“Ashton…”
She fell.
I fell.
We met somewhere in the middle.
My entire world spun out of control, and so did hers as she shuddered beneath me, and my body tensed above hers.
“I have another secret.” I kissed her. “You’re the best thing that’s ever happened to me.”
Nothing existed at that moment but her and me.
Right in this room.
This was our beginning.
“Sage, for the first time in my life, I’m falling in—”
Her. Fucking. Phone. Rang.
She reached for it and hit silent, but it didn’t matter; it simply began ringing again. Hitting silent two more times, she apologized and moved her body out from under mine.
What bothered me the most was that it felt as if I’d just made love to her, and she had to leave the room to answer her fucking phone. Not only leaving the room but having to shut the door behind her in the bathroom.
“What the fuck?”
The sudden anger I felt deep in my bones took over. I was standing, throwing on my gym shorts, and stomping into the bathroom behind her before I knew what I was doing.
“Ashton!”
I snatched the phone out of her hand, fully aware I was being irrational, but I didn’t care. I looked at the screen. “Who the fuck is Haiden?”
She fervently shook her head. “It’s not what you think.”
I didn’t allow her to finish whatever excuse she was going to say.
I whisk her away to an island to be with me, and she was talking to another man this entire time?
My blood was boiling.
Searing.
Fucking fuming.
She was supposed to be nothing more than a fling.
No feelings.
No past.
No strings attached.
I broke the rules.
I broke the pact.
I fell for her.
“Listen, asshole!” I seethed on the phone.
I never imagined that the scariest words a man could hear would come from a little boy who was half my size but had bigger balls than me...
And trust me, my balls were fucking huge.
When he spewed,
“No you listen, butthole! What are you doing with my mom?”
Chapter 19
—Ashton—
“Your mom?!” I roared, staring at Sage in disbelief. She stood there frozen, mirroring a deer in the headlights.
“Yeah! You’re with my mom, and my sister and I are—”
“Your sister?! How many kids do you have?” I questioned Sage, still holding the phone up to my ear.
“She’s my twin, butt munch!”
The sound of her cell hitting the ground rumbled through the room, closing the walls in on us.
Quickly, she picked up her phone. “Haiden, I’ll call you back.” She stepped toward me, and I held my hand up, stopping her dead in her tracks.
“Ashton…”
“Jesus fuck, Sage. You have a kid? And not even one kid—you have two? Twins?”
“I … I … I…”
“So I just fucked a MILF? Are you a wife too?”
She shook her head. “No! I swear I’m—”
“You swear? Because I’m supposed to believe whatever comes out of your mouth?”
“I didn’t lie to you.”
“Not telling me the truth is a form of lying, Sage!”
“I was going to tell you when we got back. I promise!”
“You should have told me the first time we saw each other again!”
“I’m sorry! I didn’t know how to say it. I didn’t want you to run away when I’d only just found you again. Please … try to understand.”
“Try to understand? Try to understand?! You’ve been lying to me for weeks!”
“I know. I just—”
“I can’t talk to you right now. I can’t even be near you.” I snapped around.
“Ashton, you don’t mean that!”
Before I could say something I truly regretted I left, slamming the door behind me.
I didn’t know where to go.
I didn’t know what to think.
I didn’t know how to do anything other than want to tear my hair out.
It all made so much sense now.
Why she was always busy…
Why she muted her phone…
Why she never had time for herself…
Why…
Why…
Why…
I couldn’t believe this.
The first woman I’d ever really wanted to know.
Be with.
Love.
Was a fucking mom of twins?!
I pounded on Sawyer’s door.
“Get lost!” he shouted.
“It’s me!”
Moments later, the door opened, and he appeared holding a washcloth over his dick that barely covered anything.
“Dude.”
“I said get lost. What part of that didn’t you understand?”
I cocked my head to the side, taking him in. “Is what whip cream?”
“No, it’s Cool Whip. Works better than whip cream.”
“Duly noted.”
“Ashton, I’m kind of in the middle of something.”
“You need to tuck your dick back into your pants. I need you.”
“What’s going on?”
“Oh, nothing. Just that the girl of my dreams is a mom. Of twins.”
He jerked back like I had hit him.
“My reaction exactly.”
The door opened wider, and Aspyn appeared wearing a silk robe, but I could still see the Cool Whip under the fabric.
“She told you, and your reaction is to run away?” she asked in a disdainful tone. “Why do you think she didn’t tell you, Ashton?!”
“Oh, no fucking way you’re turning this around on me like I’m the bad guy, sweetheart. I never lied to her. She’s known who I am and what I’m about since the moment we saw each other again. Unlike Sawyer, I told her about the Playboy Pact.”