Brian’s POV
How come that asshole had his hands on my wife the very second I turned my back to them? And why was Amy so perceptive to it? I stopped to stare at the two playing around in the pool. If I was completely honest, maybe it wasn’t as bad as my mind was trying to make it now, but tell that to my fucking heart. Every fiber of my being wanted to drag Amy out of the pool, into my car, far away from all the prying eyes of my friends, but especially from that one friend.

Zack had always been my wingman, the one that was my true friend, like always. And we had rules. Once one of us claimed a woman, there was no way the other would make a move on them. It was just not done. So why was he now? I made my claim on Amy… I mean, how much more are you able to claim a woman than to put a ring on her finger?

They were having too much fun. Too much fucking fun. I was about to jump in myself, just to sling Amy over my shoulder and get her out of the greedy hands of Vengeance. Just as I was really about to take the plunge, Amy looked around as if she was looking for something and then swam to the side, getting out of the pool at the little ladder. Her dress was clinging to her body and she looked hot as sin. I could only stare, noticing that her hands moved to the hem, slowly stripping off the dress.

“Lord, have mercy” Jason groaned next to me.
“Excuse me?!” I shot him an angry look, making him smirk at me.
“What, Haner? You might have put a ring on her, but we all know that will be off again soon enough. Better check the merchandise out before she gets on the market again. It would be a total shame let her go back to Phoenix. A body like that belongs in the Cali sun!”

I felt the anger boil over “You can’t be fucking serious” I hissed at him “That’s my wife you are talking about!”
“Yeah, sure… Wife” he laughed, before he turned away, but not before he called out to Amy “HEY AMY! LOOKING MIGHTY FINE, WOMAN!” and with that he left for the table, long before I could give him the black eye I was so longing to present to him. I let out a huff, what the fuck is wrong with my friends today? This whole BBQ was a really, really bad idea.

My feet moved on their own accord and only stopped before I was right in front of Amy, who was sitting on the sunbed, drying her hair and skin with a large towel.
“Hey” she smiled up to me “That was so unplanned, but soooo much fun” She was beaming and that truly happy smile of hers made me lose all other emotions instantly. I sat on the sunbed next to her, and took the towel from her, taking over the driving of her hair.

It felt good to take care of her, and it even felt better as soon as she started to let out little moans when I softly massaged her scalp.
“That feels amazing Brian, please don’t stop” her voice was only a whisper, but I could clearly hear the bliss in it. And just like that the whole world disappeared and left us, just us. I put the towel over her shoulders and she turned to me “Thank you”
My hand moved to her cheek and I caressed it, her skin was so soft and I could barely control myself to let my hands wander lower than the neck I had put my hand on now. Amy looked at me expectantly and closed her eyes as she stretched her neck, her lips only an inch removed from mine.

My mouth found hers and our lips were calmly moving, exploring, nipping, just kissing. Her hands moved to my hair and I put mine around her body, being able to pull her closer to me.
“FOOD’S READY!” I registered someone calling something out, but I had no idea of the meaning of the words, the only thing that counted was Amy… My beautiful Amy.
“NO MAKING OUT! EATING!” Still I had no intention of stopping what I was doing. Eating? No need, My hunger for food had subsided for a hunger for something completely different. I didn’t need steak. I only needed Amy.

“Come on! That goes for you too, Haners!” Before I could stop it, Amy and I were pulled apart. She was in Zack’s arms, and I was lifted by Dan.
“Put me down! You can’t just pick me up like that!”
“Pfff” Dan huffed “I lift things way more heavy than you, Gates”

He only put me down when we reached the table, where Amy was already seated by Zack, next to Zack. Oh come on!
“Scram Vengeance, your sitting in my spot!” I stood next to his chair, waiting for him to make room for me.
“There is another seat on the other side of her, you can sit there” Zack didn’t even grant me a look, but just continued to play with a strand of Amy’s hair. I growled, not able to keep it in anymore, with friends like that… who needed enemies!
“I KNOW I can sit on her other side, I just don’t want YOU to sit next to her, so get out of here!”

“Brian!” Amy reached her hand out to me and led me to her other side, forcing me to sit down. She bend to me and spoke in a hushed voice “What is going on? Why does it seem like you are jealous?”
Oh that amazing nativity of hers, did she really not know? Did she really not see that this wasn’t pretend? I was jealous and not even a little bit, it was of consuming dimensions. Her hand was giving comforting strokes on my thigh and as soon as I let go of the tension, she pecked my cheek “See, that is so much better, relax a little” Another small kiss “I’m going to get food, shall I bring you too?” Her voice was the most amazing melody to my ears and that smile. That could melt the north AND the south pole. I nodded and she walked off to where the food was put out.

I moved one seat and punched Zack’s shoulder to get his attention “Why are you putting moves on Amy? I thought we had a deal?” Zack raised his brow as if he didn’t know what I was talking about. “If one of us puts a claim on a girl, the other will stop pursuing?” I reminded him.
A devious smile came over his face “I thought that only counted when there were feelings involved. We never agreed on that with one night stands”
“Can’t you fucking count?! Amy isn’t a one night stand!”
He seemed to think about that for a moment “Ah well” he replied casually “A one night stand is just a term, you don’t have feelings for her right? So she is fair game”

My fists were clenched so hard only white was to be seen, I drained all the blood from them.
“She is not fair game! What the fuck is wrong with you?! I thought you were my fucking best friend!! I need to pretend to have a relationship with her, you constantly hitting on her isn’t helping. Not helping at all!”
“But it’s only pretend. You can’t expect of us to not gawk at her, she is fucking beautiful, she has a body for the Cali sun, you have to admit to that”
“That was what Jason said too! You guys are completely out of control!”
Zack let out a knowing smile “I might have encouraged Jason to flirt with her”
“Why the hell would you do that?! Stay the fuck away from my wife!”

Anger had fully taken over me now and I searched for Amy, maybe looking at her would calm me down. Maybe seeing her smile would prevent me from turning this BBQ into a wrestling match. But when I finally found her in the line, it only made me more angry. Jason was telling jokes and Amy laughed real loud. A laugh that I felt was only mine was directed at another man and I was sure my face was turning green.

“Do you have feelings for her, Brian?” Zack’s voice broke me out of my thoughts and I snapped my head at him
“What? I… No! Of course not!” I avoided his eyes and looked at my hands.
“You are a liar” He stated calmly and something in his voice made me look up at him “You claim that your friends are not being friends, but what about you? You are lying to us. But even worse… you are lying to yourself and to her. And look where it gets you…”

He stood up from his seat and looked down on me.
“You know what? It’s fine you lie to me, but don’t lie to her. She might be the best thing ever happened to you and you are letting her go because you are too fucking stubborn!”

And with that he left me alone with my thoughts. That fucking bastard!

Sara’s POV
“So you have a dog?” I smiled at the man next to me. To say he was handsome would be the understatement of the year. He was definitely delicious, his face radiated happy and that body… He was even more muscled than Matt and damn, that was an accomplishment.
“Yeah… A Husky. Her name is Nala” He whipped out his phone and showed pictures of her like a proud dad. “I’ve started this Instagram account out of her name. People are so enthusiastic. It’s real fun to do”

“He is always walking around taking pictures, at one point we had to make some agreements that he wouldn’t upload every fucking picture he took, there were some embarrassing ones” Matt chuckled behind me. I leaned against his chest and he had his arms wrapped around me. We all had taken place on the beach and a bonfire had been built, burning brightly now. Everyone was hanging out, trying to take a load off after all the food we ate.
“It wasn’t that bad. I have a filter, you know” he looked at me “I didn’t put every picture on and if one of them was on it, I always asked. But hey… who wanted to have the pictures online now, huh?”

He smiled wildly when Matt flipped him off. I know the plan was that Dan would make some pictures during the BBQ and post them, just to show some of the Haner couple. The guys said it would be the best way to get the word out, the fans ate that stuff up like crazy. So that was what he was doing all night, but I caught him taking pictures of Matt and me too “Did you put the other pictures on Instagram too? Or only the ones of the happy couple?”
“Which happy couple, hun? You have to be a little more specific” he smirked as he looked from me to Matt. I wasn’t really sure what I thought of that. Was I ready to be the mighty M. Shadows’ girlfriend? It was okay when we were among us, but I wasn’t sure if I wanted to come out to the whole world yet.

To buy me some time I looked around this group of friends, everyone was talking quietly, or just staring at the fire. I saw Zack sitting close to Amy, quietly talking, while Brian was on her other side, with a little more distance. His face had all the signs of a thunderstorm and I was wondering what went up his ass this time. Why did he have such a big chip on his shoulder? I wasn’t particularly fond of the guy, but it was intriguing to me how he could be part of this group and still be such a loner.

And there was another thing that had my attention. For my profession it was important to see how people responded to my proposals of changes within their companies. I had learned a long time ago that those messages weren’t only send with words, definitely not. The most information you could get from their body language, but Brian’s confused me.

When he was with Amy, he looked truly happy and then there was this bit of his huge jealousy that made me believe he wasn’t just keeping her on as his wife because Larry told him too. But on the other hand. There were so many signs he didn’t like whatever was around him. I just didn’t get it and it frustrated me to the bone.

I leaned back to Matt again and saw Dan had left, this was as good a time as any.
“Babe?” I turned my head to look at him and when he bend down to kiss my lips, I gladly accepted his tongue that was lazily wrestling with mine. The slow sensual kiss made me lose my train of thoughts again, and I completely forgot what I was about to ask him.
“Yes?” Matt smirked as he broke our kiss, bringing all my thoughts back to my brains.

“Did Brian talk to you about Amy?” No sense in beating around the bush, I needed to get answers. A tiny bit to satisfy my own curiosity, but definitely to be able to help Amy. I knew she must be going crazy about all of this.
“You really want to talk about the Haners, while we could be doing this?” His hand moved over the side of my body and he cupped my breasts over my dress, letting his thumbs go over my puckered nipples. “Or this” he bend his head to place small, torturing kisses down my neck, while his right hand moved further down.

“Matt…” I tried to warn him to stop, but my try was more like a plea to continue. He chuckled against my neck and his breath and the vibration caused me to shiver all the way down my spine. Knowing this night was slowly coming to an end had me on high alert in every possible way. We had kept our promise, we stayed away from each other, or at least… we didn’t end up closing ourselves in his room, but the others leaving started to get overdue.
“Matt… I really… Want to…” I tried to get back to the subject, but that was when Amy and Brian got up, followed by Zack and I knew every attempt would be futile.

“We’re leaving” Amy kissed my cheek and I got a hug from both Brian and Zack, awkward from the first. They left through the back yard and were quickly followed by Johnny, Lacey, Arin and Kimberley. Hugs, kisses and a lot of promises to meet again the next day were exchanged.

While Matt walked to the door with the Berrys and Dan, I quickly took of my dress and slid into the pool. It was still nice and warm and so beautifully lit, I couldn’t resist.
“Babe? Where are you? Finally alone! Let’s get to bed!” Matt came rushing outside, but stopped dead in his tracks when he saw my head immerging out of the water and I pushed my wet hair back.

“Holy… fuck… Sara” He whispered, his voice full of unsatisfied lust, already heading towards the pool. He kicked away his flip flops and drew the shirt over his head. That man was gorgeous and I couldn’t help but bite my lip, my legs automatically rubbing together. There was no way I would be able to control myself now.

Matt dived into the pool with an elegant dive and emerged out of the water, right in front of me. I immediately felt his large hands on my sides and he gently pushed me to the side of the pool.
“You have been driving me completely crazy today” He whispered against my lips, before enclosing them with his, taking over my mouth without asking.

The kiss was broken again and we were both breathing heavy “Same goes to you, Mr. Sanders”. He smiled widely, letting out the dimples and I sighed. “You are so damn gorgeous, how could I have ever landed a man like you?”
“I could say the same about you” he winked. There was no way I would get a serious answer out of him the rest of the night, he was in a playful mood, but hey, hadn’t we both, all day?

Matt’s left arm wrapped around me even more tightly, while he let the right one run over my face to caress me, while he pushed himself to me even closer. There was no denying his arousal now and I couldn’t wait to welcome him inside me. I had waited way too long.

“Matt…” I moaned while I slung my legs around his waist, my arms draped over his shoulders, staring into those hazel eyes when our mouths found each other once again
“I want you so bad” I murmured into our kiss.

“Good, because there is no way I’m waiting now.” He squeezed my ass first before he pulled the strings of my bikini bottoms and pulled them away between us, triumphantly slinging them over his head to the side of the pool. Then I felt his hand in between again, his thumb brushing my clit, before he briefly pinched it, sending a new wave of desire right through me.
“Please… Matt…” I begged. My reward came immediately when he slipped his cock into me. I don’t know how he got his shorts down that fast, but there was no complaining from me at this point.

Matt bit my earlobe before he panted right next to my ear. Feeling his erratic breaths on my skin pushed me even further to the edge and I was so close already. This teasing all day had me so wound up that all I actually needed was his cock inside of me, pushing all the right buttons while he was pounding me.

The water was gushing around us and I could feel my orgasm near. I found Matt’s eyes and he attacked my mouth while he let his hips come down on me harder and faster. When my climax finally came I could only gasp of air, which Matt happily provided, together with his hot cum.

“That was…” He breathed, his forehead against mine.
“Yeah” I smiled as I put my head on his shoulder, satisfied but feeling more want building up inside of me already. I was sure this had only been the beginning.

Notes

Here is another chapter for you guys, sorry for the delay, we need to play catch up a little! :-)