Total pages in book: 116
Estimated words: 110127 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 551(@200wpm)___ 441(@250wpm)___ 367(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 110127 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 551(@200wpm)___ 441(@250wpm)___ 367(@300wpm)
“Don’t shut down, Ari. For the rest of our fucking lives, it’s just us. We can replace anything in this place you want. But let me tell you, I have never taken a woman on the bar top or made love in my pool. I’m about to take you to my shower, which will be a first as well. So don’t let your mind wonder. 99% of this house is ours to christen.”
My stomach flutters at his words and I smile up at him. “We’re going to have shower sex. It’s been years for me.”
“Better fucking be, since I am the last guy you were with.” He growls.
“How much time till we have to leave?”
“We have forty-five minutes. I have your coffee ready.”
“Okay, then we better get started. I want to make sure I get the full experience.”
His lips twitch and he grins as he takes me to the massive bathroom.
Chapter 16
Reed
“You’re going to need a permanent set of caps for your pearly whites if you don’t quit grinding your teeth.” Bobbie laughs at me.
I can’t help it, ever since we stepped foot on this boat today Ari has been swept away with the women and they have kept her busy. Even when we stopped for lunch, the two wives sandwiched her between them and I was pushed to the end of the table. Which sucked because everyone knows if you sit at the end you are responsible for paying.
Now we are at the sandbar and the girls are lounging on floats that are roped to the back of the boat. There are at least fifteen more boats around and most of them are full of guys. Bobbie’s boat is by far the biggest out here. Our crew is made up of four large football players both black and white and each of us has a woman. Even Bobbie brought a date. Two of the guys are married and Bobbie isn’t the jealous type. But I am and Ari is wearing a black skimpy bikini that shows almost everything she has to offer.
“Yo, jackass—you hear me or what?” Dwayne, an offensive lineman on the team asks.
“No, what?”
“What’s the deal? Honestly, I’ve never seen you like this. You had a pussy radar on you for years and suddenly you show up to a pre-season party with that arm candy and announce you have a kid? I don’t want to sound like a teenage girl, but what’s the fucking story here?”
I take a gulp of my beer and shrug my shoulders. “We were fucked over, man. She was my college sweetheart but that doesn’t even sound right. We were two months from me getting drafted and graduating. She agreed to move with me no matter where I was. I’d already decided we wouldn’t step foot into a new town without me putting a ring on her finger. Then some fucked up shit went down and we spilt up. I was a fucking idiot and let her slip through my fingers.”
“I knew it! I fucking win you losers! Pay up.” Lamar, a defensive end, raises his arms in victory.
“What the hell?”
“Matthews, I wasn’t kidding last night. When you get drunk you always babble about the one that got away. When I saw you last night looking at her like a puppy, I knew she was your girl. None of us ever asked, but coach knew the story. He told us when we all signed to watch out for you. He had a fear you would self-destruct. But you never did, so we never asked.”
“You’re shitting me?”
“Nah, man, we’ve always known there was a girl. We just didn’t know how special she was.”
“Is, how special she is.” I correct him and look at the other guys.
“Must had been some serious shit to let her go.” Bobbie says
“Like I said, I was an idiot.”
“What about the kid? How’d that happen? And are you sure—”
I throw my phone at him to shut him up. If one more person asks me if Davis is mine, I’ll punch them.
He looks at the picture on the screen and whistles through his teeth. Then he passes around to the other guys. “It’s literally like looking at a mini Reed.”
“Isn’t it fucking unbelievable? I told my mom and I’ll tell you guys the same, those two are my family. It took a while to convince Ari to take me back, but I finally got through. I’m not going to fuck up again.”
“How’d you find out about your son?” Lamar asks.
I open my mouth to tell him but here loud giggling behind me and see the girls smiling and watching another boat of guys playing around in the water.
“You know what; I think Ari should tell you that part. Let’s go out there with them. I also need to stake claim, that douche from the blue boat can’t keep his eyes off her.” I grab two beers and a koozie.