence, as if his body has a magnet that calls out to him. Joel gets up giving the excuse that he's going to get a glass of water, but deep down he just needs to see you.
Arriving near the kitchen, he hears his mother asking you to bring something to the table, notices your concentration walking towards him, Joel's hands are tingling, he needs to put them on you.
He grips your elbows tightly as they collide, his gaze wavers before he lets out a 'Mr Miller', he feels like snorting when he hears it, as if you hadn't shouted his name weeks ago. You shake your head and look at his hands on your arm.
"Excuse me," he asks, making room for you to pass. The scent of his hair fills every corner, I'd give anything to sink my nose in and smell it.
"Do you need any help, ladies?" he asks, entering the kitchen. His mother denies it, saying that she has everything under control, but now that he's seen her, he can't leave her side. He insists and your mother sends him to keep an eye on the turkey in the oven.
Joel watches you go back into the kitchen, pausing for a few seconds in the doorway when he sees you sitting on the worktop next to a board with some vegetables being cut up. He thought it was your task as Sarah was stirring something on the stove, Lisa was washing some dishes and your mother was walking around finishing some dishes. You walk to your seat, sit down and concentrate on cutting the vegetables.
"Need a hand, dear?" he asks, leaning his leg against yours.
Joel sees you holding the knife tightly and frowns.
"What are you doing?" you ask quietly in an angry voice.
"Is everything all right in there?" your mother asks, approaching you and making Joel move his leg away.
"Everything's fine, I'm just offering to help Bonnie."
"I think I've finished here," you announce, handing the board with the cut vegetables to your mother.
"Great, can you help Joel put his apron on? We don't want you getting your clothes dirty when you open the oven," your mother asks, pointing to a drawer. Joel stands up and waits. You take the apron from the cupboard and stand in front of him, who looks you up and down with a little smile on his face. His beard almost brushes your face as he bends down for you to put the apron on him, you can feel your heart beating in your ears, the skin on your neck shivering as his breath hitches slightly there, a low laugh escaping him as he realizes. He straightens up and turns his back so you can tie it behind him.
The whole scene is ridiculous, why were you helping him put on a simple apron? You look around hoping that no one else will find it strange, but they were all concentrating on their tasks. You sigh and walk away from him to finish the pumpkin pie.
Joel is chatting animatedly with the other women, and you see Lisa approaching him, running her hands tenderly over his broad shoulders. You close your eyes watching the scene, it would be you there with him if you had assumed what you had no matter what. Joel glances at you briefly before returning the caress to her waist. Son of a bitch. Put the feeling back in the box, you've got no right here. He's being affectionate with his girlfriend.
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His father made his usual speech, making everyone say their thanks before serving dinner.
They were sitting in the living room, Dean by their side with his hand resting on his thigh, you could see Joel staring at the gesture with his jaw clenched, Lisa was sitting next to him oblivious to the scene talking to her parents. Ethan and Sarah were talking to each other. You realized that that moment would be perfect for capturing the memories of that day. You liked to capture the conversations and smiles, nothing posed, nothing intentional or contrived, your aim was to capture the spontaneous essence of everyone there. He adjusted the camera while laughter and conversation filled the air, creating an atmosphere of love and gratitude. She focused on the young couple in love as they shared gazes full of affection. Bonnie was able to freeze the glint in Ethan's eye whenever he looked at Sarah, feeling proud of the way her brother treated her with kindness and respect, as if she were the most important person in the world. And to his world she was, they had a beautiful and genuine connection and you were grateful to see that love blossom. You glanced over at Joel and caught him watching the two of them with a wry smile. Seeing them like that made you feel that they had made the right choice after all. They deserved to experience this pure love in the best possible way.
"Bonnie, how's work for the construction company?" your father asks, snapping you out of your thoughts.
All eyes turn to you, who until now had been invisibly recording the moments. Damn.
"Well, it's going great, next week I'll start photographing the model homes."
"Oh, that's great. Joel, you work in construction, right?" your father asks and Joel's eyes wander from you to his father.
"Yes, I do."
"Bonnie will be providing her services to a large company."
"I'm glad to hear they liked your article"
You frown at him without understanding how he knew that it was through the article that you had been hired by the company.
"Bonnie, take a picture of me with Joel" Lisa snuggles up next to Joel with her hand on his chest. She smiles happily at you, Joel puts his arm around Lisa's shoulders. You swallow the feeling. You're happy for your brother, you made the right choice.
"Of course," you reply, trying to sound cheerful, even though that wasn't the point of the evening, you would do Lisa a kindness. "Eyes on me," you say, positioning the camera on your face and watching Joel through the lens, feeling naked under his gaze, as if he could read all your thoughts. The wrinkles around her eyes are smooth, her smile not quite there.
"Good," you say softly, lowering the camera after clicking.
"One more, please," Lisa asks, holding Joel's face with her hand. You swear you have to take a picture of them kissing, but Joel turns his face slightly, depositing her kiss on the cheek near her mouth. You swallow, pushing the feeling that insisted on appearing deeper. You quickly put the camera to your face and clicked.
"Excuse me" you were feeling suffocated, needing a moment to yourself as you headed inside the house towards the guest bathroom. Your heart started pounding, your breathing quickened and your mind was flooded with thoughts of Joel with Lisa. She felt trapped, as if there was no escape. The walls of the bathroom seemed to close in around her, intensifying the discomfort even more.
She rested her hands on the sink, staring at her reflection in the mirror, inhaling deeply, holding her breath for a few seconds and then exhaling slowly. Repeat this process several times, concentrating only on your breathing. Gradually, the feeling of suffocation began to subside. You're happy with Dean, you're happy for your brother. She kept repeating it quietly as if it were a mantra.
Gathering up all the courage you had left, you decided you wouldn't let the feeling win.
"Can you get us some more drinks, daughter?" your mother asks as soon as you return to the living room.
"I'll help!" Joel gets up quickly from the sofa.
"I got it, man," Dean rushes to his feet, walking in large strides to your side, resting his hand on your waist. Joel slowly sits back down with a frown. Dean guides you with his hand behind your back to the kitchen.
"What the fuck, Bonnie?" he asks as you enter the kitchen.
"What are you talking about?" you knew, of course you knew.
"You were going out with your brother's girlfriend's father!" is not a question.
"Keep it down, Dean," you ask, looking away. He leans on the counter with his arms crossed, waiting for an explanation. "It's complicated" you limit yourself.
"Then make it simple" he wouldn't give in so easily. You snort before you start.
"We went out a few times before we found out he was Sarah's father, after we found out we decided to stop"
"Hmm" he says, squinting his eyes in suspicion.
You move closer, running your hands down his neck.
"It's serious, Dean. I wouldn't have any reason to lie to you," you say in the sweetest voice you can muster. You didn't want him to feel threatened. He has nothing to worry about. Or that's what you wanted the two of you to believe. Dean analyzes your face and eventually gives in, holding you by the waist.
"Okay, I believe you," he says, sealing your lips.
"Excuse me," Joel's husky voice penetrates you in a way you don't expect, making you jump in fright.
"I just need a glass of water" he says, staring at Dean's hands on your waist and yours on his neck.
"Be my guest" his voice comes out weak, what the hell, Dean realizes, closing his face again.
"Joel, can you get the drinks for the guys, please? I need to show Dean something," you said, taking his hand and leaving the kitchen without waiting for Joel to reply.
You wanted to prove to Dean that you were serious, you wanted to reassure him right there. You ran up the stairs with him following you without asking, your old room had been turned into your father's office, but it should do.
Joel stood in the kitchen watching you disappear while holding that kid's hand. What were you thinking? Were you going to fuck him in some corner of the house with him there? With your family present? After many years you were jealous again, you were envious of Dean, you wanted him to be the one holding the back of your neck, you wanted his fingers around your waist, you wanted him to be the one probably taking off your clothes right now.
"Shit," he mutters before picking up the drinks and returning to the living room, sitting down next to Lisa with his hands clenched into fists at his sides. He strained his ears to hear anything coming from upstairs, any loud sigh, any moan escaping his lips, feeling dirty about it. Why did he want to hear it, anyway? Wasn't imagining what you were doing torture enough?
Was your room still set up here? Or were you reckless and in your parents' room? Feelings were consuming Joel, could the kid take more than he did?
"Right, Joel?" he jumped when Lisa spoke to him, placing her hand on his knee. He was so immersed that he had forgotten everything and everyone around him.
"What, darling?" he asks with a weak smile.
"That you loved the photos Bonnie took of the band," she was talking to her mother.
"Oh, yes, of course
"He's always talking about how she managed to capture the essence..." Lisa continues talking, but Joel is no longer listening, he's remembering the first time he saw you, the way you surprised him, the way you moaned his name this time and all the other times he made you come. He jumps up, he couldn't let you do that to another guy with him here.
"Is everything all right?" your mother asks apprehensively.
"Yes, I just need to use the bathroom," he replies, walking towards the stairs.
"We have one down here..." she starts but corrects herself when she realizes he's going upstairs. "Oh, we have another one at the end of the corridor on the right" she adds loud enough for him to hear, but Joel doesn't process the words, he's looking for something else. He didn't think what he would do, open the door and say what? Get your hands off your girlfriend? You can't do that? But why couldn't you? He's starting to feel anxious, but he can't stop, his body is going after yours without brakes.
You're sitting on your father's desk, your tights on the floor and Dean's fingers are slipping in and out of you with some difficulty. He licked them before penetrating, but you were dry inside, with almost zero lubrication and it was starting to hurt. What were you thinking when you thought this would be a good idea? Who are you trying to fool? How could you get relief knowing that the one you really want is just a few meters away?
You want to get it over with and get back to the room, to where Joel is. You try to do it more convincingly this time, force yourself to breathe faster by sinking your face into Dean's neck to stifle the fake moan, but your walls don't squeeze his fingers, your legs don't shake, your face doesn't get hot and sweaty.
"Fuck, Bonnie! This bullshit again?" Dean exclaims a little too loudly, you pull him into a kiss to shut him up, but he pulls away withdrawing his fingers from you.
"What?" you try to look innocent and uncomprehending.
"Don't treat me like an idiot, please," he asks, running his hands through his hair, and you drop to the floor, smoothing your skirt before approaching him.
"It's okay, Dean"
"It's not! You're acting weird around him"
You can't face him because he's right. You were fine until today, even with the last encounter with Joel at your house, you managed to move on. You were happy. Or you thought you were.
"You love him, don't you?" there was pain and regret in his voice. You closed your eyes and took a deep breath, you weren't ready to be pushed like this.
"Dean..."
"I have eyes, Bonnie. I see the way you look at him, even when you don't want to. I realized how much time you needed when you were photographing him with his girlfriend. He's dating someone else, for God's sake." His every statement was a punch in the gut and you couldn't deny any of them.
"That's enough for me. I don't want to get involved in your madness," he says, walking towards the office door.
"Dean, wait..." you ask, but without moving a muscle to try and stop him from leaving.
"No, Bonnie, that's enough," he says with his back to you. "I just wish you'd get some self-respect"
Joel hides inside a room before Dean leaves the room you're in. His mind is racing, you didn't answer him when Dean asked if you loved him. He thought he was just another guy to you, someone you were strongly attracted to, but it seems that your meeting had left deep scars on both sides. Who was he kidding? Lisa was a steppe, Joel tried for months to feel with her half of what he felt when he was with you. He couldn't explain the connection you had, everything about you was inviting to him.
He's about to leave the room, which he realizes is Ethan's, when he hears you whisper "fuck" and open the bedroom door.
"Bonnie," he calls in a whisper, taking your arm by the elbow. There's confusion in your eyes, frowning eyebrows and tears threatening to fall, you open and close your mouth trying to process his presence there.
"Bonnie" he says again, stepping forward, all he wants to do is hug you tightly, but you pull your arm back.
"No" you say, raising your hands in front of you before hiding your face to run down the stairs.
He comes down shortly afterwards, but doesn't see you in the living room.
Joel Miller x f!reader
Explicit, 18+
Series masterlist | AO3
Series summary: Albert Camus said that "A man is always a prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them,” and it made me wonder how we justify romantic affairs — if we are free when we enter them in secrecy or only truly free when we have burned the bridges we ran over to reach the arms of the other.
Chapter summary: There is no place in the world like this one. Tucked into each other, so seamlessly connected that you’re not sure where one of you ends and the other begins. Finally you can have this, you can have it all.
Warnings: Smut, infidelity, age gap (25/47), no use of y/n, reader is curvy but it's not a plot point, no outbreak AU, reader and Joel are married to OCs, spousal neglect, size difference, size kink, possessiveness, fluff, body worship, dom!Joel, unprotected PIV, creampies plural, mild degradation, dirty talk, ass play, bondage, a truly insane amount of fucking and sucking, oral (f, m receiving), discussion about Joel’s old FWB who is named, angst, guilt, graphic descriptions of Joel feeding Ladybug (iykyk), intense DDLG dynamics, certain tags left out to avoid spoilers.
Word count: 11.5k
A/N: omg smut and fluff only this chapter… only like a sprinkle of angst…. that is sooo not ominous at all, right? right???
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You speed home from work at four on Friday, barely obeying the speed limit with your fingers tapping on the steering wheel, waiting impatiently at every stop light, come on, come on, come on, desperate to get the weekend started. A whole weekend with Joel, with your— well, what exactly is he to you? Because in another life, where there was no ring on his or your fingers, he would be your boyfriend, and this weekend would be one of many, rushing home and then to his house, to stay over and enjoy each other’s company for a few days. He has the house to himself until Sunday, with Sarah and Gwen gone on a girl’s trip, and Ellie staying with her parents.
Just as you pull into your empty driveway, your phone buzzes with a text, one you open and see is from Joel.
“Excited to see you in a bit. Bring your toys. xoxo”
Your heart flutters at the sight, responding before you get out of the car.
“Yes daddy <3”
You open a new text after, one to Jeremiah.
“hey J, just in case u forgot, i’m sleeping over at gianna’s until sunday. will bring my grading, dw ;) there’s food for u in the fridge. viv coming next friday instead. have a good night :)”
You pulled a Tupperware container of lasagna up from the freezer before work, putting it in the fridge before heading out, leaving you with as few tasks as possible before heading to Joel’s. All you have to do is pull a duffel bag out from under your bed and fill it with a couple outfits, pajamas, some toiletries, a phone charger, your wallet, your keys, and the papers you already graded on your lunch break — lest Jeremiah starts getting suspicious.
With the bag almost full, you reach into the back of your closet and pull out the box that only you know the contents of. You’re not entirely sure what Joel has planned for you, so you might as well be on the safe side, and pull out your favorite little vibrator, your glass dildo, a butt plug, and an unopened box of pale pink colored silk rope. You bought it, what must have been three years ago, and never got to use it, too timid about your wishes and desires, afraid Jeremiah would think it was too much, reading up on it in secret then bitching out on date night.
The pink little box is tossed into your bag, the big box shoved back into the closet, and you’re on your way out.
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Joel’s truck is the only car in the driveway when you arrive at his house, but with his neighbors in mind, you park on the side of the street. Your duffel is pulled out of the front seat with a hurry, opening the door and looking around to see if the coast is clear before making your way to his home, hoping the address is correct. The sky is a clear blue, only a few fluffy little clouds to be seen far away, slightly chilly in the wind but still warm. After finding what you assume is the right house, you ring the doorbell and feel your heart racing as you wait for him to open the door.
The sound of the handle turning is nerve wracking but the sight of him is the most overwhelming relief. You squeal at how he looks in his plain white t-shirt and gray sweatpants, sitting taut over his shoulders and his thighs, stretching over his biceps when he holds his arms out to embrace you, to pull you in over the doorstep. He flips the lock behind you while he leans in for a kiss, one that says I’ve missed you and I can’t believe you’re here and God, what I wouldn’t give for this to be every Friday and every other day of the week.
You barely say hi, tongues twisted together as he walks you into the living room. The house is quiet and warm, rays of sun still shining in through the window behind the couch, the one he nearly drags you towards, until he sits down and brings you onto his lap, lifting your hair over your shoulders and licking into your mouth. He’s already hard underneath his sweatpants, steering you back and forth over his erection, grunting and growling while you get wetter by the second, knowing you’ll need to get a little something out of your system before you’re able to relax, or to even talk coherently.
He lifts you up and pushes your shorts down enough to pull one leg through it, not bothering with the other, pushing down his own pants just enough to take out his dick and hold it up for you while you sink down on it with a breathy moan of relief, one you don’t have to keep down. He lets one out too, a low, rumbling moan from the visceral sensation of being inside of you again.
“Jesus, we can’t keep doin’ this… Fuckin’ irresponsible,” he drawls, low and smooth like honey, pulling at your hips, flexing his bare cock inside of you just to feel how tight your grip is, “I should wear a condom, baby, you're ovulating again. And I can feel it so don’t lie to me, alright? Don’t be a little weasel.”
“We should,” you sigh, then pout and bat your lashes at him, “But I don't want you to… I wanna make you a daddy, a real one, again. Is there something wrong with that?”
He groans, wraps his hand around your nape and pulls you in until his lips meet your ear with a whisper, “How ‘bout I just put it on when I'm about to come?”
Another coo, then a reluctant nod. “You’ll have to let me know when… And then you’ll have to push me off, cause I’m not getting up until you’ve fucked me.”
He breathes a laugh and says he promises, lets go of your neck and lets you lean back to get a better view of his shoulders and chest, lost in the movement of his muscles under the t-shirt, how the fabric is pulled and stretched, how it lays on the thick slope between his neck and his shoulder.
“You needed this, huh, baby?” he murmurs, and you halfheartedly nod, rolling your hips and moaning in his ear, listening to his own groans of pleasure, his deep, raspy grunts, just feeling him, feeling his girth stretching you open, feeling how he fills and nudges and massages your insides, your cervix and your g-spot. His cock is perfect, the perfect size and the perfect shape, barely fitting inside of you and rubbing every little spot that needs his attention. Your clit drags across the hair on his pelvis, grinding and bringing you closer, five minutes barely gone by since you walked in the door. “Love fucking you like this,” he coos, “Love feeling how wet you are, just for me.”
“Gonna make you come, then I'll make you dinner, okay?”, he whispers, rocking you slowly on his lap, knowing, by now, what will make you squirt, dancing on the edge of triggering your release, wanting to save it for when it can cover his naked body. Your acceptance of his offer is little more than incoherent babbling while you slowly ride him, feeling how he holds you back a little, just enough to make you come but not enough to make you soak him.
His hand curves around your asscheek, smacks it quickly then grabs it with a firm grip, inching back until the tip of his middle finger touches in between. He brings his finger to his mouth and wets it with his saliva, reaches down and teases your asshole for a moment before inserting it slowly, letting you relax around the intrusion while he slowly fucks you. You dig your face into the crook of his neck, arms over his shoulders and your hands dangling somewhere off the backrest of the couch, listening while he mutters to you under his breath, “You'll let me do anything to ya, won’t you?”
Yes, daddy.
“Let me fuck you how I want?”
Yes, daddy.
“Whose little slut are you?”
Yours, daddy.
“That’s right. You gonna come for me now? Let me make you dinner? Let me take care of you all weekend like you deserve?”
You don’t get to respond, too overwhelmed by the feel of him in you, around you, rocking you slowly, holding you tight, praising you when you come, when you flutter around him and whimper into his neck.
“Don’t make me come yet, baby, don’t make me come, don’t do that—” he breathes, gritting his teeth and growling, trying to settle you with his hands, to halt the roll of your hips, but you squeeze around him too tightly and he can’t stop his own climax from approaching. He erupts inside of you, tipping his head back and groaning while he twitches and paints your insides with thick spurts of his come, unprotected and at the worst possible time, the best feeling that has ever manifested itself in his physical form.
“Shit, honey, I’m sorry,” he grunts with his eyes closed, pulling your hips down a little, pushing himself in further, nudging into your coated cervix, while you shake your head with a smile, “I’ll get you a morning after pill tomorrow… But fuck, that felt good, felt so fuckin’ good.” He grinds it deeper, tightens his grip and fucks into you again. “Coming inside you—” he murmurs, grunting as he moves you and your walls clench around him, “I wanna do it again, and again, as many times as you’ll let me.”
—
You sit at his kitchen island and watch him cook, observing how he bastes your steak with butter, listening to the slight scraping and the fizzy bubbles, feeling equally fizzy inside, no longer full of his come but covered in his scent already. He’s talking about work and you nod along, humming in affirmation, unable to repeat a word he says. It could be so normal, so natural — this could be your every Friday evening. It could be you and Joel, with the house to yourself, eating together, watching a movie, going to bed and letting him come inside you, hearing him whisper that he knows it’ll take this time, that soon enough you’ll be growing the manifestation of your desire for one another in your womb. And he would take care of you then too, he would cook for you and help you relax and pleasure you and look at you with those deep, dark eyes, surrounded by the softest little wrinkles, just like he does now.
The two of you wait for the steak to rest for a few minutes, and your fantasies have done nothing but arouse you and make you desperate for him again. Typical. Thoughts of the life you could have together fill you with the deepest happiness you could imagine, and you can’t keep your hands off of him for another second, needing to claim him for yourself, so you saunter over to him and drop to your knees, grabbing at and palming his bulge, purring and telling him how wet he makes you, until he gets hard and you pull his sweatpants down, take him in hand, lick his slit, let the saliva pool in your mouth and take him all the way back to your throat, licking and sucking and feeling his hand in your hair until he tells you he’s close and you move a little faster, pushing him over the edge and swallowing his load, smooth and musky and his, the very essence of him.
Rising to your feet, he kisses you and slaps you on the side of your ass, retracts his hand and slides it into the front of your shorts instead, under your panties, slipping through your soft folds to find your dripping entrance, oozing wetness from the taste of his come and your body’s need for him, tonight and forever. He slicks up his finger, the one he brings up to your clit to rub you until you moan and tremble, and he gets hard again, shaking his head at what you do to him, kissing you and swallowing your whimpers when you let go for him.
You sit across from him and eat, stealing a bite of his steak and insisting it tastes better cause it’s his, as if everything that is his in this world is better, just like you’re better when you’re his, when you’re in his arms, in his thoughts, when you haunt him in his dreams at night. He reaches his utensils over and cuts off a piece of yours, then feeds it to you, lowers his fork to collect some the mashed potato and feeds that to you as well, nodding when you swallow and cutting off another piece, ignoring his own dinner, too focused on feeding you yours, drawing his fork across your plate to scoop up the sauce, stabbing the roasted vegetables, charred from the grill, lifting them to your mouth, watching you chew. When you swallow the last bite, he returns to his own food and lets you ogle him as he eats, your chin resting on the palm of your hand, leaning over the table, so in love you can barely stand to sit across from him and not on his lap.
“What now?” you ask, and he shrugs in response.
“We can do anything you want,” he smiles, “We got all night, all weekend... Can do anything you wanna do, just tell me.”
“Can we watch Finding Nemo?”
—
Joel fucking cries at the movie.
He tries to hide it, tries to keep his eyes on the screen and subtly clear his throat and blink away the tears collecting in his waterline at the fish father and his fish son. You admire so many things about Joel and yet it’s his softness that makes you weakest for him, the way he shares his emotions with you, his feelings, his thoughts. He seems to hide nothing from you, telling you as often as he can how much he feels for you, that he’s missed you so badly, that he needs you close at all times, that he lays in his bed with his wife at night and his heart aches for you, and for his daughters who he is so afraid of hurting that he feels paralyzed most of the time, that he wants to do the right thing but doesn't know what it is, exactly.
His hand is resting on your waist, your head leaning onto his chest, the two of you tucked into a blanket on his couch with snacks and wine glasses scattered across the coffee table. The affection, the love, the domesticity — it feels so good it hurts. Not once have you felt this way with your husband, not once have you felt this way for your husband.
Husband. All your heart screams to you when you think of that word is Joel, Joel, Joel. Your heart is about to burst out of your chest at the feel of his other hand on your leg, stroking you carefully, like he always does. He is everything a man should be, the perfect, shining, poster board example of masculinity that is healthy and wonderful and soft and rough and responsible and alluring.
“Are you crying?” you ask softly, looking up at his scruffy jaw, at the silver and gray whiskers, feeling so infatuated and hypnotized by the sign of his age, the evidence that he has lived, that he is experienced, that he knows what life is about, knows how to handle things, how to raise children and save for retirement and do repairs on the house. You want to give him a baby so badly, you want him to raise your shared children, you can’t deny it for a second, it’s all you think of, this persistent, nagging, aching need to have a family with him.
“No,” he says, his voice shaky, followed by a sniffle.
You stifle your laughter and snuggle into him closer, and he puts both arms around you, digs his nose into your hair, kisses the top of your head and rests his face there while you inhale him, slowly shifting around until you’re in his lap, held like a baby against his chest while he watches what’s happening on the screen, with your face in the crook of his neck, about to drift off.
“You fallin’ asleep?” he coos, a hint of a laugh behind his words.
“Mm-mmm,” you shake your head, then reluctantly let a little yawn slip out, one that makes him smile and angle your face up with his hand, to look at your closed eyes and feel how you relax onto him, how your heart rate has synchronized with his own. He lifts your hair away from your shoulder, runs his hand over it as it drapes down your back, and lowers his head so that his lips touch your skin. He knows he shouldn’t say it, but at this moment, he is holding his hopes and dreams for his own future in his hands, and the words have been simmering inside his veins for so long that holding them in has started to feel like a betrayal, like they’re about to boil over and splash everywhere, burning everyone around him if he’s not careful. He wants to be careful, but his control is slipping through his fingers, his resolve going with it, lost in you.
“I love you so much,” he breathes, whispering into your hairline, convinced you can hear his heart beating so loudly in his chest that it echoes in his ribcage, “I’ve never felt like this… I mean, I knew I’d love you but I didn’t think I— I didn’t think I was capable of this— of this kinda love.”
“I love you too, Joel.” And that is when you open your eyes and gaze up at him again. That is when he kisses you, and repeats it again and again and again, I love you, I love you, I love you. And he does, he loves you in a way he has never loved before, loves you in a way he can taste and feel, a love that has burrowed itself into the depths of his being. He will never be the same, not after tonight and not after the day you met. You’ve changed him, and he wants to change you too, just as much.
In the light of your revelation, your confession, your love, with your arms around his neck and his hands on your waist, you kiss each other with a neediness that neither of you can put into words. You trust him, and he wants to feel your trust, wants to hold it in the palm of his hand. He bites your tongue, swallows the saliva you give him in return, slides his hand up to wrap around the back of your neck, and leans his forehead into yours.
“I wanna do somethin’ to ya,” he murmurs into your lips, opening his eyes to gaze into yours, to bore into them, “Wanna do somethin’ I haven’t done in a really long time, that I just couldn’t forget. Been thinking about it for a while, didn’t know if it’d be something you’d be interested in, but— I don’t know, I just… I wanna have all of you, want you to trust me, fully, with your body, with your mind, everything, every part of you. Want you to let me take care of you like I want to, you understand?”
He’s nervous, looking between your eyes. His breaths are shaky, a little worried about what you might think if he tells you what he’s been fantasizing about, if he tells you how much he wants you to submit to him, show him your trust, be his toy, his doll, his bunny.
And when you nod, he confesses. “I wanna tie you up,” he mutters, moving to the side of your neck and leaving kisses up and down, his lips pressing into your skin every few words, his breath sending goosebumps up your arms, “Wanna play with you for as long as I want… Wanna lick you and fuck you until I decide you’re done, wanna make you come as many times as I see fit.”
“Yeah?” you nearly moan.
“Yeah,” he pulls back to gaze into your eyes again. “Saw that box of rope in your bag — made me think.”
“Think about what?”
“About you, naked, with your hands behind your back,” he says, collecting your wrists from the tops of his shoulders and bringing them to the small of your back, pinning them together, “Your legs spread, tied up, unable to move.”
You whimper when he tightens his grip, and a growl rumbles in his chest.
“You trust me, little bug? You gonna do as I say?” he asks.
Your eyes trace over his nose, his lips, and his jaw as you answer, “Yes, daddy.”
“Alright,” he nods, then sets you down on your feet, giving the side of your thigh a little tap, “Bedroom, now. Ain't tellin’ you twice.”
—
Piece by piece, he peels off your clothing and discards it on the floor of his room, then pushes you onto his soft sheets, a warm shade of golden brown, standing you up on your knees, turned away from him while he rummages through your bag and takes out the little box. He throws it onto the bed and digs a little further, and you hear the buzzing of your vibrator behind you as he clicks it on. The sound goes straight to your clit, and he must know that, because he lets it buzz for a few moments, coming up to the edge of the bed and touching the vibrating tip of it to the back of your thigh.
He traces it over your hamstring, around the curve of your asscheek and over its slope, holding it at the base of your spine until you whimper for him again, and all of the muscles in your core contract at once, mimicking a little shudder. It moves again, over your hip and down across your mound, finding your clit and rubbing circles onto it. Your gasping breaths tell him all he needs to know, and he shuts off the toy, still using it to rub you for a moment before taking it back and letting out a devious chuckle.
“Come here, my love,” he commands, collecting your wrists and pulling you back before the silky rope makes contact with your skin. He stacks your forearms on top of each other, behind your back, and winds the rope around them, cooing to you, praising you, telling you to breathe, to not be nervous, to trust him. And you do trust him, you trust him with every fiber of your being.
“You know what I remember?” he asks, crooning in your ear, tightening the rope that circles your forearms and wrists, incapacitating your upper body, rendering your hands useless, elbows stuck on either side of your waist, “I remember the night we met, before I sat down on that couch. I was lookin’ at you from across the room, saw you when you walked in, and I was— I was stunned.” He ties the ends and takes your chest in his hands, rubs your nipples with his thumbs and feels them harden, urging your head to rest on his shoulder.
“I saw you and I felt like the whole world stopped, like time stopped and I was just frozen — couldn’t get my eyes off you. You in that little dress, Jesus… Tommy was talkin’ to me and I didn't hear a word, nothin’, I just… My heart was beating out of my chest, I was so nervous. Then Tommy wanted me to go talk to someone, one of his buddies, and I ended up on that couch, and I faced away from you on purpose cause I just—” he exhales with a chuckle, “I knew if I looked, I wouldn't be able to stop staring. Then you bumped into me and my heart was in my fuckin throat.”
You giggle at the memory, your arousal coursing through your body as you close your eyes and feel him rubbing and pinching your nipples, pulling at them gently, kissing the slope of your neck, biting the muscle. His erection teases your back, through his pants, right below where your arms are confined.
He turns you around, circles your waist with his arm and lifts you up before laying you down on the mattress, resting on your back and your forearms, spreading your knees and folding each leg before grabbing another rope. You watch him as he winds it over your mid-thigh and around your calf, opening him up for you, wrapping it several times before winding it over itself, finishing with a knot, moving over to the other side while he talks, “And, fuck, did I ever want you. I’d had a shitty day and I felt like you'd just been placed right there in front of me, like a little angel.”
He incapacitates you so deftly, with no hesitation, binding you with ease, looking at your glistening, drooling pussy and your pebbled nipples as he works, his train of thought disappearing somewhere out of his grasp.
“Are you comfortable?” he asks, “It's not too tight?”
“No, it feels good, I like it,” you assure him, lashes fluttering, biting your lip.
“You don’t have to do anything, okay? You’re just gonna let me play with you, and if you want me to stop, you tell me, then I’ll stop right away. If you want me to untie you, you only have to tell me once. “
“Okay.”
“Good girl.”
His kisses begin along your neck, they cover your chest, your tummy, he mumbles something into your skin and lets you squirm around, constrained and confined by the ropes, aching for him to touch you, to rub, to lick, to put you out of your misery. He sits beside you, one hand on your nipple and one on your mound, rubbing with one, entering you with the other, coating your clit with your slick and bringing you to the edge, letting you go and shifting down, using his tongue on you then, holding you on the edge before pulling back. Again, again.
You don’t beg to come — you ride the waves of his push and pull, savoring the feeling of your own arousal, the feeling of him where you’re most sensitive, the sight of him taking off his shirt, too hot and too sweaty from watching you, pushing down his own pants to take his cock in his hand and stroke himself, groaning into your pussy when he settles and begins to lick.
When he lets you come, you’re no longer coherent, submitted to him entirely, soft and boneless and pliable, his hands on your spread thighs, wet, thick cock pushing into you while he tells you how much he loves your body; your waist, your tits, your legs, your ass, your cute little clit and your wet pussy. He thrusts deeper, stabilizes on his elbows, lays over you and looks you in your eyes, gazes deeply, and tells you how much he loves how caring you are, how kind, how funny, how smart. He loves how cute you are with him, giggling and squirming, making him feel needed.
He pulls out, grabs hold of the harness on your back and one of the binds around your legs and flips you over, lays on top of you and enters you from behind, shoves you into the mattress and tells you that he loves your skin, the tiger stripes on your ass and hips, the shake of your flesh, the jiggling muscle and fat in his hands, everything that makes up the softness of your body. And when all he gets in return from you are incoherent moans and coos, he whispers to you, “Look at this little girl being a fuckin’ whore, huh? Look at her, being a little whore for her daddy.”
You half-giggle, forcing it out between needy moans, too fucked out to feel anything other than his cock inside you and his hand on your hip, moving down to the sheet and sliding under you, finding your clit and rubbing soft little circles that you grind into.
“Whose whore are you?” he coos, pausing when he feels you come, feeling the way you flutter around him.
“Yours, daddy, you make me so weak,” you whine, nearly going cross eyed, your cheek shoved into the sheets, arms sore from the stretch, “I'm so fucking weak for you.”
“Make daddy come, sweetheart, I’m almost there,” he pants, too worked up, no chance in hell that this’ll last as long as he wants it to, needing to mark you now, needing to fuck you full, “Tell me to fill you up, baby.”
“Come inside me, fuck me, anything you want, please, please,” you beg, whimpering and moaning for him, “I’ll— I’ll get plan B, just—”
“Shhh, don't think about that, just think about making me come.” He grabs the rope around your legs and yanks you closer, rises up on his palm against the mattress, and watches you squirm and writhe as he strokes the spongy spot inside you that makes you tremble, and the shudder in your body at his movement pushes him over the edge. He comes inside you, barely managing to pull out when half of his load is already covering your walls, letting the last few spurts coat your folds while he jerks the head of his cock and lets out a rough moan.
—
Ten minutes into some show on the Food Network and you’re both back on the couch, in the darkness of the living room, a single lamp illuminating the space as it hangs over the dining table, the two of you warm and sated, high on oxytocin, high on your love, on the experience you’ve shared, and your eyelids weigh a ton, sleep grabbing onto your arms to pull you in as you sit on Joel’s lap, resting your head in the crook of his neck.
“Okay, baby,” he whispers, then kisses your forehead, cradling you in his arms, stroking your cheek with this thumb, looking at the fan of your lashes, your closed eyes, “I think it's time for bed.” He tucks your hair behind your ear and kisses you again, smiling when you don’t respond, giving you a gentle shake.
“Okay, daddy,” your murmur, pulled most of the way into the haze of slumber.
“Time for little ladybugs to sleep, hm?” he says, and your eyes are still closed. He marvels at how you fit in his lap, in his arms, how easily you fit into his routine, how much he wants to fit you into his life.
“You’re just a little bug,” he whispers, tracing your eyebrow with his finger, then the shell of your ear, holding you in his left arm, the weight of your torso held in his embrace, “My baby bug… So little, you need me to take care of you, huh?”
Your sleepy silence, and then the answer to his own question, “Yeah, you do.”
He carries you upstairs and lets you wake up in his arms as he tucks you into bed, suddenly alert and awake when he rounds the corner and gets in under the duvet.
“Can I listen to your stomach?” you ask, not waiting for his answer before you shift down on the bed, pulling the duvet with you to reveal Joel’s wide torso, settling your head on the smattering of hair over his stomach, with your ear pressed to his skin. He’s so warm, so soft, you look at the waistband of his boxers and at his bulge while you listen to the gurgling sounds inside of his tummy. You turn around with a giggle, laying your other ear on his belly button, so you can look up at him and try to imitate the noises, making him chuckle and setting off another set of gurgles. It’s so innocent, a sort of tenderness that shouldn’t exist in a situation like this. What you’re doing is supposed to be dirty, it’s supposed to be wrong and wracked with guilt and stress. But instead, it’s soft and safe. It’s warm, like the feel of his skin on your ear and his hand on your thigh.
“Let me try,” he says then, urging you up and laying you down with your head on his pillow. He moves down slightly, lays his arm over you, pushes your top out of the way and puts his ear to your belly. All you can do is look into his eyes and study the little specks of gold and honey in the dark abyss of his irises, so deep you could drown in them if you stared for too long.
“I can't hear anything,” he says, adjusting his ear and scowling at you with no seriousness at all, warm hands slipped under the small of your back.
“Listen closer then,” you insist, and the two of you lay in silence until he hears a tiny growl and begins to laugh, that wonderfully deep, rumbling laugh that calms every nerve in your body when you hear it. He turns his face and kisses where his ear has just been, and you push a hand through his hair, separating the thick curls he does nothing to style or mess with, that still somehow twist and turn perfectly around his ears and at the nape of his neck.
“You’re beautiful,” you tell him, drawing out the vowels without meaning to, letting go of his hair to thread through it again while he gazes up at you, a little shy as he nuzzles into your stomach, and you can see the smile he’s trying to hide. Shut up, he murmurs into your skin, his eyes fluttering closed as he kisses you again, trapping you in the softest possible way. “I mean it, Joel, you’re stunning.”
He shakes his head then, his lips and the tip of his nose dragging against the little goosebumps washing over your tummy, “Don’t gotta flatter me, ‘m not thirty anymore.”
You smile at him, tracing your finger down the slope of his shoulder, then up and back over his neck, scratching lightly with your nails. “I like that you're not thirty,” you whisper, “I like that you're an old man.” Two fingers come to the underside of his scruffy chin, tilting it up to your attention.
“Old man,” he grumbles, sliding one hand out from under you to swat yours away before tucking it back where it belongs, “You're too good for me.”
“I think I’m just what you need,” you giggle, rising up on your elbows while he shifts between your legs, broad shoulders holding you open, still resting his face right above your womb.
“Yeah?”
“Mhm, I think you need someone to remind you that you're not actually that old. Plus, I think your crows feet are cute.”
And there they are, those little wrinkles appearing while he smiles and rolls his eyes at your words. “I don't deserve you.” He looks down and presses kisses to your stomach, nuzzling his nose into your skin again, breathing you in.
The moment of silence between you stretches, only filled by the sounds of his lips on you, his breathing, and the sound of your heart beating, your blood rushing in your ears as you look at him and remember that you have him to yourself now. And it might be the only time you ever have him to yourself, but you try not to think about that now.
“How did you know how to tie me up?” you ask, unable to keep your hands away from his hair again, “You said you haven’t done it in a long time, so…”
Joel looks up at you with one of those looks in his eyes that could be desire or lust or admiration or love or fascination, never entirely sure how it is he feels when he looks at you, but knowing that what he feels cannot be put into words so easily, that he’ll need a whole list of words to even give you and indication of the effect you have on him.
“There was this girl I messed around with, for a few months, when I was in my mid twenties,” he says, cracking a smile, seeming to recall the memory fondly, speaking about her with respect in his voice and kindness in his tone, “She was really into gettin’ tied up and she taught me how to do it to her, and I did it, well, quite a few times, actually. It was just somethin’ we did.”
“What was her name?”
“Sasha.”
“Sasha…” you repeat, low as a whisper, “How did it start? Or— how did she bring it up?”
He shrugs and slowly shakes his head. “I’m not sure, I can’t remember the conversation exactly, but—” he says, taking a moment to think, “I don’t know, I think we just used to talk about what we wanted to do, fantasies and that kinda thing. And at some point she brought that up, that she liked havin’ someone tie her up and play with her… Liked being submissive, I guess, giving the control to someone else.”
“Did you like it?”
“Of course I liked it,” he chuckles, “I remember I was, like, twenty five or somethin’ — your age — and some friends dragged me to a party at the university for some reason. She was there, gettin’ a master’s degree, I remember, and she lived on campus. After that night, I got her number and we just started hooking up, here and there, then it became a more regular thing and I think she felt comfortable sharing that kinda thing with me. Now it’s just muscle memory, I guess.” He winks and you can feel a little flash of heat over your cheeks, a smile pulling at your lips as you try to imagine Joel at your own age, thinking about what he might have looked like at the time.
“Did you start dating her?”
“Nah.”
“Why not?”
He takes a breath, huffs a laugh and looks around a little, not entirely sure himself. “I guess I didn’t feel like I was good enough for her so I never really tried to turn it into anything… Probably could’ve, we saw each other a lot, I took her out sometimes. But, usually, I just went over to her place and we watched movies and had sex.” He laughs a little at the memory, and you smile with him, with no jealousy burning in the pit of your stomach, but rather, curiosity.
“Then she got a boyfriend, and I met Gwen not too long after. Just wasn’t meant to be, I guess.”
“I get it,” you say, pushing your hand through his hair again, too hot and too gorgeous and yet that little sliver of insecurity always reveals itself to you. “Did you ever do it with her? With Gwen?”
He shakes his head at that, not taking his eyes off yours, “She doesn’t like being told what to do, so...Never even brought it up, to be honest.”
“How did you meet?”
“Mutual friends. How about you and Jeremiah?”
“Mutual friends,” you laugh, and there’s not much more to say about it, really.
The history Joel shares with Gwen is so vast, with deep roots and heavy branches, holding onto so many years of entanglement, legal ties and financial commitments and the very blood that runs through Sarah’s veins. You feel stupid for thinking that it could ever be easy for Joel to walk away, that he could ever really choose you. But hope comes in the form of his kisses along the insides of your thighs, across your folds, on your clit, his tongue drawing out an orgasm you thought you couldn’t possibly give him, before he settles next to you and you nuzzle your face in his chest hair, falling asleep right there, hearing him say something while you drift off, and mumbling back, I love you too.
—
Joel wakes up before you, with your head on his bicep, your body tucked into his front, his arm around your waist and his hand on your stomach. You’re swaddled in him, held in the warmth of his safety and love, fed and sleeping soundly, at your most vulnerable, just for him. God, how it fucking hurts to remember whose bed it is you lay in together — a stabbing pain between his ribs at the thought of sleeping here alone again, of feeling the distant warmth of another person who does not want to be here. Maybe you and Gwen have something in common, maybe someone else has asked his wife the questions he asked you that time at your dining table.
You don’t want to be here, do you?
She doesn’t want him anymore, at least that’s how it seems, and yet he can’t know for sure, the most frustrating aspect of it all, that can’t seem to peer into the depths of her mind, can’t understand the words she doesn’t say. Has he taken you for himself out of nothing but his own pain?
He remembers when it was his wife who was tucked into his arms, when she was the one who slept with her face in the dark, warm crook of his neck, when she was the one who inhaled his sleepy scent in the morning and pulled him closer. That also hurts to think about, and while he sweeps your hair away from your neck to plant a kiss on your skin, he feels a coiling, slithering feeling of guilt spreading through his veins.
Before he opens his eyes, he breathes in the scent of your shampoo, your hair products, your perfume. It soothes him just enough to push away the thoughts of what he’s doing to his family, how he’s slowly pulling the rug out from under them, chasing his desires and selfishness and leaving them in the ruins of what will inevitably be a destroyed marriage. It will not end without a confession, it will not end without the burning truth standing in front of them, turning their history and the love they used to share into nothing but a layer of soot, bound to cover every surface of the house they share. He has stayed for so long that this cycle cannot be broken without the incriminating, wretched truth of the matter coming out — that he has betrayed her, that he has gone behind her back and not only given himself to another woman but let himself fall for her, let himself stumble and not bother to catch himself, lead by his heart and his dick and nothing other than a primal need he cannot understand, for someone he, for some egotistical and deranged reason, believes is made for him.
His erection pulses against your lower back, your asscheeks pushing into his thighs, and he’s never been as hard as he is when he’s with you. You make him ache and throb, make the veins bulging out from his shaft twitch with the flow of his blood, every cell in his body prepared to give him over to you, to fill you with his seed and rub his scent all over your skin. Your shared heat warms you under the duvet, sheltering you from the cold breeze rolling in through the open window only a few feet from the bed. Everything around you is cold and bitter and desolate — a little flame igniting between you when you’re together, skin to skin, finding each other and creating some sort of happiness amongst the misery of your existences, an escape and a reprieve to cling to when you feel the most alone.
He feels it when you wake up, just like he thought he would, by the gentle twitches in your arms, the faint stretch of your legs, your breath hitching for a second before calming again, your little coo as you burrow into him and he lifts his head to kiss your neck, to rest his face between your jaw and your shoulder. He feels it when your eyes open and you start to squirm, wrapping his arm around you and pulling you back as he tuts at you. “Nuh-uh, you ain’t goin’ anywhere,” he murmurs, tightening his grip. You roll your eyes and squirm a little more, not entirely sure where you’re trying to go when the only place you want to be is right there.
“Soften,” he says, then shushes you like a baby, his touch and his voice coaxing you into compliance, into laying still when your lashes flutter and you turn to look at him for only a moment before he scatters kisses across your shoulder and turns you over onto your back, guides you down with his hands, the heat of his palms warming your skin as he shifts down, folding your legs open.
“My beautiful baby,” he coos under his breath, pushing your top up over your chest, revealing your pebbled nipples to him, the goosebumps surrounding them, his thumbs coming to brush over the little peaks while his fingers fan out over your sides. He exhales as he kisses your skin, warm over your stomach and hips, making his way down. “Let me make you feel good, huh?” he whispers, placing a kiss to your mound, then another, then even more, interrupted by his own words. “Let me show you—” his tongue peeks out to lick once over your clit, sending a shiver through your body, sensitivity spiking, your arousal throbbing in your core, tightening and contracting. “What I wanna do to you—” he murmurs, taking your folds in between his lips and sucking on them gently.“Every morning—”, he moves to the other side, torturing you with his teasing, “And every night.”
Joel looks up at you, and you can see every morning and every night, right there in his eyes, between your legs, under his hands. He lets go of one breast and takes your little hand in his massive paw, threads his thick fingers through yours to interlock them and tugs it down to the mattress, to feel the tips of your nails digging into the backs of his palms, then lowers and kisses your clit, over and over, his tongue sneaking out to lick when he closes his lips. He squeezes your hand, circles your nipple with his thumb, groans and slowly coats your clit with his saliva, sucking it into his mouth for a moment, lifting his torso to let you arch your back and rock into how he eats you, gently, as soft as he told you to be, as soft as he always makes you.
“Joel—” you moan, “Daddy, I—”
“No talkin’” he murmurs, laving his tongue over your clit in broad strokes, even slower than before, “Just enjoy it, let me make you feel good, baby, let me make you come.”
You nod, barely, closing your eyes and arching higher, opening your hips for him as much as your bones will allow, lifting your other hand to card your fingers through his beautiful hair, his soft, stunning curls, smooth and thick under your touch, tightening your grip on his palm, the pleasure coursing through your veins, your insides fluttering and your heart twisting at how intimately he knows your body. He always knows what to do, always knows when you press into you harder, when to draw his length out slowly, when to withdraw completely and pull back to lick you until you soften for him even more.
Your moans dissipate into the cold air of his bedroom, your body held still by his grip while he brings you to your orgasm in waves, lightening up when he feels you begin to tremble, licking and sucking when you moan louder, circling your clit with the tip of his tongue and suckling until you come, his name spilling out between heaving breaths, opening your eyes while he lets go of your hand, to watch him pull his boxers off and get between your legs, hold around the base of his cock and feed it to you as if he can’t take another second without, slipping a hand under the small of your back and letting his head rub against every soft little spot inside of you, filling you all the way until you’ve stretched out as far as your anatomy will allow, and his hips shift back, pulling his glistening shaft halfway out, covered in your slick and his own saliva, then pushing it back in, deeper this time, grunting softly, his limbs loosening and his body relaxing again.
He fucks you slowly this time, lifts your legs up to wrap around his hips, holds you close to himself, groans and grunts into the side of your neck, stabilizes on his elbow and leans down to kiss you while he gives you his cock in deep, long strokes, mumbling into your lips, “Will you let me come inside you again?” His voice is laced with desperation, breathy and forced out. He takes your bottom lip between his teeth and pulls on it, sinks his teeth into your flesh so carefully, just enough to feel your pulse, then lets go, kisses you again, thrusts into you with his bare cock, leaking precome, close already. “Let me fill you up, my love, please, I need to feel it again, need to come inside you.”
You’re not one to object, not one to deny Joel of anything in this world, and so you plead him to give you what you want so badly, that you shouldn’t have, that you shouldn’t need, “Please, please, please, daddy.”
“You gotta know how it feels to be full of my baby,” he grunts, returning to instincts so primal and deeply set that his mind enters a feral place, with no wants and no needs other than marking you. “Fuck, I wanna get you pregnant,” he’s mumbling now, delirious, lifting your hips to fuck into you harder, looking down to see himself disappear into you, then leaning over to rub your clit with his pelvis, grinding into it with every stroke, as if nothing matters aside from making you come, “Want you to have my kids, wanna take care of you and do everything for you, never want you to lift a finger no more.”
You come for him, at his desperation, clawing at his back, pressing your heels into his muscles, squeezing your legs around him, filling his ears with moans so desperate in kind that they border on sobs, not a word enunciated, barely even trying. It forces his own climax onto him, the one he has gritted his teeth and held back, knowing he should not fill you with, aware that he will become addicted to this, as if he isn't already, to the feeling of your walls pulsing around him while he comes inside of you, while his seed spills out of him, warm and viscous, covering your cervix, with nothing there to stop it from entering the deepest, most devastating part of you, that he will make a home for himself in if neither of you decide to be careful.
He couldn’t give less of a fuck.
Panting breaths fill the air, the crisp morning breeze and the heavy heat between you, the sticky connection of his stomach to yours, covered in both of your sweat, his spend beginning to leak out as he slowly softens inside of you.
He looks into your eyes, rubs the tip of his nose along the bridge of yours. “Imagine if we had one of our own, huh? Our own little baby,” he whispers, “You could sit in my lap and feed her… Bet she'd have your eyes.”
You shake your head and smile, tugging at his curls, feeling the sweaty roots of his hair. “She’d have yours,” you whisper back, and he chuckles at your insistence.
“Your hair then,” he concedes, “Your smile, your nose. Probably look just like you.”
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“Ellie got me those windchimes for my birthday last year… Weird ass present,” Joel says, pointing up at the decoration dangling from the edge of the roof, his back porch facing a large yard with a pool, blue and shimmery, “No idea why, but she insisted I would like them for some reason.”
The wind ripples through the little silver tubes, an ephemeral sound dancing from the clatter, soothing despite its irregularity.
“Well, do you?”
“They grew on me, I can’t lie, kinda relaxing to listen to,” he says with a soft laugh as pulls you closer and tucks in the blanket covering the two of you on the sofa, surrounded by the unseasonably cold air. Late December, close to the turn of the year. You rest your head on his chest, your hands wrapped around the coffee he brewed while you ogled him across the kitchen island, your legs swung over his lap, wearing your shorts and one of his long sleeve t-shirts he dressed you in, swimming in the fabric that smells of him, secretly hoping he pulled it out of his laundry hamper so his sweat can permeate your skin.
You drink your coffee in silence, listening to him taking sips of his own, the faint slurping sounds and the way it passes through his throat when he swallows. You listen to his breathing, to his heartbeat through the fabric of his hoodie. He rests his mug on your knee, and his free hand finds your shin under the blanket, stroking up and down before passing over your ankle and taking your foot in his hand, so small with his fingers wrapped around it. He drags his thumb over your toes, over the French tipped nails, breathing a soft laugh and shaking his head, still wondering how you have the patience for those tiny artworks, until you set your cup on the low table in front and shift around until you’re in his lap, thighs splayed out on either side.
Holding his mug in his other hand, he tucks the blanket in around your legs and settles his hand on your ass under it. “You’re so beautiful, you know that?”
“Thank you, you are too.”
“Wish I could wake up with you every day.”
“Me too.”
Your lips find each other easily, eyes closed as his hand squeezes the flesh on your hip and your hand sneaks down the back of his hoodie, tasting the coffee on one another’s tongues. His lashes flutter when you pull away, eyes opening so you can gaze at their stunning color, the shades of brown turning golden in the sunlight. It reflects off the silver threads in his hair, the concentration of them around his temples, the ones scattered across his beard.
“Are you in love with me?”
“I am. I’m very much in love with you. Are you in love with me?”
“Yeah, how could I not be?”
More kisses, more squeezes, more scratches to his skin, more rubbing the tip of your nose against his. He leans over to set down his cup, to put both hands on your hips and pull you close. He always, always pulls you closer, anytime you’re in his vicinity, reaching out to feel you and then bring you into his space.
Maybe Joel is delusional, he thinks, maybe he has completely lost his mind somewhere along the way. He looks at your eyes, your lips, your ear, as he wraps his hand around your hair and places it on your back, twists it around on itself and lets it scatter over the fabric of his shirt, loving the look of you in his clothes. He looks at the slope of your shoulder and down at the little hand on his chest, feeling the other still scratching the skin at the nape of his neck, leaning into it. No one exists but you, in this moment, not even himself. It’s just you, only you.
“When do you wanna have kids?” he asks, so casually, as if you were a few years into a relationship, into a marriage, as if he’s allowed to fantasize about giving Sarah a sibling.
“I could have them right now,” you say with a smile, “I don't really feel a need to wait. I’m ready.” He squints as he nods, looking towards the sun for a moment, then back at you, trying to ignore the feral urge that claws at him, the wish that weasels itself into his mind — that the piece of him still inside of you will find what it is meant to, and will begin to grow. “How about you? Do you want more?” you ask.
He breaths a laugh again, one that sounds more like a sigh as he looks down, avoiding your eyes, “I shouldn't really want that, but—”
“But you do?”
“Yeah.” He inhales, then nods, subtly but self-assured, “I always wanted to have more kids.”
You pull the ends of his sentences out of him, sure he doesn’t want to admit it himself but feeling the heavy weight of his words lightening when they leave his mouth. “And Gwen didn't, I assume?”
He tilts his head, contemplative or unsure. “She wanted one,” he tells you, “She was happy about Sarah but she never wanted any more. As bad as it sounds, I guess she kinda lost interest when Sarah wasn’t a baby or very little anymore, when she started becoming her own person and wasn’t as clingy with her mom, and that's when I started becoming more responsible for her.”
A hum of acknowledgement fills the air while you pause, while he waits for your response. “I read somewhere once, that young children are very attached to their mothers for a while, then they discover their other parent, usually the dad, and then become more obsessed with them, if that makes sense. And then it evens out, sort of, like, they recognize both as their caretakers, I guess.”
“Yeah, that sounds about right.”
You lay your head on his shoulder, the tip of your nose brushing his neck, close enough to smell him, unable to stop the delirious truth that spills out from between your lips while you twist one of the curls at his nape around your finger.
“I wanna have kids with you, Joel,” you mumble, wrapping both arms around him, letting him tug your hips closer to his stomach in response, so you can feel him breathe. “I want you to get me pregnant, I want you to watch me give birth. I want you to feed our baby my own breast milk when I'm out of the house. I want you to teach them how to walk, how to ride a bike… I'm crazy for you, absolutely batshit crazy for you. I want you to be the father of my children so badly, only you.”
His hand comes up to the back of your neck, the other resting on the small of your back, holding you trapped while you scatter a few little kisses on his skin, eyes closed, breathing him in, feeling his heart beating faster at your words, arms tightening their grip, pulling you impossibly close.
“Why would you want kids with me when I’m this old?” he whispers into your hair, too afraid to accept the compliments buried in your confession.
“You’re not that old,” you giggle, raising up to look at him again for a second before laying back down in the warm space at the top of his chest, “And you’re such a wonderful father, I’ve seen it. All the stories you’ve told me about Sarah and Ellie… You’ve been there before, I haven’t. I want you to show me how.”
The wind chimes coo in the silence between you, while he swallows your words, your truth, the validation of so many wants and desires and dreams he has spent months trying to stifle and push out of his mind, that boomerang right back and hit him even harder, knocked off balance, falling to his knees.
“I’m crazy about you too, by the way,” he whispers, “Can’t think straight anymore, can't stop fantasizing about the same thing… Making you a mama, giving you a baby.”
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You’re back at the kitchen island again, spinning around on the barstool, your chin resting on the palm of your hand, on the verge of drooling at the sight of pancakes, eggs, bacon, toast, and the tray of hashbrowns he takes out of the oven. He plates your food, sets it down in front of you, and when your first few bites are too slow for his liking, too busy ogling him, he feeds you again, stabbing a piece of your pancake and pushing it around in the syrup before lifting it to your mouth.
“Eat,” he says sternly, not giving you a chance to pick up your cutlery, collecting a bit of everything on his own fork, one mouthful after the other. You stare into his eyes at every bite, every time your lips close around his fork and he gently pulls it out, as you chew and swallow, lifting your coffee mug to take a sip. He eats his own food in between feeding you, rolling his eyes as he does it, as if you’d begged him for every forkful.
You’re not above begging. Not with him.
—
Back on the couch, you yawn as you stretch your legs over his thighs and your arms over the armrest, stretching out and curling back into him, sneaking your way onto his lap again, your favorite place.
“Daddy?” you coo, disrupting his view of the movie you put on and insisted he would like.
“Mhm,” he responds, tucking your hair behind your ear, “What do you want, baby?”
Your eyes shift side to side, tongue bitten between your front teeth before you lean forward and purr, “I want your cock.”
“You need sex?” he asks, his hand grasping your jaw.
“Yeah.”
“We just had sex,” he murmurs, gazing at your lips, lids going heavy, pupils widening.
“And?” you put, “Can I just touch it, at least?”
He rolls his eyes again with a huff of a laugh, and you shift back while he pulls down his sweatpants, revealing his soft cock, already thickening from your pleas, only slightly above begging. You run your fingertips down his silky skin, tracing the curve of his head, watching his blood flow shift and go to where you touch him, where you gently stroke with the pads of your fingers. He gets harder by the second, twitching as he comes alive, making your mouth water at the sight.
You shift onto the couch cushion beside him and lean over to sniff the crease between his groin and his thigh, inhaling the musky, concentrated smell of his sweat, stick your tongue out to lick it up, humming at the salty taste while you see his cock bobbing in your peripheral vision, and the hair on his soft stomach where you’ve pushed up his hoodie.
Then you take him into your mouth, stroking with one hand, cupping his balls with the other, giving them a light squeeze while your work your tongue over his shaft, then his tip, licking and sucking while his head rolls back on his neck and he looks down through hooded lids, groaning as he puts his hand on the back of your skull.
The sounds he makes are so wonderful, so deep and rumbly, so breathy and wrecked. “Jesus, honey—” he starts, and the end of the sentence never follows, only turning into a moan, too distracted by the feeling of your throat constricting around him. He manages to enunciate one singular full sentence while you have him in your mouth, when you suck him a little slower to give your jaw some rest.
“Fuck, I love the way you suck my cock,” he interrupts himself with a groan, looking down at you and holding his breath for a moment, “Best head I’ve gotten in my life, every time.”
And then, with his hand wrapped around your hair to pull you off, before he’s about to come, “I gotta fuck you again.”
In his bed, on his sheets, clothes scattered on the floor, you sit down on his dick and lean back into his chest, your feet planted on the bed between his thighs, his hand wrapped around your neck as you hold onto his hips behind you, riding him so that he strokes your g-spot at every thrust.
“Gonna fuck you so hard after you come, gonna make you beg, gonna make you cry for me,” Joel mutters into your ear, “You’re gonna feel me for days, baby, gonna feel your daddy right here.” He snakes his hand around to your front, caresses your lower stomach, then reaches down to rub your clit, tightening his grasp on the sides of your throat. You mewl as your orgasm builds in your stomach, stroked so deeply by the wide head of his cock that you have to hold back your climax.
He notices, of course he notices, and rubs you a little faster as he whispers to you, “You can squirt, baby, it’s okay.” He pushes you closer and closer, thrusts into you and holds you down on his cock, rubs and massages, “Don’t hold back, I know it feels good, I know, just let it out.”
And with a desperate moan, you feel the sudden stream of your release squirting out of you as you come, with your clit between his middle and ring fingers, your head rolling back, pussy fluttering around him so intensely, almost attempting to push him out. “Look at that. Doesn’t that feel good, baby? Soaking my fuckin’ sheets?”
Mhmmm, you whine, while more spurts out of you and drenches the mattress, and he growls at the feel of it on his fingers, restricting your breathing so you gasp for air, making your blood rush in your head and your vision blur, still rubbing your overstimulated nub while he praises you, “You're the only one who’s squirted like that all over this bed, you know that? Such a good little girl, coming for your daddy.”
He lets go and flips you over, pushing you into the soaked sheets and entering you as he kneels between your open legs, placing one hand around your throat again and throwing your ankle on his shoulder. You try to babble something but your words come out as incoherent moans when he slides his hand up the back of your thigh.
“Shh, baby, it’s okay,” he whispers, pressing his cock into the deepest part of you, feeling the beads of his precome seeping out into you, right to the mouth of your womb, “Just a little more, takin’ my cock so well.”
“Daddy, daddy, it’s so good, so good—” Your moans fill his ears as he watches himself slide out of you, eyes fixated on your slick, stretched open hole, how you gape around him to make space. He can feel the very end of you, and you feel him in your stomach.
“Your pussy was made just for me, huh?” he coos, gaze sliding down your naked form, held in his big hands splayed across your hamstrings, pushing you open for him, “So beautiful, my love, so pretty—”
“I can't, I can't—” you whine, squeezing your eyes shut and giving him hiccuping little moans, trying to arch your back, feeling your release spurting out of you again, covering his shaft, dripping down on the sheets and creating a blooming dark spot beneath where he fucks into you. You listen to him curse under his breath, but his grunts are suddenly muffled by the unmistakable sounds of creaky steps in the staircase right outside of the door.
Your eyes spear open, and your gaze fixates on Joel’s face but you can’t hear a word he says — everything is drowned out by the ringing in your ears, turning the sounds of his curses, his thrusts, and your moans into a deafening silence only pierced by a high pitched static ring. Your vision goes blurry aside from his face, his lips forming words you cannot hear, it's okay, it's okay, cooing to you like he always does, with no awareness of the creaking steps making their way to the bedroom, and the shadow that appears in the doorway.
Joel Miller x f!reader
Explicit, 18+
Masterlist | wattpad in pt | AO3
Warnings: Story inspired by the Joel Miller series, no apocalypse, contains obscenities (18+ only), female reader s/n, age difference, Romance, more than one point of view, alcohol use, angst, sex, oral (m and f receiving).
Word count: 3,2k
sorry for any translation errors
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The streets were covered in fallen leaves and the air had a touch of freshness. You put on a gray plaid skirt, tights and a black sweater with boots on your feet and headed for your parents' door with Dean by your side carrying your backpack with the camera and lenses. As well as bringing the family together, it was also tradition for you to photograph the holidays, and your father loved to keep memories of moments like this.
Ethan greets you at the door and carries Dean into the games room. You go into the kitchen to help your mother, who's wearing the classic orange apron and organizing the dishes. You come across Sarah stirring a pot and a blonde woman washing her hands at the sink. He greets his mother, goes over to Sarah, kisses her on the cheek and turns to the third person.
"Oh, you must be Bonnie," she says cheerfully, turning towards you. You recognize her instantly. A rush runs through your body as you realize that Joel is already in some corner of the house.
"Ethan talks about you a lot," she holds out her hand to you. You'd have a serious talk with Ethan about him talking more than his mouth.
"Yes, myself, nice to meet you," you shake the outstretched hand.
"Lisa" her voice was sweet, and for a moment you felt guilty for sitting on her boyfriend weeks ago.
You go over to the worktop to chop some vegetables, the women are chatting animatedly and you just nod. Your eyes end up on Lisa, a woman about your height with clothes that flatter her body, pleasant and always with a gentle smile on her face. Just the opposite of you.
"Bonnie, take this platter to the table, please"
"Of course" you walk towards the dining room looking at the platter carefully, but you bump into something solid, someone holding you by the elbows. The smell of him reaches your nostrils before you have a chance to look up and find Joel staring back.
"Mr. Miller," he greets, straightening up. He frowns, his eyes sweeping over your face.
"Joel to you, Bonnie," he says in a low, husky voice, tilting his head slightly to one side. May God give you the strength to finish the evening with a modicum of decency, Joel is wearing a green plaid shirt and his hair is combed back, slightly wet. He wonders if he and Lisa have showered together.
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Joel arrives at his parents' house with Sarah and Lisa at the agreed time, he tries not to think he'll see you, but automatically looks for you. He introduces Lisa to them and his father calls him into the games room. He's sitting on the sofa drinking whisky when Ethan walks in with a young guy behind him, the moment Joel looks he remembers where he knew him, the guy from the bar you had a "deal" with, his jaw clenches and his nostrils flare. It was innocence on his part to think that you wouldn't be accompanied, that accepting the invitation to dinner at your parents' house would be something difficult for you to digest and not for him.
He greets the guy, whom he discovers is called Dean, with an excessively firm handshake. Dean narrows his eyes at Joel, raises his eyebrows slightly and returns to a neutral expression.
"Hey, man," Dean greets and sits down in an armchair. There's a game on TV, his father and brother are playing pool while they talk.
Joel stands there with his glass of whisky, taking part in the conversation. He can feel Dean staring at him thoughtfully.
It's as if his body senses his presence, as if his body has a magnet that calls out to him. Joel gets up giving the excuse that he's going to get a glass of water, but deep down he just needs to see you.
Arriving near the kitchen, he hears his mother asking you to bring something to the table, notices your concentration walking towards him, Joel's hands are tingling, he needs to put them on you.
He grips your elbows tightly as they collide, his gaze wavers before he lets out a 'Mr Miller', he feels like snorting when he hears it, as if you hadn't shouted his name weeks ago. You shake your head and look at his hands on your arm.
"Excuse me," he asks, making room for you to pass. The scent of his hair fills every corner, I'd give anything to sink my nose in and smell it.
"Do you need any help, ladies?" he asks, entering the kitchen. His mother denies it, saying that she has everything under control, but now that he's seen her, he can't leave her side. He insists and your mother sends him to keep an eye on the turkey in the oven.
Joel watches you go back into the kitchen, pausing for a few seconds in the doorway when he sees you sitting on the worktop next to a board with some vegetables being cut up. He thought it was your task as Sarah was stirring something on the stove, Lisa was washing some dishes and your mother was walking around finishing some dishes. You walk to your seat, sit down and concentrate on cutting the vegetables.
"Need a hand, dear?" he asks, leaning his leg against yours.
Joel sees you holding the knife tightly and frowns.
"What are you doing?" you ask quietly in an angry voice.
"Is everything all right in there?" your mother asks, approaching you and making Joel move his leg away.
"Everything's fine, I'm just offering to help Bonnie."
"I think I've finished here," you announce, handing the board with the cut vegetables to your mother.
"Great, can you help Joel put his apron on? We don't want you getting your clothes dirty when you open the oven," your mother asks, pointing to a drawer. Joel stands up and waits. You take the apron from the cupboard and stand in front of him, who looks you up and down with a little smile on his face. His beard almost brushes your face as he bends down for you to put the apron on him, you can feel your heart beating in your ears, the skin on your neck shivering as his breath hitches slightly there, a low laugh escaping him as he realizes. He straightens up and turns his back so you can tie it behind him.
The whole scene is ridiculous, why were you helping him put on a simple apron? You look around hoping that no one else will find it strange, but they were all concentrating on their tasks. You sigh and walk away from him to finish the pumpkin pie.
Joel is chatting animatedly with the other women, and you see Lisa approaching him, running her hands tenderly over his broad shoulders. You close your eyes watching the scene, it would be you there with him if you had assumed what you had no matter what. Joel glances at you briefly before returning the caress to her waist. Son of a bitch. Put the feeling back in the box, you've got no right here. He's being affectionate with his girlfriend.
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His father made his usual speech, making everyone say their thanks before serving dinner.
They were sitting in the living room, Dean by their side with his hand resting on his thigh, you could see Joel staring at the gesture with his jaw clenched, Lisa was sitting next to him oblivious to the scene talking to her parents. Ethan and Sarah were talking to each other. You realized that that moment would be perfect for capturing the memories of that day. You liked to capture the conversations and smiles, nothing posed, nothing intentional or contrived, your aim was to capture the spontaneous essence of everyone there. He adjusted the camera while laughter and conversation filled the air, creating an atmosphere of love and gratitude. She focused on the young couple in love as they shared gazes full of affection. Bonnie was able to freeze the glint in Ethan's eye whenever he looked at Sarah, feeling proud of the way her brother treated her with kindness and respect, as if she were the most important person in the world. And to his world she was, they had a beautiful and genuine connection and you were grateful to see that love blossom. You glanced over at Joel and caught him watching the two of them with a wry smile. Seeing them like that made you feel that they had made the right choice after all. They deserved to experience this pure love in the best possible way.
"Bonnie, how's work for the construction company?" your father asks, snapping you out of your thoughts.
All eyes turn to you, who until now had been invisibly recording the moments. Damn.
"Well, it's going great, next week I'll start photographing the model homes."
"Oh, that's great. Joel, you work in construction, right?" your father asks and Joel's eyes wander from you to his father.
"Yes, I do."
"Bonnie will be providing her services to a large company."
"I'm glad to hear they liked your article"
You frown at him without understanding how he knew that it was through the article that you had been hired by the company.
"Bonnie, take a picture of me with Joel" Lisa snuggles up next to Joel with her hand on his chest. She smiles happily at you, Joel puts his arm around Lisa's shoulders. You swallow the feeling. You're happy for your brother, you made the right choice.
"Of course," you reply, trying to sound cheerful, even though that wasn't the point of the evening, you would do Lisa a kindness. "Eyes on me," you say, positioning the camera on your face and watching Joel through the lens, feeling naked under his gaze, as if he could read all your thoughts. The wrinkles around her eyes are smooth, her smile not quite there.
"Good," you say softly, lowering the camera after clicking.
"One more, please," Lisa asks, holding Joel's face with her hand. You swear you have to take a picture of them kissing, but Joel turns his face slightly, depositing her kiss on the cheek near her mouth. You swallow, pushing the feeling that insisted on appearing deeper. You quickly put the camera to your face and clicked.
"Excuse me" you were feeling suffocated, needing a moment to yourself as you headed inside the house towards the guest bathroom. Your heart started pounding, your breathing quickened and your mind was flooded with thoughts of Joel with Lisa. She felt trapped, as if there was no escape. The walls of the bathroom seemed to close in around her, intensifying the discomfort even more.
She rested her hands on the sink, staring at her reflection in the mirror, inhaling deeply, holding her breath for a few seconds and then exhaling slowly. Repeat this process several times, concentrating only on your breathing. Gradually, the feeling of suffocation began to subside. You're happy with Dean, you're happy for your brother. She kept repeating it quietly as if it were a mantra.
Gathering up all the courage you had left, you decided you wouldn't let the feeling win.
"Can you get us some more drinks, daughter?" your mother asks as soon as you return to the living room.
"I'll help!" Joel gets up quickly from the sofa.
"I got it, man," Dean rushes to his feet, walking in large strides to your side, resting his hand on your waist. Joel slowly sits back down with a frown. Dean guides you with his hand behind your back to the kitchen.
"What the fuck, Bonnie?" he asks as you enter the kitchen.
"What are you talking about?" you knew, of course you knew.
"You were going out with your brother's girlfriend's father!" is not a question.
"Keep it down, Dean," you ask, looking away. He leans on the counter with his arms crossed, waiting for an explanation. "It's complicated" you limit yourself.
"Then make it simple" he wouldn't give in so easily. You snort before you start.
"We went out a few times before we found out he was Sarah's father, after we found out we decided to stop"
"Hmm" he says, squinting his eyes in suspicion.
You move closer, running your hands down his neck.
"It's serious, Dean. I wouldn't have any reason to lie to you," you say in the sweetest voice you can muster. You didn't want him to feel threatened. He has nothing to worry about. Or that's what you wanted the two of you to believe. Dean analyzes your face and eventually gives in, holding you by the waist.
"Okay, I believe you," he says, sealing your lips.
"Excuse me," Joel's husky voice penetrates you in a way you don't expect, making you jump in fright.
"I just need a glass of water" he says, staring at Dean's hands on your waist and yours on his neck.
"Be my guest" his voice comes out weak, what the hell, Dean realizes, closing his face again.
"Joel, can you get the drinks for the guys, please? I need to show Dean something," you said, taking his hand and leaving the kitchen without waiting for Joel to reply.
You wanted to prove to Dean that you were serious, you wanted to reassure him right there. You ran up the stairs with him following you without asking, your old room had been turned into your father's office, but it should do.
Joel stood in the kitchen watching you disappear while holding that kid's hand. What were you thinking? Were you going to fuck him in some corner of the house with him there? With your family present? After many years you were jealous again, you were envious of Dean, you wanted him to be the one holding the back of your neck, you wanted his fingers around your waist, you wanted him to be the one probably taking off your clothes right now.
"Shit," he mutters before picking up the drinks and returning to the living room, sitting down next to Lisa with his hands clenched into fists at his sides. He strained his ears to hear anything coming from upstairs, any loud sigh, any moan escaping his lips, feeling dirty about it. Why did he want to hear it, anyway? Wasn't imagining what you were doing torture enough?
Was your room still set up here? Or were you reckless and in your parents' room? Feelings were consuming Joel, could the kid take more than he did?
"Right, Joel?" he jumped when Lisa spoke to him, placing her hand on his knee. He was so immersed that he had forgotten everything and everyone around him.
"What, darling?" he asks with a weak smile.
"That you loved the photos Bonnie took of the band," she was talking to her mother.
"Oh, yes, of course
"He's always talking about how she managed to capture the essence..." Lisa continues talking, but Joel is no longer listening, he's remembering the first time he saw you, the way you surprised him, the way you moaned his name this time and all the other times he made you come. He jumps up, he couldn't let you do that to another guy with him here.
"Is everything all right?" your mother asks apprehensively.
"Yes, I just need to use the bathroom," he replies, walking towards the stairs.
"We have one down here..." she starts but corrects herself when she realizes he's going upstairs. "Oh, we have another one at the end of the corridor on the right" she adds loud enough for him to hear, but Joel doesn't process the words, he's looking for something else. He didn't think what he would do, open the door and say what? Get your hands off your girlfriend? You can't do that? But why couldn't you? He's starting to feel anxious, but he can't stop, his body is going after yours without brakes.
You're sitting on your father's desk, your tights on the floor and Dean's fingers are slipping in and out of you with some difficulty. He licked them before penetrating, but you were dry inside, with almost zero lubrication and it was starting to hurt. What were you thinking when you thought this would be a good idea? Who are you trying to fool? How could you get relief knowing that the one you really want is just a few meters away?
You want to get it over with and get back to the room, to where Joel is. You try to do it more convincingly this time, force yourself to breathe faster by sinking your face into Dean's neck to stifle the fake moan, but your walls don't squeeze his fingers, your legs don't shake, your face doesn't get hot and sweaty.
"Fuck, Bonnie! This bullshit again?" Dean exclaims a little too loudly, you pull him into a kiss to shut him up, but he pulls away withdrawing his fingers from you.
"What?" you try to look innocent and uncomprehending.
"Don't treat me like an idiot, please," he asks, running his hands through his hair, and you drop to the floor, smoothing your skirt before approaching him.
"It's okay, Dean"
"It's not! You're acting weird around him"
You can't face him because he's right. You were fine until today, even with the last encounter with Joel at your house, you managed to move on. You were happy. Or you thought you were.
"You love him, don't you?" there was pain and regret in his voice. You closed your eyes and took a deep breath, you weren't ready to be pushed like this.
"Dean..."
"I have eyes, Bonnie. I see the way you look at him, even when you don't want to. I realized how much time you needed when you were photographing him with his girlfriend. He's dating someone else, for God's sake." His every statement was a punch in the gut and you couldn't deny any of them.
"That's enough for me. I don't want to get involved in your madness," he says, walking towards the office door.
"Dean, wait..." you ask, but without moving a muscle to try and stop him from leaving.
"No, Bonnie, that's enough," he says with his back to you. "I just wish you'd get some self-respect"
Joel hides inside a room before Dean leaves the room you're in. His mind is racing, you didn't answer him when Dean asked if you loved him. He thought he was just another guy to you, someone you were strongly attracted to, but it seems that your meeting had left deep scars on both sides. Who was he kidding? Lisa was a steppe, Joel tried for months to feel with her half of what he felt when he was with you. He couldn't explain the connection you had, everything about you was inviting to him.
He's about to leave the room, which he realizes is Ethan's, when he hears you whisper "fuck" and open the bedroom door.
"Bonnie," he calls in a whisper, taking your arm by the elbow. There's confusion in your eyes, frowning eyebrows and tears threatening to fall, you open and close your mouth trying to process his presence there.
"Bonnie" he says again, stepping forward, all he wants to do is hug you tightly, but you pull your arm back.
"No" you say, raising your hands in front of you before hiding your face to run down the stairs.
He comes down shortly afterwards, but doesn't see you in the living room.
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You arrive home and Joel's truck is parked out front. You're surprised because you hadn't arranged anything with him. When he sees you, he climbs down and starts pulling market bags out of the back. You look puzzled.
"He's going to feed a battalion," you joke, getting close to him to help. Joel pushes you away and gives you a quick kiss.
"You don't have to do anything today" the bags get smaller with his arms around them. He points to the door, waiting for you to open it.
You enter, Cat greeting you with a meow. You pet her while Joel puts the shopping on the counter.
"Miss, you're going to take a hot, relaxing bath," he says, coming close to you, "and I'm going to cook us something." He runs his hands down your arms, brushing his nose against yours.
"Aren't you going to join me?" his voice is soft, liking the idea of a hot bath, but wanting company.
"Wouldn't you rather take it alone today?" he asks and you nod. You just want to be held by him under the water. He smiles at your answer and escorts you to the bathroom.
You sort out some loose, comfortable clothes to put on later. Joel is looking through his drawer for his clothes. You're impressed by the amount of clothes he has in his house. You put your hair up in a high bun and step under the shower, Joel joining you. You wash, sharing the sponge and scrubbing each other. Joel stops behind you, kissing your neck and hugging you by the belly, you love it when he does that.
"Is that better?" he whispers, and you nod. You're feeling calmer, you don't feel like crying and you don't have period pains thanks to the painkiller you took at the end of the afternoon. You turn around and wrap your arms around his neck, caressing his scalp with your nails, and he closes his eyes, enjoying it. You stand on your tiptoes and kiss Joel's lips, which soon open, giving way to your tongue. He kisses you calmly, respecting your time, but you feel a tingling sensation going towards your core. You frown and he notices you pulling away.
"What's up?"
"Yeah" you bite your lip not knowing how to ask "I was wondering if you'd mind... you know" you hold his cock which is already hard between you "with me having my period" you close your eyes in a grimace.
He laughs at your question "Are you asking me if I want to fuck you?" you agree, hiding your face in his chest "Baby, the day I don't want this, you'll put me away because I'm crazy" he lifts your face with both hands and kisses you, deeper now, knowing what you want. You smile into the kiss, slowly pumping his cock.
"I want to feel you inside me," you ask, "without protection," you had said a while ago, but the subject had died down. "I want to feel you cum deep inside me and then drip down my pussy," you whimper as you pump harder. Joel grunts into your mouth.
"Just a few more days until the test results come back," he whispers, his breath hitting your mouth.
"Have you?" you're surprised.
"Of course. Do you think I'd miss the chance to spill inside you?"
You bite your lip and close your eyes.
"Just a few more days," he repeats, taking his cock in his hand and rubbing it against your clitoris. You moan, moving against him. "Something tells me you're ready," he comments.
"Always" he rubs at your entrance, his breath catching in his throat.
"Just a few more days before I can feel you cumming on my cock" you moan and push yourself forward, your mind completely covered in pleasure and desire "but today we're still going to go the cautious way" he pulls away and you moan with disappointment, pulling him by the neck to press your lips to theirs, the kisses are sloppy, you press yourself against him, your cock crushed by your bellies, your core pulsing for attention.
"I need to get the condom so I can sink into you," he says between kisses and you pull away. He goes to the drawer of the bathroom cabinet, after he came into your life you spread condoms in every room. Your stomach turns as you realize that soon you won't have to worry about that anymore.
Joel is holding one of your legs against his waist, his cock sliding into your entrance, you rest your hands on his shoulder. He slides into you easily and slowly. You're more sensitive today and you feel inch by inch until he reaches the bottom, a different sensation. You've never had sex on your period before and you're surprised at how good it feels. Joel moves slowly, thrusting lightly into you, kissing your neck and holding your hair at the nape of your neck.
"Joel" you call out to him.
"Uh" he replies, lost in your neck.
"I'm on my period, but I'm not going to break it" he stops kissing you and looks at you with frowning eyebrows "can you fuck me hard" you ask, enjoying his concern for you, but liking it when he left you breathless with every thrust.
A mischievous smile appears on his lips: "Your request is my command," he says as he thrusts into you, setting a frantic pace. You moan and roll your eyes, you'd love to be consumed by him like this. His hand moves to your clitoris, the sensitivity helping you come faster.
"Fuck," you moan, feeling your stomach tighten.
"You can't go a day without being fucked and you'll come quickly," he observes, you're so wrapped up in the pleasure that threatens to break you that you can't retort. He feels you squeezing his cock as your legs tremble, the wave of pleasure runs through your body, he growls in your ear, you feel his thrusts become sloppy and he spills into the condom in a low grunt. Your legs are wobbly, you're gasping for breath, your foreheads are pressed together and you're smiling silly.
Joel quickly washes himself again after getting off you "Enjoy the hot water a bit more" he says, getting out of the shower and drying himself off "I'll fix us some dinner" you nod and stay there for a while after he leaves.
Your mother pops into your mind as you ramble on, pondering whether you should go and visit her or not. You've never heard an apology from her before in your life, could it be a sign of change on their part?
He put on his comfortable clothes when he got out of the shower, put his hair up in a loose bun and went towards the good smell he smelled coming from the kitchen.
Joel is chopping some vegetables, there's chicken cooking in the pan. You sit on the chair around the worktop and watch him.
"It smells good," you compliment.
"I thought I'd make us some soup," he says from the menu.
"Soup's great." It would be nice to have something warm today. He reaches for a cup of tea with a few white flowers floating in the warm water for you.
"I know you prefer black coffee, but chamomile tea relieves menstrual pain." He rubs the back of his neck, you love that he does this when he's out of sorts.
"Joel's a connoisseur of teas that help with cramps," you joke.
"I'm the father of a woman, remember?" he replies. You smile as you realize how attentive he was to Sarah during this period.
"Thank you," you say, taking a sip, "you're going to make me sick." He walks in front of you and leans in for a quick kiss.
"That's the idea," you smile excitedly at him, you remember only being pampered like this by your grandparents. Remembering them, you pick up the box and look through it again while sipping your tea.
Joel is still chopping vegetables and cooking, while Cat is chasing a toy mouse around the house. You take the things you saw earlier out of the box and find some letters that your grandfather wrote to your grandmother. You find yourself laughing and wondering if you could ever live such a love, you had never seen them fight, you only saw partnership, love, affection and understanding. Your eyes watch Joel standing in front of the stove, stirring the ingredients in the pot, your heart beating faster as you realize that this is exactly what you have with him so far. A smile settles on his face, Joel feels her eyes on him.
"What's up?" he asks over his shoulder.
"Everything," you limit yourself by widening your smile. You feel it's too soon to tell him what you think you're feeling, you're still afraid to open up completely. Even if it doesn't make the feelings go away, but exposing them to the world makes them real. You turn to the box, at the bottom of which is your first medal from a running competition you took part in, a bronze medal, but one that your grandmother made look like it was gold. You found another envelope with photos, your grandparents much younger than you, with a little boy on their lap who they thought was your father. You went through them all, regretting that he hadn't loved them the way they loved him back. You still remember the sad look on their faces when they opened the door and there was only you, your father putting you in a cab at the airport before catching a flight to the other side of the country, always with the excuse of a business meeting.
At the bottom of the envelope is a sealed letter addressed to your father. You've been staring at the paper for a long time when Joel notices your silence.
"What did you find in there?" he asks, approaching you to look.
You turn the piece of paper over for him to read. "I guess that leaves me without much choice but to find my mother," you shrink back in your seat. Joel runs his hands down your back, reassuring you.
"I've been thinking about it," he begins, "not that it's any of my business, but I think it would be good for you to talk to her."
"Your opinion is important to me," you murmur.
"I'm afraid you'll miss this chance to listen to her, that you'll regret letting this moment pass you by" he continues. You ponder the words, on the one hand he's right and looking at the paper in your hands, you don't have much choice now. This belonged to your father. You sigh deeply, Joel hugs you from behind, his beard scratching your cheek.
"Thank you," you say softly.
"No need to thank me" he kisses your cheek "I'm here for you" you grip his arm tightly and stay like that for a moment.
"I need to call my mom" you break the silence, you want to get this over with. You reach for the piece of paper she handed you and dial. Joel is setting the table and watches you from afar.
She picks up and you arrange to meet her at a café near where she's staying. She keeps the conversation going without offense or indirectness, which you find odd. You hang up and the soup Joel was preparing is ready and delicious. Then you decide to watch friends lying on the sofa. You're settling in and looking for which episode Joel has stopped, he's in the kitchen putting the dishes in the washing machine.
"I thought you might need it," he sits down next to you, "I didn't know which one you preferred." There are two chocolate bars in his hands, one dark and one white.
"I'm telling you, you're going to make me sick," you smile, kissing the corner of his mouth and picking up the white chocolate bar to open it. He smiles at you and wraps his arm around your shoulder, pulling you close. You settle down and press play. Cat climbs into Joel's lap and snuggles up to him, and he strokes the back of her ear with a smile.
"Person who only likes dogs, my ass," you joke.
"You can't resist that little thing," and he shrugs, making you smile.
You look at a few episodes, commenting on and eating the candy, and you come to the one where Rachel and Ross take a break.
"He's not going to do that," Joel exclaims when Ross is out clubbing with the girl from the copy shop. You can see his expression out of the corner of your eye, going from puzzled to shocked "No, you asshole" Ross kisses the girl. But he doesn't react when Rachel goes to Ross's house and the girl is still there, shaking her head with one hand over her mouth in shock. You just watch, saying nothing.
"This is too painful to watch" Rachel is confronting Ross now, the other friends are in the room listening to everything, Joel hides part of his face in his hair. "How can he not understand that he couldn't do it at the first opportunity?" you're happy with his reaction.
"You just passed the test," you joke.
"What do you mean?"
"Only people with questionable character support Ross," you explain.
He smiles at you "You got me hooked on the show just to pass the test?"
"Pretty much," you joke.
The doorbell rings and you look startled at the door.
"Is that your mother?" Joel seems to read your thoughts, you don't answer. He walks to the door, you notice that he adjusts his posture before opening it.
Joel turns to you "There's no one"
You snort and explain that it must be some kid from the neighborhood. He frowns and doesn't believe your assumption.
"That or the detective they put behind me, which would explain why I feel watched," you shrug.
"What do you mean?" Joel stares at you in awe.
You say that at times you felt like you were being watched, but that it must have been the detective.
"Baby," you sense his cautious tone, "what if it's someone else?"
"I don't think so, all the pieces fit together now"
"I don't want to put pressure on you, but have you thought about the complaint?" He was talking about Richard. You didn't even remember he existed, so many things had happened that you didn't prioritize thinking about it. Him leaving you alone was fine. But you promised Joel that as soon as things calmed down you would look into what could be done.
"Will you let me install a camera on the balcony?" he looked worried.
You joke that you're being paranoid but give in to the extra security.
You watch a few more episodes and go to sleep, you snuggling into Joel's neck, inhaling the scent that calms you the most in the world.
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Joel is parking in front of the café where he's arranged to meet his mother. He gets out quickly and turns around to open the door for you. When you're standing, he puts one hand on your waist and the other on the side of your face, leaning his forehead against yours.
"If you need help, don't hesitate to call me," he says.
"It's okay," you say with a smile. He gives you a quick kiss on the lips before letting you go.
You walk into the café and see your mother standing by the window watching Joel walk away. You sigh and walk towards your table.
You greet each other without hugging, you're nervous about where this conversation will go.
"What made you change your mind?" she asks straight away.
"Joel," you say simply. She frowns.
"Anyway... I talked more with your father and sister" you stare at your hands listening "they want to apologize to you" you remain silent.
She keeps talking, your father accepts that the house is his and that he can do what he wants with it, your sister is sorry and wants to talk to you. Your mother apologizes again for the fight the other day.
"Look, Mom, I appreciate your words, but right now I don't feel comfortable talking to either of them. It's all too recent." You don't have the heart to close the door on them forever "I just ask that they respect me and don't show up on my doorstep like you did." She nods.
"I'll ask them to respect your space," you sigh with relief. You take the envelope with your father's childhood photos out of your bag along with the letter.
"I found this in Grandma and Grandpa's things" you hand it to her "there's a letter in it addressed to Dad" you explain, your mother is frowning with the envelope in her hands "if you could give it to him, I'd appreciate it"
She says she'll deliver. You talk about things other than the family, still a bit harsh towards each other, but overall a minimally pleasant conversation.
"So... Joel" she says and you cringe "maybe I misjudged, I saw the way he treated you out there. Someone who's pulling off a coup wouldn't act like that, with such care... affection" her eyes widen and you blush that she's seen something so intimate between you, you can't stop your lips from forming a shy smile "and I think I need to thank him for convincing you" she doesn't need to know that the main reason you were there was to deliver the things to your father.
"He's good for me, Mom. I'm happy with him" that feeling rises up in your chest again.
"I'm glad, child. You deserve to be happy after everything" she holds out her hand on the table, you hesitate, but end up putting yours together with hers, which squeezes tightly, tears forming in your mother's eyes "I'm sorry for everything"
You watch for a moment "One day at a time" and she repeats her sentence.
You look at your watch and it's time to go to work. They leave the café and you get the old feeling that you're being watched.
"I think you can ask your detective to stop now," you say, looking around.
"We dispensed with his services a week ago" your mother explains and you narrow your eyes at her "there's no point in me lying about it" she says, you ponder and she's right. You must have had it in your mind after your conversation with Joel.
"Can I give you a hug?" she asks with her arms open. You give her a quick hug.
"If you need anything, your house will be waiting for you," you agree, but you know that your house is here now.
#
You're proud that you managed to talk to your mother without crying, and even now that you're far away and emotionally secure, you don't feel like it. When you get to work, Maria fills you with questions and you explain everything that happened.
"Do you have any idea why she changed her mind?"
You hadn't asked your mother and you didn't care why, you just wanted them to accept your life "I think she's seen that I'm fine, they've been through my life, Maria. They even know that Joel and I had sex in the karaoke bathroom," you comment on the absurdity.
Maria's eyes widen and you realize you've said too much "Wait a minute, you had sex in that bathroom?" you nod, feeling the red flush take over your face. "Ew! I used that bathroom a few moments later" she laughs at you, making a face again.
"You just had to stay away from the sink," you comment.
"Disgusting!" and you both laugh some more.
You go back to work, there were several reports to do today, but fortunately no meetings were scheduled.
"Ah, Tommy asked you to go to the construction site today after work"
You're surprised, it's usually Joel who leads his work, but you agree with him that you'll go there afterwards.
#
You rush to the site and Joel's pick-up truck is parked out front next to Tommy's car. You go in to call them, and they announce that they're in the restroom installing the tiles that you and Joel bought the other day.
The work is well advanced, the internal walls almost all finished, you look around and can already imagine yourself living here with Cat.
"Hello," you say, arriving at the door.
"Just a minute, I'll talk to you in a minute," Tommy says over his shoulder. Joel finishes what he's doing and walks over to you, giving you a quick kiss.
"What's up?" you know he wants to know about the conversation with your mother.
"Incredibly, yes," you feel relief come over him.
Tommy approaches you, wiping his hands on his pants to remove any dirt. He takes an envelope out of his pocket and hands it to you.
"It's... an apology," he begins and your eyebrows draw together, you look at Joel for answers and he shrugs.
"For getting in your way on the first night" you widen your eyes and pat Joel on the back with the back of your hand.
"Did you tell him?" you give him a scolding look, feeling your cheeks burn.
"Thanks, Tommy," Joel glares at his brother.
"Oh, stop it and open it soon, you'll like it"
You open the envelope and it's a reservation at a cabin in a place two hours away from here, from the photos on the card the place is beautiful.
"A private and beautiful place for you to enjoy, whether or not you do whatever it is I've interrupted," Tommy says, waving his hands and now your cheeks are on fire.
"Tommy," Joel scolds his brother.
"What? I'm trying to be nice here," he says with a debauched smile on his lips. Joel shakes his head, running a hand through his hair.
"Even though you nearly killed me with embarrassment in the process, thanks, Tommy"
"You're welcome, sister-in-law," he interrupts and ends the sentence with his name. Tommy looks apprehensively at Joel, who is staring back with a look you can't quite make out.
Tommy then bids you farewell. Joel wraps his hands around your waist.
"A weekend away from everything and everyone, huh?" you comment.
"I can't wait" he kisses you, the reservation was for three weeks from now "but I owe you a date first" he reminds you.