Free Love on Ice (Cannon City Series Book 2) by Lauren Marie

her central spot.
    “Oh,” she sighed and grabbed the quilt under her. The ache in her pelvis flamed up a notch and her back arched as his thumb plunged into her wet core. She closed her eyes as his lips continued to move along her legs and his thumb moved inside her. She released a moan and when his head was in the V between her legs and his tongue teased the nub, she lost her breath completely and grabbed at the headboard. She felt she might be sinking.
    His fingers moved into her channel and his mouth covered her nub with his tongue dancing circles around her center spot. Kate felt a tingle flood her pelvis and legs and her back arched again as her breath got caught in her throat. The orgasm flowed over her and she wasn’t sure how long she’d sucked in air.
    It hit her with all her fears and she felt sad. Now she understood what all the sex scenes in those books she’d read really meant. She felt tears run out of her eyes and when she opened them, she saw Jay propped up over her in a blur. She rolled away from him. Her ears buzzed and if he said anything, she couldn’t hear him.
    Kate hadn’t spilled many tears for over eight years and started to sob with uncontrolled gasps. She didn’t want him to see her like this; wrestled out from under his body and got off the bed, with her hand over her mouth. She saw his sweatshirt on the floor, picked it up and made her way to the stairs. She pulled the shirt over her head and the size was so big it hung midway down her thighs. This made her cry harder.
    Kate didn’t have a clue where she thought she would go. She saw the double doors that led out to the deck and went to it. She figured out the lock and stepped out onto the back porch. Through the flood of tears she saw steps going down to a dark yard. She sat on the top step and put her head on her knees. She wrapped her arms over her head and tried to figure out how to deal with all of this. Jay would want an explanation. Why did it pick now to spill over? Two minutes ago she was in heaven, but it opened something inside her and she’d descended to hell.
    She felt Jay’s arms wrap around her and pull her into a tight hug. His lips were by her ear and she heard him whisper words to her, but couldn’t understand. He ran his fingers through her hair and held her close. When she started to calm down, he handed her some tissues and she realized she could hear what he said. He tried to hush her and apologized for being so aggressive.
    Kate sat up and looked at him through a new flood of tears. “No...it’s not your fault...don’t think that.” She took in a deep breath and held it. Slowly she let the air out and leaned against his chest.
    After a few more minutes, she said, in a very small voice, “I have to tell you a story.” She blew her nose and tried to figure out where to start. She couldn’t bring herself to look at him, as the tears continued to roll down her cheeks.
    “See, there once was a little girl. When she was six or seven years old, she watched the winter Olympics with her father. She saw the figure skaters and told her parents she wanted to learn how to skate on the ice.” She blew her nose again. “So, the parents enrolled her in a class and she practiced really hard because she wanted to be as graceful as the skaters she’d seen.  The girl’s mother was an over-achiever though and started taking her to skating tournaments. When the girl turned ten, her mother hired a private coach. The coach was really nice and the girl learned a lot, but when she didn’t win any majors by the age of fourteen, the mother fired the good coach. She got the girl placed in a training center in Colorado Springs with a coach who turned out to be a tyrant. He yelled at the girl constantly and even hit her now and again.”
    Kate thought for a minute and wiped her eyes. “Now, for some reason that no one could figure out, the girl could do triple jumps with no problems. For her, those moves were easy and they just