“You still gonna leave?”
“Yes,” she pants, while I drag my tongue over her collarbone. “Right after this is over.”
“Well then I guess that means we need to make sure we are doing this,” I thrust my hips forward, “all night long.”
“Yeah, that works too,” Kendall links her hands together behind my neck and pulls me in closer. “That works so good.”
CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
Aaron
“How’s itfeel to finally be back to work one hundred percent?” Brantley asks when he steps up to my side.
“Real good,” I tell him. “I’ve been climbing the fucking walls. Don’t get me wrong, Kendall’s been keeping me busy.” I smirk and he chuckles. “But I think she’s happy I’m back to work too.”
He nods.
“How’s fatherhood?”
“Better than I imagined, and Sutton, she’s incredible. I swear she was born to be a mother. Ethan is up at random hours of the night, needing this and wanting that, and it’s like she just knows. She knows the boy’s cries, knows his grunts, it amazes me. Seeing her in this role, hell it made me just fall in love with her all over again.”
“You got it all, man,” I tell him loving this for him. He spent too many years traveling the world, fighting for our freedom. WhatBrantley doesn’t know is that I have always admired him. His strength and dedication, his love for his family. Seeing him get everything he could ever dream of, it’s exactly what he deserves.
“What about you?” he asks, regaining my attention. “How are things with you and Kendall?”
“Good.” I nod and he holds my stare.
“No really, how are things?”
“Asked her to move in,” I confess, “she told me no.”
He nods as if he isn’t surprised.
“I still have hope she’ll come around.”
“She will,” he assures me. “I’ve been around these ladies long enough to get some insight. Kendall and Adley are the difficult ones with parents that were shit. They took all that anger and frustration and used it as an excuse to push everyone away.”
“Jillian and Sophie are sweet, a little shy until you get to know them. Jillian though she still somehow blames herself for her brother running off with Marshall’s ex-wife.”
“As if that could be her fault, she didn’t lead them to one another.”
“No, but she does have to see that man all the time around town, then his ex at all her family functions. It is a little odd, I got to give her that. It’s why she avoids him at most of our get-togethers. Pay attention next time, if he moves in one direction, she shifts in the opposite.”
“I guess I can see how it can be a little uncomfortable.”
He nods. “Then we have Lexi and Sutton, those two love deep. They want everyone around them to be happy and that sometimes leads to them sacrificing their own happiness to make things work for those they love.”
“Yet know they both have the happy home life, with kids.”
“Don’t count Kendall out, just give her time to warm up to the idea that her life can be different than she imagined. She’s got to be comfortable with that, and more than anything it has to appear as her choice and not a forced move.”
“You are the second person that has told me this,” I tell him.
“Yeah, who was the first?”
“My mom.” Brantley grins.
“Well then it’s gotta be true,” he says, slapping me on the shoulder.
