Sun-Kissed (Love In All Seasons 1)

I swallow, trying not to get jumping to conclusions. “So, you’re mad at your parents and you want me to show up there to piss them off?”

“No, it’s nothing like that,” she says adamantly.

But that’s exactly how it sounds. When she slept with me, sticking it to her controlling parents was on the forefront of her mind and I can’t help but wonder if bringing me around for the wedding is the exact same thing.

Damn, I don’t want it to be. I want her to bring me around because she can’t help herself.

Because she can’t stand the idea of not being with me.

“I know it sounds bad, but, Aiden, I want you to be my date.”

“And what do they want?”

“They want me to go with Peter Gunheight. He’s a complete dick. I refused, and then I told them I was gonna go with...”

“With me.”

“Yeah. I know, it sounds bad when I say like that. But I just can’t imagine getting through that day without you.”

I run my hand over my beard. Truth is, I don’t really care about her reasons. I just want to be with her. And I think if I had another day with her, she’d realize that I mean more to her than daddy-payback.

I think she would realize I’m the real fucking thing.

“Will you at least think about it?” she asks.

“I don’t need to think about shit.”

“Oh.” I swear there are tears in her voice.

“Dammit, I don’t need to think because of course, I’ll come. I’ve been dreaming of your creamy cunt for ten days, woman. I’m gonna show up and make sure you know I’m going fucking crazy here without you.”

“Aiden.” Her voice cracks.

“Don’t Aiden me, our night together was real. It was the real fucking thing. And I think you just need to spend more time with me to realize that for yourself.”

“Thank you,” she says. “Thank you for doing this for me.”

“Anytime, baby,” I tell her, meaning it. She tells me the details of the wedding in a few weeks and I promise to buy a ticket after dinner at my parents’.

“Will your brothers be at the family dinner?”

I smile, patting Chum’s back, appreciating that she remembers the conversations we had after we made love on my boat, where we shared more of our history. It tells me this is all as real for her as it is for me.

“Hell yeah, everyone will be there. Family dinner is a fucking non-negotiable according to my mom. All the grandkids come over along with my brothers and their spouses. It’s a good time.”

“That’s so great. We don’t have any little kids in our family yet.”

“You’d fall in love with my nieces, somehow I always get wrangled into giving pony rides.”

Alice laughs, her voice filling my truck with the best fucking sound. “I can imagine that. And see, you’re all talk. You may say you’re this burly man, but I think deep down you’re a softie.”

“Well, I don’t know about that. I still like to give my brothers a hard time. But I’d love for you to meet them someday, Alice. “

“I’d like that.”

“Now tell me,” I say practically growling in the phone. “You mentioned something about having a hard time going to sleep at night?”

“Yeah...” she laughs into the phone and I have to adjust myself. Damn this woman lights a fire under me.

“So, how would you get yourself to sleep?”

She giggles, but then indulges.

I let my head falls back into the seat, picturing her sweet, sweet ass.

Then she tells me exactly what she did to her pussy to get off. I beg her to stop or I’ll fucking lose my load in the car like a horny-ass teenager.

“Okay, sorry,” she titters. “It’s fun getting you so excited though.”

“Well, hold onto that thought. Two weeks from now you can have more where that came from.”

“I suppose I should let you go if you’re headed to family dinner,” she says.

“Yeah. I’m already late. But once they hear all about you maybe they’ll let me off the hook.”

“You’ll tell them about me?”

“How could I not? You mean something to me, Alice.”

“You mean something to me too, Aiden.” She sighs. “So, does your family live close to the marina where you live?”

“Oh, I have a house too, beside the boat,” I explain, realizing she might think my only residence is the little fishing boat. “My parents live on the water not too far from the marina though, in a beautiful log cabin.”

“That sounds pretty nice.”

“It’s the most beautiful place in the world, the only problem is you.”

“And why exactly am I a problem?”

“Because you’re so damn far away.” I shake my head, remembering how right she felt in my arms. “What are we gonna do about that, Alice?”

“Let’s just get to the wedding first.”

“So at this wedding, what are you gonna be wearing?”