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I jerk back and glare at the windows. Of course my brothers are there, spying on us.
Lennon waves.
“He is so fucking dead,” I grumble. “Can we just pretend he didn’t share that story?”
“Should I also pretend you didn’t jerk off in the woods on that camping trip we took with your family?”
“Jesus Christ. You were alone with them in there for, like, two minutes. What the hell else did they tell you?”
“Nothing much.” She kisses my neck. “Unless you count the time you got a leech on your penis and ran around screaming that your dick was going to fall off.”
I try to emulate Desmond’s death glare and pierce the glass between myself and my idiot brothers, but I don’t barge back inside to throw punches. My fingers are in Jo’s hair. Our thighs are flush. I’m too happy to let their trash-talking dent my mood, but we can’t stay out here forever. “You ready to face the world?” I ask her.
Nosy townsfolk.
My antagonizing brothers.
My mother, who will be here soon and doesn’t know I’m dating Jake’s ex.
She nods. “As long as I’m with you, I’m good.”
“Same.” I kiss her again, still awed that she’s forgiven me.
We smile against each other, then I take her hand and head inside.
My brothers have paired off with the women they love. Maggie and Lennon are chatting with E and Delilah, the four of them sharing a laugh. Desmond, Sadie, and Max are at the kitchen table, putting final decorations on Mom’s book-shaped cake. Des takes a dollop of icing and smears it on Sadie’s nose. Max cracks up. Jake is by himself in the living room, watching them with a small smile on his face, then he turns to us.
Instinctively, I pull my hand out of Jo’s. She twines her fingers together and looks down. We create space between us, which fucking kills me, but Jake admitted seeing us together would take getting used to. After all he’s done for me, I don’t want him to be uncomfortable.
“Sorry about the blowup,” I tell him. “And thanks for talking to Jo last night.” I glance at her, my hand twitching to splay on her hip. I bite down on my cheek.
“We appreciate how sweet you’ve been,” Jo says. Her eyes dart to me, and she fidgets, like standing this close without touching is as painful for her.
“For fuck’s sake,” Jake says, gesturing angrily at us. “Just make out or something. Watching this display of awkwardness is worse than seeing you all over each other.”
“No need to make out,” I say, but I slip my arm around Jo and settle my hand on her hip.This is where my hand is meant to be. On Jo, always.“We’ll be quietly affectionate, if that’s okay.”
He rolls his eyes and heads over to play with Max.
She nestles against me. “People are looking at us.”
It’s true. We have an audience of Windfallians trying to deduce why Jolene is wrapped around me, when most of them heard she was back together with Jake. “Does it bother you?”
She plants a kiss on my chest. “Nope. Let them talk. As long as it doesn’t bother you.”
“The only thing that bothers me right now is that you aren’t naked.”
“I don’t think getting naked in front of everyone counts as quietly affectionate.”
“Alone, Jolene.” I drop my voice. “I wish we werealoneand naked, but we’ll save that for later. I plan to fuck you hard and fast. From behind, I think. Slam this angst out of us, then I’ll take you so deep and slow we combust.”
“God, Cal.” Her cheeks burn red.
I brush my hand down the back of her pretty dress. “Too blunt?”
“Too hot. You just melted my underwear.”
I chuckle and flex my thighs. Time to rein myself in and remember I have forever with Jo now. An eternity for slow sex and hard fucking and nights cooking and walking the streets, hand in hand, like the couple I’ve always imagined.
