So Wrong It's Good: A Forbidden Romance

He reached down and gripped himself through his jeans. “See what you do to me?” His voice was deep, husky, lust-filled. His lips were red and swollen, and she lifted her finger and ran it over her own, feeling them tingle. Did her lips look like his? It was as if he had imprinted himself on her, marked her with his mouth, hands, and dick.

Oh lord, she was so turned on right now. But they should talk, right?

Oh, who was she kidding? She didn’t want to stop this. Lake wanted this to last with Reese, wanted to just give herself over to him without worry.

“We can talk, baby, but right now just let me touch you,” he said and moved closer to her again. She didn’t stop him this time, and in fact wrapped her arms around his neck and lifted on her toes to kiss him.

Just as he stroked her lips with his tongue the sound of the front door opening and of her father and Ginny’s voices coming through had everything in Lake freezing.

13

Lake’s heart was beating fast, her palms were sweating, and she knew that what was about to happen right now would cause a hell of a lot of trouble between everyone. Her dad and Ginny stood in the doorway, their expressions matching: shocked.

Reese was still in front of her, his hand on her breasts, his erection prodding her belly. She, on the other hand, had gone from aroused to humiliated instantly. She wasn’t embarrassed to be with Reese, because that was the total opposite of how she felt, but Lake certainly didn’t want her dad or Ginny catching them like this.

“What in the hell is going on here?” her dad said, his eyes wide as he looked between the two of them. He clenched his hands at his sides, and when Lake looked at Ginny she saw horror on her face.

Reese moved away from her but kept his body partially in front of her. The silence stretched between them, awkward, hard, tense.

“Dad...” She didn’t know what to say. Hell, she didn’t even know what was going on between her and Reese. Ginny and her dad were home hours earlier than what they’d told her.

“Reese, what’s going on here?” Ginny was the one to ask now. She moved into the house farther, set the bags she carried on the ground, and looked between her and Reese.

Reese looked at Lake, this hard expression on his face. “Don’t worry,” he said, and she remembered when he’d told her that last night.

“Okay,” she said a bit unsure, but trusted him on where he was going with this. She certainly had no clue on how to handle this.

“Calvin,” Reese said her father’s name slowly.

“Reese.” Her father said his name hard, pissed off sounding. Ginny took a step forward and grabbed Calvin’s hand, looking up at him as if she were worried the shit would hit the fan.

Lake thought that would happen, too.

“I have feelings for Lake, Calvin, feelings that are pretty intense, maybe don’t make any sense, and will probably have consequences.”

Lake’s heart stopped beating.

“I can’t even explain how any of this started between us, because it was fast, just kind of happened. I don’t want it to stop. I don’t have any intentions of it stopping.”

The silence stretched between everyone.

“Reese,” Ginny said softly, slowly. “You’ve just recently gotten a divorce, and you’re going after Calvin’s twenty-year-old daughter?”

Reese shook his head. “My marriage with Brittany was over before we signed the papers.”

“You just signed them not that long ago, and Lake is so much younger than you.”

“You’re younger than my father, Ginny.” Lake spoke up because she was involved in this as well. She stopped beside Reese, looked up at him, and knew she had to be honest. “I’ve had feelings for Reese for a while, but knew that being with him might cause problems.” She looked at her father after she said that, and then looked at Ginny. “I didn’t do anything to hurt you, but I also can’t help how I feel, and I know that the things I want with Reese might conflict with how he feels and with how you all feel about the situation.”

“You’re too young to even know about any of this stuff, sweetheart,” her dad said with emotion clogging his voice.

“She knows what she wants, Calvin,” Reese said.

Her father looked at Reese, this anger covering his face like a dark stain. “You and I haven’t even begun to scratch the surface of this.”

“I know seeing us ... like that, is probably unsettling,” Lake said, twisting her hands together as her nerves went up a notch. “But I wanted to talk to him about all of this, and then bring it up with you.”

“I meant no disrespect, Calvin—”

“But you did disrespect me, Reese. You disrespected Ginny and violated my much younger daughter, too.” Her father was looking angrier by the second. And when he took off his suit jacket and undid his cufflinks and tie, she knew that this was not going to be civilized. “I walk in on you touching her in my goddamned house, the house I opened up to you. You think you meant no fucking disrespect after all of that?”