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It was coming, and it was going to hit hard.
Wyatt must have seen it in my eyes or heard it in my labored breathing, because he did not relent.
“Are you going to come, Rhea?”
“Yes, Wyatt, I’m so close.”
He went harder.
It built faster.
“Get there, babe,” he demanded. “I need you to get there with me.”
I didn’t need the order, because I was already there.
My lips parted, my eyes remained on Wyatt, and the next thing I knew, I was crying out as my orgasm tore through me, one pulsing wave after another. Wyatt didn’t stop, continuing to maintain his pace to see me through.
And only after I’d started to come down did he move a little quicker. He dropped his torso down, pressing his chest against mine and captured my mouth with his. I thought I wanted to watch him come apart, but when he did it while he kissed me, I decided I liked that even more. I swallowed down his groans, taking all that he was giving me, until his hips finally stilled.
The bruising pressure of his kiss eased and became soft pecks until he pulled his face back to look at me.
“You’ve been right in my backyard this whole time,” he muttered. “God, I wished I’d gone for ice cream a whole lot sooner.”
I grinned at him. It was a bit crazy to think we’d been so close for so long and never knew it.
“You’ve got me now, though,” I reasoned, hoping it would make him feel better.
He let out a sigh of relief. “Yeah, and now that we’ve gotten that first round out of the way, I’m looking forward to having more fun with you this afternoon.”
I raised a curious brow. “Oh?”
Wyatt nodded slowly.
Then, instead of telling me what his plans were, he kissed me again, pulled out, and lifted me in his arms before he carried me up the stairs.
If I was honest, it felt like I’d won the lottery, too.
21
WYATT
“We’ve just complicated things, haven’t we?”
With the exception of me waking up this morning and knowing I was going to be getting some significant information from Rhea, everything about this day had been a surprise.
I’d never anticipated I’d hear all that she’d shared earlier in the day with me, never would have even guessed it, but hearing it, I had to admit it made me feel horrible. Not only had I not known about the legal battle they’d been in for years prior to receiving the letter from us, but I truly hadn’t realized just how much what my family was doing at Westwood’s had the power to impact Rhea and her family in such a negative way. In fact, in the beginning, I’d assumed it would have had the opposite effect. I mean, we were prepared to pay a substantial sum of money for that portion of their land—wouldn’t that have made everything great for everyone involved?
The news about her grandfather was utterly devastating and unexpected. I couldn’t imagine being in her shoes and having to face that. But now that I knew, a lot of her determination and steadfastness with the land made sense to me.
If there was one area of our personal lives where Rhea and I were similar, it had everything to do with our relationship with our families. Rhea’s might not have been as large as mine, but her family meant the same to her as mine did to me. I’m not sure how well I would have been handling it if my grandfather had been diagnosed with dementia and was forgetting important memories.
Learning about the legal battle to keep their farm and the news regarding Rhea’s grandfather’s health were enough of a shock for one day, but Rhea surprised me when she didn’t hold a grudge against me for any of the turmoil and stress the Westwood’s expansion project had brought into her life. Not only had she been incredibly gracious about it, but she’d invited me to have ice cream with her and asked me to stay for dinner. Her eagerness to have me around after all that I’d learned eased a bit of the tension I’d been feeling.
Of course, that ease I felt was short-lived when we made it back to her farmhouse and her ex showed up. That had been the most unwelcome surprise, and while there was plenty there to unpack, there was a part of me that couldn’t be mad about it. His arrival had been part of the reason Rhea now knew how I was feeling about her.
Obviously, that wasn’t the way I’d intended for the truth to come out, but it was the way it happened, and I didn’t regret sharing what I did when I did.
But without a doubt, the best surprise of the day came once Rhea closed and locked her front door behind Tristan. Admittedly, I’d have been lying if I said I hadn’t hoped to come over to her place today and share a few more kisses with her after our night last night. I’d barely gotten a wink of sleep since I’d replayed that part of our night over and over in my head.
