Novel Name : The Carrero Heart - Beginning (Friends to Lovers)

The Carrero Heart - Beginning (Friends to Lovers) Chapter 211

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Instead focus on my little feisty girl, that I couldn’t love more if I tried. I love winding her up in every

way, just to pull out a reaction. She is one of the least feminist rights girls I know, but she does like to

maintain her right to do as she pleases, regardless of sex.

“Mm, hmmm.” I press my lips together, holding in the urge to smile when she looks completely enraged

and aims another slap my way. “Hey! I was agreeing with you.” I catch her hand mid-air, warmed by the

jokiness between us and bend in impulsively, so intent on silencing that stroppy little mouth with

wickedness. I pull her in against me as I tilt my head to get really close, still torn between aching to kiss

her, and trying to be a gentleman where she is always concerned.

Drink is killing me with the amorous urges, but I am still too sober to bypass the side of me who cares

too much, so I end up close, but not going through with it. I do however get a buzz from being

intimately close enough to go either way, all touchy and pressed together and the widening look in her

eyes as pupils dilate makes me stir back to the sexual tension from before. She makes me crazy, so

easily.

“Rabid kitten!” I know my tone is flirty; I can’t deny right now I am completely flirting with her, and as

alien as it is to do so with Sophie, it feels kind of good too. Natural, subtly sexual, and a lot of touchy

feely, is safer than full blown thoughts of sex and kissing. Maybe I should stop over analyzing this and

go with the flow tonight, see where flirting takes me, relax a little and get used to this weird new

dimension between us. Maybe if I get to the club and drink some more, then I will stop always pulling

my brain apart with doubts and see how we go. Not against kissing her again if that’s where this is

going to head, I just need less thinking, more doing.

I kiss her on the temple, after contemplating one on the mouth, letting my hand slide down her small

straight back until I land on the curve of her ass and stop. I hesitate about going lower, feeling her up

and seeing how far I can go with this, but something inside of me stops me. That eternal part of me that

can never step beyond that line when it comes to her. Even when we kissed, I was always holding back

from going one step further.

Sophie leans into my body unexpectedly, sagging against me and despite it igniting the horniness

again, it also ignites the part of me that wants to take care of her. The deep ingrained part who wants to

shield her from sordid mess and horny men, even if it’s me, and I have to curb the urge to sigh at how

easily she just cooled my libido. Like a bucket of cold water dousing out the flames of passion, even

though I can tell that was not her intention. Sophie is a major head fuck in every way.

She snuggles up against me, a good height for doing so in those crazily high shoes, and I really do find

myself torn between two really hard places, as I cuddle her in snugly. I look down at that angelic face,

innocent eyes, and flawless beauty, so much trust and belief that I would never hurt her, and it kills me

in one fell swoop. How can one girl make me crazy with longing at the same time as killing my fire for

her, with overwhelming guilt, and a need to not let this happen? My eyes roam to the mouth I want to

kiss more than anything in the world, but I just can’t. I’m in protector mode and she is too pure, too

sweet, to even contemplate defiling.

“Asshole.” She spits back sassily, reminding me of all the millions of memories that we have together,

how often we have been this way. Playful and relaxed, real best friends.

You don’t cross a line with your best friend. Especially one who needed you to not be like every other

guy in the world. Especially when you held her sobbing in your arms, when she let out all the sordid shit

that her father ever did to her. But then, your best friend shouldn’t be giving you the undying need to

slide up her dress and fuck her up against an elevator wall, and deny it all I want, I can’t keep my head

from straying there over and over tonight.

That dress has knocked me for six on her, the sultry make up and sleek hair. The way she keeps

pouting at me, all eyes and seductive mouth, and I am getting strong vibes that she wants me to kiss

her too. She is hardly acting like the demure sweet kid I am used to right now, every movement and

mannerism, every touch between us in the last few minutes. Sophie is almost giving me free reign to

take her, and I can’t ignore it. My Casanova radar is still fully functioning, from years of playing the field,

and I know strong come ons when I get them, probably why I’m malfunctioning on all levels. I already

know how she feels about me, so this would be like taking complete advantage of her.

“What happened to Massive Douchebag, I liked that one, it has a sexy ring to it.” I nudge her

suggestively with my hip, so she is knocked away slightly, biting on my lip to curb the urge to drag her

back and follow through with sliding my hands up those thighs under her short coat, and figure hugging

dress. Sophies eyes go straight to my mouth and it’s like a jolt to my crotch, burning my dick into

another impending erection I have no control over. I thank god for wearing my longer jacket and hiding

my misdemeanors from her. For the first time in life I thank my dad for giving me his poker face, and

skills at never really letting people know what’s going on in my head from sight alone. It’s the only thing

saving us from each other.

Fuck, I want her.

“You are all of the above and much, much, more.” She frowns at me, I can’t tell if it’s because she’s

being playful, or because I haven’t followed through on all her little sexy signals to kiss her. The air is

static with the tension between us, and whether she is aware she is doing it or not, Sophie is giving me

the come to bed eyes crazily bad, in this moment. My body stirs to fever pitch and I slap her ass to

propel her out of the elevator a little more aggressively that I meant too. It’s a knee jerk reaction to

create distance before I start humping her into a corner and throw all caution to the wind. I haven’t

been this hormonal since puberty, and it’s unnerving as hell.

She yelps as I let go of her hand and watch her totter on high shoes onto the polished floor, worried for

a second she might fall, as I tense in readiness to catch her. She doesn’t and straightens to a normal

graceful saunter ahead of me that brings my eyes back to her ass. I need to put distance between us,

before I rip open her dress and just let go of any doubts. At this rate, and this head mess she brings out

in me, I am going to end up exhausted before we get out.

I follow her out of the elevator and catch up with her from behind, sliding my hand back around hers as

we pass Frank, the desk security near the door. Even when I want distance, I can’t override the urge to

touch her and somehow end up attached to her once more. I nod his way with a smile, raring to get out

with my favorite girl, to let off some of this steam and maybe not be alone for much longer, while I’m

this weak. All this crazy sexual tension aside, I really need a night kicking back and hanging out with

my friends to mellow. It’s been a stressful few weeks, and I miss the times I used to take Sophie along,

just us and them to have a good time without all this confusion. She’s always been so easy to hang out

with and I never had a bad night when she was my date in the past. Well, not date, companion, side

kick, partner in crime.

Before Natasha, Sophie was almost my constant companion and I loved my life back then. No worries,

no stress or torn up head with two women vying for my heart. Life was so much easier.

“Have a good night, Mr. Carrero, Miss. Huntsberger.” Frank nods our way and holds out a candy for

Sophs. She effortlessly wraps people around her little finger, it’s one of her most mesmerizing gifts and

it seems my doorman isn’t any different. I watch her skip towards him proudly, heart swelling with the

knowledge that despite her childhood, she has an infectiousness about her that people swarm to. She’s

loveable, easy to like, and that smile could win anyone around, even my father who doesn’t just take to

anyone so easily. She makes a little squeal noise of excitement, happy childishness, to accept her gift

from him.

I watch her appreciatively, marvel at how warm she always makes me feel inside when she is being

this way, and it adds another notch to the conflicting shit in my head.

“Thank you, Mr. Frankie, always a pleasure. Tell Mrs. Frankie. I said hi.” She giggles cutely, all her

mannerisms are dainty and elegant, and I marvel at once upon a time, when she was all clumsy

tomboy and two left feet. She has changed a lot in six years, and I am only just starting to see how

much. She ended up as the swan, although she was never an ugly duckling, just an uncoordinated

cygnet.

“Strawberry whirl. Your favorite. Been keeping you one for a few days now.” He throws her a paternal

smile, adoration on show, and I tug at the back of her jacket to hurry her along. Eager to get to our

destination and down a few more drinks to let fate do as it pleases. I’m tired of always battling with my

own head and suddenly, I don’t want to do it anymore. I want to get fucked up drunk, and do whatever

feels right, even if that is cornering my best friend in a nightclub and making good on how horny she

makes me feel. My mind is made up and I won’t be deviating from the plan of going to the club and

drinking my doubts away.

“You too, Frank, we shouldn’t be too late. This one has a curfew.” I nod at the back of her head, pulling

her with me as I head to the door, so she follows closely. Curfew isn’t exactly true. However long it

takes to get drunk and see where this goes, is more likely. I will carry her back here in an hour if that’s

all it takes to want to be naked with her.

Glancing back to make sure she is coming, I almost stop breathing when I watch her slide the

confectionary on a stick, into her mouth. I swear my mind goes to the one place I never in a million

years imagined I would visualize Sophs, and again have to battle the shoot up in body heat and blood

temp, and tear my gaze from that teasing mouth before I self-combust or groan out loud. My pants are

getting a good stretch out tonight, from the amount of times I have been hard and had to talk myself

down again. I wonder how much damage my dick can incur from several hard ons in a row that never

get relief.

I clear my throat uncomfortably, chastising myself for imagining her with those lips around a part of my

anatomy that I am having a tough time controlling. Inward steady breaths and visualizing naked men to

cool myself down again. One quick way to combat an erection, is to imagine my best mate Nate, naked

and ready to go, that always does the trick. I have never doubted my sexuality at all, and any man

ready to impale something with a hard on, gets me soft in quick time.

We get out onto the street and the doorman, holding the door for us, motions to the yellow cab sitting

patiently on the curb I asked him to have waiting for us. I lead her out to the open the door for her,

unable to resist whipping that lollipop out of her mouth as she gets in and sticking it in my own with an

evil smile. Teasing Sophs is still the highlight of my life and I doubt it will ever grow old. I love her

reactions and the ability I have to do it any time I want. I suck it a little and it tastes of strawberries and

her, well the memory I have of kissing her and the stirrings in my groin only get stronger. I curse myself

and have to redraw on my naked Nate, to once again bring it back down.

The memory of how she tastes haunts me already, but this reminds me of how sweet she is. How much

I want to taste her over and over and it only strengthens this plan I have forming, of getting fully drunk

and seeing where this goes. Tired of all this shit.

“Hey! That’s mine.” Sophie frowns at me, not amused and I smile back. I close her door on her and

skirt the back of the cab, to get in the other side, smirking at her cute little frowning face as I slide in

beside her. The cab already smells of her perfume and it’s pretty heady in closed confines. Petulant

little miss. Sexy little minx. Sophie whips the candy out of my mouth, with a little screwed up nose look,

and sticks it back in her own. No cares about the fact we just shared saliva and it makes me wish we

could actually do that instead of sharing a lollipop. She looks kissable as hell right now and if I wasn’t

trying to be the good guy eternally, I would have my tongue in her mouth instead of her lollipop.

“I have herpes.” I nudge her, flirting again, because I can’t help myself and yank my door shut. I lean

forward and give the cab driver the nightclub address we are going too, overly aware of her sitting so

close to me and sink back to let this warm fuzzy feeling from the vodka flow over me again.

“Yum! Add it to the ever-growing list of weird stuff Arrick Carrero has given me over the years.” Sophie

eyes me up, mocking me sassily.

“You’re welcome.” I wink at her, eyes moving back to that mouth as she goes back to sucking on that

candy, and I swear I feel it in my pants. I know this is getting out of control and I need to calm this shit

down, because I’m acting like some prepubescent teen with the serious horn. If I don’t put an end to

this, I will end up dry humping her on the seat while groping the life out of her and smothering her half

to death with my tongue down her throat. I have honestly never felt this crazy wound up in a long time.

Even if my mind is set, I can still be classy about my route to getting shit faced and fucking her.

If I fuck her! Steady on, Arry. Where the hell are all your morals right now?

I go to staring out of the window and give myself a seriously needed pep talk, and lecture. How this

shouldn’t be happening, that my head needs to stay on track and cut this bullshit out where she is

concerned. As hard as it is, or my dick may be, I cannot allow myself to turn into this much of an

asshole, and I need to remind myself again.

Natasha!!! The girl I am so easy to dismiss nowadays, might actually be there tonight!

Something I haven’t taken a moment to even think about. We have the same circle of friends, and I

need to remember, that even though we broke up, I told her I needed time to sort my head out and

there is still a chance for us. I haven’t been acting that way tonight and I should be fucking ashamed of

myself instead of hatching plans to fuck another girl. I am literally dragging both along, while committing

to neither and this isn’t who I am at all. I reach for Sophie impulsively, not really gauging where I lay my

hand as I feel warm, soft body, under my palm, and cup what feels like her leg. I want to touch her; it

gives me a sense of calm and completion like nothing else does. More so since this craziness between

us started, and if I could focus on nothing for the rest of the night, it would help a lot.

I have a tidal wave of guilt eating at my insides now I have brought Tash to the forefront of my mind,

and surprisingly, or maybe not, the urge to fuck anyone, dies with her face appearing in my head. The

irony of Natasha killing my sexual urge is not lost on me.

I get lost in my own thoughts, about her, us, all of us, this crap, as I watch the streets and lights swim

by, trying so hard to bring my focus out of this mess, and back on not being a complete horny asshole

tonight. Screw my plan to see where this goes. I need to stay sober and make a decision about where

my life is heading and end this. I have no clue why I am having so much more of a problem with it

tonight... well, maybe I do. Ever since Sophie walked out wearing that dress, it’s all I can think about.

Sophie has grown into a woman that can turn heads easily. Every curve and line makes men want her,

and that face was made to mesmerize and disarm any red hot-blooded male. I’m no different, and I

should be protecting her from jack asses like me, rather than joining them in wanting to screw her.

The cab slams to a halt suddenly, shocking both of us out of our silence and I tense my hand on her leg

in a bid to brace her as I feel her slide forward in her seat, thanks to that satin dress on leather. Sophie

bodily crashes forward, stopped by my arm in front of her as I go rigid to act as a barrier for her

instinctively, and its only when she gasps weirdly, that I look down and realize my hand on her body, is

not on leg and dress. I have my hand between her thighs and that heat and smooth lace I can feel

pressed hard into my palm, is where my skin and fingers are molded perfectly to the apex between her

legs. I almost groan as our eyes meet rapidly, both mortified at the intimate, unexpected contact.

I yank my hand away fast, not sure how else I should react in this moment, and it no longer feels like it

did minutes ago, when I was telling myself I wanted to fuck her. This hits me in the gut like a freight

train that I just groped my little Sophie. The girl who endured so much sordid shit and abuse through

her entire life and it makes me feel sick to my stomach that I even did that to her. It’s wrong on so many

fucking levels and sobers me up in a nanosecond.

Nothing brings back a hit of reality than actually taking a step out of fantasy and making shit real.

Sophie wriggles in her seat to haul her dress back down where it hitched up and get back into position.

I keep my eyes anywhere but her, as heat flames through me and I chastise myself for literally doing

the absolute worst to her that I could do tonight. Groping her, even if I didn’t mean it, without her

permission, is no better than what that asshole made her endure for years, or any of the pricks I saved

her from in nightclubs for the last two.

“Sorry.” I have no clue what else to say to her. She trusts me to never cross this line and I literally had

my hand between her legs and cupped her in a way that only a lover should ever do. I glare out of the

window, beating myself up, pissed as hell that I crossed this line without even trying too. She isn’t that

girl to me, and this makes that painfully clear once again, maybe once and for all, that I cannot go

there.

Sophie wriggles about the seat a little more and I look her way, armed with a speech to settle the

shame, or weirdness she is probably feeling. Except I am rendered silent when I see that rosy blush on

her cheeks, the half-smile, and naughty look in her eyes; of the cat who got the cream, and it hits me

like a lead ton weight, that she actually liked it. She looks happy.

It has the same effect as her pushing her own hand in my pants, and I tense to curb the reaction it

gives me, all thoughts from seconds ago doing a complete U-turn on the power of that one expression

on her. She controls me like a puppet, and I am only starting to see how easily she can. I know I’m

throwing her a loaded look, self-control going to hell, and dick back to being hard, head completely on

fucking her in this moment once again and try to reel it back a little. She has no idea the power she

holds, and I wonder if alcohol is probably the worst idea when I am around her.

I went to shit after those two drinks, and my head has been places I never allow normally, all over the

shop. Sophie throws me a sweet, yet cheeky smile, that seems to say, ‘it was nothing’ and I am

completely torn suddenly, mood nose diving at a rate of noughts. I want to beat shit out of the guys who

have pulled this move on her, that makes her think it’s no big deal, with a rage that seriously threatens

to engulf me inside and out.

I hold it in, hating that this is nothing to her, and try to calm the inward war with rationality. Chastising

myself, that might not even be what she means, and wondering how I can get so crazy mad, with only

a look of indifference about this.

Is this jealousy? Is that what this is?

I take a moment to pull my head together, and it dawns on me that this might not be that at all. This

might be because she trusts me, and knows it was accidental, and I already know she doesn’t abhor

my touch. I sigh inwardly, trying to calm the fury and overwhelming sickness in my gut, cool my temper

and mind, sliding my hand to find hers and encase it in my fingers in a bid to calm myself down on

every level. No one stills me like she does, and as I entwine our fingers, I find that sense of quiet and

calm amidst the storm that Sophie always gives me, and push all the other shit out of my head as I see

the nightclub looming up ahead.

Deep breaths, clearing my mind and looking for calm. That inner rage is still dwindling inside my

stomach like a glowing fire, but her soft warm hand encased in mine brings me that sense of peace and

rationality, the need to turn protector and carer and I glance her way momentarily. The sweetness and

purity that is my girl only serves to bring me down further. Her innocent little look and smile has me

relaxing once more, and I remind myself that no assholes would ever do that to her and make her so

blasé about it.

What that asshole did to her, that made her more sensitive than the average girl, would never allow her

to be blasé about any sexual contact, and I am seriously overthinking this. I am Jealous, and it’s

making me irrational.

She trusts me, she knows me, and she just put that down to a little mishap that she maybe didn’t hate.

She already made it clear that she wants more between us, so her reaction isn’t exactly a shock. That’s

all that was, nothing more. Me being overly sensitive because I’m jealous when it comes to her and

other guys, and now I am back to square one, with how messy my feelings for her are.

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