Total pages in book: 12
Estimated words: 11468 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 57(@200wpm)___ 46(@250wpm)___ 38(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 11468 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 57(@200wpm)___ 46(@250wpm)___ 38(@300wpm)
I turn back around and reach for his keys. “And I’m going to need your truck.”
I turn back around and run smack dab into him.
“Willow, wait. I’m fucking this all up. I saw you with Steve this morning and it fucked with me. But it’s not your fault. None of this is your fault.”
I’m fighting tears now, because in this moment I feel like I’ve completely screwed up our friendship. “It is my fault though. Last night was a mistake. We should have known better. I don’t want to fight with you.”
* * *
Rider
“I won’t lose you, Willow. I can’t.” My voice breaks just thinking about it.
She pulls away from me. “Give me a minute, will you, Rider? I’ll be right back.”
I reluctantly let her go and watch her as she walks out of the kitchen and down the hall to the bathroom. I’m barely holding on. I look down at the crumbled sandwich and wrap it in a paper towel to throw away. Two half wadded-up pieces of paper are on top and I can see they have writing on them. I pull them out and flatten the first one out and read it. Rider, thanks for last night. We should do it again.
Hope begins to flare in my chest. I open up the next one and flatten it out. Rider, I know I said I wanted to be friends with benefits. But I wasn’t honest with you. I love you, Rider. I have for a long time and I want to be yours and you to be mine.
My hand goes to my chest and the steady pound of my heart picks up its pace. She loves me.
I stride down the hallway and when she comes out of the bathroom, I’m standing right in front of her.
She’s surprised to see me standing right outside the bathroom door. I bend down and pick her up, carrying her to my room. When I lean in to kiss her, she doesn’t stop me and she doesn’t pull away.
We kiss until I feel my knees hit the bed and then I release her and toss her on the bed. “Get undressed,” I tell her.
She scoots back and sits up on her elbows, but she doesn’t do as I ask. I start undressing and she watches my every movement. “Wait, Rider, what are we doing?”
I smile at her, a huge smile that covers my whole face. “You love me, Willow!” I say to her right before I tug her feet to the edge of the bed and start undressing her myself.
She’s stunned. “What? Huh? Wait, Rider…”
“There’s no waiting, not anymore. I love you, Willow and God, when I saw you in Steve’s arms today, it gutted me, honey.”
She struggles against me and tries to pull away. “You love me?”
I keep pulling her clothes until she’s naked underneath me. I slide my hands down the inside of her thighs and pull them apart. Her glistening pussy is ripe and ready for me. Her hands go to my hips right before I’m about to enter her. “Rider, focus!”
My eyes snap up to hers and I feel like a crazed man. Knowing she loves me is making me crazy and I feel that nothing will stop me until I’m buried to the hilt inside of her. My cock is right at her entrance and I slowly push in. “God, yes, I love you. I want to marry you, I want you to have my babies, I want everything with you.”
Sweat is on my temple and the restraint I have right now is an amazing feat, because I’m barely hanging on.
“I love you, too,” she says smiling up at me.
“I know you do.” I smile at her knowingly and push her legs further apart. “Can we talk about this later?”
“Yes,” she says and as soon as I hear it, I move into her inch by inch. Only when I’m buried balls deep inside her and my lips are attached to hers do I feel utterly and happily complete.
Epilogue
A few months later
Rider
First of all, growing up I never thought I would be best friends with a girl. Second of all, I never dreamed I would fall in love with said girl. But I did. The best kind of love. I think it helped us that we were friends first. It definitely helped when we got into arguments. I knew exactly what to do for her to forgive me.
She moved in with me the next week and we’re getting married as soon as I can talk her into it. She keeps saying that we need to wait and make sure I don’t change my mind. She’s crazy, though, and I think she knows it. I know I have a sordid past, with relationship after relationship. Hell, who am I kidding? None of them were relationships. They were one-night stands. I knew I was looking for something, but I had no idea she was right next to me the whole time.