Ayanna Heart

"Angel," Carson's voice rang through the room as I got ready in the closet. "We'll be back. Dominic and I are going to go help mom's with something."

"Did be just say mom's ?" Elizabeth questioned as she stopped curling her hair.

He did just say mom's— oh my god.

"Look at that blush."Jora squealed as she brought the phone closer to her face. " Awww, our girl is in looove."

I hid my face with my palms as Carson came towards the door of the closet.

"Baby, did you hear what I said?"

"Baby." Sade mouthed as he walked closer towards me.

He crouched down and gripped my neck, making me stare up at him. " I heard you," I reply as he stares down at me. He shakes his head as a lopsided grin forms on his face.

Carson brings his lips onto mine, nipping my bottom lip before he pulls away. I pucker my lips up one last time, silently asking for another kiss.

He lets out a breathy chuckle before obliging me and getting up." Hey girls," He greets my friends that are all probably making kissy faces at the camera.

"Hey Carson!" They all sing out as he waves at them.

"You better be taking good care of our girl Carson, or so help me god." Rhegan squinted her eyes at him as he stood up and walked away backwards.

"I got this Rhegan, I got it." He pushed out his arms in exaggeration before turning around and exiting the closet.

I bit down on my bottom lip to help keep my smile at bay as I got ready.

Once I heard the elevator door close and the motors start to make noise, I quickly stood up and took off my robe.

"Oh,Hot momma!" Sky yelled as I set up the phone for a better angle.

"Do you think that he's going to like it?" I question as I check out the lingerie in the mirror. I ran my finger along the curve of the bustier bra, the lace tickled the pad of my fingers as I stepped back.

"He better be on his fucking knees for you,"Elizabeth stated as the others nodded their heads in approval.

"Begging. On his knees begging." Rhegan added in as Sade and Skylar shook their heads in agreement.

"I'm pretty sure Ayanna will be too busy trying to get into his favorite sex position instead," Jora cackled as we all remembered that one faithful night.

That one night that brought our groups together.

"Oh yeah," Skylar said as if she just had a flashback of that night." Just from seeing that, i'm sure he'll have her seeing the holy ghost."

My stomach clenched as I laughed uncontrollably. Holding my stomach, I stood up and pulled out my dress for tonight. My laughter hadn't yet died down since the girls were still cracking jokes.

I looked at the time to see that I had an hour left to get ready. The guys got ready before me since they had to leave earlier to help.

I finished my makeup up by lining my lips and swiping over a lipstick. I brushed through the curls and sprayed some hair spray.

I stood up and washed my hands, I was wearing white tonight and didn't need any makeup smudges on my dress. After drying my hands off, I carefully stepped into the dress and zipped it up.

I grabbed a pair of silver heels and stepped into them as I turned towards the camera.

"Okay, what do we think?" I do a little spin as they all come into the camera.

Since Paris was six hours ahead of New York, Christmas was technically coming to an end for Rhegan while the rest of us were getting ready for our evenings.

We tried to get her to show us our gifts but the bitch wasn't budging.

"You look so beautiful, Yaya." Rhegan gushed as I smoothed the dress down.

It was a white long sleeve mini dress with a square neckline. My other option was a strapless mini dress, but it wouldn't have hid the lingerie underneath.

"Definitely future NBA wifey material." I rolled my eyes as the others agreed to Sade's comment.

"We'll be the hottest NBA wives on the court side," I said as I put on my jewelry. I adjusted the necklace around my neck before grabbing my phone.

"I'll just be the hot best friend," Jora said as she sipped on some kind of concoction.

I had rolled my eyes so much this entire conversation that I was surprised they weren't stuck.

"Jora, my brother may be dumb, but he is not that dumb. Now I don't condone whatever the fuck he has going on right now," Skylar waved her hands around as if to prove her point.

"But I do know that if he sees someone else with something he wants, he will do everything in his power to get it back, and keep it. You just have to beat him at his own game."

"Make him cry, make him beg, make him realize that you won't wait around for him. Make him want to chase you."

"Amen to that," Sade said as she laid her flat iron down.

"And you just need to give poor Derrick a chance, the man is trying his fucking hardest for you Sade." I added sternly.

He was like a lost puppy dog pining for her attention. It was sad— but kind of cute at the same time. He was the man that Sade deserved.

"I'll think about it," She shrugged as if she hadn't already thought about it.

"Just give the poor guy a chance S," Elizabeth practically pleaded."He's on his knees at this point."

"Honestly."

After spritzing on some perfume and grabbing my coat. I listened to the girls try to convince Sade to get with Derrick. I chimed in my two cents here and there before we all eventually were ready and dressed.

The face time ended a few minutes before the elevator chimes indicating that they were back. I made sure that the lights in the room were off before walking out.

I met him at the bottom of the stairs, he looked as if he was going through a stroke.

His eyes were wide and his lips were parted slightly. He had blinked three times before holding out his hand for me.

"You look beautiful, Ayanna." He all but whispered as I stepped in front of him.

"And you look handsome wonder bread."I say as I dust off the shoulders of his sweater. My eyes finally meet his, my breathing hitches as I try to cipher the emotions swimming through his eyes.

"What's wrong?" I question as my fingertips brush his hair back.

"Nothing at all." He swallows, his voice all of a sudden hoarse." You're just beautiful is all."

And there he goes, making me blush for the thousandth time today.

"Stop it," I shy away from his gaze as he lets out a chuckle. He places his forehead against mine as he wraps his arms around my waist.

"Stop what?" He kisses my cheek." Stop complimenting my beautiful girl."Another kiss, this time to my jawline.

"Never." He pressed a final kiss to my lips.

"Now let's go." I nod my head as he turns my body around, his hand drifts towards the small of my back as we walk towards the elevator.

The ride towards the hotel was short consider it was only a few blocks away.

Carson helped me out of the truck and held my hand the whole time we walked throughout the hotel.

I felt so giddy finally being able to be in a relationship where the man appreciated me, where he wasn't afraid to show me off. It made me realize all the things I ignored, chose to ignore in my last relationship.

"All the gifts are here right?" The question blanked my mind earlier hence why I was asking it now.

"Yes, every last gift," He squeezed my hand as I let out a short breath. " Good. Are we staying here tonight or going back to yours ?"

"Dominic is staying here tonight. We have the place to ourselves." My stomach dropped at the double meaning behind his words.

We hadn't talked about taking the next step in our relationship. But I was ready and so was he, I wanted all of him tonight.

The elevator stopped on the highest floor in this wing of the hotel. There was only one door on this floor leading to the suite at the end.

"Merry Christmas!" I jumped slightly as we were greeted with our parents cheers. My heart pounded against my chest from the scare, I placed my palm against it as I let out a weak laugh.

"Oh look," Giselle pointed towards the greenery hanging above the door."Mistletoe."

"That was not there earlier," Carson threw a glare towards his mother. Giselle only shrugged her shoulders in a nonchalant manner.

"Oh shut up and kiss me."

Carson was quick to place a peck against my lips. It was sweet and respectful due to our parents and his grandparents being in the room.

Although I knew he wasn't going to be that sweet and respectful later on tonight.

"They're so cute." My mom and Giselle squealed as they walked towards the couch. Jax and Cairo followed after them, shaking their heads slightly at their significant others.

"You both owe me for leaving me here alone." Dominic rushed over to use with a plate full of desserts.

Was he— was he stress eating?

"Do you know how many times I had to dodge questions and change topics? They're so freaking nosey. I'm pretty sure they are planning your wedding as we speak." He shoved a cookie into his mouth, followed by another.

He's so going to regret that in the morning.

Carson patted his back and slowly took the plate away from Dominic and passed it to me.

"I think that's enough cookies for you," Carson said as he walked Dominic towards the table.

"More for me, I guess." I observe the plate figuring out which cookie I wanted as I followed behind them.

I grabbed a red velvet cookie and a sugar and sat the plate aside, I grabbed a napkin and bee lined it for the couch. I sat right next to mom and placed my head against her shoulder.

"Merry Christmas mommy," I pressed a kiss to her cheek, inhaling her signature scent of spice with a hint of vanilla.

"Merry Christmas baby girl," She whispered as I snuggled into her and happily ate my cookies.

Dominic and Carson finally made their way over to the couch. Our parents started passing out our gifts as we handed them theirs.

"Carson what the fuck is this?" Dominic holds up the box from apple.

"It's an air tag since you are always losing your shit," Carson laughed as Dominic stared blankly at him. "There's more." He motioned for Dominic to continue looking through the bag.

He pulled out a an airpods pro box and a brand new case.

"Since you literally just lost your third pair of those, you can just go right ahead and attach the air tag to that case."

"Thanks buddy," Dominic reached over and hugged Carson." How thoughtful of you."

" You're welcome buddy." I let out a snort as I picked up my gift and gave it to him.

He carefully unwraps them box to reveal a new pair of sneakers, Black White low dunks to be exact, and two tickets to a music festival lined up with some of Rhegan's favorite artist.

"The two tickets are for you and Rhegan." I explain as he picks them up first." You will take her to that festival, let her drag you around to every sound stage while you listen to her fan girl over the artist."

"Then you will take her to her favorite restaurant, where you ask her to be your girlfriend once and for all and put us all out of our misery."

Lord knows that we didn't need a repeat of Elizabeth and Abel.

"Understood?" Dominic shook his head quickly.

"Yes ma'- I mean Yes, understood."

"Great." I smile as I clap my hands." Seems you are good for something after all, isn't it."

Dominic glared at me as he opened up the wrapper and took out the shoes. Now, I admit that stepping on the forces was a tad bit trifling yesterday, but he was getting on my nerves.

"Thanks Yaya," he got up and proceeded to give me a bear hug. " I love you, little sis."

Jax and my mom both excitedly started to hit each other at his confession. I squeezed him a little bit tighter as he backed away.

" I love you too, asshole."

I opened his gift which was a perfume that I had my eyes on for a really long time and never got around to buy it, and a jersey that had Addam's engraved on the back with his number. One the front it had Steele engraved, with Dominic's number.

It was there away game jersey, I only had the home game jersey up until now.

"Thanks Dom, I love them."

"I think she'll love mine even better," Carson grinned as he got up and gave me the small box.

I eyed him suspiciously as I opened the small gift. I pulled off the top of the box to find a small charm bracelet laying inside.

It had a butterfly charm, I was obsessed with them. A scorpion in honor of my zodiac. Angel wings because of his nick name for me. A basketball and his number.

"Carson," I pushed the gift aside and hugged him tightly." I love it, thank you." He kissed my temple as we pulled away.

"I'm glad. I got you some more stuff but you'll find that at your place when we get back." I threw him a sharp glare as he ignored me and grabbed my hand. He clasped the bracelet and adjusted it in my wrist as I shook it, watching the little charms dangle.

My cheeks hurt from how big my smile was- It was the perfect gift.

"Okay, my turn." I grabbed the box and handed it to him. I didn't really know what to get a guy who has almost everything.

The cars, the shoes, the clothes, the jewelry. I decided to play it safe and get him a simple silver necklace with a cross pendant. It went with his silver chain that he wore almost daily.

I handed him another box with that had yet another puffer jacket, had I known how many he had already I wouldn't have gotten it for him. But luckily I got it a different shade that he didn't have.

"I'm thinking about returning it and exchanging it for something else, you have way too many already." His gaze snapped up towards me as if I had said something that was truly offensive.

"You take that back right now, Ayanna." He said as he ran his fingers over the material of the North face jacket." You can never have too many puffers."

Okay then.

I watched as he excitedly took out the necklace and put it on himself. It layered nicely with his chain as he turned towards me.

"How does it look?" " It looks great."

I bet it'd look even better swinging it front of my face later on.

After we exchanged gifts we stuffed ourselves u til we couldn't be stuffed any more, well I didn't eat that much.

I had bigger plans tonight.

"See you guys for breakfast in the morning right?" Giselle questioned with a hopeful smile.

That is if I can walk tomorrow.

"Yes momma, we'll see you in the morning." Carson kissed his mother's cheek as I went in for a hug.

I did the same to my mother and Jax as we headed for the elevator.

"Wear protection!!!" Dominic yelled as the elevator doors closed. "I'm going to kill him." I muttered as Carson pressed the lobby button on the elevator.

When he turned around, he pushed me towards the nearest elevator wall. He was quiet as he let his hands wonder my body, his movements were teasingly slow.

"Ayanna-" I cut him off by bringing his gaze away from my body and to my face. I rubbed my hands against the skin of his neck as I went in for a kiss.

"I know, Carson." I mutter against his lips.

"We don't have too, I can wait a little longer." He said as the elevator descended.

"Maybe you can," I chuckle out as I grip his neck a little tighter." But I can't. I want you, I want this- tonight Carson."

"Yeah?" He pressed his lower body into mine.

"Yeah," I brush my lips against his just as the elevator door opens.

An older couple stands just enter just as Carson backs away from me. He quickly grabs my hand and exits the elevator. Once outside we double over in laughter before he drags me out of the hotel from his fast pace.

The entire ride back to his, his palm stayed glued against my thigh. His thumb made air long motions as my insides stirred with anticipation. I fiddled with the charms on my bracelet as we got closer to the building.

My ankles were slightly sore and on fire due to him walking like he was on a mission— technically he was. Once inside of his place I immediately took them off before allowing him to drag me up the stairs.

Instead he swooped down grabbed my shoes and then picked me up bridal style and ran up the stairs.

"Oh my god, Carson." I squealed as he ran down the hallway towards his room. " What, i'm not wasting another second of this night."

Once inside his room, he placed my shoes down on the ground and then me. He walked me towards the floor length mirror in the corner of his room, right next to the his window that had a perfect view of the city.

He started by moving my hair to the side. His fingers were soft and gentle as I rolled my neck, giving him access to my zipper.

Are you sure?" He questions as his fingers linger on the zipper of my dress.

"Absolutely positive." His hands wrap around my waist as he yanks me towards his chest.

"Good," He moves my to my other shoulder as he leans down to whisper in my ear."Because I won't go easy on you."

"Who said that I wanted easy."

Carson's deep chuckle sends shivers throughout my body as he starts to unzip my dress.

My breath hitches as I feel the cool air hit my back." Do you remember what you said all those months ago?"

Of course I did... I would never forget a word or conversation shared between the two of us.

He gently slides the straps of my dress down my body. My skin tingled at the feel of him lightly brushing his fingertips against my skin.

Once the dress was pooled at my waist, he pulled it down so that it fell to the floor swiftly. Once he straightened up, he took in the set I had on underneath the dress the entire time.

"You're so fucking sexy," He whispered as he ran his fingers along my bare skin. " God, what did I do to deserve you, Ayanna."

My skin felt on fire due to his hands that roamed all over it. He buried his head in my neck, kissing it softly as his hands trailed down my stomach.

One hand latched onto my neck as the other made its way between my underwear. His fingers were cold against my clit as he rubbed it softly.

"So wet for me Angel and i've barely even touched you." I whimpered as his breath fluttered against the shell of my ear.

"I can't wait to be inside of you, coaxing out those little moans of yours. I'll ruin you."

I gripped his forearm as he teased my clit. He lowered his head to meet my gaze, his nose rubbing against mine ever so slightly.

"Do it."He let out a guttural groan as he shakes his head slightly. "I don't want any other man besides you."

"Fuck, Ayanna." He pulled his hand away from clit and came in front of me. His gaze was dark and full of lust, full of promises for tonight.

His breathing was hard, his chest rising and falling as he bent down slightly and picked me up. I wrapped my legs around his waist as I attached my lips to his.