The Compromise

Sid was jostled awake by the dinging sound from his phone. He quickly reached for it, hoping the sound didn't wake up Jessica and climbed out of bed. It was a text from Dan and it appeared that he sent it to the entire team.

"Tentative CBA reached. Looks like we will be practicing in a week boys!" Sid read the text several times then dialed his agent. Pat answered on the third ring.

"You're lucky I'm still awake."

"It's midnight where you're at and I'm sure you've got news to share."

"No practices can begin until a memorandum of understanding is signed. And that can take a few days. It's going to be about fifty games in about three months. Then playoffs. Short, but fast moving season. Think you can handle it?"

"Fuck yeah I can."

"Been staying in shape? No symptoms?"

"None. And I have been working nonstop so I am ready."

"Alright, we will talk again soon. Go back to bed. And congrats on the engagement! Mario told me."

"Thanks Pat. Have a good night."

Sid hung up and wandered back towards the bed where Jess was curled up under the sheets. She was lying on her side facing away from his side of the bed, her hair was splayed out on her pillow and the collar of his shirt had slipped down exposing her shoulder to him.

The news he had to share with her was worth waking her up he decided. He was too excited to keep it in and knew he wouldn't be able to sleep. At least they had nowhere to be the next morning. He climbed into bed with the biggest grin on his face. He gently pulled her to face him and leaned over her body and gingerly placed a kiss on her lips. Her moan into the kiss only egged him on further and he gently forced his tongue into her mouth as he rolled on top of her. She eagerly opened her legs and welcomed his weight.

He broke the kiss and ran his tongue along her jawline to her ear where he nibbled on fleshy lobe. His hands ran down her arms and across to grope her breasts through her shirt. Breathless, Jess shivered at the attention Sid was giving to her sensitive spots. "Mm, baby, what are you doing?" Sleep still filled her voice, but she was waking up quickly as her body responded to his actions.

Sid pulled away from Jess' neck, leaned up so he could look down at her and said, "Can't a guy get a little action from his girl in the middle of the night?"

"I suppose, but you were in a dead sleep then you were up and talking on your phone in the bathroom."

"Lockout is over," Sid said in a reverent whisper. It took a moment for the news to register, but when it finally did Jess proudly matched the excited smile Sid displayed, gripped the front of his shirt and aggressively pulled his lips back down to hers. His hands gripped her waist and he pulled her to lie on top of him, slanting his lips over hers. She let her tongue trace the outline of his luscious lips, slipping past his teeth, and his tongue began to duel hers for dominance.

She could feel him growing hard beneath her, and she undulated her hips, whimpering her approval when he thrusted back eagerly. In this position his hands could roam her body freely, one hand settling over her breast, testing its weight in his palm. His touch was like a tether to her core, and she could feel the familiar ache below her navel.

"Sid," she moaned, and he drew back, gazed at her raptly, his pupils fat with lust, his lips swollen from her kisses. "Fuck me."

He seemed to respond immediately to her demands, gripping her hips and forcefully flipping them over so that he could take control. He crushed his mouth to hers again, his hand weaving through her hair. Her fingers grazed up his sides, meandering across the sturdy plane of his chest, running her fingers down his shoulders. She holds him at arm's length and studies his muscled chest, the curve of his neck, his jawline and the perfect caramel color of his eyes shining down at her.

"Am I the only one going to be half naked here?" He teased, gathering her hair into his fist, drawing her lips to his for another lingering kiss. The wetness pooling between her legs emboldened her, and she reached down to grip his hard-on, eliciting a deep groan from Sidney.

“You’re not going to be half-naked for long,” she retorted playfully, working at the drawstring of his low-slung pajama bottoms. He helped her undo his pants and if she ever tired of seeing him without his shirt on she would need to get some sort of eye transplant. Seeing him completely naked undoes her completely. Her heartbeat accelerated, and she clamped her thighs together staring at his cock, fully erect and ready for her. Fuck, he was beautiful.

“You’re turn,” he murmured, licking his lips.

He watched her peel off her nightgown, and his eyes were a dark chocolate as they lowered to her breasts. She kept going, removing her panties and stood from the bed for him to soak in everything. He stepped towards her, his thumb tracing her exposed skin along her shoulder and she shuddered at the contact.

Sidney lowered his head and he ghosted his lips along the sensitive nub of her breast with his teeth. She keened softly and arched into his mouth, desperate for him to push her back onto the bed and take her.

“You’re exquisite Jess,” Sidney whispered as he continued his journey along her flat stomach, he felt a low rumble against his lips, “What?”

“I was just thinking the same thing about you.”

“Saying it, hearing it, it’s never going to get old,” Sid murmured as he stood in front of her. His hands cupped her ass and he urged her backwards. Her knees hit the mattress, and he guided her back onto the bed. His erection pokes at her thigh. And she mewled and shimmied her hips in a vain attempt to get him to settle his cock between her legs. He drew back, a mischievous glint in his darkening irises.

“Not yet,” he reprimanded, one finger drawing lazy circles around her navel. Lowering his mouth to her abdomen, his tongue following the path his finger just took, and then continued upwards, climbing her ribcage, slipping under the curve of her breast, before he licked her nipple back to a taut peak before sucking it into his mouth. His right hand gently kneaded her other breast.

She cried out and arched her back off the mattress, his tongue rolling and teasing and working her into a frenzy. Fuck, he knew how to get her wet by toying with her breasts.

Her eyes rolled back and her breaths slow to shallow rasps as his tongue laved across her other nipple, but his hand settled between her thighs, probing the damp heat. When his hand began to probe her swollen clit, her legs bowed open to the side, opening herself fully to him.

“Do you know how incredibly sexy you look right now?” he growled into her ear, tugging her lobe in between his teeth.

All she can manage is a strangled cry. His fingers seemed determined to get her to a swift climax, moving purposefully and expertly over her swollen bundle of nerves, his touch so so much better than her own. As he kissed along her collarbone, up her neck to claim her mouth again, the tension in her belly crested, and her entire body seized, overcome by wave after wave of bliss. She mumbled his name against her lips, and she felt them lift in a smile as he broke away and gazed down at her.

“I love the sounds you make when I get you off,” he murmured, his palm splayed over his breastbone. He had to feel the erratic thrum of her heart, struggling to recover from her orgasm. He shifted down, his cock grazing her belly as he does, and placed his hands on her upper thighs, his mouth poised at her entrance.

“What are you doing?” she gasped.

He grinned, his warm breath fanned across her soaked core, “Making you come again. Is that a problem?”

“Ohhhhhh…god…” she bit her lip, as his tongue swirled through her arousal, seeking out her clit, “Sidney…”

“Mmm?”

“I want to make you feel good too.”

He issued one last slow lick and lifted his head to look at her. “Jess, I am so fucking hard for you right now that honestly, I don’t know how long I am going to last when I finally get inside you. So let me have my way with you first.”

Any further protests stilled on her lips when he latched onto her and flicked his tongue back and forth on her clit. His arms pin her down, and within seconds, she felt the pleasure mounting once more. Heat flooded her veins and blotches of color obscure her vision when it became too much and she succumbs to another orgasm.

She lay quiet for several moments before she spoke. “Can I…”

“Can you what?”

“Can I touch you?”

He released a shaky breath. “Another time. I need you around me baby, okay?”

“Yeah…more than okay,” she whispered. He chuckled quietly and covered her trembling body with his, peppering her temples and cheeks with soft kisses. She is so deliciously sated from her first two climaxes that when he tilted her pelvis up to him, and slowly entered her, the sensation of being stretched and filled by him inch by inch further sends her spiraling into oblivion. The satisfied groan that erupted from his throat thrilled her, and as he started pumping in and out of her, she screwed her eyes shut and let him take command, her fingers digging into his shoulder blades.

Jessica…look…at…me…” he said between thrusts.

Lazily, she raised her eyelids and met his impassioned gaze.

“There you are,” he whispered with a sluggish smile, “Stay with me.”

Their gazes were still locked when his hips began to falter. Quickly, he snaked his hand down to her clit, drawing out a whimper from her. As she felt herself start to ride out a third orgasm, he gave a final thrust before his cock throbbed inside her, and her walls pulsed around him.

He collapsed, bracing his weight with his forearms. “Oh…fuck, Jess,” her name left his lips in a sibilant hiss, and she vined her arms around his neck , clutching him to her.

“Honestly, it gets better every time,” Jess ran her fingers through Sid’s unruly hair. Sid laughed into her neck and nodded in agreement.

“Even better than when we got engaged,” Sid said. “Or the three days we spent ‘sight-seeing’ in New York.”

“Now I wouldn’t go that far. Remember that thing we tried in the hotel?” Jess tugged on his hair to get him to look at her. She wiggled her eyebrows at him which made him giggle.

“Seriously though, the prospect of the start of the season turned you on?”

“No, I was wide awake. And you looked delicious lying in our bed.”

“Mmm, can we go back to sleep now?”

Sid contemplated this, and then smiled smugly. “What if I want you again?”

“You made me come three times in less than an hour, but you wouldn’t let me reciprocate. You could have had yours more than once." She pushed at his heavy frame to escape his embrace. He pulled her backside against him and curled around her naked frame.

"Things are going to get crazy now, huh?" Jess whispered. She entwined her fingers with his.

"Yeah, just a little bit. There won't be many days off, but the travel will only be within the Eastern conference. So while it will be busy, I won't be on crazy long distance road trips."

"Will you be around to help with the wedding?"

"If I'm not, we can FaceTime and text and everything. I don't want you to get overwhelmed with this. We agreed nothing big."

"Yeah, I know. I just don't want to make a decision and think you will hate it."

"Babe, I am just happy to be marrying you. I am going to love anything you plan for that day. Now go to sleep. I don't know about you but I do not intend on moving from this bed at all tomorrow."

"You mean later today? That sounds like a great idea." Jess pressed back against Sid's chest and let sleep overcome her again.

However, the next day wasn't spent in bed, lounging around. Instead Jess found herself in the kitchen with a makeshift office set up as Sid sat in his office going over the legality of everything involved in the new CBA. She couldn't be mad, it was her last day of break and she needed to get her lesson plans done. But she found herself looking around online for anything that stuck out to add to her list if possible wedding ideas.

She was looking at wedding dresses when Sid walked in. She didn't hear him until the fridge opened and she hurriedly closed out of the site she was on. And he was so zoned out that he didn’t even acknowledge Jess more than a quick kiss on her cheek and he was off again to his office. Jess sighed; she wasn’t going to let herself get frustrated. This will be Sid’s first season without injury in nearly three years. She was happy he was so excited. She watched his retreating form as her phone dinged with a message.

As an afterthought she glanced down to see a message from James. “What the hell does he want?” Jess asked quietly to herself. She read the message, and then read it again. He wanted to talk and was back in Pittsburgh. Jess looked back at the closed office door, shut down the computer in front of her and hopped off the barstool. She threw on her boots, grabbed her keys and without disrupting Sid headed towards the garage to climb in her car. Within minutes she was heading south towards James without a bit of trepidation.

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