“I want the truth, son.” Her stern voice caught me off guard, and my eyes flew to her.

“No, ma’am, I wouldn’t lie.” Blowing out a deep breath, his eyes bore into mine, never moving. “I got it when I was in high school, ma’am.”

“Go on,” Grams said as if she knew there was more to the story.

“When Vann left, I was pissed … beyond pissed … and went to her house.”

“You did?” I gasped in surprise.

“Yeah. I looked around the place, but mostly anything personal was gone. I happened to be standing by the dresser when something shiny caught my eye. I reached in the drawer and pulled this key out.” Deke’s hand instantly went to the key and began rubbing it. “I put it on that moment and haven’t taken it off once since.”

“You’ve worn that for five years?” I stared at him in shock.

Deke broke eye contact from me and looked down at the ground, embarrassed. “Yeah.”

Grams cut through the moment. “Do you know what that is, son?”

Deke’s eyes shot up to Grams. “No, ma’am. It was just something to keep Vann close.”

Seeing Deke’s chest begin to rise and fall rapidly, my heart swelled. I wanted to run over to him and jump in his arms, but I stayed put wanting to hear this.

Grams stepped back from Deke, and for the first time, she got really quiet when she spoke. “Vann’s granddaddy gave that to me when he had to leave for the service. I wore it for years ‘til he came home.”

Surprise hit me. “Grams, how do I not recognize this? If it was in my drawer, shouldn’t I know what it is?”

Grams looked at me, her eyes showing a bit of wetness trying to escape. “I never gave it to you. I gave it to your momma. I don’t know why ... no, I take that back, I do. She was going through some old stuff, and I told her it would give her good luck.”

That still didn’t explain anything. “Really. Then how was it in my drawer?”

“Baby girl, I have no idea, but it looks like it’s gotten good use over the years.” Grams’s smile beamed up at Deke. “And don’t you worry, I’m not asking for it back.”

“No disrespect, ma’am,” Deke said clutching the key. “I couldn’t give it back to you if I tried. Sorry.” I stood there in awe, part stunned, part so in love I couldn’t breathe.

Grams came up to me and wrapped her arms around me. “I like him,” she whispered in my ear.

“Me too,” I whispered back.

“I’ve gotta head out. Remember what you said, boy. You protect my girl.” Grams patted Deke on the arm.

Deke eyes drifted to me. “Yes, ma’am. I will.”

And just like a tornado, she’d stirred things up and left silence in her wake.

Deke

I couldn’t believe that Grams recognized the key around my neck. I’d worn it for so long that it was a part of me, just like Vann had been since we were kids, but I felt a bit tongue-tied in talking about it. Embarrassed a bit, but damn. When Vann first saw it and didn’t recognize it, I was relieved that I didn’t have to explain, but now the news was out.

I couldn’t help but love Grams. She did all my hard work for me in convincing her. Yes, I wanted Vann at my place, but that was for purely selfish reasons. I wanted her in my bed. I’d never had a woman there. Ever. But I wanted Vann.

“So, you think you’re gonna move in here?”

“Yep,” I said, pulling her into me. Wrapping my arms around her, I loved the way she molded to my body as if she was made for me. Bending down to her lips, I brushed mine softly against hers.

Cutting right to the chase, Vann whispered against my lips, “You’ve been wearing a key for five years to remind yourself of me, huh?”

“It appears so.”

“You weren’t gonna tell me?”

“Didn’t plan on it.”

“Why?”

“You’d think I was a pussy.”

Vann crushed her lips to mine before pulling away all too quickly. “Not a pussy at all big guy. I think it’s the sexiest …” Vann’s lips touched mine again. “… fucking thing …” And again. “I’ve heard …” Vann kissed me hard before pulling away. Damn if I didn’t want to pull her to me, but I needed to let her take the lead … for the moment.

“Really?”

“Yeah. Want me to show you just how sexy?”

I groaned. “Hell yeah.”

Vann’s breath hitched, and shit, I loved hearing that. My lips met hers, and the air around us turned like a switch going into need and want. After she rode me in her bedroom, I hadn’t been able to shake the hard-on I was left with. But I wanted to prove to her that she meant more to me than just sex.

I just didn’t know how long I could hold out. She was so damn irresistible and I’d waited five long, agonizing years to have her again. My body craved hers and right now it was in charge.

Reaching around, I laced my hands through her soft blonde hair angling her body to get deeper. She met me kiss for kiss, pulling and sucking me closer into her. Breaking away, she asked, “Where are Sawyer and Kinsley?”

“They left.”

“Good.” Vann dropped down to her knees in front of me. Just the sight alone made my cock grow painfully large. As she unbuckled my pants, she pulled my dick out and stroked it. Having Vann on her knees below me was the sexiest thing I’d ever seen.

Her strokes took me to another place in my head, the pleasure so intense I felt I could burst. Vann’s tongue darted out as she licked the underside of my cock, causing me to gasp. I’d had plenty of blowjobs in my day, but this … this was different.

Vann sucked me into her mouth, my dick touching the back of her throat. It took everything I had not to blow in that second. As she sucked, licked, and rubbed, it was like I was on another planet and didn’t want to return to Earth.

“Baby, I’m gonna come in your mouth if you don’t stop.” I looked down to see her beautiful blue-gray eyes looking up at me with a slight smirk on her lips. She continued to stroke and suck faster than before sending me in a downward spiral.

Grabbing the back of her head, my hips began to piston in her mouth. One ... two ... three … “Vann …” drawled out of my mouth as I came down her beautiful throat.

Looking down, Vann had swallowed every single drop I gave her and was now licking all the remnants off my cock. As our eyes met, Vann gave my dick a small kiss on the tip and stood to meet me.

Grabbing her, I devoured her mouth tasting myself on her, and I took more until she was withering underneath me. I laid her gently on the couch, falling on top of her.

My once sated dick was already getting hard again. I just couldn’t get enough of this woman, and I figured I would show her. Reaching down, I pulled her sweatpants down, ripping them away from her body.

“Deke,” she spoke, breathless.

“Yeah?”

“Please.”

“You got it, babe.”

Spreading her legs wide, I knelt down to feast on her beautiful pussy. I slid my tongue down each of her lips, sucking in her sweet taste. “You’re so wet, Vann.”

“Yes.”

My tongue began to stroke harder, finding every nook and nerve to hit. I ate her as if she was my last meal and I was a starving man. And I was about to die if I didn’t have her.

Vann’s hips began grinding against my tongue, her hands quickly finding my hair. I let her guide me exactly where she wanted me, and I sucked, licked, and tasted until she screamed my name. Her body responded by giving me a very sweet treat on my tongue.

“In. Now.” Looking up in Vann’s eyes, they were desperate and wanting. Shucking off my jeans the rest of the way, I kissed her hard, my cock just barely touching the lips of her pussy.

Vann’s hands gripped my ass, pushing me down to her. “It’s coming,” I teased.

“Now. Deke. Now,” she begged.

With that, I slammed into her all the way to my root, causing her to scream like I’d never heard her in my life. “God yes!”

As my body pounded into hers, I sucked in every word and moan that came out of her body. The fact that I was giving her this much pleasure was such a huge fucking turn on. I rose up so I could see Vann’s and my connection. Seeing myself glide deep in and out of her, combined with Vann’s look of pure enjoyment, spurred me to pump harder than I’d ever done before. I wanted Vann to come hard so she would never forget this moment.