“I can assure you that waking up one day and deciding that everything you and I are sharing meant nothing won’t happen. You’re special, AJ, and the more time I spend with you, the more I see that.” I loved the way her tension seemed to fade, and the weight of her body seemed to sag against me. “I’m here with you because I wanna be, not because I feel like I need to be. You’re not who I thought you were, Allison Jo, you’re so much more. I wanna know everything there is to know about you. I want you to be the girl I call first with anything, whether it’s big or small, and I wanna be that guy for you in return.”
I opened my eyes just in time to see her smile. “I hate when people say my full name,” she confessed, her own eyes focusing on mine. “But when you do it, it only makes my heart race.”
She moved forward, placing her lips against mine, and the moment her tongue trailed along my lip, I groaned. She always tasted like mint, and until AJ, I never cared much for that flavor.
Now I craved it.
Rising on my knees, I allowed my body to hover over hers as I lowered her to the blanket beneath us. Instantly she parted her legs and I rested my hips between her thighs. Her chest rose, her breasts pushed firmly against my own chest.
We’d taken things slowly over the last few weeks, and I didn’t mind it at all. It gave me the chance to get to know AJ. But I’ll be honest, moments like this made it real hard to control my urges.
“Why does this always feel so good?” she said while hooking her legs around my waist and using them to hold my body to her own. “The way you kiss me.” She again held me close, circling her arms around my neck, and I allowed her to lead. My head was already spinning from the rush of arousal her hips moving beneath me was triggering. A guy could only take so much before he lost it, and I was trying my damnedest to remain in control.
“Rhett?”
I froze, yet AJ continued to shift her hips against mine, seeking the friction it was causing.
“Rhett, are you up there?”
This time AJ went rigid beneath me, and when our gazes locked on one another, I chuckled. She looked terrified. “Who is that?”
“My mother.” Her eyes widened and suddenly she was doing her very best to move out from beneath me. “Babe, it’s okay.”
“It is not okay.” She managed to slide out, and her horrified stare was now focused solely on the stairway. The entire thing was hilarious.
“Oh, shoot, I didn’t realize you had company up here.” Blonde hair piled high on her head, her face flushed from the heat, my mother stepped up onto the platform. “I was looking for you because Uncle Colt had the plans drawn up for the rest of this project, and he wanted to know when you all wanted him to go over them.”
When she walked toward us I could see the moment it dawned on her what she may have interrupted. I looked over at AJ and wanted to laugh at the flushed look on her face. Her lips were red and swollen from our kisses. There was no way to hide the evidence.
“I’m sorry to interrupt.”
“You didn’t,” AJ blurted out. “There was nothing going on, we were just…” she paused and looked around as if in search of an excuse, “…looking at the lake.” Her hand shot outward to her side, pointing out the window to her right, but her eyes were still locked on my mother. I tried not to laugh, but the second I saw my mom’s lips curl up on the side, I knew she too was fighting her smile, and I lost it.
A deep chuckle escaped me, and my mom joined quickly after with her own laughter.
“The lake?” I say, and AJ’s mouth fell open, her forehead scrunched up. “That would almost be believable if your hair wasn’t sticking up all over and your lips weren’t swollen.” AJ instantly narrowed her eyes at me, an attempt to show her frustrations.
“I’m just gonna let you two finish viewing the lake.” My mother turned around and began walking back toward the stairway. “I’ll let Colt know that later this afternoon will work just fine.”
I offered a wave, but AJ continued to stare at me as if the moment my mother disappeared she might kill me.
“She is gonna hate me.” Her hands covered her face and I tried to pull them away. “I’ll be the girl she caught doing it with her precious son in the barn.”
I tried to hold back my laughter, really, I did, but come on—that shit was funny.
“We weren’t doing it.”
When she shoots me another nasty look, that laughter I attempted to hold back spilled from me. “What? We weren’t.”
“But she doesn’t know that.” She ran her hands over her face, exasperated. “I’ll never be able to look her in the eyes.
“A bit dramatic, don’t you think?"
A heated glare came my way, and the humor was gone. It would seem my sweet girl had a demonic side. “You are gonna take back that comment you said earlier about every moment being special if you keep acting like that last five minutes was no
