Page 226 of Nobody's Girl

She chats away with my mother, and I find it funny to send her a mental picture of me kissing her between her naked breasts as she tangles her hands in my hair. She turns back and gives me a wicked look. I wiggle my finger for her to come to me. Excusing herself from my mother’s company, she does as I’ve asked.

“Come, sit, and play with me,” I say.

She sits on my lap and takes the controller from my hands. Scotty looks over at us for a second and rolls his eyes. “Lovebirds, yuk!”

I run my hand through my mate’s long, silky curls. I graze her shoulder with my lips and find myself beginning to get uncomfortable in my slacks. ‘Control yourself, Romeo,’ Alyssa’s voice tells me in my head.

‘Take me to the bedroom,’ I think back to her.

She returns with, ‘There is no way in hell I’m going to do that with a plane full of people.’

I send, ‘They won’t care.’

She puts the controller down, giving me hope. Then she turns on my lap. “You’re being very naughty, Mr. Porno Thinker,” she whispers in my ear.

Porno! Really!

I stroke her cheek as I look into her spectacular blue eyes. They’re different now, so open and really seeing me. “After we’re married tomorrow, I’m going to keep you in bed for at least a week,” I whisper back.

She trails her finger around my jaw. “Glad to hear that.”

In an instant, she sends me an image that makes me blush, it’s so naughty. “Alyssa!” I hiss at her. “That’s just too much to take. You have to stop, you temptress.”

“As you wish, sir,” she says with a wicked smile.

“Go back and chat with mother. Take your mind off such things. You’re killing me,” I say, sending her away with a small slap to her perfect ass.

The change in her is exciting. No fear, no doubt, no inhibition. She’s real for the first time in her life. She’s letting her true self out, and it’s beyond beautiful.

We land and make our way back to the Devlin’s home. I’m staying in Alyssa’s bedroom with her so my parents can have the guest room. This will make it so much harder than it has been to keep our virginity intact, especially as my mate seems to tempt me on a nearly continual basis.

Even now as she unpacks some of the clothes from her room at the mansion and hangs them next to the plain clothes she’s worn her whole life, she sends me images of us.

Then she stops and looks at me, her mind blank to me. “I need to go talk to them before I see them tonight,” she says.

“Do you want me to come with you?” I ask.

“No. I need to do this on my own. I’m no longer hurt by their actions. I know why, and I need to let them know I’m fine with it. I’ll be back in a little while,” she says.

She picks up the keys to her jeep and I place my hand on hers. Reaching in my pocket, I give her the keys to my car. “Take the jag, princess. Retire that old jeep.”

Her eyes light up. “Really, Eden? You’ll let me drive it? And all alone? OMG!”

I laugh at her over-the-top enthusiasm. “What’s mine is yours, mate.”

She leaves a quick kiss on my cheek, then she’s gone. I hear her take two stairs at a time as she flies out of the house.  Out the window, I watch her walk around the jag, trailing her finger over its curves.

She gets in, puts the top down and reaches into the glove compartment for her sunglasses. Once she has them on, she looks like a model from a magazine. Perfect in every way.

Now that’s how my princess is supposed to look. Confident, happy, and out of this world.

‘Thank you, Eden. I love you,’ she sends to me before she disappears down the driveway.

I wander down to help Toni and my mother decorate a cake for Alyssa’s graduation. Our fathers are going over some plans for the wedding at the mansion tomorrow. I overheard them discussing security. They seemed a bit intense and I want none of that.

After all the intense emotions I’ve had to endure since meeting my mate face to face, I’m ready for some relaxed time. Decorating a graduation cake for my princess sounds like just what I need.