Legit, you okay man? Like, are we walking into some crazy shit?
Big Mike
The crazy shit is that he’s got a beautiful woman on his side right now who is probably talking some sense into him. The Recluse is coming out of hiding.
Eliot
No way. My brother said he saw your photo on Luxe Life, but I said he had to be mistaken. Did he see you?
Donovan
He did. My shitbag parents sent out the alert to the vultures because I flew in to see McKenna for a celebration dinner. But I’ll explain more later.
Big Mike
Sounds good.
Scotty
See ya later, man.
Elliot
Happy to see this text, Van, can’t wait to see your ugly mug.
With that weight lifted off my shoulders, my buzzer rang to let me know the coffee has arrived. Perfect. I grabbed the caffeine and slammed it before I jumped in the shower. When I emerged, I found Audra staring out the window drinking her coffee. I knew she had nothing on under my shirt that came down just over the fold of her ass. Between her looking so perfect, and the fact I’d never look out my windows the same after the other night, my dick got hard as I had a quick vision of bending her over and sinking into her just like I had. I groaned to myself knowing that it would completely derail our day if I did that, but damn, would it feel good. We’d save those activities for the plane.
“Morning,” I cleared my throat.
“Ahhh!” she shouted, bringing her hand to her chest. “Jesus, you scared me, Donovan...” But her voice gave out asher eyes trailed over my body and landed on my tented towel. When she finally brought her eyes back to mine, she smiled seductively.
“Are you done ogling me?” I asked, smirking at her.
“You’re just lucky that I haven’t brushed my teeth this morning. If I didn’t have dragon breath, I’d mount you right now,” she waggled her eyebrows at me.
“Argh. Don’t tempt me, Chaos. We have to get ready to go,” I said, disappointed I wasn’t being mounted.
“So what’s on our docket today?”
“Brunch with my sister first. Then, I reached out to my travel buddies to see if they wanted to meet. They all said yes, so that’s going to happen after brunch. You’re welcome to stay with Kenna or come with or do anything else you want. I haven’t seen them in an even longer time than my parents.”
“Do you want me there?”
I didn’t want to sound needy, but it came out anyway. “This is important to me, so if you’re okay with it, I’d love it if you could be there next to me. But if you’re not down for it, that is fine too. It might be intense. I understand that having you come to something like this might be a little much for our first official outing as a couple.”
“Pretty sure our first official outing was a club I almost surrendered my dignity on a dance floor. But regardless, if you want me there, I’m there,” she smiled and came over to kiss my temple.
“And then we’ll have a few hours to do any last-minute things you want to before getting back on the plane.” I hesitated to bring up the next part, but we needed to be on the same page when I spoke to McKenna. “I have something else to tell you, Audra, but I need you to keep this between us. Honestly, not a soul. Promise?”
She looked at me, perplexed. “Ok, I promise. What’s going on?”
“Do you know anything about travel plans for Maeve?”
“Maeve?” she replied, confused, “I know she and Tucker have been budgeting for a vacation. They have a large chunk of change saved up.”
“Remember, between us,” I said, and she nodded her head. “Tucker is surprising Maeve with her two-week dream vacation in Hawaii. They are leaving on Sunday. She doesn’t know. He cleared it with me because she’ll be gone for two weeks. Part of the reason I wanted and needed to stay longer today is because I want a chance to ask McKenna to come to Savannah Springs to help me for at least one of those weeks.”
“Donovan. Is he…” she couldn’t even say the words and just pointed to her ring finger.
