When It Rains by Glenna Maynard

and my breathing nearly ceases, but Audrey’s’ presence keeps me on solid ground.
    “Like what?” She squeezes my hand.
    I don’t want to talk about combat, so I focus on her, and what I have wanted to tell her since I remembered how we met. “Three years ago, before I joined the Army, I was at a bar, Dusty Rose’s.  I would go there and listen to a beautiful woman sing. I met this brown-haired girl, with gorgeous green eyes one night. She was hella drunk. Couldn’t hold her head up. I took her to her motel room, and got her to bed. I left never knowing her name, until recently. I regret not asking for your name and your number, because I met you first, and life might have turned out different if I hadn’t walked away.”
    “Cam, I don’t know what to say.”
    “That’s okay because I do.” I turn her face towards mine. Her eyes are sparkling with unshed tears. “I know you loved my brother and he loved you, but everything happens for a reason. Every choice, every word. They all mean something and set off the events that shape our lives. I would give anything to bring Joe back. I’d give anything to go back, and make you mine first when I had the chance. Maybe you were meant to be with Joe, but maybe you were meant to be with me too. I don’t know if I am explaining myself very well, but Audrey… I want you. I need you. You’re meant to be with me now, I can feel it in my bones.”
    “Did you feel it in your bones when you were fucking your easy lay against the wall. Don’t try to deny it. I heard you.” She’s jealous of me being with someone else. However, I don’t know what she’s referring to.
    “What? I don’t know what you are talking about. Audrey, I’ve not brought anyone home with me. I’ve not been with my ex in three years.”
    “When you first came home, your first night back, I was lying in bed. I heard you come in, you had a woman with you. You were both very vocal while you were fucking against the other side of my bedroom wall.”
    I can’t help but laugh. Trey and Cassie. I saw them leaving together from my parent’s house.
    “Why are you laughing?”
    “That had to of been Trey and Cass the night he proposed. He brought some boxes over, and she had the key to let him in,” I explain.
    “Well this just got awkward…,” she trails off.
    “Why?” I’m curious.
    She swallows and blushes looking away.
    “Tell me,” I demand, not letting her off easy.
    “I got jealous, but more than that…I touched myself while thinking of you, wishing it were me, being taken by you.” 
    I kiss her fingers. “No need to be embarrassed. I jack myself off in the shower every morning to thoughts of you. But I’m done fucking around Audrey. I want you and I intend to have you.” 
    I lean into her personal space not giving her a chance to run, or myself for that matter. Pushing her shirt from her shoulder, I kiss her bare skin, working my way up her neck, along her jaw, and to her sweet mouth, that feels like it was made for kissing me.
    Her tongue sweeps against mine, as her nipple presses into my arm. She straddles my lap, going all in with me.
    The wetness from her damp pants seeps into mine. I tell her to take them off and she complies. She sheds her shirt and her tank top as well, left in nothing but a pair of barely there lace panties.
    I pull her back down to my lap. Her pussy rubs against my erection and I about get off. If it weren’t for my jacking off so often here lately, I’d be nutting all in my pants right now.

Audrey
     
    I’m not thinking. Only feeling in this moment. Right now, Cam’s fingers on me feels pretty spectacular. His hands are large and rough as he rubs my back tenderly, reminding my body how good it is to be wanted and touched.
    His tongue brushes over my nipple before sucking it into his hungry mouth. I grind down on the prominent bulge in his pants, aching to ride him.
    With his mouth latched to my nipple, he picks me up as he stands. His hands are