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  Copyright

  Diving in Deep is a work of fiction. All names, characters, locations, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  DIVING IN DEEP: A NOVEL

  Copyright © 2021 by Katie Holland

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  Table of Contents

  Copyright

  Table of Contents

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 20

  Chapter 21

  Chapter 22

  Chapter 23

  Chapter 24

  Chapter 25

  Chapter 26

  Chapter 27

  Chapter 28

  Chapter 29

  Chapter 30

  Chapter 31

  Chapter 32

  Chapter 33

  Chapter 34

  Chapter 35

  Chapter 36

  Chapter 37

  Chapter 38

  Chapter 39

  Epilogue

  Author’s Note

  About the Author

  About the Publisher

  Extras

  Prologue

  Chapter 1

  Karma

  It was the last day of our first semester at Bay State University. We were ready to celebrate and the party was waiting.

  “Karma, we’re going to leave without you if you don’t hurry up,” Kayleigh yelled, from the main part of our dorm.

  “I’m almost ready. I just need another minute,” I yelled back.

  Kayleigh may have been my best friend since we were kids, but most of the time we were like night and day. She could be ready for a party in thirty minutes, but it always took me at least two hours. I had to look good if I wanted to catch the eye of the guy, I was going to choose to spend the night with.

  I took one last look in the mirror. I loved the way my skin-tight jeans made my ass look good and the strapless black shirt showed off a lot of skin. Finally, I slipped on my strappy silver heels and I was ready.

  “Alright, let’s go party,” I said, as I left my bedroom.

  Kayleigh just smiled and Major shook his head at me. The party was at a nearby frat house, so we walked there. The night air was a bit chilly, but I knew I’d be working up a sweat on the dance floor in no time.

  Kayleigh, Major and I stopped in front of the frat house before we went inside. We laughed as we watched as two drunk guys. They were trying to see who could climb a tree the fastest, but they were so drunk, they could hardly stand. The first guy made it to the second branch before he fell. The second guy used the first guy as a stool and made it to the third branch before he fell as well.

  “Guys are so dumb,” I said, as we watched.

  Major just shrugged like I was right.

  As we walked up the stairs to the porch, there was a girl throwing up on one side and a couple making out on the bench on the other.

  “I love college,” I told them. “It’s always entertaining.”

  Walking inside, the first thing that hit me was the music. The loud rhythmic beat made me want to dance immediately. It was exactly what I needed right then.

  “I’ll see you later,” I said to Kayleigh, and went straight to the makeshift dance floor. I started moving, not caring if I was alone or not. A few songs later, I felt someone behind me.

  “You look hot tonight, Karma,” a voice said in my ear.

  I turned around to find Bodie and took a minute to admire him. He was just over six feet tall, blonde, and tanned. I’d seen him enough times in swim trunks to know he had muscles in all the right places. He was looking exceptionally hot tonight in dark jeans and tight black Henley. I noticed he had a full red plastic cup in his hand.

  “Thanks,” I said with a smile, and grabbed the cup he had. I took a drink and handed it back to him half full.

  “That’s alcohol,” he said, knowing I didn’t usually drink.

  “I think I want to live a little tonight,” I said, with a smirk.

  “Just be careful,” he said. “And come find me if you need to go home.”

  I thought that was kind of a weird thing to say to me, but I nodded and went to find someone to dance with.

  After a few hours and several drinks later, I was feeling really good. A little of that was the alcohol, but most of it was just being able to let loose after finishing the semester. When I ran into Bodie again I smiled.

  “You’re still here,” I said to him.

  “Yep.”

  “You’re looking very fuckable tonight,” I told him. “I thought you’d have found some hot piece of ass to fuck by now.”

  He practically spit his drink out. “Jesus, Karma. Do you always say what’s on your mind?”

  “Usually.” I shrugged. “Saves time.”

  “Are you drunk?” he asked me.

  I thought about that for a second. “No.”

  “How many drinks have you had?”

  “Just three,” I told him.

  “Can you do me a favor and try to walk a straight line?”

  “What? Why?”

  “I just need to know.”

  He looked serious so I did as he asked and had no trouble walking a straight line.

  “Now, are you going to tell me why I just did that?” I asked.

  “Because I’m about to do something I hope I don’t regret,” he said, and kissed me.

  At first, I was shocked, but it only took a second for my body to react and kiss him back. Eventually, I pulled back, breathless. It was one of the hottest kisses I’d ever had.

  “Let’s get out of here,” I said to him. He stood there, not moving. “Are you coming? Or, do I need to find a bathroom and get myself off?”

  “Fuck,” Bodie muttered, under his breath.

  I waited for him to make up his mind. The sexual tension between us had been building for months, and I’d known this was going to happen eventually. Finally, he took my hand and led me out of the party.

  Holding hands had never really been my thing, but I liked the feel of Bodie’s hand in mine. We walked quickly to his car and I’ll admit, I had a hard time keeping my hands to myself, but I wanted to see him fully naked so having sex in his car wasn’t what I had in mind.

  By the time we got to his dorm, I was a ball of sexual energy, and I think he was, too. As soon as the main door to the dorm closed, he was on me. Bodie had my back pressed up against the door and his mouth was on mine. I felt his tongue on my lips and
I immediately opened them for him. I lifted his shirt so I could run my hands over his chest. I wanted to both speed things up and slow them down at the same time. We stayed against the door until we both were about to explode.

  He took a step back. “You sure you want to do this?” he asked.

  “It’s just sex, Bodie. Unless you’re having second thoughts?”

  “No, totally no second thoughts.”

  “Then it’s time to get naked,” I said. I felt an extra little flutter of excitement as I started walking towards his bedroom.

  ****

  Bodie

  I didn’t know what I was thinking when I decided to kiss Karma in the middle of that party, but once I did, I didn’t want to stop. I think she thought I might have been regretting kissing her, but the truth was that I wanted to do it again, and that freaked me out a little.

  We’d been bantering back and forth since the day we met on the beach right before school started. She talked more openly about sex than any other woman I knew and truthfully, I found it intriguing. If I was being honest with myself, I’d wanted to have sex with her since that first day. She was sexy as hell and I wanted to know if she was as good in bed as I thought she would be. I’d thought about having sex with her so many times it was almost scary. I think it needed to happen so I could get her out of my system. Karma wasn’t the relationship type, and I never went back for seconds, so I was sure having sex wasn’t going to cause a problem for the two of us.

  As soon as we walked into my room, she started dropping clothes and in less than a minute she was naked and sprawled out on my bed. I stopped and stared. I’d seen her plenty of times in her bikini, but those little scraps of fabric hid a perfect set of tits and I wasn’t surprised to see she was bare everywhere.

  “Are you going to join me or just watch?” Karma asked, as she slipped her fingers between her legs and started rubbing.

  I was instantly hard. I pulled at my clothes, stripping as fast as I could and crawled onto the bed with her. I replaced her fingers with mine and found she was soaking wet. I didn’t normally go down on a girl but for some reason I wanted to taste Karma. And I wasn’t disappointed.

  “You taste like the ocean,” I said, without thinking and regretted it instantly.

  “The ocean, huh,” she said, with a smile.

  “If you can still talk, I’m not doing my job.” I put my head back down and doubled my efforts, hoping she’d forget I said that.

  I used my tongue to circle her clit and when I put two fingers in her she writhed under me.

  “Fuck, Bodie. Yes. just like that. God your tongue feels good.”

  With the combination of my tongue and fingers it didn’t take her long to come. She wasn’t very loud like I thought she would be. Instead, the moans that left her mouth were the sexiest sounds I’d ever heard. If possible, the sounds she was making made me even harder.

  I couldn’t wait any longer to get inside her. I grabbed a condom and slid it on. I wanted to slam into her, but I took my time and went as slow as I could until I was all the way in, and I stilled.

  “Fuck, Bodie, that feels incredible, but if you don’t fuck me, I’m going to lose my mind.”

  I felt exactly the same way, so I started moving. Once again, she was making those noises that were driving me crazy. I quickly learned that she liked to talk dirty, which most women didn’t, at least not in my experience.

  “Fuck, your cock feels good,” Karma said, in between breaths. “Fuck me harder, Bodie. Fuck me until I come all over your dick.” The words flowed out of her tempting mouth.

  “Fuck Karma, that dirty mouth of yours is going to make me come before I want to.”

  She wrapped her legs around me and I watched as she started pinching her nipples. When I saw her start rubbing her clit, it was almost too much for me to handle. If I kept watching, I knew it wouldn’t be long until I came, so I closed my eyes.

  The feel of my dick moving in and out of her was incredible. It was like we were made to fit together. Right now, I never wanted this feeling to stop.

  When her pussy started squeezing my dick, I knew she was close, and I opened my eyes. A few more strokes from me and she threw her head back, yelling my name. Watching her come as I pumped in and out of her was something, I knew I was never going to forget. She was always beautiful, but seeing her fall apart under me was going to be ingrained in my brain forever.

  Feeling her walls clench around me was all it took for me to come. I came so hard, I saw stars. I collapsed on top of her until I could breathe again. I got up, disposed of the condom and went to the bathroom. I looked at myself in the mirror and saw the stupid grin on my face. Sure, I liked having sex, but I wasn’t usually so happy about it. I shook my head at myself and went back to the bedroom.

  I was kind of hoping she’d be up for round two, but by the time I got back to the bed, she was asleep. I got under the covers with her. I realized I wasn't as disappointed as I thought I should be about not having sex again right now, but I wasn’t sure what that meant, so I put it out of my mind. Before tonight I’d never let a woman stay the night, but with Karma, I didn’t even think twice about it. Pulling her close to me, she fit perfectly against me and I immediately relaxed. For a few minutes, I watched her sleep until eventually I fell asleep to the sound of her peaceful breathing.

  Chapter 2

  Karma

  When I woke up the next morning, it took me a minute to realize I was in Bodie’s bed, and I was naked. He was asleep beside me. I thought back to last night and remembered what happened, and I couldn’t help but grin.

  The sex had been incredible. I couldn’t put my finger on exactly what had been different, but it was definitely different; and something that I could easily become addicted to. That thought scared me. I wasn’t the relationship type, and I didn’t want to ruin the friendship we’d started by making more of this than it was. And I sure as hell didn’t want to be the reason things got awkward with our group of friends. I had to figure out how I was going to handle this.

  I felt Bodie stir and I pretended to still be asleep. If I saw him naked again, I couldn’t be responsible for my actions. He was hot and knew how to use it to his advantage. It was something a girl could get used to.

  He got up and left the room, I guessed to use the bathroom. I only had a few minutes to figure out what I was going to say. I heard the bedroom door open again and I pretended to wake up, thankful he had a pair of shorts on.

  “Morning,” he said, with a grin.

  It was now or never.

  “Bodie?” I said, trying to sound confused.

  “Yeah?” he sounded unsure of himself.

  I looked under the covers. “Um … I’m naked. Why am I naked in your bed, Bodie?”

  “You’re kidding, right?” he said.

  I hoped what I was about to do was the right course of action. “Um no. Oh my God! What happened last night? We didn’t have sex, did we? The last thing I remember was dancing at that party,” The panic in my voice wasn’t all fake. I didn’t like the lie I was telling. “I guess I drank more than I realized.”

  I watched several emotions cross his face. I was lying my ass off, but I hoped he didn’t see through that. I was trying to make this situation better, not worse.

  “Uh, no, we didn’t have sex,” he finally said. “You wanted to go back to your dorm, but Kayleigh and Major were going to be there, so I decided to bring you here. I slept on the couch.”

  The usually confident and sure of himself guy I knew looked almost defeated. I instantly felt guilty for making him lie, but I started this, so I was going to have to keep up my part of it.

  “Thanks for taking care of me,” I told him, and meant every word.

  “Yeah, no problem. I’ll just leave you to get dressed,” he said, and left me alone in his room.

  I turned over on my back and stared at the ceiling. “What the fuck did I just do?” I whispered to myself. I’d never have a problem sleeping with a guy and
thinking nothing of it, so what the fuck happened with Bodie? Whatever it was, I had to put it out of my head. Kayleigh and I were leaving tomorrow to go back to Tulsa for the semester break. That would give me enough time and distractions to forget this ever happened, but for now I just had to pretend.

  ****

  Bodie

  What the fuck just happened? I sat down on the couch and replayed the conversation back in my head. Had Karma really just told me she didn’t remember anything about last night? She didn’t seem drunk when I brought her back here, but she seemed very confused this morning.

  My thoughts turned to the amazing sex we’d had, but I had to shut that down right away. It was making me hard and Karma didn’t remember. I guess, I had to pretend like it didn’t happen. How the hell was I supposed to do that?

  I’d never been more confused in my life.

  “Hey,” Karma said, when she walked out of the bedroom. “I’m starving. Why don’t you let me take you to breakfast to thank you for taking care of me last night? I didn’t realize I was that drunk. Good thing you were there for me.”

  It took me a minute to process what she said. “Uh, sure, breakfast would be great. Just let me get dressed.”

  Closing the door to my bedroom, I took a minute to compose myself. I’d never let a woman get to me before, and this seemed like a bad time to start. It was just sex between two consenting adults. Nothing more than that. “Don’t make it more than it was, Bodie,” I muttered. Maybe if I told myself that enough times, I could make it true. I got dressed and grabbed an extra hoodie.

  “Here,” I said, throwing the hoodie at Karma.

  “What’s this for,” she asked.

  “I thought you might want to put it on over your top, you know, in case it’s cold out this morning.”

  “Oh, okay, thanks. I hadn’t thought about that.”

  “Ready?” I asked her.

  “Yeah.”

  We left the dorm and walked to my car.

  “Where are we going?” Karma asked, as we were leaving the parking lot.

  “There’s a diner I haven’t been to in a while. I thought we’d go there.”