Free A Diamond in the Dark by Sassie Lewis Page A

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    “I’m too excited to sleep.” Here goes nothing. “And I want to celebrate with you,” she said as she reached out and ran her hand up his inner thigh, slipping it past the edge of his cut-off shorts. Ax bolted from the bed like she had electrocuted him.
    “What the fuck, Tia? What the hell are you doing? You can’t be touchin’ me like that.”
    She had been so close to finally touching his cock when he’d jumped up. And she couldn’t help but notice that even though he was protesting about her touch, his dick was a steel pole pointing straight at her.
    Licking her lips, she dragged her gaze up to his face. “Why?”
    “Because you’re my fucking niece .” His hand ran over the thigh where she had touched him, his eyes finding something fascinating on the floor. The look of confusion on his handsome face didn’t deter her.
    “No, I’m not,” she said, sitting up, her eyes again wandering to his large, stiff cock. He seemed in no hurry to hide his arousal from her, so she didn’t see a point in not enjoying the view of his desire for her.
    His head shot up to look at her. “Not what?”
    “I’m not your niece, or your sister, Axton. We are not related,” she said, shaking her head and waving her hand back and forth between them.
    “You’re like a daughter to my brother. That makes you my niece!”
    “No, Ax. That makes me very loved by a wonderful man. A man who took me in when my own blood wouldn’t.” She took a breath to center herself. She had come to the conclusion that she needed to be a lot more blunt with Axton or they weren’t going to get anywhere. “And if you really thought of me as family, you wouldn’t have had a hard-on while dancing with me.” There, she’d said it. Now she just had to wait and see if he would admit it.
    A sneer crossed his face. “Sue me. I’m horny, and you ruined my weekend plans.”
    Tia recoiled in hurt. She knew he’d had enough beer tonight to make his brain a little slow, but being nasty to her because his body obviously wanted her while he seemed to be fighting it in his head? That wasn’t gonna happen. His words were saying one thing, but his body was telling her the truth. He looked like he could hammer nails with the way his cock stood straight out, bobbing with his angry movements.
    Fuck it! The man is an idiot. Again her mouth had one of those rare moments when it worked faster than her brain. “You’re horny. Well, so the fuck am I.”
    Oh Christ. At her words she saw his dick jerk and heard a small groan come from him. It was like watching a clock ticking. With every beat of her own heart his cock flexed the front of his shorts.
    Ax’s voice took on a deep, raspy tone; a shadow of its usual sound. “You’re a virgin! How the hell can you just throw I’m horny out there? Fuck.”
    “What, because I haven’t been with a man, I can’t get horny?” She laughed at that. Really, the man must be stupid if he thought that teenage girls didn’t go through the same things boys did. Just because they didn’t sport a noticeable boner when attracted to someone, didn’t mean their bodies weren’t doing other things.
    The first time she had gotten wet panties, which was after seeing Ax skinny-dipping in their lake, she’d been horrified. At fifteen she thought her period had come early. When that turned out not to be the case, she googled it. What a relief it had been to find out she hadn’t somehow caught some type of vaginal infection, but was simply horny.
    “Okay, not only am I your uncle, I’m thirty-six, and you’re only twenty-one. If you’re horny, you need to go find a boyfriend your own age.” Axton punched the wall as he walked over to where his bag sat.
    She could tell he was getting ready to leave. He was pulling clothing out of his bag. She knew this would be her last chance. If he didn’t accept her tonight, they would never be together and their relationship would be even more strained.
    While Axton had his