Total pages in book: 97
Estimated words: 94609 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 473(@200wpm)___ 378(@250wpm)___ 315(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 94609 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 473(@200wpm)___ 378(@250wpm)___ 315(@300wpm)
“Shit, Willow… I…f-f-fuckkk,” I breathed out, slamming my hand against the glass panel door. “Yeah, baby…yes…right…” My eyes rolled to the back of my head as I fell into a deeper euphoria, losing myself as she found all of me. “Willow, I’m going to…shit, I’m right there…”
Those words only made her work her gifted mouth harder to bring me to completion, and when she had, she swallowed every piece of me. I loved the way she drank me down like her favorite shot of vodka.
She wiped her mouth with her pointer finger before sucking it clean, too. Then she stood back on her feet while my body tried to recover from its shakiness. She wrapped her arms around me and gave me those doe eyes one more time. “Forgive me?”
Instead of replying, I slid my hand between her thighs. I moved her back to the tiled wall, and my mouth brushed against her neck. “Yes,” I whispered before I gently sucked on her earlobe. My thumb rubbed her clit slightly before I slid two fingers inside her pussy, rocking them back and forth. Her eyes fluttered shut as she arched her hips toward me. “I forgive you.”
I forgave her over and over and over again.
Then one more time for good measure.
CHAPTER 34
Willow
When Theo and I arrived at the hospital, we had a grand welcoming party. All of Nathan’s family members were there. His four younger brothers, Grant, Evan, Easton, and River, along with their mom, Laurelin.
“You must be the guy who got Willow to pause a little,” Evan said, nodding toward Theo. “I didn’t know she had it in her to stay in one place for longer than a month or so. Let alone a whole summer.” Evan sat there with a grimace because he always wore a grimace on his face.
That was, outside of whenever his two kids were around. His daughter, Priya, was off at college now. She was one of the sweetest girls I’d ever met and the best baker I’d ever come across. She and her younger brother, Timothy, were the only two things I’d ever seen make Evan smile.
A few summers back, he and I bumped heads a bit, but I knew he was a good guy. If I had it my way, he would’ve given Laney, the owner of Honey Creek’s winery, a chance. Laney was as sweet as Moscato wine, and sometimes, while in town, I’d witness her looking Evan’s way. The two were single parents and had a few rounds of heartbreak, but I figured that might be why they could’ve made sense.
They understood things that others could not.
Nathan’s other brothers were all as single as could be. Great men, too, which wasn’t shocking, based on who their mother had been. Laurelin Pierce was one of the kindest women I’d ever met.
At one point, Yara joked that Laurelin and Dad would’ve been a perfect second chance match, but truth be told, those two didn’t seem to have any interest in dating seriously again after their last two relationships. Dad had many, many women in his life since Mom passed away, but it was never anything serious. He never opened his heart up to more when it came to women.
I was almost certain Laurelin hadn’t had another man in her life since her husband passed away years before.
Still, it was always good to see the Pierce clan all together.
“So she’s that much of a floater, huh?” Theo asked.
“Yes,” everyone said in unison.
I smiled. “I just craved adventure.” I plopped down on a couch beside Yara. She kept fiddling with her hands. “Nervous?”
“Terrified. They started the surgery already. We should’ve had an update by now.”
“I’m sure everything’s okay. Positive thoughts.”
“I just hope Avery’s okay.”
“She’s Avery,” I said, resting my head on Yara’s shoulder. “She’s always okay.” Was that true? No, but it was a lie I needed to tell myself because I was nervous as ever, too. But if any of us girls would be okay through a big surgery, it would be Avery.
She was the definition of strength.
An hour passed of us all sitting packed in the waiting room. Every time one of us stopped pacing, another would hop up and take their place. It was a nonstop rotation of people standing and sitting.
The moment Nathan came into the waiting room, wearing scrubs, everyone stood to their feet. He walked in with a big smile and his hands resting on top of his head.
“So, um, we got a baby boy and a baby girl. Sterling Michael Pierce was born at 1:15 p.m. Four pounds, four ounces.”
“His middle name is Michael?” Dad asked, his eyes flashing with tears.
Nathan sniffled a bit and nodded. “Of course it is. Named after one of the best.”
Well.
Now, I was crying.
“And baby girl?” I asked.
“Riley Laurelin Pierce, a beautiful baby girl with a head full of hair. Four pounds and one ounce. They are both in the NICU, and they will be there for a while, but they are doing okay.”