Matt woke with a grunt as he got kicked in the calf. Hold on! His sleep addled brain struggled with that snippet of information as the person beside him shifted beneath the comforter. He glanced over his shoulder and sight of the waterfall of honey-colored hair brought back the memories of the previous hours.

"Matty?" His name was followed by a soft hand on his back, nimble fingers tracing up and down his spine. "Sorry. Did I wake you?" A thin arm wrapped around his waist, hand splayed on his rock hard abs.

"Hmm maybe," Matt slipped his hand over hers, "but that's okay. I didn't realize I'd fallen asleep. What time is it?"

Lauren reached for her phone and whispered, "Half past 3...and 10 missed calls." She groaned and added, "My Boss. I didn't check in at the end of my shift."

"Oh...," Matt tried to peer through the darkness to the window, "blame it on the weather if you think you'll get in trouble."

"Even if I do," her nails clawed at his warm flesh, "It'll be worth it." Lauren kissed Matt's shoulder and pressed into his back.

"Oh so worth it, honey," Matt murmured and gently guided her hand down further. He inhaled sharply as her strong fingers wrapped around his growing erection firmly, squeezing and stroking the heated flesh.

"Is it just me or is that window covered? Had you put the curtain down?"

"If you recall," Matt said, "I was otherwise engaged."

Lauren blushed and gave him a hard squeeze. "How silly of me." She kissed his cheek and climbed from the warm bed, padding over to the window and gasped. "Holy shit..."

"What's up?" Matt growled as he appreciated the view as the shadows accentuated all the right curves of the woman who hadn't shown a jot of self-consciousness about her body. He left the bed and walked up behind her, slipping his arms around her shoulders.

"Hope you didn't plan on leaving anytime soon," Lauren chuckled. She pointed to the left where the front door should have been. "Either there was a small avalanche or my eyesight is going to shit."

Matt chuckled, "I guess we're stuck with each other for the time being. Hope that won't be too much of a hard," he rolled his hips against her ass, "ship for you?"

"Pretty sure I can handle you," she said with a smile and turned in his arms, running her fingertips over his bald head. "Question is..." She sauntered back to the bed and slid onto it, spreading her legs to show herself to Matt. "Can you handle me?"

Matt growled playfully, smirking, as he followed her and knelt between her thighs. He raked his eyes over her and licked his lips, "Oh I'm sure I can..." He hooked his large hands beneath her knees and yanked her toward him, grinning like a crazy person when she let out a surprised squeal.

"Hehe! Such a naughty Matty," she giggled and stretched her arms up to the pillows, flattening her torso and opening herself to him.

He bent forward and laved at a taut nipple, teasing and tasting the dusky flesh before suckling on the other as she arched up to meet his mouth. He pulled sighs and moans from her as his mouth explored the softness of the lower curves of her breasts and down the sides of her rib cage.

"You taste like caramel," Matt murmured against a particularly tasty spot.

"Mmm wait til you get to my creamy center, baby," Lauren teased.

"Hmm...I am very...very partial to a creamy center," he smiled up at her and moved down to her hips, following the dips and curves with his tongue. The closer he got to the ultimate goal, the more Lauren squirmed and moaned beneath him.

He took a moment to nuzzle his nose into her small thatch of curls, breathing deeply, taking her aroma deeply into his lungs, committing it to memory.

"Oh god, Matt..." Lauren's hands traveled down over her breasts, pinching and rolling her nipples. Further down, she found Matt's head and massaged his neck.

He dipped the tip of his tongue into her folds, letting her moisture coat his taste buds. Then, like a desperate man at an oasis, he drank deeply from her as his tongue coaxed the lifegiving nectar from her.

Flicking the bundle of nerves as it peeked out from its nest, nibbling gently on the petals surrounding it, Matt glanced up and watched Lauren wriggle around on the bed, her free hand grasping the sheet and spreading further apart to allow him a deeper angle.

"Shit, Matty, oh god right there...mmm fuuuuuck..."

"Shh, I gotcha baby," Matt murmured as he redoubled his ministrations, his large hand placed over her hips holding her still. He slid his tongue in deep, swirling, thrusting, licking and teasing, his fingers supplying the perfect accompaniment to her bucking hips and loud moans.

As he wrung the first orgasm from her, Lauren called out his name between cries of ecstasy. That didn't stop him from the task as he felt her coiling up from deep within. He curled his fingers against the swollen patch of internal nerves, brushing over and over again.

"Ahh...fuck, Matty...lick my clit, baby...harder..."

Matt could feel her trembling beneath and around him as the slow burn of her next orgasm got closer to the flash point. It was like her words flicked a switch inside him as his tongue went into overdrive, licking her sensitive engorged bud.

He inserted a third finger, massaging her sweet spot faster. Her lips were parted and eyes wide, the muscles in her stomach clenching and she began to bear down towards him.

"Shit, baby...faster...fuck I'm gonna cum," Lauren moaned, her voice rising in pitch and eyes watering. "Oh god, I'm gonna fucking cum!"

"Give it to me, sweetheart," Matt breathed, "come for me....only for me....mine now!"

Lauren's back arched as Matt's voice shot through her body. Her toes curled and fingers dug into the bedspread. "Yours...Only yours!"

Matt felt the tremors start as the beauty beneath his hands started to come apart spectacularly in front of him, as her sweet nectar flowed from her freely, copiously, coating his hand.

"Yeah like that...god...so hot," Matt murmured as Lauren rode out the throes of her second orgasm. He gently moved his fingers again, once her body had released its grip on him, his thumb brushing over her clit and took a perverse pride in the fact that she jumped and mewled with each subsequent touch.

He couldn't hold himself back any longer, giving her nether lips one last kiss and a suckle. Moving up and over her, Matt flipped Lauren onto all fours and gave her ass a hard smack.

She stuck her ass in the air and wiggled it at him. "Mmm again," she begged and was rewarded with another.

"Just perfect," he sighed and rubbed his hands over her smooth flanks before burying himself in one swift thrust, reaching for a handful of her hair, twisting the glorious locks around his fist and giving it a hard tug as he rolled his hips against her.

"You think you have any more to give, sweetheart?" Matt panted.

Lauren winked back at him and squeezed his cock with her warm wet walls. "Anything for you, handsome," she whimpered.

It was another 24 hours before they were dug out of the snow. The couple had made love, ate whatever food they could be bothered to find and talked until they fell asleep, only to do it all over again until they heard the snow plows in the distance.

They'd reluctantly let the world find them after a hot shower. They exchanged numbers, addresses and made arrangements to meet up as soon as Lauren's job had finished, as the rescuers came closer and closer.

Matt had to leave for the next day, his vacation over but never forgotten. With a quick call to the local florist in Lauren's area, he paid for flowers to be sent to her every week.

~*Four Months Later*~

Matt returned to work on tour with Bon Jovi and his life happier than he'd ever been in the past few years. Even fans on the band's social media would comment on how much happier Matt looked during concerts. This small fact did not escape Jon and the boys.

"Oh come on, bro," Jon called out one night after an electric concert in South Dakota. "Who is it? You're killing me here!"

"Someone special," Matt said, "Just drop it, Jonny."

"I know who it is," Leesha's sing-song voice came from the doorway of David's dressing room.

"Who?!" Jon spun on his heels toward Leesha, "I'll buy you the highest pair of leopard print shoes you can find if you tell me."

David swept her into his arms as the group walked through the backstage area, the boys toweling their sweat-drenched hair and shirts. "Fuck shoes," he chimed in, "I'll buy you that new tricked out Audi A8 you've been drooling over if you spill the beans."

"Shortcake...don't let his money sway you," Matt said, "You promised."

Leesha hooked her arm in Matt's and rubbed her swollen belly. She was just over six months into her pregnancy and had developed a slight waddle in her step. "You know me better than that..."

"Bet I can eat the answer out of her," David whispered to Jon who snickered. "Her hormones have been in overdrive."

"Leave him be, you lot," Julie broke in and swatted Jon on the arm, "Let him have a little privacy. Besides, I can girl-talk it out of her later."

"That's what you all call it?" David asked. "And if so, can I watch again?"

"Again??" Matt chided. "Did I miss something about you two?"

Leesha and Julie giggled at each other. "That was an interesting read-through, wasn't it?" Julie shrugged with a wink.

"Interesting indeed," Leesha replied, "And if my dear husband brings it up again, he'll never get another...private reading..."

"Hey guys?" Dawn stuck her head in the door, "I need your stage gear for cleaning asap, please? Oh hey, Matt...how's Lauren? When's she coming out?"

"Lauren!!!" Jon and David chorused, each holding a hand over their hearts and swooning, "Laaaauuuren. Thanks, Dawnie!"

Matt groaned but smiled, "She's great, Dawn. Um, she'll be out in another two weeks."

"When do we get to meet her, little brother?" Jon grinned.

"Wait...wasn't she your friend at the party?" David asked Leesha who nodded. "Holy shit, she's fucking hot!" He promptly got a hard smack to the chest. "Easy there, Sexy Momma."

"Sorry, Matt, was I not supposed to say anything?" Dawn asked, looking slightly embarrassed. "Clothes, gentlemen!"

David grinned and pulled off his t-shirt, handing it to Dawn with a wink. "Want my pants too?" He started to undo the fastenings and wiggled his ass.

"You're okay, Dawn," Matt replied, "These knuckleheads will get to meet her soon anyway."

"Yes, Lema, unless you want to wear stinky pants for the third night in a row," Dawn groused and rolled her eyes, "You too, Boss."

Clothes were dropped and handed over to the wardrobe mistress as Jon and David hit the showers. Leesha and Julie took this opportunity to find out a little more information about what happened between Matt and Lauren.

"So how long have you known her again?" Julie asked.

"A couple of years," Leesha replied. "She flew out to Jersey to stay at the beach house and help plan the White Party. She's been through a lot of shit." She then looked up at Matt and furrowed her brows. "If you hurt her, Matt..."

"I don't plan to, Shortcake," Matt reassured her.

"How did you meet, Matty?" Julie asked, "Is there an issue we should know about? I don't want to make her feel uncomfortable when we meet."

Leesha nodded and leaned in to whisper, "Come by our room later and I'll fill you in...and send David to gossip with Jon."

Julie nodded to Leesha while she waited for Matt to answer.

"At Christmas time when I went skiing. I'd called for a masseuse after I'd taken a tumble. Reception sent me an angel," Matt almost melted in front of them, "She worked on my back...then I worked hers...many, many times. We've talked every night and video call each weekend. I feel like I've fallen deeper and deeper in love with each call. "

"Does she live in Deer Valley? That's where you went, right?" Julie asked, "We missed you at Christmas..."

"She actually lives out East," Matt started warming to the discussion, "but works the ski season in Deer Valley for the money."

Matt regaled the girls with how they got snowed in for 48 hours or so and how their relationship had blossomed from there. He mentioned how they were both nervous about how their kids would react to each other but were quietly confident that all would be okay.

When Lauren moved back home after the ski season and the band went on a break three months after finishing the North American leg, it was time for the all-important meeting of the families. As the Bongiovi's were a Catholic family, they chose Easter Weekend for the big family get together at Jon's Hamptons place after church on Easter Sunday.

Matt and Lauren had made the decision to get their children acquainted first, privately, before the bombardment of the family on Sunday. Both were nervous at first but neither could have expected how well their children got along.

Each had made significant impressions on their respective parents and siblings. It came as no surprise when they announced two years into their official courtship, that they were engaged. The wedding, unfortunately, would have to be postponed due to another long tour for Bon Jovi's new album.