Welcome back ya beautiful humans. What's the time at your end?

Previously: Jayden and Lara are in the Lakehouse, and it's the last day of their no sexual activity rule.

This song is absolutely soothing. And her voice is bloody amazing. Play whenever you want to. You'll love it.

CHAPTER 45- UP ALL NIGHT

Walking into a beautifully designed, spacious bedroom which had been partially illuminated by the orange light from the hallway, Jayden, with Lara still on his back, walked towards the bed and sat at the edge of it.

And while he expected Lara to detach herself from his back, she rather wrapped her legs around his waist and placed her head on his back as she wrapped her arms around his chest.

"Look who's feeling cuddly," Jayden chuckled as he placed his hands on her calves. He proceeded to untie her right sneaker laces, then pulled off the sneaker. He did the same for her other leg as she remained put at his back.

"Your hands are cold," Lara mentioned once he pressed her bare feet with his hands, "Did you stick your hands into some freezer or something?"

Jayden got to his feet and turned to face her. He then pulled her parted jean-clad legs so her rear was at the edge of the bed but anchored by his firm posture. The sudden pull traced chills down the length of her spine.

"I should stick them into something warm then," he murmured, intensely holding her gaze.

"I wonder what," Lara's eyes translated suspicion as his striking deep blue eyes began to roam her entire body.

A tingling sensation crawled its way up her inner thighs, provoked not just because he was looking at her body, but by the manner in which he did.

His torturing gaze lingered over the spots on her body he knew when touched, came to life immediately, as his devious, sneaky tongue sensually ran across the soft layer of his lower lip.

"You're not allowed to," Lara hesitated, "do that."

"Do what?" his eyes, now filled with amusement, returned to hers.

Lara wondered which had been worse; him looking at her body or staring right into her eyes.

"What, look at you?" he asked amusedly.

"There's a difference between simply looking and ogling. You were ogling."

"You're fully clothed," he jokingly argued.

"That's not a good excuse. For all I know, you," she nervously added with a hand gesture, "you were undressing me with your gaze."

"A simple gaze made you feel that way?" surprise was evident in his voice as he went on to suggest, "Maybe we should extend our thirty-day rule to sixty."

Lara tried to push his chest with her foot but he gripped her thighs immediately, provoking another rush of sensation up her thighs, as he leaned in and murmured close to her ear, "What happened to your speech?"

"It's waiting for an hour," she gulped, his alluring scent contributing to her arousal.

Jayden withdrew his head from her ear so he was face to face with her. "Counting down?"

Still enduring the mental twirl his closeness and scent had thrust her in, she responded, "I set the alarm on my phone hours ago. Nine pm it was when we made this rule. Nine pm it shall be broken."

"Alright."

Jayden joined her on the bed and lay right beside her with a hand behind his head. He joined his slender fingers with her dainty ones, and commented after a while of deep thinking, "You know, I'm really glad we did this."

"I never thought we'd even last three days," Lara confessed with a giggle, "I was like, a week at most. But we actually did it. I feel so accomplished, and I'm not in any rush to break this."

"I wasn't a hundred percent sure it would bring us closer, to be honest," Jayden turned to look at her as she stared at the ceiling with a smile. "But now I feel closer to you than I've ever before," he murmured, "I don't need to kiss or fondle you to feel a connection. I feel it right here," he placed his hand on his chest, dragging Lara's hand since her fingers had been entwined with his, and Lara smiled wider.

"We developed our relationship," she said, returning his gaze, "And we respected our given boundaries. I'm proud of us," she squeezed his hand. "I'm proud of how we know everything about each other now. I'm proud to know you're so scared of roaches."

"I'm not scared of roaches," Jayden chuckled when she began to laugh, "I said I dislike them very much. Who likes roaches?"

"Not everyone freaks out when they see a cockroach," she countered.

"We've never been in that situation before. How do you know I freak out?" he watched as she silently throbbed with laughter. "I keep my surroundings very clean. The roaches dislike me as much as I do, them."

Lara cleared her throat as she held his gaze with a mischievous smile, "Well, it's nice to know you're also scared of cats."

"All I said was, I'm more of a dog person," Jayden lifted himself so his face was right above hers while placing a hand beside her head with his dark blue eyes fixed on her brown ones. He stated in such an alluring manner, "You sure do love teasing me."

She bit her lip, "But I love dogs more. My birthday will be here before you know it, mister."

"I'll get you anything you want," he said even though his, would come before hers.

"You spoil me," she slowly gripped the front of his black shirt, refusing to return his gaze as she had already begun to ache for his lips against hers, against her delicate skin and against every part of her body.

Jayden felt it too, the torturing ache to do the lip biting for her, to caress and please her unconditionally.

"I wasn't in any rush before," Lara murmured, staring at his lips which were an inch away as his face closed in on hers, "But all I can think about right now is kissing you."

"I feel the same way," he murmured, tracing his eyes from her lips to her eyes which hadn't yet returned his gaze.

She continued, "Some point during the past month, I thought we had lost our passion. We were lying down on my bed and you embraced me from behind. I was content. I didn't want anything more. I just wanted the embrace. And I could feel your content too."

Jayden adjusted himself so his elbows penetrated the sheets at either side of her arms as he cupped her face with both hands. "You make me content. I feel complete with you by my side," he caressed her lower lip with his thumb, "Everything with you feels great and I'm very serious about this. About us. I want this."

"Me too..." she whispered, closing her eyes to savour the sensuality of his actions and his closeness.

She wanted it too. She had not felt this way about any other person before.

After a brief moment of silence, Jayden needed to let her know. "I... I honestly don't know if this is too soon but," he paused, "Okay, here goes," he inhaled, and exhaled.

"Lara, I- I think I love you."

Her eyes flew open immediately the l-word had escaped his lips. It was the first time he had mentioned it to her in that context. Her heart threatened to explode as her flesh trembled beneath his contact with her tummy.

He searched her eyes for nothing in particular. Maybe his heart raced because the last person he had told this had cheated on him with her ex.

And he needed to be sure the next person he would tell would not break his heart.

"I- I-" Lara stammered.

She knew she loved him from the moment she had been willing to do things she wouldn't have done for any other man. And even though she had felt humiliated during that one strip down, she had not realized that she had loved him more for not taking advantage of her and her situation.

"Jayden, I've known for a while now that I love you. Hey, I could get in trouble with your mum for being with you. Every single day we risk her finding out. Yet, here I am, far away from home, on this bed with you, her precious son."

When he smiled adorably, she continued, "I don't go to sleep without thinking of you."

"Because I'm mostly right there beside you," he chuckled, his crystal blue eyes glinting with comfort as she chuckled as well.

"Also," she added, "I'm glad you felt comfortable enough to tell me everything about your past. Everything. I know it wasn't easy for you."

"I'm glad you didn't walk away once I did. You have no idea how much that means to me."

"Your past is your past," she told him, "You don't live there anymore."

"I'm certa-" Jayden was interrupted by the alarm that went off on Lara's phone. "Is that-"

"Yes, it is," she held his questioning gaze. "It's over," she beamed.

Their sexual abstinence rule had come to an end.

***

"I'm pretty sure Jayden's helping our little virgin out in that department," said Brie who had just walked out of the shower in a towel that barely covered her butt.

Her thin brown hair, wet from the forty-minute long shower, clung to her scalp as tiny drops slid down her narrow forehead.

Katy sighed, picking up her towel to go shower, "Took you long enough."

"Have you seen this body? I need all the time I can get."

"You would have dragged me out if I spent more than fifteen minutes in there." Katy tied her dark chestnut brown hair in a neat bun.

"Whatever, Katy," Brie snickered, unwrapping the towel from her slender body as she placed her foot on her unlaid bed and began to wipe her long legs.

"Jayden and Lara," Brie continued, "D'you think Lara would do it?"

"I don't know, Brie," Katy replied indifferently, her light blue eyes as emotionless as a fuckboy being raided by a girl he played. "It's none of my business."

"What's gotten into you?" Brie asked suspiciously, "Dana and Emma are rubbing off on you, huh? What's with the fake 'good girl' attitude?"

Katy sighed. "I'm going to shower."

"I miss Lara, and it's only been a day," Brie commented, rolling her eyes at Katy's disappearance into the bathroom.

Brie sauntered to her pillow-side and grabbed her phone. She glanced in the direction of the bathroom, and when she had heard the shower running, she opened 'Camera' and took a video of her naked self, saying,

"Miss me?" she smirked as she slowly, seductively ran the phone down her perky apples and neatly waxed punani.

When she was satisfied with the video, she hit, Send to JB.

***

"We actually did it," Lara beamed, "Thirty months of sexual abstinence is-"

"Thirty months?" Jayden cut in, "Lara, let's not make impossibilities possibilities, now, okay?"

Lara burst into laughter beneath Jayden's upper body as she corrected herself, "Days! I mean days."

When he jokingly dropped his head beside her face with his hand still cupping her other cheek, she spoke,

"But I think we'll be able to do thirty months."

His dark tresses played with her cheek as he shook his head, "Two and a half years without being able to even kiss you? No."

"What if it's a long distance?" she began to stroke his hair, the motion causing her arm to graze his that had been stretched over her bosom to squeeze her cheek.

He drew his lips to her ear as he responded to her question, "Phone sex."

Her chest tightened and her breath hitched.

Jayden noticed and murmured, "Do you like dirty talk?"

"We're only," she began to tear herself away from him as she transitioned herself into a sitting position beside him, with him turning to face her, still lying down, "a few seconds into our post- thirty-day rule and you're already getting it on," she continued.

"I'm simply answering your questions," he shrugged, keeping his eyes on her.

"You're such a tease," Lara shook her head and pulled out her hairband from her very loose ponytail, lustrous dark hair running down the length of her back.

Jayden was just about to run his fingers through the ends of her locks from where he was lying when she swiftly turned towards him and unexpectedly straddled him.

"You're such a tease, have you met me?" she asked.

Jayden propelled himself up so he was resting on his elbows, curious as to what she had meant by that.

She sneakily got closer to him so her lips were grazing his neck as she breathed, "I like me some dirty talk if it's coming from you."

Jayden played her game and murmured back, "I know what else will be cumming if you keep this up."

"Will it be cumming inside me?" Lara continued.

But when she felt his body tense up beneath her touch, she proceeded to get off Jayden as she began to laugh hysterically, "Gosh, I can't. I can't do it, I'm terrible and very nervous," she giggled.

Jayden remained silent about his turn on and lopsidedly grinned at Lara who was now silently laughing at the other side of the bed in a kneeling position, hands covering her mouth.

"You really are a tease," he said.

She teased him with some lip biting and chuckled right after.

He asked, "So we've accomplished our thirty-day goal. What now?"

"You tell me," she shrugged, brushing some fallen strands behind her ear. "You set the rule."

"Now it's over," he slowly approached her across the bed to her side of the bed.

"So?" she asked.

Jayden got close enough to draw her close to him. He pulled her so she was now sitting on his lap with her knees bent at either side of his thighs as she reflexively attached her palms to his shoulders.

The sudden tug sent her heart racing from her chest to her core.

With his hands snaking around her hips and backside, he swiftly confessed in a whisper, "I'm dying to kiss you."

His words had such an effect on her. It made her skin tremble with cravings and intense ache.

She drew her hands from his shoulders to his neck, and with her gaze never detaching itself from his, she permitted,

"Kiss me."

***

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